[DAWN] ON May 13, gunnies stepped into a bus carrying members of the Ismaili community in Bloody Karachi ...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous... and opened fire killing 43 innocent civilians and wounding many. This attack is just one of its kind in a series of tragic attempts on the lives of religious and ethnic minorities in Pakistain, which have sadly become a regular and routine occurrence. They reflect a serious lapse in the state's policy on the prevention of violence against minorities.
One of the main shortcomings of international law in this regard has been its failure to establish state responsibility in such cases where direct state involvement is absent. States currently guarantee only negative freedoms (non-interference of the state), which is problematic in the protection of religious and ethnic minorities -- because states are not obligated to take positive measures to protect minorities, the latter become an easy target for bad boy groups.
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