ASSASSINATION ATTEMPTS IN PAKISTAN
* The Pakistani Minorities Minister Shahbaz Bhatti has died after gunmen opened fire on his car in the capital Islamabad on Wednesday 03/02/2011.
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* The governor of Pakistan’s most politically important province of Punjab, Salman Taseer, has been killed, on Tuesday 01/04/2011 after shootings in a popular market in the capital Islamabad. see – Tasser Assassination .
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* Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani has survived an assassination attempt on Wednesday 09/03/2008 noon. Two bullets from an unidentified gunman hit his car as he was travelling just outside the capital, Islamabad. See – Gilani 09.03.08
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* On 10/19/2007 Benazir Bhutto, followed by thousands of her supporters to visit her fathers’ tomb in Karachi late evening, her car was targeted by a hand grenade, which exploded near her truck. At the same time a suicide bomber driving a car bomb tried to reach her vehicle in the confusion resulted by the first explosion. See – Karachi carnage ;
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* Pakistan’s designated Prime Minister, Shaukat Aziz, survived a suicide attack attempt on his life at Fateh-Jang, a town t 65 Kilometers North-West to the capital Islamabad, on Friday 07/29/2004. See – Shaukat Aziz Attempt
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* On 06/10/2004 a group of gunmen attacked the convoy of Gen. Ahsan Salim Hayat, the corps commander of Karachi and a trusted colleague of General Pervez Musharraf. See – Gen. Hayat Attempt
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* In 12/2003 Al Qaeda, with the assistance of local Pakistani activists, made a double attempt on Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf’s life in Rawalpindi. See – Rawalpindi attempt
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