Sectarianviolence continues unabated in Quetta city of Balochistan. In a recent incident,a university bus was attacked by a remote car bomb that resulted in death of five innocent students including two Afghan students and injury of more than seventy five people including about 20 women.Three of the ones killed and majority of those injured have been identified asmembers of Hazara ethnic minority living in Balochistan. In Balochistan, theHazaras have lost more than 700 lives over the last decade due to their ethnicityand religion. They have consistently been killed in targeted killings, carbombs and suicide attacks.

However, Pakistan, the nuclear state that has one ofthe world's strongest army, has terribly failed to secure the life of the tiny Hazaraminority whose number is estimated less a million. Pakistan's federal andprovincial governments have turned a blind eye over the plight of Hazaras. Atthe same time, the UN is also kept mum on killing of Hazara in Pakistan.

Hazarashave been great lovers of education. Their literacy rate is far higher than othertribes living Balochistan. Nevertheless, now it seems like insecurity will constraintheir further educational development. The wave of violence that took lives ofmany political leaders and then the traders has now been turned towards Hazara students.

In the recent incident university students were targeted which establishes thefact that insurgents are now going anti-education and want to close the doorsof educational institutes on the students. Suchincidents would, undoubtedly, impact the educational activities of all thecommunities living in Quetta city simultaneously. This will add to the anguish ofall the people whose businesses are already falling due to prevailing securitycondition in that city.

Pakistanigovernment is failing to provide security to a tiny minority such as Hazaracommunity, let alone the world's expectations that want itto defeat Taliban, Al-Qaida and othergroups of militancy that pose serious threats to Pakistan's national securityand regional peace. Pakistani government must take serious actions against such clear violation of human rights and strive to become a prominent counter-terrorismally.