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Pakistani PM asks Shiites to bury coal miners killed by IS

by Abdul Sattar
| January 8, 2021 11:09 AM

QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan's prime minister on Friday appealed on protesting minority Shiites not to link the burial of 11 coal miners from their Hazara community, killed by the Islamic State group last week, to demands that he visit the mourners.

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