Incidents in Bhakkar, Punjab, Pakistan

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Event ID Date Country Event
65007-131512-333439 8/24/2013 Pakistan A clash between Ahl-e-Sunnat-Wal-Jama'at (ASWJ) and members of Shia community killed 11 people in Kotla Jam area of Bhakkar District on August 23, reports Daily Times.
58522-116473-294944 10/24/2012 Pakistan The Sihala Police on October 23 conducted a search operation in its jurisdiction, including slum areas of Khanna, Sihala Town and Sihala Bazar in Islamabad, and arrested 35 suspects, reported Daily Times.
51438-100044-251978 8/29/2011 Pakistan 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 on August 28, reports Dawn.
40623-77780-190769 10/28/2009 Pakistan Police also arrested 10 suspects from Bhakkar and shifted them to an undisclosed location for interrogation.
35363-66630-157881 10/19/2008 Pakistan The SFs continued targeting Taliban posts with heavy artillery and fighter jets in the Zor Bandar, Loyesam, Charmang, Kohi and Babara areas of the agency, killing 13 and destroying several Taliban hideouts.
35180-66188-156707 10/7/2008 Pakistan A suicide bomber blew himself up in a crowd of people at the house of Rashid Akbar Niwani, a Shia Member of National Assembly from the Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N), in Bhakkar, 260-km southwest of Islamabad in Punjab, killing 25 people and wounding 60 others, including Niwani, reports Daily Times.

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The original source are newspaper clippings and extracts collected by the South Asian Terrorism Portal.