DINA for the issue of August 3, 2014

DAWN INTERNET NEWS ALERT	August 3, 2014 | Shawwal 6, 1435
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PTI to prolong sit-in till demands are met Amir Wasim ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) plans to prolong its proposed sit-in at the capital’s D-Chowk for an indefinite period or until its demands are met. But party leaders tell Dawn that the demands are still being shaped up decision on what those demands exactly are is still awaited.	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://www.dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995
Levies man shot dead Our Correspondent GWADAR: A soldier of Levies Force was shot dead in Turbat area of Kech district on Saturday. Official sources said that soldier Ejaz Ahmed was going to his place of duty in Balicha area when gunmen on a motorcycle attacked him. He received multiple injuries and died on the spot.
Chinese president due this month Amjad Mahmood LAHORE: Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit Pakistan later this month to lay foundation stone of some mega projects, said a senior official of the Foreign Office on Saturday. Date for the visit is being decided by the two sides. An invitation to the Chinese president was extended by President Mamnoon Hussain during his visit to China in February.
PPP seeks joint session of parliament over Article 245 Iftikhar A. Khan ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Peoples Party has called for summoning a joint session of parliament to discuss the government’s decision to seek the army’s assistance in Islamabad under Article 245. Talking to Dawn, Senator Raza Rabbani said the government should place before parliament the intelligence reports that forced it to invoke Article 245.
Gaza offensive to last as long as needed: Netanyahu AFP TEL AVIV: Israel would continue its military campaign in the Gaza Strip for as long as needed and with as much force as necessary, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Saturday. “From the beginning, we promised to return the quiet to Israel’s citizens and we will continue to act until that aim is achieved. We will take as much time as necessary, and will exert as much force as needed,” he said in a public address.
FOOTPRINTS: LIBRARIES: PUBLIC AND PRIVATE Aurangzaib Khan THERE’S nothing quite like a library to bring one face to face with mortality: so many books, so little time. This sense of time slipping away is overwhelming here at the directorate of archives and libraries in Peshawar, if only because it is not just the present but also the past one can endlessly pore over, preserved in historical records dating back to 1849. In here, silence manifests itself not just as an essential to avoid disturbance but as an expression — of awe, reverence. The archived record thrusts you into unexpected intimacy with history and all its crushing weight. Turned brittle by time, longhand accounts as old as 160 years provide a rare insight into the individual and collective preoccupations of Raj officials as they mulled expeditions on the Frontier, dictated terms to the tribes and fought wars in Afghanistan. And if the Great Game doesn’t stir the scholar in you, perhaps the Cold War will: the directorate has just received official record from the home department dating back to the Afghan ‘Jihad’ years. It is all here, just as grave men in government offices planned, and plotted.
Obama admits US tortured ‘some folks’ after 9/11 AP WASHINGTON: The Uni­ted States tortured Al Qaeda detainees captured after the Sept 11, 2001 attacks, Presi­dent Obama said on Friday, in some of his most expansive comments to date about a controversial set of CIA practices that he banned after taking office. “We tortured some folks,” Mr Obama said at a televised news conference at the White House. “We did some things that were contrary to our values.”
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