 QUETTA, Pakistan - Authorities in southwest Pakistan have arrested six suspects in connection with two massive sectarian attacks on Shiite Muslims in which 100 people died, police said Tuesday. The arrested men were members of Sipah-e-Sahaba, a banned group of extremists from the rival Sunni sect, Quetta police chief Pervez Rafi Bhatti told AFP.
| The "banning" of Sipah has to be one of the most ineffectual gestures ever made by a government. Other than putting them on a list, I'm not aware of any move at all that was actually made to break them up or to jug the most violent members. |
The attacks were both in Quetta. Fifty people were killed in suicide attack on a Shiite procession last March, while in July 2003 another suicide bombing on a Shiite mosque also left 50 worshippers dead. Bhatti said police raided several places in Dera Murad Jamali, southeast of Quetta, after a tip-off. |