Four Hazaras gunned down in Quetta
All those killed ran junk and scrap shops in Kabari Market in Quetta, where sectarian and separatist violence is common.
“It was a sectarian attack. Gunmen on motorbikes opened fire on them and drove away,” Asif Ghafoor, a senior police official, told AFP.
The province, which borders Afghanistan and Iran, is plagued by sectarian violence between the minority Shia and majority Sunni community, as well as by Taliban attacks and a separatist insurgency.
Riasat Ali, another police official confirmed the incident and told AFP that the victims were critically injured and died on their way to hospital.
Sectarian violence involving Sunni and Shias, who account for around 20 percent of the population, has killed thousands of people since the late 1990s.
Sectarian killings have taken a new toll; many extremist groups are taking advantage of the political vacuum created after the ruthless operation.
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how kind is you
Shias must take up arms and make defence committies to defend themselves when ever attacked since the state is closing its eyes and so far failed to take any concrete measures against the sectarian killers.
A trouble state has nothing left to distroy itself!
Are these Killers still our friends and are they reacting drone strikes....Please Taliban apologist wake up before they go after you..... they are against our way of life
John T Pls dont include the SSP in the "sunnis" though all life loss is deplorable. Yet, for reasons cery clear to all but perhaps you, the sympathy for these extremists blood-hounds is at all time low these days in the peaceful majority of this country. Its a good sign of how a common pakistani, especially the educated class, rejects extremist outfits like SSP.
@peace and only peace Every life is precious. Your problem is, people like you dont want to understand the statistics of sectarian killing. The whole country whole-heartedly condemns hazara killings bcoz they dont go around preaching hatred. Just as the other minorities in country and the majority of sunnies. This 1% sipah e sahaba mentality is supported by none of the above. Your argument is just for tthe sake of argment therefore...
@peace and only peace: @Hardliner: @Thinker:
Target killings are a great malaise, and the deaths of ASWJ activists was indeed reported by ET. However, they're not random innocent Sunni Muslims but were members of an extremist organization themselves indulged in sectarian hatred and violence. If these murders of random non-activist Shia Muslim Hazaras were ASWJ's reply, instead of seeking the rival Shia militant culprits (legally preferably), then clearly there's nothing innocent about this violent religiously bigoted supremacist and extremist group akin to the Klu Klux Klan. They specialize in spreading sectarian hatred, which includes evidence of militant activists linked to Wahabi/Deoband/Sunni extremist sectarian terrorist organizations like L-e-J, J-e-M, etc and are the root of most sectarian terrorism, indulging in whole scale anti-Shia sectarian cleansing, which includes targeting any and all Shias.
@ Peace and Only Peace: Read your news here published by tribune http://tribune.com.pk/story/451917/sectarian-killings-five-aswj-men-gunned-down/
Our problem is we are not united.
See who they are killing...Innocent people striving hard to make their both ends meet in such rising inflation....The scrap men
This isn't an act of sectarian violence. It is target killing in broad daylight, and borderline genocide.
This isn't sectarian violence. It is downright target killing of one particular sect, and borderline genocide.
@Hardliner: ASWJ is an organization run by foreign funds, bank robberies and abductions, there are many parties who will be after them, on the other hand Hazaras and Shia at large are productive part of Pakistan.
Just yesterday, 04 innocent members of ASWJ were also martyred. This might have been their reply...........
@John T: Same inhuman people, snakes are nobody's friends.
Why tribune only publish hazara killings. Where were they when 5 SSP men were killed last night in karachi
biased reporting...............
Why is tribune only publish killings of hazara? where were they when 5 SSP's people killed last night in karachi
biased ........ and it will continue.....
Shia genocide must be stopped and ET must not accuse ASWJ. i have noticed ET accuses ASWJ for every shia killing. i have evidence.
Yesterday, 4 Sunnis gunned down in karachi belonged to SSP, who was behind sunnis killings??
Stop Shia Genocide!! Will somebody please act??
For God sake don't term it as sectarian violence. Don't you see the unilateral killing campaign of Hazaras in Quetta?
I dream of that day when we have congregational prayers in Pakistan in which both sunnis and shias stand shoulder to shoulder.We must say NO to sectarianism,we have so many other problems to tackle!!
@Sunni: What is Iran's role? How many sunnis have been killed in Quetta?
Saudia and Qatar inspired and financed genocide.
Extraordinary situations can not be handled with ordinary laws and ways.Unfortunately our rulers are very ordinary people, our courts are run by clerks( looking for commas and full stops of the sections of law ) our Generals could not have made even foot soldiers in the armies of Rommel and Napoleon. If they can not rid the nation of these killers, the nation should boycott the elections( no fun in bringing new jokers to govern us), stop paying taxes on which the generals feed and live a royal life (they have neither matched the external threats nor the internal) and as far as the courts, these are inhabited by kangaroos.
Now they will justify it with drone attacks.
We need another Two Nation Theory
A shameful act - may Allah have mercy on the departed souls. Love for all hatred for none is the only way forward for pakistan The problem is our politicians are to scared to implement this
Govt must stop genocide of Shias. Specially Farsi speaking Hazara Shias. Saudi Arabia and Iran are supporting their groups in Pakistan and made this country a battle ground of sects.You gotta stop this.enough is enough.Shias are our brothers.
When Mr. Chief Justice takes suo moto of these crimes????
Shame on this country.
A train march to Saudi Arabia from Pakistani if they want to to stop this blood shed.