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2011 – In the Kharotabad incident, five Russians and one Tajik were shot dead by Frontier Corps and police after being falsely reported as suicide bombers when approaching a border checkpoint. Dr. Baqir Shah, a police surgeon who testified against the police, was attacked at a restaurant in Quetta, [2] and later shot dead by unknown gunmen. [3]
Acts of violence involving Sunni Muslims and their Shia counterparts in Pakistan have been evident since the 1980s. They are generally considered to have arisen from attempts by the then national leader, Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq, to legitimise his military dictatorship and from the influx of weapons into the country following the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.
Sectarian violence in Pakistan started in 1980s. The Pakistani province of Balochistan has witnessed violence against Hazaras for more than a decade and half by militants who consider them heretics. Throughout the 2000s and early 2010s, Hazaras in Balochistan, Pakistan, faced attacks from militant groups like Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. In the mid-2010s ...
Police in northwestern Pakistan on Friday registered a case against hundreds of people who attacked a police station and killed a man being questioned there on suspicion of desecrating the Quran ...
Pakistani police on Sunday arrested a man accused of killing two members of the minority Ahmadi community in separate attacks in the eastern Punjab province, police and officials said. The arrest ...
At around 3 a.m. local time (2200 GMT Sunday) militants attacked the police station with sniper fire and then entered the building, said police officers in Pakistan's Draban region in Khyber ...
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Cause Factions Deaths Wounded Damage Ref 12 May Karachi riots [5] 12 May 2007 Karachi Ethnic Clashes Muhajir 58 Many Several cars and towns 2007 Pakistan riots [6] 2007 Sindh Death of Benazir Bhutto - Anti Musharraf riots Musharraf 47 Several cars burned 2010 Karachi riots [7] 3 Augusta 2014 Karachi Ethnic issues MQM 90+ 300+ 2019 Ghotki riots ...