Pakistani police have detained scores of suspects after being criticized for inaction over increased number of Shia Muslim killings in the violence-hit country.
"We have rounded up about 100 people. They are being interrogated," senior police officer Hamid Shakeel told AFP in Quetta, which is located 700 kilometers (435 miles) southwest of the Pakistani capital Islamabad, on Wednesday.
Residents said police launched a crackdown in the city after hundreds of people staged a protest rally condemning police inaction.
At least 13 Shia Muslims were killed on Tuesday after unidentified gunmen opened fire on the passengers of a bus on the outskirts of Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's southwestern province of Balochistan.
On September 19, gunmen killed 29 Shia Muslim pilgrims after ordering them off their bus in the Mastung district of the Balochistan Province.
Pakistan's pro-Taliban militants have launched a violent campaign against Shia Muslims over the past years.
More than 4,000 people have been killed in outbreaks of sectarian violence since the late 1980s.
source : http://abna.ir
