31.   Turrabi has called for a strike on Tuesday in the southern Sindh province, of which Karachi is the capital, to protest the killings of the Shiite leader.

32.   When Shiite leaders insisted on staging a procession this year, the Sunnis threatened to follow suit.

33.   Gunmen riding a motorcycle shot dead three people including a prominent Shiite leader and a Sunni professor in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore early Tuesday, police said.

34.   His arrest over an alleged operation of an illegal radio station, has led to severe security clampdown on fanatical followers of the Shiite leader.

35.   His comments came after the gunning down of two Shiite leaders in the Pakistani province of Punjab.

36.   In the past three months the authorities have engaged in dialogue with Shiite leaders.

37.   Interior Minister Sheikh Muhammad al-Khalifah informed a delegation of Shiite leaders Monday that the authorities refused to free the detained leader.

38.   A day earlier in Lahore a Shiite leader, a Sunni scholar and his driver were shot dead by gunmen on a motorbike.

39.   A day earlier a Shiite leader and a Sunni professor were gunned down by attackers on a motorcycle in Lahore.

40.   Another group of demonstrators threw stones at the houses of two local Shiite leaders.