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Aga Khan Shocked and Saddened by Attack on the Ismaili Community in Pakistan 2015-05-13

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Date: 
Wednesday, 2015, May 13
Location: 

Gouvieux, France, 13th May 2015 - His Highness the Aga Khan, Spiritual Leader of the Shia Ismaili Muslims has expressed shock and sadness in the wake of an attack on a bus carrying members of the Ismaili community on their way to work in Karachi, Pakistan, that left 43 people dead.


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Failing city: Children return from school to grief-stricken parents 2015-05-13

Pakistani civil society activists shout slogans during a protest against the killing of the Shiite Ismaili minority, by gunmen i
Source: 
The ExpressTrbune with the International New York Times

KARACHI:

The children of alAzhar Gardens, a gated community of Ismailis, who went to school on Wednesday morning had no idea they will be received by grief-stricken parents on their return.

Several parents were huddled near the community’s gates as the school vans started rolling in. But someone had already told the children about the tragedy and they jumped off the bus with looks of pure terror on their faces. “How many died?” a boy asked his mother.

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