Maryam Nawaz slams Imran Khan after PM calls protesting Hazaras blackmailers ANI | Updated: Jan 09, 2021 06:17 IST
Karachi [Pakistan], January 9 (ANI): Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) vice president Maryam Nawaz Sharif on Friday slammed Prime Minister Imran Khan for not visiting the Shia Hazaras protesting against the killing of coal miners in Balochistan and for suggesting that the demonstrators were blackmailing the premier.
Speaking at a press conference in Karachi, Maryam said Khan had admitted today that he was not going to Quetta because of his ego and stubbornness, reported Dawn. The nation wants to know what was the problem which prevented you from going and putting your hand on their heads. If this was due to obedience (tabedari), then the nation wants to know is obedience more important than the people s lives? she said.
Pakistani Opposition leaders have lambasted Prime Minister Imran Khan on his remarks, in which he accused the family members of the Hazara community of blackmai
Lahore [Pakistan], January 9 (ANI): Pakistani Opposition leaders have lambasted Prime Minister Imran Khan on his remarks, in which he accused the family members of the Hazara community of blackmailing him after they refused to bury the mortal remains of 11 coal miners, who were killed in the Islamic States attack.
In a tweet, former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on Friday hit out at the incumbent Prime Minister calling him a stone-hearted man and said: The man (Imran Khan) who has become prime minister with the blessings of a few generals can never feel the pain of the masses. The oppressed people of the Hazara community are waiting for the man who is calling them blackmailers .
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.
Pakistan: Shias end blockades, hundreds attend burial of slain Hazara miners
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Funeral of the coal miners from Shi ite Hazara minority, who were killed in an attack in Mach area of Bolan district, in Quetta (Reuters)
QUETTA: 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 an Islamic State attack.
The rites of the dead miners were carried out amid tight security, six days after their deaths, Al Jazeera reported.