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Hazara Shiites flee Pakistan to Australia in growing numbers: report | GlobalPost
A growing number of predominantly Shiite ethnic Hazaras have been fleeing persecution by radical Sunni Muslims in Pakistan's Balochistan and seeking asylum in Australia, according to a U.N. report on recent trends in migrant smuggling from Pakistan released Thursday.
The report by the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime was released at a time when Hazara Shiites in Balochistan are under growing attacks from extremist Sunni outfits in the southwestern province.
In the provincial capital Quetta, where the marginalized Hazaras face serious persecution, Shiites continued their sit-in for a second day Thursday, refusing to bury 27 victims of a suicidal bombing attack Tuesday on a bus carrying pilgrims home from Iran.
"A vast majority of irregular maritime arrivals originate from Quetta in Pakistan. This is due to the large population of ethnic Hazaras residing there," the report said.
Australia has a small diaspora community formed by Hazara migration to Australia from the 1980s, including those who fled Afghanistan in the face of persecution by the Taliban.
According to the report, 810 Pakistanis reached Australia by boat illegally during nine months between July 2012 and March 2013, compared with 618 Pakistanis arriving by boat during the previous one-year period.
During the same nine-month period, the number of legal immigrant arrivals was 676 Pakistanis.
According to the report, Pakistan and Afghan nationals fly to Bangkok and Malaysia legally and from there they are smuggled to Indonesia. From Indonesia, they are smuggled to Australia on board small freighters or fishing boats.
UNOCD representative Cesar Guedes said at the report-launching ceremony that it was designed to work out effective intervention against human trafficking and migrant smuggling to and from Pakistan.
Saud Mirza, director general of Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency, said that his investigators are trying to net some of the big fish engaged in the human trafficking business.
==Kyodo
Hazara Shiites flee Pakistan to Australia in growing numbers: report | GlobalPost
A growing number of predominantly Shiite ethnic Hazaras have been fleeing persecution by radical Sunni Muslims in Pakistan's Balochistan and seeking asylum in Australia, according to a U.N. report on recent trends in migrant smuggling from Pakistan released Thursday.
The report by the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime was released at a time when Hazara Shiites in Balochistan are under growing attacks from extremist Sunni outfits in the southwestern province.
In the provincial capital Quetta, where the marginalized Hazaras face serious persecution, Shiites continued their sit-in for a second day Thursday, refusing to bury 27 victims of a suicidal bombing attack Tuesday on a bus carrying pilgrims home from Iran.
"A vast majority of irregular maritime arrivals originate from Quetta in Pakistan. This is due to the large population of ethnic Hazaras residing there," the report said.
Australia has a small diaspora community formed by Hazara migration to Australia from the 1980s, including those who fled Afghanistan in the face of persecution by the Taliban.
According to the report, 810 Pakistanis reached Australia by boat illegally during nine months between July 2012 and March 2013, compared with 618 Pakistanis arriving by boat during the previous one-year period.
During the same nine-month period, the number of legal immigrant arrivals was 676 Pakistanis.
According to the report, Pakistan and Afghan nationals fly to Bangkok and Malaysia legally and from there they are smuggled to Indonesia. From Indonesia, they are smuggled to Australia on board small freighters or fishing boats.
UNOCD representative Cesar Guedes said at the report-launching ceremony that it was designed to work out effective intervention against human trafficking and migrant smuggling to and from Pakistan.
Saud Mirza, director general of Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency, said that his investigators are trying to net some of the big fish engaged in the human trafficking business.
==Kyodo
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