AHRC Report: It is hard to refute the accusation that military is involved in killing of Shias in Pakistan
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In a cold blooded attack by men in uniforms of the Pakistan Army, 18 persons from the Shiite community of Islam were targeted and killed. The incident occurred in the Khyber Pakhtunkha province close to the border of Gilgit and Baltistan area where Shias reside almost in good numbers to the Sunni population. On February 28 passengers in four buses were going to Gilgit town the capital of the Gilgit-Baltistan from Rawalpindi, Punjab province when, in the mountainous Kohistan district of Khyber Pakhtunkha province, men dressed in army uniforms stopped and disembarked the Shia passengers after identifying them from the rest of the 117 passengers. The Shias were put in a queue and shot down by the men.
Kohistan, which belongs to the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), has a rich local history as a crossroads between Central, South and Southwestern Asia and Kohistan is used for a region that stretches from the border with Azad Kashmir in the east to Afghanistan’s Nuristan province in the west. FATA served as the backyard of the security establishment’s policy of attaining strategic depth. Together with the red tape, endemic to the bureaucracy, the delays in justice delivery and the ban on political activity created a vacuum in which the Islamic militant groups found it easy to run their terror activities.
Though no militant organization, who in the past were involved in killing the Shias, has claimed responsibility for the killings, the media has been accusing first one, and then another organisation in an attempt to cover up the alleged involvement of military men in the killings of members of the second largest sect of Islam. No statement of clarification has been forthcoming from the Pakistan army about the men involved in the attack despite the fact that they were in military dress. According to media it was first claimed that a notorious anti-Shia organisation, the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi were responsible for the killings but then, after some time it was said that Jundulla, a banned Sunni militant group was involved.
In Kohistan areas civilian movement is highly controlled and monitored by the military. The first question to be raised is as to how in such a highly military controlled and monitored area, the militants dressed in army uniforms and highly armed were able to stop the busses which were carrying mostly Shiite passengers and then shot them one by one after identifying them as Shiites.
In the recent target killings of Shias, the majority of the incidents were recorded in those areas which come under high security regions or under the control of the military and its Para-Military troops like, Balochistan, Kurram agency-close to the Afghan border and Gilgit Baltistan area close to the China border. In all those areas there are military check posts within short distances to monitor the activities of terrorists and no civilians, including the government officials, can move without their identification papers. However, on this occasion the killers and terrorists from banned organizations are free to move their convoys armed with sophisticated ammunition and stop vehicles for hours at a time to complete their nefarious designs.
It is inconceivable in this day and age of modern communications, when every person owns a cell phone that the killers were able to operate on their own without any fear that they would be stopped at a military check post. This can only mean that they were military personnel themselves. The same incidents happened in Mastung and other parts of the Balochistan province where members of the Hazara ethnic group, also from the Shia sect were targeted and killed in the same fashion. The check posts of the Frontier Corp, a Para-Military force, were not far away from the places where the incidents occurred and where the sounds of the gunshots could be heard. Three examples are self explanatory where within 15 days in three different incidents 44 persons from Hazara community were killed. The areas were not far away from the check posts. On September 19, In Mastung, Balochistan, 28 persons were disembarked from the bus in which they were going to Iran to visit holy sites. They were disembarked from the passenger bus and whole episode or target killing took some time to complete without any fear of discovery. The next day another incident took place in Quetta city, close to Mastung, where three more Hazara persons were killed. Within 15 days, on October 4, another incident of same kind occurred where four gunmen on motorbikes stopped a bus and identified Shiites from the Hazara group, made them stand in a row and then opened fire, killing 13 persons. This incident took place in the outskirts of Quetta city where nobody can travel without identifying themselves at the check posts.
Human Rights Watch says that since 2008 at least 275 Shias, mostly from Hazara Community have been killed in Balochistan province.
During the first two months of 2012 more than 100 Shias were killed in different parts of the country including the Gilgit Baltistan incident. Among them 34 in Khanpur, Punjab province, 49 in Parachinar, Khyber Pakhtunkha province and 18 in Gilgit.
Over the past three decades, violence between Sunnis and Shias has ebbed and flowed, but two things are clear. First, despite spawning banned violent sectarian outfits of their own, the Shias have largely been on the receiving end of the violence. In recent years, the violence has spread from southern Punjab and (sporadically) Karachi to Quetta in Balochistan, and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas on Pakistan’s troubled border with Afghanistan.
After the incident of February 28, no doubt remains that the security forces were involved covertly or overtly in the sectarian target killing. No doubt has been left on the issues of target killings, the Pakistani spy agencies ISI and military intelligence (MI) has played a vital role along with the militant organisations from the rear to run the target killings.
The target killings of Shias in Gilgit shows a great failure of the law enforcement on the area, even after killing a large number of people the militants were able to escape as is common in almost all the events of target killings and the perpetrators of such organised crime remain untouched.
The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) urges that the government must immediately avail all possible efforts to bring the perpetrators of target killings of innocent Shiites to book whether they are in military uniforms or not. The government must probe the links between the banned militant organisations.
The AHRC urges the government to ensure the security of the survivors, family members and relatives of those who were killed in the target killings and immediately pay compensation and rehabilitate them.
The government should arrange proper forensic investigations of the dead bodies without involving the army in the process. The government should specify the lethal arms used on the killings and more importantly secure the source of such lethal arms used in the killings.
The government and parliament must immediately introduce a hate speech law, to punish those who offend the feelings of the religious by disturbing a religious ceremony or creating public calumny. The law should also prohibit public expression of insults of a person or a group on account of national, ethnic, racial, or religious affiliation or the lack of a religious affiliation.
The AHRC expresses the view that target killings give us a clear picture of the lack of accountability and transparency in dealing with the organised crimes done by militants organised backed by the intelligence agencies and law enforcement agencies.
Source: Asian Human Rights Commission
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Senior political and strategic analyst Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa points towards Pakistan army and its Jihadi policies as responisble for Shia massacre:
’ شاید اب ہوش آجائے‘
آخری وقت اشاعت: منگل 28 فروری 2012 , 15:54 GMT
پاکستان میں منگل کو گلگت بلتستان جانے والی ایک مسافر بس سے شیعہ فرقے سے تعلق رکھنے والے افراد کو کوہستان کے علاقے میں بس سے اتار کر نامعلوم حملہ آووروں نے گولیاں مار کر ہلاک کر دیا۔ پاکستان میں بڑھتے ہوئے فرقہ وارانہ واقعات پر بی بی سی اردو سروس کے پروگرام سیربین میں دفاعی امور کی ماہر ڈاکٹر عائشہ صدیقہ سے بات کی۔
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The security apparatus slumbers
Sectarian terrorists who continue to be on a rampage killed 16 members of the Shia community travelling from Rawalpindi to Gilgit-Baltistan via the KKH. They segregated the victims on the basis of their names out of 117 passengers before shooting them in cold blood. The notorious Jundullah has reportedly accepted the responsibility for the heinous act. Last week, several members of the community were targeted in Orakzai while a Shia religious leader was killed in South Punjab. The failure to put an end to acts of communal terrorism is creating dismay among the minority communities who feel more and more unsafe.
The Kohistan killings will have serious ramifications. Most of the passengers who fell victim belonged to a region which supplies the bulk of what was once called the Northern Light Infantry. One of the hardy fighters from the area won Nishan-e-Haider during the Kargil Operation. Keeping in view the strategic importance of the area and its population, terrorist outfits should have been weeded out long ago from Gilgit-Baltistan and the surrounding areas. The Karakoram Highway where the buses were plying provides the sole all-weather access to Gilgit-Baltistan and is Pakistan’s only road link with China. Allowing the communal terrorists, who have also launched attack inside Iran, to flourish along the strategic artery would send a highly negative message to China.
That Harban where the killings took place is only four kilometres from Tangier and Darail where security forces have been attacked several times in recent past is all the more disturbing. One had expected that all sort of intelligence networks would be busy tracing out the terrorists with all the resources at their command in the sparsely populated region with virtually no big town. That nothing of the sort seems to have happened would strengthen the perception, being widely formed after the Abbottabad incident and attack on the Mehran Naval Base, that the agencies remain steps behind the terrorists. Instead of possessing the initiative required they only react after the damage has been done, interrogating the hastily arrested ‘suspects’ sometime in gross violation of laws.
http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2012/02/kohistan-killings/
Enough is enough, this aabpara industry must be demolished
علامہ عابد الحسینی سے نشست
اسلام ٹائمز: کرم ایجنسی میں سکیورٹی فورسز کے منافقانہ کردار کے بارے میں سابق سینیٹر کا کہنا تھا کہ جب یہ ادارے چاہتے ہیں تو علاقے میں امن قائم ہو جاتا ہے اور پھر انہی کے اشارے پر شرپسند عناصر کرم ایجنسی کے امن کو تباہ و برباد کر دیتے ہی
http://www.islamtimes.org/vglcxsqss2bq0m,..722a8c5s.html
Rahimullah Yusufzai on Pakistan army’s links with Jihadi-sectarian groups:
’شدت پسندوں سے رشتے پرانے ہیں‘
آخری وقت اشاعت: جمعـء 3 فروری 2012 ,
شدت پسند تنظیموں کی طرف سے دفاع پاکستان کونسل کی تشکیل اور اس کی سرگرمیوں کے حوالے سے تجزیہ نگار رحیم اللہ یوسفزئی کا کہنا ہے کہ حکومتی اداروں اور شدت پسند تنظیموں کے درمیان رشتہ پرانا ہے اور اس رشتے کو ختم کرنے میں کافی وقت لگ سکتا ہے۔
http://www.bbc.co.uk/urdu/pakistan/2012/02/120203_rahimullah_yousafzai_ra.shtml
ISI and Shia killings:Monthly Newsline (June 2001) actually wrote that the intelligence agencies were ‘in’ with the sectarian terrorists: ‘The official quoted above has no hesitation in accusing the ISI of orchestrating such (Shia) murders through the militants of sectarian parties, adding that Sipah Sahaba terrorists are trained by the agency. The Sipah Sahaba are supported by the MQM Haqiqi Group. Sources reveal that Sipah Sahaba’s (sic!) Riaz Basra has been spotted in the company of a colonel who has also given him shelter in his house. Similarly, when three members of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi were picked up by the police, another colonel, who identified himself as their PRO, requested that they be released forthwith’. It should be noted that Riaz Basra has been described by the magazine as a Sipah activist! Karachi has killed 450 people in cases of sectarian violence since General Musharraf took over the government in October 1999. Lately the killing is one-sided because the Sunni-Deobandi combine is simply too strong to be countered by the Shia organisations.
This is an old article – When the state kills – authored by Pakistan’s eminent intellectual Khaled Ahmed.
http://pakteahouse.net/2010/02/17/killing-shias-is-not-jihad-stop-this-carnage/
AHRC Report: It is hard to refute the accusation that military is involved in killing of Shias in Pakistan
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