QUETTA: Central Anjuman Tajran Balochistan leader Abdul Rahim Kakar addresses a press conference on Sunday. PPI
QUETTA: Over 200 shopkeepers and traders were taken into custody by police here on Sunday for opening their shops and businesses despite the lockdown imposed by the local administration to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus.
The traders opened shops, markets, shopping malls and other business establishments in the morning despite the deputy commissioner’s order to close down all business centers and markets.
Police along with Frontier Corps personnel and area magistrates conducted raids in main city areas and forcibly closed down all major markets, shopping malls and bazaars. Police arrested shopkeepers and traders who offered resistance or refused to close their business. After security forces’ action, all shops, markets and shopping malls were closed.
Members of the Shia Hazara community stage a protest along with coffins containing the miners bodies in the western bypass area in Quetta on Thursday. Photo by Ghalib Nihad
Members belonging to the Shia Hazara community continue to protest for a fifth straight day on Thursday in the western bypass area in Quetta on Thursday. Photo by Ghalib Nihad
Despite Prime Minister Imran Khan s request to move ahead with the final rites of the slain miners and an assurance that he would visit them very soon , Balochistan s Shia Hazara community continued to protest for a fifth straight day on Thursday, refusing to bury those who were brutally killed over the weekend in the province s Mach area.