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March 6, 2015
Date: March 20, 2015
A Friday rundown of Pakistan's top policy headlines on JI's radar this week A Leap for Indo-Pak Ties Indian Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar's maiden visit to Islamabad this week has...
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March 9 – 15, 2015
Date: March 15, 2015
March 15: Two churches attacked in Lahore Fifteen people were killed and around 75 injured when two suicide bombers blew themselves up during prayers at two churches in Youhanabad, sparking...
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March 2 – 8, 2015
Date: March 8, 2015
March 4: Shia lawyer killed in Karachi A senior lawyer from the Shia community, who also served as counsel for various activists of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) was shot...
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Shifting Gears in a Minefield by JI President Sherry Rehman
by: Sherry Rehman
Date: February 13, 2015
Turning points often get read as pathways to either ruin or glory. In Pakistan, where muddle-through often serves as policy, the power of overnight change has much cognitive impact. But...
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January 5 – 11, 2015
Date: January 11, 2015
January 6: Two Shia brothers shot dead in Karachi Two brothers were killed in a sectarian attack in the busy Gol Market in Nazimabad. Salman Shabbir, 22, was left dead after...
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December 22 – 28, 2014
Date: December 28, 2014
December 22: Trader shot dead in Karachi sectarian attack A trader was killed and two others left wounded in a target-killing attack in Karachi. The victims, Syed Aun Naqvi, Syed Mutahir...
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December 15 – 21, 2014
Date: December 21, 2014
December 15: NGO-run school bombed in Charsadda The building of a private school run by a non-government organisation was blown up in Kang by unknown militants. The perpetrators had planted...
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December 8 – 14, 2014
Date: December 14, 2014
December 9: Polio vaccine worker shot dead in Faisalabad A school teacher was shot dead while working on a polio vaccination campaign in Faisalabad. 48-year-old school teacher Sarfraz Ahmad, a...
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December 1 – 7, 2014
Date: December 7, 2014
December 3: ASWJ activist killed in Karachi The dead body of a missing activist of the banned extremist group, Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat, was found in a morgue in the...
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November 24 – 30, 2014
Date: November 30, 2014
November 24: Polio worker injured in Charsadda Two polio vaccine providers were left injured after unidentified motorcyclists opened fire on them in Charsadda. The two victims, Sajid and Asifullah, were...
