DINA for the issue of August 9, 2014

DAWN INTERNET NEWS ALERT	August 9, 2014 | Shawwal 12, 1435
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Pitched battle in Lahore as Qadri’s workers take on police Amjad Mahmood LAHORE: A showdown between law-enforcement personnel and the Pakistan Awami Tehreek began on Friday — much before it was expected — when hundreds of club-wielding PAT workers attempted to break through the police cordon and remove barricades put around the Model Town locality housing Tahirul Qadri’s residence and offices.	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://www.dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995 Karachi Stocks down 156.54 points : KARACHI, August 08 : At the close of trading, the KSE-100 index was 29380.50,down 156.54 points Forex Update : KARACHI, August 08: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 98.85 to the US Dollar in the open market.
Consultations continue, but Imran says march is on Khawar Ghumman ISLAMABAD: Even as furious political back-channelling continued in the capital on Friday, Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf chief Imran Khan upped the ante by declaring that his party would proceed with the ‘Azadi March’, come what may. But at the same time, he warned that if the government didn’t mend its ways, the responsibility for a possible military intervention would lie squarely on the Sharifs’ shoulders.
Nasirabad clash leaves 10 militants, two FC men dead Saleem Shahid QUETTA: At least 10 suspected militants were killed and 20 others injured in a clash in Nasirabad area of Kech district after an attack on a Frontier Corps convoy from a mountainous area on Thursday. The convoy from Karachi was going to the border town of Mand.
BSF man handed over to India The Newspaper's Correspondent SIALKOT: Pakistan handed over on Friday an Indian Border Security Force soldier, who had mistakenly entered Pakistani territory, to BSF officials as a goodwill gesture. Satyasheel Yadav crossed the Sialkot Working Boundary on Wednesday after a BSF patrol boat capsized in Chenab River.
Briefing on national security today The Newspaper's Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD: Civilian and military leadership would meet on Saturday for a briefing on ‘national security’. The briefing has been convened by the government for updating the political leadership about the ongoing Operation Zarb-i-Azb against militants in North Waziristan and other challenges to the national security, an information ministry official said.
US aircraft hit IS targets in Iraq Anwar Iqbal WASHINGTON: The United States resumed air strikes in Iraq on Friday three years after withdrawing forces from there and vowed to help Iraqi forces defeat Islamist militants. The air strikes will try to help Iraqi security forces, “as they go after the IS threat inside their country, to their people [and] to their sovereignty,” Pentagon Press Secretary Navy Rear Admiral John Kirby said. “Our focus is helping the Iraqis deal with this threat inside their country and in the broader region,” he added.
Rivals sign deal to form Afghan unity govt Reuters KABUL: Afghanistan’s rival presidential candidates had agreed in writing to work together to form a government of national unity, the candidates told a news conference, following meetings with US Secretary of State John Kerry on Friday. A joint declaration signed by the candidates did not provide details on the government framework, except to say that both sides would form commissions to work on its structure.
Top educationist Anita Ghulam Ali passes away Hasan Mansoor KARACHI: Anita Ghulam Ali, one of the country’s most famous teachers who served twice as education minister of Sindh, died in a hospital here on Friday after protracted heart problems. She was 76. “She had been in the hospital since July 28 for cardiac problems and breathed her last at about 2.20pm today,” said one of her colleagues at the Sindh Educa­tion Foundation (SEF) that she had quit a few months ago after a 24-year stint.
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