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| Event ID | Date | Country | Event |
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| 68849-140994-357814 | 4/19/2014 | Pakistan | Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Chaudhry Shafiq on April 18 said that Police have arrested six Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) suspects, including the mastermind behind the March 28, 2014, attack on Express News anchorperson Raza Rumirom Lahore District, the provincial capital of Punjab, reports The Express Tribune. |
| 64960-131396-333177 | 8/21/2013 | Pakistan | During the course of investigation Usman revealed that Ubaid alias Qari Muhammad Imran Group and Aslam Yasin alias Osama Group, commanders' of Punjabi Taliban, had planned to abduct Shahbaz Sharif to release their accomplices detained in high-profile cases of terrorism in different jails of the country, particularly in Punjab. |
| 52095-101338-255340 | 10/5/2011 | Pakistan | The Pakistani judge of the Anti-Terrorism Court, Parvez Ali Shah, who awarded the death sentence to Malik Mumtaz Qadri, the assassin of former Punjab Governor Salman Taseer is reported to have gone on indefinite leave since October 1 after lawyers attacked his courtroom and a spate of protests and death threats, reported The Hindu. |
| 48047-93192-234567 | 2/2/2011 | Pakistan | Separately, the ATC deferred the indictment of Malik Mumtaz Qadri, the killer of former Punjab Governor Salman Taseer, after his lawyer asked for the statements of five other members of Elite Force providing security to the Punjab Governor on January 4. Special Judge ATC-II was to formally charge Qadri with the murder of Governor Taseer but put off indictment till February 4. Meanwhile, the investigators told the court that they did not need the custody of two prayer leaders, Qari Hanif Qureshi and Syed Imtiaz Hussain Kazmi, whose speeches, according to the statement of Qadri, inspired him to kill the Governor. |
| 47670-92523-232767 | 1/7/2011 | Pakistan | Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on January 6 claimed responsibility for the assassination of Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer saying that the man who killed him was from among us, reported Indian Express. |
| 47670-92523-232769 | 1/7/2011 | Pakistan | The Punjab Governor was our target and we have planned this programme and the man who killed him was from among us, Shakirullah Shakir, a spokesman for the fidayeen (suicide squads) group associated with Qari Hussain, said. |
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The original source are newspaper clippings and extracts collected by the South Asian Terrorism Portal.