Date : February 17, 1983
Location : Karachi
Casualties :63
Gender : male ,
In the Sacred Islamic Month Muharram (17 February 1983), Major anti-Shi’a Muslim riots erupted. Anti-Shi’a sectarian fanatics led by Tanzeem-i-Ahle-Sunnat (a radical takfiri Deobandi Organization) not only had set on fire the shops and houses of Shi’a Muslim Community but targeted to kill 63 Shi’a Muslim and 14 injured.
Sources:
***The Shias of Pakistan: An Assertive and Beleaguered Minority, Book by Andreas Rieck, Hurst Publisher, 2015, Chapter 6: The Zia ul-Haqq Era, 1977–1988
*** Data of Shi’a Genocide by Let Us Build Pakistan, lubp.net