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Tuesday, February 19, 2013

ASIA | Saturday killed 87 members of his confession Thousands of Shiites in Pakistan protesting the recent killing corpses


Some 10,000 followers of the Islamic current Shiite city of Quetta , in western Pakistan have staged a protest over the death of at least 87 members of his confession because of an attack last SaturdayAmong the protesters are relatives of the victims, who have refused to bury the bodies and have taken to the streets of the Shiite neighborhood of Hazara Town, scene of two similar killings so far this year. "For now, convened concentrations are entirely peaceful and has not recorded any violent incident," said a member of the security division of the local police. These protests are almost identical to those that were in Quetta last month after another similar attack in the same area of the city, which claimed about 90 lives, and as the attack on Saturday, was also the work of the sectarian group Lashkar -e Jhangvi. On both occasions, the group suicide powerful explosive charges set off in crowded areas of Shiite majority that caused the collapse of two separate buildings and the loss of dozens of lives. The coincidence of these actions in just one month has raised the ire of the Shia community of Quetta, where hundreds of thousands of people of this confession, mostly of Hazara. The capital of the province of Baluchistan today dawned almost paralyzed by the general strike called by various configurations Shiites, also called the general strike in other major cities of the country, especially the southern Karachi. "We will continue to concentrate until the army to take over security in Quetta," said the newspaper 'Dawn' a member of a major Shiite groups, Majlis-e-Wahdat-e-Muslimeen. A spokesman for the Democratic Party, representing Hazara Shiite faithful, 'Ali Qadir, the authorities claimed "police operations in specific areas of the city where they are known to the perpetrators of the attacks." Ali recalled that expires tomorrow 48-hour ultimatum given to the government yesterday to act effectively and that, otherwise, the protests will be directed against the offices of the Balochistan High Court. After the slaughter last January, Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, announced the start of security operations to capture terrorists, but so far there has been no concrete result. With about 40 million Shia, Pakistan is one of the countries with the largest number of followers of this confession, although a minority on its territory against Sunni current.

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