The protests in Balochistan included many lawyers and two cameramen who were gathered to pay respects to another lawyer who had been shot dead hours earlier, the lawyers said they would boycott court proceedings in much of the country, a statement by Pakistan’s Bar Council said.
On Monday, a bomber detonated his explosives near the Civil Hospital in Quetta city of Balochistan Province, where some 200 lawyers along with journalists had gathered to accompany the body of a prominent attorney shot earlier in the day.
At least seventy people were killed in the blast and more than 100 others injured.
Taliban’s Jamaatul Ahrar faction and Islamic State extremists claimed responsibility for the attack.
Balochistan government spokesman Anwar-ul-Haq Kakar said the province’s schools would also remain shut on Tuesday “to mourn the loss.”
He added that funerals for many of the victims have already been held.
