Friday, April 30, 2010

In the News Today (DAWN) April 30, 2010



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Mumbai's long shadow finally recedes
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THIMPHU (Bhutan), April 29: Pakistan and India agreed on Thursday to revive, without any precondition, the stalled dialogue when their prime ministers met for first direct talks in nine months on the sidelines of the 16th Saarc summit here.
 
Both sides termed the meeting between Yousuf Raza Gilani and Dr Manmohan Singh "very positive"...
 
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Official concealed facts on NRO beneficiaries, SC told
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By Nasir Iqbal
ISLAMABAD, April 29: The Supreme Court was informed on Thursday that a former joint secretary of the interior ministry, Tahir Sarfraz, had concealed information about conviction of FIA official Ahmed Riaz Sheikh at the time of his promotion in the agency.
A bench comprising Justice Nasirul Mulk, Justice Raja Fayyaz Ahmed, Justice Jawwad S. Khawaja, Justice Rahmat Hussain Jafferi and Justice Tariq Parvez was hearing a suo motu case about promotion of Mr Sheikh, an officer who had been sentenced to 14-year rigorous imprisonment and dismissed from service in 2002...
 
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/nro-beneficiarys-promotion-official-concealed-facts%2C-sc-told-040    
  
  
   
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Promotion of 54 bureaucrats annulled
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By Khawar Ghumman
ISLAMABAD, April 29: Acting on the directives of the Supreme Court, the establishment division annulled on Thursday its notification of Sept 4 under which 54 bureaucrats had been promoted to BS-22, knowledgeable sources told Dawn.
 
The PM Secretariat, meanwhile, is waiting for Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani to return from Bhutan for specific instructions...
 
 
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FIA finds clue to 'facilitator' of Benazir assassination
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By Mohammad Asghar
ISLAMABAD, April 29: The Special Investigation Group of the FIA, which has been asked to fix criminal responsibility in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case, has conducted the DNA test of the suicide bomber and the result matched the blood samples taken from his shoes found by investigators from the residence of the 'facilitator'.
 
In addition to the DNA tests, the SIG team investigated the accused being tried in the Benazir Bhutto case in Adiala jail and questioned Saud Aziz, the then Rawalpindi City Police Officer, and DCO Irfan Elahi on Thursday...
 
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/fia-finds-clue-to-facilitator-of-benazir-assassination-040   
 
  
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Three sisters suffer acid attack in Kalat
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By Saleem Shahid
QUETTA, April 29: Three young sisters were seriously injured when two unidentified men riding on a motorcycle threw acid on them in Kalat town, some 150 kilometres from here, on Thursday.
 
Informed sources said that Sakina Bibi, 14, Saima Bibi, 16, and Fatima Bibi, 20, were on their way to Killi Pandrani, a locality on the outskirts of Kalat town, when the two men attacked them...
 
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/three-sisters-suffer-acid-attack-in-kalat-040  
    
  
  
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Drone attacks illegal, experts warn Congress
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WASHINGTON, April 29: US drone attacks were illegal because the CIA was using civilian contractors to launch them, a prominent US lawyer told a key congressional committee.
 
Another lawyer argued before the US House Subcommittee on National Security and Foreign Affairs that while the United States had the right to use the drones, the CIA personnel actually launching the attacks could be guilty of war crimes...
 
 

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Water flow below Chashma drops
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By Khaleeq Kiani
ISLAMABAD, April 29: Water flows downstream Chashma have dropped by 13,000 cusecs because of static temperatures over the past few days and there is likelihood of a 30 to 40 per cent water shortage in southern Punjab and Sindh over the next few days.
 
Sources in the Indus River System Authority (Irsa) told Dawn that river flows downstream Tarbela which stood at 69,000 cusecs on April 26 had declined to 56,000 cusecs on Thursday...
 
 
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Pakistan has moved 100,000 troops from Indian border: Pentagon
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By Our Correspondent
WASHINGTON, April 29: Pakistan has deployed 140,000 troops in Fata, moving at least 100,000 soldiers from the Indian border to back up its 'unprecedented' crackdown on militants along the Afghan border, says a Pentagon report.
 
In its mandatory report to the US Congress on the situation in the Pakistan-Afghan region, the Pentagon notes that the deployment is the biggest in the country's history on the western border...
 
 
  
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Swat militants told to surrender by May 15
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PESHAWAR April 29: The government has warned militants in Swat that their property will be confiscated and their families expelled if they do not surrender by May 15.
 
A poster put by security forces at prominent places in Swat said if the militants did not surrender by the deadline "they (militants) will lose their property and their families will be expelled from Malakand"...
 
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/swat-militants-told-to-surrender-by-may-15-040    
   
  
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China to build two reactors in Pakistan: FT
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BEIJING, April 29: China has agreed to build two new civilian nuclear reactors in Pakistan, a report said on Thursday.
 
Chinese companies will build at least two 650-megawatt reactors at Chashma in Punjab, the Financial Times said...
 
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/china-to-build-two-reactors-in-pakistan-ft-040    
   
 
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Karachi Stocks Down 81.86 Points:
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KARACHI, April 29: At close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 10437.16, down 81.86 points.
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Forex Update:
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KARACHI, April 29: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 84.20 to the US Dollar in the open market.
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Today's DAWN [Wed 28-Apr-2010] Karachi


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BLA claims responsibility for killing professor in Quetta
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By Saleem Shahid
QUETTA, April 27: A woman professor of Balochistan University was gunned down here on Tuesday.
 
Nazima Talib was travelling in a rickshaw when two masked men on a motorcycle opened fire on her on the Sariab road...
 
   
   
 
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Former MI chief faces investigators today
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By Iftikhar A. Khan and Syed Irfan Raza
ISLAMABAD, April 27: Maj-Gen Nadeem Ijaz, a former director-general of the Military Intelligence (MI), will appear on Wednesday before a three-member fact-finding committee investigating the hosing down of the site of Benazir Bhutto's assassination.
 
The commission recorded on Tuesday statements of four police officials allegedly involved in washing the site shortly after the gun and bomb attack that claimed Ms Bhutto's life near Liaquat Bagh in Rawalpindi on Dec 27, 2007...
 
   
   
    
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Nepra asks govt to start work on coal-based plants
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By Khaleeq Kiani
ISLAMABAD, April 27: The National Electric Power Regulatory Authority (Nepra) decided on Tuesday to reduce electricity tariff by 45 paisas per unit under the monthly fuel adjustment formula and asked the government agencies concerned to start working immediately on setting up coal-based power projects for decreasing reliance on expensive furnace oil.
 
During a hearing on monthly fuel adjustment in power tariff, Nepra Chairman Khalid Saeed said the Private Power and Infrastructure Board (PPIB) and the ministry of water and power should invite tenders for setting up power projects to be run on imported coal till the Thar coal deposits were exploited and used for generating electricity because furnace oil was becoming unaffordable...
 
   
 
 
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Petroleum product prices being raised
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By Kalbe Ali 
ISLAMABAD, April 27: Prices of petroleum products may be raised by three to eight per cent in May because of increasing oil prices in international markets, according to sources in the Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Resources.
 
They said the price of petrol might go up to Rs75.40 per litre next month. Diesel will cost much more than petrol and the price of motor and generator fuel may be raised by more than Rs5 to Rs78.50 per litre...
 
 

   
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India nabs diplomat on charge of spying for Pakistan
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By Jawed Naqvi
NEW DELHI, April 27: India said on Tuesday it has arrested a woman working as a diplomat in its Islamabad embassy on charges of spying for Pakistan.
 
Madhuri Gupta, 53, is a second secretary in the high commission in the press and information section. She was arrested on a work trip to Delhi...
 
     
   
   
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SC wants govt to revisit LNG deal
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By Nasir Iqbal
ISLAMABAD, April 27: The Supreme Court ordered on Tuesday that a fresh decision should be taken for the award of a contract for importing 3.5 million tons of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to parties which were declared qualified by consultants.
 
A three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, Justice Chaudhry Ijaz Ahmed and Justice Ghulam Rabbani had taken notice of a news report about the contract for Mashal LNG project awarded to French firm GDF-Suez. According to the report, the lowest bid jointly offered by Fauji Foundation and multinational energy firm Vitol had been ignored by the petroleum ministry...
 
  
 

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President asks people to protect motherland
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PESHAWAR, April 27: President Asif Ali Zardari has urged the people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa to keep outsiders out of their ranks and unite to protect the country from various threats.
 
Addressing a tribal jirga at the Governor House here on Tuesday, the president said every citizen would have to play his role because complacency had no place in such challenging times. He said that people needed to ensure that their neighbours were not foreigners living in the country illegally and were not involved in unlawful activities and not creating problems for the locals...
 
     
 

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Saarc nations to jointly fight climate change
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THIMPHU (Bhutan), April 27: Foreign ministers of eight South Asian nations met in this secluded Himalayan kingdom on Tuesday to discuss ways to jointly fight climate change, start a $300 million development fund for infrastructure and sign a trade agreement, officials said.
 
The fund, which would comprise financial contributions by Saarc (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) countries, will offer loans and grants to member countries for projects to help reduce poverty...
 
 
   
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Aid must follow military gains: UN
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ISLAMABAD, April 27: Pakistan and its Western backers should swiftly pour money into former Taliban bastions to ensure that military successes were not lost and the population remained on the government's side, a UN envoy said.
 
The army has said it hit Taliban militants hard over the past year with offensives, destroying bases, killing hundreds of fighters and clearing out many others in a bid to stabilise the country...
 
    
 
 
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Karachi Stocks Up 0.01 Points:
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KARACHI, April 27: At close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 10556.38, up 0.01 points.
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Forex Update:
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KARACHI, April 27: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 84.40 to the US Dollar in the open market.
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Monday, April 26, 2010

Todays Dawn April 27, 2010


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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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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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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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KARACHI, April 26: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 84.40 to the US Dollar in the open market.
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Commitment with IMF stops govt from passing on benefit to people Fuel cost declines but power tariff cut unlikely
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By Khaleeq Kiani
ISLAMABAD, April 25: It may be possible to reduce the power tariff on May 1 by at least 65 paisa per unit on account of declining fuel costs, but the government is not likely to pass on this benefit to consumers because of a commitment made to the International Monetary Fund.
The government amended the Nepra Act of 1997 through finance bill 2009-10 under International Monetary Fund directives to pass on the impact of variation in fuel cost to consumers every month through a fuel adjustment formula. Over the past many months, the tariff has been continuously rising because of increase in oil prices in international markets...

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Six dossiers on Mumbai case handed over
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By Baqir Sajjad Syed
ISLAMABAD, April 25: Despite last-minute efforts by Pakistan to convince India of actions it has taken against alleged Mumbai attackers, uncertainty about a meeting between Prime Ministers Yousuf Raza Gilani and Manmohan Singh on the sidelines of the Saarc summit in Bhutan continues.
"We are keeping our fingers crossed. No meeting has been scheduled yet," a senior Pakistani diplomat, who is in the Bhutanese capital Thimphu for Saarc meetings, told Dawn on telephone on Sunday...
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Altaf greets MQM bid to make inroads into Punjab
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LAHORE, April 25: Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain has warned 'oppressive' feudal lords of Punjab of 'retribution' and promised to people that their problems will be solved if they support his party.
Addressing by telephone from London 'Punjab convention' of MQM workers held in Lahore, Rawalpindi and Multan on Sunday, he said the event marked the 'beginning of a revolution' in Punjab...
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ISLAMABAD, April 25: Foreign Secretary Salman Bashir said on Sunday that South Asia needed a regional approach to effectively tackle water issues.
Addressing the 37th session of the standing committee of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (Saarc) in Thimphu (Bhutan), he said South Asia had become a water-stressed region and should adopt a regional, cooperative approach to address the issues of glaciers, water management and pollution on an urgent basis...

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By Anwar Iqbal
WASHINGTON, April 25: Political uncertainty and fighting continue to disrupt economic activity in Pakistan while other South Asian nations are expected to emerge stronger from the current global crisis, says a World Bank report.
In its Global Monitoring Report for 2010, the bank places Pakistan among the conflict-affected countries where "political uncertainty and fighting continue to disrupt economic activity"...

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People asked to vacate village ahead of army operation
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KOHAT, April 25: People of the village of Tootkas, said to be a hub of militants in Hangu district, were asked to leave the area by Monday because a military operation was to be launched there.
Security forces decided to get the area vacated after local people expressed their inability to form a lashkar against militants hiding in their area. Earlier, the villagers had been given a three-day deadline which was later extended till Monday...

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3 policemen killed in Nasirabad
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By Saleem Shahid
QUETTA, April 25: Three policemen were killed in an attack by militants on a checkpost in Chattar tehsil of Nasirabad district early on Sunday morning.
DPO Sadullah Khetran said the assailants used automatic weapons, killing three policemen on the spot...

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KALAYA, April 25: Security forces claimed to have killed 15 militants and injured nine others in clashes and air attacks in the Orakzai tribal region on Sunday.
Troops are reported to have repulsed an attack on a convoy in Govein area. The clash there left eight militants dead and three others injured...

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BAGHDAD, April 25: An Al Qaeda front group in Iraq has confirmed the killing of its two top leaders but vowed in a statement that its members were not cowed by their death and would continue to fight.
"After a long journey filled with sacrifices and fighting falsehood and its representatives, two knights have dismounted to join the group of martyrs," the statement said. "We announce that the Muslim nation has lost two of the leaders of jihad, and two of its men, who are only known as heroes on the path of jihad."..

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By Ahmad Hassan
ISLAMABAD, April 25: The Pakistan Muslim League-Q (PML-Q) has announced that it will table the 19th constitutional amendment in parliament because it wants to do away with the clauses of the 18th Amendment on which it expressed its reservations.
Addressing a press conference here on Sunday, PML-Q president Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said the ruling coalition should avoid repeating the mistakes it made while formulating and approving the 18th amendment. It should create a national consensus in an effort to resolve the problems of price hike and loadshedding...

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Toll collection regime to be introduced in Balochistan
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By Bakhtawar Mian
ISLAMABAD, April 25: The National Highway Authority (NHA) has decided to introduce a toll collection regime in Balochistan and to make all its toll collection centres in the province operational.
For this purpose, bids have been invited for 102 toll collection centres which will be auctioned in a transparent manner. The roadside tax collection centres will be run by local contractors...

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Gilani finally gets his brother a PPP ticket
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By Amir Wasim
ISLAMABAD, April 25: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has finally succeeded in getting a People's Party ticket for his brother Syed Ahmed Mujtaba Gilani, but for a Punjab assembly seat.
According to an announcement from the Prime Minister House on Sunday, the Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Parliamentary Board headed by President Asif Ali Zardari decided to award the ticket for the PP-206 constituency of Jalalpur Pirwala (Multan district) to Ahmed Mujtaba Gilani...

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