Wednesday, May 12, 2010

DINA for the issue of May 12, 2010


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FMs to meet on July 15: Pakistan and India break the ice
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By Baqir Sajjad Syed
ISLAMABAD, May 11: Pakistan and India would hold foreign minister-level talks in July as part of efforts to revive a peace dialogue derailed by the 2008 Mumbai attacks.
 
During a 25-minute telephonic conversation on Tuesday, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi invited his Indian counterpart S.M. Krishna to Islamabad on July 15...
 
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/fms-to-meet-amid-terror-fears-250   
   
 
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Cameron takes over as new British premier
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LONDON, May 11: David Cameron became Britain's new prime minister on Tuesday, breaking five days of deadlock after last week's inconclusive general election and becoming the first Conservative premier in 13 years.
 
Cameron was invited to form a government by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace after Gordon Brown resigned amid expectation that the Conservatives would forge a power-sharing deal with the Liberal Democrats...
 
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/cameron-takes-over-as-new-british-premier-250 
 
   
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Lanka power play ousts India
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GROS ISLET, May 11: India were knocked out of the Twenty20 World Cup when a last-ball six from Sri Lanka's Chamara Kapugedera condemned them to their third straight defeat in the Super Eight stage on Tuesday.
 
Sri Lanka, who have two victories in Group F, won by five wickets and will go through to the semi-finals if Australia beat West Indies...
 
 

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Govt urged to focus on jobs, not growth
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By Khaleeq Kiani
ISLAMABAD, May 11: International lending agencies have advised the government to consider launching employment-generation schemes in the public sector to contain rising joblessness and poverty, instead of focussing only on growth figures.
 
They have also suggested that the Rs70 billion Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP) be converted into a return-oriented scheme that can ensure skill development and become a sustainable income-generating source for those benefiting from it...
 
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/govt-urged-to-focus-on-jobs%2C-not-growth-250 
 
  
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Drone attacks kill 14 in North Waziristan
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By Pazir Gul
MIRAMSHAH, May 11: Fourteen people were killed and 16 others injured when US drones fired a barrage of missiles on a militants' compound in Enzer Kass area of North Waziristan on Tuesday morning.
 
Local people said that six drones flying over the area near the Afghan border fired a dozen missiles at positions in mountains at about 6am...
 
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/drone-attacks-kill-14-in-north-waziristan-250  
 
  
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Ambassador injured in Iran attack
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ISLAMABAD, May 11: Pakistan's ambassador to Iran was injured in a knife attack in Tehran by an Afghan national on Tuesday evening.
 
M.B. Abbasi was walking back home after a workout session at a gym when the 23-year-old Afghan attacked him with the knife. The envoy was reported to have had a verbal exchange with the man. He was without guards at the time of the attack...
 
 

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Organisation fleeced thru 'workers' trust'
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By Iftikhar A. Khan
ISLAMABAD, May 11: In a unique case of profiting at the expense of the state, executives of a unit of the ministry of industries and production formed a trust to gobble up the profit of the organisation they were drawing salaries from.
 
Documents reveal that the Enar Employees' Trust (EET) was set up in May 2007 by Mahmood Ali Ahmad, the then managing director of the Enar Petrotech Services, who became its chairman. Both its trustees, Perveiz Rizvi and Sajid Pervez, were general managers of the organisation...
 
 

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Irsa playing politics, says Punjab
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By Ahmad Fraz Khan
LAHORE, May 11: The government of Punjab has accused the Indus River System Authority (Irsa) of "playing politics and damaging provincial harmony" and asked the federal government to "reorganise the authority for better provincial representation".
 
Substantiating its allegations in a letter to the federal government sent on Monday, the province maintained that distribution of water during the month of April proved the biased behaviour of Irsa and its potential negative impact on provincial harmony...
 
 

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Homoeopathic college pays teachers Rs3,000
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By Our Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD, May 11: A petitioner who had challenged in the Supreme Court the disaffiliation of his college of homoeopathy took to his heels when a judge asked him how much he paid his faculty members."Three thousand rupees," he replied and got a dressing down from Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday who made an observation that his institution was producing 'killers'.
 
"You are paying Rs3,000 to a teacher to teach to his students," Justice Ramday said. "What will he teach?"..
 
 
 
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Pakistani held in Chile
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SANTIAGO, May 11: Chilean police arrested a 28-year-old Pakistani student who entered the US Embassy in Santiago with traces of an explosive substance on his clothes, a police spokesman said on Tuesday.
 
Mohammed Saifur Rehman was detained on Monday when he entered the US mission to process a visa...
 
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/pakistani-held-in-chile-250 
 

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Tarbela can absorb Hunza water
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By Our Reporter
ISLAMABAD, May 11: The overflowing Hunza lake does not pose any threat to Tarbela dam which has sufficient capacity to store additional water.
 
Sources in the Indus River System Authority said the water level in Tarbela currently stood at about 1,388 feet, just above the dead level of 1,378 feet, that meant it still had more than 160 feet of capacity to be filled...
 
 
 
 
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FMs to meet amid terror fears
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By Jawed Naqvi
NEW DELHI, May 11: Days before the foreign ministers of India and Pakistan spoke on the phone on Tuesday and set a meeting in Islamabad in July, the United States had issued a warning about a possible terror attack in Delhi, a fear that will resonate through the discussions in the coming days if past experience offers a clue to go by.
 
Apart from the fact that the devastating Mumbai attack happened in November 2008 literally within an hour of Pakistani Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi winding up what was being seen as a successful meeting in Delhi with his Indian counterpart Pranab Mukherjee, the pattern of orchestrated violence aimed at subverting any mending of bilateral ties has been standard fare...
 
 

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Karachi Stocks Down 79.33 Points:
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KARACHI, May 11: At close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 10208.81, down 79.33 points.
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Forex Update:
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KARACHI, May 11: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 84.30 to the US Dollar in the open market.
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