Enforced strike: Balochistan shuts down to mourn JUI-F leader

QUETTA:

Traders and businessmen kept their outlets closed in markets across Balochistan and public transport vehicles remained parked in terminals on Sunday as mobs of stick-wielding men enforced the strike called by Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam (JUI-F) in protest against the targeted killing of its general secretary in Sindh Dr Khalid Soomro.

The angry protesters of JUI-F roughed up many people in Quetta for bringing out their cars and motorcycles, eyewitnesses told The Express Tribune.

JUI-F activists and supporters also stopped the passenger train going to Chaman from Quetta near Kuchalak on the outskirts of Quetta, perturbed passengers told reporters by phone.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 1^st, 2014.