February

*February 28 — In two separate incidents, 5 people were killed and 2 wounded in

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. 3 people were killed and 11 injured by a bomb explosion outside

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in a minibus station. Another 2 people were killed and 2 injured in a hit-and-run attack on people as they came out of a Sunni mosque after prayer. The mosque was on Lahore's main

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. Police told that attackers came on three motorcycles and the attacks appeared to be the result of Sunni-Shiite sectarian strife.

November

*November 12 — Two unidentified gunmen kill four U.S. auditors from Union Texas Petroleum Corporation and their Pakistani driver near

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1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...