DINA for the issue of January 6, 2014

	January 6, 2014 | Rabi-ul-Awwal 4, 1435
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Multi-sect peace convention wants action against TTP By Ikram Junaidi ISLAMABAD: A National Peace Convention held here on Sunday to promote sectarian harmony lashed out at the government for trying to hold peace talks with the Taliban and called for dealing firmly with terrorists.	For suggestions and comments: Email: webmaster@dawn.com Website: http://dawn.com Fax: +92(21) 35693995
Musharraf may not appear in court today By Syed Irfan Raza ISLAMABAD: Former president retired Gen Pervez Musharraf may not appear before the special court on Monday for his treason trial because of illness. “Pervez Musharraf cannot appear before the special court because he is not well,” his lawyer Ahmed Raza Kasuri told Dawn on Sunday.
Unidentified bodies found in Zhob By Saleem Shahid QUETTA: Three bodies were found in Qamaruddin Karez area of Zhob district near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border on Sunday, police sources said. “Area residents informed us about the bodies lying near village Killi Mariam. A police party shifted the bodies to a hospital,” the sources said.
Violence, boycott mar Bangladesh polls DHAKA: Police in Bangladesh fired at protesters and opposition activists torched more than 100 polling stations on Sunday during a national election boycotted by the opposition and described as flawed by the international community. At least 18 people were killed in election-related violence. Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s refusal to heed opposition demands to step down and appoint a neutral caretaker to oversee the election led to the boycott, undermining the legitimacy of the vote, which is all but certain to return Ms Hasina to power.
Altaf suggests Sindh One, Sindh Two formula By Azfar-ul-Ashfaque KARACHI: Accusing the Pakistan Peoples Party of having created an urban-rural divide in the 1970s, Muttahida Qaumi Movement chief Altaf Hussain asked the ruling party in Sindh on Sunday to abolish the quota system for the rural and urban populace if it really believed that the people living in urban areas were true Sindhis. “No one wants a division of Sindh ... if the PPP will not consider us equal then it should make a Sindh One province for Sindhis and Sindh Two for people whom it [the PPP] doesn’t consider to be Sindhis ... people living in urban Sindh are ready to become number two,” Mr Hussain said in a telephonic address from London to supporters gathered in a ground on Rashid Minhas Road here in connection with local government elections.
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