Monday, April 26, 2010

Todays Dawn April 27, 2010


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April 27, 2010           Tuesday        Jumadi-ul-Awwal 12, 1431
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Electricity shortfall feared to worsen
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By Khaleeq Kiani
ISLAMABAD, April 26: With little signs of improvement in river flows, the country may face difficulties in cotton sowing and a surge in electricity shortfalls over the next few days.
 
Sources in the Indus River System Authority told Dawn on Monday that because of the precarious situation of reservoirs and static river flows, Irsa had been finding it difficult to meet provincial indents for irrigation...
 
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/river-flows-precarious-electricity-shortfall-feared-to-worsen-740 
   
   
 
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First probe against a serving general begins
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By Iftikhar A. Khan & Mohammad Asghar
ISLAMABAD/RAWALPINDI, April 26: In the first-ever probe of its kind into the possible role of a senior serving army officer in elimination of evidence of a serious crime, the three-member committee constituted to determine whether the then Director General of Military Intelligence (MI), Major General Nadeem Ijaz, gave orders for hosing down of Ms Benazir Bhutto's assassination site, has started preliminary work.
 
"We have started preliminary work and will submit a report to the prime minister in the stipulated time," cabinet secretary Abdul Rauf Chaudhry, who heads the fact-finding committee, told Dawn on Monday...
 
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/first-probe-against-a-serving-general-begins-740 
  
  
   
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Next year's PSDP may be slashed by 30pc
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By Our Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD, April 26: Facing serious fiscal constraints, the government has firmed up a Rs310 billion federal Public Sector Development Programme (PSDP) for the next financial year, almost 30 per cent less than current years' budgetary allocation of Rs446 billion.
 
Sources told Dawn on Monday that the federal outlay for the development programme had been set at Rs300 billion. Another Rs10 billion has been earmarked for the Earthquake Reconstruction and Rehabilitation Authority against its Rs25 billion block allocation for the current year, down by 60 per cent...
 
 
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One-day gas closure for CNG stations
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By Kalbe Ali
ISLAMABAD, April 26: The government decided on Monday to stop gas supplies to CNG stations and industries for one day every week to increase power generation.
 
While the Sui Northern Gas Pipelines has announced that CNG stations in Punjab and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa will remain closed for 24 hours (from 6am on Tuesday to 6am on Wednesday), the Sui Southern Gas Company has set up a committee to decide a day for shutdown...
 
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/oneday-gas-closure-for-cng-stations-740 
 

  
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Gilani, Singh likely to meet
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NEW DELHI, April 26: Prime ministers of India and Pakistan are likely to hold talks on the sidelines of the Saarc summit in Bhutan, a top Indian official said on Monday, indicating signs of a possible thaw between the two South Asian neighbours.
 
India's External Affairs Minister S. M. Krishna said a meeting later this week between Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his Pakistani counterpart, Yousuf Raza Gilani, "could not be ruled out", the Press Trust of India news agency reported...
 
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/gilani%2C-singh-likely-to-meet-740 
    
  
  
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North Waziristan poses a formidable challenge
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By Ismail Khan
PESHAWAR, April 26: A steady escalation in attacks on security forces in South Waziristan and Mehsud tribesmen's reluctance to return home has thrown up a formidable challenge to the government to deal with militant leaders in neighbouring North Waziristan Agency — the real bastion of Tehrik-i-Taliban.
 
Casualties have been mounting in South Waziristan. Since the beginning of this month, roadside bombings, ambushes and raids by militants affiliated with Hakeemullah Mehsud now ensconced in North Waziristan, have inflicted rising losses on the security forces. Now the military is back to the drawing board in search of new options...
 
 

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Five killed in drone attack
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MIRAMSHAH, April 26: At least five people were killed and three others injured when a US drone attacked a seminary in Mirali tehsil of North Waziristan on Monday morning.
 
According to local people, the unmanned plane fired three missiles at the seminary owned by Maulvi Muneer in Khushali Toorikhel area. The victims belonged to the Mehsud tribe.—Correspondent..
 
 

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SC urges review of LNG contract
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By Nasir Iqbal
ISLAMABAD, April 26: The Supreme Court suggested to the government on Monday to take the matter of LNG import contract back to the Economic Coordination Committee (ECC) for a review.
 
"It is not a decision, just a loud thinking, that may solve the matter if negotiations with the 4-Gas (the original bidder and developer of the project) is freshly taken up where it was left by the ECC with Fauji Foundation/Vitol (lowest bidder) taken into confidence," observed Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry who is heading a three-judge bench hearing the multi-billion dollar contract for the import of 3.5 million tons of Liquid Natural Gas...
 
 
  
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IPL chief Modi suspended
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NEW DELHI, April 26: Indian Premier League chief Lalit Modi has been suspended, officials said on Monday, after graft accusations in cricket's richest event ensnared top politicians and Bollywood stars and strained the ruling coalition.
 
Tax authorities are probing the three-year-old Indian Premier League (IPL) franchise, valued at an estimated $4.1 billion, after allegations of improper influence sparked the resignation of a junior foreign minister...
 
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/ipl-chief-modi-suspended-740 
   
 
 
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US drones using smaller missiles: report
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By Our Correspondent
WASHINGTON, April 26: The US Central Intelligence Agency is now using smaller missiles in Pakistan's tribal areas in the hope of minimising civilian casualties, the US media reported on Monday.
 
The Washington Post reported that the new missiles are equipped with advanced surveillance gadgets that may help sharply reduce civilian casualties...
 
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/us-drones-using-smaller-missiles-report-740 
     
 
 
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Ambassador of UK escapes suicide attack in Yemen
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SAN'A, April 26: The British ambassador in Yemen narrowly escaped a suicide attack on Monday, when a young man in a school uniform detonated his explosives belt near his armoured car at a poor neighbourhood of San'a, officials said.
 
A British Embassy spokeswoman said the ambassador, Timothy Torlot, was unhurt, but the attack underlined the precarious security in Yemen. An impoverished Arab nation in the southern corner of the Arabian Peninsula, Yemen has in recent years become a haven for Al Qaeda militants taking advantage of the government's limited authority outside major cities and the control of rural areas by heavily armed tribes...
 
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/ambassador-of-uk-escapes-suicide-attack-in-yemen-740 
     
 
 
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Musharraf's protocol to stay
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By Syed Irfan Raza
ISLAMABAD, April 26: The government has decided not to withdraw the official protocol being provided to former president Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf.
 
"Being a former president it is his right to get official security and protocol," Interior Minister Rehman Malik told a private TV channel on Monday...
 
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/musharrafs-protocol-to-stay-740 
     
 
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Karachi Stocks Down 50.66 Points:
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KARACHI, April 26: At close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 10556.37, down 50.66 points.
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Forex Update:
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KARACHI, April 26: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 84.40 to the US Dollar in the open market.
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