AP News, December 27th, 2007
Some assassinations within the South and Central Asian region:
_ Dec. 27, 2007: Pakistan opposition leader Benazir Bhutto was slain by an attacker who shot her after a campaign rally and then blew himself up.
_Sept. 25, 2006: Safia Amajan, women's affairs official in Afghanistan, was killed by gunmen in Kandahar; Taliban claimed responsibility.
_Sept. 10, 2006: Hakim Taniwal, governor of eastern Afghan province, was killed by suicide bomber outside of his office; Taliban claimed responsibility.
_Jul. 14, 2006: Prominent Shiite Muslim cleric Allama Hassan Turabi was killed in a suicide bombing attack at his home in Karachi, Pakistan.
_Aug. 12, 2005: Sri Lankan Foreign Minister Lakshman Kadirgamar, an ethnic Tamil who opposed a separate state for the minority, was assassinated by snipers in a killing blamed on the Tigers.
_July 6, 2002: Afghan Vice President Haji Abdul Qadir was shot and killed outside his office in Kabul.
_Sept. 9, 2001: Afghan Northern Alliance guerrilla leader Ahmed Shah Massoud was wounded in suicide-attack bombing in northern Afghanistan by two Arabs posing as journalists; he died Sept. 15.
_June 1, 2001: Nepal's King Birendra and his family members were assassinated by his son, Crown Prince Dipendra, in a shooting spree at the royal palace.
_May 1, 1993: Tamil Tiger suicide bomber killed Sri Lanka's President Ranasinghe Premadasa at a May Day parade after his government's failed peace efforts
_May 21, 1991: Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by suicide bombers while campaigning to regain his nation's leadership.
_Oct. 31, 1984: Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was assassinated by two Sikh security guards in New Delhi.
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SOURCE: Facts on File; Associated Press News Research Center.
