Wednesday, May 12, 2010

DAWN News Paper 13.April.2010


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CJ constitutes full court to hear challenges to 18th Amendment
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By Nasir Iqbal
ISLAMABAD, May 12: Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry constituted on Wednesday a full court comprising all 17 judges to define and determine the exact contours of Supreme Court's authority for reviewing the mechanism of appointing superior court judges introduced through the 18th Constitution Amendment. It will begin hearing on May 24.
 
The federal government and Attorney General Maulvi Anwarul Haq have been asked to appear before the court...
 
   
 
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Hafeez hints at new taxes, hike in power tariff
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By Khaleeq Kiani
ISLAMABAD, May 12: Finance Adviser Dr Hafeez Shaikh said on Wednesday that the electricity tariff would be increased by six per cent during the current fiscal year, civil servants would be compensated for inflation in the coming budget and that the government "may have to take a follow-up" IMF programme to pay debts.
 
Addressing his first media briefing after becoming the prime minister's adviser about two months ago, Mr Shaikh identified five challenges facing the country -- preservation of macroeconomic stabilisation, securing assistance from foreign partners and domestic and international investors, getting out of the worst situation and ensuring a broad-based growth, managing energy shortages in the short term and prioritising subsidies...
 
  
    
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PPP legislator accuses govt of running a 'banana republic'
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By Amir Wasim
ISLAMABAD, May 12: Pakistan People's Party's leader from Sindh Zafar Ali Shah left his party stunned in the National Assembly on Wednesday when he accused it of turning Pakistan into a 'banana republic'.
 
His harsh criticism came during the debate on President Asif Ali Zardari's address to a joint session of both houses of parliament...
 
 

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Obama deflects criticism of Pakistan 
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By Anwar Iqbal
WASHINGTON, May 12: US President Barack Obama said on Wednesday that  his administration was working with both Pakistan and Afghanistan to break down some of their old suspicions and bad habits.
 
At a White House news conference with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, the US president also indicated that Pakistan dominated at least part of his almost three-hour long consultations with the Afghan leader and his team...
 
 
   
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Two girls, 3 seminary students die in blasts
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By Ali Hazrat Bacha
PESHAWAR, May 12: Three students of a seminary and two girls were killed in two bomb blasts in two suburbs of Peshawar on Wednesday.
 
According to police, in the first bombing in Faizullah Garhi area, some men planted a home-made bomb and detonated it through a remote control when students of a seminary were returning home...
 
 
   
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Double digit inflation persists in April
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By Kalbe Ali
ISLAMABAD, May 12: The Consumer Price Index (CPI) rose in April by 13.26 per cent over the same month of last year and 1.73 per cent over the previous month.
 
Despite repeated announcements by the government that inflation would be reduced to a single digit by the end of the current fiscal year, the CPI remains in double digits...
 
 

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Details of evidence in Benazir Bhutto's case submitted
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By Mohammad Asghar
RAWALPINDI, May 12: Police officials accused of destroying vital pieces of evidence after Ms Benazir Bhutto's assassination have submitted to investigators details of about 30 items from the crime scene.
 
The documents provided to a three-member inquiry committee formed by Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani on the hosing down of the crime scene and to a Joint Investigation Team of the Federal Investigation  Agency, include a statement of evidences collected by police from other crime scenes...
 
 

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PM orders maximum facilities for pilgrims
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By Ahmad Hassan
ISLAMABAD, May 12: The federal cabinet deferred approval of the new Haj policy on Wednesday and called for providing more economical and decent accommodation to pilgrims and for making the process of renting the lodges more transparent.
 
Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani ordered changes in the Haj policy 2010 to provide maximum facilities to pilgrims...
 
 

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Father calls Saif-ur-Rehman's arrest in Chile a trap
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By Our Staff Reporter 
ISLAMABAD, May 12: The father of a Pakistani boy detained in Chile for allegedly having traces of explosives on his clothes while visiting the US embassy alleged on Wednesday that a trap was laid for his son.
 
Saif-ur-Rehman, 28, was detained by Chilean police on Monday on a charge of entering the US embassy with traces of explosives...
 
 
  
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Pakistan's humanitarian response plan under-funded: IOM
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By Masood Haider
UNITED NATIONS, May 12: Pakistan's Humanitarian Response Plan, which seeks to meet the needs of the "vulnerable" displaced families in the country's northwest region, is under-funded due to poor response from the international community, an official said here on Tuesday.
 
Jared Bloch of the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) regretted that the United Nations appeal for US $537 million launched two months ago had received a "lukewarm" response from international donors...
 
 

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Afghan man dies in oil tanker blast
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By Saleem Shahid
QUETTA, May 12: An Afghan national was killed and two others were injured when an oil tanker carrying fuel for Nato forces in Afghanistan was blown up near the border in Chaman on Wednesday.
 
According to sources, the tanker was parked in the border town after arriving from Karachi when a powerful bomb exploded under it. The tanker caught fire and the man died of burns, a police official said...
 
 

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Four killed in Kashmir
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SRINAGAR, May 12: An army soldier and three suspected militants were killed in occupied Kashmir during a raid on a house where they were hiding, the military said on Wednesday.
 
"In the initial firing by militants a soldier was killed and another injured," army spokesman Vineet Sood said after the incident late on Tuesday, adding that three militants died in the retaliatory fire...
 
 

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Karachi Stocks Up 13.22 Points:
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KARACHI, May 12: At close of trading, the KSE-100 index was at 10222.04, up 13.22 points. 
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Forex Update:
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KARACHI, May 12: The Pakistani Rupee was traded at 84.30 to the US Dollar in the open market. 
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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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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"...
 
http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/the-newspaper/front-page/gilani%2C-singh-want-roadmap-to-walk-the-talk-mumbais-long-shadow-finally-recedes-040  
   
   
 
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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, 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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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...
 
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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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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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By Amjad Mahmood
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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Call for joint Saarc action on water crisis
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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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Uncertainty and war mar Pakistan's progress: WB
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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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By Abdul Sami Paracha
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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15 militants killed
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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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Al Qaeda confirms death of two leaders
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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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PML-Q to table 19th amendment in parliament
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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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