Police massacre in Pakistan

Society Pakistan & World Affairs
1

:mad:

Ten trainee Pakistani police officers have been shot dead in an attack in the south-western city of Quetta.
Another 10 are reported to have been wounded in the attack, which is reported to have been carried out by two men on a motorcycle.

A police spokesman told the French AFP news agency that the gunmen had opened fire at a van carrying the recruits to their school.

The incident is reported to have happened near the city’s fruit market.

A local journalist has told the BBC that the victims were members of the minority Shia community.

However, local authorities have so far declined to speculate about who was responsible for the attack, and no group has claimed responsibility.

2

oh by the way the site is reporting that 11 have been dead and 9 injured:

Police massacre in Pakistan

Eleven trainee Pakistani police officers have been shot dead in what is believed to have been a sectarian attack in the capital of Balochistan province, Quetta.
Another nine are reported to have been wounded in the attack, carried out by two men on a motorcycle.

No group has said it was behind the killing - the second in a week targeting members of the minority Shia community.

The Inspector General of Police in Balochistan Shoeb Suddle, told the BBC's Urdu service that it might have been the work of a banned Sunni militant organisation, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.

Thousands of people have been killed in violence blamed on militants from the country's Sunni and Shia communities since the late 1980s.

Sectarian attack?

The incident is reported to have happened near the city's fruit market.

"Two men came riding on a motorbike and opened fire with a Kalashnikov at the vehicle carrying the police recruits to their school at 1600 (1100 GMT)," police officer Raja Ishtiaq told AFP news agency.

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi have been blamed for attacks in Karachi
"We were returning to police training school from our homes after spending the weekend, and suddenly two men came on a motorbike and open fire on our vehicle," AFP quoted one of the survivors, M. Ali, as saying from hospital.

He said he believed it was a sectarian attack "because we all are [Shia] and ethnic Hazaras".

Police have fanned out across the city, setting up checkpoints. The governor and chief minister of Balochistan visited the hospital where the injured were being treated and promised the culprits would be found.

Last Friday, two armed men riding on a motorbike sprayed bullets at Shia activist Syed Niaz Hussain Shah, 50, as he was returning home from his office in the city. A week earlier, a Shia trader was also killed.

Over the past decade, there have been hundreds of sectarian attacks in Pakistan, in which thousands of people have been killed. Many have been in Karachi, where the greatest number of Shias live.

In April, Pakistani police arrested Shabir Ahmed, a suspected member of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi which has been linked to the killings of both Shia Muslims and Christians.

The group has also been accused of having connections with Osama Bin Laden's al-Qaeda network in Afghanistan.

3

They were Shias. However, this is one thing I would never put the blame on the Government, be it Musharraf, Nawaz or Benazir. These attacks are carried out by anti-Pakistani elements within and outside the country, and despite every measure taken by our Government, alot of them succeed. Eventually, they will be nabbed.

4

:(

5

[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by Spock: *
These attacks are carried out by anti-Pakistani elements within and outside the country,
[/QUOTE]

India.

it's very sad and disturbing. :(
Not a month goes by in Pakistan without some sorta attack or something.

6

The people there are on strike calling on the government to catch the killers..

7

No it's not India, it's our own Lashkar-i-terrorist. If people don't stand up now, it will keep happening.

8

^ ya it's lashkar-e-jangvee same thing like that...the people there say they are sure it's either them or sipha sahaba etc.

9

[QUOTE]
*Originally posted by Imdad Ali: *
No it's not India, it's our own Lashkar-i-terrorist. If people don't stand up now, it will keep happening.
[/QUOTE]

most of the Pakistani people are illiterate and believe whatever the maulvi tells them in the Friday khutbah
in December, there was an attack on a church and it was discovered that they were only doing what the maulvi had told them in the Friday khutba
he had said that it was the duty of every sunni muslim to kill christians
these maulvis dont let the people stand up by exploiting religion!

10

Correct and one can somewhat understand when the illiterate people do this, but what about the supposedly educated people who don't speak out against this and sometimes even support such crimes?

That is what makes me the most angry. I wonder if peace will ever come to Pakistan or the shia-sunni polarization will continue.

11

Imdad Ali, learning to count or read or write does not make someone 'educated'. Tolerance and acceptance needs to be taught when the kids are old enough to start walking. Unfortunately, the most destructive and fundamentally flawed education is occurring inside the Mosques and Madrassahs. Until the complete philosophy of hatred is attacked at the roots, it ain't gonna diminish. Those Quran waving hoodlum need help, big time.

12

it's so sad to hear crap like this.

trainee police officers, they didn't deserve this.

13

:~( Extremely sad news.

Utterly and completely wrong. How can people do this.

14

If Police is not safe ???
who will feel safe in PAK>>??

whatever the reason Govt really need to crack down on these culprits, sectarian or anything else.

Thats why I support Police encounters, though its illegel but atleast this way quick justice can be done. as all the criminals get bails and so long process that never works to punish.

15

can we like stop saying its the shia people, its wrong blaming another sect of islam or group of people, it just causes more killings, and yeah who are these Lashkar- people, first investigate then do blamings, u should say that is people who are either for political gain or are anti-pakistani :mad3:

and yeah if the governmet knows who these groups are then y are they operating, what is the chance that they are not supported by governemt to keep pakistan corrupt, hey it is politics, u must have seen it in the indian movies :mad2: