Bismihi Ta'aalaa

Holy Prophet (saawa):"He who dies with love of the family of Muhammad (saawa) is a Martyr. Behold! He who dies with the HATE of the family of Muhammad(saawa), has died unbeliever".

(Tafsir al-Kabir, by Fakhr al-Din Muhammad (saawa) Ibn Umar al-Razi, Pub. in Egypt (1357/1938), under commentary of verse 42:23, Part 27, pp. 165-166).

In a merciless killing committed by the Saudi sponsored Pro-Taliban terrorist barbaric murderous outlawed purely evil group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi in Baluchistan Pakistan, 29 innocent shia muslim civilian pilgrims were martyred on their way to perform the Ziarat/ pilgrimage of Imam Ridha's (a.s.) holy shrine in Mashshad, Iran. This region has become the center of oppression against innocent Shia Muslims in recent times. The link between the Saudi-Indian-Zionist terrorists in the region are the extremist groups who aim to destabilize Pakistan by sowing seeds of disunity for the sake of foreign interests, where shias and sunnis have been living as brothers since years. As for the status of the pilgrims who were killed, Shia and Sunni Hadith books explicitly declare that dying in the love of Holy Prophet's (saawa) family is martyrdom and the reward is no less than Paradise.

The government in Pakistan has shown that it is unable to protect its own  citizens. The successive corrupt and inept administrations in the past years have put the country on a road to another breakup. The freedom to practice one's religion which was the goal of creation of Pakistan has been forgotten, and nobody is safe any more, even the shia muslims who were behind the creation and founding of the country. Before everything is lost, a strong action is overdue. Lack of decisive action against the evil terrorists shows lack of political will of the administration.

Muslim Congress which stands for human values and the rights of all oppressed people of all faiths,  and supports the wahdat among all the muslims, shias and sunnis, voices strong criticism of Pakistan government and demand immediate clampdown on all the Wahabi-Salafi ruthless criminals at large. 

Pakistani Shiite Muslims shout slogans against the killing of community members in Quetta on September 21, 2011