Post by Hazara Parkour.
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Monday, April 14, 2014
Keeping the Flame of Art Alive in Balochistan
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| The Crowd: By Shazia Batool |
Shazia Batool’s conversations – about Quetta, about the worsening situation and the burgeoning art scene – are filled with dramatic gasps and sharp intakes of breath but beneath her excitable exterior lies a steely resolve. This is evident in the stories she chooses to tell: How she wheeled herself into Quetta’s Serena Hotel and insisted that its managers let her exhibit her paintings; how, as a physically-handicapped person, she manages to live in an environment not exactly friendly to the disabled, how she migrated to neighbouring Iran with her mother but, after living there for two years, decided to return alone and resume her life in Quetta..............The Hazara community has its own initiatives. On the day I meet and speak with Batool, I visit one such community space. Amongst the mass of homes and shops and restaurants in crowded Mariabad, is a seemingly unassuming door with a small plaque that says, in a near-silent whisper, Sketch Club. The ‘club’ was started in 2008 by Fazil Mousavi, a respected elder of the community. For the very low fee of 1,000 rupees a month for each student, on the rooftop of a katcha house and surrounded by the panoramic view of mountains, local children are taught art. Some are being rigorously trained to sit the entrance exam for the NCA; others are much younger. I strike up conversation with a chirpy hijab-clad seven-year-old. Another young girl tells me how she protested to her family until they allowed her to start drawing. Yet another wants to go to Lahore and study miniature. As the sun starts making its lazy descent down the sky and the blinding light creates dark shadows, students sit around a still-life and studiously sketch. At the end of each year, the Sketch Club holds a student exhibition where the works are put up for sale. Mousavi believes that art should be accessible to all and the art pieces are thus priced accordingly — much of it ends up being bought. There used to be a local art gallery in Mariabad, a teacher at the Sketch Club tells me, but its owner shut shop and migrated to Australia.....Continue Reading....
Saturday, April 12, 2014
کوئٹہ میں دو ہزارہ شیعہ افراد فائرنگ میں ہلاک
محمد کاظم
بی بی سی اردو ڈاٹ کام، کوئٹہ
آخری وقت اشاعت: اتوار 13 اپريل 2014 , 20:16 GMT 01:16 PST
پولیس اہلکار کا کہنا تھا کہ ابتدائی تفتیش کے مطابق یہ فرقہ وارانہ ٹارگٹ کلنگ کا واقعہ ہے
پاکستان کے صوبہ بلوچستان کے دارالحکومت کوئٹہ میں فائرنگ کے ایک واقعہ میں ہزارہ شیعہ برادری سے تعلق رکھنے والے دو افرادکو ہلاک کر دیا گیا ہے۔
پولیس کے مطابق دونوں افراد کو ہفتے کی شام نامعلوم مسلح افراد نے سریاب روڈ کے علاقے میں واقع بس ٹرمینل پر ان افرا کو نشانہ بنایا۔
سریاب پولیس کے ایک اہلکار نے بی بی سی کو بتایا کہ فائرنگ سے ایک شخص جائے وقوعہ پر ہلاک ہوا جبکہ دوسرا زخمی ہوا۔ زخمی شخص کو ہسپتال لے جایا گیا جہاں وہ زخموں کی تاب نہ لاکر چل بسا۔
پولیس کے مطابق ہلاک ہونے والے دونوں افراد کا تعلق ہزارہ قبیلے سے ہے۔
پولیس اہلکار کا کہنا تھا کہ ابتدائی تفتیش کے مطابق یہ فرقہ وارانہ ٹارگٹ کلنگ کا واقعہ ہے۔
دوسری جانب ہزارہ ڈیموکریٹک پارٹی اور تحریک نفاذ فقہ جعفریہ نے دونوں افرادکی ہلاکت کے واقعے کی مذمت کی ہے۔
ہزارہ ڈیموکریٹک پارٹی کے مرکزی بیان کے مطابق سریاب روڈ پر کراچی جانے والے دو ہزارہ مسافروں کو بس سے اتار کر شناخت کرنے کے بعد ہلاک کیا گیا۔
Two Shia Hazaras gunned down in Quetta
SYED ALI SHAH
A police officer said the deceased were singled out from a passenger bus fired upon by the militants from a very close range. – File Photo
Published 2014-04-12 23:56:06
QUETTA: Armed militants killed two people of ethnic Shia Hazara community in Sariab road area of Quetta, the capital of volatile Balochistan province on Saturday night, police said.
Imran Qureshi, the Superintendent of Police Sariab Road told Dawn.com that armed militants singled out two members of Hazara community from a passenger bus and opened fire on them from a very close range.
He said one person was killed on the spot while the other succumbed to his wounds on his way to hospital. The attackers sped away on their motorcycles after the firing.
“The incident as an act of targeted killing,” Qureshi said. The passenger bus was preparing to leave for Karachi when intercepted by militants, he added.
Police and personnel of Frontier Corps (FC) reached the spot and launched an initial investigation into the incident.
“It is an act of sectarian terrorism,” police said.
The dead bodies of the victims were rushed to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) for medico-legal formalities.
The incident took place four days after at least 17 people were killed in a blast at Sibi railway station in the province.
Quetta remained under the grip of sectarian attacks for last more than a decade. A large number of members of Hazara community have been killed in targeted killings and suicide attacks.
A police officer said the deceased were singled out from a passenger bus fired upon by the militants from a very close range. – File Photo
Published 2014-04-12 23:56:06
QUETTA: Armed militants killed two people of ethnic Shia Hazara community in Sariab road area of Quetta, the capital of volatile Balochistan province on Saturday night, police said.
Imran Qureshi, the Superintendent of Police Sariab Road told Dawn.com that armed militants singled out two members of Hazara community from a passenger bus and opened fire on them from a very close range.
He said one person was killed on the spot while the other succumbed to his wounds on his way to hospital. The attackers sped away on their motorcycles after the firing.
“The incident as an act of targeted killing,” Qureshi said. The passenger bus was preparing to leave for Karachi when intercepted by militants, he added.
Police and personnel of Frontier Corps (FC) reached the spot and launched an initial investigation into the incident.
“It is an act of sectarian terrorism,” police said.
The dead bodies of the victims were rushed to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH) for medico-legal formalities.
The incident took place four days after at least 17 people were killed in a blast at Sibi railway station in the province.
Quetta remained under the grip of sectarian attacks for last more than a decade. A large number of members of Hazara community have been killed in targeted killings and suicide attacks.
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