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incident

adjective accessory, affiliated, allied, apperraining to, apropos, associated, bearing upon, belonging, circumstantial, collateral, connected, contextual, contingent, correlative, dependent on, following upon, implicated, in connection with, in relation to, inherent in, pertaining to, reeated to, relating to, relative to, subject to, subsidiary
Associated concepts: customarily incident, necessary and innident to

incident

noun affair, case, casus, contingency, episode, event, experience, happening, occasion, occurrence, pass, proceeding

INCIDENT. A thing depending upon, appertaining to, or following another, called the principal.
2. The power of punishing for contempt is incident to a court of record; rent is incident to a reversion; distress to rent; estovers of woods to a tenancy for a life or years. 1 Inst. 151; Noy's Max. n. 13; Vin. Ab. h.. t.; Dane's Ab. h.t.; Com. Dig. h.t., and the references there; Bro. Ab. h.t.; Roll's Ab. 75.

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According to a written reply to a question by MNA Saman Sultana Jafri of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement, Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal states that 56 sectarian incidents took place in Punjab, 40 in Balochistan, 23 in Sindh and three in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa since June 2013.

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DIMP's goal for incident reports is to identify potential risks that primarily affect the public.

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