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Daniel Pearl, was a Jewish American journalist was kidnapped in Karachi by a militant group on January 23, 2002. He was tortured and beheaded nine days later. Warren Weinstein, was an American aid worker living in Lahore who was kidnapped from his residence by unknown gunmen on August 13, 2011. [29]
On 12 September, the first outpost was attacked and overrun by the Taliban, kidnapping 12 Pakistani soldiers. [ citation needed ] The next day on 13 September, a suicide bomber in Ghazi Tarbela attacked a Pakistani army base, destroying the main mess hall and killing 20 members of the Karar commando group; Pakistan's most elite army unit.
On 17 July, the Pakistani Foreign Ministry confirmed that Selsela Alikhil had been assaulted and said the government was trying to apprehend the culprits, [8] [9] but in an about-turn on 18 July, [10] the Pakistani interior minister, Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad, claimed that she was not kidnapped at all but that it was a conspiracy against Pakistan by the Indian intelligence agency. [11]
ISLAMABAD (AP) — A list of some key events over the last few years leading up to Pakistan's parliamentary election on Thursday:. July 25, 2018 — Pakistanis vote for a new government in an ...
Suspected militants kidnapped four people, including an army officer who was sitting in a mosque in a former stronghold of Pakistani Taliban to receive mourners after attending his father's ...
Terrorism in Pakistan, according to the Ministry of Interior, poses a significant threat to the people of Pakistan. The wave of terrorism in Pakistan is believed to have started in 2000. [ 1 ] Attacks and fatalities in Pakistan were on a "declining trend" between 2015 and 2019, but has gone back up from 2020-2022, with 971 fatalities (229 ...
2010 Kurram agency mass kidnapping happened on May 15, 2010, in Kurram Agency in Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. 60 people including women and children were kidnapped by militants dressed in police uniforms. [1] [2]
Violence against women in Pakistan, particularly intimate partner violence and sexual violence, is a major public health problem and a violation of women's human rights in Pakistan. [18] [19] Women in Pakistan mainly encounter violence by being forced into marriage, through workplace sexual harassment, domestic violence and by honour killings. [19]