ISLAMABAD: A meeting of federal ministers, chaired by Prime Minister Imran Khan, was unable to take any decision regarding the departure of the premier to meet the protesting Hazara community in Quetta.
According to details, a meeting of senior federal ministers was held under the chairmanship of Prime Minister Imran Khan to discuss political and security situation in the country.
Sources informed that Interior Minister Sheikh Rashid briefed the meeting on the Machh tragedy. It was decided to provide financial assistant to the victims of Machh tragedy as per government rules.
During the meeting, the Prime Minister directed Sheikh Rashid to come up with a special security mechanism for the protection of the Hazara community. “Peace in Balochistan is a guarantee of national development,” he added.
Earlier today (Thursday), MWM leader Syed Hashim Moosvi categorically denied that an agreement had been reached between the Hazara community and the government as their sit-in entered the fifth day.
On Sunday, armed attackers slit the throats of 11 miners in a residential compound near a mine site in Balochistan’s Mach coalfield area. Since then, thousands of Hazaras have staged a protest along with coffins containing the miners’ bodies in the western bypass area in Quetta.
Sit-ins continued across the country with major arteries of cites blocked for protests. A number of roads were blocked across Karachi causing major traffic jams in the metropolis.
