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.