The massacre of 53 members of the Hazara tribe, while they were praying, in an imambargah,a Shia place of worship, at Quetta, the capital of the Balochistan province of Pakistan, on July 4,2003, by three unidentified gunmen, has come close on the heels of the massacre of 11 Hazaras undergoingpolice training last month in the same city. This is an attempt by the Taliban and Al Qaeda dregs,who have taken shelter in Pakistan's tribal belt, to drive out the Hazaras, who are Shias, from thisarea lest they be used by the US intelligence agencies to collect intelligence about the presence of Osama binLaden and these dregs in the tribal belt of the North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) and Balochistan.