Another attempt to convince Hazaras to call off sit-in ends in vain
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The protesters vowed to continue their sit-in until Prime Minister Imran Khan visits Quetta
QUETTA (Dunya News) – Hazara families of the 11 miners, who were brutally killed by unidentified men at the Machh coalfield, continue their sit-in on the fifth consecutive day after representatives of the government failed to persuade the protesting families to call off sit-in.
Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan, Federal Minister for Maritime Affairs Ali Zaidi and Special Assistant to the Prime Minister for Overseas Pakistanis and Human Resource Development Zulfi Bukhari met the protesting families of miners, however, the protesters do not seem willing to end the protest and vowed to continue their sit-in until Prime Minister Imran Khan visits Quetta.
Maryam Nawaz urges Hazara community to bury slain coal miners
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Maryam tells mourners to not wait for an insensitive and heartless man
CM Balochistan also visits protest camp and urges mourners to bury the slain men
PML-N Vice President Maryam Nawaz has appealed to the Hazara community protesting at the Western Bypass in Balochistan to bury the coal miners that were slain in a shocking attack by armed terrorists on Sunday.
Taking to Twitter, Maryam said the murder of the coal miners was not a small tragedy. The whole nation shares your grief. My father and I are saddened too.
Imran appeals to Balochistan mourners to bury slain coal miners, promises to visit very soon
06 Jan 2021
Gulf Today Report
Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday urged the protesting members of Balochistan s Shiite Hazara community to bury the bodies of the miners killed in a brutal attack in Mach, promising he would visit them very soon.
Mourners gather near the coffins of miners during a sit-in protest in Quetta. AFP
In a series of tweets, the premier assured that the government was taking steps to prevent such attacks in the future. Please bury your loved ones so their souls find peace, Imran tweeted on Wednesday.
Accord on pursuing more talks on APTTCA
Islamabad, Kabul concludes discussion on transit trade
ISLAMABAD:
A three-day meeting of the Afghanistan-Pakistan Transit Trade Coordination Authority (APTTCA) concluded on Thursday, with both the sides agreeing to pursue talks aimed at renewing the bilateral transit trade agreement, according to an official statement issued here on Thursday.
A joint statement issued at the end of the meeting, said that both sides held constructive talks for the renewal of the Pakistan-Afghanistan Transit Trade Agreement and a bilateral preferential trade agreement.
According to the statement, the two sides reviewed the proposed draft agreement in detail. “The parties agreed to continue talks to renew the agreement,” it said, adding that the date and the venue of the next meeting would be decided by consensus.
FEDERAL minister Ali Zaidi, flanked by bereaved family members of slain PTI leader, speaks to media persons on Sunday. Dawn
SUKKUR: Federal Minister for Maritime Affairs Ali Zaidi has said that prices of flour and sugar have dropped and the steps the federal government has taken to resolve problems will ease things for masses in future.
The minister told media persons after offering condolence to bereaved family members of slain Pakistan Tehreek-i-Insaf leader Sardar Sharif Khan Buledi in Jacobabad on Sunday that Gen Pervez Musharraf had also tried to lay hands on sugar mafia but he had to backtrack soon afterwards while the PTI government went after the mafia members and made their names public.