Suo motu action by CJ Ifti will no doubt solve this problem. Sectarian violence is also coming back all over the country after Musharraf had managed to stamp them out to a large degree.
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Pakistan separatists kill nine police hostages: official AFP/File – Pakistani paramilitary soldiers secure the site after a bomb blast on the outskirts of Quetta on August …
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QUETTA, Pakistan (AFP) – The bodies of nine policemen taken hostage last month by separatist rebels were discovered in Pakistan’s southwestern Baluchistan province on Monday, a police official said.
The corpses were found in the area of Naseerabad, 390 kilometres (242 miles) southeast of Quetta, the provincial capital, said senior local police officer Kaleem Ullah.
The police officers were thought to have been killed about four days ago.
The rebels took 24 police and labourers hostage in the area in late July. Three policemen escaped and 12 other bodies have already been found.
“We have recovered nine dead bodies of policemen. They were kidnapped by the Baluchistan Republican Army,” said Ullah.
Sarbaz Baloch, a spokesman for the separatists, had earlier this month claimed responsibility for the kidnappings and deaths in a telephone call to reporters in Quetta. He demanded that security forces leave the city.
Pakistan deployed paramilitary troops in Quetta last month to help bolster security after a spate of targeted killings blamed on Baluch rebels.
Meanwhile three people, all of them Shiite Muslims, were killed and another wounded in separate fresh incidents of sectarian violence in Quetta on Monday, police said.
“An unknown gunman opened fire at a doctor while he was stepping into his clinic in Quetta, killing him on the spot,” city police chief Abid Notkani told AFP.
He also said that two unidentified gunmen riding a motorbike fired shots at three people as they came out of a shop in Quetta, adding that two died instantly while the third was in a critical condition.
Nobody has claimed responsibility for the attacks, but Quetta has a history of sectarian violence between Sunni and Shiite extremists and insurgent attacks.
Shiites account for about 20 percent of Pakistan’s mostly Sunni Muslim population of 160 million.
Although the two groups usually coexist peacefully, more than 4,000 people have died in outbreaks of sectarian violence since the late 1980s.
Hundreds of people have died since Baluch insurgents rose up in 2004 demanding political autonomy and a greater share of profits from the region’s wealth of natural resources.