QUETTA: The Balochistan chapter of the PML-N backed by different political and religious parties observed on Wednesday first death anniversary of the Zehris who were killed in an attack on their convoy last year.

The parties held protests to mark the occasion and the PML-N gave a strike call for Friday in protest against the authorities’ failure to arrest the perpetrators of the attack.

Activists blocked national highways at Kuchlak, Lakpass, Kolpur and Khuzdar because of which traffic remained suspended from 8am to 3pm.

PML-N leaders Rahim Kakar, Liaquat Lehri, Younus Baloch and Alauddin Kakar later addressed a press conference and thanked political leaders, transporters, traders and common people for supporting the protest call.

They pointed out that a son, a brother and a nephew of the party’s provincial chief and Senior Minister Sardar Sanaullah Zehri had been killed in the attack to incite clashes between different tribes in Khuzdar.

They said that Balochistan was a tribal society with each tribe having its own area of influence. No tribe could dominate the other by way of violence. Mutual respect was necessary to maintain peace in the province, they added.