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Eric Avebury writes…We must heed the cries of the Hazaras

Just over a week ago a massive bomb was detonated in a packed bazaar on the outskirts of Quetta, killing at least 92 people and seriously injuring more than 200.

Last month a double suicide bombing on Alamdar Road, Quetta took the lives of 108 people

These were the latest in a crescendo of genocidal attacks on the Shia Hazara community in Pakistan since the turn of the century, which was considered in a packed meeting I chaired at the House of Lords yesterday, February 25.

According to published accounts, these atrocities have left over 1,100 dead and 1,300 injured. In fact the …

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  • User AvatarIan 20th May - 11:29pm
    I agree with @Fernando - sadly, no-one on that list will be getting my help or my vote in the future
  • User AvatarEddie Sammon 20th May - 11:20pm
    I'm afraid it has to be said but people who spit venom and abuse at those Lib Dem public servants who wish to keep marriage...
  • User AvatarCaron Lindsay 20th May - 11:19pm
    Someone close to me once lived in a far flung part of the country where the local GP refused to prescribe contraception to unmarried women....
  • User AvatarGavin Hamilton 20th May - 11:16pm
    Food for thought on this issue. I recommend anyone reads FDR's magnificent exposition of liberalism in his Four Freedoms speech. http://americanrhetoric.com/speeches/fdrthefourfreedoms.htm
  • User AvatarPaul In Twickenham 20th May - 11:16pm
    How delightful it must have been to walk into the division lobby arm-in-arm with the likes of Christopher "Buggers muddle" Chope, Gerald "aggressive homosexual community"...