DINA for the issue of August 15, 2014

DAWN INTERNET NEWS ALERT	August 15, 2014 | Shawwal 18, 1435
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PTI kicks off Azadi march Mansoor Malik LAHORE: “Democracy and autocracy will fight it out in Islamabad to determine the destiny of a new Pakistan,” Imran Khan affirmed to rapturous applause as he kicked off the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf’s much-awaited march on the federal capital on Thursday.	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://www.dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995
A decade of peace must for progress, says PM Saleem Shahid ZIARAT: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said on Thursday that the country could not afford any more confrontations and needed 10 peaceful years for solving the problems the nation had been facing for the past 67 years. He said that celebrating Independence Day jointly by the civil and military leadership was the ‘real march’ which would make Pakistan a peaceful and prosperous country.
PTI and PAT allowed to march on Islamabad Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD: Ending days of uncertainty, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan finally announced on Thursday the government’s decision to allow, in principle, both the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and the Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) to march on the capital. But he had a warning for all protesters: swift action would follow any attempts to cross red lines and the Red Zone’s security would not be compromised on.
Two assailants killed near airbase The Newspaper's Staff Correspondent QUETTA: Two gunmen were killed and eight security personnel injured in an exchange of fire near Smungli Airbase, on the outskirts of the provincial capital, on Thursday night, a spokesman for Frontier Corps (FC) said. Khan Wasey, the FC spokesman, said seven of the injured personnel were policemen. An FC man was among those injured.
Ditched Qadri overtakes PTI march Amjad Mahmood LAHORE: The Pakistan Awami Tehreek, led by Dr Tahirul Qadri, kicked off its ‘Inqilab’ march on Islamabad on Thursday afternoon after the Shahbaz Sharif government delayed even a conditional permission to the marchers. Cranes started removing the containers placed around Model Town, the neighbourhood housing PAT and sister organisation Minhajul Quran’s offices, at 2pm after the police manning the barriers were withdrawn.
Footprints: Shrine to the Disappeared Saher Baloch IT couldn’t be more ironic. As we enter Marri Camp, near Shalkot — an area outside Quetta playing host to an estimated 100,000 members of the Marri tribe — songs lauding the land that is Pakistan start playing on the radio. At a nearby peak, flags installed by the separatists fly high. A feeling of being completely unwelcome follows. Mud houses — some intact, some caving in due to continuing search operations or plain neglect — can be seen. As the song continues our car swerves on the dirt path leading towards the final resting place of the Marri chieftain, Khair Baksh Marri. What was earlier a bare graveyard is now under a tent, surrounded by carpets, and equipped with a solar panel and a water cooler. In the middle is a graveyard with flags of independent Balochistan flying above, most of them handmade, and on the right of the rugged plain white plaques are installed row after row.
Modi greets Pakistanis on Independence Day The Newspaper's Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD: Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has extended greetings to the people of Pakistan on the country’s 68th Independence Day. “On the occasion of their Independence Day, I convey my greetings to the people of Pakistan,” said a tweet on Indian leader’s twitter account.
Militant siege in Iraq broken but air strikes to continue, says Obama AFP DOHUK: US President Barack Obama declared on Thursday that America broke the siege of Mount Sinjar in Iraq, where thousands of civilians were trapped, but said air strikes against the militants would go on. The UN refugee agency had said tens of thousands of civilians, many of them from the Yazidi religious minority, were at one point trapped on Mount Sinjar by fighters of the Islamic State (IS) group, which has overrun swathes of Iraq and Syria.
Hospital mistakenly declares 200 patients dead AFP MELBOURNE: An Australian hospital apologised “unreservedly” on Thursday after sending out notices to the doctors of more than 200 patients telling them they had died instead of being discharged. The error by Austin Hospital in Melbourne was spotted within hours and the doctors were contacted, but not before at least one had called a family member to express their condolences, the Herald Sun newspaper reported.
Shells hit rebel-held city in Ukraine Agencies DONETSK: Artillery shells hit close to the centre of Ukraine’s separatist-held city of Donetsk for the first time on Thursday, killing at least one person, as a large Russian aid convoy rumbled towards the border. With Ukrainian government forces tightening the noose on pro-Russian separatists, shelling rocked Donetsk, sending frightened residents rushing for cover, witnesses said.
UN declares highest level of emergency AP BAGHDAD: The United Nations has announced its highest level of emergency for the humanitarian crisis ignited by the advance of Islamic State (IS) militants across much of Iraq’s north and west. The terrorist group’s lightning advance has driven hundreds of thousands of people from their homes since June, and last week prompted the US to launch air strikes as the militants threatened religious minorities and the largely autonomous Kurdish region.
Renewed Gaza ceasefire takes hold after rocky start Reuters GAZA CITY: A new, five-day truce between Israel and Hamas appeared to be holding on Thursday despite a shaky start, after both sides agreed to give Egyptian-brokered peace negotiations in Cairo more time to try to end the Gaza war. The Israeli military said Gaza militants had breached the truce by firing eight rockets at Israel shortly after midnight. In response, Israeli fighter planes targeted “rocket launchers and terror sites” across the enclave. No casualties were reported and hostilities died down by dawn.
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