by Andrew Buncombe,Independent Thousands of Shia Muslims began burying their dead in a mass grave in Pakistan today, ending a three-day protest over one of the worst sectarian attacks in the country’s history. Members of...
QUETTA: Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf has announced imposition of governor rule in Balochistan under article 234 of the constitution, DawnNews reported. Addressing protesters at Alamdar Road, the prime minister said the governor would be the...
After over 48 hours since it started, the sit-in on Quetta’s Alamdar Road staged by hundreds of members from the Hazara Shia community continues on Sunday. The demonstrators, while refusing to bury their loved ones,...
Ahmad Shuja The sufferings of a small ethno-sectarian minority community in Pakistan have brought Pakistanis of all stripes in active unity against increasing incidents of sectarian terrorism. Thousands of people are protesting across Pakistan in...
-Photo by Saleem Javed QUETTA: Hazara Democratic Party’s president Abdul Khaliq Hazara went on hunger strike for three days on Saturday in protest against the killing of members of the community in Thursday’s bomb blasts...
The worst violence occurred in the southwestern city of Quetta, where two explosions a few minutes apart in the evening ripped through a snooker hall in a neighborhood dominated by ethnic Hazara Shiites, killing at...