QUETTA, Pakistan (Reuters) - Pakistan's Shia community has strongly questioned Friday the powerful chief of the Pakistani army in the wake of a wave of attacks that has made 126 morts.
It is rare that anyone who dares criticize General Ashfaq Kayani in Pakistan, where the army has a considerable influence on state affairs .
Criticism Friday by Shi'ite illustrate their growing frustration with regard to the failure of the authorities to contain extremists sunnites.
"I ask the army chief: what did you do those three extra years you got (to you)? What have you brought if not more deaths?" Has Maulana Amin Shaheedi said, head of the National Council of Shia organizations in Pakistan, during a conference presse.
Most deaths Thursday were caused by a double attack against the Hazara Shia community in Quetta, capital of Baluchistan province, near the border afghane.
The indignation of Shi'ite is such that they have asked the army to take control of Quetta to protect their community, minority and regularly taken to cible.
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They also warned that they would not allow the burial of 93 victims of the double attack Shiites until their demands were not met. Maulana Amin Shaheedi said that many corpses still lay on the floor. "They will not be buried until the army will not be entered in Quetta," he dit.
According to Muslim tradition, the dead must be buried as quickly as possible and to prevent the bodies are buried is a strong sign of pain and colère.
violence against Shiites in Pakistan and amplify some of them live in neighborhoods under siege, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW). "Last year was the deadliest for Shiites, in living memory," said Ali Dayan Hasan, of Human Rights Watch. "More than 400 of them were killed, and if yesterday's attacks are an indication, it is getting worse."
The double attack in Quetta was claimed by Lashkar-e-Jangvi (LeJ). This organization is banned Sunni historically linked to elements within the Pakistani security forces, who see it as a potential ally in case of conflict with India. She wants to establish a theocracy Sunni-Shiite violence maintaining Sunnis. The Pakistani security services deny any connection with the LeJ.
"The LeJ is on one front or the other and activists come and go openly shouting" infidel, infidel, infidel Shia "or" dead Shiites "in the streets of Quetta and before our mosques," said Syed Dawwod Agha, a senior Shiite Baloutchistan.
Conference"We have become a community of gravediggers. We are so accustomed to death that we still shrouds reserve," he ajouté.
Thursday, another bomb had killed 11 people on the main market of Quetta. It has been claimed by the Baluchi Army unie.
An attack in Mingora, the main town in the Swat valley in the northwest, had 22 morts.
Gul Yousufzai with Katharine Houreld Islamabad, Jean-Stéphane Brosse, and Hélène Bertrand Boucey Duvigneau for the French service, edited by Danielle Rouquié
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