ISLAMABAD, Jan 10 (DNA): Interior Minister Sheikh Rasheed said Sunday
that India is trying to damage Pakistan through its agents and funding.
“India wants to damage Pakistan from inside,” said Rasheed while
addressing an event in Fateh Jang. He added that the neighbouring
country was funding militant groups in the country.
The minister thanked the Hazaras for ending the sit-in in Quetta and
said the community helped the country come out of an emergency
situation. He added that Pakistan army will protect the nation from such
attacks.
The remarks from the interior minister came a day after Quetta’s Hazara
community buried their 10 coal miners who were murdered in Balochistan’s
Machh area.
The 10 coal miners were executed by unidentified men in their sleeping
room in the Machh coal field area on January 3. The attack was claimed
by the Islamic State’s Wilayah Pakistan arm.
The militant group released a graphic image that showed two armed men
standing next to the bodies of the coal miners.
The community staged a sit-in on Quetta highway for six days, demanding
Prime Minister Imran Khan to visit the families of the dead. PM Khan,
however, visited Quetta after the burial of coalminers.
During his visit to Quetta, the premier said that sectarian terrorist
organization Lashkar-e-Jhangvi has merged with the ISIS in Pakistan and
it was carrying attacks on Hazara community.
He also said that India was trying to incite sectarian violence in the
country by plotting assassinations of religious clerics. He added the
intelligence agencies thwarted four such plots in the recent days.
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