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February 17 – 23, 2014
Date: February 23, 2014
February 18: Polio team kidnapped in Tank Pakistan’s anti-polio efforts received another setback after a vaccination team was kidnapped. The six-member team included a doctor working for the World Health...
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February 16 – 22, 2015
Date: February 22, 2014
February 16: Polio workers attacked in Swat A team of polio vaccination workers in the Qambar town in Swat valley narrowly avoided serious injury after a local man opened fire...
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February 10 – 16, 2014
Date: February 16, 2014
February 10: Three teachers shot in Hangu Unidentified militants gunned down three teachers who were returning to their homes from school in Kach Bandha, Hangu. The teachers, identified as Faqir...
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February 3 – 9, 2014
Date: February 9, 2014
February 3: One killed in sectarian attack A young man was shot dead while another critically wounded in a sectarian attack in Karachi. Arif Hussain Mehdi, 25, and Mohammed Rafiq,...
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February 2 – 8, 2015
Date: February 8, 2014
February 2: Mentally challenged man accused of blasphemy A mentally challenged person was acquitted in a blasphemy case after the complainant and witnesses appeared retracted their statements in court. In...
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January 27 – February 2, 2014
Date: 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
Date: February 1, 2014
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
Date: January 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
Date: January 25, 2014
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
Date: January 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...
