Shia Genocide Events
Quetta, July 6, 1985 : Police Opened Fire on Shi’a Demonstration
Date : July 6, 1985
Location : Quetta
Casualties :35 Killed, 150 Injured including school going students
Gender : male ,
Narrative of the Event
On July 6, 1985, Maolana Arif Al-Hussaini, President of Tehreek-i-Nifaz-i-Fiqh-i-Jaffariyya (TNJ), called for huge protest demonstrations on the fifth anniversary of the Islamabad Accord in all provincial capitals except Karachi. When such a demonstration was taken out of the Imâmbârgâh-i Qandâhârî in Quetta on July 6, despite a ban, the police opened fire, killing seventeen (actual causalities were 35) and injuring dozens. In the wake of that incident, Shia houses were raided, and 128 Shias faced trials in a martial law court. Anti-Shi’a Takfiri sectarian religious journals published reports that the demonstrators had been armed, that they wanted to destroy Sunni mosques, and that Iranians had been involved in the Quetta clash, but apparently none of these allegations were true.
Source:
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,
***Shi’a Genocide in Pakistan:Myth or Reality by Aamir hussaini, Chapter Data of Shi’a genocide in Pakistan, Published by Aks Publications Lahore
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