Photo gallery: Pakistan protesters demand end to killing of Shi'ites
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Pakistani Shi'ite Muslims protesters march as they react against yesterday's bomb attack in Quetta, in Karachi on Feb 17, 2013. Thousands of women refused on Monday to bury victims of a bloody bombing and a strike shut down Pakistan's biggest city Karachi as protesters across the country demanded protection for Shi'ite Muslims. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Pakistani Shi'ite Muslims protesters march as they react against yesterday's bomb attack in Quetta, in Karachi on Feb 17, 2013. Thousands of women refused on Monday to bury victims of a bloody bombing and a strike shut down Pakistan's biggest city Karachi as protesters across the country demanded protection for Shi'ite Muslims. -- PHOTO: AFP
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A passengers bus, set alight by demonstrators in retaliation to yesterday's bomb attack in Quetta, burns as Pakistani paramilitary soldiers arrive on the scene in Karachi on Feb 17, 2013. Thousands of women refused on Monday to bury victims of a bloody bombing and a strike shut down Pakistan's biggest city Karachi as protesters across the country demanded protection for Shi'ite Muslims. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Pakistani Shi'ite Muslims protesters march as they react against yesterday's bomb attack in Quetta, in Karachi, on Feb 17, 2013. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Onlookers extinguish a smouldering truck set on fire by demonstrators reacting against yesterday's bomb attack in Quetta, in Karachi on Feb 17, 2013. Thousands of women refused on Monday to bury victims of a bloody bombing and a strike shut down Pakistan's biggest city Karachi as protesters across the country demanded protection for Shi'ite Muslims. -- PHOTO: AFP
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Pakistani Shi'ite Muslims shout slogans as they react against yesterday's bomb attack in Quetta, in Karachi on Feb 17, 2013. Thousands of women refused on Monday to bury victims of a bloody bombing and a strike shut down Pakistan's biggest city Karachi as protesters across the country demanded protection for Shi'ite Muslims. -- PHOTO: AFP
Pakistani Shi'ite Muslims protesters march as they react against yesterday's bomb attack in Quetta, in Karachi on Feb 17, 2013. Thousands of women refused on Monday to bury victims of a bloody bombing and a strike shut down Pakistan's biggest city Karachi as protesters across the country demanded protection for Shi'ite Muslims. -- PHOTO: AFP
Pakistani Shi'ite Muslims protesters march as they react against yesterday's bomb attack in Quetta, in Karachi on Feb 17, 2013. Thousands of women refused on Monday to bury victims of a bloody bombing and a strike shut down Pakistan's biggest city Karachi as protesters across the country demanded protection for Shi'ite Muslims. -- PHOTO: AFP
A passengers bus, set alight by demonstrators in retaliation to yesterday's bomb attack in Quetta, burns as Pakistani paramilitary soldiers arrive on the scene in Karachi on Feb 17, 2013. Thousands of women refused on Monday to bury victims of a bloody bombing and a strike shut down Pakistan's biggest city Karachi as protesters across the country demanded protection for Shi'ite Muslims. -- PHOTO: AFP
Pakistani Shi'ite Muslims protesters march as they react against yesterday's bomb attack in Quetta, in Karachi, on Feb 17, 2013. -- PHOTO: AFP
Onlookers extinguish a smouldering truck set on fire by demonstrators reacting against yesterday's bomb attack in Quetta, in Karachi on Feb 17, 2013. Thousands of women refused on Monday to bury victims of a bloody bombing and a strike shut down Pakistan's biggest city Karachi as protesters across the country demanded protection for Shi'ite Muslims. -- PHOTO: AFP
Pakistani Shi'ite Muslims shout slogans as they react against yesterday's bomb attack in Quetta, in Karachi on Feb 17, 2013. Thousands of women refused on Monday to bury victims of a bloody bombing and a strike shut down Pakistan's biggest city Karachi as protesters across the country demanded protection for Shi'ite Muslims. -- PHOTO: AFP
QUETTA, Pakistan (AFP) - Thousands of women refused on Monday to bury victims of a bloody bombing and a strike shut down Pakistan's biggest city Karachi as protesters across the country demanded protection for Shi'ite Muslims.
Up to 4,000 women began their sit-in in Quetta on Sunday evening, a day after a bomb in the city killed 81 members of the minority community including nine women and two girls aged seven and nine.
The women blocked a road and refused to bury the dead until authorities take action against the extremists behind the attack, which wounded 178 people.
