Why are 6000 Shia children killed in Pakistan less worthy than a few dozen Palestinians?

2012-11-19

12:45

By: Abdul Nishapuri

Source: Let Us Build Pakistan


5-year old Hania (a Shia Muslim) was killed in a suicide attack by Takfiri Deobandis (Sipah-e-Sahaba) on Eid congregation in Quetta on 31 Sep 2011.

Why are 6000 Shia children killed in Pakistan by Saudi-sponsored Takfiri Deobandis (i.e. extremist Sunnis,the Salafists aka Wahhabis)- (Taliban, Sipah-e-Sahaba)- less important than a few dozen Palestinians killed by Israel?

We condemn all those thugs who express sympathy for rocket-firing Hamas militants but remain silent on Shia genocide in Pakistan.

If you see a Salafist-Deobandi circulate pictures from Palestine or Burma, throw the present post on his/her face.

Since mid-1980s, more than 20,000 Shia Muslims, thousands of Sunni Sufi (Barelvi) Muslims, hundreds of Ahmadis, Christians and Hindus have been killed in Pakistan by Takfiri Deobandi terrorists sponsored by Jihadist-minded generals of Pakistan Army. A detailed database of Shia genocide can be accessed here:http://criticalppp.com/archives/132675

According to an estimate, at least 30 per cent of the 20,000 Shias killed are children or minors (age 18 or below). This makes their number at least 6,000.

On mainstream media and social media, one frequently sees pictures of Palestinian children killed or injured during Israel’s attacks on Hamas (Saudi-sponsored Salafist militants) hideouts in densely populated civilian areas in Gaza. However, there is completely no mention of the 6,000 Shia children killed by Saudi-funded Takfiri Deobandis (Taliban, Sipah-e-Sahaba) who are not only killing Shias but also Sunni Sufi (Barelvis), Ahmadis and Christians.

The attitude of the Arab League, OIC, United Nations and human rights groups is equally hypocritical and disturbing. While they shed crocodile tears on the loss of innocent life in Palestine (and Israel), hardly any mention is made of the thousands of Shia, Sunni Sufi Muslims and other non-Salafist, non-Deobandis killed in Pakistan (and other countries, e.g., Afghanistan, Bahrain, Syria, Saudi Arabia) by the Saudi- and Qatar-sponsored terrorists.

In the present post, we are providing a collection of only a few of thousands of Shia children killed by Takfiri Deobandis in the last few years in Pakistan.

Things to note:

Many Pakistani and international groups remain silent on Shia genocide in Pakistan. In fact while the same groups clearly mention the identity of the killed and the killer in Palestine, they make every possible effort to hide or obfuscate the identity of the killed (Shia Muslims, Sunni Sufis) and the killers (Takfiri Deobandis and their Saudi masters) in Pakistan.

Supporters and enablers of Takfiri Deobandis dishonestly misrepresent Shia genocide and murder of Sufi Sunnis in Pakistan as Sunni-Shia sectarian violence in order to justify and hide the violence.

While Iran and Iran-funded Shia Mullahs keep supporting Hamas and other militant groups, Hamas remains extremely hostile to Sunni Sufi Muslims and Shia Muslims. In fact, in 2011, Hamas forcibly stopped Shia Muslims of Palestine from celebrating the Ashura of Muharram and physically attacked and injured many Shias.

It may be noted that majority of the Palestinians killed by Israel in Gaza are militants or activists of Hamas. In contrast, almost all Shias killed in Pakistan by Takfiri Deobanids are ordinary citizens with no link with any political or militant group. Shias face Gaza in Pakistan every day. But no Shia are firing rockets at ordinary Sunni Muslims or calling for Sunni destruction.

Pakistan’s and the entire world’s Shia and Sunni Muslims should realize that Saudi-sponsored Takfiri Deobandis and Takfiri Salafist are bigger threat to Islam and Muslims than any other country or group. It is high time that we set our priorities in order and focus our attention on Saudi-funded Deobandis and Salafist, the biggest threat to humanity, Muslims, Christians, Hindus and Jews.




At least 20 Shia Muslims including many children and women were killed by Takfiri Deobandis in Khanpur (Punjab) in January 2012


Four school children (Shia Muslims) killed by Takfiri Deobandis (Taliban & Sipah-e-Sahaba) in Hangu on 27 Feb 2009


A man carries a dead child from the site of a suicide attack during a Shia procession in Quetta September 3, 2010.


This Shia child, who was injured with his mother in an attack on Shia Muslims’ bus, is carried by his father after receiving treatment in Quetta in June 2011.


Twenty Shia and Sunni Barelvi Muslims were killed by Takfiri Deobandi Taliban & Sipah-e-Sahaba in a suicide attack on Bari Imam Shrine in Islamabad on 27 May 2005.


A Shiite child injured in a bomb attack on Shia Muslims in D.I.Khan in 2009.


Another picture from the Takfiri Deobandis’ attack on Shia Muslims in Khanpur.


At least 26 Shias including many children were killed by Takfiri Deobandi Taliban & Sipah-e-Sahaba in Balochistan in September 2011


25 Shia Muslims were killed, 150 injured, in an attack by Takfiri Deobandis in Lahore in September 2010


This Shia youngster, Akmal Rizvi, was killed along with his father in Karachi in March 2012.


An injured boy lies bleeding in the aftermath of a Sipah-e-Sahaba suicide attack on a procession of Shiite pilgrims in Lahore in January 2011.


This Shia girl was injured in an attack on Shia Muslims in Lahore in September 2010.


This girl was injured in Taliban’s attack on a commercial district in Peshawar on Sept. 26, 2009. Many Sunni and Shia Muslims were killed or injured.


At least 34 Shia Muslims including many Shia Hazara children were killed by Takfiri Deobandis (Taliban, Sipah-e-Sahaba) in an attack in Kabul in December 2011.


Shia Hazara school children mourn the death of their friends and class mates


A Shia child injured by Takfiri Deobandis


Aqeel Raza and 5 other Shia students were killed in Takfiri Deobandis attack on a university bus in June 2012.


A Shia child remembers his slain father at his grave in Quetta


A Shia girl injured by Takfiri Deobandis in Abbas Town, Karachi on 18 Nov 2012

http://www.publici.com/content/why-are-6000-shia-children-killed-pakistan-less-worthy-few-dozen-palestinians

30 December 2012 Last updated at 08:18 GMT

Blast in southwest Pakistan kills Shia pilgrims

At least 19 Shia Muslim pilgrims have been killed by a bomb attack on a bus convoy in southwest Pakistan, local officials say.

More than 20 people have been injured in the incident in the Mastung district of Baluchistan province.

Pakistan has experienced worsening sectarian violence in recent years. Last month 23 Shia Muslims were killed by a bomb in the city of Rawalpindi.

No group has yet said it carried out Sunday's bombing.

Initial reports said it had been detonated by remote control but a government official said it had been a suicide attack.

Officials said that some of those injured were in a critical condition and that the death toll may rise.

The bus convoy had reportedly been on their way to neighbouring Iran, a Shia-majority country and popular pilgrimage destination.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20869409?SThisFB

^You seem more kin to play politics with the lives of these unfortunate people than to seek their welfare. That is not nice.

Ironic that the mac doesnt care that people died. He is more worried that a Shia is complaining

Saluman: Ironic that the mac doesnt care that people died. He is more worried that a Shia is complaining

Obviously, your comprehension skills are poor.

maclatunji: ^You seem more kin to play politics with the lives of these unfortunate people than to seek their welfare. That is not nice.

Truly that has always been the case, the same way their leaders find playing politics during the blasphemous video some months back, is the same way they take the issue of life and death of people to play politics.




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Twin blasts kill 57 in southwest Pakistan

Thu Jan 10, 2013 6:42PM GMT

More than 50 people have been killed in two successive bombings that ripped through a billiards hall in the capital of Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan Province.


According to senior police officer Hamid Shakil, the twin blasts went off about 10 minutes apart in the city of Quetta late Thursday evening, killing 57 people and injuring more than 100.

Police officer Mohammed Murtaza said the second bomb caused the building to collapse, adding that many of the dead and wounded were Shia Muslims.


The incident comes hours after a separate bomb attack killed 11 people in a crowded commercial area of the city.

Anti-Shia militant groups have been engaged in a violent campaign against Shias over the past few years.

Hundreds of Shia Muslims were killed across Pakistan last year. The attacks targeted many doctors, engineers, high-ranking government officials, teachers, and politicians.

Human rights groups in Pakistan have vehemently criticized the government for its failure to stem the rising tide of violence against the country's Shia Muslims.

Shias make up almost 20 percent of the country's 176-million-strong population.

TE/HMV

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/01/10/282870/twin-blasts-kill-57-in-southwest-pakistan/

Bombings kill 103 people in Pakistan
By By ABDUL SATTAR and SHIRIN ZADA | Associated Press – 1 hr 48 mins ago.



QUETTA, Pakistan (AP) — A series of bombings in different parts of Pakistan killed 103 people on Thursday, including 69 who died in a sectarian attack on a bustling billiard hall in the southwest city of Quetta, officials said.

The blasts punctuated one of the deadliest days in recent years in Pakistan, where the government faces a bloody insurgency by Taliban militants in the northwest and Baluch militants in the southwest.

The country is also home to many enemies of the U.S. that Washington has frequently targeted with drone attacks. A U.S. missile strike Thursday killed five suspected militants in the seventh such attack in two weeks, Pakistani intelligence officials said.

The billiard hall in Quetta, the capital of Baluchistan province, was hit by twin blasts about 10 minutes apart on Thursday night, killing 69 people and wounding more 160 others, said senior police officer Hamid Shakeel.

The billiard hall was located in an area dominated by Shiite Muslims, and most of the dead and wounded were from the minority sect, said another police officer, Mohammed Murtaza. Many of the people who rushed to the scene after the first blast and were hit by the second bomb, which caused the roof of the building to collapse, he said.

Police officers, journalists and rescue workers who responded to the initial explosion were also among the dead, police said.

The sectarian militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claimed responsibility for the attack to local journalists. One of the group's spokesmen, Bakar Saddiq, said the first blast was carried out by a suicide bomber and the second was a bomb planted in a car and detonated by remote control.

Radical Sunnis groups often target Pakistan's Shiite minority, whom they believe hold heretical views and are not true Muslims.

Earlier in the day, a bomb targeting paramilitary soldiers in a commercial area in Quetta killed 12 people and wounded more than 40 others, said Shakeel, the senior police officer.

The United Baluch Army, a separatist group, claimed responsibility for the attack on the soldiers in calls to local journalists.

Elsewhere in Pakistan, a bomb in a crowded Sunni mosque in the northwest city of Mingora killed 22 people and wounded more than 70, said senior police officer Akhtar Hayyat.

No group claimed responsibility for the attack.

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Associated Press writer Rasool Dawar contributed to this report from Peshawar, Pakistan.

http://news.yahoo.com/bombings-kill-103-people-pakistan-185413160.html

11 January 2013 Last updated at 16:56 GMT

Pakistan blasts: Shia refuse to bury Quetta bomb dead

Pakistan's minority Shia community has protested angrily over what it says is a lack of protection in the city of Quetta, a day after almost 100 people died there in a series of blasts.

Leaders of the community have refused to bury the dead until security is improved.

One Shia leader publicly criticised army chief Gen Ashfaq Kayani.

Sunni militant group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi said it carried out the deadliest attack in Quetta on Thursday.

Three days of mourning have been announced in Balochistan province after the blasts in its capital, on one of the deadliest days of bombings in Pakistan in recent years.

At least 119 people were killed in Quetta and in a separate attack in Mingora in the north-west

'Hell on Earth'

The worst attack targeted a snooker hall late on Thursday evening in Alamdar Road in Quetta. One suicide bomber detonated his device and a car bomb was detonated minutes later as police, rescuers and media arrived.

Most of the dead were from Quetta's 500,000-strong Hazara Shia.

Members of the community on Friday laid coffins in the street, refusing to bury them.

The president of the Shia Conference, Syed Dawood Agha, told the BBC that his community would not bury its dead till the army had given an assurance it would take administrative control of the city.

A relative of one of the victims, Fida Hussain, said: "We want safety for our all sects, and all security measures should be taken for our safety. We will not bury them until the government fulfils all our demands."

One resident, Jan Ali, told Associated Press that Thursday's blast at the snooker hall was "a scene like hell on Earth".

"Rescue people were carrying out dead and injured, people bleeding and crying, and rushing them toward ambulances. I have never seen such a horrifying situation in my life."

Among the dead was Quetta-based rights activist, Irfan Ali, who was reportedly helping those wounded in the first blast.

Another resident, Abbas Ali, told AP news agency: "This government has totally failed in protecting us. Somehow we will get compensation for our losses but those who have gone away will not come back."

Key Shia leader Maulana Amin Shaheedi criticised what he said was the inaction of Gen Kayani.

He said: "I ask the army chief: 'What have you done with these extra three years you got [in office]? What did you give us except more death?'"

Shia protesters also turned out in the port city of Karachi to demonstrate their anger at the killings.

'Separatist attack'

At least 85 people were killed at the snooker hall, with more than 100 injured.

The BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad says Lashkar-e-Jhangvi has in the past targeted the area's Hazara Shia.

Earlier, a bomb in a market area killed 12 people and injured dozens more.

Paramilitary personnel of the Frontier Corps appeared to be the target.

A spokesman for militant group, the United Baloch Army, said it had carried out that bombing.

Balochistan is plagued by a separatist rebellion as well as the sectarian infighting.

The Taliban and armed groups that support them also carry out attacks in the province, particularly in areas near the Afghan border.

Also on Thursday, at least 22 people were killed and more than 80 injured in an explosion near Mingora in Pakistan's north-western Swat valley.

The blast took place at a religious gathering.

Police initially said the explosion was caused by a gas canister, but a senior official later said it was a bomb.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-20989329?SThisFB

Letter to BBC in response to their coverage of massacre of over 100 Shia Muslims in Quetta Pakistan – by Asif Zaidi

Twin blasts at a snooker hall in the south-western Pakistani city of Quetta have killed 81 people and injured more than 120, police say.

Sir,

While covering today’s blasts in Quetta, Pakistan, you ascribe it to Shia-Sunni violence in the country. This is gross misrepresentation of an absolutely one-way sectarian-cleansing of Shias in Pakistan by the extremist militants. To put it very succinctly:

People are being taken off the buses and killed for being Shias after proper identification. (Why every other Pakistani in the same bus goes unscathed?)
Shias are being identified and then killed in the major urban centres.
Hazaras in Quetta are being isolated and being killed merely for being Shias.
Parachinar, Tirah, Gilgit, Baltistan, Nagar etc are being sequestered and brutally attacked just because Shias live there.

This amounts to a modern systematic cleansing of a group in Pakistan with a death toll that now surpasses that of Srebrenica Massacre recognized as genocide. The annihilation of Shias in Pakistan meets with genocide’s essential notion of complete or partial destruction of a national group as per 1948 Genocide Convention and all subsequent legal definitions of genocide. It aims to destroy a group and not just the individuals making up the group with the ultimate purpose of destroying the group’s identity to impose identity of the perpetrator. Just as the Jews and Gypsies were seen by their killers as being outside of German, Polish, and Lithuanian national groups, the Shias in Pakistan are viewed by their killers as being outside of Muslims as a group. A complete inability to identify, apprehend and bring the perpetrators to justice widens the sphere in government’s and media’s complicity in this genocide.

Shia persecution is largely an uncovered topic in the mainstream media. The wretched reality is that it is of no interest to the majority of the world. Globally, there is a severe lack of awareness on this topic as the Western media hardly discusses Shia genocide. In Pakistan, most people do not acknowledge the Shia genocide as a problem. The mainstream media in Pakistan has been silent as well. The terms like terrorism and sectarian-violence are often employed to confuse the truth of Shia-cleansing.

The killing of Shias in Pakistan epitomizes the essence of genocidal practices in partial (or complete) destruction of a national group as Lemkin understood it. It bears resemblance with the killings of Jews in the Germany of early and mid-1930s. Experience has shown that calling a case of genocide by its proper name is useful in identifying and stopping such actions. Genocide can be prevented in its early stages, but this requires decisive action. When such action is not taken, those who are indifferent to the increasing scale and intensity of violence become complicit in the exponentially increasing crimes, as we now see in Pakistan.

We must begin by identifying the victims as Shias being targeted as a religious national group regardless of their ethnic background. The clear intent is to destroy the whole group. The surviving members of the group must be viewed as co-victims in accordance with genocide’s definition.

In a backdrop such as this we look up to an institution like yours to live up to its high standards of fairness and play its due role in disabling this genocide through media reporting in the international community. Can we count on you to feed accurate information of the happenings and the intent on the ground that can lead to action by the international community?

Please use your capacity to push for action.

Yours truly,

Asif Zaidi

http://worldshiaforum./2013/01/11/letter-to-bbc-in-response-to-their-coverage-of-massacre-of-over-100-shia-muslims-in-quetta-pakistan-by-asif-zaidi/

Nasrallah to Extremists: Your Crimes Against Shias, Christians, & Other People are Useless (ENG Sub)


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8Rzj09Hkvg

Market bomb kills 79 in southwest Pakistan: police
AFP - 2 hrs ago

A bomb targeting Shiite Muslims in a busy market in Pakistan's insurgency-hit southwest killed 79 people including women and children and wounded 180 others, officials said Sunday.

The powerful bomb in a water tanker ripped through a packed bazaar in Hazara town, an area dominated by Shiites on the outskirts of Quetta -- capital of oil and gas rich Baluchistan province -- at around 6:00 pm (1300 GMT) on Saturday.

"We have recovered more dead bodies from the debris of a collapsed building. The death toll has now risen to 79," senior Quetta police official Wazir Khan Nasir told AFP,

Quetta city police chief Zubair Mehmood said the water tanker, which officials said was packed with some 800 kilograms (1,750 pounds) of explosives, was placed near a pillar of a two-storey building, which collapsed in the blast.

"We fear that several people have been trapped inside. Rescue work is ongoing but I see very little chance of their survival," Mehmood said.

Nasir said the bombing "was a sectarian attack, the Shiite community was the target".

A spokesman for the banned Sunni Muslim extremist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claimed responsibility for the bombing.

Provincial home secretary Akbar Hussain Durrani said the dead and injured included women and children, and confirmed reports of people trapped under rubble at the site of the collapsed building.

"We fear more casualties. We have announced an emergency in hospitals," he told AFP.

Officials and witnesses said an angry mob initially surrounded the area following the bombing and were not allowing police, rescue workers and reporters to reach the site.

"They were angry and started a protest, some of them pelted police with stones," Durrani said, adding that authorities and medical personnel were eventually able to gain access.

Sayed Qamar Haider Zaidi, a spokesman for Shiite groups in the area, condemned the Pakistani government for not providing protection to the community and announced three days of mourning and protest over the attack.

Baluchistan, which borders Iran and Afghanistan, has increasingly become a flashpoint for sectarian violence between Pakistan's majority Sunni Muslims and Shiites, who account for around a fifth of the country's 180 million people.

At least 92 people were killed and 121 wounded on January 10 when two suicide bombers blew themselves up at a crowded snooker club in an area of Quetta city dominated by the Shiite community.

It was Pakistan's worst sectarian bombing, also claimed by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, and came after what Human Rights Watch (HRW) said was the deadliest year on record for the country's Shiites, with more than 400 people killed in 2012, mostly in drive-by shootings.

Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf late last month sacked the provincial government in Baluchistan after meeting Shiite Muslim protesters demanding protection.

The province is also rife with Islamist militants and hit by a regional insurgency which began in 2004, with fighters demanding political autonomy and a greater share of profits from the region's natural resources.

http://yahoo.com/w/legobpengine/news/bomb-pakistan-kills-least-10-shiite-muslims-141851601.html?orig_host_hdr=uk.news.yahoo.com&.intl=GB&.lang=en-GB

Rallies slam Shia killings in Pakistan'

Sun Feb 17, 2013 10:49PM GMT

Pakistanis have reportedly staged protest rallies in several cities across the country to condemn the recent bomb attack that targeted Shia Muslims in the southwestern city of Quetta.

According to local media reports, the demonstrations were held in the cities of Islamabad, Karachi, Lahore, Quetta, Hyderabad, Multan, Muzaffarabad, and several other cities and towns in the Asian country.

The protesters called on the Pakistani government to provide security for the nation’s Shia Muslims.

The bombing tore through the crowded vegetable market in the town of Hazara, on the outskirts of Quetta in Pakistan’s southwestern Balochistan Province, on Saturday. The area is mostly inhabited by Shia Muslims.

The bomb, containing nearly a tone of explosives, was hidden in a water tank and towed into the market by a tractor, Quetta police chief Zubair Mahmood told reporters.

Reports say that some 84 people were killed in the attack and about 200 others were injured.

Meanwhile, many businesses in Quetta went on strike to condemn Saturday’s deadly bombing.

The governor of Balochistan also criticized Pakistani security officials for failing to protect Shias.

Violence has been on the rise against Shia Muslims in different parts of the country in recent months.

On January 10, nearly 130 people were killed and many others injured in a wave of deadly bomb attacks targeting both Pakistani security guards and civilians in Quetta.

The attack triggered protests in condemnation of violence against Shia Muslims in Pakistan. Protesters said the Pakistani government had failed to take proper action to prevent terror attacks on the Shia Muslim community.

Shias make up 20 percent of the country's 180-million-strong population.

Since the beginning of 2012, hundreds of Shias have been killed in Pakistan. The attacks have targeted many doctors, engineers, high-ranking government officials, teachers, and politicians.

MR/HN

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/02/17/289495/rallies-slam-shia-killings-in-pakistan/

@vedzx and mac its unfortunate how u guys reason.wat does it matter if he his playing politics, the point id people were killed and mostly children.and all u could say was that he should xtop playin politics cos of its affilliation.wat will u guys av said if the victims were of another religion, and u all go about calling urself muslims when u are both smelling of something else.u shd know life is life no matter who is involved and shd be treated without any prejudice to a party

beejaay: @vedzx and mac its unfortunate how u guys reason.wat does it matter if he his playing politics, the point id people were killed and mostly children.and all u could say was that he should xtop playin politics cos of its affilliation.wat will u guys av said if the victims were of another religion, and u all go about calling urself muslims when u are both smelling of something else.u shd know life is life no matter who is involved and shd be treated without any prejudice to a party

Don't mind the wannabe Wahhabi.

Deep inside in them I'm very sure they are embarassed.but unfortunate it is that they cannot willingly see where the truth lies and who is misguided and going against Islam's teachings and principles.

In the last 2 to 3 decades,over 20,000 Shia Muslims have been killed in Pakistan.in Iraq hundreds of thousands of Shia Muslims have been killed since 2003,and most of the killings were done by the same Sunni militants like extremist groups affiliated with Al-Qaeda,who parade the extremist Wahhabi/Salafist ideology.

The Quran says innocent blood should not be spilled.the Sunni extremists go into Shia places of worship (both mosques and holy cities) and bomb innocent and helpless people.in Nigeria,it is churches that are targeted and Christians die.this is NOT Islam.the beauty of Islam and the peaceful nature of Islam manifest when the Shia do not carry out reprisal attack against innocent Sunnis who have no hand in the attacks.in Islam collective or random justice is forbidden.even if the Shia want to react,our scholars quickly pass fatwas against reprisal on our Sunni brothers.only when the killers are individually identified and located,and when the authorities do not do the needed,the Shia take law into their hands to get rid of the criminals who masterminded or carried out the attacks.

The fact is most people are silent because they are biased, and disregard the fear of Allah and put it in second place to sectarian sentiments.there is a campaign going on to bring to light the genocide in Pakistan.the international community is mostly silent on it because most countries act for their interests.and there is no oil or gold in pakistan for the West to poke its nose.so those who are saying that I'm using this for politics,should ask themselves when last they genuinely saw the need to show their humanitarian feelings and speak out against the genocide of Shia Muslims in Pakistan or elsewhere,whether on facebook,tweeter,nairaland or elsewhere? The fact is people are being killed in Pakistan for being Shia,and in Nigeria for being Christians.and the attacks are carried out by extremists from the Sunni community.these people have given Islam a bad image and Muslims as a whole a bad reputation.many Christians in Nigeria for instance tend to generalize against all Muslims,regarding them terrorists.the non-muslims fail to identify that it is a minority among the Sunnis,affiliated to the violent Wahhabi/Salafist ideology,that is responsible for sectarian terror.the unfortunate thing is ordinary and peaceful Sunnis who form the majority don't speak out for one reason or the other. This terrorism is not new.it is the remnant of pre-Islamic arabian jahiliyyah,that the violent and tribal Ummayyads smuggled into the Sunni method.this same terrorism targeted the Prophet Muhammad's (s) Household,and rendered his grandson,Imam Hussain (as),beheaded in Karbala by the Ummayyad forces fighting for the caliphate of Yazid.

It is time Sunnis stop acting with suspicion and at least if not exercise the principles of Islam,they should activate their humanitarian feelings.as Imam Hussain (as) said: "even if you have no religion (you don't believe in God),at least be a free man in your world".

Pakistan's sectarian tensions

Aljazeera
Last updated: 3 hours ago

As attacks continue on Shias in Balochistan, we ask if the government is doing enough to protect minority communities.
A bomb attack on Shia Muslims in Pakistan's Balochistan province has killed more than 80 people and injured almost 200 others.

Almost a tonne of explosives tore through a crowded market in a largely Shia neighbourhood in Quetta in southwestern Balochistan. This was the second major attack this year.

"They are trying intentionally, in Quetta district, to promote religious extremism. So I think they are provoking our community to be involved; they are going to drag us into the phatic mire of sectarianism.But our people are very peaceful people. We only demand this is my right, a human being's right, we want security and nothing else."

- Abdul Khalique Hazara, the chairman of the Hazara Democratic Party

A bomb attack in the provincial capital last month killed at least 92 people.

Shia community leaders say the Pakistani government is not doing enough to protect them, and is unable or unwilling to take on those responsible.

The banned Sunni Muslim group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi says it carried out both attacks.

The group, which was founded in the late 1990s, was banned in Pakistan in 2001 and designated a terrorist group by the US in 2003.

It is known to have ties to other networks, such as the Pakistan and Afghan Taliban. And it has been linked to major attacks such as the 2007 assassination of former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto.

Most of Pakistan's Muslim population is Sunni, with between 10 and 20 percent estimated to be Shia.

The longstanding conflict between the two groups stems from a disagreement over who was the rightful successor of the Prophet Muhammad after his death.

"The dilemma for Amnesty International and for others is we cannot decide whether Pakistan is unwilling or unable to stop these groups. If they are unwilling, that is a question of complicity. If they are unable, that is a more serious matter of the Pakistani military and the state of Pakistan [being] unable to defend the integrity of their own country, and I think given Pakistan's nuclear capability and its larger status in the world, that is a very important issue for the US, as well as India and China."

- Stephen Cohen, Brookings Institution

Many people in the Shia community in Quetta are ethnic Hazaras. Some of their ancestors migrated from Afghanistan to Pakistan and Iran over a hundred years ago. More than 650,000 now live in Pakistan - mainly in Balochistan's capital.

The Hazara Organisation for Peace and Equality says more than a thousand Hazaras have been killed in Pakistan since 1999. But in the last 15 years, they say, no one has been brought to justice.

Balochistan is Pakistan's largest province by area. It is about the size of France, and bordered by Afghanistan and Iran. But it is the smallest in terms of population - estimated at a little under eight million.

The province has vast reserves of oil and gas, gold, copper and uranium; and that is contributing to a separatist rebellion.

Nationalist groups are demanding political autonomy, and a greater share of profits from the region's resources. And they are joining forces to take on Pakistan's military.

To discuss Pakistan's sectarian tensions, Inside Story, with presenter Jane Dutton, is joined by guests: Abdul Khalique Hazara, the chairman of the Hazara Democratic Party, representing Shia Muslims in Pakistan; Stephen Cohen, a senior fellow in foreign policy studies at the Brookings Institution; and Zaid Hamid, a political analyst and head of the Pakistani think tank, Brasstacks.

SECTARIAN TENSIONS

http://aljazeera.com/story/201321871913942381

breaking news:One killed, 14 wounded in Pakistan attack on Shia funeral

Mon Mar 4, 2013 3:21PM GMT
 
At least one person has been killed and 14 others wounded in an attack on a Shia funeral procession held in the Ancholi neighborhood located in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi.

MKA/MA

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/03/04/291884/attack-on-pakistan-shia-funeral-kills-one/

Rafidi :
breaking news:One killed, 14 wounded in Pakistan attack on Shia funeral

Mon Mar 4, 2013 3:21PM GMT
 
At least one person has been killed and 14 others wounded in an attack on a Shia funeral procession held in the Ancholi neighborhood located in Pakistan’s port city of Karachi.

MKA/MA

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2013/03/04/291884/attack-on-pakistan-shia-funeral-kills-one/

Such a sad story. An innocent family bombed.

I almost cried after reading the news on bbc. Clearly Shias are in danger in Pakistan

Sunni and Shia Muslims

Muslims are split into two main branches, the Sunnis and Shias
The split originates in a dispute soon after the death of the Prophet Muhammad over who should lead the Muslim community
There are also differences in doctrine, ritual, law, theology and religious organisation
The great majority of Muslims are Sunnis
Pakistan - where Shias are a minority - has a history of sectarian bloodshed dating back to the 1980s

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Iran pres. censures killings of Shias in Pakistan

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Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

Sun Mar 10, 2013 9:54PM GMT

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has censured the killings of Shia Muslims in Pakistan.

Ahmadinejad made the remarks in a statement published on the Iranian president’s official website on Sunday.

Ahmadinejad said those behind the killings “have no goals except to create a gap among Islamic sects.”

The Iranian president also expressed his condolences for the killings, and called on the Pakistani authorities to find those responsible for the attacks.

Earlier in the day, a total of 234 members of Majlis (the Iranian Parliament) released a statement, censuring the targeted killing of Pakistani Shias.

“The repeated brutal slaying of innocent Pakistani Shias is undoubtedly a plot hatched by the enemies of Islam -- particularly the US, Britain and their regional accomplices…,” the statement read.

Militants have been waging a violent campaign against Shia Muslims in Pakistan for several years.

Shias living in the Kurram Tribal Agency, which is located in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, have been facing a humanitarian crisis since November 2007, when extremist groups cut off the area from the rest of the country.

Local sources say hundreds of Shia Muslims have been killed in Kurram since the start of the campaign.

Shia religious gatherings have also been targeted in various areas of Pakistan over the past few months.

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Powerful explosions kill 53 people, injure 197 in northwestern Pakistan

Fri Jul 26, 2013 9:30PM GMT

Two powerful explosions have claimed the lives of at least 53 people in the Shia-majority town of Parachinar in Pakistan's tribal region of Kurram, leaving 197 others injured.


The blasts took place in two separate locations in Parachinar, the capital of Kurram Agency, on Friday evening.

In the first incident, a bomb planted on a motorbike went off in the city’s main market near the Afghan border.

The first blast was shortly followed by another explosion at a Shia mosque. Reports say the second blast came after a bomber rammed his motorbike into the main gate of the mosque as crowds of people were praying inside.

Pro-Taliban and al-Qaeda-linked militants, who are reportedly behind the killings, have imposed an economic blockade against the Shia-dominated population areas across the volatile northwest.

The frequent incidents have raised concerns among human rights groups, while moderate Pakistani Sunni groups have described the issue as a conspiracy against the country.

Taliban leaders, who were toppled in the 2001 US-led invasion of Afghanistan, took refuge in tribal regions of Pakistan and rapidly began to extend their influence from tribes to major towns and cities.

The pro-Taliban anti-Shia groups have launched a violent campaign against the Shia Muslims, and are stretching the campaign toward the restive southwestern Pakistan as well.

Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's restive southwestern Balochistan province has witnessed several instances of violence directed against the Hazara Shia community in recent months.

Several Shia religious gatherings have also been targeted in central province of Punjab over the past some months.

Shia Muslims in Pakistan say the government must take decisive action against the forces involved in the targeted killings. They also accuse Islamabad of failing to provide security for the Muslim community.

The country’s Shia leaders have called on the government to form a judicial commission to investigate the bloodshed.

Shias make up about a third of Pakistan’s population of over 180 million.

JR/SS

http://presstv.com/detail/2013/07/26/315734/blasts-kill-25-injure-100-in-nw-pakistan/

Watch Video Severed head of ex-navy man found hanging from bridge in Karachi

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Takfiri Deobandi terrorists of Sipah Sahaba ASWJ Taliban behead a retired Pakistan Navy officer Saleem Raza, who was reportedly a converted Shia, and took his head away with them after beaheading him at his Sohrab Goth house.

Later, they drilled his head and hung it with a rope on Goth bridge with a notice saying this is revenge for Rawalpindi incident.

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Pakistan car bombing kills Shia pilgrims

Explosive-laden vehicle blows up as bus passes by on outskirts of Quetta in first apparent sectarian attack of 2014.

Last updated: 01 Jan 2014 19:45


A suicide car bombing in Pakistan has killed two Shia Muslims in the country's first apparent sectarian attack of 2014.

The attack took place on Wednesday in Akhtarabad, on the outskirts of Quetta in Balochistan, and targeted a passenger bus carrying Shia Muslims who were returning from a pilgrimage to Iran.

"An explosive-laden car which was parked along the roadside blew up as the bus passed by it, killing two people and wounding 17," Abdul Razzaq Cheema, Quetta police chief, told AFP news agency.

He said that the 17 injured included four policemen.

Police officials who had been escorting the bus rescued passengers from the wreckage before it caught fire, Cheema said.

The bus was bringing back about 50 pilgrims from Iran.

Commander Razzaq, local bomb-disposal chief, told AFP that the car had been blown up by somebody sitting in it.

Nobody has so far claimed responsibility for the attack.

Pakistani media reported that President Mamnoon Hussain and Nawaz Sharif, prime minister, as condemning the attack and the Shia political party Majlis-e-Wahdatul Muslimeen announcing a three-day period of mourning over the incident.

There has been a rise in sectarian violence in Pakistan after fighting between Sunni and Shia Muslim groups near Islamabad in November last year.

Two huge bomb attacks in Quetta in January and February last year targeting Shia from the Hazara ethnic community killed almost 200 people.

Source:

AFP

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2014/01/pakistan-car-bombing-kills-shia-pilgrims-201411164239145555.html