DINA for the issue of August 7, 2014

	07 August, 2014 / Shawwal 10, 1435
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Qadri booked for inciting people Faisal Ali Ghumman LAHORE: Police booked Pakistan Awami Tehreek chairman Dr Tahirul Qadri in a case for allegedly inciting people to rise against the government, provoking his followers to resort to violence and inciting them to confront police through his fiery speeches.	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks down 293.44 points : KARACHI, August 06 : At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was 29382.97,down 293.44 points. Forex Update : KARACHI, August 06: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 98.95 to the US Dollar in the open market.
Finally, NA moves for Umerkot Hindus Raja Asghar ISLAMABAD: After a prolonged disinterest, the National Assembly on Wednesday came out strongly for the Hindus of the historic Umerkot district of Sindh, empowering the house speaker to name a special committee to investigate alleged excesses such as murders, kidnappings for ransom and attacks on their temples. And while all major parties on both sides of the aisle agreed all was not well in Umerkot for years, Defence Minister Khawaja Mohammad Asif recalled what he called an ‘ahsan’, or favour, “done to us” by Hindu Rajputs of the area by giving refuge to the 16th century Mughal emperor Humayun after his defeat at the hands of Sher Shah Suri.
Parties scramble to defuse govt-PTI tension Khawar Ghumman | Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD: A day after the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) revealed that it would not settle for anything less than the prime minister’s resignation and a re-election, leaders from across the political spectrum scrambled on Wednesday to try to defuse political tensions that have come to head over the past few days. Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) emir Sirajul Haq had a busy day, separately meeting Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Khursheed Ahmed Shah and PTI chief Imran Khan. “The main purpose of our meeting today is to ensure that we have a peaceful Independence Day,” he told reporters after meeting Mr Khan at his Bani Gala residence in the capital.
Parties scramble to defuse govt-PTI tension Khawar Ghumman | Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD: A day after the Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) revealed that it would not settle for anything less than the prime minister’s resignation and a re-election, leaders from across the political spectrum scrambled on Wednesday to try to defuse political tensions that have come to head over the past few days. Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) emir Sirajul Haq had a busy day, separately meeting Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Leader of the Opposition in the National Assembly Khursheed Ahmed Shah and PTI chief Imran Khan. “The main purpose of our meeting today is to ensure that we have a peaceful Independence Day,” he told reporters after meeting Mr Khan at his Bani Gala residence in the capital.
Sikh trader killed, two injured in Peshawar attack Ali Hazrat Bacha PESHAWAR: A trader belonging to the Sikh community was killed and two others were injured in an attack on three shops in a market in Hashnagri in Peshawar on Wednesday. DSP Ashfaq Ahmed said that Jagmohan Singh, who dealt in cosmetics, mobile phones and accessories, died while he was being taken to the Lady Reading Hospital.
6 militants killed in drone attack Bureau Report PESHAWAR: A drone strike on the Pak-Afghan border in North Waziristan tribal agency on Wednesday killed six militants, four of them foreigners, a security official said. The drone fired missiles at a compound in Alwara Mandi, 65km from the agency’s headquarters of Miramshah, early in the morning. “It is a remote area and details are sketchy,” the official said.
Talks under way to extend Gaza truce Agencies GAZA CITY: A Gaza ceasefire was holding on Wednesday as Egyptian mediators pursued talks with Israeli and Palestinian representatives on an enduring end to a war that has devastated the Hamas-dominated enclave. Egypt’s intelligence chief met a Palestinian delegation in Cairo, the state news agency MENA said, a day after he conferred with Israeli representatives. The Palestinian team, led by an official from Western-backed President Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah party, includes envoys from Hamas and the Islamic Jihad group.
Qadri says he wants to go beyond early elections Zulqernain Tahir LAHORE: Though Imran Khan of Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf (PTI) and Dr Tahirul Qadri of Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) have the same immediate goal — to send the PML-N government packing — their final objectives are quite different. The PTI has called for mid-term polls under a transparent system. Dr Qadri, on the other hand, says he doesn’t favour mid-term elections and wants to go even further.
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