'Goodbye, my son!' — After spate of attacks, Shias flee Pakistan

[punit]

Who are you to ask me this?

if u cant answer shut ur pie hole!

 

[HariPrasad]

Surprising that Shias are being targeted already.

After Ahmadis and Hindus, I thought the next in the list would be Christians before they move to the Shias.

Yes because the hindus are almost finished.

Hey dothead,

how many Muslims are left in Gujrat?

over 6 million.

 

[tsinga]

There are barely any Christians left to be counted.
On another note; how many Jews are left now?

Zero.
There was exactly one guy a few months back putting up himself as 'the last jew of Pakistan' in papers and twitter.

He was beaten up by the momins and apparently has left Pakistan now.

 

[Hyperion]

You are such a sick arsehole! Now tell me, out of those 60,000 SUNNIS dead, how many of those were Salafi/Wahabi/Deobandi? Come out with the stats please..... I NEED TO KNOW....... you little terrorist!

The shia drama continues. The number of sunnis killed by terrorists is probably 10 times or more.
So if sunni gets killed its sunni problem,but if shia gets killed its every sunnis fault. Pethatic mentality in some shia

 

[I.R.A]

Don't u understand the meaning of pic? It was not someone doing Namaz.. It shows one guy trying to ignore the truth... Where tricolor or Green color comes in Pic??

Why would you assume I am referring to namaz? Namaz is not done that way try better next time if you really are making a point about Namaz.

Green color I have not mentioned, I said it would have been better if he was wearing a tri color dress it would have been more pleasing to watch.

Instead of propagating hate against India, why don't you ask ur ISI to provide information on Lankan team attack? Its been 5 years still u don't know who attacked lankan team...

Why you no understand my point, why you too much assume?

Quote me if I have even said "India" in any of my posts directed at you. And I have seen those attackers on TV.......................... what is your point what you want ISI to show me exactly?

 

[tsinga]

Yes because the hindus are almost finished.

Hindus are now concentrated in Sindh desert region.
Jews are gone.
Ahmadis are moving out at a frenetic place.

The Christians are still there however spread out - not in sizeable numbers but there nonetheless.

Which is why I am surprised that the real Muslims are now on to Shias. I'd have thought they'd go after the Christians completely before turning on to the Shias. That is socially more acceptable. There is still some resistance in Pakistani society to the targeting to Shias. The rest, they are more than comfortable with.

 

[I.R.A]

if u cant answer shut ur pie hole!

Ask me something that comes out of your mouth, you see I don't answer people talking from their rear.

 

[syedali73]

When killers held rallies in Karachi calling shia kafar and they proudly claim how many shias they have killed but our state cant stop them or capture them. I dont buy shit like its RAW TTP MQM etc etc. Stop fooling us and start protecting every one in Pakistan. No place for these killers in my Pakistan.

QUETTA: After losing one of his two sons to the worst attack against minority Shias in Pakistan's history, Ali was determined for the other to find a new life abroad.

“Go,” he told Iqbal Hussain, who left his job and family behind after losing his brother Mohammad Hassan to join thousands of others on treacherous waters in search of hope.

In the Shia-dominated Mari Abad quarter of Quetta, each family has tales of death and exile.

Sectarian violence — in particular by hardliners against Shias, who make up roughly 20 per cent of Pakistan's 200 million people — has claimed thousands of lives in the country over the past decade.

In the latest bloodshed, 44 Shias were massacred in Karachi on Wednesday, in the first attack claimed by the Islamic State group in the country. The worst atrocities, however, have struck Balochistan, home to some 200,000 Shias, according to local organisations.

The constant fear of violence is pushing young people towards illegal migration. The worst such attack so far, on January 10, 2013, saw a suicide bomber blow himself up in a small snooker hall.

About ten minutes later, when rescue workers had rushed to the scene, a truck packed with explosives that had been parked near the hall was detonated. The overall toll was close to 100 dead. Among them was Hassan, who had gone to help.

His brother Hussain survived, but with 38 shrapnel wounds which pierced his body.

“After six months, his mother was insisting, 'I have lost my son, I don't want to lose a second',” said Ali, standing in the cemetery Hassan was buried in, where a corridor of photographs of martyrs fix their gazes on passersby.

This file photograph shows Syed Qurban (R) sitting with his daughter Fauzia as he speaks during an interview at his residence in Quetta, next to a portrait of his son Ali Raza who was drowned after boarding a ship going illegally to Australia. — AFP
Ali, who had saved $20,000, sent Hussain and his mother to Karachi, then legally onward to Indonesia.

There, they placed their lives in the hands of people smugglers, and set off on a boat for Australia — the promised land — just before the conservative government there changed the law, and began sending back all new illegal migrants.

“The boat was very dangerous, there were 200 people, among them around 20 people from Quetta. It was very tough, the water was rough, we called for help and were finally picked up by a fishing boat,” Hussain said.

After the journey to a transit camp, the pair made it to Melbourne and today Hussain is learning English.

“There simply isn't any hope in Pakistan for young Shiites,” he said. “Here in Australia we have a new life.”

‘Even today, I am sorry’
Like Hussain, another young man Ali Raza also wanted a new life.

In 2011, Raza, who belongs to the ethnic Hazara community — a predominantly Shia group whose distinct Central Asian features make them easy targets for sectarian militant groups like Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) — lost his best friend Yusuf to an attack in Quetta.

After the attack, he had only one goal: to leave.

His father Syed Qorban, a tyre vendor, helped him move to Malaysia, where he hoped he would set up a business. That plan, however, never materialised. “He called me to tell me he would be leaving for Australia. I told him, 'Don't go, my son',” cried the old man.

Their old boat, which carried 250 illegal migrants, sank in the sea.

Some decomposed corpses were found, while others, including Raza's were taken by the sea — something the family is still coming to terms with.

“Even today, I am sorry. How did I let this happen,” his father said.

Mushtaq, who declined to be identified by his real name, was on the same boat as Raza, but managed to survive three days adrift at sea, without drinking water, being burned mercilessly by the sun.

“When we were found at sea, my lips were cracked and my skin was raw,” he recalled.

Sent back to Indonesia, he tried to make the illegal crossing again. During one part of the journey, “I lost conciousness, I was having flashbacks for the first time,” he said.

“I couldn't sleep, I was afraid of death at every moment,” said Mushtaq, who finally reached Australia, his Eden, to work on a chicken farm.

“If I stayed in Pakistan, I was afraid of being killed. If I took to the sea, I was afraid of dying. Death awaited in both cases — but at least abroad I have hope.”

Hero smugglers?
In Quetta, those Shia Hazaras who remain stick to their own neighbourhoods, without much hope for a future in their homelands of Afghanistan, Iran and Pakistan.

And people smugglers — a dirty profession in most of the world — are highly regarded.

“Human smugglers for ... other people, they might be bad for them. But for us, we give them lot of importance in our society,” said Abdul Khalique Hazara, chief of the nationalist Hazara Democratic Party.

“You give me peace, then I would say they must be [stopped],” he added.

Wandering between the graves of his two brothers, both of whom were killed for their faith, and his son Hassan, the old man Ali's heart remains tied to the country that robbed him of his loved ones.

“If I leave,” he said, “who will weep for them?”

'Goodbye, my son!' — After spate of attacks, Shias flee Pakistan - Pakistan - DAWN.COM

Blown out of proportion. As a result of terrorism both Shia and Sunnis are being dying and true enough, Punjab is relatively safe for Shias. Those can move to Punjab instead of risking their lives reaching to Australia through human smugglers. Looks like 'Dawn' is fast becoming a propaganda organ of Pakistan's enemies.

 

[I.R.A]

There are barely any Christians left to be counted.
On another note; how many Jews are left now?

Fck captain at least 2000 I count each month, and I have been counting them for like past 5 years, by now most of them would have propagated, and all this in very very limited space compared to a city.

 

[ZooZoo]

Hey dothead,

how many Muslims are left in Gujrat?

Post reprted/: Non sense post, not relevant to the topic..

 

[I.R.A]

I NEED TO KNOW....... you little terrorist!

Look who is talking by the way.

 

[ZooZoo]

non relevant post, trying to provoke india so that idnian get banned on PDF..

 

[Max]

Are Sunni getting targeted for being sunni just like Ahmadis and Shias? IT is news to me.

If my understanding is correct, you guys don't even consider them muslim.

Yes, when a terrorist blows up himself in Data Darbar or in Shrine of Abdullah Shah Ghazi(r.a) they know they are killing 99% Sunnis... many Sunni Ulema had also been killed in target killing for example.. Mufti Sarfara Naeemi in Lahore, Terrorist blows up whole Sunni Leadership in Eid Milad un Nabi Bomb Blast in Karachi.

 

[Hyperion]

Your daddy! How's mama doing by the way?

Look who is talking by the way.

 

[Bang Galore]

And who told you they consider Sunnis as Muslim?

You did hit the nail on the head there. the key point is not in who consider whom what, almost all religions have divisions within them. The key here is the bringing in of guns to what should remain a philosophical debate, if that. In the 21st century, that should be unacceptable.