Members of Shia Community, expressing dissatisfaction over the security arrangements for protection of Ashura processions and Majalis, demanded of the government to take further steps, especially in the most sensitive districts of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Addressing at a news conference at Peshawar Press Club on Friday, Secretary General Majlis Wahdate Muslimeen, Khyber Pakhtukhwa, Allama Sabeel Hassan Mazari said that security measures were insufficient for maintenance of law and order during Muharram. He said the conspiracy was hatched by anti-state elements to create rift between Shia and Sunni sects. He maintained there was no tussle between the two religious sects, but needed to take effective steps against the non-state actors to foil their heinous designs.
Accompanied by MWM Youth Secretary Allama Mujtaba, Secretary General district Hangu Allama Arshad Hussain and ISO Divisional President Iqtadar Hussain, he condemned the killing of shia leaders during targeted killing in Karachi, and a police officer belonging to Shia community, who also killed in a suicide attack in Peshawar a week ago. He lamented that security agencies and police had failed to unearth hands behind this brutal acts.
"More than 150 Shias, including leaders and workers, were killed in different acts of terrorism in Karachi," he informed. The genocide of Shia community could not be suppressed from their marking religious obligations, they would ready to render more sacrifices in this regard, he added. cAllama Mazari also expressed voice concern over creating hurdle in construction of Mosque in federal capital Islamabad, wherein, he blamed that police were fully backing the anti-state actors.