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PAKISTAN: Seven Shot Dead in Office Terror Attack
Wednesday, September 25, 2002
By Stuart Reid
The Scotsman

A string of violent assaults on Christian organisations have killed at least 36 people and injured about 100 since General Musharraf’s decision to join the US campaign.

At least seven workers at a Christian welfare organisation in Pakistan were killed today by gunmen, who tied their victims to chairs and shot them at close range.

Police said one other person was critically injured in the incident in the southern port city of Karachi.

The shooting was the latest in a string of violent attacks against Christians and Westerners, who have been increasingly targeted since Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf’s decision to crack down on Islamic extremist groups and join the United States war against the Taliban and al-Qaida in neighbouring Afghanistan.

The killings occurred at the third-floor offices of the Institute for Peace and Justice, or Idara-e-Amn-o-Insaf, a Pakistani Christian charity that does work in the city.

Victims were tied up in chairs with their hands behind their backs and their mouths taped before being shot point-blank in the head, according to Karachi Police Chief Kamal Shah.

All seven of the dead were Pakistani Christians. One worker who survived the attack later died in a local hospital, police said. It was not clear who was behind the attack.
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