Quetta hospital blast condemned

ISLAMABAD: Shia Citizens Action Forum (SCAF) strongly condemned terrorists attack in Quetta resulting in deaths of over 70 innocent lives.

In a press release it said, this horrific tragedy has left hundreds of families devastated at a place that is meant to save lives, not steal them. Sadly, for many of us, this was a repetition of the horrors we have witnessed earlier. Today’s attack is a repeat of the attacks that took place in DI Khan in 2008, Karachi in 2010 and the same Quetta hospital in 2009.

The victims in the past three instances, it pointed out, were Shia Muslims attending the victims of earlier attacks on their community at hospitals. The perpetrators in all these instances were terrorists.

In 2013, the Shia Hazara communities of Quetta were devastated and they refused to bury their martyrs until the State attended their three-day long protest in the freezing Siberian winter that visits the streets of Quetta. If Pakistan had woken up to the insidious and violent ideology that caused the attacks in 2013 or on December 2014, we would not be lamenting today.

Since the last two months, Allama Raja Nasir Abbas of Majlis Wahdat Muslimeen has been bravely leading a hunger strike to protest the targeted killings and persecution of all faith groups in Pakistan. He has been supported by Sunni, Christian, Sikh and Hindu leaders in his peaceful stand against terrorists. Pakistanis can only ignore his example at their own peril.