PPP chairperson Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari and PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz along with other leaders of the Pakistan Democratic Movement (PDM) will visit Quetta today to offer condolences to the affected families of the tragic Machh incident that took place last week.
The PML-N confirmed Maryam Nawaz will be visiting Quetta with other senior leaders of the party whereas Bilawal will be accompanied by Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah to the Quetta visit.
Besides, a delegation of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) will also leave Islamabad for Quetta today to show solidarity with the Hazara community.
The delegation will convey Maulana Fazlur Rehman’s condolence message to the Hazara community members.
Bilawal Bhutto’s arrival in will be Quetta delayed
Bilawal Bhutto’s arrival in Quetta would be delayed as he had to offload the plane after some technical default.
Sharing the update on Twitter, the PPP leader said that he has been making other arrangements and is trying his level best to reach Quetta with CM Sindh & Former PM Gillani.
“Have been trying to reach Quetta with CM Sindh & Former PM Gillani. We’ve had to offload as the plane’s engine would not start. Trying to make other arrangements,” Bilawal said in a tweet.
He also stressed that Prime Minister Imran Khan must accept the demands of the victims of terrorism protesting along with their death for the fifth consecutive day now.
PM Imran should visit Quetta: Maryam
Speaking to media in Lahore, Maryam said that Prime Minister Imran Khan should visit Quetta as the bereaved families are “waiting for their leader to come and cure their sorrows”.
“A Prime Minister is like the father of the nation; you [PM Imran] should have gone there. I am also facing a security threat but I decided to meet the victims of the tragic incident,” she said.
Lamenting that the Hazaras have been bracing oppression for a long time now, the PML-N leader said that it is heartbreaking that families, including women and children, are sitting on the streets with the bodies of their loved ones.
“Mothers and daughters of the nation are waiting for you [PM Imran] and you are sending your advisers and ministers,” Maryam lashed out.
“I was not getting security clearance either but I will go and ask them to bury their loved ones. I am going at the request of Nawaz Sharif and will convey his message to the victims,” she went on to add.
Maryam hoped that the victims will get justice.
Women and children stage protest for fifth consecutive day
Members of the Hazara community have staged a continuous sit-in in Quetta in freezing temperatures to demand justice for the slain coal miners who were gunned down in Machh for the fifth consecutive day.
The bodies of the deceased have been kept where the community is staging its demonstration, on the Quetta-Sibi highway (Western Bypass), near Hazara Town.
Due to the presence of the protesters, the area is completely blocked off to traffic.
