07-21-2006, 06:17 AM
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Sectarian strife: a chronology of death </b>
Allama Hassan Turabiâs death is the third in Karachi this year and the first with a Shia-Sunni sectarian dimension. A look at the statistics on sectarian violence provides a grim picture.
Shiite mosques and Imam Bargahs have been attacked seven times since 1995; 102 people have been killed and 250 injured in these attacks. Two of the attacks occurred on the same day in 1995; a total of 22 people were killed and 18 injured. Two mosques were attacked in May 2004 which killed 49 people and injured 200. The latest incident was reported in May 2005 in which six people, including three suicide bombers, were killed. In the violence that followed the attack, a KFC outlet was torched; six of its employees were roasted alive. The last three attacks were suicide bombings.
<b>Some important dates </b>
<b>May 30, 2004:</b> Armed men ambushed their car and killed pro-Taliban Sunni cleric and chief of Banori Town mosque in Karachi, Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai. His son, nephew and driver are wounded.
<b>July 24, 2004:</b> An employee of a local seminary, Jamiatul Rasheed, was killed and seven people, including four teachers, were injured in a bomb attack in the Gulshan-e-Maimar area of Karachi.
<b>August 8, 2004:</b> At least 10 people, including a three-year-old boy, were killed and 50 others injured in two bomb explosions near the Jamia Banoria SITE Town.
<b>October 6, 2004:</b> Two police personnel were killed and a civilian injured in an attack by unidentified gunmen on a security post outside a Shia mosque in Karachi.
<b>October 9, 2004:</b> Two Sunni clerics, Mufti Mohammad Jamil, a close aide of the late Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, and Maulana Nazeer Ahmed Taunsvi were shot dead on Jehangir Road in Karachi.
<b>November 16, 2004:</b> Asim Ghafoor alias Qasim Sukkurwala, affiliated with the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), was shot dead in an exchange of fire with police personnel in the Saeedabad area of Karachi.
<b>April 6, 2005:</b> Maulana Mohammed Amin Qadri, Sunni Tahrik leader and a government schoolteacher, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in the Pirabad area of Karachi.
<b>June 23, 2005:</b> Mufti Atiqur Rahman, a cleric at the Jamia Banoria SITE Town was shot dead and his son and a man accompanying them were wounded in an attack near the Sindh Secretariat.
<b>July 9, 2005:</b> Unidentified men abducted and later shot dead Maulana Shamsuddin, a cleric in the Orangi Town area of Karachi.
<b>July 17, 2005:</b> A cleric, Maulana Abdullah Ahmed Madni, was killed and his father, Mufti Muhammad Ahmed Madni, injured when unidentified gunmen opened fire on them in the Buffer Zone area of Karachi.
<b>March 2, 2006:</b> A US diplomat, identified as David Fyfe, his Pakistani driver and a Rangers official were killed and 54 persons injured in a suicide car bombing near the US consulate in Karachi. This was a day before the US President George W Bush reached Pakistan.
<b>April 6, 2006: </b>Allama Hassan Turabi escaped unhurt while four people, including his son and a guard, suffered injuries in a bomb blast.
<b>April 11, 2006:</b> At least 60 people, including the top hierarchy of the Sunni Tehrik and other prominent religious personalities, were killed. More than 100 were injured in a suspected suicide bomb attack at Nishtar Park.
<b>July 13, 2006:</b> A suicide bomber detonated a bomb near the home of prominent Shiite cleric Allama Hassan Turabi in this southern Pakistan city on Friday, killing him and one of his relatives.
<b>Date & Year Place Killed Injured</b>
Feb 25, 1995 Abul Fazal Abbas Mosque 6 16
Feb 25, 1995 Mehfil-e-Murtaza Mosque 16 2
Oct 1, 1999 Masjid-e-Hur 10 12
Feb 22, 2003 Muntazir Mehdi Mosque 9 9
May 7, 2004 Hyderi Mosque 24 150
May 31, 2004 Ali Raza Mosque 25 50
May 30, 2005 Madinatul Ilm 12 11
Total Karachi 102 250
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Sectarian strife: a chronology of death </b>
Allama Hassan Turabiâs death is the third in Karachi this year and the first with a Shia-Sunni sectarian dimension. A look at the statistics on sectarian violence provides a grim picture.
Shiite mosques and Imam Bargahs have been attacked seven times since 1995; 102 people have been killed and 250 injured in these attacks. Two of the attacks occurred on the same day in 1995; a total of 22 people were killed and 18 injured. Two mosques were attacked in May 2004 which killed 49 people and injured 200. The latest incident was reported in May 2005 in which six people, including three suicide bombers, were killed. In the violence that followed the attack, a KFC outlet was torched; six of its employees were roasted alive. The last three attacks were suicide bombings.
<b>Some important dates </b>
<b>May 30, 2004:</b> Armed men ambushed their car and killed pro-Taliban Sunni cleric and chief of Banori Town mosque in Karachi, Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai. His son, nephew and driver are wounded.
<b>July 24, 2004:</b> An employee of a local seminary, Jamiatul Rasheed, was killed and seven people, including four teachers, were injured in a bomb attack in the Gulshan-e-Maimar area of Karachi.
<b>August 8, 2004:</b> At least 10 people, including a three-year-old boy, were killed and 50 others injured in two bomb explosions near the Jamia Banoria SITE Town.
<b>October 6, 2004:</b> Two police personnel were killed and a civilian injured in an attack by unidentified gunmen on a security post outside a Shia mosque in Karachi.
<b>October 9, 2004:</b> Two Sunni clerics, Mufti Mohammad Jamil, a close aide of the late Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, and Maulana Nazeer Ahmed Taunsvi were shot dead on Jehangir Road in Karachi.
<b>November 16, 2004:</b> Asim Ghafoor alias Qasim Sukkurwala, affiliated with the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), was shot dead in an exchange of fire with police personnel in the Saeedabad area of Karachi.
<b>April 6, 2005:</b> Maulana Mohammed Amin Qadri, Sunni Tahrik leader and a government schoolteacher, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in the Pirabad area of Karachi.
<b>June 23, 2005:</b> Mufti Atiqur Rahman, a cleric at the Jamia Banoria SITE Town was shot dead and his son and a man accompanying them were wounded in an attack near the Sindh Secretariat.
<b>July 9, 2005:</b> Unidentified men abducted and later shot dead Maulana Shamsuddin, a cleric in the Orangi Town area of Karachi.
<b>July 17, 2005:</b> A cleric, Maulana Abdullah Ahmed Madni, was killed and his father, Mufti Muhammad Ahmed Madni, injured when unidentified gunmen opened fire on them in the Buffer Zone area of Karachi.
<b>March 2, 2006:</b> A US diplomat, identified as David Fyfe, his Pakistani driver and a Rangers official were killed and 54 persons injured in a suicide car bombing near the US consulate in Karachi. This was a day before the US President George W Bush reached Pakistan.
<b>April 6, 2006: </b>Allama Hassan Turabi escaped unhurt while four people, including his son and a guard, suffered injuries in a bomb blast.
<b>April 11, 2006:</b> At least 60 people, including the top hierarchy of the Sunni Tehrik and other prominent religious personalities, were killed. More than 100 were injured in a suspected suicide bomb attack at Nishtar Park.
<b>July 13, 2006:</b> A suicide bomber detonated a bomb near the home of prominent Shiite cleric Allama Hassan Turabi in this southern Pakistan city on Friday, killing him and one of his relatives.
<b>Date & Year Place Killed Injured</b>
Feb 25, 1995 Abul Fazal Abbas Mosque 6 16
Feb 25, 1995 Mehfil-e-Murtaza Mosque 16 2
Oct 1, 1999 Masjid-e-Hur 10 12
Feb 22, 2003 Muntazir Mehdi Mosque 9 9
May 7, 2004 Hyderi Mosque 24 150
May 31, 2004 Ali Raza Mosque 25 50
May 30, 2005 Madinatul Ilm 12 11
Total Karachi 102 250
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