As the Hazara protesters continued their protest for the fifth day in Quetta,  Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan on Friday told them not to “blackmail the prime minister” like this, Dawn reported. 

Last Sunday, armed attackers killed eleven Hazara miners in Pakistan’s restive Baluchistan province. Hazara is a Shia ethnic minority community and has been constantly targeted by radicals and extremists organizations in Afghanistan, and Pakistan as well. 

Since the incident on Sunday, the Hazara community has been staging protests in Quetta. The protesters are refusing to bury their deads unless Imran Khan visits them. 

Speaking at an event in Islamabad, Pakistan’s prime minister said all of their demands have accepted. He asked them to bury their deads and not to blackmail a head of state like this. He also said, he would visit them on the day they bury their victims. 

“This should be clear. All of your demands have been met but you can't impose a condition which has [no logic]. So first, bury the dead. If you do it today then I guarantee you that I will come to Quetta today," Khan was quoted as saying by Dawn. 

Strangely, the prime minister also compared the Hazara protests with the opposition’s PDM protests. The "band of crooks" (a tacit reference to PDM leaders) has been blackmailing me for two and a half years, Khan said.