Sunday, May 16, 2010

DAWN TODAY 17-05-2010



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10 hostages escape captivity: Militants free 40 kidnapped passengers
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By Hussain Afzal
PARACHINAR, May 16: After talks with tribal elders, militants freed on Sunday 40 of at least 60 people they had kidnapped on Saturday.
 
Another 10 hostages managed to escape from the captors...
 
 
 
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Govt plans commission for criminal case review
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By Syed Irfan Raza
ISLAMABAD, May 16: The government intends to introduce the British model of criminal case review commission (CCRC) in the country to review 'possible miscarriages' of justice in criminal courts, including the hanging of former prime minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in 1979.
 
The basic objective of the formation of the CCRC in the United Kingdom was to review and refer appropriate cases to appeal courts, and in the opinion of knowledgeable sources here the review of the Bhutto case is one of the main reasons behind introducing the concept...
 
 

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England relish first big win
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BRIDGETOWN, May 16: England won the World Twenty20 for their first world cricket title, beating Australia by seven wickets in Sunday's final after Craig Kieswetter hit 63 off 49 balls and Kevin Pietersen 47 off 31 deliveries.The pair added 111 off 68 balls as England romped to the target of 148 in 17 overs at Kensington Oval.
 
Kieswetter smashed seven fours and two sixes, while Pietersen, later voted the player of the tournament, struck four fours and a six...
 
 

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32 Taliban killed in Orakzai air strike, clashes
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By Syed Hassan Mahmood
KALAYA, May 16: Military planes and helicopter gunships bombed suspected Taliban positions in different areas of Orakzai on Sunday,  killing 32 militants and injuring 18 others.
 
(According to AP, the air strikes and assault by ground forces killed 58 suspected militants in the agency.)..
 
 
   
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Govt adopts novel tactic to project higher growth rate
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By Khaleeq Kiani
ISLAMABAD, May 16: The government has revised current year's real economic growth rate at 4.1 per cent – much higher than the 3.3 per cent announced earlier – mainly because of a major downward revision in growth and production figures for the last two years.
 
Informed sources told Dawn on Sunday that last year's (2008-09) real economic growth (commonly defined as Gross Domestic Product) rate had been revised downwards to a paltry 1.2 per cent from two per cent announced and hitherto acknowledged by the government. Likewise, the real GDP growth rate for 2007-08 has also been brought down to 3.7 per cent from previous estimates of 4.1 per cent...
 
 
   
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'Efforts on to implicate Chaudhrys in BoP scam': Sharifs pressured Hamesh to become approver: Shujaat
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By Amjad Mahmood
 
LAHORE, May 16: The Pakistan Muslim League-Q has accused Punjab Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif of putting pressure on Hamesh Khan, former chief of the Bank of Punjab, to become an approver against former chief minister Pervaiz Ilahi, and of also seeking a Rs500 million 'unsecured' loan for his sons.
 
Addressing a press conference on Sunday, PML-Q chief Chaudhry Shujaat Hussain said PML-N leader Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif had been trying for six months to implicate his family in the BoP scam and their rhetoric had intensified after Hamesh's extradition...
 
 

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PIA passengers stranded in Karachi for hours
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By Azfar-ul-Ashfaque
KARACHI, May 16: About 200 passengers, women and children among them, of a Lahore-bound PIA flight were stranded at the airport in Karachi for hours on Sunday when troubles erupted following a last-minute rescheduling.
 
The PIA insisted on going to Lahore via Faisalabad where it wanted to send some engineering-related material for an aircraft grounded there, but the passengers refused to accept the rescheduling and reacted angrily....
 
 

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Musharraf should also be summoned by courts: PM
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By Intikhab Hanif
LAHORE, May 16: Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani said on Sunday that people wanted Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf to justify the promulgation of the controversial National Reconciliation Ordinance (NRO) and wondered why courts were not summoning him.
 
"Why isn't the creator of the NRO being summoned? He should be made to appear before courts and explain his position."..
 
 

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Pakistani held at US embassy in Chile freed
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SANTIAGO, May 16: A Pakistani man detained with suspicious chemical residues at the US Embassy in Chile was charged with possessing explosives on Saturday, and then set free pending further investigation.
 
Mohammad Saif-ur-Reh-man Khan was ordered to stay in Chile and check in with authorities once a week. Prosecutors have three more months to develop their case, Judge Maria Carolina Herrera ruled...
 
 
  


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Supreme Court summons law minister in NRO case
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By Nasir Iqbal
ISLAMABAD, May 14: The Supreme Court has summoned Law Minister Babar Awan on May 25 to inform it about steps taken by the government to implement its verdict nullifying the National Reconciliation Ordinance and reopen Swiss cases against President Asif Ali Zardari. 
 
"Now the stage has come that we should call the law minister and he should tell us about the implementation of the NRO verdict," observed Justice Nasirul Mulk, the head of a five-judge bench, after a brief hearing on Friday...
 
   
 
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BoP scam accused brought back
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By Our Staff Reporter
LAHORE, May 14: Hamesh Khan, former president of Bank of Punjab and the main accused in the Rs9 billion loan scam, was brought back to the country from the United States on Friday by a team of the National Accountability Bureau.
 
From the airport, he was taken to Chamba House, the NAB's Punjab headquarters, amid tight security...
 
  
    
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Hussey steals Pakistan dream
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GROS ISLET (Saint Lucia), May 14: Michael Hussey's latest rescue mission saw Australia beat defending champions Pakistan by three wickets with just a ball to spare to reach the World Twenty20 final here on Friday.
 
Set a huge 192 to win, Australia collapsed to 62 for four. But, initially through Cameron White, who made 43, and Hussey's unbeaten 60, they recovered and will now face old rivals England in Sunday's  final at Barbados's Kensington Oval...
 
 

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Spending on poverty reduction improves only marginally
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By Khaleeq Kiani
ISLAMABAD, May 14: Expenditure on poverty reduction programmes improved only marginally, by 5.3 per cent to Rs651 billion, during the first nine months of the current fiscal year, against last year's Rs618 billion despite the launch of the ambitious Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP).
 
Data released by the finance ministry on Friday suggested that budgetary expenditure for poverty reduction efforts did not make a real increase when seen in the context of overall inflation and currency devaluation...
 
 
   
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SC calls for action against trafficking of children
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By Our Staff Reporter
ISLAMABAD, May 14: A visibly disturbed bench of the Supreme Court called on Friday for a comprehensive list of actions taken against people involved in trafficking of Pakistani children to Middle Eastern countries to work there as camel jockeys.
 
A three-judge bench comprising Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry, Justice Ghulam Rabbani and Justice Khalilur Rehman Ramday had taken up suo motu notice of an article in a newspaper and an application from M. Tahir Ali deploring that Pakistani children were being used in camel races in the United Arab Emirates. The article also stated that $1.4 million had been given to Pakistan as compensation...
 
 
   
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PML-Q protests in NA over 'victimisation'
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By Ahmad Hassan
ISLAMABAD, May 14: The Pakistan Muslim League-Q announced on Friday that it would boycott the ongoing sessions of the National Assembly and Senate and the budget session unless 'large-scale victimisation' and police harassment unleashed against its office-bearers and workers in Sindh were stopped.
 
Speaking on a point of order in the National Assembly, the party's chief whip Riaz Hussain Pirzada drew attention of the prime minister to what he called continuous victimisation and harassment of PML-Q leaders, especially Shafqat Shirazi and members of his family in Jamshoro. He alleged that Sindh had been made a no-go area for those who did not chant pro-PPP slogans...
 
 

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LHC dismisses pleas against Dasti's candidature
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By Shakeel Ahmed
MULTAN, May 14: The Multan bench of Lahore High Court dismissed on Friday two petitions seeking disqualification of PPP candidate Jamshed Dasti in a by-election for a Muzaffargarh NA seat being held on Saturday.
 
Justice Tariq Javed said the petitions were not maintainable because the petitioners were not candidates in the election...
 
 

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Detained Pakistanis provided funds to Shahzad: US
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Masood Haider
NEW YORK, May 14: US officials said here on Friday that three men, identified as Pakistanis, arrested in a series of raids across the northeast on Thursday, supplied funds to Faisal Shahzad detained for botched bombing attempt in New York.
 
Investigators said it was not yet clear whether the three men knew how the money was going to be used...
 
 

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Two held in Pakistan over failed NY bomb plot
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WASHINGTON, May 14: A US military official says Pakistan now has at least two men in custody on suspicion of helping to finance the Times Square bombing attempt.
 
The investigation into the May 1 attempt in New York has widened as authorities in the US and Pakistan follow the money trail...
 
 
  
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Mumbai-style attack plot foiled in Indonesia
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JAKARTA, May 14: Indonesian police said on Friday they had foiled a plot by militants to kill President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and foreigners in an attack during an independence day celebration on August 17.
 
"They planned to target Indonesian president (Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono), state officials and foreign guests attending the ceremony," national police chief Bambang Hendarso Danuri told a press conference...
 
 

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Fresh scare in NY
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NEW YORK: There was another bomb scare around Union Square, which is hub of the New York University campus area, after a gas company employee reported seeing two petrol canisters in the back of a blue vehicle early Friday morning.
 
The car was parked in front of the company's headquarters, police said. However, the car and the canisters belonged to a man who mows lawns for a living, said Paul J. Browne, the Police Department's chief spokesman.—M.H..
 
 

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Pakistan has a role in reconciliation process: Karzai
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By Anwar Iqbal
WASHINGTON, May 14: Afghanistan will also involve Pakistan when it seeks reconciliation with the Taliban leaders, says Afghan President Hamid Karzai.
 
In a joint appearance with US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Mr Karzai also drew a distinction between the processes of reintegration and reconciliation, noting that while one involves Taliban foot soldiers, the other would require the involvement of the Taliban leadership...
 
 

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Karachi Stocks Down 7.81 Points:
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KARACHI, May 14: At close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 10271.71, down 7.81 points. 
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Forex Update:
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KARACHI, May 14: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 84.30 to the US Dollar in the open market. 
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