The Shiite murders: Pakistan's amry of Jhangvi

March 12, 2013 00:59

A sense of siege and hopelessness is engulfing the Shias of Pakistan.

The sectarian war in Pakistan has grown in tandem with the wider radicalization of its society.

The country's Shias and Sunnis largely lived together peacefully till the nineteen-eighties.

The downward slide began during the dictatorship of General Zia ul Haq, who ruled Pakistan between 1979 and 1987.

Lahore had largely been unaffected by the frequent violence in Pakistan, but the new wave of attacks on the Shia minority, which constitutes around twenty per cent of Pakistan's population of a hundred and eighty million, had left the city stunned

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