(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Currently there is a separatist movement going on in Pakistan and Iranian parts of Balochistan. The nationalists are dreaming about a Greater Balochistan—a new nation state on earth. But in both countries they are being killed brutally by the security forces.
There are three types of killing going on in Pakistan's Balochistan province: 1) separatists are killed by security forces/secret agencies, and vice versa, 2) outsiders/settlers are killed by separatists, and 3) Shia Muslims are killed by sectarian groups.
Recently many innocent Shias were killed in Balochistan’s capital Quetta. When the latest wave of separatism came to the province, since then hundreds of innocent people have been disappeared, and many dead bodies have been found in deserted areas. Baloch intellectuals are also being victimized. The democratically elected government is cosmetic... and the Pakistan military is actually running affairs of the province. Thus there is a reign of terror in the region.
Today, according to AP, "gunmen opened fire on a minibus carrying minority Shiite Muslims in Quetta on Saturday, killing 11 of them in a sectarian attack. Two people were also wounded in the attack."
Unfortunately, similar acts of terror are often repeated in the city.
There are about 20 percent Shias in the Sunni-dominated Islamic Republic of Pakistan. The two sects were living in harmony but during the tyrant rule of former military dictator General Zia, sectarian clashes, besides ethnic militancy, started in Pakistan. During the last three decades, religious and racial terrorism have weakened the roots of the Islamic state.
The Shias in Quetta are vulnerable because of their distinctive physical features: Mongol faces as seen in the gloomy picture above. The Shias in Quetta are known as the Hazaras who speak Persian. Therefore, the attackers can recognize their victims very easily.
The attackers can be anyone of the fighting groups: Baloch separatists who may want to avenge Iran in an illogical way, or remove the non-Balochs from the region. The attackers can be Pashtun Taliban, as is generally believed. The Taliban have been told by their masters to fight against American and Shia infidels.
Whoever the attackers are – agents of the Pakistani secret agencies or separatists Balochis – they’re criminals and they should stop this un-Islamic and inhuman practice in the province. No one can achieve anything through violence in this second decade of the 21st century. Keep this in mind, please!
Earlier, two Shia students from Parachinar – who were on the way to Peshawar to get admission in a college – were brutally killed by the Taliban in Khybar Pakhtunkhwa province.
The Shias of Quetta and Parachinar are crying. But the Pakistani government and security agencies are busy in political games. The cries of these helpless citizens may even make God cry—but the butcher-like politicians and generals are silent.
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