Pakistan: Gunmen kill 11 minority Hazara coal miners in Baluchistan
By DW
04 January 2021 |
9:00 am
The victims were from the minority Shiite Hazara community. Pakistan's prime minister, Imran Khan, condemned the attack as a "cowardly inhumane act of terrorism."
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