Slain coal miners laid to rest in Quetta s Hazara Town
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The funeral prayers were offered in Quetta s Hazara Town.
QUETTA (Dunya News) – The funeral prayers for the slain coal miners, who were shot dead by terrorists in Machh area of Balochistan on Sunday (January 3), have Saturday been offered in Quetta and the dead bodies are laid to rest in the graveyard of Hazara Town.
National Assembly Deputy Speaker Qasim Khan Suri, Federal Minister for Maritime Affairs Ali Haider Zaidi, SAPM on Overseas Pakistanis Zulfi Bukhari, Balochistan’s provincial ministers Zia Lango, Saleem Khosa and Mobeen Khilji offered the prayers along with a large number of people.
PM reaches Quetta as Hazara coal miners laid to rest
Late Friday night, govt negotiators managed to persuade Hazaras to call off sit in, bury coal miners
QUETTA/
ISLAMABAD:
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday reached Quetta to meet bereaved families of the Machh victims as the Hazara community buried the slain coal miners.
The prime minister left for Quetta on a special flight from the Nur Khan airbase. Federal ministers including Interior Minister Shiekh Rashid are accompanying the premier.
Upon arriving in Quetta, the premier held a high-level meeting with the Balochistan authorities including Baochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal, Balochistan Governor Amanullah Khan Yasinzai.
Imran Khan reaches Quetta after burial of 11 slain Hazara coal miners ANI | Updated: Jan 09, 2021 18:06 IST
Quetta (Balochistan) [Pakistan], January 9 (ANI): Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan reached Quetta on Saturday, hours after 11 coal miners from Hazara community, who were brutally killed in the attack on January 3 were buried at the city s Hazara Town cemetery.
He is expected to meet the family of miners later today, Dawn reported. His visit comes a day after he accused grieving families of slain miners of blackmailing him after they refused to bury the remains of the miners until Prime Minister Khan visits them.
Since the attack, the relatives of those killed had placed their coffins on a highway in Quetta and refused to bury the dead until the killers were apprehended and Khan came to meet them.
Quetta: Pakistani Shia community ends blockades, hundreds attend burial of slain miners ANI | Updated: Jan 09, 2021 18:05 IST
Quetta (Balochistan) [Pakistan], January 9 (ANI): Ending a week of protests, hundreds of Shia Pakistanis gathered on Saturday here to bury 11 coal miners from the Hazara community, who were killed in the Islamic State attack.
The rites of the dead miners were carried out amid tight security six days after their deaths, Al Jazeera reported.
On Sunday, unidentified gunmen stormed into a coal mine in Mach town near Quetta, pulling out ethnic Hazaras, members of Pakistan s Shia minority community, from their homes and open firing on them.
PM reaches Quetta as Hazara coal miners laid to rest
Late Friday night, govt negotiators managed to persuade Hazaras to call off sit in, bury coal miners
QUETTA/
ISLAMABAD:
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Saturday reached Quetta to meet bereaved families of the Machh victims as the Hazara community buried the slain coal miners.
The prime minister left for Quetta on a special flight from the Nur Khan airbase. Federal ministers including Interior Minister Shiekh Rashid are accompanying the premier.
Upon arriving in Quetta, the premier held a high-level meeting with the Balochistan authorities including Baochistan Chief Minister Jam Kamal, Balochistan Governor Amanullah Khan Yasinzai.