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Sunni leader killed in Pakistan

K J M Varma in Islamabad | October 06, 2003 23:24 IST

The sectarian violence in Pakistan took a turn for the worse when suspected Shia militants gunned down the chief of the banned Sunni extremist organisation Sipah-e-Sahaba, Maulana Azam Tariq, and four of his associates in Islamabad.

Tariq, who won last year's national assembly polls as an independent and later became a supporter of Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali, was ambushed on the Kashmir Highway.

The assailants were in a Pajero.

Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat announced his death in the National Assembly, which was then prorogued as a mark of respect.

The murders followed a series of attacks on the Shia community in the recent past.

Pakistan's Geo television showed images of the victims lying slumped in the car amid shattered glass.


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