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salute to those brave civilians:k:
its pretty clear those who are behind killing of sunnis/shias are not muslims, they have no religion, no sect. they have only one motive, to create rift between shias and sunnis and incite civil war. InshaAllah, these anti Pakistan elements will never succeed in their nasty goals.
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is it true, LeJ founder, Malik Ishaq is in Saudi Arabia right now? govt/intelligence is fully aware of the fact, that from where do these people get their fundings, yet, they fail to take any step regarding this.
its just really mind-boggling that this guy who is killer of hundreds of people, was released by SC, because there was lack of evidence.
I think the message is clear, continue with killings of innocent civilians!
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**LAHORE: The Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) have detained Malik Ishaq, the leader of banned outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), from Allama Iqbal International Airport Lahore on Thursday on his return from Saudi Arabia after performing Umra, The Express Tribune has learnt.
**According to Punjab police and Punjab public prosecution department’s record, Ishaq is involved in more than 40 cases in which 70 people had been killed with majority of the deceased belonging to the Shia community.
He was released from Kot Lakhpat jail on July 14, 2011 after 14 years of imprisonment when the Supreme Court (SC) granted him bail in the case involving a terrorist attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team.
Ishaq was then detained in Rahim Yar Khan jail for 10 days under the Maintenance of Public Order Act. The detention was extended for 60 days on October 25.
Malik Ishaq detained at Lahore airport – The Express Tribune
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This detaining/arrest will be of no use as they will very likely fail in prosecuting again and he will be out again.
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true that... he is probably going to be on bail soon.
Some sources claimed that he was taken into custody in Saudi Arabia by relevant Pakistani authorities and was brought to Pakistan.
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Police had registered a case against him after his “provocative speech to spread sectarian hatred” at a religious gathering in Lahore earlier this month, police official Liaquat Ali said.
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, regarded as Pakistan’s fiercest Sunni extremist group, was banned more than a decade ago by former president Gen Pervez Musharraf.
It is accused of killing hundreds of minority Shia Muslims after its emergence in the early 1990s.
Ishaq was arrested in 1997 and is implicated in dozens of cases, mostly murder. He was released on bail in July last year after serving a jail term of nearly 14 years.
Since his release he had been frequently put under house arrest as his sermons raised sectarian tensions, officials said.
Ishaq was also accused of masterminding, from behind bars, the 2009 attack on the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, which wounded seven players and an assistant coach, and killed eight Pakistanis.
The attacks saw Pakistan stripped of its right to co-host last year’s cricket World Cup.
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read this on someone's FB status
Neither Hindu nor Muslim,
Sacrificing pride, let us sit together.
Neither Sunni nor Shia,
Let us walk the road of peace. – *Bulleh Shah *
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Malik Ishaq, chief of banned terrorist outfit Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), has been sent on 14-day judicial remand to Kot Lakhpat jail on Friday.
295-A: Malik Ishaq sent to Kot Lakhpat jail – The Express Tribune
why is he still alive? I just fail to understand this!
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Would it be wrong to hope that the Shias organize themselves and go after their tormentors themselves if the state isn't going to help them?
when the Shias demanded that the killers be caught & brought to justice for the April attacks , the government put a strict curfew on the Shias instead. Patience will grow thin as the death toll keeps rising.
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Should be commended…
Sectarian killings might break Pakistan: Altaf Hussain – The Express Tribune
****KARACHI: **Expressing serious concerns over the continued sectarian killings in Pakistan, Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) chief Altaf Hussain said on Saturday that the trend might break the country.
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Addressing a conference organised to promote harmony between different sects of Islam, Hussain said that the enemies of Pakistan may take advantage of the growing rift between the various Islamic sects present in the country.
Earlier, Hussain had talked to Prime Minister Raja Pervaiz Ashraf and Interior Minister Rehman Malik over Eid holidays and expressed the same concern over the recent surge in sectarian violence.
**“The people who are taking Shias off buses and killing them after identifying them are not just murdering Shias, they are conspiring to murder Pakistan,” Altaf said.
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He said every Shia and every Pakistani citizen – whether Hindu, Christian, Sikh or of any other faith – are equal Pakistanis. People who are forcing Hindus, Christians and other non-Muslims to leave Pakistan are actually tyrannising the country and Jinnah’s teachings, according to him.
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Gunmen shot dead seven Shia Muslims in two separate incidents in Pakistan’s troubled southwestern province of Balochistan on Saturday, police said.
The incidents took place near Quetta, the capital of the oil and gas rich province, which is plagued by sectarian violence.
“Four gunmen riding two motorbikes intercepted a bus near Hazarganji area, pulled five Shia vegetable sellers off the vehicle and shot them dead,” senior local police official Wazir Khan Nasir told AFP.
He said in a second incident two motorbike riders sprayed bullets at two Shias in the Hazarganji area on the outskirts of Quetta, killing both.
Another local police official Mukhtar Musakhel confirmed the incident and casualties.
Nobody has so far claimed responsibility for the attacks but the province suffers from Taliban attacks and is also a flashpoint for sectarian violence between Sunni and Shia Muslims that has left thousands of people dead since the late 1980s.
Baloch rebels also rose up in 2004, demanding political autonomy and a greater share of profits from the oil, gas and mineral resources in the region
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Kohistan, Kaghan incidents: Hazara police claim to have traced sectarian killers
**MANSEHRA: ** **The killers of Gilgit-bound Shia passengers have been traced, claimed chief investigator into the Babusar Top massacre on Tuesday.
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Muhammad Ilyas Khan, SSP Investigation Mansehra, who heads the police team investigating the gruesome incident, made the disclosure at a press conference.
Some 37 Shia passengers have been killed on the way to Gilgit in two separate incidents during the last six months in Hazara division of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
In both the incidents men in army fatigues plucked passengers off buses and shot them dead.
“Our team is in Chilas, waiting for a go-ahead by the Gilgit-Batistan government, to enter the jurisdiction and arrest the suspects,” SSP Ilyas Khan said.
But the ongoing sectarian tensions in G-B and lack of cooperation on the part of G-B administration were the key hurdles in nabbing the culprits, he said.
The religious and sectarian sensitivities attached to the case have complicated it further, he said.
Investigation into the first incident of killing of 18 Gilgiti Shias in Kohistan on February 28 helped the investigation team gather key information about the second sectarian assault in Kaghan on August 18, Khan said. The two investigation teams probing the Kohistan and Kaghan incidents joined hands and shared the available information and were able to produce the sketches of over 30 attackers, SSP said.
The sketches could not be made public due to some technical reasons, he said.
Police officials are also trying to acquire the mobile phone video footage of the massacre on Babusar Top in Kaghan, which was made by a passenger of the ill-fated bus.
“We have traced the culprits and they are the same men who hauled the Shia passengers off the Gilgit-bound buses and sprayed them with bullets after lining them on the roadside in Kohistan and Kaghan area,” Khan said.
Hazara police shared the information with the Gilgit administration seeking access to the Gilgit-based assassins, but it declined to extend support owing to the ongoing sectarian unrest in the area, he said.
He ruled out the involvement of a foreign hand in the two incidents.
Inspector Siddique, the head of the team investigating the killing of Shia passengers in Kohistan and member of the team probing Kaghan carnage, said the investigators were busy collecting evidence about the suspects. Police sleuths were scouring for clues from bus stands in Rawalpindi to roadside eateries in Kohistan, he said.
He blamed the G-B administration for non-cooperation in getting access to the suspects.
When approached for comments the DIG Astore Ali Sher was not available.
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this friend of mine, saw this video, where they are slaughtering two shias muslims, just like you slaughter animals....... and then they beheaded them and Youtube the video.
these kind of barbaric incidents that you get to hear about, you just dont know how to react to them......they just leave you numb.
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Anyone killing anyone else just because he's Shia or Ahmedi or Sunni are nothing but scum.
Goes against every core belief of Islam.
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very true!,:k: In Quran, its clearly stated, if you kill one person, its like you slew the whole humanity and if anyone saved one life, then you saved all mankind.
these monsters who are carrying out killings across Pakistan are not humans, let alone muslims!
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LeJ claimed the responsibility and further said now they will now attack top police officials as well.
Allah rehem kere. or humare leaders/security agencies k dilon men kio kauf-e- khuda paida ho, they need to root out these extremists from every corner of Pakistan.
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this friend of mine, saw this video, where they are slaughtering two shias muslims, just like you slaughter animals....... and then they beheaded them and Youtube the video.
these kind of barbaric incidents that you get to hear about, you just dont know how to react to them......they just leave you numb.
These videos were widely available when the mass killings of every ethnicity in Karachi took place where every day average was 20 murders. Sickening. The killers are not sunni nor shia, they are animals.
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LeJ claimed the responsibility and further said now they will now attack top police officials as well.
Allah rehem kere. or humare leaders/security agencies k dilon men kio kauf-e- khuda paida ho, they need to root out these extremists from every corner of Pakistan.
Government will form another "fact finding commission" for these statements, which will collect information AFTER more Shia policemen/doctors/lawyers are murdered by these scums.
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Bomb targeting Shia pilgrims leaves three dead in Mastung | DAWN.COM
**QUETTA: A roadside bomb ripped through a passenger bus carrying Shia Muslim pilgrims in southwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing three people and wounding about a dozen, officials said.
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Earlier security sources said that four people killed by the attack but Deputy commissioner Mastung confirmed the killings of two people.
Six security personnel who were assigned to provide security to the bus also received injuries.
The blast took place in Mastung district, about 25 kilometres south of Quetta, the capital of insurgency-hit Balochistan province.
“It was a roadside bomb which targeted the bus,” senior administration officer Irfan Shah told AFP.
“The bus caught fire after the blast,” he said adding that initial reports said “at least two people were killed and about a dozen wounded”.
The injured, some of them in serious condition, have been taken to hospital in Quetta.
Officials said the bus, carrying up to 40 pilgrims, was returning from Iran after taking pilgrims to Shia holy place
No one immediately claimed responsibility for the attack