Human Rights Advocacy and Media Watch
The perpetual attacks against Shia Muslims of Balochistan are particularly hurting Quetta’s Hazara community because it is relatively easy to identify and attack Hazaras due to their particular physical features.
The Hazara community has been living in Quetta for centuries with exemplary peace and fraternity. The
The veiled criminals should be disgraced
Those who do not do anything for the persecuted and target killed Shias, specifically those who have means to help, who can afford to help, those religious scholars who have authority over the wealth of the community, those who control the community treasure house, Khums; they do not take any step for their people. A list of such personalities should be made and they should be condemned in Public exposing their names openly.
Source: Kabala-e-Quetta
Quetta can be considered as more oppressed because whatever cruelty happens to the Shias in Quetta, even the news do not reach out. Media does not publish any news about Shia killings, instead
Related posts: List of non-Hazara Shia Muslims killed by SSP-LeJ-Taliban in Balochistan – by Marya Mushtaq
Is it Hazara genocide or Shia genocide? – by Musa Changezi
ISI-sponsored Shia genocide in Pakistan or Sunni-Shia sectarian violence?
Blood of Shia Muslims flows freely in Pakistan – by Amir Mir
Intellectual dishonesty in misrepresenting Shia massacres in Pakistan
The aim of this post is to introduce Abdul Khaliq Hazara, leader of Hazara Democratic Party – a pseudo-secular ethnic party through which ISI operates among the Hazara-Shias of Quetta.
He is the same individual who recently gave an infamous interview to Ejaz Haider (now more befittingly known on twitter as Ejaz Haider Jhangvi) in which he had labeled the people he claims to represent as Iranian agents. In Abdul Khaliq Hazara ‘s words, Hazara Shias:
“play in the hands of Iran, our religious leaders … Funds come from Iran through their
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A man cries while sitting next to the coffins of 28 Shias who were killed by TTP-SSP gunmen a day earlier, before their burial in Quetta September 21, 2011. PHOTO: REUTERS
As a nation we are getting sicker – we refuse to accept the existence of our disease. We call ourselves humans; we call ourselves people of faith and many other names. But what we don’t call ourselves is what we have become: soulless. And yesterday’s brazen Nazi style attack on a bus full of pilgrims proves exactly that.
Twenty six people were lined up and shot because of their faith.
Three people were killed while trying to save the lives of others who were shot during this
Over 400 Hazara Shias have been killed systematically in Quetta during the last few years.
Editor’s note: “The resilience of Hazara people in Quetta is wearing thin, but they are hoping that some day things will change for the better.” We thank Fasi Zaka for drawing our attention to this excellent article on Hazara Shias which we are cross-posting on Pakistan Blogzine for further reflections on this oft ignored and misrepresented genocide.
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“I was stunned when I saw the blood-stained body of my paternal uncle
Source: The Baloch Hal
The failure of the provincial government to firstly acknowledge the
Pakistan ka haal: Celebrating Eid – with Shias
Please read:Appeal to HRW, Amnesty, HRCP : Don’t ignore or misrepresent silent Shia genocide in Pakistan
Source: J Toons on Facebook
PB Note: In this bold and incisive piece, Dr. Muhammad Taqi deconstructs Ejaz Haider’s lies about the sectarian genocide of Hazaras in Quetta and exposes Pakistan Army’s treacherous and callous
Pakistan Blogzine 