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Eight Hazaras shot dead in Quetta;15-day toll rises to 26
[Dawn] At least eight members of the Shia Hazara community and a policeman were killed in three attacks here on Saturday.After the attacks and subsequent violence, the administration called out Frontier Corps in the city. The paramilitaries started taking up positions at important places in the evening. "Seven people were killed in firing on two vehicles on Brewery Road and Subzal Road," DIG (Operation) Qazi Wahid told Dawn. Saturday's killings took the number of Hazara Shias killed in Quetta and its vicinity during the past fortnight to 26. The Hazara Democratic Party has called upon the community to observe a strike on Sunday to "register outrage over the unabated killings". Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani, who was in Islamabad, expressed sorrow over the deaths and ordered officials concerned to "take all possible steps for arresting the culprits". The Balochistan  ...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it... governor had earlier this week criticised the provincial government, warning that the army could be called out if the administration failed to protect life and property. Soon after Saturday's attacks, angry protesters blocked the road that leads from Quetta to Hazara town. They torched a private van and a cycle of violence in Bolan Medical College Hospital. Posted by: Fred 2012-04-16 |
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