Firstly about the incident: I have heard ARY, PTV & Geo TV reports. By all accounts it was a sectarian attack. Abbas Town a Shia ghetto in Gulshen Iqbal area but there are Sunnis living there as well. It appears that target was the Shia community and majority of the people killed an injured are also Shia. It is therefore logical to assume that perpetrators were probably sectarian parties such as LEJ & SSP.
I have said it before and repeat that such incidents will occur again & again because of likes of Rana Sana ullah, who is negotiating seat adjustment for PMNL-N and Munawwar Hassan of JI who has not uttered one word against this most heinous of the crime. This is the tragedy of Pakistan.
One poster states that Shia are responsible for killing themselves!!!. What does this imply? Sir, do you mean to say “let Shias kill each other, good riddance to the scum?
These people were not chanting abuses against any maslak; they were of Shias or Sunni faith simply thru accident of birth. All people killed were human beings, has the bigotry poison blinded us so much that we argue whether Zardari., Qaim Ali Shah is Shia or not!, but can’t say a word of condemnation against the people who planted the bomb?
For all practical purposes, Pakistan that I knew and call my home is no more. It is a hell hole where people don’t even have the common sense to realize that taking of an innocent life is the gravest sin possible under any law. Also ethnic cleansing, sectarian killing, killing on account of difference in language etc., is a crime against humanity and should be condemned unreservedly without any ifs or buts. Here people shrug off death of nearly a hundred Pakistani nationals as if it was of no consequence.
But then I am a liberal who cares what I think? Let Pakistanis be killed, there are too many anyway and more are being born every minute.