HDP protested against the targeted killing of three people belonging to their community in Quetta.

Balochistan violence: Hazara Democratic Party stages protest
By Our Correspondent
Published: January 26, 2012

PHOTO: AFP/FILE

QUETTA: Hazara Democratic Party (HDP) on Thursday staged a noisy protest demonstration outside the Balochistan Assembly building, against the targeted killing of three people belonging to their community in Quetta.

Inspector of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) Vilayat Hussain, TV actor Abid Nazish and Mohammad Anwar were shot dead by unknown assailants on Wednesday night in Quetta, in what appeared to be an incident of sectarian killing. However, no outfit had claimed responsibility for the killings.

Protestors marched through various roads and held a demonstration on Zarghoon Road outside the Balochistan Assembly building. They were carrying placards and banners with messages against target killing.

They raised slogans against the government and the chief minister for their failure to overcome the growing incidents of target killing and kidnapping for ransom in Quetta.

Vice President of HDP Mirza Hussain said Hazara community was being subjected to target killing for the past several years and the government had failed to launch a crackdown against the criminals. “Government should answer who are the target killers? And how they carry out deadly attacks with complete impunity,” he added.

Protestors said four people belonging to Hazara community were kidnapped a few days ago from Quetta-Chaman highway and were still missing. “The kidnappers approached the families and asked for a huge amount as ransom for the release of these four people,” one of the protestors said.
HDP warned that they will hold protest demonstrations across the world where Hazara community is residing, to lodge their protest against the organised target killings if government and law enforcing agencies failed to protect the innocent lives.

“We are Pakistanis and do not want to give a bad name to our country by holding protest in other countries. But now we are being pushed against the wall and left with no option,” Hussain said, adding that Hazara community is demanding an end to the target killing and kidnappings.

Meanwhile, Provincial Ministers Ayinullah Shams of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) and Sultan Tareen of Awami National Party (ANP) addressed the protestors and assured them that government will soon hold a meeting to review the law and order situation.

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QUETTA: An inspector of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA), a TV artiste and another government official were gunned down near Mecongi Road on Wednesday evening, police said.

The three were going home in a car when assailants on a motorcycle opened fire on them with automatic weapons in a street.
“All of them died on the spot,” hospital sources said.

Police said it appeared to be a case of targeted sectarian killings because the victims — FIA Inspector Walayat Hussain, Quetta television artiste Abid Hussain Nazish and Mohammad Anwar Hussain, an accounts officer at the Balochistan Accountant
General’s office — belonged to the Hazara tribe.

“We are also looking into other aspects of the investigation,” Quetta city police chief Ahsan Mehboob said. He said police were checking vehicles and carrying out raids in different areas to arrest the attackers.

The bodies were taken to the Civil Hospital and handed over to the victims’ families after post-mortems.

In a statement, the Shia Conference Balochistan condemned the killing and said provincial authorities had failed to protect citizens and urged the federal government to ensure an immediate arrest of killers.

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کوئٹہ میں ’ٹارگٹ کلنگ‘ تین افراد ہلاک

آخری وقت اشاعت: بدھ 25 جنوری 2012 ,‭ 18:10 GMT 23:10 PST


کوئٹہ میں ٹارگٹ کلنگ کے واقعات ایک معمول بن گئے ہیں اور اس میں فرقہ واریت کا عنصر بھی شامل ہے۔
بلوچستان کے دارالحکومت کوئٹہ میں بدھ اور جمعرات کی درمیانی شب کو نامعلوم افراد کی فائرنگ کے نتیجے میں تین افراد ہلاک ہوگئے۔ جن کاتعلق شیعہ فریقہ سے تھا اور پولیس نے اسے ٹارگٹ کلنگ کی واردات قرار دے کرملزمان کی گرفتاری کے لیے شہر کی ناکہ بندی کر دی تھی۔

کوئٹہ سے بی بی سی کے نامہ نگارایوب ترین کےمطابق کوئٹہ شہر کے میکانیگی روڈ پر بدھ اور جمعرات کی درمیانی شب نامعلوم مسلح افراد نے ایک گاڑی پر فائرنگ کی جس میں سوار تین افراد شدید زخمی ہوگئے جنہیں فوری طور پر سول ہپستال کوئٹہ پہنچایاگیا۔ ہسپتال میں وہ زخموں کی تاب نہ لاتے ہوئے چل بسے۔ فائرنگ کے بعد نامعلوم مسلح افراد موٹرسائیکل پرفرار ہونے میں کامیاب ہوگئے۔

ہلاک ہونے والوں میں ایف آئی اے کے انسپکٹر ولایت حسین، ٹی وی اداکار عابد نازش اور اے جی آفس کے اکاونٹینٹ محمدانور شامل ہیں جن کاتعلق شیعہ فریقے اور ہزارہ قبیلے سے ہے۔
واقعہ کےبعد پولیس نے نامعلوم افراد کی گرفتاری کے لیے مختلف مقامات پر ناکہ بندی کردی اور مقدمہ بھی درج کرلیا۔
لیکن آخری اطلاع تک کوئی گرفتاری عمل میں نہیں آئی اور نہ کسی تنظیم نے اس واقعہ کی ذمہ داری قبول کی تھی۔

اس بارے میں جب کیپٹل سٹی پولیس آفیسر کوئٹہ احسن محبوب سے رابطہ کیاگیا توانہوں نے اس واقعہ کو ٹارگٹ کلنگ قرار دیا اور کہا کہ جلد ملزمان کو گرفتار کرلیاجائے گا۔
یاد رہے کہ اس سے قبل بھی کوئٹہ میں ٹارگٹ کلنگ کے ذریعے شیعہ فریقےسے تعلق رکھنے والے بہت سے لوگوں کو ٹارگٹ کانشانہ بنایاگیاہے اور اکثرواقعات کی ذمہ داری کالعدم تنظیم لشکرجھنگوی نے قبول کی ہے۔

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