Dozens Dead In A Strike Anti-Shi'ite Pakistan

A bomb attack complete opposite to the Shiite community offers at least 63 dead and 200 damaged Saturday, February 16 in the Pakistani town of Hazara, near Quetta, capital of Balochistan province. In accordance with a regional police, "it was a remote-controlled bomb." Secretary for Home Affairs of the land, Akbar Hussain Durrani, for his part said that women as well as children were among the dead.

Violence against minority religious groups deemed heretical by Sunni extremists have increased in recent years in Pakistan, specially in Balochistan, that will borders Iran and Afghanistan. On January 10, that the double suicide bombing in-front and a club in Quetta had killed 92 Shiites, the deadliest attack ever perpetrated from this community in Pakistan, mostly filled by Sunni and where about one-fifth a hundred and eighty million folks are Shiite.

According to the human the law Human Rights Watch (HRW), over 400 Shiites were killed in Pakistan in 2012, "the bloodiest year" for town in the background of this place. Following this particular attack on Jan 10, HRW denounced "the cowardice and indifference of this authorities," including the army and the security services against these "massacres in cold blood."

Some experts believe that this sectarian violence is recognized by countries such as Saudi Arabia (Sunni) and Iran (Shiite), which ship their religious rivalry and Pakistan. In addition to religious violence, a rebellion broke out in 2004 in Balochistan for demanding political independence and a greater revealing of profits from the exploitation of natural resources in the area.