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A person said Hazara lives being lost is an 'irrelevant' domestic issue.
So I've tried my best to compile the number of attacks on them since 1999. Each case can be googled and/or checked on the Hazara Report by National Commission For Human Rights Pakistan /1
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5th Oct, 1999
An unidentified person attacked Sardar Nisar Ali, Hazara MPA & Minister for Education near his office. He survived Driver and bodyguard killed.

9th Feb, 2001:
8 shot and killed, 5 injured in a van going from Hazara Town to Alamdar Road. LeJ claims responsibility /2
15th Aug, 2001
Senior employee of State Bank ,Ali Madad Changezai was killed on Jinnah road Quetta.

28th Aug, 2001
While shopping at Saryab road Quetta Professor Abid Abbas Naqvi was killed by an unidentified person. /3
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Very passionate appeal by @BBhuttoZardari right now, for justice for the oppressed. Says: this country, this federation is in danger if justice is not ensured. Promises to stand by the #Hazaras
. @MaryamNSharif talking about the ghettoisation of the #Hazaras About the 2000 Hazaras killed in Pakistan. About the family that lost its only male member.
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Thread: Who is behind #Hazarakillings & why?
Hundreds of Hazaras have been killed in multiple attacks & thousands have been forced to leave their business activities in #Quetta. One should note here that most successful businessmen in Qta once were a member of Hazara community.
Between 2010 and 2013, the Hazara community in general and Hazara shopkeepers, intellectuals, officers, and businesspeople remained a prime target. By 2014, such attacks had devastated commerce and snatched away most of Quetta's business from the #HazaraCommunity members.
A Hazara officer from the Intelligence Bureau in Quetta told me in 2015 that he could not digests most of the attacks directed at his community were "sectarian driven." "Some attacks on Hazara were aimed to takeaway Quetta's key business from us," he told me.
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