Year 2016, Pakistan witnessed 58 people martyred in the name of sectarian violence, a well curtailed figure as compared to yesteryears, shia monitoring desk reported.
Despite the fact that among the number of target killings and massacres reported, takfiri terrorists kept targeting shiites on a regular basis throughout the year bringing their numbers to 61 throughout the year.
Last year some 256 shiites were martyred as compared, not taking away credit off the Law enforcement agencies, there still remains a mile to go for the number of martyrs keep coming-in in the name of sectarian rift. A hefty effort is required by forces to eradicate their strongholds, still very much active in varied cities around Pakistan.
Below is a list of martyrs in different cities reported throughout the year:
Monthly Report
January 2016
The year started with Takfiri terrorists killing three (03) innocent muslims. In the event Naved Ahmed, Mukhtar Zaidi and Naveed Abbas were martyred in Quetta, Karachi and Attock respectively, Shiite news reported.
February 2016
on 8th of this month Malik Iftikhar, a shiite momin was gunned down in Peshawar at the hands of takfiri militants.
March 2016
Karachi, Peshawar and D.I. Khan witnessed four (04) innocent shiite being murdered at the hands of hardcore terrorists. Their names were reported as Azhar Hussain, Syed Razi ul Hasan, Shamsher Ali and Abid Raza.
April 2016
Altogether four (04) innocent momineens were martyred with three (03) in Karachi and one (01) in Hyderabad. Names mentioned were; Shahid Hussain, Ali Sajjad, Hashim Rizvi and Imdad Jafri. It's worth mentioning that all three individuals in Karachi were targeted at a go, Hashim Rizvi was a Gold Medalist from Physics Department at University of Karachi.
May 2016
Sectarian intolerance amplified when this month witnessed 8 martyrdom of innocent shiites. Renowned activist-cum-journalist Khurram Zaki was silenced in this month, for his voice perturbed the illicit ideologies of west borne upon muslims in Pakistan. Khurram was martyred in Karachi, whereas D.I. Khan witness massacre of 4 innocent shias on the same day, with two advocates among them.
On may 5, Advocate Atif Ali, Advocate Murtajiz, Athar Abbas and Mukhtar Abbas embraced martyrdom in D. I. Khan.
May 7 was the day when Khurram Zaki was killed.
May 12 was when parachinar witnessed martyrdom of Nasir Ali, Yahya Hussain and Akbar Ali.
June 2016
Apart from the heinous murder of renowned qawal and singer 'Amjad Sabri', June witnessed another kill in Karachi with martyrdom of Muhammad Abbas.
On June 22 Muhammad Azhar and Amjad Sabri were murdered, whereas Nadeem Abbas was killed in D. I. Khan on June 30.
July 2016
Advocate Shahid Abbas Shirazi was gunned down in D. I. Khan.
August 2016
Three (03) Shia muslims were shot in this very month.
On Aug 1 Muhammad Nabi and Ghulam Nabi in Quetta
On Aug 23 Saim Raza in Karachi.
September 2016
Death was accounted in Karachi and Shikarpur, with Muhammad Rafique in Shikarpur on Sept 17 and Shabad Haider in Karachi on Sept 20.
October, November 2016
According to Shiitenews, October witnessed Muharram processions this year again, with last year witnessing 255 innocent shiite muslims martyred in the name of sectarian rift. This year there were 4 major incidences recorded with 25 innocent muslims martyred to include women.
December 2016
Till date there have been 6 encounters recorded with martyrdoms reported.
Dec 1 Syed Ilyas Shah was murdered in Quetta
Dec 02 Irfan Ali and Muharram Ali were martyred in Karachi
Dec 08 Ali Khan was killed in Quetta
Dec 10 Nazar Hussain massacred in Abbottabad
Dec 12 Haider Ali was targeted in Quetta to embrace martyrdom.
http://www.shiitenews.org/index.php/pakistan/item/26488-shia-massacre-and-the-year-2016-a-detailed-report-by-shiitenews-ks
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