CM Jam Kamal apologized to the Hazara community                          "I apologize on behalf of my government. We [the government] definitely were negligent in one way or the other and there is nothing wrong in apologizing to our people, our nation." 

PM, Army chief to visit
Kamal also announced that Army chief General Qamar Javed Bajwa and Prime Minister Imran will visit Quetta and meet the bereaved families soon.

National Assembly Deputy Speaker Suri, while addressing the protesters later, announced that PM Imran and Gen Bajwa will visit Quetta right after the burials and will condole with the bereaved families and members of the Hazara community.                                                                                   

Mach tragedy
Eleven miners were brutally massacred on Sunday when armed assailants entered their residential compound in the Mach coalfield area of Balochistan where they were sleeping, blindfolded and trussed them up before executing them. The militant Islamic State (IS) group, also known by the Arabic acronym Daesh, claimed responsibility for the attack.                                                                                               

Relatives and residents started their protest on the same day, arranging the coffins on the Western Bypass on the outskirts of Quetta and refusing to bury them in a symbolic gesture until the prime minister's visit and assurance of protection.

The protests later spread to other parts of the country, including Peshawar, Lahore and Karachi, where demonstrators blocked several important roads, disrupting traffic.

Soon after the announcement to end the protest in Quetta, similar messages were played at gatherings in other cities, with reports of sit-ins being called off in Karachi and Lahore as well.