At Least 84 Killed in Quetta Bombing Targeting Pakistan’s Shi’ites
Major Protests, Public Strikes Announced to Protest Killings
Yet another major suicide bombing hit Pakistan’s Shi’ite community over the weekend, when a suicide bombing targeted a busy marketplace in the Balochistan capital of Quetta, killing at least 84 people and wounding 173 others.
Attacks against Shi’ites are common in Pakistan, and particularly so in Balochistan, where many of the secessionist groups are also Sunni militant factions. A shutter-down strike was observed throughout Quetta today to protest the killings.
This is just the start, with more strikes and public protests planned for Quetta on Monday, and another strike planned in Karachi, while protests were reported in Hyderabad and elsewhere.
The Lashkar-e Jhangvi (LeJ) has claimed credit for the attack, which has added to anger at the ruling Pakistani People’s Party (PPP) just two months ahead of elections. Shi’ites in particular have complained the government’s inability to do anything about such attacks.
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mojo
February 17th, 2013 at 9:30 pm
We said that from day one.., this is a religious war created by saudis and UAE supported by the west for their masters the Neo fascism.., nations or countries or governments whom are against any kind of anti imperialism. It was the Saudis who assassinated Shah Massoud a nationalist, for a democratic Afghanistan and it is again them whom are supporting and have their religious terrorists on payroll, ordering them to kill people and destroying countries after another.., those whom are hiding in Turkey, England, France, Germany and Sweden. Pakistan, Afghanistan they all were on the path to a functioning democracy for their people.., until England and US decided otherwise.