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TABLE 3Notable Incidences of Sectarian Violence in Pakistan, 1997–2001January 1997 Twenty-six people, including Zia al-Rahman Faruqi, the head of the Sipah-i Sahaba, killed in a bomb explosion inLahore (Punjab). 1February 1997 Seven people, including the director of the Iranian cultural center, killed in Multan (Punjab); 2 five people killed inLahore. 3April 1997 Nine people killed near Bahawalpur (Punjab). 4August 1997 Eight people killed in Shorkot; four in Jhang; eight in Sheikhupura; four in Multan; six in Khangarh (all in thePunjab). 5September 1997 Five Iranian military cadets killed in Rawalpindi (Punjab). 6October 1997 Four Sunni madrasa students killed in Multan. 7November 1997 Habib Allah Mukhtar, the president of the Jami‘at al-‘Ulum al-Islamiyya madrasa of Karachi (Sindh) assassinated. 8January 1998 Twenty-two Shi‘is killed and over fifty injured near Lahore. 9October 1998 A leading Sunni mosque preacher killed in Islamabad (the federal capital). 10January 1999 Four Shi‘is killed in an attack on an imambargah in Multan 11 ; five including the Shi‘i custodian of a shrine, killedin Multan. 12April 1999 Four Shi‘is killed in Dera Ismail Khan (the North-West Frontier Province). 13October 1999 Nineteen people killed in sectarian violence in Karachi. 14December 1999 Twelve Sunnis killed in Haripur (the North-West Frontier Province) in dispute with the local Shi‘a over the buildingof an imambargah. 15April 2000 Nineteen Shi‘is killed in various incidents, including an attack on an imambargah in Attock (Punjab). 16May 2000 Muhammad Yusuf Ludhianawi of the Jami‘at al-‘Ulum al-Islamiyya madrasa assassinated in Karachi. 17January 2001 Five people belonging to the Jami‘a Faruqiyya of Karachi, including two professors of hadith and a mufti, assassinated.18March 2001 Nine people killed in Lahore in a pro-Sipah-i Sahaba mosque; 19 seventeen people killed in sectarian riots in Hangu(the North-West Frontier Province). 20May 2001 Mawlana Salim Qadri, leader of the Barelawi Sunni Tahrik, assassinated in Karachi along with five others. 21October 2001 Six Shi‘a killed in shooting in a Karachi imambargah; 22 four killed in shootings at two Sunni madrasas of Karachi. 23Seventeen Christians killed in a church shooting in Bahawalpur (Punjab). 24