Pakistani Muslims agree to bury Quetta bombing victims

Pakistanis have agreed to bury the victims of a bloody bombing in the southwestern city of Quetta that killed nearly 90 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 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.