Pakistan Prime Minister, Raja Pervaz Ashraf announced the dismissal of the chief minister of the Pakistani province of Balochistan following amid protest by hundreds of Hazara Shias over Quetta Serial bombarding.
The move came after long talks with Hazara community leaders who were staging a sit-in Alamdar road,a Shia-dominated neighbourhood of Quetta, with the bodies of victims since Thursday night.
Hazara protesters including women, children and the elderly, are protesting against the billiards hall attack and have refused to bury the victims until their demands were met by the government.
Hazara protesters’ demands to dismiss provincial government and the Army control of Quetta, are the major cause of Pak govt decision to dismiss a south-western province.
On Thursday night, twin bomb blasts in the Southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta killed around 98 people and injured over 130.
Most of those killed in the blasts belonged to the minority community Shiite Muslims and Hazara Shias.
Sacking CM of the ruling provincial government, Mr. Ashraf assured the Hazara Shia community that the governor who headed Baluchistan province, replacing the chief minister and could summon the Army anytime to help the administration, reports said.
