Targeted killers, if not backed by certain factions in a given geographical location, can never triumph. In Quetta the capital city of Baluchistan province of Pakistan, the ethnic minority Hazaras are falling victims of targeted killing on routine basis.

For them, the city has turned into a river of blood. The role of Pakistan government has been no more than of a spectator and therefore fingers are pointed at it for death of more than 700 Shiite Hazaras killed over the last decade in various incidents of targeted killing that have appeared in different shapes – suicide attacks, hit and flee, car bombs and firing of rockets.

For that huge number of deaths no one has been prosecuted so far. The banned Lashkar e Jangvi (LeJ), a terror group with strong affiliation to al-Qaida and Taliban, has been taking responsibilities of almost all the bloody attacks on the Hazaras in Pakistan. Although banned, LeJ appears to be operating freely in Pakistan against its Shiite population.

Pakistan, the nuclear state that is also considered to have a strong army, has terribly failed to secure the life of the tiny Hazara minority whose number is estimated about half a million. Pakistan's federal and provincial governments have turned a blind eye over the plight of Hazaras – their systematic extermination.

In a news report published on October 25, Matthew Green, Special Correspondent covering Afghanistan and Pakistan wrote, "Attacks on Hazaras have been escalating since 1999, but this year the militants have beaten their previous personal bests, killing more than 100 in the first eight months of the year alone."

While the terrorists have been killing the innocent people cold-bloodedly, the Pakistani government has failed to capture and prosecute a single culprit. Matthew Green further writes, "The grip LeJ exerts on Quetta is difficult to appreciate from the drawing rooms of Islamabad, where brief reports of bombings or assassinations carried on the inside pages of newspapers fail to capture the scale of the persecution now faced by the city's 500,000 Hazaras."

Silence of the United Nations on the ongoing persecution of Hazaras in Quetta city of Pakistan has been a matter of great disappointment for the community. The Hazaras demand the UN and Human Rights Organization to wake up and take notice of their killings and pressurize the Pakistani government to take action against militants.