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Video Conferencing in Pakistan

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Planning Rooms for Video conferencing? in Pakistan & Afghanistan?

Now AMTECH SYSTEMS the best video conferencing solution providers in Pakistan had developed the best check list with it's technical team on "things to remember while making a video conferencing room in Pakistan".

There are a number of issues to consider when choosing and preparing a room for use as a videoconferencing studio. Many of these issues should also be considered when preparing meeting rooms with videoconferencing facilities, or when setting up desk-top terminals. Studio planning and creation should involve personnel with responsibility for audio/visual equipment, computer networks and estates. Potential users of the room should be consulted if possible, and a visit to an established studio is helpful when drawing up plans. Practical and environmental considerations

Location – Studios should be in a location that is quiet, convenient, central and accessible. They

should be sited away from heavy plant or electrical equipment such as lifts or substations, and

away from busy thoroughfares, if possible.

Size – The planned use of the room will dictate its size. Many studios will be multi-purpose, and these should be designed so as to be adaptable for small group meetings as well as teaching rooms. For example, consider using curtains to hide rows of tables and chairs when not in use.Shape – Try to avoid square rooms. Oblong or irregular shapes are best for good acoustics.

Furniture and Layout – Avoid bright or shiny surfaces. Use carpet on the floor and soft furnishings.

Flexible furniture is useful if the room is to be multi-purpose. Lots of small tables can be re-arranged (or

stacked out of sight), whereas one large table cannot. If the main use is for meetings however, a solid,

heavy table will dampen sound and help improve the acoustics.

A horseshoe layout is effective for meetings as it allows participants to see each other and the

monitor(s) easily. Rows of tables and chairs are more suitable for teaching, although careful

consideration must be given to the siting of whiteboards, second cameras and additional monitors (so

that the lecturer can see, and be seen by, the local and remote audiences, simultaneously). In smaller

rooms, the camera should be positioned to allow a ‘portrait’ view of the room (looking down the room),

rather than a ‘landscape’ view (looking across the room).

Décor – Avoid windows in the room if possible, but if they are unavoidable, use heavy curtains and not

roller or vertical blinds. Room colours should be mid-tone, tending towards lighter shades. Patterns and

strong contrasts should be avoided. Where paint is used, it should have a matt finish. Loosely gathered

curtains across walls work well and curtains can also be sited to hide storage and/or reception areas. If

conferencing from a working office, consider using curtains to hide office clutter and provide a uniform

backdrop.

Equipment – Carefully consider the use and location of any peripheral equipment (PC, document

camera, etc.). If equipment is housed in cabinets or behind false walls, consider ease of access for

maintenance.

Lighting – With a modern camera, the intensity of normal office lighting (500 Lux) is fine. Dispersed

fluorescent lighting works well, and should be adequate enough to give full, even coverage. Avoid pools

of light, strong light sources or glare in camera shot. Desk-top users should be careful to avoid back-

lighting.

Acoustics – the aim is for a balance between echo (reverberation) and sound absorbency (deadness).

This can usually be achieved by using adequate soft furnishings, carpet and curtains. Heating and

Ventilation – Normal office levels of warmth and humidity should be the aim. Airconditioning systems

always introduce some noise that can be amplified by the microphone. If airconditioning is provided, a

high-volume, low-speed system is preferable, and local controls should be available within the studio.

Cabling and ducting – Plan cable runs from the outset. Larger studios can generate large amounts of

coiled cable. Some cabling between the terminal and the table(s) is inevitable for microphone(s) and

control systems. These should be under the floor or protected by rubber covers. Wherever possible, use

wireless or remote control devices to operate equipment, thus reducing cabling in the room.

Finishing Touches – Always provide a direct dial telephone into the room, a wall clock (out of shot) and

adequate network and power points. Provide some kind of identification: a wall-mounted organisation

logo or table-top sign will help in multi-site conferences. An ‘On Air’ red light above the entrance to the

room is also useful.

Network connections- For an h.323 videoconferencing terminal, a 100Mbit/s, full-duplex, switched

environment is highly recommended. It is usually wise to set ports on the terminal and the switch

explicitly to these settings, rather than trust auto-sensing. The entire path from terminal to gatekeeper

to h.323 proxy to gatekeeper and/or site router should be 100Mbit/s and should consist of as few hops

as possible. It should not be in contention with any PCs in the studio and should avoid the Local Area

Network, either physically or, if this is not possible, by use of Virtual LANs (VLANs).

Access and security- To offer a service for all, there should be access for disabled people and people

with mobility problems. In some cases this may mean siting the studio on the ground floor.Cameras,

projectors, PCs etc. are desirable and expensive equipment. Studios should normally be locked when not

in use. Consideration should be given to the responsibility and mechanisms for booking and gaining

access to the room. This will include the location of the key and protocols for authenticating users in

larger organisations.

Incidents involving Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan

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2012

January 2: Chief of ASWJ Aurangzaib Farooqui and three others were booked in December 31, 2011 murder case of Shia leader Askari Raza on Rashid Minhas Road in Karachi, while SSP of the CID's AEC Chaudhry Aslam also came under interrogation. DIG South Commander Shaukat said that SSP Aslam was automatically suspended since he came under investigation. ASWJ spokesman Taj Hanfi termed the decision as conspiracy against his organisation. The Shia protesters were demanding lodging of an FIR against the killers and taking prompt action against Chaudhry Aslam, who is said to be involved in killing.

2011

December 29: At least ten people, including journalists, were injured in a clash between two sectarian groups in Khairpur District. Armed men from both sects continued aerial fire, though a heavy bout of tear gassing by the police forced many to leave. The markets in the area have been closed and Khairpur is reportedly deserted, save for the Police and Rangers patrolling the streets. Other reports claimed that there was a virtual curfew-like situation as no one was allowed on the streets. People are afraid of the clash escalating further because the tussle is between two religious groups," said a citizen, Irfan Phulpoto. He said that the tense areas were Nao Goth, the stronghold of one group and Panj Gula, the stronghold of another sect. Some 600 Policemen and 200 Rangers officers were reportedly deputed to patrol.

According to the report, SSP has a considerable presence in Khairpur District. In 2009, SSP leader Allama Sher Hyderi was killed in the District. SSP leader Malik Ishaq is accused of killing 70 people in over 40 cases.

December 26: ASWJ strongly condemned Federal Interior Minister Rehman Malik's December 25, 2011 allegations regarding the SSP involvement in the March 2, 2011 murder of former Minister for Minority Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti. ASWJ leaders rejected the allegations levelled at their organisation declaring the statement deceiving and misleading. The organization's Central Deputy Secretary Allama Masoodur Rehman Usmani and its Islamabad patron Chief Maulana Abdul Razaq Haidri in their joint statement said that the Interior Minister had continuously blamed their party to hide the Federal Government's failure in solving the murder case.

According to reports, ASWJ had decided to approach the court regarding Malik's allegations. The organisation claimed that Malik's allegation, against them, was due to pressure from external forces. They added that this was to create a rift between Muslims and Christians and that the allegations have no credibility. ASWJ demanded that Malik should provide evidence and present it in court or else the party will challenge his allegations in court. They reiterated that their organisation had no links with terrorism, "We never talk about avenging the death of one person by killing a 100."

December 25: Federal Minister for Interior Rehman Malik said that red warrants for assassins of former Minister for Minority Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti had been issued and soon they would be brought to justice. "The two assassins are activists of the banned outfit SSP. They had managed to reach Middle East. However, we are making efforts for their arrest and will bring them back to the country," he said.
December 6: Two policemen were injured when SSP militants pelted the Ashura procession in Jhang District.
November 28: About 100 suspects from two outfits were arrested in an overnight operation, following the November 27, 2011 killings of two Security Force personnel at a Shia camp in Numaish Chowrangi area in Karachi. Rangers and Police cracked down on the SSP - that works under the new name ASWJ, and LeJ activists.
November 27: Two SF personnel, identified as Zain-ul-Abideen and Azhar Hussain were shot dead and 11 others wounded when some participants of a protest rally organized by SSP opened indiscriminate fire on Shia camps at Numaish Chowrangi area while returning from Karachi Press Club in Karachi. SSP had organized a rally against the November 26, 2011 NATO attack in Mohmand Agency of FATA that killed 25 SFs. Abideen was affiliated with Butarab Scout and Hussain was serving for Pak Hyderi Scout camp. Sindh Home Minister Manzoor Hussain Wasan claimed to have arrested 16 armed assailants near Aalmi Majlis-e-Khatm-e-Nabowat and ordered officials to conduct an independent inquiry into the incident.
November 14: A cadre of a SSP, identified as Abdul Rehman, was shot dead at his clinic in Babar Market within the limits of Landhi Police Station. Rehman was a resident of Zamanabad Landhi. "He belonged to the Ahl-e-Hadees sect and was said to have been trained in Afghanistan." Some say that he was affiliated to a banned outfit. However, Inquiry Officer Abdul Latif said that it was unclear if the victim was affiliated to any banned outfit.
October 30: The Malir town President of SSP, Jabbar Qureshi was shot dead while his companion, Imdadullah, injured in a target killing incident at Korangi Crossing in Karachi.
October 24: Police recovered two hand grenades, detonators and 75 cartridges from the house of a SSP cadre in Dera Ismail Khan. Cantonment SHO Mohammad Nawaz Gandapur said that they were informed that Imran Ali and Jamshed Mohammad, both cadres of SSP, were hiding in the house of Merajuddin Mehsud in Gulshan Jamil Colony. "We raided the house but didn't find the activists there. However, we arrested Merajuddin Mehsud for possessing illegal arms and registered a case against him under Anti-Terrorism Act," he said.
August 18: An armed clash between the activists of Sunni Tehreek (ST) and SSP claimed two lives, while four others were injured in Godhra within the limits of New Karachi Industrial Area. The clash started between two religious parties before Iftar, when two armed groups opened fire at each other. Resultantly, two persons, one Ghulam Dastagir and another Taufeeq, Mohammad Hussain, died on the spot, while four others Akhter, Shahnaz Bibi, Siraj received bullet injuries. Leader of Jama'at Ulema Pakistan (JUP), Tariq Mehboob claimed that victim Ghulam Dastagir was an activist of his party.
July 1: SSP and Sunni Tehreek cadres exchanged fire over the control of a hospital located near Muslim Stop in Godhra area of New Karachi locality killing seven cadres and injuring seven others.
June 30: A clash between two religious groups, Sunni Tehreek and ASWJ, formerly known as SSP, claimed three lives, including one woman, and injured 12 others in Godhra area of New Karachi.
June 27: One Kashif Wakeel, a cadre of ASWJ, formerly known as SSP, was shot dead at Do Minute Chowrangi in the remits of Bilal Colony Police Station in Karachi.
June 8: Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, an adviser to the Prime Minister after his visit to a jail in Haripur District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province came up with the observation that jails have become breeding grounds for extremists because outfits like the TTP and the SSP have taken their "ideological campaign" to prisoners.
April 22: A former cadre of SSP, identified as Mohammed Nadeem, was shot dead in Sharea Faisal near Star Gate.
March 6: A SSP cadre, Zeeshan, was killed and his friend Mansoor sustained injuries in an incident of target killing in Orangi Town within the limits of Iqbal Market Police Station in Karachi.
March 5: The SSP ‘leader’ Maulana Muhammad Ahmed Madni, who is also the brother of slain party chief Maulana Azam Tariq, was shot dead along with his son Abu Bakar in an incident of targeted killing in the Khawaja Ajmair Nagri Police Station area of Karachi.
March 4: A SSP cadre, Syed Muzafar Alam Nomani, was shot dead in Burmy Colony within the limits of Landhi Police Station in Karachi. Sources said that the slain cadre was the custodian of Madrassas Omar bin Abdul Aziz situated at Jumma Goth and was the vice President of the Burmy unit of the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ) formerly known as SSP.

2010

December 29: A cadre of SSP, Imran, was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Sector 11-G near Nullah Stop in the limits of New Karachi Industrial Area Police station.
December 27: Five persons, including a minor girl, were killed and three others were injured in sectarian violence in different parts of Karachi, the provincial capital of Sindh.
November 28: A local leader of the SSP, Abdur Rehman, was killed while his friend, Mohammed Faisal, injured in the Sharifabad Police Station area of Karachi, the provincial capital of Sindh.
November 27: The Government announced a reward of PNR 10 million to anyone providing information about the TTP. "The government will make arrangements to settle the informers and their families anywhere in the country, even abroad, if they fear that the Taliban might hurt them," Interior Minister Rehman Malik said. Rehman Malik said that most militants belonged to the LeJ and SSP.
October 28: A SSP militant, identified as Abdullah, son of Amanullah, was arrested by Police under Chaki Wara Police Station area near Lyari Town in Karachi, the provincial capital of Sindh.
October 5: A teacher of the Jamia Binoria Al Almia shot dead in Site area. Police said 50-year-old Maulana Mohammad Amin was going to visit his relatives when at least four assailants fired from the front and rear at the jeep he was driving. According to the Police, Maulana Amin was once associated with the SSP as its divisional chief in Karachi and later quit the party after it was banned.
September 24: Police arrested SSP leader Maulana Mohammad Ahmed Ludhianvi from Jhang in Punjab.
August 2: Interior Minister Rehman Malik, however, accused SSP for the assassination of Haider. Talking to reporters at the Parliament House, Malik said there were reports of death threats to Haider's life, which had been conveyed to certain senior officials.
July 11: The SFs arrested at least 53 suspects, including the former chief of the SSP, during the ongoing crackdown against banned organisations in Southern Punjab. Sources said that Police arrested former SSP ‘chief’ Tanveer and 19 other suspects of the same outfit from Khanewal.
July 1: A cadre of the SSP, Qari Noor Muhammad (35), was shot dead in Khokhrapar Police Station area of Karachi. Sources said Qari Noor Muhammad, a Pesh-Imam of a mosque, and his friend Muneer (35), received bullet wounds when four assailants riding on two motorcycles opened fire at them while they were sitting outside the mosque.
June 14: A leader of the SSP was shot dead by two unidentified assailants in the Mobina Town Police limits at Karachi in Sindh.
June 5: Unidentified assailants riding a motorcycle shot dead a SSP cadre, Shehzad (25), in Petal Wali Gali under Gulbahar Police Station area of Karachi in Sindh.
May 28: A person belonging to the Shia community was killed and some others were wounded in a clash between two rival sects at Islam Chowk in Orangi Town of Karachi in Sindh. The clash took place between activists of the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat (ASWJ), the frontal organisation of SSP, and a Shia group. The slained Shia person was identified as Shehzad alias Sajju.
April 23: A Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) cadre, Athar Jadoon, who was injured in an attack, succumbed to his injuries. Athar was shot at near the Darul Uloom at Korangi in Karachi on April 22.
April 22: A senior cadre of the SSP, Athar, was critically injured following a shot at incident near Darul Uloom locality under Awami Colony Police Station of Korangi town in Karachi. Landhi Town SP Haider Sultan said the incident occurred in Sector 28 of Korangi where unidentified assailants opened fire on the victim Athar while he was passing by on his motorcycle.
March 30: A SSP cadre was shot dead by unidentified motorcyclists in Karachi. According to the Police, the deceased, Mohammed Nisaar, was sitting at his shop in Godhraan Camp Wali Gali, when four men on two motorcycles came over and opened indiscriminate fire at him, killing him on the spot. The four men managed to escape after leaving a motorcycle behind.
March 11: An attempt was also made on Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Nadeem, a leader of the SSP, in which he was injured, while his son lost his life. Maulana Ghafoor Nadeem was shot at on his way to the city courts near Annu Bhai Park in Nazimabad in Karachi.
March 2: The Interior Minister Rehman Malik said that the SSP and TTP were involved in terrorist activities in the country and warned of strict action against them. Referring to the SSP, the interior minister said it had close links to al-Qaeda and Taliban. Malik also added that he was facing serious life threats himself and had received threatening letters.

2009

November 20: In a suspected sectarian incident, the general secretary of the banned Sunni outfit SSP Karachi chapter, Engineer Ilyas Zubair, was shot dead and provincial information secretary, Qari Shafiqur Rehman Alvi, wounded at Teen Hatti under the Jamshed Quarters Police Station jurisdiction in Karachi. The two men were going to a mosque near Teen Hatti shrine, when unidentified men on a motorcycle opened indiscriminate fire at them.
October 23: Police claimed the arrest of a Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan terrorist, Qaisar Mauvia, from Sector F-12, and also apprehended 60 suspects from different parts of the federal capital Islamabad. Police said Mauvia was involved in target killing and other illegal activities in the country. Meanwhile, a senior Police officer said the Police had arrested 80 suspects in the last three days. He said the Police continued the operation on October 23 and arrested 60 suspects from Dhok Noon, Dhok Makhan, Bhatta, Sohan, Pind Warian, Khana Dak, Khana East, Koral, Ghori Town, Kalinger and other slums in the Aabpara and Margallah police precincts. The official said police had seized 22 guns, 10 pistols, two Kalashnikov rifles, ammunition and 102 bottles of liquor from them. Most of the arrested persons were from Waziristan and Afghanistan. Separately, Police arrested four alleged terrorists from Farooqabad during a crackdown on suspicious persons.
October 19: Unidentified assailants shot dead a former activist of a banned outfit near his house in the Rehan Colony of Bahawalpur in Punjab province. Islamuddin had been divisional convener of the banned Sunni outfit, the SSP. After its proscription, he used to reportedly earn his livelihood by selling edibles on a handcart. He was coming from his house near Shama Cinema on the Multan Road when two motorcyclists shot at him and fled. He later died at the Bahawal Victoria Hospital.
September 26: An activist of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi (MQM-H) was shot dead near Naeem Hospital at Malir No. 15 within the limits of Saudabad Police station in Karachi. Police said Mudasir, 30, was on his way on a motorbike when unidentified assailants shot at him and managed to escape. The victim, an area distributor of a food company, succumbed to his injuries later. The deceased was also a supporter of the SSP and was the witness in five high profile cases of sectarian killings.
September 20: Pakistan's law enforcement agencies are searching for 83 high profile terrorists wanted for various crimes, ranging from the attack on former President Pervez Musharraf to fanning the separatist movement in Balochistan. According to a list maintained by the Interior Ministry, 41 of the most wanted terrorists belong to Punjab, 21 to Sindh, 13 to Balochistan and eight to the NWFP. Of the 83 terrorists, Bramdagh Bugti tops the list with 31 information reports registered against him. The available data shows the majority of the terrorists belong to various sectarian and terrorist organisations, including the HUJI, SSP, LeJ and Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan (SMP). The majority of the "most wanted" belong to the LJ and the SMP and are wanted in various high profile cases, including assassination attempts targeting Musharraf, former premier Shaukat Aziz and the Karachi Corps commander; the blasts at the Sheraton hotel and foreign embassies; arms smuggling; target killings of rival groups, doctors, Police and intelligence officials and personnel; kidnapping for ransom; and attacks on imambargahs (Shia places of worship) and mosques.
September 1: Police and security agencies arrested two suspects affiliated with the banned SSP outfit and involved in arranging manpower for terrorist activities. Official sources identified the alleged terrorists as Abu Waqas and Mohammad Akram. The arrest was made during a raid by a joint team of the capital police and security agencies in Bhara Kahu. Literature regarding jihad, cellular phones and SIMs were recovered from their possession. The duo is accused of arranging potential recruits for the outfit's cause in the capital's rural area and its adjacent cities and towns for education and training. First, they used to arrange potential recruits and bring them to a seminary located in Bhara Kahu where they were indoctrinated. Subsequently, the selected recruits were shifted to Waziristan in FATA for training in terrorist activities, including suicide bombing, ambush and handling of weapons and explosives. The suspects recruited a large number of teenage boys and youth, the sources added.
August 17: Armed men shot dead Allama Ali Sher Hyderi, chief of the banned SSP, along with his associate Imtiaz Phulpoto at Khairpur in the Sindh province. Sources said Allama Hyderi was returning home after delivering a speech at a religious gathering in the Dost Muhammad Abro village within the limits of the Ahmedpur Police Station when he was attacked. Police sources said one of the attackers, identified as Aashiq Ali Jagirani, was also killed in retaliatory fire by Hyderi’s bodyguards. The murder reportedly bore all indications of a sectarian killing, with the head of the local police saying "it was a targeted attack on Allama Hyderi".
The SSP leader’s murder triggered violence in major towns of Sindh. There were reports of aerial firing and armed SSP activists forced shopkeepers to close their shops. The Army and the Rangers were called out to assist the Police in maintaining the law and order. The protesters removed the main railway tracks, suspending train link to the upcountry. There were reports that the house of the suspected killer had been torched by the people in Luqman town. Two persons were killed and another sustained injuries in firing by paramilitary forces that tried to stop an angry mob from removing railway tracks.
Maulana Muhammad Ahmed Ludhianvi has been named as successor to Allama Hyderi. Allama Hyderi, who hailed from Khairpur, was the fourth SSP chief to be killed since it was formed in the late 1980s. After the Sunni outfit was banned by former President Pervez Musharraf in February 2002, it was operating under the name of Ahl-e-Sunnat-Wal-Jama’at.
August 11: The Government told the National Assembly that it had asked provinces to keep a watch on the banned Sunni militant outfit SSP, which is accused of fomenting recent violence in the Punjab province's Jhang and Gojra towns. Interior Minister Rehman Malik acknowledged there was a lot of truth in concern voiced by an opposition lawmaker from Jhang who said the Government must act against the SSP to avoid the kind of situation it had to face in Swat valley of the North West Frontier Province after Taliban militants were allowed to thrive there. Malik reportedly said it was a fact that the SSP had had been involved in terrorist activities in the past and added "The provincial governments have been asked to keep a watch on its activities." The PML-Q member Sheikh Waqqas Akram said all of some 200 SSP activists arrested in Jhang after a judge took a Suo Motu notice of the July 21 violence were later released "one by one" and that he learned during a visit to Gojra that members of the same group attacked Christians in Gojra for unproven blasphemy, burning seven of them alive. He also that a SSP leader had been allowed to address the arrested group's militants in jail and to go around the country without regard to what he called restrictions for banned organisations.
August 9: The SFs killed a SSP leader after an exchange of fire in the Malanari area of Dera Ismail Khan District of NWFP. Official sources said Miftahullah, a SSP leader who was allegedly involved in sectarian killings in Dera city, was shot dead during a search operation.
August 5: The Government announced that 25 extremist and militant groups and welfare organisations affiliated to them have so far been banned because of their involvement in terrorist activities. In a written reply submitted on August 5 in response to a question in the National Assembly, Interior Minister Rehman Malik said the banned organisations included Al Qaeda, SMP, Tehrik Nifaz-i-Fiqah Jafaria, SSP, JuD, Al Akhtar Trust, Al Rasheed Trust (ART), Tehrik-i-Islami, JeM, LeJ, TTP, Islamic Students Movement, Khairun Nisa International Trust, Tehrik-i-Islam Pakistan, Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM), LeT, Lashkar-i-Islam, Balochistan Liberation Army, Jamiat-i-Ansar, Jamiatul Furqan, Hizbut Tehrir, Khuddam-i-Islam and Millat-i-Islamia Pakistan.
August 2: Paramilitary troops were deployed in the Azafi Abadi village, also known as Koriaan, in the Punjab province where 10 people were killed in violence between Muslims and Christians over the alleged desecration of the Koran. Pakistan Rangers personnel took up positions in and around Azafi Abadi, a day after it witnessed communal clashes. Persons from the two communities reportedly exchanged fire and over 80 homes of Christians were set ablaze by mobs. However, despite deployment of the Pakistan Rangers, the situation in the area remained tense throughout the day as some Christians refused to bury their dead until Police registered a complaint against those responsible for the killings and arson. "We have arrested a number of suspects and exemplary punishment will be given to those involved in heinous crimes. This is a crime against humanity," Rana Sanaullah, Law Minister of Punjab, told reporters. He said some outlawed religious groups were involved in the violence but did not name them. A Police source said that activists of the banned SSP and Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan (SMP) were involved in the violence. "Their armed activists from other parts of Punjab gathered in Koriaan village," the source said. Violence erupted in the village, part of Gojra sub-division of Toba Tek Singh District and located 160 km from Lahore, when a group of Muslims alleged three Christians burnt pages of the Koran during a wedding last week. At least seven Christians, including four women and two children, were burnt alive. Three others were killed in Police firing on August 1. The Federal Minister for Minorities Shahbaz Bhatti and provincial minister Sanaullah, however, said no Christian was involved in desecrating the Koran.
July 16: Two more activists of the outlawed Sunni group SSP, including a guard of the group’s central leader Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Nadeem, were killed in Karachi. One of them died at a hospital after being injured in the clash a day earlier while another’s body was recovered from Model Colony.
The body of 26-year-old Anwar Ali alias Murad, a resident of Orangi Town and the personal security guard of SSP central leader Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Nadeem, was recovered from Malir Saudabad in the evening. He had been abducted from the RCG Ground Malir a day earlier. Deputy Superintendent of Police, Farooq Sher Zaman, said Anwar Ali was abducted when he, along with some other SSP cadres went there to force shopkeepers to shut their businesses down. "The police found his body from a railway track in Saudabad. He was brutally tortured before being killed. A single bullet was shot at his forehead following the torture, killing him instantly," Zaman said. Another SSP cadre, Ghufran, a resident of Future Colony in Landhi, who was wounded in the violence on July 15, succumbed to his injuries at the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre hospital. Ghufran is reportedly the younger brother of Hafiz Amanullah, a SSP militant who was killed on June 3, 2009 in Gulshan-e-Iqbal when he, along with his children, went out for recreational purposes. Two other SSP cadres, Saqib and Arshad, were also injured in the violence on July 15.
July 15: Unidentified men killed the central legal adviser of the outlawed Sunni group, the SSP, Hafiz Ahmed Buksh, in Model Colony in Karachi. Buksh’s vehicle was indiscriminately fired at when he was on his way home and his driver, Nasir, was also killed in the attack. Saudabad Supervisory Police Officer Farooq Sher Zaman told that the assailants used 9-mm pistols in the attack, adding that the incident took place shortly after the deceased left the Masjid-e-Ibrahim mosque.
June 18: In a crackdown, the Bahawalpur and Vehari Police arrested 40 people who allegedly remained associated with banned outfits and sectarian groups. Raids were reportedly conducted in Bahawalpur, Ahmedpur East, Hasilpur, Khairpur Tamewali and Uch Sharif. The Bahawalpur Regional Police Officer Mushtaq Ali Sukhera confirmed that activists of former "jihadi or sectarian groups" had been arrested during these raids. He said those people had been taken into custody whose names figured on the Police's fourth schedule, which carries the names of those people who violate their surety bonds of good behaviour and non-participation in objectionable activities. In case of non-compliance, they are liable to be detained or face new cases on these charges, he stated. Among those arrested were Abdul Ghani, a SSP activist from Mauza Qaimpur near Hasilpur, Aamir Shahzad of Ahmedpur East and Habibur Rehman of Khairpur Tamewali, who was allegedly present on the premises of Lal Masjid in Islamabad when an operation was launched during the regime of Pervez Musharraf. 25 activists of a banned outfit were arrested during the crackdown in Vehari District. Sources said eight persons were arrested from Vehari and the rest from Mailsi and Burewala.
May 27: Another activist of the banned Sunni outfit SSP was shot dead in the Aziz Bhatti Police limits of Karachi within three days of the murder of another SSP activist. The incident sparked tension in Gulshan Town, as armed men resorted to aerial firing, forced the shopkeepers to pull down shutters and also attacked Imambargahs (Shia places of worship) in the area. 38-year old Qari Amanullah was shot dead while his son Sufian was injured by two gunmen near a Tandur in Gulshan-e-Iqbal. According to Police, the deceased was a former Sipah-e-Sahaba unit in-charge.
May 24: A senior activist of the banned SSP was shot dead in a target killing. 40-year old Allauddin was the Lines Area Unit in-charge of the banned Sunni outfit, and had earlier worked for the LeJ. A source in the Criminal Investigation Department told that the deceased was currently engaged in re-organising the SSP in Karachi. Following the incident, participants of Allauddin's funeral prayers started shooting guns in the air outside Imambargah-e-Ali Raza. Subsequently, dozens of people belonging to the Fiqa-e-Jafferia gathered on the road and started rioting by burning tyres and pelting stones on passing vehicles.
April 20: The Islamabad Police announced the arrest of two hard-core terrorists from the federal capital who were acting as planners and facilitators for carrying out terrorist acts in the city. The SSP, Tahir Alam Khan, said Khairullah Mehsud, a resident of South Waziristan, who was living in Sector G-9/2, was arrested from F-9 Park. Intelligence agencies have reportedly traced his links with terrorist groups in South Waziristan, which he developed after the Lal Masjid incident. "He was in contact with Gul Bahadur in South Waziristan and Misal Khan in Akora Khattak. During the course of investigations Khairullah made certain revelations, which eventually led to the arrest of another terrorist identified as Khurram Shahzad son of Lal Afzal who had undergone terrorism training at the camp of a banned terrorist organization," the SSP said. He said Khurram Shahzad had visited the tribal areas as well as Hangu, Bara and Peshawar quite frequently and during those visits he had taken 'recruits' from Islamabad for training in camps established by the terrorist groups there. The SSP also said Khurram Shahzad and other 'recruits' who accompanied him on those visits, got training to handle explosive materials, especially making lethal 'oil canister' bombs.
March 23: A member of the banned Sunni group SSP was killed in an apparent sectarian attack in Dera Ismail Khan in the NWFP. Abu Khan, an SSP activist, was near his shop on the outskirts of Dera Ismail Khan when two gunmen shot him dead and later escaped on their motorbike, witnesses told. A boy on the street was also wounded. Local Police official Rasheed Khan said "He was an active member of Sipah-e-Sahaba… It seems to be a sectarian killing."
March 16: 12 activists and leaders of the outlawed Sunni group SSP were arrested in a crackdown by Police in Dera Ismail Khan. Sources said the Police had launched a crackdown on the SSP and arrested 12 activists, including principal secretary of provincial legislator Khalifa Abdul Qayyum. Raids were reportedly conducted in Alam Sher Colony, Madena Colony, Shiekh Yousaf Adda and Katch Painda Khan.
February 2: Unidentified men shot dead a former secretary general of the banned Sunni group SSP. Chaudhry Muhammad Yousuf, also a close aide to the local Member of National Assembly Sheikh Waqas Akram, was on a morning walk when armed men attacked him near Mohallah Babrana in Jhang. Yousuf, along with Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, had founded the SSP in 1985.

2008

November 23: The Taliban are present in Karachi and have links with the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) and other banned religious organisations, but they have no intention of carrying out attacks in the provincial capital if not provoked by a political party or the Government, said Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Mullah Omer.
November 21: Malik, the Adviser on Interior Affairs said there were 17,000 seminaries in the country and 3,000 of them were in Karachi alone. He said the Government would regularise them in consultation with religious scholars of all schools of thought. He stated that al Qaeda was using the LeJ, SSP and TTP for carrying out its activities.
July 30: Unidentified militants killed the Dera Ismail Khan District Account Officer Syed Arif Hussain Shah, police said on July 30, Daily Times reported. Two motorcycle borne gunmen opened fire at Shah, who hailed from the Shia community, near the Pir Zakori graveyard on Zhob Road, when he was en route to office. The police termed the incident a possible act of sectarian violence. While the gunmen escaped after the firing, no group has claimed responsibility for the killing so far. Angry people blocked the road in front of the District Hospital in protest and reportedly shouted slogans against the banned Sunni militant outfit Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) and the local administration. Soon after the incident, unidentified persons reportedly opened fire and wounded two activists of the Ansarullah, a branch of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM), at Din Pur Chowk, The News reported.
July 12: According to Daily Times, banned sectarian and jihadi groups are flouting the Government bar and are re-emerging in various parts of Karachi. Dawn News stated that sectarian slogans, flags and posters of defunct sectarian groups are visible on walls across the city, indicating re-emergence of the banned groups. The Sunni group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), the Shia group Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan (SMP) and Mukhtar Force are the most conspicuous groups, the report added. The channel quoted sources as saying that the sealed offices of the groups have reopened, working under different identities. Some of the groups held meetings in Qayyumabad, North Karachi and Soldier Bazaar, the sources said.
June 24: The banned SSP has once again rolled up its sleeves and started getting active across Pakistan, and especially in Karachi, but with a new name Ahle Sunnat wa Aljamaat Pakistan (ASWJP) which roughly translates into The Sunni Party. It has started by requesting Sunni people to voluntarily shut down their businesses and offices on Youm-e-Shahdat (the day of martyrdom) of Hazrat Abu Bakar Siddique (RA) on the 22nd of Jumadi-Uthani, June 27. The central information secretary of the SSP and ASWJP, Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Nadeem said that they had started work in the name of the ASWJP because of the ban on the SSP. "The case against the ban is in court," he added. The SSP was banned in 2002 by the government and most of its leaders were arrested. The leaders were released in 2003-04 and started limited work under ASWJP. It organized a rally in April 2008 in Karachi after surfacing after six years.
February 29: The banned Sunni group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) reportedly drew several hundred supporters near its headquarters in Karachi as it denounced the blasphemous caricatures of the holy Prophet published in some Danish newspapers, and declared jihad against Denmark and the West if they continued to insult Islam. It was the fist major public rally by the SSP since it was banned in 2001. The SSP's protest took place after Friday prayers at the SSP headquarters at Masjid-e-Siddique Akbar in the Nagan Chowrangi area.
February 10: The security agencies arrested 40 people suspected to be activists of banned militant groups. Sources said that the operation was launched after the list of militant activists was revised by security agencies after the suicide attack outside the Lahore High Court on January 10. The Ghaziabad police arrested 30 men from a rented house near Muhammadpura railway crossing. Separately, police raided the RA Bazaar and arrested seven suspects. The arrested belonged to the banned Sunni group LeJ and were allegedly involved in the Rawalpindi blast. During another raid in Saddar Bazaar, police arrested three members of the LeJ. The Mughalpura Superintendent of Police, P. Sajjad Manj, said Rustam Ali, who was a member of the proscribed SSP, owned the house. However, he escaped the raid. Two Kalashnikovs, three 222s, a shotgun and rifles were seized from them.

2007

December 9: A team of Lahore Police arrested a wanted terrorist from the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan after a two-hour long shootout in Mandi Bahauddin. Muhammad Saleem alias Hafiz Bilal, a resident of Gujranwala, had planted a four kg improvised explosive device at the Bab-al-Imran mosque in Malakwal on June 30, 2006. Police also seized two Kalashnikov rifles and more than 2,000 bullets from the Saleem’s possession. Authorities had announced a PKR 500,000 reward for Saleem’s arrest.
August 24: In a suspected sectarian incident, unidentified assailants shot dead an activist of the banned SSP in the Dera Ismail Khan city of NWFP. 22-year old Kaleen Ullah was shot dead in the Tareenabad Colony in Cantonment Police Station's jurisdiction.
August 12: The provincial secretary-general of the SSP, Aslam Farooqui, was shot dead in Peshawar, capital of the NWFP. Alam Zeb, brother of the deceased leader, caught hold of one the attackers and handed him over to police. A police official said one Shoaib Hussain of Parachinar, who belonged to a paramilitary force, had been arrested.
July 9: Unidentified assailants shot dead an activist of the outlawed Sunni group SSP in the jurisdiction of Shah Qabool police station in Peshawar, capital of the NWFP. Police officer Latif said that Hayat Khan was shot dead at around 2 a.m. outside his Nishtarabad house.
July 7: Police in the Mansehra district of the NWFP released four central leaders of the outlawed Sunni group SSP, a day after their arrest. Hafiz Alam Tariq, Maulana Amir Mahavia and two other leaders were reportedly arrested from the district's Ghazikot area along with two triple-M licensed guns. Sources said they were released following interrogation.
June 7: Police at Dera Ismail Khan in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) arrested Rauf Baloch, a leader of the banned Sunni outfit SSP, who was wanted in various cases of sectarian terrorism and murder.
April 17: Activists of the SSP are conspiring for the release of their imprisoned colleagues from various jails through violent means, according to intelligence reports submitted to the Interior Ministry. The intelligence reports revealed that SSP leaders have directed the group's district presidents to tell their jailed colleagues to create trouble in jails. Intelligence reports said that SSP presidents of southern Punjab districts, Lahore, Gujranwala, Karachi, Sukkur and Dera Ismail Khan have been directed to help their jailed comrades escape from police custody on their way from jails to courts. 48 SSP activists have been imprisoned at Adyala Jail and eight of them are on death row. Most of the SSP activists have been detained in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat Jail, the Bahawalpur Central Jail and jails in Karachi.
April 16: Intelligence agencies have warned that three would-be suicide bombers have set out for Islamabad to target government functionaries if security agencies crack down on the Jamia Hafsa and Jamia Fareedia seminaries in the national capital. Intelligence agencies submitted reports to the Interior Ministry a few days ago warning that the three men, including two Uzbeks, had left Darra Adam Khel in the NWFP for Islamabad to carry out suicide attacks. 20-year old Ikramullah, a resident of Gedaro Killi, Zarghun Khel and member of the banned SSP, reportedly heads the group. The group, trained at a camp located in Shawal, Waziristan, was reportedly sent by Tariq Mazid Khel, who runs a training camp at Zarghun Khel and claims to have contacts with intelligence agencies.
March 29: SSP asks President Pervez Musharraf to help resolve the ''decades-old conflict'' between the Shias and Sunnis.
March 13: Gunmen on a motorcycle killed Maulana Farooq Ahmed, a Sunni cleric, and reportedly a member of the outlawed SSP in Dera Ismail Khan.
Gunmen injured Hafiz Ishaq, a SSP activist in Dera Ismail Khan.
March 8: A suspected member of banned Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) outfit, identified as Sarwar Alam alias Alami, was shot dead by gunmen at Dera Ismail Khan on March 8, reported Daily Times.
February 24: Three suspected militants were killed at Cheechawatni near Multan in the Punjab province on February 24 when the explosives they were carrying on a bicycle detonated, The Hindu reported. Police said that two of the men were from a Madrassa (seminary) that had links with the banned Sunni group Sipah-e-Sahiba Pakistan (SSP).
February 20: The Government on February 20 claimed to have traced a network of terrorists allegedly involved in the killings of former Member of National Assembly Maulana Azam Tariq (chief of the outlawed Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan [SSP], provincial minister Pir Binyamin and 41 other people in various incidents that occurred in Punjab and Islamabad between 2003 and 2006. "Two members of the network have been arrested by Islamabad Police’s CID department from Sector G-6/2 and efforts are being made to catch their six accomplices who are reported to be hiding in the capital," a senior official of the interior ministry told Dawn. The arrested were identified as Mudassar Ali alias Usman Chaudhry and Mohammad Ali alias Abbas.
The official informed that in October 2003, the accused had intercepted Azam Tariq’s car near Golra More Toll Plaza in Islamabad and opened fire, killing Tariq, his three security guards and a driver.

2006

October 31: Two activists of the banned Sunni group SSP, Shahnawaz alias Shani and Shaukat alias Javed alias Chand, are sentenced to death by a Karachi court for killing six employees of the Pakistan Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) during an attack on their vehicle in October 2003.
October 18: Police at Mianwali in the Punjab province arrests three alleged terrorists, identified as Noor Muhammad, Abdul Waheed and Rao Saifullah, belonging to the defunct Sunni group SSP. They reportedly wanted to carry out an attack on a Shia shrine in the Sheikhupura district.
September 2: An anti-terrorism court in Peshawar sends the owners of four video shops arrested on August 31 to jail after charging them with selling CDs and cassettes containing anti-Shia speeches by leaders of the banned group SSP.
April 7: Activists of the outlawed SSP hold a rally in Islamabad and reportedly vowed to establish a global caliphate, beginning with Pakistan. In a rally attended by thousands of activists of the banned group to commemorate the birth of the Prophet Muhammad, SSP leaders called for an Islamic theocracy in Pakistan
April 4: Five SSP activists are sentenced to death by an anti-terrorism court in Karachi on charges of killing a police constable and an under-trial prisoner in an ambush on a prison van near the city courts in 2002.
February 21: The authorities in Karachi detain two top SSP leaders, Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Nadeem and Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Nadeem, in a bid to contain the wave of protests in the city.

2005

December 30: Police believe a member of the SSP has entered Japan with the aim of setting up a base in that country.
December 5: Intelligence agencies have uncovered a plot by leaders of the banned Sunni outfits, SSP and LeJ, who had directed their operatives to form suicide squads to kill Shia members of the Legislative Council of the Northern Areas.
November 6: Security agencies in the Punjab province detain 32 of 190 activists, listed by the Government, of banned religious organizations, including SSP, during Eid celebrations from Multan, Bahawalpur, Sargodha and Faisalabad ahead of the cricket Test match between Pakistan and England.
August 12: Despite a ban imposed by the Government on the participation of defunct extremist outfits in the forthcoming local bodies’ elections, the SSP, a sectarian outfit banned twice for terrorist activities, is actively taking part in the elections.
July 20: Security agencies arrests Maulana Ali Sher Haidery, patron-in-chief of the SSP (now known as Millat-e-Islamia), from his native town of Khairpure Meeras in the Sindh province.
July 18: President Pervez Musharraf accuses banned groups like the SSP and JeM of forcing their ideology upon others, although he did not link them to the London bombings.
May 4: A leader from the defunct Sunni group SSP, Tariq Javed, is arrested in New York for allegedly lying on his immigration papers about his terror links.
April 15: Four SSP cadres are arrested for their alleged involvement in the bombing of a Shia shrine in the Jhal Magsi district on March 19, in which at least 50 people were killed.
March 3: An Anti-Terrorism Court in Karachi acquitted an activist of the proscribed Sunni group, SSP, identified as Mohammad Faisal alias Pehalwan, in a sectarian killing case. He was accused of killing Dr Sibtain Ali Dosa and two of his associates in the Kharadar area of Karachi on May 2, 2000.
February 15: Tatheer-ul-Islam, an absconding most-wanted activist of the banned SSP, is arrested from the Lyari area of Karachi. His name was reportedly included in the Red Book of the CID.
February 3: The police in North West Frontier Province arrests Qari Anwar Khan, a SSP leader, from Charsadda in connection with the assassination of Shia religious leader in Gilgit, Agha Ziauddin, in a suicide bomb attack at Gilgit in the Northern Areas of PoK on January 8. The suicide bombing had led to sectarian violence that claimed at least 17 lives in Gilgit.
January 30: Two unidentified men open fire outside the Jamia Mamoor mosque on Tariq Road in Karachi, killing a cleric, Maulana Haroon Qasmi, belonging to the outlawed SSP and his bodyguard, Aqil Ahmed. Consequently, hundreds of agitated SSP cadres, primarily seminary students, indulged in arson and damaged some vehicles and also attacked a police check post.

2004

October 18: Special instruction are issued to the provinces not to allow Millat-e-Islamia Pakistan (erstwhile SSP), Islami Tehirk Pakistan (erstwhile Tehrik-e-Jaffria), Khuddamul Islam (erstwhile Jaish-e-Mohammad), Jama’atul Furqaan and others banned outfits to collect donations during Ramazan and on the occasion of Eid-ul-Fitr.
October 7: At least 40 people are killed and more than 100 injured in two bomb blasts in the city of Multan when hundreds of people had gathered to mark the first anniversary of the killing of Sunni leader and SSP chief Maulana Azim Tariq outside Islamabad.
August 6: Police in Vehari, Multan, arrests, Qari Ubaidullah, a terrorist of the outlawed SSP.
April 22: Waris Ali Janwari, the father of defunct SSP chief Allama Ali Sher Hydri, is killed in an exchange of fire between police and SSP activists over the issue of a plot of land in Khairpur. Hydri’s three brothers and two police personnel are reportedly wounded during the encounter.
April 2: A Anti-Terrorism Court in Rawalpindi grants bail to Amanullah Sial, former member of the National Assembly and one of the accused in the murder case of Maulana Azam Tariq, leader of the outlawed Sunni group SSP on October 6.
March 26: The Lahore High Court orders release of Allama Syed Sajid Ali Naqvi, chief of the Tehreek-e-Jaferia Pakistan (TJP, now known as Millat Jaferia Pakistan), who was arrested for his alleged involvement in the murder of Sunni leader and chief of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, Maulana Azam Tariq.
March 19: The Lahore Police arrests former Member of National Assembly, Amanullah Sial, who had been declared a proclaimed offender in the Maulana Azam Tariq (SSP leader) murder case.
March 7: Police have registered complaints lodged by relatives of some of the 47 slain people, who named seven activists of the outlawed SSP, blaming them for the March 2 attack on Shias in Quetta, capital of the Balochistan province.
March 5: At least two activists of the outlawed SSP are injured in a shootout with the police in Gilgit. The incident occurred when the police tried to remove the hurdles put on the road by SSP activists, who had gathered at Napura, where a procession was to be held by the rival Shia community.
January 3: Security agencies in Lahore arrests six terrorists, belonging to the outlawed SSP and JeM, in connection with the December 25, 2003, assassination attempt on President Pervez Musharraf in Rawalpindi.

2003

December 4: Authorities in Pakistan occupied Kashmir outlaws six terrorist groups, including SSP (now known as Millat-e-Islami).
November 21: Law enforcement agencies seal eight offices of proscribed terrorist groups in the Sialkot district, including two offices of the SSP.
November 16: Law enforcement agencies seal many offices of three proscribed terrorist groups, including SSP, during a countrywide crackdown.
November 15: The Federal Government proscribes three religio-political outfits under the Anti-Terrorist Act 1997, including SSP, now known as Millat-e-Islamia Pakistan.
October 7: One person is killed as angry mourners indulged in violence in Islamabad after the funeral of Maulana Azam Tariq, chief of the outlawed Sunni group SSP, who was assassinated on October 6.
October 6: Maulana Azam Tariq, SSP chief and a Member of the National Assembly, is assassinated along with four other persons by three unidentified gunmen in Islamabad.
May 17: An activist of the proscribed Sunni group, Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP, now known as Millat-i-Islam Party), is shot dead by unidentified assailants when he was returning to his residence at an unnamed place in Multan.
April 20: Maulana Azam Tariq, SSP chief, says that he and his followers had formed a new party to work for the "enforcement of Islamic edicts" in Pakistan. He said the new group is called Millat-e-Islamia (MeI) and said it wanted to bring about an Islamic revolution.
April 18: SSP President, Maulana Azam Tariq, asks Lahore High Court to suspend the Government's orders freezing his party's bank accounts and imposing functional restrictions on it, till his petition against the ban on his party is decided.
March 7: An SSP cadre is killed in North Karachi area, under Khwaja Ajmer Nagri police station-limits, in Sindh Province.
January 6: Four SSP leaders are arrested in Peshawar after a court dismissed their pre-arrest bail application. The accused are charged of taking out a protest procession against the killing of a person in Karachi during 2002.

2002

November 15: An anti-terrorism court in Dera Ghazi Khan issues non-bailable arrest warrants against SSP chief Maulana Azam Tariq in a case against him and four others for allegedly delivering highly provocative speeches at the Nabuwwat Conference, in Jampur, on July 31, 2000.

October 30: SSP chief Maulana Azam Tariq is released after 11 months in detention at a prison in Rawalpindi.

October 29: An SSP activist is killed by two unidentified terrorists within the precincts of Clifton police station in Karachi.

October 27: Lahore High Court orders that SSP chief Maulana Azam Tariq be set free after the expiry of his detention period on October 30.

October 12: SSP chief Maulana Azam Tariq declared elected as Member of the National Assembly (MNA) in the October 10-general elections.

September 4: The dead body found in a Karachi graveyard on September is 1 identified as that of one of the sons of Maulana Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, a founding member of the SSP.

August 13: SSP secretary general Khadim Hussain Dhalu is arrested in Jhang district.

July 6: SSP activist Muhammad Aslam Muawia sentenced to life imprisonment by a special Anti-Terrorism Court in Lahore for the January 11, 1998-Mominpura graveyard massacre, in which 27 Shias were killed and 34 more injured.

July 2: 12 SSP terrorists arrested for allegedly planning attacks on religious places in Rawalpindi.

May 22: Local SSP leader killed by two unidentified armed assailants in Gulistan-e-Mustafa, Karachi.

May 17: Karachi Anti Terrorism Court sentences two SSP cadres to life for killing 10 persons in an attack on a mosque in the Al-Falah Colony, Karachi.

May 11: Front ranking SSP leader Mehmood Madni arrested for the May 8-Karachi bomb blast in, which 16 persons, including 11 French nationals, were killed.

May 9: Maulana Ehsanul Haq Farooqi, an SSP leader, arrested by Sialkot police for delivering a speech against President Musharraf in Wadala Sindhian village, Daska.

May 5: SSP cadre killed by two unidentified gunmen in the Gulbahar area of Karachi.

April 27: A Karachi Anti-Terrorism court awards two death sentences to an SSP activist in separate murder cases.

April 15: Two SSP cadres indicted by a Karachi Anti-Terrorism Court in a sectarian killing case in which 10 persons were killed and five others injured in Al-Falah Colony, off Shahrea-i-Faisal.

March 30: A review board of three Lahore High Court judges recommends continued incarceration of SSP chief Maulana Azam Tariq.

March 16: Five SSP cadres killed near Merik Sial in Jhang by a group of 10 unidentified assailants.

March 15: Karachi police arrests six SSP cadres allegedly involved in approximately 27 major incidents of sectarian killings in Karachi, including that of six doctors.

March 13: North West Frontier Province (NWFP) government extends detention of senior SSP leader Khalifa Abdul Qayyum for further 30 days.

February 28: Police allege that the SSP was responsible for the February 26-massacre at a Shiite mosque in Rawalpindi, in which 11 persons were killed and 14 others injured.

February 11: SSP files formal review application before the government seeking reversal of its proscription.

January 15: In a crackdown on accounts of banned organisations, SSP’s accounts are seized by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP).

January 12: President Pervez Musharraf announces proscription of the SSP during a televised address to the nation.

January 5: 200 SSP activists arrested in a series of raids by security agencies on January 4-5 in Sindh and Punjab provinces.

2001

July 6: SSP activist Muhammad Aslam Muawia sentenced to life imprisonment by a special Anti-Terrorism Court in Lahore for the January 11, 1998-Mominpura graveyard massacre, in which 27 Shias were killed and 34 more injured.
July 2: 12 SSP terrorists arrested for allegedly planning attacks on religious places in Rawalpindi.
May 22: Local SSP leader killed by two unidentified armed assailants in Gulistan-e-Mustafa, Karachi.
May 17: Karachi Anti Terrorism Court sentences two SSP cadres to life for killing 10 persons in an attack on a mosque in the Al-Falah Colony, Karachi.
May 11: Front ranking SSP leader Mehmood Madni arrested for the May 8-Karachi bomb blast in, which 16 persons, including 11 French nationals, were killed.
May 9: Maulana Ehsanul Haq Farooqi, an SSP leader, arrested by Sialkot police for delivering a speech against President Musharraf in Wadala Sindhian village, Daska.
December 30 – Five SSP cadres arrested during raids by law enforcing authorities on the outfit’s Karachi office.

December 4 – SSP Karachi’s Finance Secretary, Engineer Ilyas Zubair, voluntarily surrendered before the Chief of Crime Investigations Agency (CIA), who later detained him under the Maintenance of Public Order Ordinance (MPO).

October 28 – A police personnel and 17 members of the Christian community including five children were killed and nine others injured when six unidentified gunmen opened indiscriminate fire on a church in Model Town, Bahawalpur. The SSP is suspected to be responsible for the massacre.

October 19 – Pakistan authorities, in response to anti-US protests, barred SSP chief Azam Tariq from entering Sindh province where major rallies and protest demonstrations against US air strikes in Afghanistan were taking place. The ban was applicable for 30 days.

October 16 –SSP leader Maulana Fazl-i-Ahad said in Peshawar that the outfit had decided to send its cadres for waging Jehad against the US. He indicated that a group of 80 SSP cadres were ready to leave for Afghanistan.

October 15 – An SSP leader, Maulana Allah Wasaya Siddiqi, said that US air strikes on the erstwhile Taliban regime in Afghanistan "proved that America was the biggest terrorist of the world."

October 12 –SSP’s Senior Vice-President Khalifa Abdul Qayyum speaking in Dera Ismail Khan said that the US government had "proved itself to be a terrorist state." Commenting on the air strikes against the erstwhile Taliban regime in Afghanistan, he claimed that Osama bin Laden was only being used as an excuse and the US was attempting to establish camps in the region.

October 11 –At a protest rally in Peshawar, SSP provincial chief Maulana Fazal Ahad said that the US should withdraw from Afghanistan, failing which it would "taste fatal upset just like former Soviet Union during Afghan Jihad." He also asked the cadres to enlist their names with the SSP high command for waging Jehad against ‘infidel forces’ and reiterated that the outfit would fight with the Taliban side by side after getting an approval from SSP central chief Azam Tariq.

October 9 – SSP leader Syed Paryal Shah said in Khairpur, that US action in Afghanistan was not a war against Taliban but against Islam, and therefore, it was essential for the Muslims to declare Jehad against the US and its allies.

September 29 – A news report said that 38 SSP activists were arrested during the preceding nine months in Dera Ismail Khan.

September 16 – The SSP at a meeting in Peshawar, said Muslims of Pakistan would not tolerate any assistance by the Federal government to the USA in its possible attacks on the erstwhile Taliban regime. While declaring the US as the ‘biggest criminal in the world’, SSP leaders alleged that the terrorist acts in New York and Washington DC were a conspiracy to defame Islam.

September 15 – SSP Sindh chapter Vice President Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Nadeem arrested from Karachi in connection with two cases in which five persons, including four brothers, were killed in 1995.

August 14 – LeJ proscribed by President Pervez Musharraf

July 1 – Two unidentified gunmen at the Basti Tareenabad in Dera Ismail Khan killed a SSP activist.

June 23 – Two police personnel and an activist of the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP) were injured in Gilgit following an exchange of fire between security forces and activists of the SSP and the Tanzeem Ahle Sunnat.

May 21 – Various Sunni sectarian outfits alleged that the country’s intelligence agencies were responsible for the killing of Maulana Saleem Qadri, the Sunni Tehreek chief on May 18, 2001. According to these outfits, the agencies were utilising the SSP to trigger sectarian violence among the Shia, Sunni, Deoband and Barelwi sects.

May 21 – Four persons were killed in separate incidents of sectarian clashes in Dera Ismail Khan. In the first incident, an activist of the SSP, who was released from the local prison a few days earlier, was killed. Official sources indicated the involvement of Shia groups in the incident. Sources also said that the violence erupted consequent to the arrest of a Shia leader, Syed Hassan Ali Shah Kazmi, on a charge of allegedly delivering anti-state speeches. In apparent retaliation, certain SSP activists killed a Shia youth and injured two others. Police sources added that two more persons were killed in the clashes on the same day.

April 30 – A Karachi Anti-terrorism Court holds two SSP activists guilty of killing a police personnel and his son on February 22, 2001 and sentences them to death.

April 3 – Eight SSP activists arrested from Korangi in Karachi following clashes between two sectarian outfits.

April – An anti-terrorism court sentenced two SSP activists to death for killing a former Deputy Superintendent of Police and his young son on February 22, 2001.

March 12 – Nine persons including the a local SSP chief were killed and 11 others injured as three unidentified terrorists opened indiscriminate fire on a congregation at the Hayat-e-Islam mosque in Lahore. According to official sources, the attack was carried out in the most sensitive locality of Lahore where agencies like Garrison Security Force, Military Police and others are located. Sources also said that the attack was carried out despite tight security measures adopted in view of the presence of Chief Executive General Pervez Musharraf in the city. The mosque is administered by the SSP. Official sources indicated that the attack could be in retaliation for the March 4 sectarian violence at Sheikhupura. An SSP spokesperson, Qazi Bahaur Rehman, alleged that the TJP was responsible for the massacre.

March 4 – 13 persons, including two police personnel, were killed and four others injured in a series of four attacks by a group of six terrorists in Sheikhpura Four of the terrorists were arrested. Official sources said that the killings are alleged to be an outcome of SSP activist Haq Nawaz Jhangvi’s execution. SSP Sheikhpura chief, Zahid Mahmood Qasmi however, denied the outfit’s involvement in the attacks.

March 2 – Two SSP activists arrested from the Orangi Extension area in Karachi for their alleged involvement in the killing of a TJP activist.

March 1 – 13 persons were killed in sectarian violence at Hangu in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP). Official sources maintained that this followed an incident in which an unidentified person opened indiscriminate fire killing three persons and injuring another. Other sources however held that the killings were an aftermath of the execution of SSP activist Haq Nawaz Jhangvi.

February 28 –SSP activist Haq Nawaz Jhangvi was executed in Mianwali Jail, Lahore after being held guilty for the December 1990 assassination of the Iranian Consul General, Agha Sadiq Ganji. Police had arrested hundreds of SSP activists for fear of violent protests after Jhangvi's execution and possible clashes between rival sectarian groups from the majority Sunni and the minority Shi'ite sects. However, one person was killed and six others injured in an encounter between the protesting SSP activists and police at Mohallah Piplianwala in Jhang on the same day of the execution. Later at the funeral of Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, SSP leader Sheikh Hakim Ali, while warning of countrywide protests, said, "The government is responsible for killing our brother. It is done to please Iran."

February 22 – A former Deputy Superintendent of Police and his son killed. Later in April 2001 an anti-terrorism court sentenced two SSP activists to death for the killings.

February 15 – , SSP General-Secretary Abdur Rauf Baloch arrested in the Gomal area of Dera Ismail Khan for his alleged involvement in the killing of five persons in Fateh village, on April 26, 1999.

2000

November 18 – A Karachi anti-terrorism court sentenced an SSP activist to a seven-year term for possessing illegal arms and creating terror.

November 5 – Two SSP activists were killed and another injured when unidentified terrorists fired at them in Mirpurkhas. The SSP blamed the TJP for the killing.

October 22 – Two SSP activists killed and eight others injured when two unidentified persons attacked their van in Karachi. The next day, two activists of the TJP were arrested for their suspected involvement in the killings.

1996 – A section comprising radical and extremist elements of the SSP walked out of the outfit to form the LeJ

1994 – 73 persons killed and more than 300 injured in Punjab’s worst year of violence. The SSP along with several other Sunni and Shia organisations were suspected to have participated in this violence.

June 1992 – SSP activists for the first time, use a rocket launcher in an attack which killed five police personnel.

December 1990 – Iran's Counsel General in Lahore, Sadeq Ganji killed.

February 1990 –SSP co-founder and chief, Maulana Jhangvi killed

1988 – A leader of the Shia outfit, Tehrik-Nifaz-e-Fiqh-e-Jafaria (TNFJ) Arif Hussain Al-Hussaini killed.

1987 – Prominent Sunni leader Maulana Habib-ur-Rehman Yazdani assassinated.

1986 – Prominent leader of the Sunni Ahl-e-Hadith, Allama Ehsan Elahi Zaheer assassinated

Sectarian Violence in Pakistan

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Sectarian Violence in Pakistan

Sectarian Violence in Pakistan: 1989-2012

Year	Incidents	Killed	Injured
1989	67	18	102
1990	274	32	328
1991	180	47	263
1992	135	58	261
1993	90	39	247
1994	162	73	326
1995	88	59	189
1996	80	86	168
1997	103	193	219
1998	188	157	231
1999	103	86	189
2000	109	149	NA
2001	154	261	495
2002	63	121	257
2003	22	102	103
2004	19	187	619
2005	62	160	354
2006	38	201	349
2007	341	441	630
2008	97	306	505
2009	106	190	398
2010	57	509	1170
2011	30	203	297
2012	1	1	0
Total	2569	3679	7700

Source: Figures are compiled from news reports and are provisional

Year 2012

Month	Incidents	Killed	Injured
January	1	1	0
TOTAL	1	1	0

Source: Figures are compiled from news reports and are provisional.

Sectarian Violence in Pakistan 2012

S.N.	Date	Place / District	Incidents	killed	Injured
1	January 5	Nawan Killi / Quetta	One ASI, Ghulam Raza Bangash, was shot dead by unidentified militants in Nawan Killi area of Quetta. It is believed to be a sectarian attack.	1	0
Total				1	0

Year 2011

Month	Incidents	Killed	Injured
January	2	11	85
February	0	0	0
March	2	24	14
April	1	51	92
May	4	21	42
June	2	4	9
July	4	21	0
August	2	15	28
September	3	32	3
October	1	14	5
November	3	4	11
December	6	6	8
TOTAL	30	203	297

Source: Figures are compiled from news reports and are provisional.

Sectarian Violence in Pakistan 2011

S.N.	Date	Place / District	Incidents	killed	Injured
1	January 13	Moosa Lane / Karachi / Sindh	A Shia man, identified as Anwar Raza, was killed in an incident of sectarian target killing at Moosa Lane of Karachi.	1	0
2	January 25	Ghora Chowk / Urdu Bazaar / Lahore / Punjab	A suicide bomber struck at the Ghora Chowk in the Urdu Bazaar area of Lahore, the Provincial Capital of Punjab, killing at least 10 people, including a woman and three Policemen, and injured at least 85 others.	10	85
3	March 13	Mamo Khwar / Hangu / KP	In a suspected sectarian attack, 11 passengers were killed and another six injured when unidentified militants intercepted a passenger coach in Mamo Khwar area of Hangu District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.	11	6
4	March 25	Chapari / Kurram Agency / FATA	At least 13 passengers were killed and eight injured, while around 33 were abducted by suspected militants in an attack on a convoy of passenger vehicles in the Kurram Agency of FATA. The area where the attack took place is situated five kilometres from the Chapari check-post, inside Kurram Agency.	13	8
5	April 3	Dera Ghazi Khan / Punjab	At least 51 persons were killed and more than 92 injured when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the shrine of Sufi saint Ahmed Sultan, popularly known as Sakhi Sarwar, in Dera Ghazi Khan District of Punjab.	51	92
6	May 06	Hazara town / Quetta / Balochistan	Unidentified militants today fired rockets on a group of Shia Muslims in Quetta, killing at least eight and injuring 15 others.	8	15
7	May 18	Killi Kamalo / Quetta / Balochistan	At least seven Shia people, including a passerby girl, were killed and six others sustained bullet injuries in an attack near Killi Kamalo area of Quetta.	7	6
8	May 25	Balishkhel / Kurram Agency / FATA	Four persons were killed and 18 others received injuries in the Balishkhel area of Upper Kurram Agency of FATA ahead of ceasefire agreement between the warring tribes of Shia and Sunni sects.	4	18
9	May 29	Spiny Road / Quetta / Balochistan	Two Shia Policemen were killed and three other people, including a woman and a Sub-Inspector of the CID were injured in a sectarian attack on Spiny Road in Quetta.	2	3
10	June 2	Orangi Town / Karachi	A Shia activist of the MQM, identified as Sadaqat Hussain, was shot dead in a sectarian attack in Orangi Town of Karachi.	1	0
11	June 22	Akhtarabad / Quetta / Balochistan	Three Shia people were killed and nine others got injured when four armed militants fired at a bus carrying Shia pilgrims to Iran in Akhtarabad area of Quetta.	3	9
12	July 10	Qambrani Road / Quetta / Balochistan	Three persons, belonging to Shia community, were shot dead while coming from Qambrani Road in Quetta.	3	0
13	July 16	Parachinar / Kurram Agency / FATA	Unidentified militants ambushed a bus carrying Sunni Muslims and killed all 10 passengers near Parachinar town of Kurram Agency in FATA	10	0
14	July 28	Pishin / Quetta / Balochistan	A prayer leader of Jamia Albadar mosque, identified as Abdul Karim Mengal, was shot dead by unidentified militants in Pishin area of Quetta.	1	0
15	July 29	Taftan bus terminal / Saryab Road / Quetta / Balochistan	LeJ militants killed at least seven people, including four Shias, waiting to travel to Mashhad in Iran, at Taftan bus terminal on Saryab Road.	7	0
16	August 28	Darya Khan / Bhakkar / Punjab	Unidentified assailants shot dead three youths and injured six others in a suspected sectarian killing at a billiard club in Darya Khan Town of Bhakkar District in Punjab.	3	6
17	August 31	Quetta / Balochistan	A suicide car bomb blast killed at least 11 Shia persons and injured 22 others celebrating Eidul Fitr in Quetta.	12	22
18	September 20	Ganjidori / Mastung District /Balochistan	The LeJ militants shot dead 26 Shia pilgrims travelling to Taftan, a town that shares border with Iran, in Ganjidori area of Mastung District and Quetta city of Balochistan.	26	0
19	September 20	Quetta /Balochistan	Unidentified gunmen killed three Shias on the outskirts of Quetta whom Police said were relatives of victims of the Shia pilgrims, who were killed in Ganjidori area of Mastung District.	3	0
20	September 23	Sibi Road / Sayrab / Quetta / Balochistan	Three people from the Hazara community were killed and three others, including a child, sustained injuries when a passenger van was attacked by unidentified assailants on Sibi Road in Sayrab area of the provincial capital of Balochistan, Quetta.	3	3
21	October 4	Akhtarabad area / Quetta / Balochistan	At least 12 people of Hazara community were killed and seven seriously injured after unknown militants fired indiscriminately at a bus in Akhtarabad area of Quetta in Balochistan. The death toll of the sectarian attack on the Hazara community rose to 14.	14	5
22	November 25	North Nazimabad PS / Karachi / Sindh	A Shia man, identified as Ghulam Hussain, was shot dead in a sectarian attack at his shop within the limits of North Nazimabad Police Station of Karachi by unidentified armed assailants.	1	0
23	November 27	Numaish Chowrangi / Karachi	Two SF personnel, identified as Zain-ul-Abideen and Azhar Hussain were shot dead and 11 others wounded when some participants of a protest rally organized by SSP opened indiscriminate fire on Shia camps at Numaish Chowrangi area while returning from Karachi Press Club in Karachi.	2	11
24	November 27	Metro Cinema / Orangi Town / Karachi	A Shia man, identified as Raza, was shot dead near Metro Cinema in the precincts of Orangi Town Police Station.	1	0
25	December 3	Dawood Chowrangi / Quaidabad PS / Karachi	An activist of the ASWJ, formerly known as SSP, was shot dead near Dawood Chowrangi within the precincts of Quaidabad Police Station. The deceased, identified as Mohammad Fayyaz, was going home on a bus when unidentified armed men on a motorcycle opened fire on him through bus window, killing him on the spot.	1	0
26	December 3	Chenesar Goth / Tipu Sultan PS / Karachi	A man was shot dead near his house at Chenesar Goth within the limits of Tipu Sultan Police Station. The deceased was identified as Shahid Raza.	1	0
27	December 21	Shah Faisal Colony / Jamia Farooqia / Karachi / Sindh	One person was killed and seven others were injured in sectarian violence during 25th Muharram procession in Shah Faisal Colony near Jamia Farooqia in Karachi.	1	7
28	December 27	Sajjadia Imambargah / Orangi / Mominabad PS / Karachi / Sindh	A man, identified as Nayyar Abbas, belonging to the Shia sect was shot dead near Sajjadia Imambargah in Orangi Town within the limits of Mominabad Police Station in Karachi.	1	0
29	December 27	Gulbahar PS / Karachi / Sindh	A Pesh Imam (present prayer leader) of Lal Masjid, Gulbahar, and caretaker of the seminary, identified as Maulana Abdus Samad Soomro, was shot dead in an act of target killing within the remit of Gulbahar Police Station in Karachi.	1	0
30	December 31	Rashid Minhas Road / Gulshan-e-Iqbal PS / Karachi	A Shia leader of the Pasban-e-Jaffaria, Askari Raza, was killed and his companion, Ali Mehdi, was injured in an assault on Rashid Minhas Road within the limits of Gulshan-e-Iqbal Police Station in Karachi.	1	1
Total				203	297

Year 2010

Month	Incidents	Killed	Injured
January	1	1	0
February	2	2	1
March	6	38	117
April	2	70	111
May	8	111	116
June	7	8	0
July	6	77	200
August	4	6	9
September	8	117	446
October	5	27	87
November	1	1	0
December	7	51	84
TOTAL*	57	509	1170

Source: Figures are compiled from news reports and are provisional.

Sectarian Violence in Pakistan 2010

S.N.	Date	Place / District	Incidents	killed	Injured
1	January 5	Ferozewala area / Karachi / Sindh	An Ahmadi leader Muhammad Yousaf (70) was shot dead allegedly for seeking Police protection against sectarian zealots in Ferozewala Police Station area of Karachi.	1	0
2	February 22	Yakatoot / Peshawar / Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	A prominent member of the Shia community was shot dead while his friend sustained injuries when unidentified attackers opened fire on them in Yakatoot area of Peshawar in NWFP.	1	1
3	February 27	Dhaki More / Dera Ismail Khan / Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a religious procession in the Dhaki More neighbourhood of Dera Ismail Khan District of NWFP, killing a person and wounding several others.	1	NS
4	March 1	Paharpur / Dera Ismail Khan / Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	Seven people were killed and 44 others injured in sectarian violence in Dera Ismail Khan area of NWFP.	7	44
5	March 5	Tull / Hangu / Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	12, including four women, were killed and 33 others injured when a suicide bomber targeted a Parachinar-bound civilian convoy carrying Shia passengers in Tull area of Hangu in NWFP.	12	33
6	March 08	Sariab Road / Quetta / Balochistan	A gunman was shot dead by the Police in the Kashmirabad area near Sariab Road in Quetta. According to the Sariab Police sources, the attacker identified as Noorul Haq was firing at the Imambargah when the Police arrived.	1	0
7	March 11	Nazimabad / Karachi / Sindh	An attempt was also made on Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Nadeem, a leader of the SSP, in which he was injured, while his son lost his life. Maulana Ghafoor Nadeem was shot at on his way to the city courts near Annu Bhai Park in Nazimabad in Karachi.	1	5
8	March 11	Sohrab Goth / Karachi / Sindh	The noted religious leader and chief of the Aalmi Majlis-e-Tahafuza-e-Khatam-e-Naboowat (AMTKN), Mufti Saeed Jalalpuri, was shot dead along with three associates in Karachi.	4	0
9	March 16	Civil hospital / Quetta / Balochistan	A suicide bomber blew himself up in a suspected sectarian attack inside civil hospital in Quetta, killing 11 persons and injuring 35 others. Sources said unidentified assailants riding a motorcycle killed Ashraf Zaidi, the son of the chief of the Shia Conference Balochistan. Hundreds of people, including a local parliamentarian and dozens of journalists, rushed to the hospital where the body was lying. As the crowd gathered at the casualty ward, a suicide bomber blew himself up.	13	35
10	April 17	Kacha Pakka / Kohat / Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	Two burqa-clad suicide bombers targeted a crowd of IDP waiting to get them registered and receive relief goods at the Kacha Pakka IDP camp on the outskirts of Kohat in NWFP, killing at least 44 and injuring more than 70. The Lashkar-e-Jhangvi’s Al-Aalmi faction claimed responsibility for the bombings, and cited the presence of Shias at the IDP camp as the reason for the attack.	46	70
11	April 19	Qissa Khawani Bazaar / Peshawar / Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	At least 24 people were killed and 41 others injured in twin bombings hours apart at a school and a crowded market in Peshawar, the provincial capital of NWFP. Police suspect the bomber mainly targeted DSP Hussain because he belonged to the Shia sect.	24	41
12	May 10	Mominabad / Karachi / Sindh	A doctor was shot dead in suspected sectarian attack in Karachi of Sindh. The victim, Haider Abbas, was on his way to the AKM Specialist Hospital in Mominabad in his car when two persons on a motorcycle fired at him, killing him on the spot.	1	0
13	May 24	Hub / Lasbela / Balochistan	In suspected sectarian attack, unidentified assailants shot dead the vice principal of a Hub Technical Training Centre on Pircas Road in Hub in Lasbela District.	1	0
14	May 24	Airport Road / Quetta / Balochistan	Two persons were killed and 15 others injured in a bomb explosion at the Airport Road in Quetta in Balochistan in a suspected sectarian attack. In a statement issued soon after the blast, the Shia Ulema Council claimed that the main target was renowned Shia scholar Allama Najfi who remained unhurt.	2	15
15	May 28	Model Town and Garhi Shahu / Lahore / Punjab	At least 80 worshippers killed and 92 others injured as seven assailants including three suicide bomber attacked Ahmadiyya place of worship in Model Town and Garhi Shahu areas of Lahore in Punjab.	100	92
16	May 28	Satellite Town / Quetta / Balochistan	Unidentified militants killed four Policemen in Satellite Town area of Quetta in Balochistan. LeJ claimed responsibility for the attack.	4	0
17	May 28	Orangi / Karachi / Sindh	A person belonging to the Shia community was killed and some others were wounded in a clash between two rival sects at Islam Chowk in Orangi Town of Karachi in Sindh.	1	NS
18	May 31	Mezan Chowk / Quetta / Balochistan	Unidentified assailants shot dead a prayer leader and his companion at Taughi Road near Mezan Chowk in Quetta of Balochistan.	2	0
19	May 31	Awami Colony / Karachi / Sindh	Nine persons were injured in a clash in Sector 19 of Awami Colony in Karachi in Sindh.	0	9
20	June 1	Nazimabad / Karachi / Sindh	A person belonging to Shia community, Asif Raza Rizvi (42), was killed in an alleged sectarian targeted killing near the Inquiry Office at Nazimabad of Karachi City in Sindh.	1	0
21	June 3	Railway Colony / Karachi	A doctor, identified as Hassan Hyder, belonging to the Shia sect was shot dead by unidentified assailants near the Railway Colony of Karachi.	1	0
22	June 5	Gulbahar / Karachi / Sindh	In a suspected sectarian attack, unidentified assailants riding a motorcycle shot dead a SSP cadre, Shehzad (25), in Petal Wali Gali under Gulbahar Police Station area of Karachi in Sindh in the night.	1	0
23	June 9	Karachi / Sindh	A person belonging to the Shia community was shot dead at Karachi in Sindh in the continuing wave of sectarian violence in the city. The victim was identified as Shahzad Raza Rizvi.	1	0
24	June 12	Karachi / Sindh	Two persons were shot dead in two sectarian targeted attacks at Karachi in Sindh and violence continued for the third consecutive day, sparking riots in various parts of the city.	2	0
25	June 14	Mobina Town / Karachi / Sindh	A leader of the SSP was shot dead by two unidentified assailants in the Mobina Town Police limits at Karachi in Sindh.	1	0
26	June 17	Karachi / Sindh	A doctor was shot dead in a sectarian attack in Karachi in Sindh. According to eyewitness accounts, the victim identified as Dr Zahid Hussain was in his car when unidentified assailants opened fire on him and managed to escape from the incident site. He was rushed to Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre where doctors pronounced him dead.	1	0
27	July 1	Data Gunj Bakhsh / Lahore / Punjab	At least 40 persons were killed and 175 others injured when three suicide attackers blew themselves up inside the shrine of Lahore’s patron saint Syed Ali Hajwairi popularly known as Data Gunj Bakhsh, at about 11 pm (PST) in the night.	44	175
28	July 1	Khokhrapar / Karachi / Sindh	A cadre of the SSP, Qari Noor Muhammad (35), was shot dead in Khokhrapar Police Station area of Karachi. Sources said Qari Noor Muhammad, a Pesh-Imam of a mosque, and his friend Muneer (35), received bullet wounds when four assailants riding on two motorcycles opened fire at them while they were sitting outside the mosque.	1	1
29	July 2	Saryab / Quetta / Balochistan	Unidentified assailants killed a Shia scholar, Ali Muhammad, in a suspected sectarian attack in Saryab area of Quetta in Balochistan. Ali Muhammad, president of the Kashmirabad Imambargah, was walking in a street close Shahjee chowk when the assailants opened fire at him, killing him on the spot.	1	0
30	July 16	Char Khel / Kurram Agency / FATA	At least 18 persons were killed while four others sustained critical injuries as their vehicles were ambushed by unidentified militants in Char Khel locality of Kurram Agency in FATA. A caravan, comprising Shia passenger vehicles, was heading to Peshawar from Para Chanar, a central place in Kurram Agency. The victims are believed to be hailing from Para Chanar, sources said.	18	4
31	July 18	Sargodha / Punjab	Three persons were killed and more than 20 others were injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside an Imambargah in Sargodha town of Punjab in the evening. The target was Darululoom Muhammadia Imambargah, witnesses said. Tariq Abbas, who was injured in the blast, said when worshippers were coming out after Maghrib prayers, a youth tried to enter the Imambargah compound. When a guard stopped him, the teenage suicide bomber blew himself up.	3	20
32	July 29	Sanghbakht / Kurram Agency / FATA	At least 10 persons were killed and their houses set ablaze in sectarian violence in the Sanghbakht village of Kurram Agency. Local residents said that men of the Shia sect carried out the attack.	10	0
33	August 11	Tariq Road / Karachi / Sindh	A Shia person, Zakir Hussain (24), was shot dead by unidentified assailants riding a motorcycle in sectarian attack near the Madni Mosque in the Tariq Road area of Karachi in Sindh.	2	0
34	August 14	Hirabad / Sindh	A woman, Sabra, and a boy, Dilshad, were killed and eight other persons injured in a clash between two sectarian groups in Hirabad town in Sindh in the night.	2	8
35	August 16	Shalimar Park / Nazimabad / Karachi / Sindh	Khadim Hussain (37), the son of Shia Action Committee chief and MWM central leader Maulana Mirza Yousuf Hussain, was shot dead in a sectarian attack near the Shalimar Park in the Nazimabad locality of Karachi.	1	1
36	August 17	Nishtar Road / Nabi Bux / Karachi / Sindh	A prayer leader Mufti Furqan (50), son of Babu Ansari, belonging to the Deobandi sect, was shot dead by unidentified assailants while he was heading home in Marwari Mohalla on his motorcycle near Sabri Masjid on Nishtar Road under Nabi Bux Police Station in Karachi.	1	0
37	September 1	Karbala Gamay Shah / Data Darbar / Lahore / Punjab	43 persons were killed and another 233 injured in two suicide attacks and one grenade attack on a Shia procession marking Hazrat Ali’s martyrdom in Lahore. LeJ Al-alami claimed responsibility for the three attacks that occurred minutes apart in Bhaati Gate locality of Lahore. The mourning procession was in its last stages and was about to end at Karbala Gamay Shah near Data Darbar, when the terrorists stuck.	43	230
38	September 1	Empress Market / Karachi / Sindh	At least seven persons including a Police constable sustained minor injuries when unidentified assailants in a building near Empress Market of Karachi, the provincial capital of Sindh, opened fire near the main Youm-e-Ali procession at 5:30 pm (PST).	0	7
39	September 2	Pidrak / Turbat / Balochistan	Two civilians were killed and eight others injured when unidentified assailants opened fire on a passenger bus carrying Shia pilgrims in Pidrak area near Turbat in Balochistan. According to reports, a passenger bus coming from Sindh was attacked near Pidrak area, a town close to Turbat city.	2	8
40	September 3	Mezan Chowk / Quetta / Balochistan	At least 67 persons were killed while over 200 others were injured after a suicide bomber blew himself up amidst participants of a rally held to mark the Al-Quds Day in Mezan Chowk of Quetta.	67	190
41	September 3	Muslimabad / Mardan / Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	At least one person was killed, while four others were injured in a suicide attack on a worship place of the Ahmedis in Muslimabad area of Mardan, the main town of Mardan District, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.	1	4
42	September 19	Old Golimar Chowrangi / Karachi / Sindh	A person belonging to the Shia community was killed in the Rizvia Police Station area in Karachi, the province capital of Sindh. DSP said the victim, identified as 37-year-old Tanveer Abbas, was at Old Golimar Chowrangi area when two unidentified assailants on a motorcycle shot him dead and managed to escape.	1	0
43	September 27	Gulshan-e-Hadeed / Karachi / Sindh	A person belonging to the Shia community, identified as Zaheer Abbas, was shot dead in a suspected sectarian attack near his house in Gulshan-e-Hadeed area of Karachi.	1	0
44	October 7	Abdullah Shah Ghazi / Clifton / Karachi / Sindh	Nine persons, including two children, were killed and over 65 others sustained injuries when two suicide bombers blew themselves up at the shrine of Abdullah Shah Ghazi in the Clifton area of Karachi in Sindh.	12	65
45	October 14	Loy Shelman / Parang Dra / Landikotal / Khyber Agency / FATA	Unidentified militants blew up the shrine of Syed Muhammad Shah at Loy Shelman, near Parang Dra in Landikotal of Khyber Agency in FATA.	0	0
47	October 22	Pishtakhara / Peshawar / Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	An IED, detonated through a remote control, killed five persons and injured 22 others inside a mosque in Pishtakhara suburb of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.	5	22
48	October 25	Baba Farid Shrine / Pakpattan / Punjab	A bomb explosion at the eastern gate of the Baba Farid Shrine in Pakpattan District of Punjab killed at least six persons, including three women and injuring several others.	6	NS
49	October 28	Quetta / Balochistan	Four Shia persons were shot dead by unidentified assailants in Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan.	4	0
50	November 29	Mehmoodabad / Karachi / Sindh	A Shia leader, Nayyar Zaidi (50), the president of Pasban-e-Aza, was shot dead by unidentified assailants in a suspected sectarian attack in Mehmoodabad area of Karachi, the provincial capital of Sindh.	1	0
51	December 8	Tirah bazaar / Kohat / Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	At least 19 persons were killed and 32 others were injured when a suicide bomber blew up a passenger van at a bus stand in Tirah bazaar when people were returning home in Lower Orakzai Agency from the bazaar.	20	32
52	December 10	Pas Kalay / Hangu / Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	At least 17 persons were killed and over 20 others were injured in a suspected sectarian attack when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into an under-construction hospital in the in Pas Kalay area of Hangu District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.	18	20
53	December 14	Badbher / Peshawar / Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	Three caretakers of Ghazi Baba shrine, identified as Mohammad Ali, Ghazi and Aslam Khan, were shot dead by militants in Badbher area of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa at about 2am (PST).	3	0
54	December 15	Arbab Karam Khan Road / Quetta / Balochistan	Three persons, including two brothers and a child, were shot dead and another sustained bullet injures in an incident of sectarian attack on Arbab Karam Khan Road in Quetta.	3	1
55	December 16	Yadgar Chowk / Peshawar / Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	A child was killed while 25 mourners, including eight women and three children, sustained injuries when militants threw a hand grenade at Muharram mourning procession at Yadgar Chowk in Peshawar.	1	25
56	December 17	Khanpur / Shikarpur / Sindh	SFs shot dead a suspected militant who tried to enter the Ashura procession along with a bag in a village near Khanpur in Shikarpur District of Sindh. The attacker managed to explode a grenade before he died, injuring four persons, including a Police official.	1	4
57	December 27	Karachi / Sindh	Five persons, including a minor girl, were killed and three others were injured in sectarian violence in different parts of Karachi, the provincial capital of Sindh.	5	3
Total				509	1170

Year 2009

Month	Incidents	Killed	Injured
January	54	53	64
February	7	43	147
March	6	15	4
April	3	27	146
May	3	5	5
June	7	12	5
July	10	13	6
August	4	7	0
September	5	7	11
October	4	5	9
November	2	2	1
December	1	1	0
TOTAL	106	190	398

Year 2008

Month	Incidents	Killed	Injured
January	22	35	54
February	1	1	0
March	5	4	28
April	24	51	122
May	6	9	5
June	13	52	28
July	11	40	39
August	4	36	55
September	3	29	56
October	1	26	60
November	5	19	58
December	2	4	1
TOTAL	97	306	505

Year 2007

Month	Incidents	Killed	Injured
January	3	5	21
February	0	0	0
March	9	8	1
April	72	121	119
May	2	3	1
June	0	0	0
July	0	0	0
August	2	2	0
September	0	0	0
October	0	0	0
November	118	181	314
December	135	121	174
Total	341	441	630

Source: Figures are compiled from news reports and are provisional.

Year 2006

Month	Incidents	Killed	Injured
January	0	0	0
February	5	52	104
March	1	25	0
April	3	59	204
May	0	0	0
June	1	4	0
July	4	3	3
August	0	0	0
September	1	1	0
October	18	31	13
November	4	22	0
December	1	4	25
Total	38	201	349

Year 2005

Month	Incidents	Killed	Injured
January	12	17	38
February	2	3	1
March	7	57	107
April	4	1	9
May	4	38	127
June	0	0	0
July	6	11	15
August	4	4	0
September	8	8	6
October	12	18	51
November	0	0	0
December	3	3	0
Total	62	160	354

Year 2004

Month	Incidents	Killed	Injured
January	0	0	0
February	1	1	4
March	3	49	190
April	0	0	0
May	3	46	234
June	4	6	8
July	0	0	0
August	0	0	0
September	3	7	1
October	4	76	182
November	0	0	0
December	1	2	0
Total	19	187	619

Year 2003

Month	Incidents	Killed	Injured
January	1	2	2
February	5	13	8
March	2	1	2
April	1	1	0
May	3	3	19
June	4	16	8
July	1	52	56
August	1	1	0
September	1	1	0
October	2	10	8
November	0	0	0
December	1	2	0
Total	22	102	103

Year 2002

Month	Incidents	Killed	Injured
January	6	4	7
February	11	22	45
March	17	35	85
April	5	17	37
May	14	32	80
June	4	6	0
July	0	0	0
August	2	1	3
September	2	2	0
October	1	1	0
November	1	1	0
December	0	0	0
Total	63	121	257

Source: Figures are compiled from news reports and are provisional.

Bargaining Leverage?

2011-12-26T00:26:00.001-08:00

Bargaining leverage?
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After the US Congress froze close to $700 million in aid to Pakistan earlier this month, the Obama administration is trying to assure its estranged ally that the legislation merely includes a reporting requirement that could be waived.

The provision is part of a giant $662 billion defence budget for fiscal 2012 passed by US Senate by 86 to 13 votes on December 15, a day after the US House of Representatives approved it by 283 to 136 votes.

The new legislation would freeze any aid to Pakistan until Secretary of State Hillary Clinton verifies Pakistan's cooperation in the war on terror.

Cooperation between the US and Pakistan came to a halt after a fatal NATO attack on a Pakistan border post. Pakistan stopped all supplies to NATO troops in Afghanistan and told the US to leave the Shamsi air base.

"I cannot believe that the cooperation stopped because of a couple of incidents - it's immature," said Tim Barkin, a defense analyst who has worked in Afghanistan.

While President Barack Obama and his administration want close ties with Pakistan, the security establishment and the hawks in the administration and the Senate are pressing for tougher actions.

"There have been over 2,800 NATO causalities so far, and we have not blamed them on Pakistan," said a senior NATO commander in Afghanistan. "What if we act like Pakistan? What would that lead to?"

Former US embassy military spokesman Col Michael Shivers said Pakistan received $3.5 billion in economic assistance from the United States over 15 years from 1952 to 1967. This was more than three times the combined aid provided by West Germany, Canada, Great Britain and Japan. From 2002 to 2010, the US was been the biggest donor to Pakistan with approximately $4 billion in direct aid. Its security assistance support was $462 million in fiscal year 2008, $884 million in FY 2009, and $1,114 million in FY 2010. This does not include the Coalition Support Fund (CSF), a reimbursement programme for expenses incurred by Pakistani military for its assistance to the US. CSF reimbursements since 2001 total approximately $8.88 billion.

Relations between Pakistan and the US have worsened to the extent that all US military representatives working in Pakistan, including the important Director of Strategic Communications, have been virtually stopped from working in Pakistan after the Raymond Davis case, and according to a US diplomat, "We are treated as enemy combatants in Pakistan."

Carl Prine, a veteran journalist and military analyst, however thinks that "without Pakistan, the US won't end up anywhere in Afghanistan."

Making a joke about what appears to be a key factor in the worsening of the ties, he asked if it would be "better to give $10 million a month to the Haqqanis instead of wasting $120 billion a year in Afghanistan?"

Some analysts see the new US move as a response to Pakistan's decision to stop supplies to NATO troops in Afghanistan. "Some in the US want to take on Pakistan by exerting financial pressure," one expert said.

"The last time they closed the supplies, the US made alternate arrangements," said diplomat Mark Author. "They are more expensive, but that's better than being blackmailed."

NATO is looking north

2011-12-26T00:23:00.001-08:00

Report By Ali K Chishti

US-Pakistan relations

Pakistan has played its trump card by stopping NATO supplies, but NATO may change the game by finding a new route

NATO is looking north

Pakistan stopped supplies from its Karachi port to NATO troops in Afghanistan after 24 of its soldiers were killed in a US air strike on a border post on November 26. But there was a consensus in a meeting of Pakistani envoys in Islamabad earlier this month that the move would not help improve coordination between the two allies in the war on terror.

A senior NATO commander in Afghanistan said the shutting down of the Southern Distribution Network had had "negligible effect on our mission, and we do not anticipate any effects except that it is more expensive to bring it in by other means".

NATO is now increasing its reliance on supplies from the north, and if Pakistan persists with the embargo for too long, it will lose the leverage.

Afghan transit trade has increased by at least 40 percent after NATO supplies stopped last month

"Such maneuvering is counterproductive," said Lawrence Alan Levine, former US Army trainer and strategic planner in Afghanistan. "There are no serious active operations in winter anyway," he said, "so the embargo won't have a significant impact."

Carl Prine, a senior US military journalist who has served in Iraq, said there was frustration in the US over the embargo but that he had not heard of any shortages in Afghanistan yet. Speaking from Florida, he said cooperation between Pakistan and the US was imperative. "From predator drones to a settlement in Afghanistan, Pakistan is the key."

Logistics expert Younas Ahmed, who has worked with NATO contractors from Dubai and Karachi, says an alternate route would cost NATO Rs10,000 to Rs13,000 per litre of oil.

"They have alternate routes set up and have ample supplies," he said.

Afghan transit trade has increased by at least 40 percent after NATO supplies stopped last month. "Fourth-tier contractors are being hired by profiteers to bring in NATO supplies to Afghanistan," Younas explained. Commercial consignments to Afghanistan are subjected to thorough checking at Torkham.

Trucks carrying NATO supplies are now more vulnerable to attacks within Pakistan, and that may be another reason why NATO is increasingly relying on the Northern Distribution Network. That would have its own set of problems. "Taliban have blown up a major bridge to Uzbekistan," said John Islington, a private contractor based in Kabul.

"I know that they have been stockpiling, because this is not the first time the route has been blocked. So they can keep operating for weeks without new supplies," said Carsten Michels, a German defence analyst who is an expert on AfPak.

"Taliban have blown up a major bridge to Uzbekistan"

Last year, the Pakistani government had stopped NATO supplies for 10 days after a similar attack on a Pakistani border post. It was resumed after a joint investigation.

Michels said German troops were in the north and their supplies came from Uzbekistan.

Even if the embargo affects NATO's operations, its commanders believe it is a tactic by the Pakistani military to bring the Haqqanis on the table. "That is not acceptable to us."

But at least one NATO commander was sympathetic to Pakistan. "If you are stationed in a Pakistan COP in that hostile area, I can imagine that everything around you is enemy," he said. "It seems easy to confuse a joint patrol as enemy. In this case it is not even stated that the COP fired upon the patrol, but the joint patrol fired, and asked for fire support upon the Pakistani COP."

Ali Chishti is a TFT reporter based in Karachi. He can be reached at akchishti@hotmail.com

Mehrangate Scandal & ISI reimbursements

2011-12-22T22:17:00.000-08:00

Mehran bank scandal also known as “Mehrangate” was a major political scandal in Pakistan between 1990-1994 in which senior politicians and political parties were found to have been bribed by military and intelligence officers to prevent the re-election and destabilize the government of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP).

Initiated by Chief of Army Staff Mirza Aslam Beg with the alleged support of President Ghulam Ishaq Khan payments of up to 140 million Rupees were done by the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Chief Asad Durrani and Javed Nasir via the owner of Mehran Bank Yunus Habib. Intelligence funds were deposited in Mehran bank in 1992 propping up what was an insolvent bank as a favour for its owners help in loaning money to the Inter-Services Intelligence in 1990 that was used in the creation of the right wing alliance Islami Jamhoori-Ittehad and bankrolling the campaigns of many opponents of the PPP.
The scandal subsequently broke after the new ISI Chief Lt. Gen Javed Ashraf Qazi decided to transfer the intelligence fund back to state owned banks as per official rules. Mehran Bank was unable to return the money due to its poor financial state and collapsed. It was later discovered that large sums had been siphoned of to 39 fictitious parties.
In 1995, Mehran Bank was amalgamated with the National Bank of Pakistan and in 1996 the NBP had to make full provision for Mehran's liabilities which resulted in a net loss that year to the bank of Rs 1.260 billion. .

A Supreme Court Petition was lodged by Air Marshal Asghar Khan with the bank transfer details. I wonder as to if Chief Justice of Pakistan could actually take up the case or not?

On April 20, 1994, giving details about the payments made by Mr Habib to generals, politicians and political parties, the then Interior Minister, Naseerullah Babar, told the National Assembly that the main beneficiary of his largesse was former army chief General Mirza Aslam Beg who received Rs140 million.

Key politicians named as recipients of ISI funds included Jam Sadiq Ali (Rs70 million from Habib Bank and Rs150 million from Mehran Bank), Journalist Altaf Hussein Qureshi (Rs.20 million); Yousuf Memon for Ijaz-ul Haq and Javed Hashmi (Rs.50 million); Nawaz Sharif (Rs6 million); former Sindh chief minister Muzaffar Hussain Shah through his secretary (Rs13 million), MQM Haqiqi (Rs5 million), former Sports Minister Ajmal Khan (Rs1.4 million), Jam Mashooq Ali (Rs3.5 million), Liaqat Jatoi (Rs1 million), Dost Mohammad Faizi (Rs1 million), and Jam Haider (Rs 2 million).
Yunus Habib was arrested on April 7, 1994 for misappropriation in the sale proceeds of the Dollar Bearer Certificates. On Dec 14, 1995, Younus Habib was convicted of fraud and embezzlement and given a sentence of 10 years rigorous imprisonment by the Special Court for Offences in Banks in Sindh.

What's happening?

2011-12-22T08:14:00.000-08:00

Thesituation is getting from bad to worse thanks to a combo of issues startingfrom ‘memogate’ and with the ever increasing political instability.As I hadpreviously reported that from MQM to PML, PTI and other’s holding jalsas ofthere own, it’s the Supreme Court of Pakistan where the fate of thisunfortunate nation is at stake.While Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gillani has remarkablychanged his overtones in which he previously said, “Hussain Haqqani directlyreported to me” today launch one of the boldest attacks on military saying, “There can’t be a state within the state; they[establishment] would always be answerable to the parliament… All institutionsof the country are answerable to the parliament.”

He added: “They are adisciplined army and follow the constitution… They are under the government andwill remain under the government.” Last night however a rather cheeky statementfrom the Defense Ministery acknowledged to a petition at the SCP that, “ISI andMilitary’s operational control is not with them.” While talking to various sources within themilitary, I still am sticking to a stand that although while the military wouldwant to get rid of President Zardari but doesn’t know how too hence, they wouldtry to hit the democratic government as bad as possible at the Supreme Court ofPakistan.

Knowingthe military and talking to sources, I know that military would want a venerableand weak President, Prime Minister and a Foreign Minister – which they have itin the shape of the current government (remember, this government had givenboth the COAS and ISI Chief an extension). This however has turned into acivil-military showdown and unfortunately judiciary is bias also looking at therecord of PPP, not a single time they had been allowed to complete the promisedterm. Today’s show of strength by thePPP might actually give shivers to the conspiring generals and the show at GariKhuda Bux and Nodero by the President, I am told would be ‘tough’.

Wheredoes that leave PML-N, PTI, MQM, ANP and other political parties? PML-N wantsan early election out of fear of PTI while PTI would want to wait until theycement there positions and would need couple of quarters and while both of theseparties would want Punjab, they ought not to fall in a trap of GHQ. If PTIwould want to prove itself, they need to work with PML-N in Punjab and formsome sort of understanding as punch GHQ while, MQM would remain unpredictableand there show on 23^rd at Multan would be interesting while ANP hadproved to be a good ally of PPP.

Hussain Haqqani actually appeared at the SCP and later Asma Jhangir said, "we know who made the memo". And while the situation goes from bad to worse, who will be the fall guy in this? Hussain Haqqani? would he volunteer?

Sowhat’s next? Would there be a coup? No exactly but the new term for the coup is‘soft coup’ or better, judicial coup!

Ali K.Chishti

@akchishti declared among 200 most influential Twitter users during the riots by Guardian

2011-12-22T00:20:00.000-08:00

Proud to be declared by Guardian among 200 most influential twitter during London riots. Here's the link: http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2011/dec/08/riot-twitter-top-200?fb=native

Also it goes to show how powerful social media as a medium had become. Here was my tweet which started the chain: "Hindus/Sikhs are protecting the Mosques and Muslim protecting the Temples in #Birmingham. Grt show of solidarity!"

AKC

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Bargaining Leverage?

NATO is looking north

Afghan transit trade has increased by at least 40 percent after NATO supplies stopped last month

"Taliban have blown up a major bridge to Uzbekistan"

Mehrangate Scandal & ISI reimbursements

What's happening?

@akchishti declared among 200 most influential Twitter users during the riots by Guardian