TAXILA, Feb 9: Allama Syed Sajid Ali Naqvi, chief of Islami Tehrik and Shia Ulema Council Pakistan, demanded on Saturday composition of a fact-finding judicial commission to investigate what he called the genocide of people belonging to Hazara community in Balochistan.

Talking to reporters, Mr Naqvi said that internal elements and a foreign hand were involved in sectarian killings in the country.

He said a state within a state had come into existence in Balochistan and the continuous sectarian killings in the province were a question mark over the writ of state.

He said the government had miserably failed in providing security to people, adding that not a single terrorist had been brought to justice.

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