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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.
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 services ...
June 2013 Pakistan bombings was the series of terrorist attack in Pakistan on 30 June 2013. The attacks took place in Hazara Town, Quetta, in Peshawar and in Miranshah, North Waziristan which kills 52 and 119 others injured. [1] [2] The attacks came on the day when UK Prime Minister David Cameron visited Pakistan. [3]
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 postgraduate ...
The high death toll in July made it one of the deadliest months in almost two decades in the history of Karachi – in fighting linked to ethnic and religious tensions that plague the city. [6] The shooting incidents, starting from 6 July, were perpetrated by unknown gunmen and fired indiscriminately in various neighbourhoods throughout the city.
Revenge. On 25 December 2012, university student Shahzeb Khan was murdered in a targeted revenge killing in Karachi, Pakistan. The initial lack of action from police in apprehending Shahzeb Khan's killers sparked countrywide outrage and protests against the abuse of power by the wealthy in Pakistan. On 7 June 2013 Shahrukh Jatoi, son of feudal ...
January 1 – A bomb mounted to a motorcycle exploded near Ayesha Manzil in Karachi after the address of MQM by Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri, killing four people and injured more than 45. [ 4][ 5] January 4 – Haider and Jamal, twin brothers, were going to the university on January 2, 2013, when unknown gunmen attacked them.
On 10 January 2013, several bombings took place in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan, killing a total of 130 people and injuring at least 270. The Quetta bombings led to protests by the city's Shia Muslim Hazara community; Prime Minister of Pakistan Raja Pervez Ashraf responded by dismissing the Chief ...