Machh massacre: Govt representatives question who is playing politics with bodies
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Friday Jan 08, 2021
(L-R): Minister for Maritime Affairs Ali Haider Zaidi,, Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Political Communication Shahbaz Gill and Minister for Railways Sheikh Rasheed Ahmed. PID/File
Government representatives question who is playing politics over the bodies of slain coal miners
Ali Haider Zaidi says all demands have been accepted by government, questions why burial is not taking place
Shahbaz Gill claims mourners were ready to bury their loved ones the very next day
Government representatives on Friday questioned who is playing politics with the bodies of 10 coal miners who were brutally murdered in Machh on Sunday.
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08 Jan 2021 Mourners from Hazara community shout slogans as they gather next to the coffins of miners at the eastern bypass on the outskirts of Quetta on Friday. AFP
Tariq Butt,
Correspondent
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday asked the mourning Hazara community in Quetta to refrain from blackmailing” him by putting the condition that he should visit them otherwise they would not bury their members slaughtered in the Mach tragedy.
While speaking at the launching ceremony of the Special Technology Zones Authority, he appealed to them to bury those killed. If you bury the dead today, I will reach Quetta today.”
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