Quetta: Balochistan government has announced two-day mourning in the province over the tragic suicide bomb blast in Mastung on Friday, in which number of people was martyred and around two hundred others injured.
Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) leader Nawabzada Mir Siraj Raisani was also martyred in the explosion during a corner meeting in Darin Garh area of Mastung district. BAP has also announced three day mourning over the barbaric incident and canceled its political public meeting on Saturday. Commander Southern Command
On the other hand the funeral prayers of 130 martyrs were offered in their ancestral areas of Mustung district. Later they were buried in their ancestral graveyards. Meanwhile, the funeral prayer of Nawabzada Mir Siraj Raisani, leader of Balochistan Awami Party who was also martyred in the tragic incident, was offered at Ayub Stadium on Saturday. Later he was buried at his ancestral village Kanak in Mastung district.
IG-FC Balochistan Major General Nadeem Anjum and Lt. General Asim Saleem Bajwa Commander Southern Command have also condoled the death of victims with Nawab Aslam Rahansani.
All political parties in Balochistan have announced to observe a three-day mourning to demonstrate solidarity with the martyred and injured people of the Mastung blast.
Raisani was recently elected as the chairperson of Balochistan Muttahida Mahaz and merged his party with the Balochistan Awami Party on June 3. He was scheduled to contest for PP-35 (Mastung). The deceased had lost his son Akmal Raisani in a bomb blast at Mastung in July 2011.
The Mastung attack was the most lethal since Taliban militants assaulted Peshawar’s Army Public School in 2014, killing over 150 people, mostly children, and one of the deadliest in the country´s long struggle with terrorism.
It is to be mentioned here that on Friday, a suicide blast ripped through a crowd at a political rally in Mastung and claimed lives of 129 people. Authorities said the suicide bomber detonated in the middle of a compound where the political meeting was taking place.
Meanwhile political parties have demanded better security to ensure they can freely conduct their election campaigns. Apprised of the threat to his own campaign, the PPP Chairperson Bilawal Bhutto Zardari has announced suspending political activities across the country in solidarity with the victims of recent terror attacks.
