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Some 20 directives were passed by high court in its judgment for protection and safety ISLAMABAD: As the gruesome murder of 11 coal miners belonging to the Shia Hazara community in an attack in Mach lits a fireball of protest across the country, a decade-old Balochistan High Court ruling on the issue of target killings of the community has yet to be implemented. Long before the publication of the Quetta Commission report, Justice Qazi Faez Isa, who was the BHC chief justice then, had taken suo motu notice of the brutal assassination of 26 Hazaras on September 20, 2011, on their way to Iran fr...

The so-called Islamic State group later claimed responsibility for the attack. Moazzam Ali Jatoi, an official with the Levies Force, which serves as police and paramilitary in the area, said the attack took place near the Machh coal field, about 30 miles east of the provincial capital Quetta. Mr Jatoi said armed men took the coal miners to nearby mountains, where they opened fire. He said six of the miners died at the scene and five died on the way to hospital. He said an initial investigation found the attackers identified the miners as being from a Shiite Hazara community and the gunmen too...

Last Updated: Gunmen Kill 11 Shiite Coal Miners In Pakistan Protests took place in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province on Sunday after reports that gunmen opened fire on a group of minority Shiite Hazara coal miners after abducting them, killing 11. Protests took place in Pakistan's southwestern Baluchistan province on Sunday after reports that gunmen opened fire on a group of minority Shiite Hazara coal miners after abducting them, killing 11. Armed men took the coal miners to nearby mountains, where they opened fire on them, a Pakistani official said. Six of the miners were r...

Gunmen had abducted a group of minority Hazara miners; PM orders authorities to catch killers.

Gunmen kill 11 minority Shiite coal miners in SW Pakistan | 2021/01/03