Over 1,000 Illegal Miners Arrested in South Africa BARBERTON – More than 1,000 illegal miners have been arrested in a week-long police operation in South Africa’s Mpumalanga province. The police targeted secret mining activities near the village of Barberton, close to the borders with Eswatini and Mozambique. Many of the arrested miners are also illegal […]
Traffic disruptions reported in multiple areas of Karachi once again on Thursday as protests and sit-ins against the killing of 11 Shia Hazara miners in Balochistan earlier this week continued for the third day in the metropolis. Protests ongoing since 9 am at 20 locations in the city, according to a statement by the Karachi […]
Despite Prime Minister Imran Khan’s request to move ahead with the final rites of the slain miners and an assurance that he would visit them “very soon”, Balochistan’s Shia Hazara community continued to protest for a fifth straight day on Thursday in Quetta, refusing to bury those who were brutally killed over the weekend in […]
Prime Minister Imran Khan on Wednesday urged the protesting members of Balochistan’s Shia Hazara community to bury the bodies of the miners killed in a brutal attack in Mach, promising he would visit them “very soon”. On Sunday, armed attackers slit the throats of 11 miners in a residential compound near a mine site in […]
