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Sectarian killers operate with ‘impunity’

QUETTA: Hateful graffiti messages against Shias are scrawled along main roads. The striped flags of a banned militant faction accused of hundreds of murders flutter from homes. These are the outskirts of Quetta, from where Shia leaders say extremists towed a giant bomb by tractor to kill 90 Shia Hazaras on February 16, after dispatching […]


Sectarian killings increased by 352pc last year: Human Rights Commission Pakistan

There was a marked increase in sectarian killings last year, statistics from the Human Rights Commission Pakistan (HRCP) indicate. The year 2012 recorded 104 cases of sectarian killings, a 352 percent rise from the year 2011 which recorded a total of 23 cases. A majority of those targeted belonged to the Shia community, although in […]