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Date
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Incident
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1
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January 4
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In a suspected sectarian incident,
unidentified gunmen shot dead a Shia leader, Syed Ali Imam Jaffari,
in the Kotwali police precincts of Peshawar in the NWFP. He
was the President of the local unit of the Shia outfit Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Fiqh-e-Jafria
(TNFJ) and caretaker of Imam Bargah Ali Imam in Kotwali.
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2
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January 30
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Two people died in a town in
NWFP where a pre-dawn rocket attack on a Shiite Muslim procession
sparked a burst of sectarian violence. Army personnel were sent
into Hangu, 100 kilometres south of Peshawar, capital of NWFP,
to restore order after the rocket landed near police protecting
the procession to mark the holy festival of Muharram. The two
fatalities were from the Sunni community, said Mayor Ghani ur-Rahman.
However, it was not immediately clear if the men were killed
by the rocket or during the brief clashes between Sunnis and
Shiites that followed. Nineteen people were reported injured.
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3
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January 31
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Two people were killed in a
shooting incident at an unauthorized procession of Muharram
in the under-curfew town of Hangu in the NWFP, adding to two
deaths in a mortar attack on a Shia procession the day before.
A curfew was imposed in Hangu on January 30 after a mortar was
fired at a Shia procession and shooting broke out. The two people
killed on January 30 were reportedly Afghan refugees who were
not taking part in the procession. Defying the curfew, Shias
staged a procession on January 31, which was attacked by two
gunmen, an official said. Allama Khurshid Anwar told that two
people were killed and an equal number injured in the attack
near Shahu Chowk.
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4
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February 14
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In a suspected sectarian incident,
two unidentified gunmen killed Shia leader Jawad Hussain in
the Dera Ismail Khan city of North West Frontier Province (NWFP).
Hussain was a local leader of the Shia group Tehrik Nifaz Fiqa-i-Jafria
(TNFJ).
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5
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March 10
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Unidentified assailants shot
dead a retired Shia soldier in Dera Ismail Khan of NWFP and
a government employee from the community in the same region
on March 10. Local police officer Aslam Khattak said, "The
murders appear to be sectarian terrorism".
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6
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March 13
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Gunmen shot dead two persons,
a Shia and a Sunni, in the Dera Ismail Khan Town of NWFP, raising
the toll from sectarian violence in the town in the last week
to seven, Police said. Police said that Niaz Ahmed, a teacher
from the minority Shia community, was shot dead by unknown assailants
on a motorcycle when he was going to school in Dera Ismail Khan.
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7
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April 25
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Unidentified militants shot
dead three people in a targeted sectarian attack in the Dera
Ismail Khan district. The assailants fired from a Kalashnikov
rifle on a vehicle in which two brothers from a prominent Shia
family, Najaf Ali Shah and Syed Ali Shah, and their Sunni employee
were travelling. An unnamed official of the NWFP government
is reported to have blamed the attack on the banned Sunni group
SSP and urged Shias to remain peaceful.
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8
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April 26
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Following the killing of two
more persons in sectarian violence, the administration imposed
a curfew in the Dera Ismail Khan district. Police said two motorcycle
borne unidentified gunmen opened fire on two people sitting
outside a shop, killing them on the spot in the cantonment area.
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9
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May 5
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Two unidentified gunmen killed
a Shia man, identified as Imdad Hussain, at Dera Ismail Khan
in the NWFP, after a weeklong curfew was lifted.
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10
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June 4
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A senior Government official,
Syed Mehdi Hussain, was shot dead in Peshawar. Police suspect
it to be a sectarian attack.
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11
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June 7
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Police at Dera Ismail Khan arrested
Rauf Baloch, a leader of the banned Sunni outfit SSP, who was
wanted in various cases of sectarian terrorism and murder.
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12
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August 12
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The provincial secretary-general
of the banned SSP, Aslam Farooqui, was shot dead in Peshawar,
capital of the NWFP. Farooqui was killed by two motorcycle-borne
assailants near his home in the Shah Naqash Bandi locality when
he was returning from a market. Alam Zeb, brother of the deceased
leader, caught hold of one the attackers and handed him over
to police. A police official said one Shoaib Hussain of Parachinar,
who belonged to a paramilitary force, had been arrested. Senior
Superintendent of Police, Mohammad Tahir Khan, told that they
were investigating whether the murder was a sectarian killing
or the result of some other motive.
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13
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August 24
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In a suspected sectarian incident,
unidentified assailants shot dead an activist of the banned
SSP in the Dera Ismail Khan city. 22-year old Kaleen Ullah was
shot dead in the Tareenabad Colony in Cantonment Police Station’s
jurisdiction.
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14
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November 19
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In what appears to be a revenge
action for sectarian killings at Parachinar in the FATA, the
Taliban beheaded three truck drivers near Darra Adamkhel in
the NWFP.
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