Gunmen killed five Shia Muslims from the ethnic Hazara minority in southwest Pakistan on Monday, a police official said, giving details of the second shooting targeting Hazaras in a month.
The attack took place in Quetta, where nearly half a million Hazaras have settled since fleeing Afghanistan to escape the violence in their homeland during the past four decades.
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Two men who planned to bomb a Shia Muslim prayer hall in Sydney to impress an Islamic State recruiter were jailed for at least 15 years on Friday, local media reported.
Omar Al-Kutobi, 25, and Mohammad Kiad, 27, each pleaded guilty to one count of acting in preparation for a terrorist act at a temple in Sydney's western Guildford suburbRead more
In an apparent sectarian killing, at least three people belonging to the Shia community were gunned down near Shafiq Mor area of Karachi on Friday, The Express Tribune of Pakistan reported.
Hashim, Ali Sajjad and Shamim Rizvi were travelling in a car when suspects intercepted them at Namak Bank in the jurisdiction of Taimooria police station and opened indiscriminate fireRead more