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<text>
<title>
Pakistan: Global Terrorism
</title>
<article>
<hdr>
Patterns Of Global Terrorism: 1991
Asian Overview: Pakistan
</hdr>
<body>
<p> Westerners and moderate Afghans in northwestern Pakistan,
particularly Peshawar, have increasingly become the targets of
terrorist attacks. Although the sponsors of these attacks are
not known, radical Afghan fundamentalist groups are suspected:
</p>
<p>-- On 24 February, a bomb blast in Peshawar at the office of the
Swedish Relief Committee--a private voluntary organization
(PVO) involved in cross-border work in Afghanistan--seriously
injured an Afghan-Australian national who later died from the
wounds.
</p>
<p>-- On 13 August, an Afghan-American USAID contractor was wounded
in a shooting attack in Peshawar.
</p>
<p>-- On 30 October, an Afghan working for an Austrian PVO in
Peshawar was shot and wounded.
</p>
<p>-- On 25 November, the Afghan director of the English language
program of the International Rescue Committee, an American
private voluntary agency, was shot and killed by unidentified
assailants.
</p>
<p> There were also numerous bombings in Pakistan's major cities
throughout the year. The Pakistani Government frequently
attributed these attacks and other acts of violence to the
intelligence services of India and Afghanistan. The United
States is unable, however, to determine if the incidents were
carried out by terrorists or criminals, or if there was external
involvement.
</p>
<p> Several terrorist attacks related to the Persian Gulf war
and probably organized by Iraq or Iraqi sympathizers occurred
in Pakistan in 1991. In January, gunmen fired at the Saudia
Airlines office in Karachi, shattering windows but causing no
casualties. In February a bomb exploded as it was thrown over
the wall of the residence of the Saudi Consul General in
Karachi, injuring a security guard. Later in the month a
British-sponsored humanitarian organization in Peshawar was
bombed.
</p>
<p> During the Persian Gulf war, Pakistani authorities actively
sought to counter possible terrorist threats. At least one Iraqi
diplomat was declared persona non grata and two other Iraqis
were arrested and expelled for their questionable activities.
Pakistan has also cooperated with the US investigation of an
additional suspect in the 1986 hijacking of Pan American Flight
73.
</p>
<p> There were continuing credible reports throughout 1991 of
official Pakistani support for Kashmiri militant groups engaged
in terrorism in Indian-controlled Kashmir, as well as support to
Sikh militant groups engaged in terrorism in Indian Punjab. This
support allegedly includes provision of weapons and training.
</p>
<p>Source: United States Department of State, 1992.
</p>
</body>
</article>
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