Four Shiite Muslims Shot Killed in Pakistan

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Baluchistan savage militants kill 3 Punjab Shiite labourers Quetta - Insurgents in Baluchistan Province kidnapped four Shiite construction workers from Punjab and killed three of them, Dawn reported November 19.The savage Militants November 18 kidnapped Shia man Mulazim Hussain and his three sons Abdullah, Mustafa and Hanif while they were constructing a house in Turbat, said a Turbat official.The militants fatally shot the father and his sons Abdullah and Mustafa and dumped their bodies in the Josak area of Mekran, the official said.Hanif, 12, is still listed missing, he said.A spokesman for the banned Baloch Republican Army (BRA), which claimed responsibility, said it had released Hanif. Police found bullet-riddled bodies of the victims in Josak area of Mekran on Monday.Turbat Assistant Commissioner said that four of the five labourers building the house of a local resident were attacked by eight gunmen and kidnapped four of them.“Bodies of the three labourers were found in the evening dumped with multiple bullet wounds, from Josak area of Turbat town,” Abdullah Khoso, a senior official of the Kech district administration, told Dawn, adding that the fourth labourer, Mohammad Hanif, the son of Mulazim Hussain, was still missing.All victims belonged to Dera Ghazi Khan and were brought to Turbat by a local resident for construction of his house in Josak area.“The deceased suffered multiple bullet wounds in their heads, chests and other parts of their bodies,” hospital sources said.Sarbaz Baloch, the spokesman for the banned Baloch Republican Army, calling from an unknown place told journalists that BRA was behind the kidnapping and killing of the workers.He claimed that they had been working for intelligence agencies. He said the BRA had kidnapped four people and killed three and the fourth one was a 12-year-old boy who the spokesman claimed had been released.Karachi -  Jaffaria Imambargah Attacked in Qasaba Colony, one Shia martyredA Shia man was shot dead and two brothers were wounded near an Imambargah (Shia religious place) in Qasba Colony on Wednesday evening in an attack by assailants who dropped a bag containing a remote-controlled explosive device, which was later defused, police said.They said that some Shiite people sitting outside their residences near the Imambargah Jafria were attacked by the assailants riding a motorbike. Three persons sustained bullet wounds and were taken to a private hospital, where doctors declared Danish Afaq Rizvi, 27, dead. However, the condition of the wounded brothers, Asad Wasi Hyder and Meesam Wasi Hyder, was stated to be out of danger.SSP-West Irfan Baloch said that the fleeing assailants dropped a bag near the Imambargah, which was noticed by the policemen who called the bomb disposal squad (BDS). The BDS reached the scene, found an improvised explosive device (IED), weighing five kilograms, in the bag and managed to defuse it. The IED was laced with ball bearings and it could be detonated with a remote-controlled device, said the SSP.A BDS official told Dawn that the IED was defused near the Imambargah. He said the incident occurred at some distance from the Imambargah and the police were probing it from two different angles.SSP Baloch said it might be possible that the actual target of the bomb was the Imambargah. However, there was another possibility that the assailants fired at the people sitting outside their homes to attract the attention of the police and other people so that they could detonate the IED when the crowd and law-enforcers gathered near the scene of crime.Meanwhile, the Majlis Wahdat-i-Muslimeen (MWM) strongly condemned the incident.A spokesperson for the MWM the said that the Imambargah and members of the Shia community were the actual target of the terrorists.He said that Asif Rizvi, an uncle of slain Danish Rizvi, was shot dead in a targeted attack in Qasba Colony on 7th Muharram.The MWM demanded the government that the terrorists involved in the attack be arrested forthwith./129