Gender Construction

Gender construction: A case of Pakistani science textbook
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By Zaheer Abbas
School curriculum plays a vital role in making any discipline appropriate and attractive to
students and encourages their involvement in the particular subjects. In many
developed and developing countries, it is a primary source to share, directly or
indirectly, the notion of education for all citizens. With respect to this all-encompassing
perspective, one may assume that both male and female are equally portrayed in
textbooks. This paper specifically discusses the analysis of three science textbooks for
grade 8 (Punjab, Sindh and a Private Textbook Board) in terms of how equally females
and males are represented in both illustrations and text. It concludes with some
recommendations based on the findings, and the implications for different stakeholders
of education. In order to determine the representation of male and female in the science
textbook, content was thoroughly analyzed. Firstly, the frequency of male and females
appearing in the illustrations in the textbooks were computed. From the results, it was
evident that illustrations depicting male were more than four times of the illustrations
representing females. Although science textbooks of Punjab and Sindh have more
female images as compared to the private textbook; however when the nature of
images were explored, it was found that these images or photos were representing
female in very conventional roles especially in Punjab and Private Textbooks. For
example, in Punjab Textbook, in the uses of acids in cotton and textile industries, an
image of a girl is given who is wearing a colourful dress. None of the illustrations
represent females doing any science activity. In addition, it seems that an effort has
been made in the textbook of Sindh Textbook Board to avoid stereotyping by including
illustrations of females in science activities. For example, two illustrations are given
where two girls are doing an activity about how sound travels in water. On the other
hand, in all the three textbooks, males were over represented doing science related
activities and notions like, males have presented in science concepts of force and
motion, energy, food chains, sound and so on. The three textbooks also differed in the
way the common nouns are used in the text. The analysis of the text revealed that on
average, frequency of common nouns representing males was more than seven times
(84%) of the frequency of common nouns representing females. In other words, males
were heavily over-represented in the text as compared to females. When further
analysis was carried out to see the types of commons nouns, it was found that males
were presented as astronauts, policeman, and climbers while none of such common
nouns were used for females. In comparison with other two textbooks, the textbook of
Punjab seems to have a balance in the representation of both male and female in text.
In all the three textbooks, the names of male and female scientists were also counted to
explore whether male and female scientists have represented equally or not. From the
analysis, it was quite clear that all the scientists presented were male. In other words,
the representation of scientists was gender biased favouring males. In Sindh textbooks,
both male and female scientists are absent while in Punjab textbook, only one male
scientists name is presented. Contrarily, 12 scientists names are given in the Private
textbook and all are males. This paper reported the analysis of three science textbooks
of grade 8th of different textbook boards of Pakistan. The results revealed that on
average, there is a clear gender imbalance in both the illustration and text favouring
males. Only in two illustrations, female have been shown doing a science experiment
while all the other illustrations do not represent females doing any science activity. In
other words, the textbooks have portrayed female image stereotypically. Hence, from
the under-representation and stereotypes of women in these textbooks, it seems that
the textbooks are gender blind in nature. In developing countries like Pakistan,
textbooks are considered as the major source of instructions in schools. Shared aims of
publishing the textbooks especially science textbooks, are to use these textbooks to
stimulate students interest, motivate them towards science and science related fields
and help them to acquire a better understanding of science without marginalizing any
social group. In this sense, gender imbalance favouring male in the science textbooks
means to exclude woman from science. So the messages delivered by such a gender
biased school textbooks will be taken by students as science is preserved for males
more as compared to female. This imbalance, Potter and Rosser (1992) believe, may
disseminate the message that males are the norm in science. Walford (1980) also
argues that gender bias and masculine face of science in textbooks may play a role in
promoting the view that science is a boys subject more than the girls subject. The
gendered biased curricula have also some other negative impacts on female science
education. When young students enter school, the images of males and females
portrayed in the textbooks crystalize their conceptions about gender. It results in
developing their self-image, their behaviour, aspirations and expectations. Therefore,
balanced depiction of male and females in the illustration of textbooks is important as it
can provide them with role models. When textbooks are biased in terms of gender, then
lack of role models especially for girls will dampen their aspirations and dispirit their
attendance and achievement in science. Less representation of females in science text,
illustration and as scientists will also limit the chances of young girls to perceive them in
science related careers. It would also hinder their participation in science related
activities in classrooms as it would not allow them to nurture perceptions of themselves
in possible social roles in science. Different research studies have identified gender
biased textbooks as one of the important factors contributing to the academic failure
and resultant dropout among girls in science. Moreover, women portrayal in nonscientific roles in science, especially in the illustrations of the middle school textbooks
may act as stereotype threat for young girls which may result in their low performance in
science. This stereotype threat may, in further consequences, negatively impact their
enrolment in secondary and higher classes. Female under-representation and
stereotypes in Pakistani textbooks are one of the key factors hindering womens entry
into science. Further, such textbooks do not offer learners, the space to imagine a
different set of gender relations. This desperate situation indicates the need for
improved role models of girls in science textbooks. The need is not only to have gender
aware textbooks but to have gender sensitive textbooks. As the textbooks are revised,
therefore, instead of emphasizing traditional roles of women, including females in
scientific activities as chemist, astronaut, astronomer and researcher in a laboratory
may be helpful. Furthermore, while selecting names that appear in text, the authors and
publishers should consider gender equity and equality in mind. In other words, the
whole content, which includes text and illustration, should be gender inclusive. For
example, words representing only male (gender) can be replaced with the wordshuman
being/people (gender neutral) or man and woman (when both male and female are
referred) and he (pronoun for male) with she and he or they(Dean, 2007). It is important
to note that unless the textbooks are not gender balanced, children will continue to
absorb the biases of existing understanding of society and reproduce these stereotypes
in future. To get the goal of gender sensitive textbooks, human resource development in
gender equality should be made a permanent feature of the textbook development
process. It is very surprising that presently there is no gender expert/consultant at any
level of the curriculum and textbook development process in Pakistan. Therefore, it can
be recommended that such personnel should be hired for training the concerned people
in creating and developing gender sensitive/responsive curricula, textbooks and other
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PERSECUTION OF MINORITIES IN PAKISTAN
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[quote]Thursday, June 10, 2010

Targeted killings turn into sectarian violence
1 more killed, death toll rises to 5 in 15 days

By Atif Raza
KARACHI: In the continuing wave of sectarian violence in the city, a Shia man was gunned down on Wednesday. Meanwhile, the police have failed to
arrest the criminals involved in targeted killings.
As per details, 35-year-old Shahzad Raza Rizvi, son of Tahir, worked as salesman at a grocery shop near Bahadurabad Chowrangi in the limits of New
Town police station.
SHO Tariq Imran confirming it a targeted killing said, the deceased, father of one, sustained two bullets in the head when he was ambushed by two
unidentified motorcyclists near the Imtiaz Superstore.

His body was shifted to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre for medico-legal formalities, where doctors stated the victim was shot from a distance
of less than 20 meters. The body was later handed over to his family.
Allama Abbas Komaili condemning the attack said at least five members of the community have been killed during the last 15 days.
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Amnesty: Tribal Pakistan is a 'rights-free zone'

Thursday, 10 June 2010 13:02 UK
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Refugee camps have long been a fixture in north-western Pakistan Millions of Pakistanis live in a "human rights-free zone" in the country's north-west,
Amnesty International says. Residents of tribal areas face Taliban abuse and get no protection from the government, the rights group alleges.
In a report, it says the Taliban secured their rule by killing elders and torturing teachers and aid workers. A Pakistani foreign office spokesman rejected
Amnesty's findings, saying his government was "fully committed" to improving human rights in tribal areas.
Displaced
"We are not denying that there are problems there," spokesman Abdul Basit told reporters in Islamabad, but he said the government was "sparing no
effort" to ensure people's rights were protected.
The 130-page Amnesty report, As if Hell Fell on Me, was based on nearly 300 interviews with residents of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas
(Fata) and the surrounding areas.
It says more than a million people have been displaced by fighting between the Pakistani military and the Taliban in tribal areas bordering
Afghanistan.
The report also says available information suggests that at least 1,300 people were killed in the conflict during 2009.
"Nearly four million people are effectively living under the Taliban in north-west Pakistan without rule of law and effectively abandoned by the
Pakistani government," said Claudio Cordone, Amnesty's interim secretary general.
The report quotes a teacher, who fled the Swat valley with his family in March 2009, describing how the Taliban operated.
"[The Taliban] took over my school and started to teach children about how to fight in Afghanistan. They kicked out the girls from school, told the
men to grow their beards, threatened anybody they didn't like."
The teacher said the government failed to protect them.
"What's the point of having this huge army if it can't even protect us against a group of brutal fanatics?"
Last year the Pakistani army declared the Swat valley to be free of militants after completing an anti-Taliban operation in and around Mingora, the
main city in the valley.
Pakistani military spokesman Athar Abbas dismissed the report, describing it as "factually incorrect". He said that tribal elders supported the army's
action to bring stability, particularly to the Swat region.
"Local journalists as well as foreign journalists who have been visiting Swat, talking to the people, the elders, the notables, the locals there, they have
endorsed the contribution of the military in bringing normalcy and protecting the people," he told the BBC.
Amnesty has documented what many civilians in north-west Pakistan have often been scared to openly say, the BBC's Aleem Maqbool reports from
Islamabad.
The report talks of systematic human rights abuses by the Taliban and accuses militants of increasing the likelihood of civilian casualties by dispersing
themselves among civilians during clashes with government forces.
But it also accuses the Pakistani army of not doing enough to avoid civilian casualties in its operations against militants, and the government of
neglecting the basic needs of the millions of people living in the frontier regions close to Afghanistan. Deal with that, Amnesty says, and many of the
conditions that have led to the considerable unrest in these areas, would be removed. The group has appealed to both the Taliban and the Pakistani
government to end human rights abuses in north-west Pakistan. It has also called on Islamabad to reform the Pakistani constitution, which excludes
the Fata from the legal and parliamentary system of the country.
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Sectarian killings claim two more lives in Khi

By Imran Ayub
Sunday, 13 Jun, 2010
KARACHI: Two more people, including a young man associated with the medical profession, on Saturday fell prey to what are being described as
sectarian killings in the city.
Peace remained a distant dream for Karachiites amid the authorities claims that they would move against the miscreants with force and deliver
results.
The fresh targeted killings sparked scattered incidents of violence that included acts of arson in the strife-hit areas such as New Karachi and Ancholi.
However, despite police claims about having traced the elements behind the fresh sectarian killings, no arrest has been made on this account. Early in
the morning, the 34-year-old man was targeted in Nazimabad when he was coming out of the parking area of a private hospital. Naseer Hussain Jafri
was associated with the private hospital where he reached for his routine work.
It was around 8am when Mr Jafri parked his car and walked to enter the hospital, said Sub-Inspector Jehanzeb, the SHO of the Nazimabad police
station. Two men riding motorbikes came close to him. One of them pulled out a 9mm pistol and fired multiple shots at him. He received three bullets
and died on the spot.
It appears a targeted killing on sectarian grounds as we have not yet found facts that may suggest personal enmity as a motive, said SSP Abdul
Hameed Khosa of Liaquatabad Town.
Information gathered by the investigators suggested that one of the attackers wore an off-white shalwar-kameez and the other a shirt and trousers.
The latters face was covered in a helmet.
Both attackers rode away after the shooting, leaving the young victim in a pool of blood. The victims body was later taken to the Abbasi Shaheed
Hospital.
The victim was married and lived in Surjani Town. He was a laboratory technician at the private hospital, said the Nazimabad police station SHO.
Almost an hour later, a young activist of the Sunni Tehreek was gunned down while he was standing with friends at a paan shop in New Karachi. The
area police said 25-year-old Rizwan Qadri was among the at least six youngsters hanging out at a known paan shop in Sector 5-E of New Karachi.
All of a sudden two men on a motorcycle emerged and one of them got off the motorbike holding a 9mm pistol, said Inspector Chaudhary Nazar, the
SHO of the Bilal Colony police station. Most youngsters, including the paan-shop owner, escaped the attack, though Rizwan and Ayaz sustained bullet
wounds and were rushed to the Civil Hospital Karachi.
Before reaching the hospital, Rizwan died. Adnan, having been hit by a single bullet in the abdomen, survived, said the Bilal Colony SHO.
As the news of the ST workers death reached his residential area in Madina Colony in Sector 5-E of New Karachi, a law-and-order situation developed
when unknown men resorted to uninterrupted firing into the air that forced the shopkeepers to pull down their shutters and transporters to stay off
roads in the area.
Fear further gripped the localities of New Karachi, including Sindhi Hotel and Godhra Camp Colony, when two buses were set on fire in Madina
Colony.
We were informed of arson attacks on two buses of routes W-1 and W11 in New Karachi at 11am. The registration number of only W-1 bus could be
ascertained as JE-5272 while the other one was damaged so badly that its number had become illegible, said an official at the central fire station.
Charged atmosphere was also witnessed on Shahrah-i-Pakistan for a fourth consecutive day where dozens of youngsters gathered and blocked the
main road in protest against the killing of Naseer Hussain Jafri. Charged youths also pelted passing vehicles with stones.
The police blocked Shahrah-i-Pakistan from the Water Pump end to the Sohrab Goth end as a precautionary measure to avert untoward incidents.
Life and business activity in the adjoining blocks of Federal B Area remained suspended amid deployment of a heavy contingent of the police backed
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Karachi target killings are mostly sectarian targeted against shia community by Pak army/ISI supported Sipah-e-Sahaba terror group which was also
involved in resent bombings of Ahamadi mosques in lahore in which 100 people died......for mor information on karachi killings read this ...
Kill a Shia doctor a day, a joint operation by the ISI and Sipah-eSahaba in Karachi
Shia Muslims hold a banner through the streets of Karachi, condemning recent target killings. Photo by Reuters; Source: Dawn
Killing of Shia doctors continues unabated in Karachi. There is ample evidence of the states institutional involvement in crimes against Shias and other
religious minorities in Pakistan.
Here is how it works:
1. Pakistan Armys intelligence agencies recruit mercenaries for their jihadi wings (proxy army) by fanning sectarian and faith based hatred against
Shias, Ahmadis, Christians, Hindus etc.
2. Jihadi terrorists recruited and trained by the ISI, MI etc are allowed to pursue their sectarian agenda within Pakistan by target killing of Shias,
Ahmadis, Christians etc. (Read Khalid Ahmeds excellent article on the Shia killings on Jahane Rumi)
3. In most cases, Pakistan Police are unable to arrest the culprits because terrorists mentors and protectors in Pakistan Army pressurize the police to
refrain from arresting their assets.
4. In a few cases, when the terrorists are arrested and produced before a court of law, terrorists mentors and protectors in Pakistan
Army (ISI, MI etc) influence the police to refrain from submitting a substantial evidence. A similar pressure is exerted on judges in the court who
are also sent anonymous letters threatening them with dire consequences if the court failed to release the terrorists.
The end result is as follows: terrorists of Sipah-e-Sahaba have once again successfully launched their kill a Shia doctor a day operation in Karachi.
ISI and Shia killings

Source: Jahane Rumi
Monthly Newsline (June 2001) actually wrote that the intelligence agencies were in with the sectarian terrorists: The official quoted above has no
hesitation in accusing the ISI of orchestrating such (Shia) murders through the militants of sectarian parties, adding that Sipah Sahaba terrorists are
trained by the agency. The Sipah Sahaba are supported by the MQM Haqiqi Group. Sources reveal that Sipah Sahabas (sic!) Riaz Basra has been
spotted in the company of a colonel who has also given him shelter in his house. Similarly, when three members of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi were picked up
by the police, another colonel, who identified himself as their PRO, requested that they be released forthwith. It should be noted that Riaz Basra has
been described by the magazine as a Sipah activist! Karachi has killed 450 people in cases of sectarian violence since General Musharraf took over the
government in October 1999. Lately the killing is one-sided because the Sunni-Deobandi combine is simply too strong to be countered by the Shia
organisations.
It is not Sunni-Shia sectarianism
According to Sarah Khan, writing in the Pakistan Press group, a network of Pakistani journalists:
It is painful to see that some media outlets are portraying the current events in Karachi as a sectarian confrontation between Sunnis and Shias or
between Barelvis and Deobandis. This is a simplistic and manipulative treatment of facts.
What we are currently witnessing in Karachi is the same phenomenon which we have been seeing and experiencing Peshawar, Lahore, FATA and other
parts of Pakistan for the last many months and years, i.e., violence and terrorism by the Taliban and their affiliates, Sipah-e-Sahaba, against any
individual or group who does not subscribe to their jihadi and sectarian agenda.
It is a known fact in Karachi that the Sipah-e-Sahabas terrorists are responsible for the current cycle of violence against Sunni (Sunni Tehreek) and
Shai (Jafaria Alliance) citizens of Karachi.

Also, it is know that certain intelligence agencies are responsible for feeding and protecting activists of Sipah-e-Sahaba / Taliban in Karachi.
Our media should be careful in apportioning the blame to where it rightfully belongs, i.e., Taliban and Sipah-e-Sahaba.
There is ample evidence that terrorists of Sipah-e-Sahab are being released by the Police or by the court on the pretext of various reasons. The
outcome is a surge in anti-Shia and anti-Ahmadi killings in Pakistan.
Home department takes notice of sectarian killings
Daily Times, 13 June 2010
KARACHI: Taking serious notice of the recent spate of sectarian targeted killings, the Sindh Home Department has sought particulars of the activists of
banned outfits that were released from jails recently and soon a crackdown is expected against them. We have sought the list of those recently freed
from jails through courts. Most of them belong to banned sectarian outfits, said Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza on Saturday at the Chief
Ministers House. Over 20 people have been killed in the last two and a half months in the city in sectarian targeted killings. Mirza told journalists the
government was taking concrete steps to curb targeted killings of sectarian nature and the police and Rangers have made several arrests. The home
minister said the provincial government took a bold step by refusing to allow public meetings of a banned organisation, adding he has received life
threats on the issue but would not bow. Everybody knows that I always play on the forefront, he said. Meanwhile, Federal Interior Minister Rehman
Malik while talking to media persons after meeting Sindh Chief Minster Qaim Ali Shah at the Chief Ministers House said the Sindh government has
convened a high-level meeting on Monday to discuss steps to control the recent sectarian violence in the city.
BBC Report 2001
In 2001, BBCs Susannah Price reported that:
Police in Pakistans largest city Karachi are under intense pressure to end an upsurge in sectarian murders of doctors and other professionals in the
city.
Extremists from the majority Sunni community [wrong: Sipah-e-Shaba terrorists do not represent Sunnis] have been blamed for the killing of four Shia
doctors since April as well as the high profile murder of the head of Pakistan State Oil, Shaukat Mirza.
Fanatics from both sides have carried out many deadly attacks in Karachi over the years but the new tactic is to target prominent personalities in the
community.
Whenever Dr Hassan (his name has been changed to protect his identity) drives to work, his car radio on full blast he puts his life at risk.
Doctors along with lawyers and government officials are being singled out by religious extremists. Most recent victims were Shias.
Dr Hassan believes the murder of doctors is meant to terrorise the community.
Doctors are easily accessible people because their movement is known to everybody and people know what time they are going to their clinics and
what place they are available for public services, he says.
The other thing is the doctors are highly educated people and if you kill a doctor that creates more restlessness in the society, he adds.
Exodus
In some cases the gunmen have simply walked in and shot doctors in their clinics.
Some now have their own bodyguards. And according to Dr Sher Shah of Pakistans Medical Association, many are leaving the country.
Sectarian killings are targeted killings [and] need lot of intelligence help Jameel Yusuf, CPLC
More than 2,000 doctors have applied in the past six months to leave because of the security situation and the economic crisis, he says.
There are plenty of police out on the streets of Karachi, many guarding possible flashpoints such as mosques, but this kind of patrolling is virtually
useless against these latest killings.
The extremists target their victims and plan their attacks carefully.
According to a most recent report published in Pakistans daily The News:
Doctors killing rings alarm bells
Friday, June 04, 2010
By our correspondent
Karachi
Caught up with confusion and presumptions, doctors at the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) are trying to connect the loose ends of fresh killings of
doctors in the city as they express concern over the killings.
In the last 36 hours, two doctors have been killed in Karachi and one abducted for ransom in Hyderabad, having spread terror and fear among the
doctors. Calling the killings sectarian in nature, Dr Habib Ur Rehman Soomro, Secretary General of PMA said that once again the doctors are being
targeted because they are easy targets and can be easily located in their clinics.
Dr Hassan Raza Bokhari, 32, was killed by two gunmen as he prepared to leave for home after completing his night duty at National Medical Center
near Kala Pull. The investigation officer at Frere Police Station, Ali Ahmad, where the First Information Report was filed (222-10/302), had a
completely different take on the story and said that it can not be said with certainty that the victim was killed on sectarian grounds.
The victim was unmarried and was in relationship with someone. It is more likely that there was a feud among families, but at this point we are still
gathering proofs and a completely different story might unfold.
In another similar case, Dr Junaid Hussain was killed on his way to home by two unknown men. Inspector Mohsin at Bilal Colony Police Station, where
the FIR (287/2010) was filed, reiterated the same fact as his colleague and said, Up till now there is bee no evidence that it is a sectarian killing.
However, doctors at PMA refused to accept these killings as random. These killings indicate that some elements are trying to terrorise doctors, said
Dr Samrina Hashmi, former general secretary of PMA. Sitting among colleagues and friends at PMA, Dr Hashmi said that hitting prominent people
creates terror, anarchy and lawlessness, which such elements want.
Nine years ago, hordes of doctors were killed in a similar fashion which created furor among the medical community. Though the furor speeded up the
investigative process, it however could not bring up the desired results as was expected. A banned Islamic outfit, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi was blamed for
the targeted killings of Shia doctors in June 2002 and put before the courts. Lashkars Akram Lahori was consequently arrested with two of his
accomplices and admitted all the charges against him.
Consequently, Lahori was given life sentence and imprisonment by an Anti Terrorism Court. He had admitted in his previous statement that even if he
is killed his accomplices will carry on the work that they are doing it now, says Dr Soomro.
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Today, Pakistan Medical Association once again formally protested against the inability (or lack of willingness) of the state to stop killing of Shia
doctors in Karachi:
PMA upset as pathologist gunned down
Sunday, June 13, 2010
By our correspondent
Karachi
The office-bearers of the Pakistan Medical Association (PMA) staged a demonstration, attended by a handful of doctors, to condemn the killing of their
colleagues as a pathologist was gunned down on Saturday at around 8:30am.
An upset Dr Samrina Hashmi, former general secretary of the PMA, said that they could not blame the government as we cannot gather people from
our own community.
Dr Farhat Moazzam, a professor of Bio-Medical ethics at the Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation (SIUT), said that instead of wasting time
talking about the incident, they should take concrete steps to put an end to this violence. I was told that the police know who the killers are, then
why they are not arrested? asked Dr Moazzam, adding that pressure will come from the civil society, which is being affected by these killings.
Speaking on the same lines was Dr Mirza Ali Haider, a senior member of the PMA, who said that the country was made on the basis of equality.
My religion should not be a matter of concern to anyone and I have a right to ask
why minorities and religious sects in Karachi are discriminated and innocent people are being killed in the name of religion? Strangely, the basis on
which the country was founded are the very same that are not being considered at all.
He said that if the killings continued, the doctors will not pay tax and will go on a strike.
Secretary Health, Syed Hashim Raza Zaidi, said that their protest has been registered with the government and pleaded that the doctors should not go
on a strike. Do not let your anger affect your profession for something which should unite all of us, added Zaidi.
President PMA Dr Idrees Adhi pointed out that killing of Shia doctors had been going on from 2000 till 2003, and said that the doctors should not go
on a strike as the people who will suffer the most are the patients and general public of the city.
Talking about the general apathy among the people in general and law enforcers in particular, he said that they do not react unless something major
happens.
It is pertinent to mention here that so far five doctors have been killed in the city with no clue of the killers. The doctors say that there is a clear
involvement of a banned outfit, which is contrary to what the police officials investigating the matter say.
Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Wasim Ahmed had claimed in a meeting with the doctors at the PMA that he knew the culprits, to which Dr Samrina
Hashmi says that they will believe it when they are arrested and punished accordingly.
Source: The News, 13 June 2010
Here are some news reports from recent past which point to the gravity of the situation:
Karachi death toll rises to 10
By Adnan Adil
2010-06-12
KARACHI Street protests erupted and businesses were closed in parts of Karachi June 12 after two more people were killed on sectarian grounds,
news media reported.
That brings the death toll to 10 in the ongoing spate of targeted killings during the last three days, BBC Urdu reported.
Unidentified men riding a motorbike shot and killed a Shia medical doctor, Naseem Hasan Jaffri, June 12, when he was on his way to his clinic, news
media reported.
Police and the Rangers were patrolling tense areas of the city, including New Karachi, Federal B. Area, Golimar, Rizvia Society, Lyari, Pak Colony,
Qaidabad, news media reported.
Since June 2, four doctors have been killed in what is believed to be tit-for-tat killings on sectarian basis.
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Shia doctor gunned down
KARACHI: Another doctor belonging to the Shia sect was shot dead on Thursday by unidentified gunmen near the Railway Colony. Frere police said
the deceased Hassan Hyder, 33, son of Kausar was a resident of Bilal Apartments, adding he was shot as he returning home from his clinic The police
said the victim used to work at the National Medical College. Allama Abbas Komaili condemned the targeted killings of Shias and said the government
should take notice of the killings of Shia doctors. In another incident, a mobile shop owner was gunned down on a business dispute in Gulistan-eJauhar Block, 16. Police said the victim Babar Irshad was a resident of Jauhar square. Mishaps: A man was knocked to death by a metro passenger
coach while crossing the road near the Abbot Laboratory in Quaidabad police precincts. Police said the deceased Gul Adar Khan was a resident of
Kohat Colony, Quaidabad and a labourer by profession. In other mishap, a young man was electrocuted at Shershah Godown while at work. Shershah
police shifted the body of the victim Sheraz Fakhar, 25, to Civil Hospital, Karachi for legal formalities. staff report
Daily Times, 4 June 2010
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Shia doctors killing reaches Quetta
Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA.ir), Dr. Qamar Hussain Zaidi and Murtaza shot martyred on Sirki Road Quetta. Accrording to SFP Reports a terrorist of
Sipah-e-Yazeed started firing upon Dr. Qamar while he was passing on Sirki Road at abtout 7:00 PM. He martyred on the spot. A young man Murtaza
caught terrorists and griped him tightly but he also got bullet in his neck by a terrorist. Resulting he was seriously injured and rushed to CMH Quetta.
Later on he also succumbed to his injuries and got martyrdom.
This incident occurred just one night before when Organizing committee of Shuhda-e-Baluchistan has arranged a protests in Quetta against Shia
Killings and terrorism.. terrorists are showing that there is law of Jungle. There is bitter violation of basic human rights of Shia Muslims in certain cities
of Pakistan. It needs immediate concern of human rights and higher authorities of country to be alert and pay their responsibilites.
23 June 2010
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Shia killing is systematic and country wide
Concern shown over target killing of Shias
PPI 11 June 2010 Friday | 01:06:00

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HYDERABAD, Leaders of Jafria Alliance Hyderabad, Syed Rashid Hussain Shah, Sher Ali Shah, Qasim Jafri, Maulana Agha Muhammad Qambrani,
Shamim Naqvi and Maulana Sajidi have expressed anger and concern on target killing of Shias in country especially in Karachi by terrorists.
They said that no day passes when the youth of Millat Jafria doctors, engineers, professors and others are not killed under target killing. They deplored
that the media was hiding the truth and was not exposing the terrorists. They were highlighting news of the terrotists organizations to keep them
alive. They said that after killing of doctors in Karachi Ali Afzal was murdered in Hangu, then Asif Raza killed in Nazimabad,and today murder of his
brother Shahzad Raza were proof of target killing of persons of Shia community but the government could not see these killings. They warned that the
patronisation of terrorists by government and blood of Millat Jafria would prove costly to authorities which will be revenged. They also deplored that
the elected representatives of Millah Jafria have kept silence on killings of Millat Jafria. They made appeal to mothers, brothers and sons of Millat Jafria
that time has come when they have to fight war for their survival and to stop target killing be prepared for country wide Dharna. They also made
appeal to all political parties to raise voice in assemblies to stop target killing of Shias.
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UNHCRs Report on Shia Doctors Killings in Karachi
Pakistan: Information on the murder of Dr. Ibne Hassan on 16 August 2003 in Karachi; whether anyone has been charged or claimed responsibility;
whether there are suspects; whether there is a trial pending
On 16 August 2003, unidentified gunmen shot and killed Dr. Ibne Hassan [also spelled Ibn-e-Hasan (AP 17 Aug. 2003) and Ibn-e-Hassan (Asian Affairs
Nov. 2003)] in the Karachi neighbourhood of Malir (AFP 16 Aug. 2003; Pakistan Press 17 Aug. 2003). Following the murder, hundreds of people
demonstrated in the streets and some caused damage to property in the area (AFP 16 Aug. 2003; AP 17 Aug. 2003; The News International 31 Aug.
2003). Following the funeral of Dr. Hassan on 17 August 2003, a riot broke out, resulting in attacks on a Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurant, gas
stations and a police checkpoint (AP 17 Aug. 2003; Reuters 17 Aug. 2003). Also on 16 August 2003 in Malir, unknown assailants shot and killed 80year-old Syed Waji Haider (AFP 17 Aug. 2003; AP 17 Aug. 2003; Daily Times 17 Aug. 2003).
Both Dr. Hassan and Haider were Shiite Muslims (AP 17 Aug. 2003; Daily Times 17 Aug. 2003). According to media reports, the police believe the
murder of Dr. Hassan was likely driven by sectarian aims (AFP 16 Aug. 2003; AP 17 Aug. 2003). In the few years preceding his murder, Sunni-Shiite
sectarian violence claimed approximately 50 Shiite doctors in Karachi (The News International 31 Aug. 2003; AFP 17 Aug. 2003). In Pakistan, Shiite
Muslims account for approximately 20 percent of the population (AFP 17 Aug. 2003) and Sunni Muslims account for 77 percent (US 5 Oct. 2006).
No information could be found among the sources consulted by the Research Directorate as to whether any person or group has been charged with
the murder of Dr. Hassan or has claimed responsibility, whether there are any suspects, or whether a trial is pending. However, in February 2004, two
members of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LJ) [also Lashkar I Jhangvi (CDI 3 Mar. 2003) and Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (US 11 Oct. 2005)] were remanded in police
custody for questioning in connection with the murder (Dawn 27 Feb. 2004; The News International 26 Feb. 2004). The LJ is a Sunni sectarian
organization named by both the Pakistani and United States governments as a terrorist group (CDI 3 Mar. 2003; Shia News 30 Jan. 2003; US 11 Oct.
2003).
The LJ members in question, Sajid Jabbar, alias Budha (Dawn 19 Feb. 2004), and Mohammad Athar, aliases Khalid Memon (ibid.) and Kala (Pakistan
Times 18 Feb. 2004), were also arrested in connection with other offences, including delivering parcel bombs to government offices (Dawn 18 Feb.
2004; Pakistan Press 4 Mar. 2004; Pakistan Times 18 Feb. 2004). Media sources indicate that both Jabbar and Athar were later acquitted of charges
related to the parcel bomb case (Dawn 9 Mar. 2004; Pakistan Press 30 Aug. 2005; ibid. 22 Mar. 2004; ibid. 8 Mar. 2004). Media sources also report
that Jabbar was suspected of involvement in the January 2002 murder of American journalist Daniel Pearl (CNN 17 Feb. 2004; Telegraph 5 Sept.
2004). Among the sources consulted, no information could be found regarding the outcome of the police questioning of Jabbar and Athar in relation to
the murder of Dr. Ibne Hassan.
This Response was prepared after researching publicly accessible information currently available to the Research Directorate within time constraints.
This Response is not, and does not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular claim for refugee protection. Please find below the list of
additional sources consulted in researching this Information Request.
References
Agence France-Presse (AFP). 17 August 2003. Shiite Protesters Ransack US Franchise Fast Food Outlet in Pakistan. (Factiva)
_____. 16 August 2003. Gunmen Kill Shiite Doctor in Pakistans Port City. (Factiva)
Asian Affairs [Hong Kong]. November 2003. Ashok K. Behuria. Future of Sectarianism. [Accessed 4 Oct. 2006]
Associated Press (AP). 17 August 2003. Afzal Nadeem. Mob Violence Follows Funeral in Pakistan. (Factiva)
Cable News Network (CNN). 17 February 2004. Police Arrest Pearl Suspect. [Accessed 5 Oct. 2006]
Center for Defense Information (CDI). 3 March 2003. In the Spotlight: Lashkar I Jhangvi. Terrorism Project. [Accessed 12 Oct. 2006]
Daily Times [Lahore]. 17 August 2003. Hassan Mansoor. Gunmen Kill Two Shias in Karachi. [Accessed 4 Oct. 2006]
Dawn [Karachi]. 9 March 2004. Karachi: Death Sentence in Zuhair Murder Case Set Aside. [Accessed 5 Oct. 2006]
_____. 27 February 2004. Karachi: LJ Activists Remanded in Murder Case. [Accessed 12 Oct. 2006]
_____. 19 February 2004. LJ Activists Remanded in Police Custody. [Accessed 12 Oct. 2006]
_____. 18 February 2004. Two LJ Leaders Arrested. [Accessed 12 Oct. 2006]
The News International [Karachi]. 26 February 2004. Court Gives Police Remand of Two LJ Activists. [Accessed 4 Oct. 2006]
_____. 31 August 2003. Zulfiqar Shah. The Killing Fields of Karachi. [Accessed 4 Oct. 2006]
Pakistan Press International Information Services. 30 August 2005. SSP Activist Acquitted in Parcel Bomb Cases. (Factiva)
_____. 22 March 2004. Police Submit Charge Sheets Against LJs Activist. (Factiva)
_____. 8 March 2004. LJs Activist Acquitted in Parcel Bomb Cases. (Factiva)
_____. 4 March 2004. LJ Activists Remand Extended in Parcel Bomb Cases. (Factiva)
_____. 17 August 2003. Violence Erupts in North Nazimabad Town after Funeral Prayers of Doctor Gunned Down in Malir Area. (Factiva)
Pakistan Times [Islamabad]. 18 February 2004. Kashiff Bhatty. Alleged Leader of Outlawed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Nabbed in Pakistan. [Accessed 5 Oct.
2006]
Reuters. 17 August 2003. Pakistani Mourners Torch US Fast Food Outlet. (Factiva)
Shia News [Rugby, UK]. 30 January 2003. Ahmed Reza. Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Put on US Terrorist List. [Accessed 12 Oct. 2006]
Telegraph [London]. 5 September 2004. Massoud Ansari. Daniel Pearl Refused to Be Sedated Before His Throat Was Cut. [Accessed 5 Oct. 2006]
United States (US). 5 October 2006. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Pakistan. The World Factbook. [Accessed 13 Oct. 2006]
_____. 11 October 2005. Department of State. Office of Counterterrorism. Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs). [Accessed 13 Oct. 2006]
Additional Sources Consulted
Oral sources: The High Court of Sindh Karachi and a Pakistani criminal lawyer did not provide information within the time constraints of this Response.
Internet sites, including: British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT), Pakistan News
Service, South Asian Terrorism Portal, The Nation, World News Network.
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Below is a list (1997-2005) of just some of the innocent victims of Sipah e Sahaba, Lashkar e Jhangavi and other Wahabi groups including Al-Qaeda:
Year 2005
July 17: Quetta Professor Syed Tahir Hussain Rizvi was shot dead in Quetta by two Wahabi terorists. His wife, Dr Nadir Khan, was severely injured in
the attack.
May 30: Karachi Five people were killed, including two suicide bombers, in an attack at Madintul Ilm Imambargah in the Gulshan e Iqbal area of
Karachi.
May 27: Islamabad At least 20 people were killed and many injured when a suicide bomber exploded himself in a mixed crowd of Shia and Sunni
devotees gathered at the shrine of sufi saint Bari Shah Latif.
March 19: Gandhawa At least 43 people were killed when a Sipah e Sahaba terrorist exploded himself in a mixed crowd of Shia and Sunni devotees at
the shrine of sufi saint Pir Rakhel Shah in Baluchistan province.
Year 2004
October 01: Sialkot At least 30 Shia worshipers were killed and more than 50 injured when a suspected suicide bomber detonated an explosive device
at a mosque during Friday prayers.
September 06: Quetta A retired professor Ateeq Hasan Naqvi was waiting at bus stop to return home from his private school when motorcyclists
opened fire on him killing him on the spot.
June 6: Lahore Former provincial minister Pir Binyamin Rizvi was shot dead along with his driver and bodyguard
June 5: Dera Ghazi Khan Dr. Surrayia Nisar Khosa was shot dead in her Al-Zahrah(AS) hopital by Wahabi terrorists.
May 31 : Karachi 26 Shias, including seven children were killed by Wahabi terrorists in a suicide attack at Imam Ali Reza Mosque.
May 14: Lahore Six people from a family, including 2 children one an infant were killed by Wahabi terrorists.
May 07: KarachiAt least 30 Shia worshipers were killed and hundreds injured by Wahabis in a suicide bomb attack at a mosque during Friday prayers.
March 03: Quetta At least 47 people including five police officers, were killed and 160 injured when Whabis attacked a mourning procession
February 28: Rawalpindi Three children were injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a Shia mosque.
Year 2003
October 03:Karachi 6 Shia Muslim employees of SPARCO killed and 7 others injured by Wahabi terrorists.
August 16:Karachi Syed Wajeeh Haider, A 75 year old shopkeeper, shot dead by Wahabi mullahs in his shop.
August 16:Karachi Dr. Ibn-e-Hassan, 45, was shot dead by Wahabi mullahs near his clinic.
July 05:Renala Khord Catholic priest Father George Ibrahim was gunned down at his home by Wahabi mullahs.
July 04:Quetta 50 Shia Muslims were killed and 65 others injured when Wahabi terrorists carried out a suicide attack at a mosque during Friday
prayers in Quetta.
June 08:Quetta 12 Shia police cadets were killed and 8 seriously injured by Wahabi mullahs in Quetta.
June 06:Quetta Syed Niaz Hussain, Vice-President of Imambargah Sajjadia Sariab Road was killed by Wahabi terrorists.
February 27:Karachi Two Shia men, Ghulam Hussain and his nephew Baqar Raza, were shot dead at their bakery by three Sipah e Sahaba terrorists.
February 22:Karachi Nine Shia Muslims were killed and 10 injured when 4 Wahabi terrorists opened fire at worshipers in Mahdi Imambargah near the
Karachi airport.
Year 2002
December 21: Sawhiwal DR Syed Zahid Hasnain Sherazi, Child Specialist, District Headquarters Hospital Sahiwal was attacked and seriously injured by
Wahabi militants.
November 01:Lahore Capt Syed Imran Zaidi (retired), a 45 year-old doctor, was shot dead at his clinic on Wazeer Ali Road by a Wahabi terrorist
September 30:Charsada Agha Danish Alvi, a teacher at a government primary school, was shot dead by Wahabi terrorists inside the school premises.
August 10:Texila Three nurses were killed and 25 people were injured when Wahabis threw grenades on a chapel in the Taxila Christian Hospital
August 09:Quetta Brigadier Bartar Hussain Naqvi critically injured by Wahabi terrorists.
August 05:Murree Six people were killed when Wahabi militants opened fire at a Christian School in Murree
June 26:Waziristan Agency !0 Pakistani soldiers were martyred in a gun-battle with Wahabi terrorists belonging to Al-Qaeda. Names of the martyrs:
Maj Rizwan, Lance Naik Sajawal, Sepoys Ishaq, Safdar Khan and Fazle Rabbi of the Baluch Regiment, and Capt Naeem, Lance Naik Hazrat Hussain,
Lance Naik Din Muhammad, Sepoy Jameel Khan and Lance Abdus Samad of the South Waziristan Scouts.
June 17:Multan 3 Shia youths were shot dead by Wahabi terrorists near Imam Bargah Al-Hussaini in New Multan. The victims were identified as
Hassan Raza Zaidi, his younger brother Ali Raza Zaidi and their friend Raza Haider
June 14:Karachi 11 killed in suicide bomb attack at the U.S. consulate.
May 25:Karachi Wahabi terrorists shot dead Agha Abbas, owner of a juice center in Nazimabad. Gul Zaman, a worker was wounded in the attack.
May 8:Karachi 11 French navy experts and two Pakistanis killed by a suicide bomber outside Sheraton Hotel
May 7:Lahore Renowned Sunni scholar Dr Ghulam Murtaza Malik, his driver and a policeman were shot dead by terrorists
May 7:Karachi 32 years-old Shia Muslim, Syed Asghar Ali Ziadi was shot dead by Sipah e Sahaba at his tailoring shop in Karachi
May 6:Karachi Syed Zafar Mehdi Zaidi, a prominent Shia figure and principal of Jamia Millia Technical College, Malir was shot dead along with his driver
Qamar Zaman, and his peon, Mukhtar by Sipah e Sahaba terrorists. Qamar Zaman and Mukhtar belonged to the Sunni sect of Islam.
May 5:Karachi Dr Athar Hussain Rizvi, aged 50 was shot at and injured by Sipah e Sahaba terrorists at his clinic in F-South in Khokhrapar.
April 25:Bhakkar 7 women and 5 children were killed and at least 50 injured in a bomb blast at a religious gathering of thousands of Shia Muslims in
the grounds of a mosque. A Wahabi terrorist using the name, Tauseef Ali was arrested on May 5, 2002 in connection to the Bhakkar massacre.
April 23:Karachi Nasir Ali aged 20 and Aal e Raza Rizvi aged 30 were shot dead by Sipah e Sahaba terrorists in Orangi Town area. Their third
victim 18 year-old Fahad Hussain was wounded in the attack
April 10:Karachi Isfahan Haider, a 37 year-old shopkeeper was shot dead by Sipah e Sahaba in North Nazimabad
March 19:Lahore Professor Attaur Rahman, a prominent Sunni scholar was shot dead along with his driver by Sipah e Sahaba terroristsThe same
terrorists then shot dead Syed Hasan Raza, a Shia Muslim who was standing outside a mosque near Professor Rehmans institue, Idara Minhaj ul
Quran in the Jain Mandir area.
March 17:Islamabad 5 people were killed and 45 injured in a grenade attack carried out by Wahabi terrorists on a crowded Protestant church.
March 12:Karachi Anwar Ali Tirmizi and Zulfiqar Haider killed by the Sipah e Sahaba at a Tehrik e Jafria office in Shah Faisal Colony.
March 12:Shahkot Syed Gul Hassnain was killed along with his driver by Sipah e Sahaba terrorists in Shahkot (60 Kilometeres west of Multan).
March 12:Karachi Sipah e Sahaba terrorists attacked a Shia family killing three brothers Ahsan Ali, Mohsin Ali and Abbas Ali while their fourth brother,
Irfan Ali was wounded in the attack.
March 11:Karachi Three doctors, Dr Ali Jaffar Naqvi, Dr Bilal and Dr Shahnaz Ahad escaped an attacked by Sipah e Sahaba terrorists in Defence
Housing Authority
March 08:Karachi Dr. Muzaffar Ali Soomro was killed by Wahabis in Gizri, Clifton.
March 05:Karachi Dr. Aale Safdar Zaidi was killed by Wahabis in Gizri, Clifton.
January 29:Karachi Jawwad Rizvi, a retired employee of an insurance company in his early-60s was shot dead and his friend Zumarrud Hussain Jaffery
wounded seriously by suspected Sipah e Sahaba terrorists.
January 23:Karachi Wall Street journalist Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and brutally murdered by Wahabi terrorists.
January 09:Karachi A Shia official Syed Hasan Ali shot dead by Sipah e Sahaba
Syed Rashid Mehdi was also shot dead by Wahabis in the Hussainabad area of Karachi. We were unable to get the exact date of his martyrdom.
Year 2001
November 15:Karachi A Shia industrialist, Syed Hasan Abidi shot dead.
October 28:Bahawalpur 15 Christian worshipers and a Muslims guard were killed at St. Dominics Church by Wahabis. Shafiq-ur-Rehman, a Sipah e
Sahaba terrorist was arrested on November 01 in connection to the church massacre
October 10:KARACHI: Sindh Board of Technical Education Chairman Syed Hassan Zaidi gunned down
October 09:KARACHI: College principal Syed Gul Imam Shah shot dead
October 04:KARACHI: 7 Shia Muslims were killed and 6 injured when Sipah e Sahaba terrorists opened fire at worshippers at Ali Murtaza Mosque
(Azam Basti).
September 13: QUETTA: Professor Atiq Hasan Naqvi hurt, son killed in Quetta
September 12: KARACHI: Pesh Imam of Defence mosque, Allama Syed Razi Hyder and his son shot dead
September 10: KARACHI: Capt (Retd) Altaf Hussain Bungasha, a PTCL official, killed
September 04: KARACHI: Pesh Imam of Hussainiya Sajjadiya, Maulana Hussnain Naqvi, shot dead
September 01: KARACHI: Three, including Hamid Rizvi, gunned down
August 29: QUETTA: Masked men kill civil engineer Syed Abid Abbas Naqvi
August 18: KARACHI: Grenade attack on Pesh-Imam of Masjid-e-Shah-e-Khorrasan
July 30: KARACHI: Syed Zafar Hussain, Director R&D in the Ministry of Defence killed
July 30: LAHORE: Imam Masjid Syed Rizwanul Hassan killed
July 28: MULTAN: Former MPA Siddiq Kanju and friend shot dead
July 26: KARACHI: Shaukat Raza Mirza, MD of PSO, and driver shot dead
July 24: MAILSI: Religious leader Syed Ziaul Hassan Kirmani and others killed
July 20: KARACHI: Commissioner office staffer shot dead in Lines Area
July 15: KARACHI: Another Shia killed in Orangi Town
July 09: KARACHI: Two gunned down outside Imambargah
July 08: KARACHI: Doctor Ishrat Hussain falls prey to Wahabism
July 03: Rahimyarkhan: Syed Ibrar Hussain, a computer engineer and member of Imambargah Hussaineya was brutally beaten up at his shop by Sipah
e Sahaba terrorists. Ibrar died later in the hospital.
June 27: DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Top Shia leader, Syed Hassan Ali Kazmi, gunned down by SSP terrorists
June 26:Karachi: Dr. Mohammad Raza, was shot dead by Wahabis in Saeedabad area.
June 26: KARACHI: Shia doctor shot dead in Soldier Bazaar
June 17:Karachi: Dr. Asad Ali was killed by Wahabis in Saeedabad area.
June 14: MULTAN: Two Shias shot dead
June 01:Karachi: Dr. Raza Mohammad Jafri was killed by Wahabis in the Gulshan area.
May 31: KARACHI: Doctor shot dead in Gulshan-e-Iqbal
May 24:Karachi: Dr. Syed Javed Nazim was killed by Wahabis on M T Khan Road.
May 21:Karachi: Dr. Raza Mehdi Jafri was killed by Wahabis in Gulshan e Iqbal area.
May 18: KARACHI: Sunni Tehrik Chief, six others shot dead in Karachi
May 09: KARACHI: Two shot and wounded in Orangi Town
May 07: NOWSHERA: Ali Sarwar Sarhadi, a Shia leader fired upon
May 07: DERA ISMAIL KHAN: Senior Superintendent of Police Ijaz Ahmad Langarial shot dead
April 28: KARACHI: Sub-inspector Syed Hashim Raza shot dead
April 3:VEHARI: Former TJP leader shot dead
March 22:Multan: Lashkar man confesses to several killings
March 18:Karachi Dr. Zahid Hussain was killed by Wahabis in Al-Asif Square area.
March 4: 12 killed in attacks on Shias in Sheikhupura
March 2: Tehrik-i-Jafria worker shot dead in Karachi
March 1: Riots claim 8 lives after attack on Shias in Hangu
Febuary 26: TJP activist shot dead in Vehari
Febuary 22: Lawyer dies in Gujranwala terrorist attack
Febuary 22: Ex-DSP, son shot dead; attackers arrested in Karachi
Febuary 18: Three killed in sectarian attack in Faisalabad
Febuary 17: Bodyguard killed in attack on TJP leader in Jhang
Febuary 9: Two shot dead in Karachi
Febuary 7: TJP activist, another man shot dead in Tank

Febuary 6: Two TJP activists shot dead in Karachi
January 25: Tehrik Jafaria man shot dead in Multan
January 20: Iranian religious scholar shot dead in Karachi
Year 2000
December 30: TJP leader shot dead, wife injured in Karachi
December 16: DSP Lahore Tariq Kamboh and his driver were gunned down
December 04: Human rights activist & Former PPP MPA, Syed Zakir Hussain Shah shot in Rawalpindi
December 02: Dr. Nayyar Hussain gunned down in Orangi Town
November 24: TJP Secretary-General Anwar Ali Akhunzada shot dead in Peshawar
October 31: Dr. Altaf Husain killed in Orangi Town
October 30
r. Karamat Ali shot dead in Orangi Town
June 27:Four Lashkar-e-Jhangvi activists arrested in Karachi for killing Dr Adib-ul-Hasan Rizvi & Dr Zafar Naqvi of Malir and others
June 14:Lashkar-e-Jhangvi activist confesses to killing 6 Shia leaders
June 06:Karachi: Dr. Wahid Baloch was killed by Wahabis in the Pakistan Quarters area.
May 16:Critically wounded brother of a local Shia leader in Hyderabad
May 15:Advocate Syed Sardar Jafary, President of Voice of Shia Organisation shot dead in Karachi
May 15:Killer of Magistrate Syed Fida Husain, his daughter Batool and gunman, held in Gujranwala
May 3:Advocate Malik Ibrar Hussain shot dead in Toba Tek Singh
May 2:Syed Sibtain Hasan Dosa and two others shot dead in Karachi
April 28:TJP activist Shahbaz Hussain Shirazi shot dead in Chishtian
April 26:Advocate Syed Farrukh Birjees Haider Tirmizi and another shot dead in Khanewal
April 19:Iqbal Hussain shot dead in Multan
April 12:17 people killed in an attack on a Majlis in Malohwali. Attock
April 7:TJP leader Syed Waqar Hussain Naqvi shot dead along with his son and driver Syed Munir Hussain Zaidi, Dr. Karamat Hussain and Dr. Syed
Nayyar Hussain were also shot dead by Wahabis in the year 2000 in Aurangi Town, Karachi. We were unable to get the exact dates of their
martyrdom.
Year 1999
October 07:Aun Mohammad Rizvi of PTV was shot dead in Rawalpindi
October 07: Dr. Aale Hussain and his son were shot dead by Sipah e Sahaba on Abul Hasan Isphahani Road in Karachi.
October 1,:9 Shot Dead in Malir Imambargah in Karachi
September 30:Advocate Ejaz Rasoolnagri killed in sectarian attack
September 28:Advocate Khurshid Anwar advocate, his daughter Ume Laila and his guard shot dead near Bannu
January 05
era Ismail KhanDr.Ali Bangash was shot dead by Sipah e Sahaba terrorists
Year 1998
December 27:Ghazi Abad, Chichawatni Syed Taqi Mohsin S/O Syed Ashiq Hussain was killed by Wahabi terrorists.
October 07:Ijaz Hussain shot dead in Khanewal
September 29
olice Constable Maqbool Hussain shot dead in Multan
September 22: Five shot dead in attack on Majlis near Multan

May 05: Pir Shakoor Ali Jafari, President Tehrik e Jafaria, Lahore Cantt., was killed by a Wahabi terrorist at his home in Lahore.
March 30:3 Shias shot dead in Multan
Febuary 21:Two Iranian Engineers shot dead in Karachi
January11: 25 Shia Muslims including children were killed and many injured when Sipah e Sahaba terrorists opened fire at a funeral gathering at a
graveyard in Momin Pura, Lahore
Year 1997
November 03: Two brothers, Aulad Hussain Shah and Baqar Hussain Naqvi killed in Sialkot
October 21: DSP Syed Tanveer Haider was killed at his home in Gulshan-e-Iqbal, Karachi by Wahabi terrorists
August 4:Jhang Syed Mujahid Hussain was shot dead by Sipah e Sahaba terrorists.
August 10:Karachi Dr. Jaffar Abbas Zaidi was brutally murdered by Sipah Sahaba terrorists in the premises of Abbasi Shaheed hospital where he was
serving as medical superintendent.
July 30:Sahiwal Advocate Syed Abid Hussain and his son Advocate Syed Haider Abbas were killed by Wahabi terrorists.
July 01:Khanewal 47 year-old Mohummad Badar Abbas s/o Syed Jamshed Hussain was martyred by terrorists belonging to Sipah e Sahaba.
May 14
kara President of Evan e Hussain, Okara Dr Hadi Hussain was shot dead by Wahabi terrorists.
May 6:SSP Ashraf Marth and his driver Tabbasum Zamir shot dead
April 14
kara Dr Syed Ijaz Imam was shot dead by Wahabi terrorists.
March 19:Jhang Syed Mahmood-ul-Hassan was shot dead atAAyub Chowk in Jahang City by Sipah e Sahaba terrorists. Five months later, his son Syed
Mujahid Hussain was also shot dead.
Febuary 20:Seven, including Iranian diplomat, gunned down at Iranian Centre in Multan
January 04:Chichawatni Shaikh Barkat Ali and his nephew were killed by Wahabi terrorists.
The following were also killed in the same year. We were unable to get the exact dates of their martyrdom.
Dr. Mansoor Anis: Aurangi Town, Karachi.
Anisul Hasan Rizvi: Saeedabad, Karachi.
Iqtidaar Sajjad Naqvi: Korangi, Karachi.
Syed Jaffer Abbasi: Nazimabad, Karachi.
Dr. Shakir Ali: Nazimabad, Karachi.
Pervaiz Akhtar Naqvi: Saudabad, Karachi.
Syed Ali Jaan Jafri: Mohammad Hussain Road, Karachi.
Mehdi Hussain: Karachi.
Dr Muhammad Ali Naqvi: Lahore
Dr Qaider Reza Sayal: Lahore
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Killing of Shia doctors continues unabated in Karachi. There is ample evidence of the states institutional involvement in crimes against Shias and other
religious minorities in Pakistan.

Here is how it works:
1. Pakistan Armys intelligence agencies recruit mercenaries for their jihadi wings (proxy army) by fanning sectarian and faith based hatred against
Shias, Ahmadis, Christians, Hindus etc.
2. Jihadi terrorists recruited and trained by the ISI, MI etc are allowed to pursue their sectarian agenda within Pakistan by target killing of Shias,
Ahmadis, Christians etc. (Read Khalid Ahmeds excellent article on the Shia killings on Jahane Rumi)
3. In most cases, Pakistan Police are unable to arrest the culprits because terrorists mentors and protectors in Pakistan Army pressurize the police to
refrain from arresting their assets.
4. In a few cases, when the terrorists are arrested and produced before a court of law, terrorists mentors and protectors in Pakistan Army (ISI, MI
etc) influence the police to refrain from submitting a substantial evidence. A similar pressure is exerted on judges in the court who are also sent
anonymous letters threatening them with dire consequences if the court failed to release the terrorists.
The end result is as follows: terrorists of Sipah-e-Sahaba have once again successfully launched their kill a Shia doctor a day operation in Karachi.
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Shia scholar, SSP activist gunned down

Tuesday, June 15, 2010
By Salis bin Perwaiz
Karachi
Sectarian tension mounted in the city on Monday as unidentified armed men shot dead a Shia writer in Nazimabad, while a leader of the banned
Sipah-i-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) was killed in the Mobina Town police limits, stirring protests and violence in some areas.
Syed Ayub Naqvi (55-60) was passing in his car (ADN-860) from near Baqai Hospital in Nazimabad on Monday morning when two armed men riding
two motorcycles came near his vehicle and sprayed him with bullets. He was immediately taken to a hospital where doctors pronounced him dead.
After the incident, leaders and activists of the Jafferia Alliance and the Imamia Students Organisation staged a protest at the hospital, demanding
immediate arrest of the killers.
According to SHO Jehanzeb of the Nazimabad police station, Syed Ayub Naqvi was a resident of Meeqasa Apartments situated near Essa Nagri,
Gulshan-i-Iqbal, and was running an Islamic books shop adjacent to Imambargah Noor-ul-Ameen in Nazimabad No-3. The deceased was a known Shia
scholar and he had written several religious books.
Naqvi has left behind a widow, a daughter and a son.
SHO Jehanzeb said that the police recorded the statements of eyewitnesses who narrated that both the gunmen were riding different motorcycles and
they were wearing Shalwar Kameez and appeared to be in middle age. The criminals had used 9mm pistols and the deceased received three bullets on
different parts of his body.
His funeral prayers were offered by a large number of Shia leaders and activists at Rizvia Imambargah and he would be laid to rest at Wadi-e-Hussain
graveyard in Memon Goth.
Meanwhile, when the funeral procession of Syed Ayub Naqvi was moving towards Wadi-e-Hussain graveyard, some unidentified people opened aerial
firing and blocked the Nazimabad Chowrangi area.
The protesters pelted the passing vehicles with stones and torched a vehicle near Inquiry Office in Nazimabad.
A protest was also launched in Ancholi area and Shahra-e-Pakistan was blocked due to which a traffic mess occurred and the commuters were directed
to use alternate routes. However, a number of vehicles stuck up in the traffic gridlock and tension gripped the area. The situation in the affected areas
was tense till the filing of this report.
Meanwhile, Ibrahim alias Maana, a SSP leader, was killed in the Mobina Town police limits. He was present near his shop at Memon Okhai Jamaat
Centre, Mosmiyat Chowrangi when two unidentified armed men on a motorcycle sprayed him with bullets and fled. The people present at the spot
immediately shifted him to a hospital where he breathed his last. Sources said that the deceased received four bullet wounds on different parts of his
body.
Ibrahim was on bail from jail. He used to run a flour shop at Mosmiyat.
After the incident, SSP activists staged a protest at the hospital and later took away the deceaseds body. Unidentified armed men resorted to aerial
firing in North Karachi, Mosmiyat and other areas, while shops and markets in the area were also closed.
Armed miscreants also attempted to torch a bus near Mosmiyat, but law-enforcement personnel foiled the attempt. The deceaseds funeral prayer will
be held at Siddiq-i-Akber Mosque on Tuesday morning.
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Target killing claims 7 more lives in Karachi

Upadated on: 15 Jun 10 12:36 PM
KARACHI: Seven more people were killed in different acts of target killings here on Tuesday, according to SAMAA TV.
One 28 year old got killed in Lee Market of Karachi late night by some unidentified assailants.
According to reports, unknown assailants shot and killed 65-year-old Ayub Naqvi in Nazimabad No-4. The victim received three bullets in his body,
which ultimately led to his death. Later in the day, hundreds of people attended the deceaseds funeral held at Imambargah Rizvi. He was buried at
Wadi Hussain Graveyard.
Dozens of people gathered in Nazimabad and burned tyres to protest the killings, causing huge massive traffic jam. Meanwhile, police reached the
scene and resorted to aerial firing and shelling to disperse them.
In Buffer Zone area, Tabish, 28, a rickshaw driver, was gunned down by unknown persons.
Another man, identified as Ibrahim, was shot dead in Gulistan-e-Johar. His funeral prayer would be offered at Al-Rahim Mosque at 10am near
Mosmiat.
On the other hand, Ishaq Meo died of wounds in a private hospital. He was attacked by unknown assailants on Sunday.
In another act of violence, unidentified persons shot and injured 18-year-old Naeem Ali in the limit of Sachal Police Station.
Sectarian tension gripped the city due to target killings as shops and business activities remained suspended in many areas.
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Sectarian violence flared after agencies were fettered

Coalition partners of the Sindh government had held successful meetings late last month to sort out the issue of political target killings in the city,
following which the phenomenon came to a screeching halt. The respite, however, was short-lived.
Following this breakthrough, Sindh Home Minister Dr Zulfiqar Mirza issued a letter to the heads of intelligence agencies on June 3 making it obligatory
that any detention by them be first referred to the local police station, so that all misconceptions are avoided.
Interestingly, two days after the fetters were placed, sectarian violence erupted in the city.
In the letter, addressed to ISI commander, FIA director and other top intelligence and law-enforcement agencies, Mirza instructed
them to stop arresting people without taking local police into confidence.
The letter issued the directives: [...] It is decided that henceforth any arrest required to be made in furtherance of a legal process by any agency
must be done only and only after information of such an arrest has first been communicated to the police station concerned where such an arrest is
supposed to be made. Snap checking on the pretext of search must also be communicated to the relevant police station. If this practice is not
followed, the arrest of the individual or group of individuals shall be subject to judicial scrutiny and the government shall take an adverse view of it. I
would like to place on record that these instructions be fully complied with in the future.
From the text of the letter, it is evident that the intelligence agencies had made arrests that were not welcomed by the ruling parties.
In a situation where the powers of the intelligence agencies have been limited, the police are finding it difficult to control the law and order situation,
despite claims by CCPO Karachi Waseem Ahmed and Zulfikar Mirza of the inroads being made by operations.
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Sectarian scourge
After an all-too-brief pause the curse of targeted killings has returned to Karachi. This time the victims are apparently being targeted not for their
ethnic background or political affiliation, but for their religious beliefs, giving the latest bloody cycle a sectarian colour. Up to 15 people have been
killed in the city in the first two weeks of June, mostly belonging to the Shia community. The latest incident saw the killing of a 68-year-old man in
broad daylight on Monday. Armed motorcyclists rode up to Syed Ayub Naqvis car and shot him. The elderly man was on his way to an imambargah.
The death was followed by violent protests in the city. Many areas of Karachi remained tense on Tuesday. Also on Monday the activist of a banned
sectarian outfit was gunned down on University Road.
As usual, condemnations and promises to do more have come from the rulers as well as those tasked with enforcing law and order. The Sindh IG
police has said efforts are on to trace those behind the killings while the federal interior minister has said there is zero tolerance for those involved
in the violence. President Zardari and members of the Senate have also expressed concern over the incidents. Over the last year or so, hundreds of
people have fallen victim to targeted killings in Karachi for various reasons. Now the time for platitudes is over. Tough words need to be backed by
solid action, and if those tasked with maintaining peace arent capable of doing so, perhaps more capable individuals can be given the job.
The scourge of sectarianism in this country seems to be unstoppable. The seed planted three decades ago has grown into an uncontrollable hydra
eating away at the fabric of this nation. The recent slaughter of Ahmadis in Lahore is fresh in the mind, but believers of all persuasions have been
targeted by the self-proclaimed guardians of faith. Mosques, imambargahs and other places of worship have been brazenly attacked while religious
processions have been bombed. Areas like Dera Ismail Khan, Parachinar and Karachi remain tinderboxes, which can easily be set alight at the slightest
provocation.
Hence the government needs to clamp down on those who openly preach and practise violence. Cosmetic measures like increasing frisking and snapchecks of motorists in Karachi will not end targeted killings. As we have repeatedly said, the criminals behind the killings need to be brought to book
while their support networks must be neutralised. Banned sectarian terror outfits must be permanently put out of business and not allowed to regroup
under different names. This madness has to end.
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What else is persecution? Salma B Ahmad

Ahmedis have always been a soft target for persecution. Time and again they have been arrested for greeting someone with an Assalam-o-Alaikum,
reciting the kalima or reading the Holy Quran
I took my first breath as an infant in a country whose government and people had already declared me and my community to be heretics. As a child, I
did not realise the implications of the draconian laws of 1974 and 1984 that Pakistan, my country, had imposed on us. The state had forbidden us to
even profess and defend our beliefs without any reason.
With age as I learned more about our society, I started to observe the injustice done to Ahmedis. I still remember that the subject of Pakistan Studies
was a constant obstacle in our path to learn about true history. It was frustrating to read about the efforts of Sir Syed, Allama Iqbal, Liaqat Ali Khan,
with no mention of the Ahmediyya Jamaats contributions to Pakistan.
The textbooks did not elaborate that it was Mir Dard an Ahmedi missionary in London who convinced Jinnah to return to India to restart his
campaign for the rights of Muslims back in the 1930s. They did not mention Sir Zafarullah Khan who authored the Lahore resolution, became our
countrys foreign minister and got the Kashmir resolution passed at the UN. They did not mention Dr Abdus Salam a Pakistani scientist who was
our countrys first Nobel Prize winner and a leading physicist of the 20th century. They did not name a host of Ahmedi generals and soldiers who
fought gallantly in the army in the 1965 and 1971 wars. Moreover, our Pakistan Studies books had no reference to the anti-Ahmedi laws that were
ordained in 1974 and 1984.
As a student, I knew about these injustices because I grew up in an Ahmedi household. Sadly, while my friends knew that I was an Ahmedi, they did
not know our role in the establishment and prosperity of Pakistan. They were even oblivious of the anti-Ahmedi laws.
Ahmedis have always been a soft target for persecution. Time and again they have been arrested for greeting someone with an Assalam-o-Alaikum,
reciting the kalima or reading the Holy Quran. Their properties and mosques have been confiscated and they have been denied high ranks in services.
Several Ahmedis from different walks of life have also been murdered brutally as a result of fatwas given by the mullahs and some media persons. The
list of persecution goes on.
May 28 was a culmination of the hatred and intolerance that was and is still being fostered by the so-called ulema. These ulema continue to preach
hate in their madrassas, even after the Ahmedi massacre, and readily distribute hate literature.
When Nawaz Sharif dared to profess solidarity with the Ahmedis recently, the sentiments of these very ulema got hurt. But then it is not unusual for
them to get hurt easily. After all, they are just too sensitive.
As BBC Urdu reported, leaders of 13 religious parties got together to condemn Nawaz Sharifs statement and demanded from him to clarify his status
regarding Ahmedis (message intended: denounce them or face our wrath). People may not know this, but some ulema have asked Muslims to renew
their nikah and declare themselves Muslim again by reciting the kalima if they had attended the funerals of the Ahmedis.
Such is the mindset of the ulema who declare themselves to be true Muslims! Yet, these true Muslims violate the Quranic injunction: There is no
compulsion in religion (2:256), which clearly allows all of us to practise our respective faiths in peace.
There is ample evidence of the illogical and child-like tantrums of these mullahs to incite hate against Ahmedis. These bigots do not refrain from their
fiery rhetoric and wajib-ul-qatal fatwas at every opportunity to promote their vested interests at the expense of Pakistan and Islam.
Our country is facing a critical situation. I hope that unlike 1974 and 1984, this time the government would refrain from appeasing the mullahs and
courageously fight the war against hate and intolerance.
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Govts inability to curb attacks despite prior notice irks HRCP

HRCP has expressed alarm over the carnage at the shrine of Hazrat Data Ganj Bukhsh in Lahore late on Thursday night, believed to have been caused
by suicide bombers
Lahore, July 2, 2010: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed alarm over the carnage at the shrine of Hazrat Data Ganj
Bukhsh in Lahore late on Thursday night, believed to have been caused by suicide bombers.
A statement issued by HRCP on Friday said: It is a matter of grave concern that despite repeated official claims of breaking the back of terrorists,
they retain the ability to launch vicious terrorist attacks across the country almost at will. The assault demonstrates the potency of militant groups that
the government incessantly repeats operate from sanctuaries in the tribal areas bordering Afghanistan.
Reports that intelligence agencies had alerted the police about terror threats against shrines in Lahore offer little consolation to the bereaved families
though they certainly raise disturbing questions about the authorities complacency and flabbiness. Belated statements of prior knowledge of threats
only add to the frustration the public feels over security agencies helplessness to stop the killings. Nor does bureaucrats rush to name external agents
reflect on their efficiency or sense of responsibility.
Equally frustrating have been clerics stock statement that no Muslim can commit such atrocities. Instead of living in denial, the clerics need to reflect
on the reasons for religious extremism in Pakistan and the possible consequences and their own contribution to the promotion of intolerance and the
cult of violence.
Thursday nights bombings strike at the heart of moderate Islam that most Pakistanis practise. Those still pretending that intolerance and extremism
are not tearing at the heart of Pakistan are complicit in acts of terrorism and the loss of lives they cause.
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Some statistics regarding the persecution of Muslims of the Ahmadi / Ahmadiyya sect by their Muslim co-religionists in Pakistan.
While the the Ahmadi / Ahmadiyya sect of Islam undoubtedly faces the systematic and institutionalized discrimination of the Pakistani State, the
degree of violence directed against them is quite low from the standpoint of violence unleashed against the minority Shia Muslim sect in the Islamic
Republic of Pakistan.
The wealth and influence of Ahmadi / Ahmadiyya sect of Islam appears to insulate them from being impacted by more of the egregious violence
ostensibly motivated by the sunnis that is evident in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan:
The Agony of Pakistan's Ahmadiyya

Written by Aftab Alexander Mughal
Tuesday, 06 July 2010
Fundamentalist terrorism shows its ugly face at a pacifist sect ..............................

In the period 1984-2009, 105 Ahmadis were killed, according to two authors writing in Viewpoint, a Pakistani online magazine. During the same
period, 22 Ahmadiyya mosques were demolished, 28 were sealed by authorities, 11 were set on fire, and 14 were occupied while construction of 41
was banned. In at least 47 cases, burials were denied in common grave yards while 28 bodies were exhumed, the two wrote.
Since 2000, an estimated 400 Ahmadis have been formally charged in criminal cases, including blasphemy. According to one report, in 2009 at least 37
Ahmadis were charged under the general provisions of the blasphemy laws and more than 50 were charged under specific provisions of the law
applying to Ahmadis. Many remain imprisoned.
Both printed and electronic Pakistani media have played a scandalous role in spreading hatred against the community. Recently, the Muslim Canadian
Congress (MCC) blamed major media outlets in Pakistan for inflaming rhetoric against Ahmadiyya, Ismaili and Shia Muslims. In particular, the MCC
pointed out that GEO Television has become the voice of al-Qaeda and the Taliban and spreads hate against these communities as well as against
non-Muslims.
According to one report, After the attacks some newspapers ran op-ed articles creating an impression as if these attacks were a violent consequence
of the ongoing polemic between certain Muslim sects and the Ahmadiyyas. ................................
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Pakistan sect endures persecution

No Pakistani minority is as victimized as the country's 4 million Ahmadis, who believe in Islam but are viewed by the rest of the
country as heretics. There are even legal restrictions on them.
July 06, 2010|By Alex Rodriguez, Los Angeles Times
Reporting from Faisalabad, Pakistan Rifles slung over their shoulders, the guards pacing in front of Naeem Masood's fabric shop
glower at anyone who walks by. It's not thieves or vandals that Masood is worried about. He needs protection from assassins.
In April, the 29-year-old boyish-faced Pakistani found his father, brother and uncle slumped over in the seats of their car, their faces and chests riddled
with more than 60 bullets. All of them were dead, victims of what Ahmadis in their Faisalabad enclave say was a deadly warning from extremists:
Renounce your sect or leave the city.
No Pakistani minority is as victimized as the country's 4 million Ahmadis, who believe in Islam but are viewed by the rest of the country as heretics.
Because they revere another prophet as well as the prophet Muhammad, the Pakistani government has declared Ahmadis "non-Muslims," made it a
crime for members to refer to their places of worship as mosques and even barred them from extending the common Muslim greeting, salaam
aleykum.
The Ahmadi community's vulnerability was evident May 28, when Pakistani Taliban gunmen stormed two Ahmadi mosques in Lahore, Pakistan's
second-largest city, and killed more than 90 people caught in a maelstrom of gunfire, grenades and suicide bombings.
Though Pakistan is a multiethnic and multilingual society, it has a long history of marginalizing minority groups. Shiite Muslims have been the target of
radical Sunni Muslim groups for years. Last year, in the central Punjab city of Gojra, a mob of 1,000 angry Muslims set more than 40 Christian homes
ablaze, killing seven people.
The plight of the Ahmadi community, however, provides a window onto the intolerance that permeates Pakistani society. Ahmadis say the risk they
face is heightened by the fact that, in a society where hard-line religious parties wield unchallenged clout, they are viewed as traitors to Islam.
Ahmadis consider themselves Muslims but believe that their late-19th century founder, Mirza Ghulam Ahmad, was a prophet of God, a belief viewed as
heresy by Pakistani Muslims who regard Muhammad as Islam's final prophet.The sect's marginalization was set into motion in 1974 when Pakistan's
parliament enacted the law branding Ahmadis as non-Muslims. The crackdown on the Ahmadis intensified in the 1980s during the rule of Gen. Zia ulHaq, who ordered a maximum three-year prison term for any Ahmadi who called himself a Muslim, carried out the Muslim call to prayer or referred to
an Ahmadi place of worship as a mosque."As a result of Zia's decrees, the state facilitated the mullahs who were already against us," said Syed
Mehmood, spokesman for the Ahmadi community in Faisalabad. "That's when the persecution started. Hundreds of Ahmadis were jailed just because
they said Salaam aleykum."
Mehmood said the persecution continues today, forcing Ahmadis in Faisalabad to find creative ways to survive. As a result of the killings of the three
Ahmadi businessmen in April, along with recent kidnappings and other acts of violence against Ahmadis, community members routinely change their
routes to and from home, vary the time of day they arrive and leave work, and lie when asked on the phone about their whereabouts. Many of them
have put their social lives going to parties, meeting friends for lunch or tea on hold.
At Zaheer Malik's Toyota dealership, a gleaming glass and silver-paneled building out of place amid the cinder-block merchant stalls on the outskirts of
Faisalabad, tall, broad-shouldered armed guards stand watch in the parking lot as well as at the foot of the stairs leading to Malik's second-floor office.
Malik, a wealthy Pakistani Ahmadi in his mid-30s, says he has received several threats recently, including one in May in which a man came to the
showroom and urged his driver to quit. "They told him, 'Your boss is not a Muslim and we might do something to him,' " Malik said. " 'It'll be better if
you leave the job. We don't want you to die with him.'
"For last the month, I can't go to the gym, I can't go anywhere to have dinner, can't go to parties, I just stay home," Malik said. "Every day I'm
changing schedules, changing cars. Every day I'm telling someone I'm in Lahore when I'm really in Faisalabad, or I'm in Dubai when I'm actually in
Karachi."Omar Ahmed, 27, keeps a pistol with him at all times and stations armed guards outside his jewelry store. Ahmed took over the shop after his
father, Ashraf Pervaiz, was killed in the same hail of bullets that killed Masood's father, Masood Javed, and his brother, Asif Masood. Ahmed says that
if he could leave Pakistan, he would. But his predicament is the same as Naeem Masood's: As elder sons, they have to stay for the sake of their
families and the family businesses."We're in a battlefield every day," Ahmed said. "We have to live with the fact that we are Ahmadis."
Ahmadis say they don't expect much help from city police, who they say have shown little interest in solving crimes committed against their
community. Masood said he recently visited police headquarters to ask whether investigators had made any progress finding the killers of his father,
brother and uncle.
"They said, 'You tell us the names of the gunmen, and we will go and capture them,' " Masood said.
Rao Sardar, a top Faisalabad police official, said it's not a question of police indifference but a simple matter of manpower. The Faisalabad district has
a police force of 7,000 officers charged with securing a population of 8 million, he said.
"That's a very low ratio, and that's the problem," Sardar said. "We're doing all we can do."
Ahmadis say police indifference is only part of the problem. Laws that brand Ahmadis, a minority regarded elsewhere in the world as a Muslim sect, as
non-Muslims only serve to breed intolerance within Pakistani society, large segments of which are illiterate and easily swayed by radical imams and the
country's powerful patchwork of religious parties.
A neighborhood's lack of reaction to an act of persecution against an Ahmadi often provides an example of that intolerance. A year ago, Laeeq Ahmed
was driving home from work when, a few hundred yards from his house, gunmen sprayed his car with bullets. Ahmed's wife, Nuzhat Laeeq, rushed to
her husband, who was still alive but unconscious, and pleaded with bystanders to help. The crowd ignored her, she said.
Ahmed died the next day in a hospital. Later, witnesses of the slaying described to Laeeq what had happened, how the gunmen had celebrated
afterward by chanting, "We have killed an infidel!" Despite the presence of witnesses, however, the crime remains unsolved.
"We believe that the government, its legal system and the people here won't help us," Laeeq said, speaking in a hushed, quavering voice behind a
black veil. "The police won't give us any kind of investigation. We have left our fate, and this case, up to God."
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Fayyaz Hussain Naqvi, the 11th Shia to die for nothing
The 11th victim of sectarian target killings in two months was buried in Orangi on Tuesday. Twenty-four year old Fayyaz Hussain
Naqvi was ambushed and shot by two men on motorcyles while on his way home from a motorcyle factory where he worked.
According to witnesses, he was shot dead from a close distance by two youngsters, one with a beard and the other cleanshaven.
When he reached Caf Taskeen hotel, they fired at him and fled on their bikes as he fell to the ground, a witness said. People
standing around said they took his body to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital.
He died at the gate of the hospital, said Junaid, who accompanied the body. Doctors corroborated this, saying he arrived at 8:30am and expired at
the time of arrival.
Abbasi Shaheed MLO Dr Sheeraz told The Express Tribune that it appeared that he was hit from less than 12 metres away. He sustained two injuries
in the head, the MLO said. Pistols were used and the wounds were one centimetre deep. The killing took place in the jurisdiction of Iqbal police
station, Orangi 11 1/2. SHO Haji Liaquat Ali told The Express Tribune that as far as their investigations had revealed, the young man had no political
affiliations. An FIR was registered against unnamed people.
Soon after the incident, protesters gathered at the hospital and shouted slogans against the government for failing to prosecute the killers in sectarian
violence.
Scared shopkeepers in Pakistan Bazaar market, at Dua Chowk and in Rizvia shut down. News also spread to some parts of Nazimabad. The police
were sent in.
Naqvi was buried in the graveyard in Orangi after funeral prayers at a Rizvia Society imambargah.
He had two brothers and four sisters. According to the police, he was not married. He and his family had been living at the house of their uncle Jaffer
Hussain since their father passed away.
For the last one week, the killers have been using a new technique. They arrive at the spot on separate motorcycles instead of two men on one. This
makes it easy for them to take off in different directions after the incident.
The Jafferia Alliance of Pakistan has said that 22 members of the Shia sect have been shot dead over the last one month. The police say, however,
that only 10 Shias were killed in June and July. When contacted, the JAP said it could not give a list of the victims and places where they were
targeted. Fayyaz Naqvi is the 11th official victim.
An incensed Senator Allama Abbas Komaili condemned the attack, saying the government had failed to provide security to the citizens of Pakistan.
All Parties Conference today
An all parties conference will be held today, Wednesday at the Karachi Arts Council where religious leaders will come together to form a joint policy
against terrorism, said Jafferia Alliance Pakistan chief Komaili at a meeting with the Sunni Tehreeks Shahid Ghouri on Tuesday. Terrorists are openly
targeting Shias and Sunnis, he said. Had the government caught the terrorists involved in the Nishtar Park, Ashura and Chehlum attacks and
punished them, the Data Darbar incident would not have taken place.
One faction is manipulating others into following them, while those who do not agree are subjected to terror, alleged Komaili. Those who have been
caught have yet to be punished while some have even been allowed to escape, he alleged.
Ghouri supported his call for accountability. How will peace be restored to the country if the government refuses to take action? asked Ghouri.
Ahle Sunnat and Ahle Tehreek leaders said that they would unite on Wednesday
Deoband leaders on sectarian killings
Deoband ulema Maulana Asad Thanvi, Mufti Usmanyar Khan and Mufti Muhammad Naeem said that people involved in sectarian violence are enemies
of the country as well as religious sects and political parties.
Our peaceful position should not be considered a weakness. We know how to answer a brick with a stone, the ulema said.
They spoke against demands put forth by Mufti Muneebur Rehman, Shah Turabul Haq and Shehzada Fazle Kareem, going so far as to urge a ban on
Kareem in Sindh. Terrorists do not belong to any religion, sect or race. They breed terror only for the sake of terrorism, they concluded.
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Gojra riots: culprits still at large

After losing eight members of his family in the Gojra attacks on July 31 last year, Almas Hameed decided to leave Pakistan. The police have not made
any progress in arresting those who killed his family members and his attempts to pursue the case were resulting in death threats.
He was unable to deal with the pressure to withdraw his case so he decided to leave the country, a member of a 13-people committee formed by
the Christian community to pursue the case told The Express Tribune.
Eleven months have passed since eight Christians were burnt alive in Gojra, district Toba Tek Singh, and 60 houses looted and set on fire. Soon after,
a case under section-7 of the Anti Terrorism Act was registered against 17 identified and 800 unidentified people, but none of the accused have so far
been convicted.
The attacks were reportedly triggered by a complaint received by a mosque that a Christian had committed blasphemy at a wedding ceremony in a
nearby village.
As tensions escalated over the accusation, a mob gathered in Gojra and decided to attack Christians in retaliation.
While hundreds of unidentified suspects have been presented before the court over the past year, those who were nominated in the FIR have yet to
be arrested. At least 17 suspects were nominated, of which eight were declared innocent during the investigations.
The Christian community alleges that the police released the accused because of political pressure.
Accused moving freely
William Prakash, the president of the committee, says that some of the men who attacked the houses are clearly identifiable in the video footage of
the incident.
Khalid Paanwala was the one who threw the Bible in the air and fired at it. He is clearly visible in the video, but the police have not arrested him. In
fact, he roams freely in the locality, says Prakash.
Funyas Paul, another member of the committee, said that the community is not satisfied with the progress of the case. Qari Noor Muhammad, one of
the men nominated in the FIR, was the one who motivated Muslims in the area [through the mosques loudspeakers] to attack the houses belonging
to Christians. But he is yet to be arrested.
Qadeer Awan, a noted political figure of the area, is another person who was nominated in the FIR but declared innocent, they complain. In fact, when
Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif visited the area after the attacks, he met with Awan, who is a Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz supporter.
More than 100 people recorded their statements against Awan, who is known to be affiliated with a banned militant organisation, Paul Joseph,
another member of the committee, says. Joseph adds that he has reports about Awan inviting trained militants from Jhang to assist in the attack, but
was unable to prove this claim.
Meanwhile, Naveed Masih alias Naveed Fauji, one of the prime witnesses in the case, faces death threats by activists of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan
(SSP). He had given refuge to several Christians during the attack.
I have been constantly receiving threats and avoid stepping out of my house in the evenings. My crime is that I resorted to aerial firing to keep the
mob away from attacking my house where my neighbours were hiding, he says.
Following the riots, Federal Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti had also hinted at the SSPs involvement in the riots.
Naveed is also nominated in an FIR filed by some of the Muslims from the area a week after the incident and was even arrested. They denied that
Christians were attacked and instead claim that it was a fight between the two communities with blame on both sides.
Arthur Gill, another witness in the case, says that since many of their supporters have been implicated in the cross-version FIR, their case has become
weak.
Case progressing well: police
DPO Toba Tek Singh, Rana Ahmad Hussain, says that there wasnt enough evidence against those declared innocent. There were hundreds of people
in the mob. We cant possibly charge all those who were just standing around at the time of the attack.
Hussain also denies the involvement of any banned organisation in the attack. The police have done their job. The case is now in the court and is
proceeding well.
Disappointed
Prakash added that a Lahore-based organisation, which had offered to provide the Christians legal assistance, later pressurised them to reconcile with
the accused. Almas Hameed withdrew his case and the committee allowed him to leave the country, but we have decided to contest the case on our
own once Almas sends us the power of attorney, which he has promised to do.
Reverend John Samuel, Bishop of the Diocese of Faisalabad, also expresses his disappointment with the indifferent attitude of the government towards
the Christian community.
New houses have been built in place of those that were burnt, but those responsible for the attack are not convicted. Compensation is not enough;
justice should also be served, he says.
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Pakistan minorities nervous after Ahmedi mosque attacks

Many members of Pakistan's minorities are uneasy about the future and their concerns have been heightened by the storming of two mosques in the
Pakistani city of Lahore in May.
Nearly 100 people died in the sectarian attack on the Ahmedi sect and it is making other minority religions think hard about their safety.
Aleem Maqbool reports from the town of Rabwah, in Punjab.
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