DINA for the Issue of 16th June, 2013

	Sunday 16th June 2013 | Sha"ban 6, 1434
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Quaid’s residency blown up by BLA By Our Staff Correspondent QUETTA, June 15: Militants carried out a symbolic and audacious attack on Pakistan, its history and the federal structure in the small hours of Saturday when they blew up the Ziarat residency, the building in which the Quaid-i-Azam spent the last days of his life in 1948.	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995
Rowhani is new Iran president TEHRAN, June 15: Moderate cleric Hassan Rowhani was declared Iran’s new president on Saturday in a surprise and outright election victory that ended eight years of conservative grip on the top office. “This victory is a victory for wisdom, moderation and maturity... over extremism,” local media reported Mr Rowhani as saying in the first statement after his win.
•Varsity bus bombed •Suicide attack in hospital •LJ claims responsibility: 14 girls, deputy commissioner among 25 killed in Quetta By Saleem Shahid QUETTA, June 15: At least 25 people, including the deputy commissioner of Quetta, 14 students of a women’s university and four nurses were killed on Saturday when a bomb tore through a bus, followed by a suicide attack and a gunbattle in the Bolan Medical College hospital, where the injured students were taken for treatment. Chief Secretary Babar Yaqoob Fateh Mohammad told Dawn: “We cannot tell the exact number of deceased persons at the moment, but can confirm around 25 casualties. We will be able to share the figure of the dead on Sunday morning after checking from the BMC hospital.”
India thrash Pakistan BIRMINGHAM, June 15: India continued their formidable Champions Trophy form with a eight-wicket demolition of Pakistan on Saturday. The highly-anticipated encounter in front of 22,000 boisterous supporters from both sides in the Edgbaston stands was interrupted several times by bad weather.—AFP
Govt retreats on salary, Benazir’s name By Raja Asghar Govt retreats on salary, Benazir’s name By Raja AsgharISLAMABAD, June 15: Facing a furious opposition in parliament at the beginning of the debate on the new budget, the government had to make an early retreat on Saturday when it announced 10 per cent increase in salary of its employees and withdrew its decision to change the title of the Benazir Income Support Programme by omitting the name of the former prime minister whose PPP had introduced the gigantic poverty alleviation plan during its last tenure. Both the decisions, apparently an exercise in damage control and coming just three days after the new government presented its first budget, were announced in the National Assembly by Finance Minister Ishaq Dar.
Ministers hint at involvement of locals in Ziarat, Quetta attacks By Amir Wasim ISLAMABAD, June 15: Two federal ministers hinted on Saturday at involvement of local people or organisation in Saturday’s attacks in Ziarat and Quetta, terming such acts unjustified and unacceptable after the installation of a government led by nationalist parties in Balochistan. Briefing reporters outside the Parliament House on Saturday, Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan claimed that one of the suspects involved in the attack on Bolan Medical Complex in Quetta had been arrested.
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