QUETTA: Three murder victims, a woman and her two sons, found in Barkhan city of Balochistan were buried near Eastern Bypass in Quetta on Saturday.
According to reports, the family had been illegally detained in a private jail for the last four years by communications minister Abdul Rehman Khetran, inside his residence in Barkhan. He is also accused of ordering their killing.
The dead bodies were taken from Fayyaz Sumbal Square to Police Lines, then to Khan Muhammad Marri, where family members including Marri’s wife and children paid their last respects before burial at QDA Graveyard.
Patriarch, Khan Muhammad Marri, himself was present at the burial, along with a heavy police contingent.
Hundreds of Marri tribesmen, who had been protesting in Quetta’s Red Zone for the past five days with the three bodies, called off their sit-in on Friday evening after the victims were reunited with him at the camp and authorities agreed to their demands.
The family had spent years in captivity and were not allowed to see the coffins.
Jahangir Marri, the general secretary of the Marri Ittehad Pakistan, announced the end of the protest, saying that the government had accepted their demands, which included registering an FIR after recording the statements of the victim family members who were detained and recovered by security forces.
The family were taken into protective custody and will be produced before a magistrate for recording their statements about their captivity.
Khan Marri expressed his gratitude to the Marri tribesmen and other communities who supported him during the protest, leading to the recovery of his family and acceptance of their demands.
