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Sectarian attack: 3 killed, 6 injured in Parachinar
Political administration official says all passengers belonged to Shia community.
Political administration official says all passengers belonged to Shia community.
KOHAT: At least three people were killed and six were injured when unidentified assailants ambushed a passenger vehicle near Charkhel village in lower Kurram Agency on Monday, a political administration official said.
Confirming that it was a sectarian attack, the official said that the vehicle was en route to Peshawar from Parachinar – the headquarters of Kurram Agency – when unknown men opened fire on it from a mountain.
He added that all the passengers belonged to the Shia community. “The locals are afraid of sectarian violence again.”
The injured and the deceased were shifted to Combined Military Hospital (CMH), Thall.
He added that that this was the sixth attack on a passenger vehicle in the area after the route was reopened by Commissioner Kohat division Sahibzada Muhammad Anees about six months ago.
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May the innocent martyres rest in peace.Recommend
May the innocent martyred commuters rest in Peace.
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Look and Identify the oprressor and oppressed.“The one aware of oppression, the aid to it, and the pleased with it, all three are partners.”
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Isn’t this an every day occurrence in Pakistan? as every other day there is some similar incidences reported… who knows what’s going on and where its not reported…
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Pakistan needs to adopt Love for All Hatred for None
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Thats why I say, renounce religion and become secular, thoroughly secular like France or Turkey. Read “Dechristianization of France” on wikipedia. Once upon a time, France was called the little sister of Catholic church because it was thoroughly catholic until it decided to become secular, and the rest is history.
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I hope Mr. CJ will take sou moto action and ask government to present report within 2 weeks. Shias are being killed in this country and this genocide don’t effect anybody.
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Why shia community is always targeted and the shia is not targeting other sects in retaliation. Why shia is not producing sucide bombers and it will be easy for them to target the majority?. Simply they are true human beings, keep the religion apart.
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Pakistan is a failed state.
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well done, PDC zindabad
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@Khan, think you don’t know what is happening in Syria
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Blame RAW, MOSSAD, CIA; or the drones.
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@ Abdullah and neither do u know whats happening in Syria. Assads are not Shia and and neither is their religion recognized as a further sect of shia. Irn and syria are allies of common interest within the region, just as Saudia Arabia is with Bahrain.
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@Abdullah: What Parachinar had to do with Syria, from the look of things Talibans must be killing people over there as well.
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Where is Imran Khan who claims to “talk the terrorist out of terrorism”? Or is it not terrorism? Oh it’s the vote bank!
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@Abdullah, in Syria people are fighting with King, but in Pakistan shias never gone wild with a wish to rule over Pakistan neither they have a militant wing or sucide bombers.I don’t think that people should try to relate the case of Pakistan with any other country.
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Unfortunately, it’s an uphill battle against Wahhabi/Salafi/Deoband/Sunni extremists, ideologues, militants and terrorists in the country….
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I saw the headline and I knew it already it would be Shias being killed. Sectarian attack and it’s always Shia r the victims
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Chaar Kheil is the village adjacent to Manduri village and it is the ancestral village of Aurakzai(Watizai),the MNA from Central Kurram.Why the political agent does not exercise his power under the “COLLECTIVE RESPONSIBILITIES”and put the MNA in Adiala jail? but every one knows that the blood of SHIAS is much thinner than any liquid on earth.They will cry for a few days and then there will be another attack.It will go on till we dont get rid of this corrupt Govt.
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