“The onslaught against the Hazara Shias in Balochistan by Islamist terrorists remains unabated. At least 20 persons, including two children and one Frontier Corps (FC) trooper, were killed and 48 persons, including four FC personnel, sustained injuries, in a suicide attack at the Hazarganji vegetable market of Quetta, the provincial capital of Baluchistan, in the morning of April 12, 2019. Nine of those killed were members of the Hazara community. Qari Hussain Force, an affiliate of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), claimed responsibility for the attack”–quoted from an analysis by the South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP). The attack was also claimed by the anti-Shia Lashkar e Jhangvi (LeJ) and Daesh (IS) suggesting a nexus between all three anti-Shia groups from a sanctuary in Afghanistan.Read Complete Article: The Hazarganji Massacre
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