ISLAMABAD, PAKISTAN - Hundreds of Shiite women staged a sit-in in the western city of Quetta on Sunday evening to mourn the 84 people who were killed in an explosion a day earlier in a crowded market there. They demanded that the government arrest the attackers.
Shiites demand Pakistan solve lethal explosion
February 18, 2013 at 2:37AM
Grieving relatives declined to bury their dead until the government promised to track down those responsible for carrying out brazen attacks against Hazaras, a Shiite ethnic minority, in the city.
Protests and sit-ins were also held in other major cities on Sunday, as Shiite leaders condemned the government's inability to curb the killings.
Allama Asghar Askari, a Shiite leader, sharply criticized the country's law enforcement authorities at a rally in the nation's capital. "If the law-enforcement forces had targeted the militant strongholds with real intent, people would not have seen such a day," Askari said to hundreds of protesters.
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