Sadeq Ganji (died 1990), also spelled Sadegh Ganji, was the director of the Iranian Cultural Centre in

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(Khana-e-Farhang-e-Iran). He was assassinated in December 1990, reportedly becoming the first prominent Iranian figure to be killed in sectarian violence in Pakistan that had affected the country for over two decades. The assassination was carried out by Sheikh Haq Nawaz Jhangvi, a member of the hardline Sunni militant group

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. Jhangvi was found guilty of Ganji's murder by the anti-terrorism court of Pakistan in 1991 and was sentenced to death. He was executed in March 2001.

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