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Six Hazara men mowed down in Quetta

QUETTA - In yet another sectarian targeted killing, six people belonging to Hazara community were shot dead and three others were left with serious injuries when armed men ambushed a shop on Prince Road of Quetta on Monday night.Unidentified masked men riding a motorbike sprayed a volley of bullets on a shoe-making shop located on busy Prince Road in the Quetta city centre with sophisticated weapons.Resultantly, six people were killed instantly and three others sustained serious injuries. The assailants escaped from the scene after committing the crime. Police and other law-enforcement agencies rushed to the site soon after the incident and cordoned off the area. The injured and dead were shifted to a nearby hospital. The sources in hospital said that the condition of injured was not stable. The deceased were identified as Qurban Ali, Muhammad Hussain, Muhammad Kareem, Yawar, Shabbir and Syed Ahmed while the injured were identified as Irshad, Lali and Younus.‘Police are raiding different places in the City to arrest the culprits of this tragic incident’, DIG Operations Qazi Abdul Wahid told the media persons and confirmed that six people had been killed and three others wounded. ‘Some workers hailing from Hazara community were busy in the shoe-making shop when armed men opened indiscriminate firing on them’, another police official said, adding, that the incident appears to be a case of sectarian targeted killing.Soon after the incident a large number of people belonging to Hazara community rushed to the Civil Hospital and blocked the Jinnah Road.Some, infuriated protesters ransacked hospital, pelted vehicles with stones and carried out aerial firing.Owing to tensed situation, a heavy contingent of police and Frontier Corps were rushed to Jinnah Road and the injured were shifted to Combined Military Hospital.Meanwhile, Tahafuz Azadari Council and Hazara Democratic Party have strongly condemned the killing of innocent people and demanded for immediate arrest of the culprits. They have announced three-day-mourning over the tragic killings.Meanwhile, four people, including two Punjabi-speaking persons, were shot dead in separate incidents in Turbat and Jaffarabad districts on Monday.On the other hand, two more bullet-riddled bodies have been recovered from Khuzdar.According to police, unidentified armed bike riders opened indiscriminate fire on two passengers in Mand area of Turbat, located near Pak-Iran border. As a result, Qaiser and Asif Javed received critical wounds and succumbed to their injuries instantly, while the murderers fled the scene soon after committing the crime.Police say it could be another case of targeted killings as the victims belonged to Lahore and Sargodha towns of Punjab and they were waiting for Karachi-bound bus at a terminal when a the time of the attack.The bodies were sent to their native towns after completion of legal formalities.Meanwhile, two bullet-riddled bodies were found in Khuzdar district, some 360 km southeast of Quetta.According to officials, local people informed the levies about the bodies dumped in the Lakhurain area. The levies personnel rushed to the site and moved the dead bodies to a local hospital for autopsy where they were identified as Abdul Wahab, resident of Zehri, and Shah Nawaz from the of Peshk area of Khuzdar.“The bodies of both the victims were having multiple bullet wounds,” levies sources said, adding that it was yet to be ascertained whether the victims were among the missing persons and who was behind these killings.In another shooting incident, two people were killed in an armed clash between two groups in Usta Muhammad town of Jaffarabad district.Police said the armed clash erupted between two tribes in Goth Barkhat Buledi over cutting trees. Resultantly, Mir Hassan and Ali Jan were killed in the shooting. After the incident a heavy contingent of police rushed to the site and moved their bodies to hospital for post-mortem.

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Thanks to sectarian militant organizations like Lashkar-e Jhangvi, Sipah-e Sahaba Pakistan etc.The same sectarian violence was also witnessed by us in Gilgit-Baltistan just a few days back. They are expanding in Baluchistan and targeting the Hazaras who are predominantly Shiites. Lahkar-e Jhnagvi is operating its largest madrassah, only second to the one operating in southern Punjab, right there in Mastung in the area which is controlled by Raisani tribe. If memory serves me right, the Supreme Court summoned a few ministers of Balochistan government for the evidence that suggested their complicity in such sectarian killings which have disturbed the public. The otehr  "famous figure" Maulana Ludhyanvi now enjoys special protocol. The man does not have the permission to leave his city and has to inform the DCO but amazingly, how he was here at rally chanting slogans with Hameed Gul shocked me.

PS: Video of how people were brutally gunned down in Mustang last year are there on youtube. I dont have the pluck to check but I heard its there.

[Sanguine]

QUETTA: Hundreds of infuriated demonstrators poured out onto the streets in the troubled southwestern city of Quetta on Saturday, blocking traffic and setting fire to tyres in protest against the day’s incidents of sectarian violence in the city.

All commercial markets and business centers were closed and traffic was barely visible.

Several angry protestors gathered at Mizan roundabout, while hundreds of other demonstrators gathered outside the BMC hospital, torching a vehicle and a motorcycle parked there.

Gunmen had shot dead eight Shia Muslims in separate incidents of sectarian violence in the Quetta on Saturday.

Senior police officer Shaukat Ajmad said that assailants opened fire on a car Saturday, killing six people in Quetta, reported the Associated Press.
The incident happened on Brewery Road in the Killi Ibrahim Zai area of the city.

The victim’s bodies were shifted to Bolan Medical College hospital where they were identified as Abdullah, Juma Ali, Muhammad Ali, Syed Asghar Shah and Eid Muhammad, while identity of the sixth dead could not be ascertained. All of them were said to belong to the ethnic Hazara Shia community.
A senior local police official Malik Arshad confirmed the incidents and casualties and said: “The killings were part of sectarian violence in the city.”

In another incident of firing, unidentified assailants riding bikes opened fire on people standing on a roadside on Sabzal road, in which one person identified as Gul Muhammad was killed while another, identified as Muhammad Hasan, was injured. The dead and the wounded were shifted to BMC hospital.

In a third incident, gunmen opened fire at a policeman, who succumbed to his wounds, within the jurisdiction of Shalkot police station.
Meanwhile, a 15-year-old boy, identified as Sabir, was seriously injured on Toghi road when enraged people who were staging demonstration against the target killing retorted to aerial firing.

The Frontier Corps (FC) paramilitary troops were called in to maintain peace in the city. Heavy contingents of FC, police and Anti-Terrorist Force (ATF) were deployed on sensitive points including Mizan Chowk, Jinnah Road, Brewery Road, Sariab Road, Airport Road, Sabzal Road, Alamdar Road and other areas.
The Hazara Democratic Party (HDP) has called for a wheel-jam strike within the city on Sunday. Meanwhile, the Tahaffaz Azadari Council has announced a seven-day mourning in the city.

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