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02 Jun 2004, Multan, Pakistan --- Armed Pakistani female police officers stand outside a Shiite mosque in Multan. Thousands of troops and paramilitary forces are on maximum alert to prevent further clashes between extreme Shiite and Sunni factions in Pakistan. Sunni-Shiite sectarian violence has killed as many as 4,000 people in the past 15 years. The latest violence followed Monday's mosque attack, which was believed to have been triggered by the killing of the senior Sunni cleric, Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai in Karachi, over the weekend by unidentified gunmen. --- Image by © epa/Corbis
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02 Jun 2004, Multan, Pakistan --- Armed Pakistani female police officers stand outside a Shiite mosque in Multan. Thousands of troops and paramilitary forces are on maximum alert to prevent further clashes between extreme Shiite and Sunni factions in Pakistan. Sunni-Shiite sectarian violence has killed as many as 4,000 people in the past 15 years. The latest violence followed Monday's mosque attack, which was believed to have been triggered by the killing of the senior Sunni cleric, Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai in Karachi, over the weekend by unidentified gunmen. --- Image by © epa/Corbis