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  • Members of the AVCC, (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnapping cases in the city of Karachi, are collecting their weapons from the AVCC armory in central Karachi in preparation of a night raid on the outskirts of the city searching for a kidnap suspect.
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  • Recruits of the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Elite Police Training Center, a commando and anti-terrorism academy on the outskirts of Karachi, are taking part to a raid simulation exercise involving the freeing of a hostage. The training center was founded by retired colonel Abdul Wahid Khan, a brave officer who served as a gunship helicopter pilot in the Pakistani Air Force and around the globe with the United Nations, but who's first task as a young army officer in 1979 was to train Afghan Mujahedeen to fight the Soviet Army, the very Mujahedeen that are today's Taleban.
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  • Recruits of the the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Elite Police Training Center, a commando and anti-terrorism academy on the outskirts of Karachi, are exercising at dawn. The training center was founded by retired colonel Abdul Wahid Khan, a brave officer who served as a gunship helicopter pilot in the Pakistani Air Force and around the globe with the United Nations, but who's first task as a young army officer in 1979 was to train Afghan Mujahedeen to fight the Soviet Army, the very Mujahedeen that are today's Taleban.
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  • Two suspected kidnappers are being questioned on the spot inside a police car by members of the AVCC (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) and by the local police force in Thatta, on the outskirts of Karachi, while on his search for a hostage during a fake ransom meet up with the criminals. The AVCC is a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnap cases.
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  • Recruits of the the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Elite Police Training Center, a commando and anti-terrorism academy on the outskirts of Karachi, are exercising and simulating extreme actions on a high tower located on the premises. The training center was founded by retired colonel Abdul Wahid Khan, a brave officer who served as a gunship helicopter pilot in the Pakistani Air Force and around the globe with the United Nations, but who's first task as a young army officer in 1979 was to train Afghan Mujahedeen to fight the Soviet Army, the very Mujahedeen that are today's Taleban.
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  • A member of the AVCC (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) is portrayed while at their headquarters in Karachi, Pakistan. The AVCC is a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnap cases in the city and its vicinity.
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  • A member of the AVCC (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) is portrayed while at their headquarters in Karachi, Pakistan. The AVCC is a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnap cases in the city and its vicinity.
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  • A member of the AVCC (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) is portrayed while at their headquarters in Karachi, Pakistan. The AVCC is a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnap cases in the city and its vicinity.
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  • A member of the AVCC (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) is portrayed while at their headquarters in Karachi, Pakistan. The AVCC is a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnap cases in the city and its vicinity.
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  • A kidnap suspect (center) is being questioned by two members of the AVCC, (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnap cases in the city of Karachi, Pakistan's main economic hub.
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  • SSP (Senior Superintendent of Police) Raja Umer Khattab, head of the anti-terrorism SIU (Special Investigation Unit) of the Karachi Police and one of Pakistan's most experienced terror experts, is portrayed in his office in the SIU headquarters in central Karachi, Pakistan. Mr Khattab was nearly killed by a suicide attack aimed at his assassination in 2008, returned to his job three months later and personally arrested the jihadist that had directed the attack.
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  • High-rise buildings mainly housing expensive apartments and shopping malls have grown very rapidly in Pakistan's main economic and financial hub, Karachi, under the recent leadership of Syed Mustafa Kamal, its mayor. Mr Kamal, 36, who was short-listed for the 2010 World Mayor Prize, is courting foreign investment, encouraging international ties, and boosting the city's tourism.
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  • Members of the Karachi Police are routinely patrolling the streets of the financial area of the city.
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  • A recruit of the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Elite Police Training Center, a commando and anti-terrorism academy on the outskirts of Karachi, is exercising on a high rope structure located on the premises. The training center was founded by retired colonel Abdul Wahid Khan, a brave officer who served as a gunship helicopter pilot in the Pakistani Air Force and around the globe with the United Nations, but who's first task as a young army officer in 1979 was to train Afghan Mujahedeen to fight the Soviet Army, the very Mujahedeen that are today's Taleban.
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  • A kidnap suspect is being detained for questioning by a member of the AVCC, (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnap cases in the city of Karachi.
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  • A member of the AVCC (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) is portrayed while at their headquarters in Karachi, Pakistan. The AVCC is a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnap cases in the city and its vicinity.
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  • A member of the AVCC (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) is portrayed while at their headquarters in Karachi, Pakistan. The AVCC is a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnap cases in the city and its vicinity.
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  • A member of the AVCC (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) is portrayed while at their headquarters in Karachi, Pakistan. The AVCC is a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnap cases in the city and its vicinity.
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  • Moinuddin Syed, 42, the AVCC (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) second in command, is portrayed while at their headquarters in Karachi, Pakistan. The AVCC is a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnap cases in the city and its vicinity.
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  • A member of the AVCC, (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnapping cases in the city of Karachi, is loading his Pakistani made G3 assault rifle in preparation of a night raid on the outskirts of the city searching for a kidnap suspect.
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  • Colonel Abdul Wahid Khan (center) is posing for a portrait inside the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Elite Police Training Center, a commando and anti-terrorism academy on the outskirts of Karachi. The training center was founded by retired colonel Abdul Wahid Khan, a brave officer who served as a gunship helicopter pilot in the Pakistani Air Force and around the globe with the United Nations, but who's first task as a young army officer in 1979 was to train Afghan Mujahedeen to fight the Soviet Army, the very Mujahedeen that are today's Taleban.
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  • A recruit of the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Elite Police Training Center, a commando and anti-terrorism academy on the outskirts of Karachi, is exercising and simulating an extreme action on a high tower located on the premises. The training center was founded by retired colonel Abdul Wahid Khan, a brave officer who served as a gunship helicopter pilot in the Pakistani Air Force and around the globe with the United Nations, but who's first task as a young army officer in 1979 was to train Afghan Mujahedeen to fight the Soviet Army, the very Mujahedeen that are today's Taleban.
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  • Moinuddin Syed, 42, the AVCC (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) second in command, is sitting at his desk in Karachi where he usually analyse information and prepare raids. The AVCC is a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnap cases in the city.
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  • Armed members of the AVCC, (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnap cases in the city of Karachi, are preparing to raid a cluster of houses on the outskirts of the city on their search for a kidnap suspect during a fake ransom meet up with the criminals.
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  • A member of the AVCC (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) is portrayed while at their headquarters in Karachi, Pakistan. The AVCC is a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnap cases in the city and its vicinity.
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  • Naveed Ahmed, 27, a young and ambitious member of the AVCC (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) is portrayed while at their headquarters in Karachi, Pakistan. The AVCC is a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnap cases in the city and its vicinity.
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  • A boy offering rides on his horse for a fee is walking alone along Clifton Beach, a renowned costal area near the centre of Karachi, Pakistan's main economic hub.
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  • Students at a large Madrassa (Islamic school) in North-West Karachi, Pakistan's main economic hub, are about to face end of the year examinations.
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  • Children of policemen living in houses near the AVCC (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) headquarters in central Karachi are playing on the street after a sprout of rain fell on the city.
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  • Young men are dancing on stage at a Coca Cola event organised at a McDonald's fast-food restaurant on Clifton Beach, a renowned costal area near the centre of Karachi, Pakistan's main economic hub.
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  • A kidnap suspect (left) is being detained for questioning by a member of the AVCC, (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnap cases in the city of Karachi, Pakistan's main economic hub.
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  • A kidnap suspect (right) is being detained for questioning by a member of the AVCC, (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnap cases in the city of Karachi, Pakistan's main economic hub.
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  • Naveed Ahmed, 27, (left) a young and ambitious member of the AVCC (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) is portrayed while taking a short break after an unsuccessful rescue operation in the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan's main economic hub, in Sindh Province. During the raid the police detained kidnap suspects and recovered the phone and SIM card used by the criminals to contact the hostage's family. The man however was not found on this occasion. The suspects have been brought to the AVCC headquarters in Karachi to be questioned. The AVCC is a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnap cases in the city and its vicinity.
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  • Naveed Ahmed, 27, (left) a young and ambitious member of the AVCC (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) is portrayed while waiting to leave for a night raid on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan's main economic hub, in Sindh Province. The AVCC is a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnap cases in the city and its vicinity.
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  • An advertisement portraying Naseem Hamid, 100-metres gold medal at the recent South Asian Federation Games in Bangladesh, is presented on a billboard standing along a busy road in Karachi, Paksitan. Naseem has become Pakistan's first woman to sprint to gold in the championship's 26-year history.
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  • Recruits of the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Elite Police Training Center, a commando and anti-terrorism academy on the outskirts of Karachi, are taking part to a raid simulation exercise. The training center was founded by retired colonel Abdul Wahid Khan, a brave officer who served as a gunship helicopter pilot in the Pakistani Air Force and around the globe with the United Nations, but who's first task as a young army officer in 1979 was to train Afghan Mujahedeen to fight the Soviet Army, the very Mujahedeen that are today's Taleban.
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  • Recruits of the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Elite Police Training Center, a commando and anti-terrorism academy on the outskirts of Karachi, are exercising at dawn. The training center was founded by retired colonel Abdul Wahid Khan, a brave officer who served as a gunship helicopter pilot in the Pakistani Air Force and around the globe with the United Nations, but who's first task as a young army officer in 1979 was to train Afghan Mujahedeen to fight the Soviet Army, the very Mujahedeen that are today's Taleban.
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  • Colonel Abdul Wahid Khan (right) is inciting young recruits during a boxing class at the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Elite Police Training Center, a commando and anti-terrorism academy on the outskirts of Karachi, are exercising and simulating extreme actions on a high tower located on the premises. The training center was founded by retired colonel Abdul Wahid Khan, a brave officer who served as a gunship helicopter pilot in the Pakistani Air Force and around the globe with the United Nations, but who's first task as a young army officer in 1979 was to train Afghan Mujahedeen to fight the Soviet Army, the very Mujahedeen that are today's Taleban.
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  • A night view of Karachi, Pakistan's main economic hub and its largest city, counting for over 18 million inhabitants.
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  • Moinuddin Syed, 42, the AVCC (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) second in command, is on his mobile phone giving instructions to his men during a night raid on the outskirts of the city of Karachi on their search for a kidnap suspect during a fake ransom meet up with the criminals. The AVCC is a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnap cases.
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  • Armed members of the AVCC, (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnap cases in the city of Karachi, are riding their vehicles in the city on their way to a night raid.
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  • Recruits of the the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Elite Police Training Center, a commando and anti-terrorism academy on the outskirts of Karachi, are being briefed on raids and security procedures. The training center was founded by retired colonel Abdul Wahid Khan, a brave officer who served as a gunship helicopter pilot in the Pakistani Air Force and around the globe with the United Nations, but who's first task as a young army officer in 1979 was to train Afghan Mujahedeen to fight the Soviet Army, the very Mujahedeen that are today's Taleban.
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  • A member of the AVCC (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) is portrayed while at their headquarters in Karachi, Pakistan. The AVCC is a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnap cases in the city and its vicinity.
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  • A member of the AVCC (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) is portrayed while at their headquarters in Karachi, Pakistan. The AVCC is a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnap cases in the city and its vicinity.
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  • A member of the AVCC (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) is portrayed while at their headquarters in Karachi, Pakistan. The AVCC is a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnap cases in the city and its vicinity.
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  • Muslim children are studying the Koran, Islam's holy book, at a large Madrassa (Islamic school) in North-West Karachi, Pakistan's main economic hub.
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  • A symbol signifying 'Allah', (right) is seen at a roundabout in central Karachi near a McDonald's fast-food restaurant sign. (left)
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  • A Muslim boy is waiting for breakfast at a large Madrassa (Islamic school) in North-West Karachi, Pakistan's main economic hub.
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  • A night view of Karachi, Pakistan's main economic hub and its largest city, counting for over 18 million inhabitants.
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  • SSP (Senior Superintendent of Police) Abdullah Sheikh, 42, the director of the AVCC (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) is portrayed while overlooking documents in his office in the AVCC headquarters in central Karachi, Pakistan's main economic hub.
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  • An armed member of the AVCC, (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnap cases in the city of Karachi, is riding in a police van in the city on their way to a night raid aimed at freeing a hostage and arresting the offenders.
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  • An armed member of the AVCC, (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnap cases in the city of Karachi, is sitting in a police van on the way to a night raid on the outskirts of Karachi, Pakistan's main economic hub.
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  • Truck drivers belonging to a Karachi-based company are sitting in their office. The company has been contracted by NATO to transport containers arriving to Karachi by ship to Afghanistan and other bases of NATO bases in the region. Many drivers have been killed on Afghan territory by insurgent's bandit attacks aimed at disrupting NATO's supplies. Some travel as far as Bagram Airfield, near Kabul, the Afghan capital.
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  • Karachi's habour, Asia's second largest, is NATO's main supply and logistical hub in South Asia. Here hundreds of ship containers are being reloaded onto trucks daily and then sent to Afghanistan and other bases of NATO bases in the region.
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  • Armed members of the AVCC, (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnap cases in the city of Karachi, are reciting prayers in their vehicle on the way to a raid on the outskirts of the city while searching for a kidnap suspect.
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  • Recruits are running during training exercise at the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Elite Police Training Center, a commando and anti-terrorism academy on the outskirts of Karachi. The training center was founded by retired colonel Abdul Wahid Khan, a brave officer who served as a gunship helicopter pilot in the Pakistani Air Force and around the globe with the United Nations, but who's first task as a young army officer in 1979 was to train Afghan Mujahedeen to fight the Soviet Army, the very Mujahedeen that are today's Taleban.
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  • Recruits are taking part in a raid simulation exercise at the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Elite Police Training Center, a commando and anti-terrorism academy on the outskirts of Karachi. The training center was founded by retired colonel Abdul Wahid Khan, a brave officer who served as a gunship helicopter pilot in the Pakistani Air Force and around the globe with the United Nations, but who's first task as a young army officer in 1979 was to train Afghan Mujahedeen to fight the Soviet Army, the very Mujahedeen that are today's Taleban.
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  • A member of the AVCC, (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnap cases in the city of Karachi, is portrayed while sitting inside their headquarters in center of the city.
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  • Recruits are exercising at a long-range shooting ground at the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Elite Police Training Center, a commando and anti-terrorism academy on the outskirts of Karachi. The training center was founded by retired colonel Abdul Wahid Khan, a brave officer who served as a gunship helicopter pilot in the Pakistani Air Force and around the globe with the United Nations, but who's first task as a young army officer in 1979 was to train Afghan Mujahedeen to fight the Soviet Army, the very Mujahedeen that are today's Taleban.
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  • A member of the AVCC (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) is portrayed while at their headquarters in Karachi, Pakistan. The AVCC is a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnap cases in the city and its vicinity.
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  • Members of the AVCC, (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnapping cases in the city of Karachi, are gathering on the outskirts of a suspected criminal hiding position in order to discuss the approach on the ground and to retain a strategic advantage on all possible escape routes.
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  • Armed members of the AVCC, (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnap cases in the city of Karachi, are sitting in their vehicle on the way to a raid on the outskirts of the city while searching for a kidnap suspect.
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  • An instructor of the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Elite Police Training Center, a commando and anti-terrorism academy on the outskirts of Karachi, is instructing recruits. On his t-shirt are printed the letters ATF, meaning Anti-Terrorism force, The training center was founded by retired colonel Abdul Wahid Khan, a brave officer who served as a gunship helicopter pilot in the Pakistani Air Force and around the globe with the United Nations, but who's first task as a young army officer in 1979 was to train Afghan Mujahedeen to fight the Soviet Army, the very Mujahedeen that are today's Taleban.
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  • Two snipers in mimetic disguise are practising at a long-range shooting ground at the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Elite Police Training Center, a commando and anti-terrorism academy on the outskirts of Karachi. The training center was founded by retired colonel Abdul Wahid Khan, a brave officer who served as a gunship helicopter pilot in the Pakistani Air Force and around the globe with the United Nations, but who's first task as a young army officer in 1979 was to train Afghan Mujahedeen to fight the Soviet Army, the very Mujahedeen that are today's Taleban.
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  • Recruits are exercising at the Shaheed Benazir Bhutto Elite Police Training Center, a commando and anti-terrorism academy on the outskirts of Karachi. The training center was founded by retired colonel Abdul Wahid Khan, a brave officer who served as a gunship helicopter pilot in the Pakistani Air Force and around the globe with the United Nations, but who's first task as a young army officer in 1979 was to train Afghan Mujahedeen to fight the Soviet Army, the very Mujahedeen that are today's Taleban.
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  • An armed member of the AVCC, (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnap cases in the city of Karachi, is raiding a hut on the outskirts of the city on his search for a kidnap suspect during a fake ransom meet up with the criminals.
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  • Two armed members of the AVCC, (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnap cases in the city of Karachi, are raiding a cluster of houses on the outskirts of the city on their search for a kidnap suspect during a fake ransom meet up with the criminals.
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  • An armed member of the AVCC, (Anti-Violence Crime Cell) a special police unit mostly involved in anti-terrorism operations and kidnap cases in the city of Karachi, is preparing to raid a cluster of houses on the outskirts of the city on their search for a kidnap suspect during a fake ransom meet up with the criminals.
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  • Now studying pedagogy and psychology, a young Ukrainian soldier named Vadim, 24, lost his left-arm and both legs when two improvised explosive devices (IEDs) hit the armoured vehicle he was driving in February 2015. He is portrayed while residing at the 'Ukrainian Scientific Experimental Institute for Prostheses and Rehabilitation' in Kharkiv, the country's second-largest city, in eastern Ukraine.
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  • Psychologist Valentina Eremicheva, 54, is leading a group therapy lesson at the 'Centre for Social and Psychological Rehabilitation' in the town of Dzerzhynsk, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine.
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  • A woman is being evacuated to a helicopter in Bakhmut, a town in eastern Ukraine’s conflict zone, carrying her to a better hospital in the city of Dnipropetrovsk. She was wounded when a sniper bullet hit the van she was travelling on in Zaitseve, close to the frontline, as she was bringing humanitarian aid to civilians alongside another volunteer, who was also injured.
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  • Julia Paevska is bringing presents and talking to teachers at a kindergarten in Myronivs’kyi, a small town near the frontline of eastern Ukraine.
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  • Julia Paevska is leading a first-aid course for soldiers at a military base in Myronivka, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine.
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  • Julia Paevska is leading a first-aid course for soldiers at a military base in Myronivka, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine.
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  • Vasilevich Kopylov, 75, (left) is standing next to his broken door with one of his neighbours, in the frontline town of Avdiivka, where he resides alone in eastern Ukraine.
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  • Ludmilla Palchick, 12, is holding her stepbrother of 18 months, Nikolas, while standing in a house that her family occupied in the town of Popasna, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine, after their own home was destroyed by a missile in 2014.
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  • Members of the charity ASAP, 'As Soon As Possible', are evacuating a soldier wounded by shrapnel to a helicopter in Bakhmut, a town in eastern Ukraine’s conflict zone, carrying him to a better equipped hospital in the city of Dnipropetrovsk.
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  • Oleg Tkachemko, 47, (centre) a Chaplin from the 'Good News Church' in Slovakisk, is praying with soldiers and volunteers after meeting them in the town of Maryinka, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine.
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  • Julia Paevska is hugging a girl attending kindergarten in Myronivs’kyi, a small town near the frontline of eastern Ukraine.
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  • Julia Paevska is visiting a kindergarten in Myronivs’kyi, a small town near the frontline of eastern Ukraine.
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  • Soldiers are practising aim with a tank near their base in Myronivka, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine.
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  • Julia Paevska is assisting a solder that fell on a sharp glass and wounded his left leg, inside the hospital in Bakhmut, a town in eastern Ukraine’s conflict zone.
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  • In the evening, members of ASAP are talking outside of their caravans, set up at the Mayorsk base near the frontline in eastern Ukraine.
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  • Julia Paevska is visiting a small military base named ‘zamok’, Ukrainian for ‘castle’, in Luhanske, between Ukraine-controlled Bakhmut and the separatist-held town of Debaltseve.
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  • Elena Mosiychuk, (nom the guerre Maliok, or ‘Baby’) a member of ASAP, is wearing her surgical gloves while seating in an improvised ‘warehouse’ for medicines, set up in an abandoned home in the village of Klynove, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine.
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  • The Commander of the 54th Mechanised Brigade of the Ukrainian army is riding a BMP (infantry fighting vehicle) in Myronivs’kyi, in order to reach his positions on the frontline with pro-Russia separatists.
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  • Julia Paevska is visiting a kindergarten in Myronivs’kyi, a small town near the frontline of eastern Ukraine.
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  • After loosing his right leg to a mortar round landing next to him in July 2016, Oleksandr Pivnev, 20, is undergoing rehabilitation practises at the 'Ukrainian Scientific Experimental Institute for Prostheses and Rehabilitation' in Kharvik, the country’s second-largest city, in the east. He was wounded after only three months of serving in the army. He took the oath at 17 and now wishes to return active in the army and work as an instructor for younger soldiers.
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  • A worried young girl, Zarina, 9, is standing by the entrance of her home in the town of Zaitsevo, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine.
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  • Three men are walking in front of the destroyed City Hall in Dzerzhynsk, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine.
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  • A public bus is using a temporary side road, constructed next to a collapsed bridge, laying in disrepair on the Kharkov-Rostov Highway near the city of Slavyansk, eastern Ukraine.
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  • Three men are walking in front of the destroyed City Hall in Dzerzhynsk, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine.
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  • A public bus is using a temporary side road, constructed next to a collapsed bridge, laying in disrepair on the Kharkov-Rostov Highway near the city of Slavyansk, eastern Ukraine.
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  • Members of ASAP are evacuating a soldier wounded by shrapnel to a helicopter in Bakhmut, a town in eastern Ukraine’s conflict zone, carrying him to a better hospital in the city of Dnipropetrovsk.
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  • Julia Paevska is assisting a soldier that fell on a sharp glass and wounded his right leg, inside the hospital in Bakhmut, a town in eastern Ukraine’s conflict zone.
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  • Julia Paevska is having a haircut in Bakhmut, a town in eastern Ukraine’s conflict zone.
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  • After loosing his right leg to a mortar round landing next to him in July 2016, Oleksandr Pivnev, 20, is undergoing rehabilitation practises at the 'Ukrainian Scientific Experimental Institute for Prostheses and Rehabilitation' in Kharvik, the country’s second-largest city, in the east. He was wounded after only three months of serving in the army. He took the oath at 17 and now wishes to return active in the army and work as an instructor for younger soldiers.
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  • Myronivs’kyi is a small town near the frontline of eastern Ukraine.
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  • Julia Paevska is checking the heartbeat of a solder that fell on a sharp glass and wounded his left leg, inside the hospital in Bakhmut, a town in eastern Ukraine’s conflict zone.
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  • The driver of a BMP (infantry fighting vehicle) is standing on top of it while on the frontline of Myronivs’kyi, where soldiers are building small makeshift bases and digging trenches to defend their positions.
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