Following a strike call from Hazara community, humanitarian groups and traders’ community, all shops, markets and commercial centres remained closed across the provincial metropolis on Monday.
The flow of traffic remained thin throughout the day during the strike.
Strict security measures were adopted by the provincial administration to maintain law and order and avoid untoward incidents in the provincial capital.
Meanwhile, a First Information Report (FIR) regarding the tragic mishap was lodged after 12 hours.
Charges of terrorism and murder have been mentioned in the FIR. The case has been registered against unidentified people, police sources confirmed.
As many as 49 people, including security personnel, lost their lives and over 100 others sustained injuries in separate incidents of terrorism in Quetta, Peshawar and North Waziristan on Sunday.
Quetta was rocked by a powerful suicide bomb explosion that killed at least 28 people, including women and children, and injured 65 others in an attack in HazaraTown.
Police said the bomber attempted to barge into an imambargah but detonated his explosives-laden vest after he was stopped at a private security checkpost.
The blast took place in Aliabad Bazaar when people were busy in their routine shopping. The attack resulted in the death of as many as 28 people, most of them from the Hazara Shia community.
The Hazara Democratic Party (HDP), PML-N Balochistan, Pakhtunkhwa Milli Awami Party (PkMAP), Balochistan National Party (BNP), National Party (NP) JUI-F and others strongly condemned the explosion. The HDP gave a shutter down strike call for Monday to condemn the explosion. The HDP also announced five-day mourning.
Quaid-e-Millat Jafariya Agha Syed Hamid Ali Shah Moosavi strongly condemned the attack and demanded the government take stern action against the culprits involved in continued bloodshed of innocent people.
