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May 4 – 10, 2015

May 6: One killed in Kurram ambush One person was killed and at least three others injured ​when two suicide bombers detonated their vests after they tried to enter a school in the ​Alizai area of ​l​ower Kurram Agency,​...
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April 27 – May 3, 2015

April 27: Three Hazaras killed in Quetta At least three members of the Hazara community were killed in a targeted attack on a local bus stop in Satellite Town. The...
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Five Flashpoints for Strategic Planners by JI President Sherry Rehman

by:  Sherry Rehman

For a country navigating multiple internal and external challenges, Pakistan’s economic, governance and policy-delivery deficits have been a constraint on strategic resource-allocation and decision-making. Continued economic fragility has also seriously...
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April 17, 2015

A Friday rundown of Pakistan's top policy headlines on JI's radar this week Lakhvi and Indo-Pak Ties Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, leader of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa and commander and alleged planner of the...
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April 10, 2015

A Friday rundown of Pakistan's top policy headlines on JI's radar this week Pak-Iran Developments While this week’s visit to Islamabad by Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif was ostensibly geared...
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March 30 – April 5, 2015

April 7: School principal attacked in Peshawar The principal of a private educational institute survived a targeted bomb blast in Karachi's Mathra area. Saifullah was on his way home when...
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March 30 – April 5, 2015

April 2: Policeman guarding polio team attacked in DI Khan A policeman escorting polio vaccinators was wounded after gunmen shot him in ​the ​Kulachi ​t​ehsil of DI Khan. Express Tribune
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April 3, 2015

A Friday rundown of Pakistan's top policy headlines on JI's radar this week Militant Dynamics  This week’s report of a splinter faction of the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU) pledging allegiance to...
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March 27, 2015

A Friday rundown of Pakistan's top policy headlines on JI's radar this week Interest Rates Decline on the Back of Falling Inflation   The State Bank on Monday decreased the...
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March 16 – 22, 2015

March 17: Two polio workers killed in Mansehra Two lady health workers and a police constable were killed when unidentified assailants opened fire at a polio vaccination team on the...