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April 14th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda About 2,500 people held a sit-in outside parliament in Islamabad on Friday, AFP reported.
The action was organized by the Majlis-e-Wahdatul Muslimeen (MWM), a Shia religious party.
Earlier this month, fourteen people were killed and dozens wounded in sectarian violence in northern Pakistan. The incident forced the government to deploy troops and impose a curfew in the northern towns of Gilgit and Chilas.
Human rights groups have vehemently criticized the Pakistani government for its failure to stem the rising tide of violence against the country’s Shia Muslims.
The protesters also called on the government to take immediate action against the forces involved in the sectarian killings and said more demonstrations would be staged if justice is not served.
Demonstrations were also held in the cities of Multan, Muzaffarabad, and Quetta, where protesters chanted slogans condemning the Shia killings.
Anti-Shia militant groups have been engaged in a violent campaign against Shias over the past few years.
Shia Muslims living in the remote Kurram tribal region have been facing a humanitarian crisis since November 2007, when pro-Taliban groups cut off the area from the rest of the country.
Local sources say more than 2,000 Shia Muslims have been killed in the Kurram region since 2007.
Pakistani security forces have been conducting operations against anti-Shia militant groups in the region since the beginning of 2012.
Security forces frequently clash with banned sectarian terrorist groups such as the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, which has conducted numerous terrorist operations against Shia Muslims over the past two decades.
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