National
January 9, 2021
ISLAMABAD: The tormented Hazara community’s key demand – that the prime minister should visit the mourners or they would not bury their dead – was a position it had always taken whenever confronted with such massive tragedies in the past.
The top civilian and military leadership had previously accepted this demand to console, condole and sympathise with the grieving people. The mourners had always ended their protest after the visits of such high-profile figures.
However, Prime Minister Imran Khan has broken with this tradition. In a speech on Friday, he made it clear that he would immediately be among the mourners but only after the burial rites of the deceased coal miners slaughtered in the Mach carnage had been performed.
ISLAMABAD: The tormented Hazara community’s key demand – that the prime minister should visit the mourners or they would not bury their dead – was a position it had always taken.
Bahrain reaffirms special ties with Pakistan
Top Story January 9, 2021
RAWALPINDI: Bahrain has reaffirmed its special relationship with Pakistan and pledged to keep working for even better relations between the two brotherly countries.
These views were expressed by the Bahraini leadership during talks with Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa, who paid a three-day visit to Bahrain, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement on Friday.
While there, the Army chief called on His Royal Highness Prince Salman bin Hamad bin lsa Al Khalifa, The Crown Prince, Deputy Supreme Commander and Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Bahrain, His Excellency Field Marshal Sheikh Khalifa bin Ahmed Al-Khalifa, Commander-in-Chief Bahrain Defence Forces and His Royal Highness Lieutenant General Sheikh Mohammed Bin Isa Al Khalifa, Commander Bahrain National Guard.
PM Imran Khan in Quetta to condole with Hazara community
Pakistan
Prime Minister Imran Khan. File photo
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has arrived in Quetta to meet the Hazara community and get a briefing on the law and order situation in the province after the Machh tragedy, Geo News reported Saturday.
According to the TV report, PM Imran will meet with the leaders and religious scholars of the Hazara community to share their grief and condole over the last week incident in which 10 miners were killed by the militants in Balochistan’s remote area.
Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed is with the prime minister on his daylong visit to the provincial capital.