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NewKerala
| 5 months ago
At least two people were injured when a bomb blast occurred at a cattle market near Pakistan's Quetta city on Tuesday, media reports said. "Two men sustained injuries when an explosion occurred at Sibi Road near a police mobile today," Pakistan based...
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The Guardian
| 5 months ago
In an unprecedented show of solidarity with the mourners in Quetta, protests have sprung up in a great many parts of the country, finally forcing the government to respond.' Photograph: Banaras Khan/AFP/Getty Last Thursday the 33-year-old Pakistani...
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Asia Times
| 5 months ago
I want justice," says Shukria Jamali, 20. "But I wouldn't want my worst enemies to feel the intense pain I am feeling now." Shukria Jamali's fiance, Nadir Hussain, 24, a police officer who was on duty on the night of January 10, was among those...
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The Hindu
| 5 months ago
January 14, 2013 The Hazara Shias in Quetta on Monday buried the 87 people of their community killed in Thursday's serial blasts in the city after the Pakistan Peoples Party-led federal government dismissed its own provincial government in the dead...
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The Age
| 5 months ago
Australian Shiite Muslims has called on Prime Minister Julia Gillard and the government to recognise and condemn the ''genocide'' of Shiites, particularly in Pakistan. Last week an attack in the Pakistan city of Quetta killed more than 100 people.
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The Hindustan Times
| 5 months ago
Thousands of people turned up on Monday to take part in a rally headed from Lahore towards Islamabad led by Maulana Tahirul Qadri, the head of the Minhajul Quran International, despite predictions by the government that the show would be a flop. Some...
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The independent
| 5 months ago
Thousands of Shia Muslims began burying their dead in a mass grave in Pakistan today, ending a three-day protest over one of the worst sectarian attacks in the country's history. Members of the minority Shia Hazara community had been holding vigil...
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DAWN
| 5 months ago
AFP Photo If you are on Twitter or Facebook, you are bound to come across episodes of (albeit unintentional) comic relief amidst tragedy. Take the recent and unprecedented response of the Hazara Shia' and the Shia in general against the unrelenting...
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Al Jazeera
| 5 months ago
07 Thousands of Shias from the ethnic Hazara community gathered for the mass burial [AFP] Members of Shia community in Pakistan's Balochistan province have buried victims of deadly attacks, ending a three-day protest to demand better security after...
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The Observer
| 5 months ago
Mani Rana/Reuters An upsurge of public anger over the massacre of almost 100 members of a religious and ethnic minority last week has forced Pakistan 's beleaguered ruling party to sack the government of the country's largest province. The late-night...
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The Guardian
| 5 months ago
Banaras Khan/AFP/Getty Images Last Thursday one of the deadliest sectarian bombings in recent history took place in the Pakistani city of Quetta. On Friday the relatives of the victims placed the coffins of the 89 dead on the city's main road, and...
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Zee News
| 5 months ago
Indian-origin politician Halimah Yacob scripted history on Monday by becoming the first woman Speaker of Singapore's Parliament, replacing Michael Palmer who was forced to quit over his extra-marital affair.
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Pak Tribune
| 5 months ago
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan Sunday said that the government has failed to provide protection to its people, demanded governor rule in the troubled province of Balochistan. Khan who arrived here on Sunday morning expressed...
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The Hindustan Times
| 5 months ago
Thousands of Shiite Muslims from Pakistan's minority Hazara community ended a nearly four-day protest Monday after Islamabad caved into their demands for protection by sacking the provincial government. Men, women and children spent four nights...
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DAWN
| 5 months ago
Hundreds of people gathered outside the Pakistan Embassy on Sunday, demanding that Quetta be handed over to the army. Angered by what they described as a premeditated genocide of Shia Muslims in Pakistan, the protesters said the government should...
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Kuwait News Top Stories
| 5 months ago
Pakistan, Jan 14, 2013 (AFP) -Thousands of Shiite Muslims from Pakistan's minority Hazara community ended a nearly four-day protest Monday and prepared to bury victims of a bomb attack after Islamabad sacked the provincial government in Baluchistan. "...
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DAWN
| 5 months ago
Pakistan Tehrik- i -Insaaf (PTI) chief Imran Khan has demanded immediate removal of Balochistan government and imposition of governor's rule in the province. Mr Khan, who arrived here on Sunday along with PTI leaders Javed Hashmi, Jahangir Tareen,...
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United Press International
| 5 months ago
Pakistan's prime minister paved the way Sunday for Shiites in Baluchistan to bury relatives killed in sectarian violence by ousting the provincial government. Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, who flew to Quetta, agreed to the demands of the...
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Time of India
| 5 months ago
Developments in Quetta and Islamabad over the next day or two are going to put the nerves of Pakistan's fractious ruling establishment to a severe test...Cynics, whose numbers are legion, argue that, as in the past, the country will muddle through...
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DAWN
| 5 months ago
Showing solidarity with the Hazaras of Quetta, members of the Shia community continued their sit-in in front of the Governor's House on Sunday, also blocking the motorway at Thokar Niaz Beg and G T Road near Imamia Colony. A good number of women,...
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The Courier-Mail
| 5 months ago
Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has sacked the provincial government in Baluchistan after he met Shi'ite Muslim protesters demanding protection after a massive bomb attack. Members of the minority community have refused to bury those killed on...
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Christian Science Monitor
| 5 months ago
ments Protests spread in Pakistan over Shiite killings Minority leaders and even mainstream politicians are growing more bold in calling on the country's military to crack down on anti-Shiite militants. By Taha Siddiqui, Correspondent / January 13,...
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Al Jazeera English
| 5 months ago
11 Protests have also been held in the commercial city of Karachi against the attacks on Shia community [Reuters] New protests against attacks on the country's Shia communities have spread across Pakistan as the prime minister flew to the western...
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DAWN
| 5 months ago
The Shia Ulema Council (SUC) has called for a strike to be observed throughout Sindh on Monday, in response to the Quetta killings, DawnNews reported. The SUC said that businesses and shops should be closed in the province in observance of the strike...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 5 months ago
Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf failed to convince Shia leaders to end a protest over the killing of nearly 100 members of the vulnerable community in bomb attacks in Quetta, with Shia leaders saying their dead would not be buried till their...
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Reuters
| 5 months ago
Topics Members of the Hazara community and various non-governmental organisations (NGOs) sit-in during a protest against last Thursday's twin bomb attack in Quetta, in Lahore January 12, 2013. Protests against attacks on Shi'ites spread across...
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Taiwan News
| 5 months ago
Travel & Delicacy Beauty never Ends Ecological Environment Associated Press 2013-01-13 08:34 PM A roadside bomb hit a Pakistan i army convoy Sunday in a mountainous militant stronghold in the northwest, killing 14 soldiers, one of the deadliest...
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DAWN
| 5 months ago
People from all over show solidarity with the massacre of Shias in Quetta. The Hazara Democratic Party has threatened to implement drastic measures to prevent what it has called the ethnic cleansing of the Hazara community in case the government...
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DAWN
| 5 months ago
In the village of Qila Bhattian Wala, nestled in wheat fields, Shia Muslims know nothing of the record levels of violence suffered by their community elsewhere in Pakistan. Here 3,000 villagers live in harmony with their Sunni neighbours. They...
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Russia Today
| 5 months ago
Indian soldiers assaulted a Pakistani military outpost in Kashmir, killing one soldier, the Pakistani military has alleged. Indian officials claim Pakistani troops "initiated unprovoked firing, shelling a civilian home on Indian territory. Published:...
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DAWN
| 5 months ago
Members of Civil Society enlighten candles and protesting against Shiite Muslims Genocide and killing of several media persons in bomb blast at Qandhari Imambargah Alamdar Road in Quetta, during a demonstration at Karachi press club.Photo by PPI...
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Daily News & Analysis
| 5 months ago
Pakistan prime minister Raja Pervez Ashraf on Sunday left for Quetta to assess the security situation in the southwestern Pakistani city in the wake of unprecedented protests over the killing of nearly 100 Shias in bomb attacks last week. Accompanied...
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DAWN
| 5 months ago
A strike was observed on Sunday in most parts of the country including Karachi, Multan, Hyderabad, Lahore, Islamabad and Quetta against Thursday's blasts in Balochistan's provincial capital. A day of mourning was being observed in Karachi on a call...
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DAWN
| 5 months ago
Pakistani Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf flew to Quetta on Sunday to meet locals holding a protest alongside the bodies of family members killed in one of the country's worst sectarian attacks. Ashraf was was accompanied by Federal Minister for...
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Qatar English Daily
| 5 months ago
Shia families refusing to bury their dead after twin bombings in Pakistan's troubled southwestern city of Quetta vowed to continue their sit-in protest yesterday until the army takes over security...Hundreds of women and children were among the...
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International Herald Tribune
| 5 months ago
Pakistan Campaign season has begun in Pakistan, with elections widely expected by mid-May that, if they proceed peacefully, would represent a democratic milestone in a country plagued by intermittent military rule. But the starting whistle has been...
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Al Jazeera
| 5 months ago
39 Protests were also held in the cities of Lahore, Karachi and the capital of Islamabad in solidarity with Shias [Reuters] Talks between Pakistani officials and Shia leaders have failed to quell a protest that brought thousands of people out onto...
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United Press International
| 5 months ago
Protesters filled the streets of Quetta, Pakistan, Saturday, expressing outrage over the worst day of violence in the country since 2007. About 1,000 Pakistani Shiites braved winter cold to block a major road in the city with funeral processions for...
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Chicago Tribune
| 5 months ago
Members of the Hazara community and various non-governmental organisation (NGO) members sit-in during a protest against last Thursday's twin bomb attack in Quetta, in Islamabad January 12, 2013. Pakistani government officials met with Shi'ite leaders...
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BBC
| 5 months ago
Pakistani officials are holding crisis talks with Shia protesters in the city of Quetta, who are demanding protection after bomb blasts killed nearly 100. The talks come as the minority Shia community have refused to bury the dead, barricading a road...
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DAWN
| 5 months ago
Negotiations aimed at convincing members of the Hazara Shia community to call off their protest failed on Saturday after efforts by Governor Balochistan Nawab Zulfiqar Magsi and Federal Minister Syed Khursheed Shah. Thousands of protesters have been...
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DAWN
| 5 months ago
The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) on Saturday pledged support for the sit-in protest by the Hazara Shia community in Quetta, calling on the federal and Balochistan governments to accept the legitimate demands of the grieving relatives of victims of...
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Zee News
| 5 months ago
Iran has strongly condemned the bomb attacks in Pakistan that left hundreds killed and many more injured, Xinhua reported Saturday. At least 116 people were killed and 235 others injured in four blasts in Pakistan Thursday.
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NewKerala
| 5 months ago
I00 people, mostly from minority Shia community in a series of bomb blast. The commission has demanded that the government take immediate steps to clamp down on the murdering mayhem...It pointed out that the callous targeting of members of the Hazara...
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DAWN
| 5 months ago
People chant slogans during a protest rally in Karachi on January 11, 2013, against the bomb attacks in Quetta. Extremist bomb attacks killed 125 people in one of Pakistan's deadliest days for years, raising concerns about rising violence in the...
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DAWN
| 5 months ago
This does not happen, can never happen but they refuse to learn. They also have a whole list of issues that they want to resolve, scores they need to settle. They do not realise that some of these issues are centuries old and cannot be resolved...One...
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Al Jazeera English
| 5 months ago
34 Protests were also held in solidarity with Shia Muslims in Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and elsewhere [Reuters] Families of Shia Muslims targeted in twin bombings that killed at least 86 people in the Pakistani city of Quetta are refusing to bury...
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India Abroad
| 5 months ago
In response, the Pakistani government must take concrete and meaningful action to protect the minority Shia Muslim community," Swett said. "Over the past year, more than 400 Shia reportedly have been murdered. If the government doesn't crack down on...
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DAWN
| 5 months ago
The sit-in at Quetta's Alamdar Road staged by hundreds of people from the Hazara Shia community was ongoing on Saturday after the passing of nearly 20 hours since it started , DawnNews reported. The participants of the sit-in have refused to bury the...
