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Prominent Shi’a Leader Assassinated in Pakistan

03/17/2022Massimo Introvigne |

Less than ten days after the deadly anti-Shiite terrorist attack in Peshawar, Syed Salman Haider Rizvi was killed in Karachi.

by Massimo Introvigne

Killed: Syed Salman Haider Rizvi. From Twitter.
Killed: Syed Salman Haider Rizvi. From Twitter.

After on March 4 more than 60 Shiites were killed in a terrorist attack against a mosque in Peshawar, a prominent Shi’a leader has been assassinated in Karachi.

In February, Bitter Winter published a series about the discrimination and terrorist attacks against the Shiite community in Pakistan. The new incidents confirm that the protection of the persecuted minority and its leaders by Pakistani authorities and police is not effective.

Syed Salman Haider Rizvi, general secretary of the Shiite organization Pasban-e-Aza and former president of the Khair-ul-Amal mosque, was shot by two men on a motorcycle armed with 9mm pistols on March 13 outside his home in the Ancholi area of Karachi, within the jurisdiction of the Samanabad police station.

As soon as he stopped his car near home, the assassins fired at him. He was promptly taken to Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, but arrived there dead.

The assassinated leader was the son of Syed Salman Haider, the founder of Pasban-e-Aza. His funeral was attended by thousands, and was an opportunity for protesting the persecution and violence against Shi’a leaders and devotees.

The funerals of Syed Salman Haider Rizvi. From Twitter.
The funerals of Syed Salman Haider Rizvi. From Twitter.

Shops were closed as tensions mounted in the area. The national Shiite organization Majlis Wahdat-e-Muslimeen condemned the shooting, and stated it evidenced a national conspiracy to kill Shiite leaders that law enforcement officers are obviously unable to stop.

Tagged With: Muslims, Pakistan

Massimo Introvigne
Massimo Introvigne

Massimo Introvigne (born June 14, 1955 in Rome) is an Italian sociologist of religions. He is the founder and managing director of the Center for Studies on New Religions (CESNUR), an international network of scholars who study new religious movements. Introvigne is the author of some 70 books and more than 100 articles in the field of sociology of religion. He was the main author of the Enciclopedia delle religioni in Italia (Encyclopedia of Religions in Italy). He is a member of the editorial board for the Interdisciplinary Journal of Research on Religion and of the executive board of University of California Press’ Nova Religio.  From January 5 to December 31, 2011, he has served as the “Representative on combating racism, xenophobia and discrimination, with a special focus on discrimination against Christians and members of other religions” of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE). From 2012 to 2015 he served as chairperson of the Observatory of Religious Liberty, instituted by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs in order to monitor problems of religious liberty on a worldwide scale.

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