New Delhi, Jan. 15 -- Pakistan's mainstream media might have tried to hide it for years but sectarian tension between Sunnis and Shias is something that has loomed larger.

The 2012 Rahim Khan Yar Bombing that took place on January 15, 2012 proved that Shia Sunni rift is on a rise in Pakistan.

But who cares because the extremists and militant groups have time and again come together to harass the Shia population in the country right in the eyesight of the country's security mechanism.

A remote control bomb explosion in the city of Rahim Yar Khan in the southern region of Pakistan's Punjab province killed 18 people and left dozens injured during a Shia Muslim procession.

The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a Deobandi Sunni supremacist and jihadist m...