The usual culprits in the killing of Shiite Muslims have been members of the violent Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) or Guardians of the Friends of the Prophet group, banned by Musharraf. The organization reviles Shiite Muslims as outside the pale of Islam.
Since January dozens of Shiite Muslims have been killed in Pakistan. Many of the deaths have been target killings and have occurred both in the Punjab province and in the country's southern Sindh province, of which Karachi is the capital.
...Previously Hasan Turabi, the head of Tehrik-e-Jafria, blamed the upsurge in killings of Shiite Muslims on the return to Pakistan of militant Sunni Muslims from neighboring Afghanistan following the collapse of the hardline Taliban. Turabi said the Taliban, a movement dominated by Sunni Muslims, espoused the same philosophy as Pakistan's radical Sunni Muslims, and harbored those who had killed Shiite Muslims in Pakistan. With the fall of the Taliban these radical elements returned home, he said.
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If we actively, but covertly, goad both Shiites and Sunnis into more intramural terrorism we could sit back and watch the Muslim problem solve itself. Then we could clean up the rag tag remains of the winning sect.
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