Machh massacre: Shibli Faraz responds to criticism over PM s use of word blackmail
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Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Shibli Faraz. APP/File
Minister for Information and Broadcasting Senator Shibli Faraz on Friday responded to criticism by the Opposition over the use of the word blackmail by Prime Minister Imran Khan as he spoke about the sit-in in Quetta by the Hazara community.
The community has been protesting since Sunday, after 10 miners were massacred by terrorists near a coal field in Balochistan s Machh town, and have refused to bury their loved ones until the prime minister goes to meet them.
PM Imran Khan says he will visit Quetta today if slain miners are buried
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ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Prime Minister Imran Khan has said that he is even willing to go to Quetta today if the Hazara Community buries their loved ones who were subjected to brutal murder in Mach on January 3.
While addressing the Launching Ceremony of the Special Technology Zones Authority in Islamabad on Friday, the prime minister said that he won’t be blackmailed given that the government has agreed to all demands of the bereaved Hazara Community.
“You can’t influence a prime minister by setting a condition when all of your demands have already been accepted,” the prime minister said reiterating his appeal to the dejected families to bury the dead bodies.
Hazara community protest: No prime minister can be blackmailed, says Imran Khan
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I will visit Quetta today if the slain coal miners are buried, PM Imran stressed.
ISLAMABAD (Dunya News) – Prime Minister Imran Khan has on Friday, while commenting on the Hazara community protest, said that no premier can be blackmailed and it is not appropriate to condition the burial of the victims of the gruesome Machh incident with PM’s arrival.
Speaking at a ceremony in connection with the launch of Special Technology Zones Authority in Islamabad, Imran Khan said he will visit Quetta today if the slain coal miners are buried.
Imran assures he would visit Quetta the day slain colliers are buried
Prime Minister Imran Khan. PHOTO: SCREENGRAB
ISLAMABAD:
“You cannot blackmail the prime minister of a country like this,” Imran Khan said on Friday, while referring to a demand of the protesting Hazara community that he visit them at the Quetta sit-in before they bury the 11 colliers massacred by terrorists last week.
“You bury the bodies today and I’ll be there with you,” the premier said as he once again made an impassioned appeal to the bereaved community to not make burials conditional to his visit.
The appeal came a day after opposition leaders travelled to Quetta to sympathise with the Hazaras who have been keeping up a vigil alongside coffins, carrying the mortal remains of the miners slaughtered purportedly by the Islamic State terrorist group in the Machh area of the Bolan district on Sunday.