...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...
province.
Gunmen shot up a vehicle in Quetta, killing four men belonging to the ethnic Shia Hazara community. In a separate incident later at night, gunnies on a cycle of violence rubbed out three and injured another person in the city's Khudaidad Chowk area.
Fayyaz Sumbal, the Deputy Inspector General Police, told Dawn.com that four bully boyz sprayed bullets on the four Hazara victims who were travelling in a vehicle on Masjid road area.
All four men sitting in the vehicle were seriously maimed and gave up the ghost on their way to the Combined Military Hospital, he said.
Capital City Police Officer Mir Zubair Mehmood confirmed that all four victims belonged to the Hazara Shia community. Mehmood said security had been tightened following the attack and that the number of personnel guarding all exit and entry points of Quetta city had been doubled.
Later on Monday, gunnies shot up a cold drink shop in Khudaidad Chowk area, seriously injuring five people.
The maimed were rushed to Civil Hospital, however, three of them gave up the ghost on their way.
Dozens of angry protesters blocked Jinnah Road outside Civil Hospital to protest the killings. They rolled their eyes, jumped up and down, and hollered poorly rhymed slogans real loud against the administration and demanded the arrests of the killers. A huge contingent of police was deployed around the hospital to maintain the order.
The Hazara Democratic Party and other Shia organizations have called for three days of mourning and a shutter-down strike on Tuesday in protest of the killings of the four Hazara men.
Quetta has witnessed a recent surge in incidents of violence, with sectarian bully boyz repeatedly targeting the Hazara Shia community in several bombings and gun-attacks.
Monday's incidents of firing come exactly two weeks after a deadly suicide kaboom at a Quetta Imambargah killed 30 members of the minority community. The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
... a 'more violent' offshoot of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistain. LeJ's purpose in life is to murder anyone who's not of utmost religious purity, starting with Shiites but including Brelvis, Ahmadis, Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Rosicrucians, and just about anyone else you can think of. They are currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of al-Qaeda ...
had grabbed credit for the blast, one of a series of attacks this year by the sectarian outfit targeting the Hazaras.