Who is after Hazara Community in Quetta and why ?

[Sociologist PU]

Very sad chain of events in Quetta city where the people belonging to Hazara Community are being murdered without any mercy

I wonder why they are being targeted and which is the group after them ? What wrong they have done and why the Government with all its State power unable to nab the culprits ?

If anybody has the answers of these questions, plz make us informed.

[Muhammad T S Awan]

AoA

For getting information about Hazara community, scroll to wikipedia, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hazara_people.

At Quetta, they are mainly settled at Hazra Town and Mehr Abad, Alambardar Road. They are mainly Shia Muslims, and as such they get attacks from the Sunni militants notably Laskhere Jhangvi (which is an offshoot of defunct SSP _ Supah Sahaba Pakistan).

Another factor may be their being non-Baloch (but this is very very little factor). Further, the Hazara community in Afghanistan faced lot of troubles from Taliban Regime at Kabul and since many of Taliban leaders got shelter in and around Quetta and they back/support/fund LeJ (Lashkare Jhangvi) so there may be a link to these killings with the Afghan Talibans... .....

I have just found another link, have a look; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Hazaras_in_Quetta


Regards

[mjkhan]

Its shia community that is being targeted not Hazara.And there are constant reports of shia killings from karachi as well.

Two of our family members also got killed in Quetta attack.

[Sarmad Ehsan]

The blast in Mangora ,Sawat in Tablighi Markaz....They ain't Shia...

[Malmeena Khan]

Originally Posted by Sociologist PU

Very sad chain of events in Quetta city where the people belonging to Hazara Community are being murdered without any mercy

I wonder why they are being targeted and which is the group after them ? What wrong they have done and why the Government with all its State power unable to nab the culprits ?

If anybody has the answers of these questions, plz make us informed.

Whoever did it it's a brutal and inhumane act. However, another question is that why shia killings happen in KPK, Balochistan and Sindh ? Why not in Punjab ? Ain't there shia's living. Whereas Lashkar e Jhangvi's main and original grounds are from Jhang. Where shia sunnis live happily and camly.

Is it the failure of KPK, Balochistan and Sindh's govt or something else ?

[seher bano]

No rule of law, chaos, barbarism is the order of the day in our fragile country. The sectarian killing In Quetta is open extremism. More than hundred people have been put to death in 4 suicide attacks in Quetta City. What is happening there, where is the Government. Shockingly, the behavior of the CM of the province is strikingly non-serious. in fact, he was offering tissue papers to the victims' families. how pity is this. Moreover, Shia community, despite after passing three days, are not willing to bury the dead bodies of their loved ones. They are demanding only one thing and that is JUSTICE. the culprits of the incident will face the wrath of almighty ALLAH very soon... INShALLAH.

[Cute Badshah]

Originally Posted by Sociologist PU

I wonder why they are being targeted and which is the group after them ? What wrong they have done and why the Government with all its State power unable to nab the culprits ?

The Shia of Quetta are called Hazara. (Or Azra, in the local vernacular.) They are not new settlers leaked as refugees from the recent wars in Afghanistan. One commander-in-chief of the Pakistan Army in the 1960s, Gen. Musa Khan, was a Hazara. But after his death he was buried in Iran, which means the Hazara have never felt at home in Balochistan. This of course doesn’t mean there are no Hazara cemeteries in Quetta—far from it.

But the recent killings can be traced to the rise of the Taliban in Afghanistan in 1996 and their assault of the Shia-dominated northern city of Mazar-e-Sharif in 1997. After the Taliban went around the city punishing people for un-Islamic behaviour (unveiled women, pictures depicting human figures, etc…) the Hazara of Mazar-e-Sharif rebelled and killed “thousands” of them.

A year later, the Taliban returned and sacked Mazar-e-Sharif and killed and raped to their heart’s content with some help, some say, from youths of Pakistan’s anti-Shia outfit, Sipah-e-Sahaba. They also besieged the central Afghanistan region of Bamian, the home of the majority Hazara, and took their revenge by forcing them to die of starvation in the hundreds. Today, the Hazara of Quetta are victims of the same undying passion for revenge. Only today the Taliban are aligned with Pakistan’s own fanatic sectarian militias: Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and Jaish-e-Muhammad, also allies of Al Qaeda.

The Taliban leadership being released out of Pakistani jails—not to mention those who comprise the Quetta Shura—are anticipating another bout of civil war in Afghanistan as the first batches of NATO forces start leaving in 2013. The Hazara are not “ghali” (extremist) Shia as claimed by some; they are the normal Twelvers inhabiting Pakistan; and their faith came from 17th century Iran. But they are now in the crosshairs.

http://newsweekpakistan.com/scope/2432

[Malmeena Khan]

Originally Posted by seher bano

Shockingly, the behavior of the CM of the province is strikingly non-serious. in fact, he was offering tissue papers to the victims' families. how pity is this.

And you still call him a CM ? How ridiculous is that a mentally unstable person is ruling a province ? It's the fate of our country to have such non-serious and self-centered people are given the right of democracy to be elected. It's shameful that instead of using some mournful words, he just mocked at the miseries of miserable families of departed souls ?

[sajidnuml]

Whether it is a sectarian war, Baloch insurgency or Talibinization or MQM terrorism in karachi the motive is one: to destabilize Pakistan as much as possible. together with bad governance poor economy and corruption Pakistan is drifting towards a worst disaster from which it could not easily recover.
Surprisingly,government is busy plundering the country making new records in corruption and bad governance.
On the other main opposition is busy in ensuring that It will have the next chance to plunder the country. No political party has come up with a plan to free the country from the morass of civil war like situation. At least all parties conference could have been called to devise certain policy measures to establish peace in the country. This is what democracy means but who cares, all they want is power.
It is really sorry state of affairs!

[Invincible]

Originally Posted by Malmeena Khan

And you still call him a CM ? How ridiculous is that a mentally unstable person is ruling a province ? It's the fate of our country to have such non-serious and self-centered people are given the right of democracy to be elected. It's shameful that instead of using some mournful words, he just mocked at the miseries of miserable families of departed souls ?

I hardly expect anything from this CM who is not even level-headed but where is General Kiyani (Who had sweated to rescue Malala) , he should come at least & console them -- Families of the killed persons are calling him.They are refusing to bury their dead after twin bombings in Quetta; vowing to continue their sit-in protest until the army takes over security.

Unfortunately, everyone is awfully engulfed in Long March Tale.