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RAWALPINDI: The federal government has decided in principle to hand over Quetta to the army to improve the law and order situation there, a private television channel reported.



The imposition of governor’s rule in Balochistan was also discussed at a high level meeting held in Karachi on Saturday night.

Govt to hand over Quetta to army? - thenews.com.pk
 
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They should, admit failure and handover to Army. Lets, flush out LEJ and BLA for good.
 
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FC given powers of police in Quetta

QUETTA: Calls for handing over the Balochistan capital to the army and protests and sit-ins against the Quetta carnage spread to the other parts of the country on Saturday as the Quetta Yakjehti Council (QYC) decided to continue its two-day long sit-in, along with the 86 coffins of bombing victims, at Alamdar Road after the failure of negotiations with the government.



The one-hour-long talks were held between Balochistan Governor Nawab Zulfiqar Ali Magsi and Federal Minister for Religious Affairs Syed Khursheed Ahmed Shah and members of the QYC at the Imambargah Punjabi at Alamdar Road where hundreds of people belonging to the Shia Hazara community are staging a sit-in against the killing of their near and dear ones.



Around 2,000 people spent Friday night keeping vigil at the site of the bombings spreading plastic sheets over the shrouded bodies to keep the rain off them.



By Saturday, the number had swelled to around 5,000.



As the sky darkened, protesters wrapped themselves up in heavy coats and shawls and burned small coal fires to keep warm. Many held candles and some wept next to the coffins of their relatives.



The governor and federal minister reached the Imambargah along with three provincial ministers — Ali Madad Jatak, Tahir Mehmood Khan and Maulvi Muhammad Sarwar - and held negotiations with the QYC leaders, including Qayyum Changezi, trying to persuade them to end their sit-in with the coffins of the dead.



During the negotiations, the federal minister assured the QYC leaders that he would convey the anguish of the Hazara people to the prime minister, but they should end their protest and bury the dead. He also sought 24 hours from the Hazara elders to address their reservations.



But the QYC refused to end their protest asserting that their protest would continue until there is some outcome to their protest.Their demand is to hand over Quetta to the army and dissolve the provincial government, which they claim has failed to deliver and protect the life and property of the masses, particularly of the Hazara people in Balochistan.



On the other hand, the families of the deceased have also refused to bury their dead and vowed to continue their sit-in in the cold weather until the army is handed over Quetta for security. The protestors said that they would not leave until the authorities agree to put the security and administration of the city under army control.



The Balochistan government is oblivious to the gravity of the situation as its machinery had failed, said Raza Hazara, one of the protestors, while talking to the media



Talking to the media after the talks, Syed Khursheed Shah said that the Frontier Corps has been given powers of the police for a targeted operation against terrorists. Without the consent of the chief minister, governor’s rule cannot be enforced in the province, he said. He said governor’s rule can be imposed according to the Constitution in any province.



Meanwhile, Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashra on Saturday afternoon asked Balochistan Chief Minister Muhammad Aslam Raisani to immediately return from abroad. Raisani is reportedly in London after visiting Dubai. Despite the passage of two days, the chief minister showed no interest in flying back and at least consoling the bereaved families.



In a separate protest, the office-bearers and activists of the Hazara Democratic Party (HDP), led by its chairman Abdul Khaliq Hazara, gathered outside the office of the inspector general of police, Balochistan, and started a three-day hunger strike against Thursday’s bomb explosions, target killings and lawlessness in Quetta.



“We want an immediate takeover of Quetta by the army, as the provincial government is incapable,” Khaliq Hazara said. He added that after the three-day hunger strike they would decide their future course of action.



Meanwhile, the Majlis-e-Wahdatul Muslimeen (MWM) and Imamia Students Organisation (ISO) and other organisations held protest demonstrations throughout the country. In Rawalpindi, the Express Highway was blocked by the protesters. A sit-in was staged in front of the Governor House in Lahore. In Karachi, a sit-in was staged at Numaish Chowrangi. Protest demonstrations were also held in Hyderabad, Sukkur, Nosheroferoze, Khairpur, Chiniot and other cities. All the participants demanded the handing over of Quetta to the army so that the culprits of the bombings are brought to book.



Meanwhile, talking to the media in Lahore, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Chairman Imran Khan has demanded imposition of governor’s rule in the province.



Imran also announced he would joine the sit-in staged by the Hazara community members and said he would also participate in it.



Imran Khan said the killing of Hazara people in Quetta was a matter of grave concern and said demands of the community members were justified and the responsibility of protecting lives of citizens was on the government’s which should either deliver or quit.



Later, Imran Khan also attended the sit-in staged by the MWM outside the Governor’s House Lahore.



Meanwhile, Tehreek-e-Istaqlal President Rehmat Khan Wardag also voiced serious concern over the killings in Balochistan. He demanded the deployment of the army in Quetta and Karachi for at least six months.



Meanwhile, members of civil society and right activists staged a sit-in in front of Super Market in Islamabad.



About 300 people from different walks of life, including students, children and housewives, were present on the occasion.



Dr Farzana Bari, rights activist told The News that they will continue their protest till the government and the authorities concerned did not ensure security to the families of the martyred people and make proper arrangements for their burial.



Parliamentarian Bushra Gohar from the Awami National Party (ANP) was the only prominent politician attending the protest in Islamabad where the protesters held candles and placards demanding an end to attacks on the Shia community.



She said there were several reasons why officials had been slow to respond: support for militants, fear or indifference. “It could be pure callousness,” she said. “Many political parties also support these groups. They are proxies.”



The Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP) also has given a strike call for today (Sunday) against the bombings.



Meanwhile, in a press release, Quaid-e-Millat Jafariya Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi said that ignorance and terrorism are ruling Pakistan instead of democracy, and the Balochistan government should resign for its failure in providing protection to the people.



He said the government should not force them to take any step and their patience and forbearance should not be taken as their weakness. He said the demands of the bereaved families of the Alamdar Road incidents should be fulfilled, and Quetta city should be handed over to the army, and a targeted operation should be carried out against banned terrorist organisations.



Meanwhile, the National Assembly’s Standing Committee on Human Rights Chairman Riaz Fatyana expressed his concern over the sit-in by the families of the terrorism victims, including children and women, in extremely cold weather and rain in the provincial capital of Balochistan.



On the inaction of the rulers on the string of massacres, he demanded of the chief minister and his government to resign and also called for the removal of the top police officials.

FC given powers of police in Quetta - thenews.com.pk
 
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The army is no solution

It is laughable, if not lamentable as well. The demand to hand over Balochistan to the army reeks of abject ignorance on the part of those who are asking for it or perhaps, it is simply a rhetorical clamour from quarters suffering from self-induced amnesia or perhaps, it is a manifestation of our ashrafia’s infatuation with the army. Let me however, hasten to add, I am not talking about the grief-stricken Hazara Shias who lost nearly a 100 of their near and dear ones in the mindless massacre. They have every right to make any demand, which they in their emotional state of mind and heart feel, could stop the unending mayhem against their community

In the first place, how can you hand over to the army a province, which is already under its tight control? Secondly, the army has consistently failed to restore peace and order in that blood-drenched province and for decades now, a strident demand for its withdrawal has been made by politicians of all hues and colour, as well as by the civil society. In fact, the Baloch Liberation Front, which is waging a war of ‘liberation’ against the Pakistan Army is said to have come into being, in reaction to the army’s oppressive campaigns against the unarmed Baloch population, especially during the almost decade-long rule of General (retd) Pervez Musharraf.

Also, there has been a demand from both the MQM and the ANP for handing over Karachi to the army. Here, too, I detect a self-induced amnesia among those who are making this demand. I am sure the people of Karachi have not forgotten the horrendous experience of 1992-1994 when the army was bunkered in the city. The bloody stalemate was brought to an end when Benazir Bhutto, immediately after taking over the reins of government for the second term, sent her interior minister, the late Naseerullah Khan Babar and his team to rescue the army from a battle which was not winnable.

The army has an overwhelming presence in parts of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, including Swat and in Fata. Still, there has been no let up in the bloody incursions of militants led by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) in these regions. In fact, the army has suffered innumerable casualties in this war against terror, in this part of Pakistan in the last 12 years or so, without any sign, so far, of the enemy losing ground. The cruelty with which these militants deal with the captured security personnel is simply revolting. Decapitation of captured soldiers is being used by the TTP as a tactic to terrorise their comrades to flee the battlefront.

The army has the capacity to rule and that, too, only for a short period. But it is neither trained nor does it have the capacity to govern even for a short-term. However, the Pakistan Army has, time and again, tried to do both simultaneously and for longish periods and failed miserably to do even a fraction of what General Park Chung Hee of South Korea, Lee Kwan Yew of Singapore or Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia did for their respective countries.

One only hopes that the current crop of our generals have learnt their lessons from our history of military takeovers and their miserable denouement. As it is, they are already engaged in tackling a serious internal threat (which the chief of army staff rightly believes is a bigger threat than the external one) that makes it impossible for them to, once again, wear more than one hat.

Those who are challenging the army today in the battlefield are none other than the very people who were trained in terrorism by our intelligence agency personnel to be used as instruments of foreign policy and defence while negotiating a favourable Kashmir settlement with India. Somewhere along the road to 9/11, and because of subsequent developments, we have completely lost the effectiveness of this instrument and had to abandon it in a hurry. But the instrument, which meanwhile has assumed a life of its own, is now refusing to get lost and has been resisting with all its strength, attempts by the army to change course by putting Kashmir on the back-burner and establishing normal trade, economic and people-to-people relations with India.

The army is no solution – The Express Tribune
 
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They should, admit failure and handover to Army. Lets, flush out LEJ and BLA for good.

For most of dere's a Governer Rule in Balochistan
But infact Corps Commander Quetta Gen. Khattak is the new Boss dere.
PPP gives a covered coup to cover dere failure by giving Government to ARMY.
 
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I think the Problem is that Either No One Knows OR hesitate to explain what is actually the truth.

just kick out KSA and USA, everything will become normal in our pakistan.

when these terrorists are against usa, india, then who is left to give them weapons and money and security that none has even access to them.

The Lies are destroying our nation before our eyes.
 
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They should, admit failure and handover to Army. Lets, flush out LEJ and BLA for good.

how they can be flushed out when LeT is already given the playground in Baluchistan? Just two days before the latest blasts Joker Hafez Saeed met with bugtis and is interfering there with full independence, permission and supervision of army. Army wants this game to continue and hence hesitating to step in. thanks to KSA.
 
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Today Army is the only solution for not only Quetta but whole of Pakistan. There is not only just rented terrorism there is also political terrorism by PPP, PML-Q, PML-N, JUI, MQM & ANP. They are enemies of the state.

Today if these bunch of bastards can sit down together, they could had sat down to save Pakistan from foreign countries exporting rented terrorism in Pakistan & India basking on Pakistan door step but these incompetent corrupt politicians are only united to save their fat haram a**ses & they are greedy for power NOTHING ELSE.
 
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