Pakistan vegetable market bomb kills 16, half of them minority Hazaras

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QUETTA, Pakistan - A bomb hidden between bags of potatoes at an outdoor Pakistani market killed at least 16 people on Friday, half of them ethnic Hazaras, officials said, in an attack apparently aimed at minority Shi’ite Muslims.

Baluchistan is the focus of the $57-billion China Pakistan Economic Corridor, a transport and energy link planned between western China and Pakistan’s southern deepwater port of Gwadar. Friday’s bloodshed came two days after authorities freed Ramzan Mengal, a top leader of a banned sectarian group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi , Cheema said.The LeJ has worked both with al Qaeda and Islamic State in Pakistan and has claimed several coordinated attacks in Baluchistan against what it terms Shi’ite heretics.

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Pls donot make headlines out of grief, those were Pakistanis first and in case not minorities... Secondly those who are doing this will be bring to justice one day.

(put)Andput them in a camp and educate them to maek sunni,. i guess thsi is the best option that this crack crazy killing field

pskidtsn i dhspprning these things long and iran spoiled everything ,it is now shia or sunni -they cannever be together ,lok at syria so who put the bomb they have true legitimacy but how paksitan would move in that wayin thsi way never. catch up shais and hazaras and

Rest in peace. Sorry...

Killing fellow human beings. Human beings. Not just Hazaras or any other descriptor that devalues human beings. Humans died. Madness.

1Obefiend And how come we are all not talking about this here! Now this is why i need twitter.

Pakistan Who are Hazaras and what is their religious view !?

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