A blast killing nine Shias and injuring many as well as the target killing of Haji Sardar Ali in Peshawar today has raised serious questions about the peace initiatives so fervently underway. This serves as a timely reminder that Shia killings are not one of the bargaining chips for either the Government or the Taliban and are set to go on unabated. In a yet another suicide attack a powerful bomb blast ripped through Pak Hotel near Imambargah Alamdar in Kucha Risaldar, a Shia dominated neighbourhood of Peshawar. Even if the TTP’s denial of its involvement in the attack is believed it still throws up the pitfalls of suing for partial peace with the terrorists in the country. There is no point in wooing one band of terrorists while others remain free to sow grief, panic, and chaos and trigger religious mayhem. The terrorism in the country can only be stalled through a wholesale approach and not through piecemeal efforts. It is time for the Shias of the country to ask the government that while it sues for peace with the TTP, why the TTP’s sectarian franchises remain totally free to inflict death on the country’s hapless Shias. Any answers? Making a spirited attempt to appraise the social and political conditions Pakistani Shias in the country find themselves enmeshed in today, the extreme threats to the security of lives and property and the attendant constant fear in which Shias and and many others in the country live almost by compulsion, it is easy to conclude that in this enormously endowed country, now struggling to contain its security challenges, sanity has staged a coup. Sanity has staged a coup against Pakistanis and has flown through the window to the winds.Such madness! Suicide blast near Shiite Mosque kills 11, injures 50 in Peshawar - PakistanEleven people were martyred and 50 others injured when a powerful bomb blast ripped through a local hotel frequented mostly by Shia Nuslims in the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday night, said officials.The incident took place at Pak Hotel near Imambargah Alamdar in Kucha Risaldar, a Shia dominated neighbourhood of Peshawar.Police officer Rizwan Khan said that the hotel is frequented mostly by Shias who visit Imambargah Alamdar next door. Most of the dead and wounded were Shias, he added.http://abna.ir/data.asp?lang=3&id=503147 Shia leader shot martyred in PeshawarA Shia leader of Tehreek-e-Nifaz-e-Fiqa Jafaria (movement for implementation of Jafaria Jurisprudence), Sardar Ali Asghar, 60, was killed when unidentified assassin opened fire at him here on Tuesday(today) at Qissa Khawani Bazaar while he was on way to his shop, FRC learnt.Officials of Khan Raziq Police Station while talking to FRC said that local leader of Fiqa Jafria movement was on the way to his tea shop, situated in Qissa Khwani Bazaar in morning when unidentified miscreants opened indiscriminate fire at him resultantly injuring him seriously. He succumbed to his injuries while on the way to the nearby Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar.A large number of Shia community members rushed to the hospital after knowing about the incident and staged a symbolic protest by chanting slogans against the provincial government for not taking any action for the arrest of the attackers.It merits mentioning here that incidents of target killings of Shia community members has escalated in the metropolis as four such nature attacks were reported in the month of January 2014.http://abna.ir/data.asp?lang=3&id=502974
4 February 2014 - 20:30
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