Gunmen shot dead four Shiites on Tuesday, in a fresh sectarian attack in Baluchistan, police said.
All those killed ran junk and scrap shops in Kabari Market in Quetta.
“It was a sectarian attack. Gunmen on motorbikes opened fire on them and drove away,” Asif Ghafoor, a senior police official, told AFP.
The province is plagued by sectarian violence between the minority Shiite and majority Sunni community, as well as by Taliban attacks and a separatist insurgency.
Riasat Ali, another police official confirmed the incident and told AFP that the victims were critically injured and died on their way to hospital.
Sectarian violence involving Sunni and Shiites, who account for around 20 percent of the population, has killed thousands of people since the late 1990s.
Despite having large reserves of oil and gas, Baluchistan remains one of Pakistan’s most impoverished provinces, and bomb blasts and attacks on police and security forces are common.
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I hate those who are killing inocent people in the name of religion.
Its not Sunnis Killing Shias. I dont know why does Pakistani media portray it this way.Why do they sensationalize the news this way ignoring the fact painting the news in this manner can vreate further divides in an already polarised society
Keep silence on this issue or one can behave like deaf and dumb on this issue
this is government 's policy and we should show our national unity by following this law of ethics.
The whole nation has gone mad over Malala issue who is American agent, but no one will cry over this brutal murder.
Let's see how many of us cry out loud to protest against this atrocity! It is not only Malala, nor the two girls beside her but the whole nation that is being massacred by the heinous Talibans!
These are sectarian attacks by scums of SSP, LeJ, TNSM ASWJ and others. These b@stards must be all exterminated.
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