Pakistan: Hazara Shiites discriminated against and targeted
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Gathering on January 3, 2021 in Quetta, around the remains of 11 Shiite Hazara minors killed by armed men in the southwest of the country.
AP - Arshad Butt
By: Sonia Ghezali Follow
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Big report today is in southwest Pakistan. On January 4, 2021, the Afghan-Pakistani branch of ISIS massacred 10 Hazara workers in a coal mine 60 km from Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan, a very unstable region of the country, closed to foreigners and since which little information reaches us, both on terrorism and on the long-term insurgency which dates back to the country's independence. In Pakistan, the Shiite minority is regularly targeted by Sunni extremist groups. In January 2021, she publicly expressed her anger. Thousands of men gather for days in Quetta, refusing to bury the bodies of their own and calling on Prime Minister Imran Khan for better protection from the state.
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