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A Compact Disc (CD) shop was blown up in Dagai village in the limits of Yar Hussain Police Station. Sources said that unidentified persons had planted  an explosive device at the shop selling music CDs in Dagai that went off at 10:30 p.m. The shop was damaged, but no casualties were reported.  The News 
A Khassadar was killed and two others sustained injuries in a blast at a school in Sheikhmalkhel area of Landikotal subdivision in Khyber Agency. Two remote-controlled bombs had been planted in the Government Primary School No 2. The first bomb exploded late Monday night and destroyed two rooms and a boundary wall of the school. The second one exploded when Khassadar personnel came to the site on Tuesday morning in order to collect evidence. One of them, Murtaza, was killed while Waliullah and Abdullah were injured. The News  The SSP Tariq Dharejo said that four suspects on two motorcycles opened fired at the lawyers’ car. He added that the incident was apparently one of sectarian violence as the lawyers belonged to the Shia sect. The incident left all the four victims injured, out of which three died on their way to the hospital. Express Tribune 

Two gunmen riding a motorbike opened fire on a car in Quetta city, killing three Shia Muslims including two government officials and a local television artist. No group has claimed responsibility for the attack. Dawn 

January 27: Former Imambargah trustee killed in Karachi

A former trustee of Aal-Aba Imambargah, Dr Jaffar Mohsin, 58,  was shot dead in the Gulberg area of Karachi. He was sitting outside his house in Gulberg Block 12 when two men on a motorbike opened fire on him and fled. Station House Office (SHO) Raja Tariq said that there was a possibility the incident was linked to the recent wave of sectarian killings in the city, but the police was investigating it from “different angles”. Express Tribune

 January 29: Hate Campaign against Ahmadis in Rawalpindi

Thousands of traders and activists from religious parties gathered in Rawalpindi to call on the government to stop ‘unconstitutional’ activities of the Ahmadiyya community in the city. The protest was arranged by traders’ associations near the Holy Family Hospital. Over 5,000 people were part of the protest, including activists of Jamaatud Dawa, Jamaat-i-Islami, the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat and members of the banned militant organisation Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan.

The rally took place in Satellite Town, where anti-Ahmadi banners had appeared earlier this month. An Ahmadi worship place, Ewane Tawheed, is also located in the area and traders said it was built without prior official approval. Although the rally was held to protest alleged land ‘encroachment’, speakers used the occasion to demand that Ahmadis stop religious activities such as proselytising and worship. It was announced that an intersection close to the worship place will be named the Khatm-e-Nubuwat Chowk.

Participants carried flags of different religious parties, including some banned ones, and portraits of the self-confessed assassin Mumtaz Qadri who killed former Punjab governor Salmaan Taseer. Express Tribune

Two Sunni Tehrik activists killed in Karachi

Two activists of the ST were shot dead in an incident of sectarian killing within the precincts of Garden police station. Police said Sohail Ahmed and Saleem Qadri were standing near party’s office in Usmanabad, when gunmen on two motorbikes appeared and sprayed them with bullets. Both sustained bullet wounds and died on the way to the Civil Hospital Karachi. Police said the workers were busy in the preparation of ST procession at Nishtar Park when the gunmen targeted them and managed to flee. Daily times