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QUETTA: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif reached Quetta to discuss the security condition of the city in the aftermath of the attack on the Hazara community, Express News reported on Tuesday.
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Abdul Qadir Baloch, Mahmood Khan Achakzai and Senator Mir Hasil Bizenjo accompanied the premiere on his one-day visit.
On reaching Quetta, Sharif was taken to the governor house, where he headed a high level meeting on the law and order situation.
The governor, chief minister Balochistan, Inspector General Police, IGFC and interior secretary were also present in the meeting.
The prime minister will also visit the injured of the recent Hazara Town blast getting treatment in Combined Military Hospital (CMH).
On Sunday, a suicide bomber detonated the explosives strapped to his body amid a crowd of people near an Imambargah in Hazara Town of Quetta shortly after Maghrib prayers.
At least 29 people, among them nine women and three children, were killed and 65 injured, nearly half of them critically.
A banned sectarian extremist group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), which has carried out most attacks on the Hazara community, claimed credit for Sundays bombing in a phone call to media offices in Quetta.
Hazara tragedy: Nawaz Sharif visits Quetta to discuss security situation – The Express Tribune
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, Abdul Qadir Baloch, Mahmood Khan Achakzai and Senator Mir Hasil Bizenjo accompanied the premiere on his one-day visit.
On reaching Quetta, Sharif was taken to the governor house, where he headed a high level meeting on the law and order situation.
The governor, chief minister Balochistan, Inspector General Police, IGFC and interior secretary were also present in the meeting.
The prime minister will also visit the injured of the recent Hazara Town blast getting treatment in Combined Military Hospital (CMH).
On Sunday, a suicide bomber detonated the explosives strapped to his body amid a crowd of people near an Imambargah in Hazara Town of Quetta shortly after Maghrib prayers.
At least 29 people, among them nine women and three children, were killed and 65 injured, nearly half of them critically.
A banned sectarian extremist group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), which has carried out most attacks on the Hazara community, claimed credit for Sundays bombing in a phone call to media offices in Quetta.
Hazara tragedy: Nawaz Sharif visits Quetta to discuss security situation – The Express Tribune
