Suicide bombers assault mosque in Rawalpindi, kill 40.
There have been 19 such attacks in mosques and other Islamic institutions in Pakistan since December 2007, according to information compiled by The Long War Journal. Major attacks at. in a remote village in Dir. April 5, 2009: A suicide bomber killed 24 worshipers and wounded more than 100 in an attack outside a Shia religious center in the Chakwal district in Punjab province... Islamic State executes three of its Chinese militants: China paper �� Afghan troops��.
Pakistans rulers must show an honest resolve to fight terrorism
Pakistanis attend a candlelight vigil to mourn those killed in the Peshawar school attack by Taliban militants. Photograph: Irfan Chudhary/Barcroft India. Pakistans powerful and inflexible establishment is deeply suspicious of its neighbours and.
Thematic Chronology of Mass Violence in Pakistan, 1947.
Another contemporary estimates from India put the death toll at 500,000, approximately 200,000-250,000 non-Muslims and 200,000-250000 Muslims (Khosla, 1999: 298-99)... The exact layout of the international border that was to divide Punjab between India and Pakistan was still not known at the time of Independence. It is only.. (Aiyar, 1998: 18-19) Notwithstanding the train attacks, bands of armed men were going on raiding villages and killing their inhabitants.
How Pakistans Unregulated Madrassa System Sows Division, Religious Strife
ISLAMABAD (RNS) The gruesome killing of 134 children in a Peshawar school has renewed concerns about Pakistans unfinished agenda of uprooting militancy and intolerance. On Sunday (Dec. 21) authorities arrested several suspected facilitators, but the .
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PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) ��� A Pakistani official says that the death toll in a militant attack on a Shiite Muslim mosque in the northwestern city of Peshawar has risen to 19. Provincial Information Minister Mushtaq Ghani says the attack on Friday also.
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2012.12.03, Thailand, Narathiwat, 1, 0, A 32-year-old female teacher is shot four times by Muslim separatists while on her way to school. 2012.12.03, Thailand. 2012.11.30, Pakistan, Chamarkand, 3, 6, Two brothers are among three civilians who lose their lives to a bomb attack by Muslim militants. 2012.11.30.. 2012.11.21, Pakistan, Karachi, 2, 17, A suicide bombing is among two bomb blasts outside a Shiite mosque that leave two innocents dead. 2012.11.21��.
Taliban suicide bomber kills 50, destroys mosque in Pakistan
A Taliban suicide bomber killed more than 50 worshipers and wounded more than 125 in an attack at a mosque in Pakistans tribal areas along the border with Pakistan. The bombing is the. There were five suicide attacks inside Pakistan in February this year and another three in January, totaling 19 attacks during the first quarter of 2008.. The Taliban are Sunni Wahabbi - they attacked a Shia mosque. According to. Neither the LWJ or Times of India article says.
Militants attack Shia mosque in Pakistan, 19 killed
PESHAWAR: Grenade-toting militants attacked a Shia mosque in northwest Pakistan on Friday, police said, killing at least 19 people and wounding dozens more, with fighting still ongoing. The attack comes two weeks after a suicide bombing at a Shia .
Pakistan suffers unprecedented winter of attacks as militants.
Last year was the bloodiest year for Shias in living memory.. And just before New Years Eve, 22 of the 23 paramilitary soldiers kidnapped during a daring militant attack on their posts near Khyber turned up dead.. dismemberment of India and Intense hatred of India. Scheme boomeranged. Big time. The same hatred and dismemberment plans are now being directed inwards. One set of haters are killing another set of haters in what is a hate-up-man-ship game.
Suicide bomber kills 60 at mosque in Pakistans northwest.
A suicide bomber has killed more than 60 people today while Taliban fighters killed three more people in a hand grenade attack at a mosque in the latest attacks at religious gatherings in Pakistan. The Taliban took.. Aug. 19, 2008: A suicide bomber killed 29 Shia mourners and wounded 35 after detonating in the emergency ward of a hospital.. Even with the aid being provided by the U.S., Pakistan is sinking and lagging even more behind India than ever before.
Shia-killing in Pakistan: Background and Predictions
In the latest gruesome attack on the Shia community in Pakistan a suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowded ImambaRa (Shia mosque) and killed over 60 people, including several young children.. The exact number is not known because the census does not count them separately and pro and anti-Shia groups routinely exaggerate or downgrade the number of Shias in Pakistan (thus the most militant Sunni group, the Sipah e Sahaba, routinely uses the figure of��.
Suicide bomber kills more than 40 at Pakistani mosque.
Feb. 20, 2008: A suicide bomber killed 32 Pakistanis and wounded more than 85 in an attack on a funeral procession for a Shia elder who was murdered in Dera Ismail Khan. Feb. 5, 2009: A.. The slaughter of worshippers as they gathered at a mosque for Ramadans Friday prayers underscores the brutality of those who would target civilians during a time of celebration and reflection for Muslims throughout the world.. India going to buy into US invading Pakistan.
Whos Killing Pakistans Shia and Why? - War on the Rocks
Print Friendly. According to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, in 2013 nearly 700 Shia were killed and more than 1,000 were injured in more than 200 sectarian terrorist attacks.. At the time of Partition, about one fourth of Pakistans citizens were non-Muslim. While most of.. Throughout the 1990s and up until 2001, Pakistans military and intelligence agency supported, armed, and trained numerous Islamist militants for operations in Afghanistan and India.
Timeline of Pakistans Deadliest Attacks ��� Newsweek Pakistan
Here is a list of major attacks by militant groups since 2007: 2007. Oct. 18: Bomb attacks targeting former prime minister Benazir Bhutto kill 139 people in Karachi as she returns to Pakistan for the first time in eight years. She was. 3: A suicide attack kills 59 at a Shia Muslim rally in Quetta. Nov.. 19: A suicide bomber hits a mosque during Friday prayers in Khyber Agency, killing at least 43 people and wounding more than 100 others, according to local officials. 2012.
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Boko Haram in first Niger attack. 7 Feb. The Nigerian Islamist militant group Boko Haram has attacked a town in Niger for the first time, witnesses say. Nigers government said it killed more than 100 of the groups fighters as it repulsed the attack on... Firing took place on the international border between Samba sector and Pakistan after an Indian soldier was killed in an attack blamed on Pakistan.. An attack on a power plant in the Libyan city of Sirte has left at least 19 soldiers dead.
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The generals were old enough to have established their habits by the time military ruler Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq seized power in a coup in 1977 and promoted a militant strain of Islam in the country and its army... if someone following news of Pakistan from past 2 months he would think before Peshawar Army Public School attack no child would have killed right because it was point to declare that ���there is no good or bad Taliban��� ���to protect our generation we must��.
List of Muslim terror attacks for the past 30 days
2012.10.24, Pakistan, Gulshan, 1, 3, Militants kill a teenage girl in a bomb attack on her family home. 2012.10.24. 2012.10.20, Thailand, Pattani, 1, 0, A 59-year-old Buddhist is shot several times in the head by Muslim insurgents. 2012.10.19. 2012.10.19, India, Srinagar, 1, 2, Three Muslim terrorists opens fire inside a hotel, killing a bellboy. 2012.10.. 2012.10.16, Pakistan, Karachi, 1, 0, A Shiite is gunned down by Sunni militants, who also fire on a rival mosque.
The Observer view on the Paris attacks
It was an attack on the life spiritual itself, whether conducted through church, mosque, synagogue or personal observance. It was an act of utter godlessness. By attempting to murder love with fear, to kill laughter with hatred, to substitute.
Yes, Pakistanis are united against terrorism. But not on terrorists
Simply, it is the widespread belief that militants fighting the Indian state, militants fighting to free ���Indian-held Kashmir���, militants fighting the Afghan government and militants fighting to ���free��� Afghanistan are not militants. They are the good.
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A woman posts a note on a wall to pay tribute to the victims of a shooting by gunmen at the offices of weekly newspaper Charlie Hebdo in Paris, outside the French embassy in London January 8, 2015. (Reuters) .
Pakistans Shia leaders urge followers to defend mosques after bombing
Leaders of Pakistans minority Shia Muslims on Monday urged their followers to take immediate steps to defend their places of worship after the bombing of a mosque that killed 50 people on Friday. The attack on Shia worshippers in the city of Shikarpur.
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Several sources indicate that there has been an increase in violent attacks against Shia by militant groups (Jinnah Institute 2013, 19-20; SAIR [2012]; HRCP Mar. 2013, 6).. According to the Jinnah Institute report on extremism in Pakistan Extremism Watch, there were 203 Shia killed in 2011 and 450 killed between 1 January 2012 and 30 November 2012 (ibid., 19). According to. 2013), such as shopkeepers or people attending Shia mosques or processions (ibid.).
Can Peshawar rage finally rouse Pakistan to act against the Taliban?
Despite the impact of a rare protest against clerics, the basic reality is that the Pakistani state is unwilling to channel this anger into reform or action, or to address how militant networks have expanded to the point where they can besiege a school.
Terrorism against Islam - Rawalpindi Blast - Pakistan Defence
Four terrorists approached and attacked a mosque located inside officers residential area near Parade line Rawalpindi. According to Major. Pak Interior Minister and Pak army spokesman have already disclosed that Indian arms, medical equipments have been captured during the current operation against militants in Waziristan. Thus, it would be taken as fact.. May 19, 2008: Four Pakistanis were killed in a bombing outside a mosque in Bajaur. Jan. 17, 2008: A��.
How the Muslim world is being left behind
During that same time, the number of wars fell by a similar figure and the number of nations governed democratically tripled.. The former foreign secretary of Pakistan recently lamented, ���The Islamic world is in disarray and decline and that Muslim.
Adnan el Shukrijumah killed in raid by Pakistani military
He was killed along with two other suspected militants in Shinwarsak, South Waziristan,on Saturday. Shukrijumah, who lived in New York and Florida for 15 years, was accused of plotting to blow up the New York City subway. He also planned attacks on the .
Apparent suicide blast kills seven in Pakistan Shiite mosque
Published: 16:18 EST, 9 January 2015 | Updated: 16:19 EST, 9 January 2015. An apparent suicide bomber struck a Shiite mosque in Pakistans garrison city of Rawalpindi on Friday, killing at least seven people and wounding 15 others, with police warning.
Shia Pilgrims Killed in Iraq by Militant Sunni Islamists: Iran.
Shia Pilgrims Killed in Iraq by Militant Sunni Islamists: Iran Needs to Wake Up. Boutros Hussein and Murad Makhmudov. Modern Tokyo Times. Iranian Shia Muslim pilgrims planned to show their piety by visiting holy places in Iraq but once more many were slaughtered by Sunni. Of course, this reality is replicated in other nations like Pakistan whereby countless attacks have slaughtered untold numbers of Shia Muslims inside mosques or during religious pilgrimage.
What is jihadism?
The Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Taiba (Soldiers of the Pure) is opposed to Indian control of Kashmir, while the Caucasus Emirate wants an Islamic state throughout the Muslim lands in the Russian Federation. Defending the umma from external - non-Muslim .
In New Era of Terrorism, Voice From Yemen Echoes
In the age of YouTube, Mr. Awlakis death ��� or martyrdom, in the view of his followers ��� has hardly reduced his impact. The Internet magazine Inspire, which he oversaw along with another American, Samir Khan, has continued to spread not just militant .
Egypts President Calls For A Revolution In Islam
His professed goal is to purge the religion of extremist ideas of intolerance and violence that fuel groups like al-Qaida and the Islamic State ��� and that appear to have motivated Wednesdays attack in Paris on a French satirical newspaper that killed.