Who dares blackmail?


Mourners from the Hazara community gather near the coffins of miners who were killed in an attack by gunmen in the mountainous Machh area. — AFP

WINNING is everything. Right?

Pakistan prime minister Imran Khan stepped on to the stage late morning on Friday to deliver what appeared to be a routine speech on IT projects. This was his first major public appearance in front of live cameras since the kidnap and murder of 11 Hazara miners by militants near Mach in Balochistan, not far from the provincial capital of Quetta. For six days the controversy had continued to rage – mourners sitting outside in below freezing temperatures refusing to bury their loved ones till the prime minister came to them, and the prime minister maintaining a stony silence. Would he break his silence this morning?

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