DINA for the issue of January 13, 2013

	Sunday 13th January 2013 | Safar 30, 1434
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TMQ chief unveils charter of demands: Chaudhrys fail to change Qadri plan By Zulqernain Tahir and Khalid Hasnain LAHORE, Jan 12: Despite an assurance by the federal government about acceptance of his demands, Tehrik-i-Minhajul Quran chief Allama Dr Tahirul Qadri is adamant on going ahead with his planned long march on Islamabad.	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995
Quetta’s dead remain unburied: Nationwide protest over carnage Dawn Report As the devastated Shia protesters in Quetta continued their vigil over the unburied bodies of their loves ones, their grief was felt across the country as members of the Shia and Hazara communities and civil society came out on the streets of various cities of Pakistan on Saturday. From Karachi to Islamabad, Shia parties such as Majlis-i-Wahdatul Muslimeen (MWM) and the Imamia Students Organisation (ISO) as well as civil society activists gathered to protest the three blasts in Quetta on Thursday which claimed over a hundred lives – most of them of Shia and Hazaras.
Organisers to submit vehicle list By Our Staff Reporter ISLAMABAD, Jan 12: The standard operating procedures (SOPs) evolved by the Punjab government for the Tehrik-i-Minhajul Quran’s long march were approved at a high-level meeting on Saturday. Interior Minister Rehman Malik chaired the meeting. It reviewed the law and order situation and security arrangements for the march.
Hazaras refuse to call off Alamdar Road sit-in By Saleem Shahid QUETTA, Jan 12: Hundreds of people of Shia Hazara community, including women and children, continued to brave sub-zero temperatures on a road here on Saturday as a government team failed to persuade them to call off their protest. The protesters carrying coffins of 87 victims of Thursday’s twin blasts began a sit-in on Alamdar Road at 3pm on Friday. They have refused to bury their loved ones until their demands are accepted. They want removal of the Balochistan government, imposition of governor’s rule in the province and deployment of army in Quetta as the city has lately become a killing field for the religious-ethnic minority.
It’s not judiciary’s task to run govt, says Naek By Ishaq Tanoli KARACHI, Jan 12: Law Minister Farooq H. Naek said on Saturday that regardless of the nobility of objective, it was not for judges to run the government and despite its widening sphere of influence, the “judiciary must not overwhelm itself”. Speaking at an oath-taking ceremony of the Karachi Bar Association, he said judiciary should not overburden itself by micro-managing affairs of the executive or legislature.
Call for sacking of Balochistan CM By Amir Wasim ISLAMABAD, Jan 12: Almost all political and religious parties are united in expressing solidarity with the protesting Hazaras, but most of them are not supportive of the demand that army should be called out to deal with the situation in Balochistan. When contacted, leaders of various parties, mainly from the opposition, termed the protest by the angry Hazaras “justified”, but said they believed that their demand for the army’s role in the province was not feasible because it could aggravate the already volatile situation there.
Two activists from held Kashmir detained By Tariq Naqash MUZAFFARABAD, Jan 12: Authorities in Azad Jammu and Kashmir’s lakeside city of Mirpur lodged two visitors from Indian-held Kashmir in judicial lockup on Saturday for want of a valid visa, triggering strong protest by activists of nationalist groups. “Mirpur police have arrested Sardar Devinder Singh Behal, chairman of the Jammu Kashmir Social Peace Forum (JKSPF), his associate Vijay Abrol and Sardar Arif Shahid, president of the Jammu Kashmir National Liberation Conference (JKNLC) on a flimsy charge under the pressure of intelligence agencies,” Advocate Mahmood Baig, who led a demonstration in Muzaffarabad against the detentions, said.
Angry mob killed four workers, says Faisal Edhi By Our Staff Correspondent QUETTA, Jan 12: Four workers of the Edhi Foundation were shot dead by an outraged mob after the second explosion at a snooker club on Quetta’s Alamadar Road on Thursday, according to Faisal Edhi, a spokesman for the organisation. Talking to journalists at the press club here on Saturday, he expressed the fear that the foundation might have to suspend its ambulance service in Quetta “because our rescue workers are not ready to continue their work”.
Youth dies in blast, woman shot dead By Our Staff Correspondent QUETTA: A 15-year-old boy was killed in a bomb blast near an internet café on Brewery road on Saturday night, police said. Ghulam Nabi was passing through the area when the bomb planted by unidentified people went off, leaving him seriously injured. The teenager was taken to the BMC hospital where he died.
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