Dawn.comUpdated 11 Jan, 2021 03:55am
Amidst countrywide protests, and with political pressure snowballing, Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday once again urged the Shia Hazara community in Balochistan to bury the bodies of coal miners killed in a gruesome attack in the Mach area over the weekend.
This would have been just like appeals many other political leaders have issued to the grieving Hazaras except the premier s choice of words today, suggesting the protesters were blackmailing him by refusing to bury their loved ones until he visited them, sparked a fresh social media storm. We have accepted all of their demands. [But] one of their demands is that the dead will be buried when the premier visits. I have sent them a message that when all of your demands have been accepted [.] you don t blackmail the prime minister of any country like this, the prime minister said while speaking at a ceremony in Islamabad and as calls for him to visit Quetta grew louder.