PM Imran Khan leaves for Quetta to feel for Hazara community
Prime Minister Imran Khan. File photo
ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Imran Khan has left for Quetta from Nur Khan Airbase today to satisfy the Hazara community and obtain an appointment on the law and order situation within the province after the Machh tragedy, Geo News reported Saturday.
According to the TV report, PM Imran will meet with the leaders and non secular scholars of the Hazara community to share their grief and condole over the last week incident during which 10 miners were killed by the militants in Balochistan’s remote area.
The concerned authorities also will apprise the prime minister on the progress made within the investigation.
PM Imran had on Friday said that he won't visit Quetta till the miners are buried. His statement that the prime minister can't be blackmailed invited strong criticism from all the main Opposition parties.
Meanwhile, the funeral prayers of the victims were offered within the Hazara Town. SAPM Zulfi Bukhari and National Assembly Deputy Speaker Qasim Suri and other provincial ministers were also present.
Sit-ins called off
Earlier, Shuhda Action Committee announced to finish protests across the country after the govt accepted their demands.
Qasim Suri had said that "right after the burial", PM Imran Khan will leave for Quetta and can be amid Chief of Army Staff Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa.
Minister for Maritime Affairs Ali Haider Zaidi who had been spearheading talks in Quetta on behalf of the govt had said such incidences of violence must now come to an end. "We are making amends for the last 70 years," he noted.
Zaidi said that a agreement had been reached with the Shuhda Action Committee. "No such written accord has ever been struck before with the other government," he remarked.
"The demands put before us were difficult," said Zaidi, adding that the "officers that has got to be removed are decided".
The minister said that if governance in Pakistan "had not been so poor, poverty like this is able to not have existed".
"People wouldn't are massacred like this," he said, adding: "Foreign elements wish to make sectarian division in Pakistan."
Zaidi also announced scholarships on behalf of his ministry for the youngsters of all the victims.
With the agreement reached, the sit-in by the families of the victims of the massacre, which had been staged for the past six days in freezing cold temperatures, came to an end and therefore the bodies were over excited to be buried.
What happened in Machh
Ten colliers were killed and 4 others were seriously injured on Sunday after armed men attacked them at a coal field in Balochistan's Bolan district.
The coal miners, consistent with police, were taken to nearby mountains where they were shot.
According to AFP, the ten miners were kidnapped before dawn on Sunday as they slept near the remote coalpit within the southwestern mountainous Machh area — 60 kilometres southeast of Quetta city, government official Abid Saleem said.
Security officials who didn't want to be named told AFP the attackers first separated the miners before tying their hands and feet and taking them into the hills to kill them. Most were shot, however, some were beheaded, said officials who didn't want to be named.
Officials on Monday clarified ten people had died within the attack, revising a previous price of 11, AFP reported.
The militant group Daesh claimed the attack, consistent with SITE Intelligence, which monitors militant activities worldwide.
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