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| Khosa for judicial probe into Peshawar blasts |
| 2013-09-26 |
| [Dawn] The Pakistain People's Party and the PML-Q held demonstrations here to condemn the attack on a Beautiful Downtown Peshawar ...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire. church and expressed solidarity with the Christians. Led by PPP Secretary-General Sardar Latif Khosa, the participants were holding placards and banners chiding the PML-N government for its failure to protect the lives of the people and arrest the culprits. They took out the rally from GPO Chowk to Faisal Square and expressed solidarity with the Christians. Mr Khosa demanded constitution of a judicial commission to probe the Peshawar incident. He said the PPP had expressed its reservations over talks with gunnies at the All-Party Conference as they could not be trusted. He said the government should revisit its approach towards them (militants). "Can the government hold talks with beasts," he asked and said the gunnies were not Taliban but 'Zaliman'. The former governor said the PML-N and the PTI had no right to stay in government if they could not even protect minorities. |
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