PRESS DIGEST - Pakistani Newspapers - Oct 1

These are the leading stories in Pakistan's newspapers on Thursday. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy:

DAWN

-- The House of Representatives unanimously approved a bill, removing all legal hurdles for tripling U.S. aid to Pakistan.

-- Nine militants, five of them foreigners, were killed and four wounded in a missile attack by a U.S. drone in Mir Ali area of North Waziristan.

THE NEWS

-- The Supreme Court made it essential for the government to get the National Reconciliation and all other ordinances revalidated from parliament within the time given by the court to prevent all cases, including those against President Asif Ali Zardari, from reviving automatically.

-- The Supreme Court issued a detailed judgement, declaring the steps taken by former President Pervez Musharraf on Nov. 3, 2007 as unconstitutional and illegal.

DAILY TIMES

-- Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani approved a summary for a six percent increase in electricity tariff for the quarter, begining Oct. 1, the paper said quoting unnamed sources.