Shia Hazaras Archive
HDP, electoral defeats and dirty politics – by Naqi. H.: The voters of PB-2 once again rejected Hazara Democratic Party in May 11 elections by electing Majlis-e Wahadat-e Muslimeen’s candidate. This was HDP’s second consecutive defeat in elections ever since it was made in 2003. But like 2008 defeat,
Soldiering on: Ruqayya Hashmi fights for Shia Hazara community in Balochistan – by Waqas Naeem: Undaunted by terrorist threats, Dr Ruqayya Hashmi fights for the Shia Hazara community in Balochistan. ISLAMABAD: In several cities across Pakistan, political parties and candidates have faced threats and deadly attacks on the basis of political ideology. But, in Quetta,
شیعہ ہزارہ کے قتل عام میں ایک عرب ملک ملوث ہے، مولانا محمد شیرانی -از اسلام ٹائمز: Islam times: Chief of Islamic Ideology Council Molana Sherani said that the Shia Hazara Genocide is backed by a US sponsored Arab nation. All politicians know about this but are afraid to speak. اسلام ٹائمز: چیئرمین اسلامی نظریاتی کونسل
Iran uses Hazara settlers in demographic war to turn the Baloch into a minority in their own land – by Tarek Fatah: LUBP Editor’s note: We don’t agree with the blatantly racist, insensitive and non-factual remarks by Tarek Fathah who is obfuscating systematic country-wide Shia genocide and blaming Pakistan’s most target killed community (Shia Hazaras of Balochistan) instead of identifying and
Quetta: The dream city gone rogue – by Quetta Revolution: Quetta, which once used to be called a dream city now lies nothing more than a pile of rubble for crushed dreams and as a new name for the Sawat Valley. What once used to be called the “Little
The Shia Genocide – by Bina Shah: 2013 has been an ominous year so far for Pakistan’s Shia Muslims, who are finding themselves the target of bombs and shootings aimed specifically at members of their community. Two bombs killed hundreds of Shias in Quetta, followed by
Consent and coercion in ‘Takfiristan’ — by Dr Mohammad Taqi: Both urbicide and ghettoisation of the Shia, especially that of the Shia Hazara in Quetta, remain underway in Pakistan as the politicians smoke the peace pipe with the Taliban/LeJ/ASWJ After the assassination of its brave leader Bashir Bilour, the
Does the majority approve of alliances with the ASWJ, of surrender to the TTP, of misogyny? – by Saroop Ijaz: Making it Count Jam Tamachi was a ruler of Sindh and was immortalised by Shah Abdul Latif Bhitai in Shah Jo Risalo in the form of the tale of Noori Jam Tamachi. It is a simple beautiful folk tale. Noori was
Kamran Shafi’s column and PML-N’s Khawaja Asif’s speech on #ShiaGenocide: ‘Outrage’, indeed! Kamran Shafi We were ‘outraged’ by the killing of well over a hundred — we’ll never know the exact number — Hazara Shia, including women and old men and little children, slaughtered in a massive explosion caused
Let’s send chocolates to LeJ -by Ammara Ahmad: Those who protest by delaying the burial of their dead make me laugh. Why would anyone use the dead to protest against those who are already dead? The whole country has been frozen by a wave of stupidity, selfishness
With little trust in security forces, Pakistan’s Shia Hazaras take up arms over attacks by Deobandi militants – AFP Report: QUETTA: Ismatullah holds an AK-47 and checks vehicles on the road. “Enough is enough. We have no trust in the security forces anymore and we’ll protect our community ourselves,” says the teenage Shia student. Extremist bombers killed nearly 200 people
LeJ-ASW: The Taliban’s new, more terrifying cousin: How a virulent Pakistani terrorist group is trying to annihilate an ethnic rival–and why we should be worried A boy stands at the site of a bomb attack in a Shi’ite Muslim area of the Pakistani city of Quetta
Evil in its most horrid form: Kamila Hyat The writer is a freelance columnist and former newspaper editor Even now, when our country has been brought to its knees by terrorists; when its very existence is under threat and the lives of citizens
Debate on #ShiaGenocide including Shia Hazara killings in British House of Commons: A session was held in British House of Commons on 25th February 2013 where Hazara and Shia Genocide was discussed with Lord Eric Avebury. The session was called by Parliamentary Committee of Human Rights which is chaired by Lord
Saaeda Begum, Mother of Irfan Khudi Ali -by Asim Rafiqui: Irfan Ali was perhaps one of the most well known young Hazara activists and human rights worker. His death in the January 10, 2013 suicide bomb attack sent shock waves across the country, and solicited outrage and statements of
The House of Lords meeting on Shia genocide in Pakistan by Deobandi ASWJ terrorists – by Lord Avebury: Related post: Debate on #ShiaGenocide including Shia Hazara killings in British House of Commons https://lubpak.com/archives/246461 British Parliament’s Human Rights Group approaches the UN to stop #ShiaGenocide in Pakistan Shia Hazara Massacres in Pakistan Source: Huffington Post A meeting in
Steely resolve of Shia Hazaras: ‘We are not victims — we choose to live and to fight’ – by Rabia Ali: Trauma alone from a blast such as the one which took place in Quetta on February 16 can leave an individual paralysed with fear – but the girls of Hazara, the community which was targeted in the attack, have
#ShiaGenocide: What if it was your child? – by Saroop Ijaz: What if it was your child? What if you had to sit with the body of a parent, or of both, in freezing cold, with the feeling that nobody cared? Imagine, if you can, the sound and smell of
آخر اہلِ درد ہے کون؟ از محصورِ غم: عجب ذہنی کشمکش اور تذبذب میں مبتلا ہوں۔ سوچتا ہوں کہ کوئٹہ کی جلی کٹی سر بریدہ لاشوں پر نوحہ لکھوں یا صرف آنسو بہاتا رہوں؟ظلم کی اس داستان کو کیسے ضبطِ تحریر میں لاؤں۔۔۔؟ جہاں پر شیر خوار
#ShiaGenocide: Daily Times editorials on Hazara Town blast: The Shia genocide Daily Times, February 19, 2013 After the horrendous bomb attack in Quetta on Shia Hazaras on Saturday, there is little doubt left in the hearts and minds of all Pakistanis that we are now facing genocide
Pakistan intelligence services allow terrorists to slaughter Shia Muslims – Press TV’s report: Pakistan intelligence services allow terrorists to slaughter Shia Muslims: Ali Wasif Pakistan’s intelligence agencies have allowed terrorists to kill Shia Muslims across the violence-wracked Pakistan since the mid-1980’s. In the background to this, the outlawed Pakistani terrorist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
کتنی شرمناک بات ہے – از وسیم الطاف: کتنی شرمناک بات ہے کہ کل آئی ایس پی آر کو یہ وضاحت کرنی پڑی کہ فوج الیکشن کا التوانہیں چاہتی‘ لشکرجھنگوی سمیت کسی گروپ سے اسکے ’روابط‘ نہیں ہیں‘۔ پاک فوج غیر جانبدار ہے اور آئی ایس آئی اپنی حدود اور
The hazard of being a Shia Hazara in Balochistan – by Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa: ANOTHER 80 Hazara-Shias were killed in Quetta in a suicide attack on 17 February. This is not the first or the last attack against the Hazara-Shia community in Balochistan or Shias in general. It was just a few weeks
Pakistan’s ‘strategic’ backwaters: It seems that Balochistan is no one’s responsibility when it comes to dealing with crisis but everyone else’s responsibility when it is a matter of taking critical decisions. Thus, no one wants to deal with the law and order
#ShiaGenocide: When the victims are buried in mass graves, it’s genocide – by Farooq Tirmizi: When they need mass graves to bury the victims, it is time to start calling it a genocide. I have seen gut-wrenching images of poor Hazara men and women mourning their loved ones who were killed simply for being Shia. I
#ShiaGenocide: Pakistan announces operation after bombing, but is it just for show? – by Taha Siddiqui: In an apparent effort to end three days of country-wide protests, the Pakistani government ordered an operation today against the perpetrators of a bomb blast Saturday that killed at least 89 people in Quetta. The bomb attack targeted Pakistan’s Shiite Muslim
Dr Taqi debunks Iran-Saudi proxy war theory that Najam Sethi and others use to obfuscate #ShiaGenocide: There is no indication that the dark night of Takfiri terrorism is about to lift its heinous shadow from Quetta’s Shia Hazara. Are 40 days enough of a respite for the Hazara to be digging mass graves for their
#ShiaGenocide: Narratives on Hazara pogroms – by Wajahat S Khan: In less than five weeks, the Hazara of Quetta – one of that city’s original Shia communities – have lost close to 200 of their people. Both the old Hazara stronghold of Alamdar Road, and the newer, more ghettoised
Deafening silence on #ShiaGenocide in Pakistan pierced with the sounds of protests by the civil society – by Hasnain Waljee: The Quetta Shia (Hazara Town) carnage has killed at least 110 people and wounded more than 200. A few weeks earlier in the same city a snooker club at Alamdar Road was attacked killing at least 90 non-Hazara Shias
#ShiaGenocide: So long, Daddy dearest – by A Z: I am still young enough to vividly recall how, when I started toddling around, fewer years ago than I can count on the fingers of my tiny right hand, Dad would get down on the floor –on my level-
#ShiaGenocide in Quetta was avoidable had ASWJ-LeJ’s Kurd Deobandi been nabbed – by Amir Mir: The February 16 carnage of 90 more Shia Hazaras in Quetta could have been prevented had the Frontier Corps (FC) and the police made concerted efforts to arrest a coterie of terrorists belonging to Usman Saifullah Kurd faction of
Shiekh Waqas Akram’s bold stance on #ShiaGenocide by ASWJ-LeJ Takfiri terrorists: On Geo TV’s Capital Talk (18 Feb 2013), Sheikh Waqas Akram, member of Pakistan Parliament, butchered the LeJ-ASWJ nexus with Saudi Arabia, the sponsors of Shia Genocide in Pakistan and the entire world. Sheikh Waqas Akram openly said that
Hamid Mir reduces LeJ to land mafia and #ShiaGenocide to an ethnic issue: In the following article published in Jang (18 Feb 2013), right-wing journalist Hamid Mir deletes the Shia identity of Shia Hazaras, reduces Shia genocide to a Hazara specific ethnic issue and reduces Takfiri Deobandi group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ aka ASWJ
An 800kg bomb is not manufactured overnight. Where are the intelligence services?: It is like waiting for death foretold. That is what the Shia Hazara community of Quetta lives with and prepares for constantly, taking pictures of friends and family members, hanging them on walls or placing them on mantelpieces, in
شیعہ ہزارہ بچی کی گڑیا اور کچھ اور تصویروں سے بنی تحریر ۔۔ عامر حسینی: صاحبو!یہ تصویروں کا ایک ڈھیر میرے سامنے ہے-یہ تصویریں کسی شادی پر یا دوستوں کی محفل کے دوران یاد گار لمحات کو کیمرے کی آنکھ سے محفوظ کیے جانے کی روداد نہیں سناتیں-نہ ہی یہ کسی داستان محبت کی
#ShiaGenocide in Quetta: List of demands by Pakistan’s Shia Muslims: Shia leaders present their demands as sit-in continues After yet another tragedy on 16 Feb 2013 in which 110 Shia Muslims (including 25 non-Hazara Shias and 85 Hazara Shias) were killed in Quetta by Takfiri Deobandi militants of Sipah-e-Sahaba
ہاں ہم سب شیعہ اور ہزارہ ہیں: ہاں ہم سب شیعہ اور ہزارہ ہیں لیل و نہار /عامر حسینی کیرانی روڈ کوئٹہ پر ایک مرتبہ پھر بارود کی بارش ہوئی اور 85 انسان موت کی وادی میں جلے گئے-اور 150 سے زیادہ لوگ زرا سخت جان
Viewpoint online: an Interview with Nazish Brohi: Recognition of violence is a political act: Nazish Brohi ‘Taliban targeting of Shias occurs the most frequently in parts of Pakistan where Al-Qaeda/Taliban/Sectarian groups nexus at the ground level is the strongest, such as in Quetta, in Parachinar, in
Youm-e-Ishq-e-Rasool Protest versus Shias’ Quetta Protest: You Cannot be a Muhammadi without being a Hussaini: Do you remember the Youm-e-Ishq-e-Rasool (Day of Love for the Prophet) observed in Pakistan on 21 September 2012? The day was observed as a protest against a short, stupid movie called Innocence of the Muslims. The Youm-e-Ishq-e-Rasool was announced
Why anti-Shia violence may be Pakistan’s biggest problem – by Omar Waraich: Pakistan’s Newest Martyrs: Why Anti-Shi‘ite Violence May Be the Country’s Biggest Problem – by Omar Waraich Source: Time For days, they refused to bury their dead. On a main road in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, hundreds of