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March. March 3 — A powerful explosion ripped through a crowd of Shiites as they left a mosque in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, on Sunday, killing at least 45 people. [41] March 9 — A blast happened in the Jamia Chishtia mosque during Zuhr prayer in Peshawar, killed four at board and at least twenty seven injuries.
The March 2013 Karachi bombing was a terrorist attack that struck a predominantly Shia area inside Abbas Town, Gulshan-e-Iqbal Town in Karachi, Pakistan on 3 March 2013. At least 48+ people were killed and more than 180+ others injured after a car bomb was detonated outside a Shia mosque , just as locals were leaving after the evening's ...
In 2009, the worst of any year, 2,586 terrorist, insurgent and sectarian-related incidents were reported, killing 3,021 people and injured 7,334, according to the "Pakistan Security Report 2009" published by PIPS. These casualties figure 48 percent higher as compared to 2008.
On 26 June 2013, a bomb exploded near Burns Road killing nine people and injuring fifteen in Karachi, Pakistan. [1] The bomb was intended to blow up Sindh High Court justice Maqbool Baqar 's convoy. The bomb was located on a motorbike near a mosque. Five of the people killed in the bomb explosion were police officers.
A study called "The Year of the Drone" published in February 2010 by the New America Foundation found that from a total of 114 drone strikes in Pakistan between 2004 and early 2010, between 834 and 1,216 individuals had been killed. About two thirds of these were thought to be militants and one third were civilians.
Attacks on US diplomatic facilities. An angry mob led by members of the Muslim clergy and including many members of the Iranian Army beat Consul Robert W. Imbrie to death. The mob blamed America for poisoning a well. [1] The second of two bomb attacks on the embassy in Gabon.
Died. 18 May 2013. Karachi, Pakistan. Political party. Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (1992-2013) Zahra Shahid Hussain ( Urdu: زہرہ شاہد حسین) also known as Zara Apa, was a Pakistani activist - politician, teacher and the senior vice president of Imran Khan 's Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) in Sindh. She had formerly served as the ...
Perween Rahman was born on 22 January 1957, in Dhaka, then situated in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). She belonged to a Bihari family which moved to Karachi following the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971. [2] [3] She obtained a Bachelor of Architecture degree in 1982 from the Dawood College of Engineering and Technology, [4] and a ...