Quetta Blast: Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has announced one-day mourning

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Cabinet approved change of names of various governmental buildings‚ educational institutions & sports stadiums: Mian Iftikhar

Condemning the Quetta blast‚ Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has announced one-day mourning in the province on Tuesday to express solidarity with bereaved families. Provincial Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain addressing a news conference in Peshawar said the Cabinet in its meeting took various important decisions for implementation of various laws in the light of 18th constitutional amendment. He said that the cabinet approved change of names of various governmental buildings and educational institutions and sports stadiums. Meanwhile‚ families of victims of the Kirani road blast continue their sit-in on Alamdar road. Participants of the sit-in which include a large number of women are protesting against the bombing and have refused to bury the bodies of their loved ones. The Hazara community is demanding that they be provided security and the army should be called into Quetta for this purpose. Sit in by Shia Ulema Council and Majlis-e-Wahdatul Muslimeen at Faizabad‚ Rawalpindi is also continuing. Traffic flow between Islamabad and Rawalpindi has been badly affected.