Terrorism

PM Gilani to visit Balochistan

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Sunday, 03-June-2012

ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani will arrive in Quetta on Sunday for a two day visit. This will be the premier’s sixth visit to the city and he is expected to meet provincial cabinet officials along with holding other meetings.
Gilani will also address military officers who have completed their training course at the Command and Staff College. Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani will also be present at this function.
The government on Saturday decided that no one would be allowed to drive vehicles with tented glasses or with glazed papers in Balochistan and also cancelled all the "Rahdaris" issued so far to the vehicles for the province.
It was decided in a meeting held here at Prime Minister House under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Syed Yusuf Raza Gilani and attended by Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Muhammad Aslam Raeesani, federal ministers for Interior, Finance, Law and Justice, Information and Broadcasting, Food Security, and Science and Technology, Advisor to the Prime Minister on Human Rights, Provincial Minister for Finance Muhammad Aslam Kurd, parliamentarians from Balochistan and senior government officials.
PM Gilani directed the Balochistan chief minister to take special measures to trace the missing persons.
He also ordered the chief minister to ensure well coordinated efforts of all law-enforcement agencies of both the federation and the province operating in Balochistan to help overcome terrorism, kidnapping for ransom and other criminal activities.

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