Tag: Hazara Community

Long wait for justice: moot discusses Jillani judgement on minorities’ rights

LAHORE: Observing the fifth anniversary of the landmark Supreme Court judgement on the protection of religious minorities’ rights, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP)...

Imran meets Hazara community, assures protection

--PM says National Action Plan will be implemented to eliminate extremism   Quetta: Prime Minister Imran Khan on Sunday met members of Hazara community in Quetta to...

PPP wants govt to stand with victims, not with terrorists

QUETTA: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari on Tuesday urged the government to bring the victims of terrorism into the mainstream rather than cosying...

President reaffirms commitment to implementing NAP

ISLAMABAD: President Arif Alvi met with the bereaved families of the martyrs of Hazarganji terrorist attack in Quetta on Tuesday and offered fateha for the...

Hazaras urge PM to visit Quetta as sit-in enters third day

--Investigation team comprising CTD officials formed to probe the suicide attack --Forensic evidence sent to PFSA, further action to follow issuance of report QUETTA: The Hazara community on...

Hazara sit-in enters second day

--IS claims responsibility for attack that killed at least 18 people --Minister visits Quetta, says NAP will be implemented at all costs   QUETTA: The Hazara Shia community...

FIR registered over attack on FC office in Quetta

QUETTA: The counter-terrorism department of Balochistan police on Saturday registered an FIR of the terrorist attack on the Frontier Corps (FC) Madadgar Centre on...

Hazara Shia persecution catches CJP’s eye

--Justice Nisar says Hazaras' killers holding public rallies while persecuted minority could not even reach out to apex court due to life threats --Orders govt and...

Hazara community’s hunger strike in Quetta continues for second day

Members of the minority Hazara community are protesting in Quetta against the targeted killing of members of the community by terrorist outfits. Angry members...

Two Shia Hazaras shot dead in Quetta

--Muhammad Ali Rezai's security had been withdrawn following SC's directive --Killings are the fourth such incident in April   QUETTA: Two persons belonging to the Shia Hazara...

Five people, including three Hazaras, killed in firing incident in Quetta

QUETTA: Five people were reported killed and one injured when unidentified armed men opened fire at a vehicle on the city’s Kasi Road Monday...

Hazara community members targeted in Quetta, 4 injured

At least four people were injured on Friday as assailants opened fire on a taxi carrying members of the Hazara community in Quetta. The incident...