Pakistanis have agreed to bury the victims of a bloody bombing in the southwestern city of Quetta that killed nearly 90 Shia Muslims, after Islamabad vowed to arrest those responsible for the attack.
On Saturday, the bombing tore through the crowded vegetable market in the town of Hazara, on the outskirts of Quetta in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan Province. The area is mostly inhabited by Shia Muslims.
Following the massacre, protesters took to the streets across Pakistan and other countries including the neighboring Afghanistan to denounce the violence against Shia Muslims.
On Monday, the mourning relatives of the victims refused to bury the bodies of their loved ones unless the government takes concrete actions and finds the perpetrators of the slaughter.
Meanwhile Allama Amin Shahidi, a spokesman for the protesters from the Shia Wahdatul Muslemeen party said on Tuesday that "The sit-in protest all over Pakistan is now finished and people should disperse peacefully.”
He added that the Pakistani government has assured the protesters that they will fulfill all their demands, adding, “the governor and the government told us that a targeted operation has begun, which will continue until all the culprits are eliminated."
The dead will be buried later on Tuesday or early on Wednesday.
Also on Tuesday, Pakistan arrested seven suspects in connection with the bloody bombing. Officials said Pakistani forces also killed four men during an operation on the outskirts of Quetta.
Akbar Hussain Durrani, the home secretary of Balochistan Province, said that one of the masterminds of carnage was among those arrested.
A spokesman for the outlawed Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claimed responsibility for the bombing that drew global condemnations.
Violence has escalated against Shia Muslims in different parts of Pakistan in recent months. Since the beginning of 2012, hundreds of Shias have been killed in the country.
On February 1, some 19 people were killed and dozens wounded when a motorcycle packed with explosives exploded near a mosque in the town of Hangu in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province.
On January 10, nearly 130 people were killed and many others injured in a wave of deadly attacks targeting both Pakistani security guards and civilians, including Shia Muslims, in the country.
Shias make up about a thrid of Pakistan’s population of over 180 million.
- Press TV Reports
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