More than 100 incidents of attacks on Shia Imambargahs and mosques have been recorded while several thousand high profile Shia professionals specially doctors and lawyers have been killed. An Amnesty report documents that more than 50 Shia doctors were target killed in Karachi alone in 2001 and 2002. Only a few of the other professionals killed include Pakistan’s finest enterprenuer known for setting up Engro and PSO Mr. Shaukat Raza Mirza, Olympic boxer Abrar Hussain, Deputy Director Geological Survey of Pakistan Mr. Mohsin Naqvi, senior banker Muntazir Mehdi Rizvi, senior session judge Zulfiqar Naqvi, Deputy Director Intelligence Bureau Qamar Raza Naqvi, advertising veterrn Mukhtar Azmi, Prof Nazima Talib Mehdi and Dr Kaneez Fatima. Among writers and poets, Mohsin Naqvi, Rais Amrohvi (brother of John Aleia), Shabiul Hasan and Sibte Jaafar are prominent. A few of the famous Shia religious scholars killed include Allama Aftab Jaafir, Allama Arif al Hussaini, Allama Hasan Turabi Hamid and Ali Bhojani of Khoja Jamaat. Shia politicians like MQM MPA Raza Hassan have also been targetted.
Posted on: Fri, 05 Jul 2013 12:32:00 +0000
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