2007 Kurram Agency conflict

2007 Kurram Agency conflict
	Part of the War in North-West Pakistan and Sectarian violence in Pakistan
Date	6 April – 13 April 2007; (1 week)
Location	Kurram Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan
Result	Victory For Pakistan And Shia Fighters Siege of Parachinar broken; Shia militants claim victory and request for the Pakistan Army to move in later on; Kurram Agency becomes a stronghold for Shia militants; The Pakistani Taliban and their allies experience heavy losses; Pakistan Army captures strongholds of Sunni militants; Military offensives Operation Khwakh Ba De Sham and Operation Koh-e-Sufaid initiated by the Pakistan Army against the Pakistani Taliban; Sporadic fighting continues between Shia and Sunni militants;
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The 2007 Kurram Agency conflict, also known as the Siege of Parachinar, began on 6 April 2007 in Kurram Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan when a group of Sunni gunmen opened fire on a Friday prayer held by Shia Muslims in Parachinar. It left more than 40 people dead and more than 150 people wounded by gunfire. Tensions grew in the area adjacent to the Afghan border since 1 April as Pakistani Taliban ally and anti-Shia sectarian group Ahl-e-Sunnat Wal Jamaat took part in Mawlid (prophet Muhammad's birthday) on 1 April, in which the group raised slogans against Shiites and made derogatory remarks towards historical Shia figures which erupt a sectarian controversy among the muslims in the kurram. On 6 April, a sectarian conflict intensely raised in Kurram Agency when a group of sectarian Sunni gunmen opened fire on the unarmed Shiites at the time of friday prayer, which triggered a heavy armed violence and bloodshed between the Shia-Sunni militia's that continues to date, Sectarian violence in Pakistan has been serious issue from then onwards.