Situation of Pakistani Shi'as Worse than Palestine and Bahraini People

According to reports Shia Muslims of Gilgit-Baltistan province now lives under siege. Curfew has been imposed for last four days. All sorts of communication system including transport and mobile phone system have been jammed. Tens of innocent Shi'as arrested. According to informed sources there are footprints of government behind the massacre of Shi'a Muslims.

Security forces have surrounded Nagar in Gilgit Baltistan after arrest of tens of Shia Muslim notables from Gilgit City.

Security forces put Gilgit City under siege and took into custody tens of Shia Muslim notables in the name of investigation. Among the arrested persons were officials and members of Markazi Anjuman-e-Imamia Gilgit. Syed Aijaz Kazmi, former office secretary and other senior officials are among them.

Latest reports from Nagar say that whole area was put under siege before a crackdown on the victims of terrorism in Nagar.

Shia organizations have condemned the siege and arrests of the victims of terrorism. It is relevant to note here that Chilas Tragedy has evoked countrywide protest but no action against the terrorists has so far been taken. The inaction on the part of relevant officials also sparked off protest.

According to reports Shia Muslims of Gilgit-Baltistan province now lives under siege. Curfew has been imposed for last five days. All sorts of communication system including transport and mobile phone system have been jammed.

Reports had it that acute food shortage occurred there. At least 30 people were taken into custody after security forces have started crackdown on innocent Shia Muslims. They surrounded Jamey Masjid Imamia and didn’t allow Friday prayers there. Tension prevailed in the area.

Hundreds of passengers have not returned homes. Only 9 bodies of martyrs of Chilas Tragedy were returned to the heirs. At least 75 other passengers of Baltistan are missing. Similar is the fate of Gilgit-bound buses. People have expressed apprehension that 150 persons were martyred in Chilas Tragedy.

Shaikh Mohammad Jafri of Baltistan and Quaid-e-Millat-e-Jafaria Gilgit Agha Syed Rahat Hussain al Hussaini have vehemently criticized the role of government and security forces/agencies.

They said that Shia Muslims were being punished for their love and patriotism for Pakistan. They said that genocide of Shia Muslims and inaction against the ferocious murderers pose a question for patriot forces in all over Pakistan.

They rejected all sorts of hypothesis and demanded of the government and Pakistan army not to lose support of Shia Muslims who are true patriot citizens.

“Who defended Pakistan in Gilgit and Baltistan’s borders,” asked Agha Rahat Hussaini. He said that Shia Muslims sacrificed their lives and earned enmity of the enemies of Pakistan by defending Pakistan.
Shaikh Mohammad Jafri expressed surprise over the role of Pakistan Army saying that enemies of Shia Muslims and Pakistan Army are same but army has taken no action against the common enemies. He asked whose agenda is being served in Pakistan.

Shia organizations have expressed apprehensions that enemies of Pakistan and Pakistani nation want to destabilize Pakistan by attacking peaceful and pro-Pakistan Shia Muslims of the province.

They have demanded of Pakistan government and the relevant state agencies to reconsider their policies and target the terrorists and perpetrators of the genocide of Shia Muslims instead of punishing the victims of terrorism.

Thousands Sit-in against Shia Genocide in Pakistan

Thousands of Shiite Muslims from twin City of Islamabad and Rawalpindi on Sunday participated in the Majls Wahdat-e-Muslimeen (MWM) sit-in protest on outside the parliament House in protest against the Chilas tragedy, missing of Shia passengers of Chilas incident, Army crack down against Shiite Muslims and Shia genocide in Gilgit, Karachi and Quetta.

The scorching heat has not affected the emotional participants of the sit-in protest, who staged protest outside the parliament house against the killings of Shiite Muslims in Pakistan and government crackdown against the innocent people of Gilgit City.

Religious seminaries have also expressed their support to the call of the MWM and their representatives also joined the protest. Notables and professionals have also joined them for a common cause. Many eminent political, religious and social figures have also expressed their all out support to the MWM’s legitimate demands.

“Detesting the oppressors and suppressors and to help the oppressed one is part of our creed,” speaking to the sit-in, Allama Raja Nasir Abbas Jafri, MWM’s chief said.

He further said that the sit-in would continue as long as all bodies of the martyrs of Chilas Tragedy were handed over to the heirs for interment, lifting of curfew for establishment of a durable peace and elimination of terrorists’ safe-havens.

Shaikh Nayyar Abbas Mustafavi, secretary general of the MWM Gilgit-Baltistan chapter said that government had not honoured its assurance that the charter of demand of Shia Muslims of Gilgit-Baltistan would be implemented.

Allama Ghulam Askari of Punjab chapter said that it is humiliation of humanity that Shia Muslims were got alighted from buses and then killed ferociously and their bodies were not identifiable because of torture on their faces.

He said that the government should act fast and arrest the people who killed passengers in Bunardas area near Chilas adding that the lives and properties of Shias across the country should be protected and safeguarded by the state. If the government does not act the people would be forced to come on the roads and demand justice.

Thousands of people are part of the sit-in and they have vowed to continue the protest till their demands were met. Some of their demands are lifting of the curfew in Gilgit city, military action against culprits in Chilas, clarification regarding the actual number of people killed in Chilas and the protection of Shia community members across the country.

Poem; I Swear Upon Each Crushed Rib

I swear upon each crushed rib of this sacred flower

Humiliated, torn from her root, broken so sour

I swear upon each tear that fell from her holy cheek

And curse upon the cursed and their evil clique

I swear upon her unborn, as I give birth to this rhyme

An unborn, sinless, his presence his only crime

I swear upon her scent, as roses give allegiance

That no fragrance touched the prophet but her presence

I swear upon the echoes of her last voiceless nights

That I am her servant and the anchor of her light

Ayatollah Sistani's Follower and the Preacher of al-Zahraa Mosque Martyred in Diwaniya

The Shi'a preacher of al-Zahraa Mosque and a follower of top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Sistani was shot martyred while he was on the way to the mosque for the dawn prayers in central al-Diwaniya city on Tuesday, an official security source said.

 The Shi'a preacher of al-Zahraa Mosque and a follower of top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Ali al-Sistani was shot martyred while he was on the way to the mosque for the dawn prayers in central al-Diwaniya city on Tuesday, an official security source said.

“Ali Hussein Ali was shot martyred by unknown gunmen just outside his house in al-Imam al-Sadiq neighborhood in Diwaniya,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency on condition of anonymity.

He said that security agencies have taken tight measures for the past three weeks but there were breaches here and there in Diwaniya and could not put an end to assassinations targeting clerics and tribal chiefs.

“More than one assassination took place during that period.

The murders mostly targeted chieftains and men of religion followers of Sayyid Sistani,” the source said, adding 18 assassinations were carried out since 2011.