{"id":55172,"date":"2024-02-01T20:23:38","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T20:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/bodies-of-9-pakistanis-killed-in-iran-to-arrive-in-multan-today\/"},"modified":"2024-02-01T20:23:38","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T20:23:38","slug":"bodies-of-9-pakistanis-killed-in-iran-to-arrive-in-multan-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/bodies-of-9-pakistanis-killed-in-iran-to-arrive-in-multan-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Bodies of 9 Pakistanis killed in Iran to arrive in Multan today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<p>LAHORE: Confusion prevailed at the Multan airport on Wednesday over the arrival of the bodies of nine Pakistani workers who were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1809197\">killed<\/a> by unknown gunmen in Iran\u2019s Sistan-Baluchestan province on Jan 27.<\/p>\n<p>Official sources in Multan told <em>Dawn<\/em> the plane carrying the bodies, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/1810045\">scheduled<\/a> to arrive on Wednesday, could not take off from Quetta due to bad weather and is expected to arrive today (Thursday).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"media  sm:w-1\/2  w-full  media--right  media--embed  media--uneven\">\n<p>    <iframe class=\"nk-iframe\" onload=\"setInterval(()=&gt;{try{this.style.height=this.contentWindow.document.body.scrollHeight+'px';}catch{}}, 100)\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" style=\"height:400px;position:relative\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dawn.com\/news\/card\/1809419\" sandbox=\"allow-same-origin allow-scripts allow-popups allow-modals allow-forms\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Families and friends of the workers had already arrived in Multan to rece\u00adi\u00adve the bodies and take them to their native towns Alipur and Lodhran for burial.<\/p>\n<p>The workers, from the districts of Muzaffargarh, Bahawalpur and Lodhran, had gone to Iran in search of a better livelihood.<\/p>\n<p>According to sources, the bodies will be flown from Quetta, where they were brought from Iran earlier on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The bodies will be taken to their ancestral villages, where they will be laid to rest after funeral prayers.<\/p>\n<p>Two of them were brothers, and another was their maternal uncle. They hailed from Ali\u00adpur tehsil in the Muzaffar\u00adgarh district.<\/p>\n<p>Villagers expressed sorrow and anger over the killing of their loved ones, demanding justice and compensation from the governments of Pakistan and Iran.<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan urged the Iranian authorities to initiate a comprehensive investigation into the incident, with the culprits being held accountable for the killing of Pakistanis.<\/p>\n<p><em>Published in Dawn, February 1st, 2024<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: Confusion prevailed at the Multan airport on Wednesday over the arrival of the bodies of nine Pakistani workers who were killed by unknown gunmen in Iran\u2019s Sistan-Baluchestan province on Jan 27. Official sources in Multan told Dawn the plane carrying the bodies, which was scheduled to arrive on Wednesday, could not take off from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55173,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.dawn.com\/large\/2024\/02\/01085309e2920ec.jpg?r=085537","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}