Shia Hazara End Sit-in After Assurances of P.M.’s Visit to Quetta
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In a late night development, grieving families agree to bury bodies of slain coalminers after government accepts their demands
Shia Hazara protesters called off their sit-in which had prompted nationwide protests in solidarity at Quetta’s Western Bypass late on Friday night and announced they would bury coalminers slain by Islamic State militants after government lawmakers assured them that all their demands had been accepted and Prime Minister Imran Khan would visit them on Saturday.
Announcing the end to the sit-in, representatives of the Shuhada Action Committee and Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen said federal cabinet members Ali Zaidi and Zulfi Bukhari, as well as Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal Khan and National Assembly Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri had assured them that Khan, as well as other senior officials, would visit them today. The announcement followed the prime minister claiming earlier tha
PM Imran Khan in Quetta to condole with Hazara community
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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.