DINA for the issue of June 17, 2013

	Monday 17th June 2013 | Sha"ban 7, 1434
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Warning of strong state response: Talks only with those ready for dialogue: Nisar By Saleem Shahid QUETTA, June 16: Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said on Sunday the government would hold talks only with those who believed in dialogue and never with the elements bent on militancy and that the state would respond to them with force.	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995
PPP invites MQM to join Sindh govt By Azfar-ul-Ashfaque KARACHI, June 16: The PPP has formally invited Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) to join the Sindh government. A three-member PPP delegation led by President Asif Ali Zardari’s trusted lieutenant, Rehman Malik, and including Pir Mazharul Haq and Makhdoom Jamiluzzaman visited MQM’s Nine Zero headquarters on Sunday to extend the invitation.
Probe shows woman attacked student bus QUETTA: An initial investigation shows that the blast in a university bus here on Saturday was result of a suicide attack. Police sources said on Sunday that a woman had carried out the attack and her head was found on the premises of the Sardar Bahadur Khan Women’s University.
Father of girl killed in blast kidnapped By Our Staff Correspondent QUETTA, June 16: The father of a girl killed in Saturday’s bomb blast in a bus carrying female students in Quetta was kidnapped on Sunday when he was coming to the city to receive the body of his daughter. Meharullah Magsi wanted to take the body of his daughter, Sonam Magsi, to his village for burial.
Checkpost attack leaves 3 dead By Our Staff Correspondent QUETTA, June 16: Three policemen died when gunmen on a motorbike opened fire at a checkpost in Qila Saifullah district on Sunday, officials said. The personnel killed in the attack on the Raghat Bakalzai checkpost near Muslim Bagh were identified as Abdul Wali, Ali Shah and Bahauddin.
Two polio vaccinators killed By Muqaddam Khan SWABI, June 16: Two heath workers of the anti-polio campaign were killed in a village in the Gadoon Amazai area on Sunday, leading to suspension of the campaign amid complaints about inadequate security cover. Aziz Muhammad, an employee of the health department, and schoolteacher Muhammad Shiraz Khan were administering drops in the Kandaro Banda, a settlement near Pabbini village, when two gunmen opened fire on them, liking them on the spot.
PPP calls for setting up constitutional court By Amir Wasim ISLAMABAD, June 16: The Pakistan Peoples Party has called for setting up a constitutional court as envisioned in the Charter of Democracy (CoD) and assured the ruling PML-N of its fullest cooperation in getting a constitution amendment approved for the purpose. The proposal was put forward by PPP Senator Farhatullah Babar, who is also the official spokesman for President Asif Ali Zardari, in his Senate speech during the general debate on the federal budget on Sunday.
Punjab, Sindh and KP budgets today Dawn Report KARACHI, June 16: The governments of Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh will present their budgets for the fiscal year 2013-14 on Monday (today). The budget for Punjab — likely to have an outlay of about Rs860 billion — will be presented by its Finance Minister Mujtaba Shuja-ur-Rehman.
Rs1.44tr supplementary budget approval likely By Khaleeq Kiani ISLAMABAD, June 16: While the parliament is expected to approve next year’s budget on June 27, the government will seek National Assembly’s approval for an unprecedented supplementary expenditure of Rs1.44 trillion for the current financial year because of huge expenditure overruns and higher than budgeted debt servicing. A government official said the “Supplementary demands for grants and appropriations” would be tabled in the assembly soon after completion of the budget debate.
TTP demands ‘protection money’ By Mohammad Asghar RAWALPINDI, June 16: The banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is reported to have asked two local businessmen to pay ‘protection money’ to them to help militants carry out ‘jihad’. A senior police official told Dawn that the chief executive of an Islamabad-based business establishment had received four letters allegedly from the head of the TTP’s `finance wing’.
Protest strike in Quetta against terror attack By Our Correspondent QUETTA, June 16: A partial strike was observed in the city on Sunday on the call of the Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) to condemn the killing of dozens of people in bomb blasts and firing on Saturday. Trading centres on the Jinnah, Prince and Sirki roads, Shahrah-i-Iqbal and in Liaquat and Surajganj bazaars remained closed.
Amid budget rows, parliament outraged by Balochistan terror By Raja Asghar ISLAMABAD, June 16: Amid acrimony over the new government’s federal budget, lawmakers united in both houses of parliament on Sunday to voice outrage at Saturday’s terror attacks in Balochistan that killed over 25 people and destroyed a building where the Quaid-i-Azam spent his last days. The National Assembly and the Senate passed separate resolutions on the second day of their debates on the budget for 2013-14 to condemn what the lower house resolution called “inhuman and cowardly acts of terror”.
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