QUETTA, Nov 15: A partial shutter-down strike was observed in the city to protest the execution of Mir Aimal Kasi who was executed in the US on Friday morning.

But Haji Naseebullah, Aimal’s elder brother, asked the people to remain calm and not to take the law into their hand.

After the announcement of Aimal’s execution the gate of his residence on Mission Road was opened to the public wanting to offer condolences.

The Kasis are now waiting for his body to arrive from the US.

“We are waiting for Aimal’s body. The US authorities would hand his body over to my bothers after completing all formalities according to United

States law,” Naseebullah told Dawn at his residence adding that after receiving Aimal’s body the burial date would be announced.

“Aimal will be buried in our family graveyard in Killi Ibrahimai in Quetta,” he said.

HE SAID: “We want Aimal’s burial in a peaceful manners as our family and tribe are peaceful law-abiding citizens and do not want any kind of violence on the occasion, and would not allow any one else to do so.”

Most shops and markets remained closed in the main city until Friday prayers.

After receiving the news of Aimal’s execution youth from the Kasi tribe gathered near Kasi Qila and started chanting anti-US slogans. But the police did not allow them to come out on the roads and create hurdles in the traffic.

The administration has deployed a heavy contingent of police and other law-enforcement agencies at all important places and around Kasi Qila to avert any untoward incident.

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