Saturday, September 24, 2011
Terror bid foiled in Pakistan
Indo-Asian News Service
Islamabad, September 24, 2011
A terror attack was foiled on Saturday in Pakistan's Quetta city when residents nabbed an Afghan militant while he was planting a bomb at a hall, a media report said.
The militant - identified as Abdul Khaliq - was planting the bomb at the Nichari Imambargah, a congregation hall
for Shiite ceremonies, Online news agency reported.
On questioning Khaliq, police arrested 20 more terrorists and seized explosive material and weapons from their possession.
On Sep 20, at least 26 Shia pilgrims were gunned down in Balochistan province after their bus was ambushed by gunmen. Three more Shia Muslims were killed in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan, when they were going to a hospital to collect the bodies of those killed in the bus attack.
Source,
Hindustan Times
Islamabad, September 24, 2011
A terror attack was foiled on Saturday in Pakistan's Quetta city when residents nabbed an Afghan militant while he was planting a bomb at a hall, a media report said.
The militant - identified as Abdul Khaliq - was planting the bomb at the Nichari Imambargah, a congregation hall
for Shiite ceremonies, Online news agency reported.
On questioning Khaliq, police arrested 20 more terrorists and seized explosive material and weapons from their possession.
On Sep 20, at least 26 Shia pilgrims were gunned down in Balochistan province after their bus was ambushed by gunmen. Three more Shia Muslims were killed in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan, when they were going to a hospital to collect the bodies of those killed in the bus attack.
Source,
Hindustan Times
Hazara asylum seekers in Curtin
by Refugee Action Coalition Sydney on Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 8:11pm
Today (Thursday 22 Sept) at 3:30 pm we had a small peaceful protest near administration building in our centre for 1 hour. More then 400 people attented this protest. The protest was to let the immigration know of how our family is back home (our last resided place Quetta, Pakistan where most of us were living illegally) and how people feel and how much they worry.
Almost 31 people have been martyred on 20th of this September on a bus which was carring more then 50 passengers. They were stopped by anti-hazara or anti-shia (who are against our ethnicity and religious faith). Only the hazaras were seperated from those passengers and then were shot on the spot to death just because they were Hazara and Shia.
This is what people said in speeches and people were holding banners saying, 'Where is UN? Why UN do not hear our voice? Stop killing of innocent Hazaras? Is being Hazara is a crime? At the end of the protest people went back to their compounds peacefully.
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Today (Thursday 22 Sept) at 3:30 pm we had a small peaceful protest near administration building in our centre for 1 hour. More then 400 people attented this protest. The protest was to let the immigration know of how our family is back home (our last resided place Quetta, Pakistan where most of us were living illegally) and how people feel and how much they worry.
Almost 31 people have been martyred on 20th of this September on a bus which was carring more then 50 passengers. They were stopped by anti-hazara or anti-shia (who are against our ethnicity and religious faith). Only the hazaras were seperated from those passengers and then were shot on the spot to death just because they were Hazara and Shia.
This is what people said in speeches and people were holding banners saying, 'Where is UN? Why UN do not hear our voice? Stop killing of innocent Hazaras? Is being Hazara is a crime? At the end of the protest people went back to their compounds peacefully.
Please feel free to share.
killings in Quetta - Neither Pakistan nor Afghanistan is safe for Hazaras; by Refugee Action Coalition Sydney
on Thursday, September 22, 2011 at 11:56pm
MEDIA RELEASE
CURTIN ASYLUM SEEKERS HOLD PROTEST AT HAZARA KILLINGS IN QUETTA.
NEITHER PAKISTAN NOR AFGHNAISTAN IS SAFE FOR HAZARAS
Yesterday (Thursday 21 September), at 3.30pm, more than 400 mostly
Hazara asylum seekers staged a peaceful protest near the
administration building inside Curtin detention centre.
According to a statement released by the Curtin Hazara asylum seekers,
the hour-long demonstration was to let the immigration department know
of the dangerous situation that face their families in Quetta,
Pakistan.
Quetta has a large community of Hazaras who have fled persecution in
Afghanistan. But Pakistan is mostly Sunni Muslim and the Hazaras, who
are Shia Muslim, are increasingly the target of fundamentalist
killings in Quetta. Many of the Hazara asylum seekers families have
been left living illegally in Quetta.
“We want immigration department to know how we feel and how much we
worry [about our families’ situation].” the statement said.
The protest was held following news that on 20 September, over 29
Hazaras traveling on a bus near Quetta, were separated from other
passengers and executed. It was the third such attack in a month.
A number of speeches at the Curtin protest told of the persecution of
Hazara and Shia Mislims. The asylum seekers held banners saying,
“Where is UN?”; Why UN do not hear our voice?; Stop killing of
innocent Hazaras?; Is being Hazara is a crime?
At the end of the peaceful protest the asylum seekers returned to
their compounds. But the anxiety remains.
On the same day as the mass killing of Hazaras in Quetta, the
Australian government deported an Hazara man from Villawood detention
centre to Pakistan.
“The man is not a citizen of Pakistan. And the immigration department
ignored the very real dangers that confront the Hazaras in Quetta. The
deported man’s son had been injured in a Taliban attack in May this
year,” said Ian Rintoul, spokesperson for the Refugee Action
Coalition.
“The Australian government has directly violated its commitments not
to refoule asylum seekers. We are also calling on the government to
terminate its Memorandum of Agreement with the Afghan government to
return Hazaras to Afghanistan?
“How can the Australian government possibly justify such an agreement,
when the attacks on the Nato base and the killing of Burhanuddin
Rabbani, the head of the Afghan Peace Council show that Kabul itself
is not safe?” asked Rintoul.
For more information contact Ian Rintoul 0417 275 713
MEDIA RELEASE
CURTIN ASYLUM SEEKERS HOLD PROTEST AT HAZARA KILLINGS IN QUETTA.
NEITHER PAKISTAN NOR AFGHNAISTAN IS SAFE FOR HAZARAS
Yesterday (Thursday 21 September), at 3.30pm, more than 400 mostly
Hazara asylum seekers staged a peaceful protest near the
administration building inside Curtin detention centre.
According to a statement released by the Curtin Hazara asylum seekers,
the hour-long demonstration was to let the immigration department know
of the dangerous situation that face their families in Quetta,
Pakistan.
Quetta has a large community of Hazaras who have fled persecution in
Afghanistan. But Pakistan is mostly Sunni Muslim and the Hazaras, who
are Shia Muslim, are increasingly the target of fundamentalist
killings in Quetta. Many of the Hazara asylum seekers families have
been left living illegally in Quetta.
“We want immigration department to know how we feel and how much we
worry [about our families’ situation].” the statement said.
The protest was held following news that on 20 September, over 29
Hazaras traveling on a bus near Quetta, were separated from other
passengers and executed. It was the third such attack in a month.
A number of speeches at the Curtin protest told of the persecution of
Hazara and Shia Mislims. The asylum seekers held banners saying,
“Where is UN?”; Why UN do not hear our voice?; Stop killing of
innocent Hazaras?; Is being Hazara is a crime?
At the end of the peaceful protest the asylum seekers returned to
their compounds. But the anxiety remains.
On the same day as the mass killing of Hazaras in Quetta, the
Australian government deported an Hazara man from Villawood detention
centre to Pakistan.
“The man is not a citizen of Pakistan. And the immigration department
ignored the very real dangers that confront the Hazaras in Quetta. The
deported man’s son had been injured in a Taliban attack in May this
year,” said Ian Rintoul, spokesperson for the Refugee Action
Coalition.
“The Australian government has directly violated its commitments not
to refoule asylum seekers. We are also calling on the government to
terminate its Memorandum of Agreement with the Afghan government to
return Hazaras to Afghanistan?
“How can the Australian government possibly justify such an agreement,
when the attacks on the Nato base and the killing of Burhanuddin
Rabbani, the head of the Afghan Peace Council show that Kabul itself
is not safe?” asked Rintoul.
For more information contact Ian Rintoul 0417 275 713
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