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23-04-2022
By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report
KUNDUZ/ KABUL/ ISLAMABAD: Hundreds more Shia Muslims targeted in Afghanistan exactly as Press Media of India (PMI) reported 24 hours ago while the world is also waiting to see to proof another PMI news regarding the terror attack against Shias in Pakistan during next 24 hours, sources confirmed.
In a recent wave of terror against Shia Muslims in Pakistan and Afghanistan, over 200 Shias have been martyred in both countries but neither any local, regional, national or international media outlet reported the planned and organized Shia Target Killing and Genocide nor the regimes of both countries are ready to discuss, consider and stop even to give any weight on this world most sensitive, horrible and burning issue, sources added.
A bag of explosive including bombs and other dangerous ammunition was recovered from a busy shopping area known as Liaquat Market situated in most Shia populated zone in Pakistan’s former capital Karachi, the explosive was planted to target Shia procession of Yaum-e-Ali-AS (Day of Martyrdom of First Shia Imam/ Leader of Hazrat Ali, the son-in-law of last Prophet of Islam, Hazrat Muhammad Mustafa-SAWW/ Peace Be Upon Him) while several other bombs were found, 
recovered and destroyed in different Shia-populated cities, towns and areas of Pakistan but no one was allowed to report even discuss secretly and slowly.
According to the report another blast ripped through a mosque during Friday prayers in northern Afghanistan, killing 63 people and wounding 143 more, a Taliban spokesman said, just a day after the Daesh group claimed two separate deadly attacks.
Since Taliban fighters seized control of Afghanistan last year after ousting the US-backed government, the number of bombings has fallen but the Daesh has continued with attacks against targets they see as heretical.
A string of bombings rocked the country this week, with deadly attacks targeting a school and a mosque in Shiite neighborhoods.
Taliban government spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid tweeted that children were among the 53 dead in the blast on Friday at a mosque in the northern province of Kunduz.
“We condemn this crime (…..) and express our deepest sympathies to the bereaved,” he said, adding 113 more were wounded.
Images posted to social media, which could not be immediately verified, showed holes blown through the walls of the Mawlavi Sikandar mosque, popular with Sufis in the Imam Sahib district, north of Kunduz city.
“The sight at the mosque was horrifying. All those who were worshipping inside the mosque were either injured or killed,” Mohammad Esah, a shopkeeper who helped ferry victims to the district hospital, told media.
“I saw 40 to 50 bodies,” another local resident said.
Relatives of victims were arriving at the hospital to look for their loved ones.
“My son is martyred,” screamed a man, while a woman accompanied by her four children searched for her husband.
A nurse told media over the phone that between 68 to 90 people had been admitted for treatment of wounds from the blast.
Kunduz police said they were investigating the type of explosion.
Multiple bomb blasts
Friday’s blast was one of the biggest attacks since the Taliban seized power in August last year.
In October, a suicide attack at a Shiite mosque, also in Kunduz, killed at least 55 people and wounded scores, an attack also claimed by Daesh.
The regional Daesh branch has repeatedly targeted Shiites and minorities like Sufis in Afghanistan.
Daesh and the Taliban are bitter rivals.
The biggest ideological difference between the two is that the Taliban sought only an Afghanistan free of foreign forces, whereas Daesh wants an Islamic caliphate stretching from Turkey to Pakistan and beyond.
Friday’s blast comes a day after Daesh claimed a bomb attack at a Shiite mosque in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif that killed at least 12 worshippers and left 58 people injured.
They also claimed a separate attack in Kunduz city on Thursday, which killed four people and wounded 18.
No group has yet to claim twin blasts on a boys’ school in a Shiite neighborhood of Kabul on Tuesday, which killed six and wounded more than 25.
Shiite Afghans, who are mostly from the Hazara community, make up between 10 and 20 percent of Afghanistan’s population of 38 million.
Sufis, also a minority in Sunni majority Afghanistan, have faced several attacks in the past. In November 2018, a suicide attack at a wedding in Kabul killed dozens, most of them Sufis.
Earlier on Friday, the Taliban authorities said they had arrested the Daesh “mastermind” of Thursday’s bombing at the mosque in Mazar-i-Sharif.
Taliban officials insist their forces have defeated Daesh, but analysts say the group is a key security challenge.
