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Najeebullah, the 18-year-old son of Mohammed Ali Ariz, a medical doctor who was killed in
the attack along with five others, told Human Rights Watch:
On the morning of April 14, my father left home to go to Marriabad to
console the family of someone who had died. He was traveling in a taxi with
four other persons from the neighborhood. As the taxi came on to Brewery
Road, near the Brewery Road police station, four persons on motorcycles
opened fire on the taxi. The driver and the five passengers were killed. The
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claimed responsibility for the attack.
Some people who knew us and had witnessed the killing called us to give
us this hideous news. As I was the only male family member present at
home at the time, I went to the Brewery Road police station to register the
FIR [First Information Report]. 106 The police have not contacted me since
then regarding the investigation nor have we contacted them ourselves
since it is very unsafe for us to leave this area. 107
Raheela Ariz, Mohammed Ali Ariz’s daughter, said her father’s murder followed numerous
threats from Sunni extremists:
A few days before his death, my father warned my brothers and several of
his friends and acquaintances about their safety; he asked everyone to
take extra security precautions. This was because he had received threats
from the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. 108
Quetta Passport Office Killings, May 2012
On May 15, 2012, alleged LeJ gunmen on motorcycles opened fire on a crowd of Hazaras
outside the Quetta Passport office on Joint Road. The attack killed two Hazaras and
wounded another. 109
106 A First Information Report [FIR] is a document that members of the general public can file with police in order to report a crime.
107 Human Rights Watch interview with Najeebullah, January 8, 2012, Quetta.
108 Human Rights Watch interview with Raheela Ariz, January 8, 2012, Quetta.
109 “Sectarian Violence in Pakistan 1989-2014,” South Asia Terrorism Portal,
http://www.satp.org/satporgtp/countries/pakistan/database/sect-killing.htm (accessed May 2, 2014).
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