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January 27 – February 2, 2014

January 27: Shia leader gunned down in Khanpur Pakistan’s wave of sectarian violence on its Shia community continued, as a member of a local Shia association was shot down in...
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January 26 – February 1, 2015

January 26: Another gunman guarding polio workers killed in Karachi A second attack on policemen guarding polio vaccine workers took place in Karachi within a week after a policeman was...
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January 20 – 26, 2014

January 20: Shia scholar shot dead in Peshawar Unknown gunmen shot dead a prominent Shia cleric in the historic Kissa Khwani market of Peshawar. Allama Alim Al-Musvi was a locally...
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January 19 – 25, 2015

January 19: Policeman escorting vaccinators gunned down in Karachi A police official escorting polio vaccine workers in Karachi’s Orangi Town was left critically wounded in a gun attack. ASI Tabassum...
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January 13 – 19, 2014

January 16: Blast at Peshawar Tablighi seminary  At least ten people were killed and more than 60 injured when a bomb exploded at a religious centre in Peshawar. The explosion...
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January 6 – 12, 2014

January 6: School bombed in Bannu Unidentified persons blew up a Government Girls Primary School in the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province by planting explosives at the site. However, no casualty was reported...
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Books to Remember from 2013

by:  Sherry Rehman

Apart from the staple of American foreign policy page-turners such as Confront and Conceal by David Sanger, Little America by Rajiv Chandrasakeran, and Vali Nasr’s incisive Dispensable Nation, for me...
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December 30 – January 5, 2014

December 30: Two killed outside Rawalpindi Imambargah Two police officials were gunned down while another policeman and a passerby were critically wounded at Dhok Syedan when four gunmen riding two...
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December 29, 2014 – January 4, 2015

December 30: Two schools torched in Kurram Militants set fire to two government-run schools in Kurram agency, leaving both buildings completely destroyed. Security officials in the area responding to the...
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In the Service of Pakistan: The Politics of Living Dangerously

by:  Sherry Rehman

Karachi – October 10,2013: Sherry Rehman, Executive President of Jinnah Institute and former Pakistan Ambassador to the US, said that the service of Pakistan is the principle lens through which she...