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Intolerance breeds cycle of carnage in Pakistan
January 18, 2013
Kamila Shamsie says: On January 10, the 33-year-old Pakistani activist Irfan Ali told his Twitter followers he had narrowly escaped a bomb blast in the provincial capital, Quetta, which killed 12 people and injured 25.
In the next hour he tweeted three more times about the terrorism wreaking havoc on Pakistan and the 'genocidal pressure' faced by the Hazaras an ethnic group which is primarily Shiite.