Quetta: Prime Minister Imran Khan has reached Quetta to express a condolence with bereaved families of the Mach incident.
Earlier, 11 coal miners have been laid to rest in Hazara town graveyard in Quetta while federal, provincial ministers and scores of people attended the burial.
Syed Hashim Mosvi led the funeral prayers of the martyred coal miners. While Federal Minister Ali Zaidi, Prime Minister Special Assitant Zulfi Bukhari, provincial home minister Zia Lango, Arif Muhammad Hasni, Saleem Khosa including hundreads of people belonging to Hazara community attended the funeral pryaers.
The bodies were laid to rest in the Hazara Town graveyard. At the occasion strict security measures had been taken. Police and FC personnel were deployed on all four sides of the graveyard.
Talking to media provincial home minister Zia Lango said that request from Afghanistan to hand over the body of their citizens not repeated and on the family wish all the bodies have been burried in the Hazara town.
He added that if families wanted burial in Afghanistan then we will cooperate.
Yesterday night protesting Hazara community agreed to end sit-in and bury the slain coal mine worker after reaching an agreement with the government on late Friday night.
The representatives of the Martyrs Committee announced the burial of the martyrs after talks with the Government Committee headed by the Chief Minister of Balochistan Jam Kamal Khan.
The committee thanked Prime Minister Imran Khan, members of the cabinet, Chief Minister Balochistan Jam Kamal for agreeing to their demands. “We have decided to bury our loved ones,” said a member of the committee.
Speaking on the occasion, Federal Minister for Ports and Shipping Ali Zaidi said that it was for the first time that a government has signed a written agreement with the Hazara community as their predecessors had only done mere lip servicing.
Announcing the agreement signed by both sides, he said that a special commission would be formed under the chair of the provincial home minister.
“Strict action will be taken against officials found responsible of negligence,” he said adding that the commission would include two members of the provincial assembly, a DIG rank official and two representatives from families of the Machh martyrs.
The Balochistan government would provide a compensation of Rs1.5 million to the families of each slain coal miners.
The TORs of the agreement is also revealed, which included the special commission would probe attacks on the Hazara community during the past 22 years besides also investigating the missing persons in the community.
