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Sunday, July 6, 2014

DINA for the issue of July 6th , 2014


06 July, 2014 | Ramazan 7, 1435
The DAWN Internet News Alert (DINA) is a free daily news service from Pakistan’s largest English language newspaper, the Daily DAWN.

Higuain fires Argentina into semis


BRASILIA: Gonzalo Higuain’s superb early strike secured a nervy 1-0 win for Argentina against Belgium and sent the South Americans through to the last four of the World Cup for the first time in 24 years on Saturday.

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PM meets Nisar in bid to win back his trust

By Zulqernain Tahir

LAHORE: Prime Minis­ter Nawaz Sharif tried to placate an ‘angry’ Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan in a meeting at his residence in Raiwind on Saturday.The interior minister is likely to get back in the saddle soon after a hiatus of one month or so.

Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif flew Chaudhry Nisar to Raiwind from Model Town by helicopter at 11am. In the first meeting, which lasted about an hour, Shahbaz was also present. After that Nawaz Sharif and Nisar had a one-to-one meeting, dissecting the matters that alienated the latter from the PML-N leadership.

Five indicted in Farzana murder case

By Our Staff Reporter

LAHORE: An anti-terrorism court indicted on Saturday five suspects in a murder case involving a young woman who had married a man of her choice and was bludgeoned to death in broad daylight.

The accused are her father, two brothers, a cousin and her former husband. The accused, along with accomplices, had killed Farzana Parveen of Nankana Sahib near the Lahore High Court premises when she was going to the court to testify in favour of her husband Mohammad Iqbal. They killed the three-month pregnant by hitting her with bricks.

CM admits failure in attempts to placate Baloch separatists

By Amir Wasim

ISLAMABAD: Balochistan Chief Minister Abdul Malik Baloch said on Saturday that he had failed to bring estranged nationalist leaders to the negotiating table, but vowed to continue his reconciliation efforts.

Speaking at a news conference here, the chief minister also admitted that he had been unable to convene a multi-party conference on the Balochistan issue, something he had been asked nearly a year ago by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.

Uzbeks among militants killed in shelling

Bureau Report

PESHAWAR: Air force planes bombed militant hideouts in North Waziristan on Saturday, killing several suspected militants, including Uzbek nationals.

According to ISPR, the military’s public relations department, air support was called in after fire and resistance from inside Miramshah town and Boya village.

Hydropower project runs into trouble

By Ahmad Fraz Khan

LAHORE: Work on Golen Gol hydropower project has stopped as the Water and Power Development Authority (Wapda) has failed to make payments to both the consultant and the contractor.

Wapda was put on a 30-day notice that expired this week. The lender — Kuwait Development Fund (KDF) — has also expressed its inability to release funds for the Rs4.6 billion project because it has still not approved Wapda’s recommendation of award of the contract. The entire project has thus run into trouble.

ISIS chief asks Muslims to obey him

BAGHDAD: The leader of a brutal militant group addressed worshippers in the militant-held Iraqi city of Mosul, ordering Muslims to “obey” him and calling for global jihad, in a video distributed online on Saturday.

The appearance by the hitherto elusive chief of Islamic State of Iraq and Al Sham (ISIS), Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, at a mosque in Mosul for Friday prayers marks a significant change for the militant leader whose group has overrun swathes of territory across five provinces north and west of Baghdad.

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