Two-month hunger strike against Shia killings in Pakistan; Takfiris killed Kurram agency PPP president / Photos

Kurram Agency Pakistan Peoples Party President Hamid Hussain Toori was shot dead by assailants here on Tuesday.

The motive behind the target killing is yet to be ascertained as the assassinated leader of the PPP had no enmity with anyone.

The PPP Kurram Agency chapter has announced three-day mourning over the murder. Mr Toori was laid to rest in his ancestral graveyard amid moving scenes.

Mr Toori was at his residence when someone called him on his mobile phone at around 9pm on Monday night.

After the call, Mr Toori left his home in Shublan village and rushed to Parachinar city.

On Tuesday morning, his body was found in the room of a hotel he had hired in Parachinar city. He was shot in the head from point-blank range while signs of torture were also visible on his body. Talking to media, Assistant Political Agent Shahid Ali Khan said that an spent casing of a TT pistol had been recovered from the room of Mr Toori.

PPP chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari condemned the assassination and urged the authorities concerned to arrest his killers.

Despite the on-going hunger strike protest of Majlis Wahdat ul Muslimeen Chief Allama Raja Nasir Abbas against shia genocide, incidents of shia target killing recur. Government’s ignorance on the issue gives way to state patronage to militancy in Pakistan.

Condemnation has poured in since the attack. Bilawal Bhutto Zardari Chairman Pakistan People’s Party has strongly condemned the brutal murder of Hamid Toori and has asked the concerned authorities to lay hands on the killers and bring them to book for exemplary punishment.

In a press statement, PPP Chairman said that killings of innocent people were going unabated in Kurram Agency since quite some time and authorities concerned are failing to control the situation and restore peace and harmony in the area.

The same chairman's silence is uncanny over continued killing of innocent Shiites in Sindh, where his government reigns. Now that his party member is killed, his condemnation has come forth, which seems a bit too late.