Europe News - Genocide of shias in Pakistan

Sweden, October 17: The Shia Hazara Community in Pakistan's resource-rich province of Balochistan is a victim of sectarian terrorism. On September 20, 2011, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a Sunni militant outfit with links to al-Qaeda, killed 30 people when they attacked a passenger bus carrying Shia pilgrims from Quetta to Iran in Ganjidori area of Mastung. According to eyewitnesses the attackers intercepted the bus and shot the pilgrims after identifying them as Shias. On October 4 in a similar incident, gunmen stormed a bus carrying Shia Muslims in Akhtarabad area on the outskirts of provincial capital Quetta and killed 13 men and injured seven others.