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1
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January 3
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A bomb exploded and three rockets
were fired targeting sites in Quetta. However, no loss of life
or injuries was reported. The rockets were fired at a highway
police checkpoint in suburban Quetta near Hazaar Ganji at about
11:00pm (PST). Earlier, a bomb exploded behind the Balochistan
Board of Intermediate and Secondary Education building at about
8:00pm. Capital City Police Officer, Pervez Rafi Bhatti, said
the attacks were in reaction to the 15 arrests made in Quetta
and other parts of Balochistan after the Meezan Chowk bomb attack
last month in which 11 people died.
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2
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January 24
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A bomb exploded in the ministers'
block of the Balochistan Civil Secretariat in Quetta without causing
any damage. It was the second bomb blast in the ministers' block
in a month. Earlier, a bomb exploded at a washroom of the ministers'
block on December 18, 2004.
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3
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January 26
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A rocket landed in the Askari
Park area of Quetta, without causing any damage.
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4
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January 27
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23 Afghans were arrested in Quetta
on suspicion of their links with the Taliban and al Qaeda. The
suspects, who included a former deputy governor and ex-police
chief of Kabul, were arrested from three places in Quetta, said
Balochistan Police chief, Mohammed Yaqub. He said the detainees
had held "important positions during Taliban's tenure" in Afghanistan,
and "we suspect that some of them have close links with al Qaeda."
Yaqub disclosed that the suspects were detained during raids in
Kharotabad, Pashtun Abad and Nawan Kili.
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5
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January 28
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At least two bomb explosions and
as many rocket attacks were reported from Quetta. However, no
casualties were reported. Police said a powerful bomb exploded
in the Zarghoon road residence of Munir Ahmed, an official of
the Pakistan Railways, who has recently assumed his charge after
being transferred from Sibi. When police teams were inspecting
the site of the blast, another explosion occurred near the Officers
Club of Pakistan Railways next to Quetta railway station.
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6
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January 28
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Unidentified miscreants are reported
to have fired two rockets targeting the Quetta cantonment.
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7
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January 30
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A bomb explosion was reported
from the Askari Park area. However, no casualty was reported.
A second blast partially damaged an oil tanker in the Kuchlak
suburb of the city. Further, Police are reported to have defused
a third bomb planted inside the Askari Park.
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8
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February 1
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Security Forces (SFs) are reported
to have escaped possible losses when two rockets targeting a key
garrison in Quetta failed to explode after their timers malfunctioned.
"We got information that two rockets fitted with timers had been
placed on the western by-pass in the suburbs of Quetta… Luckily
the timers did not work, otherwise the rockets could have caused
damage in the cantonment area," said city police chief Pervez
Rafi Bhatti. Nobody has claimed responsibility for the failed
attack, added Bhatti.
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9
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February 1
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One person was killed and nine
others sustained injuries during two bomb blasts in Quetta. City
Police Officer, Pervaiz Rafi Bhatti, said that the person killed
in an explosion was a saboteur, identified as Bahar Khan, and
blew himself before planting the explosive in a busy center.
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10
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February 1
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Nine persons were wounded when
a bomb exploded near the Quetta Railway Station. The Balochistan
Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for the blast.
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11
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February 8
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A bomb blast destroyed a railway
track in Bakhtiarabad, railway controller, Aziz Ahmad told. Another
bomb blast hit a rail track in Killi Almo, on the outskirts of
provincial capital Quetta, at around the same time, said railway
official Mohammad Jawaid. However, there were no casualties in
these explosions.
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12
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February 11
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Police claimed to have arrested
an alleged terrorist, identified as Hussain Marri, and recovered
120 kg of Russian-made explosive material after an exchange of
fire in the Marri camp area. Deputy Inspector General of Police,
Rafi Pervez Bhatti, said that Hussain, a bodyguard of veteran
Baloch nationalist leader, Nawab Khair Bukhsh Marri, was an activist
of the BLA.
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13
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February 15
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Police arrested a Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
(LeJ) terrorist, identified as Faisal Rafiq, from Quetta. Balochistan
Inspector General of Police, Choudhury Mohammed Yaqoob, said "we
suspect he was preparing to carry out a suicide attack against
Shias."
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14
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February 18
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Two suspected terrorists of the
outlawed Sunni group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), blew themselves
up with hand grenades during an exchange of fire with the police
at Ghilzai road in Quetta.
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15
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February 18
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A teenager was killed and seven
persons of a family, including three women, were wounded during
an explosion at the Haji Gabi road area in Quetta. "A rocket fired
from unknown direction hit the house of one Aslam Jan in Killi
Durrani at Haji Ghabi road besides damaging another three houses
and a shop," said Union Council member, Salam Khan Durrani. However,
the police denied any rocket attack.
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16
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February 22
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Police arrested three alleged
terrorists and recovered three rockets from their possession during
a raid conducted at Marri camp.
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17
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February 22
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Police arrested a suspected Taliban
activist from the Kuchlak area. A Kalashnikov rifle with ammunition,
a mobile phone and a Thuraya satellite phone were seized from
his possession.
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18
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February 25
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Two successive bomb explosions
occurred in Quetta. However, no loss of life or injuries was reported.
Police said one of the bombs exploded on the Samungli road near
Saddar police station and the second blast occurred near Pishin-spot.
Meanwhile, unconfirmed reports said six explosions occurred in
different localities of Quetta, including Patel Bagh, Wahdat Colony
and Shahbaz town.
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19
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February 26
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Unidentified persons hurled a
hand grenade at the building of Radio Pakistan Quetta. However,
no casualty was reported, police said, adding that the windowpanes
of some rooms of the building were destroyed in the explosion.
Later, another explosion occurred near Railway Quarters at Zarghoon
road. A local device along with timer for the blast was used,
sources said.
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20
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February 27
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Police seize a huge arms cache
and explosive material, including 43 rockets, and unearth a private
jail and torture cells while arresting 20 suspects during an operation
targeting the Marri camp in the outskirts of Quetta.
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21
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March 1
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An explosion was reported from
the Wahdat Colony area of provincial capital Quetta. However,
no loss of life or injuries was reported in these incidents.
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22
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March 2
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Two bomb blasts occurred at Quetta.
However, no loss of life or injuries was reported. Police said
terrorists planted an explosive device near the house of Police
Constable, Riaz Hussain, which exploded, damaging the boundary
wall.
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23
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March 3
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Four bombs exploded in the provincial
capital Quetta, without causing any damage.
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24
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March 4
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A LeJ terrorist, Ramzan Mengal,
is reported to have been arrested from Quetta for his alleged
involvement in a number of sectarian killings in the capital.
Mengal was arrested from the New Saraib area, Capital City Police
Officer, Rafi Pervez Bhatti, said. He was responsible for a number
of sectarian killings between 2001 and 2004 and carried a Rupees
1 million bounty on his head.
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25
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March 6
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Two bombs exploded in Quetta,
without causing any damage.
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26
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March 8
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Over 25 people have reportedly
been arrested in connection with bomb blasts, rocket-firing incidents
and targeting vital installations in different parts of the Balochistan
province. They were detained during recent police raids on the
Marri camp and Killi Kambrani, Quetta, Kalat and Sibi districts,
Inspector General of Police (IGP), Choudhury Yaqoob, told a press
conference in the provincial capital Quetta. During interrogation,
the IGP claimed, the suspects had confessed to their involvement
in terrorist activities and revealed the presence of terrorist
training camps in Kohlu district.
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27
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March 10
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Two successive explosions occurred
in Quetta. However, no loss of life or injuries was reported.
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28
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March 18
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An explosion occurred in Quetta
near the Al-Gailani road. However, no casualties were reported.
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29
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March 19
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A bomb exploded on the Smangli
Road in Quetta without causing any damage.
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30
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April 9
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Police arrested three people and
seized a huge cache of weapons from them including hand grenades,
kalashnikovs and pistols in Quetta. Superintendent of Police Wazir
Khan Nasir said the weapons had been used in bomb blasts and rocket
firing incidents in the province. Among the weapons seized were
100 hand grenades, 204 explosive rods, 486 bullets, 97 rocket
fuses, 4,400 kalashnikov bullets, three kalashnikovs, 15 kalashnikov
magazines, two pistols, four pistol magazines, 26 remote control
circuits, 48 hand grenade fuses and 300 detonators.
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31
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April 12
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The Police seized a 100mm Russian-made
rocket from the Killi Aminabad area of Quetta.
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32
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April 19
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Two bomb explosions occurred in
Quetta without causing any damage.
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33
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May 8
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Police claimed to have foiled
terrorist attacks and seized a large cache of weapons, including
rockets and hand-grenades, during a raid conducted at Eastern
bypass in Quetta. The seizure included one rocket launcher, five
rockets, 25 hand-grenade and seven detonators. However, no arrests
were made.
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34
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May 9
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In Quetta, a device exploded near
a mosque on the Jaint Road and another exploded along the wall
of a playground on Spani Road. However, no loss of life or injuries
was reported in these blasts.
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35
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May 13
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A bomb exploded on the premises
of the heavily guarded district court in Quetta. However, no loss
of life or damage was reported.
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36
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May 27
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There were three bomb explosions
in Quetta. However, no casualties were reported. Police said a
bomb exploded near the Balochistan Irrigation Department, while
there were two explosions in the Pakistan Telecommunications Corporation
Limited Colony on Saryab Road, damaging windows of the adjacent
buildings. No group has claimed responsibility for these explosions.
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37
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June 14
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A bomb explosion occurred in Quetta.
However, no casualty was reported from the incident site. A bomb
planted near a school in Jinnah Town exploded around 11.15pm (PST)
causing panic among the people.
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38
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June 19
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A bomb exploded near a shop at
Jinnah Town. However, no loss of life or injuries was reported.
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39
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June 23
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The police seized a huge quantity
of explosive material and rockets during a raid in Quetta. The
seizure included 48-kg high power T&T material, 14 rockets, 97
detonators, 27 time pencil bombs, seven disposable rocket launchers,
a map showing the important installations in Quetta and other
weapons. However, no arrests were made.
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40
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June 25
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Two rockets were fired at the
residence of Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Muhammad Yousuf in
Quetta. However, no casualties were reported in the attack.
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41
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July 14
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Four bomb blasts were reported
from Quetta. While a hand-grenade was lobbed at the building of
the office of the Director-General of Health Services, another
grenade targeted the office of excise department on Sariab Road
after five minutes. The third targeted the head office of the
Post Master General Balochistan in the same area. The location
of fourth explosion could not be immediately ascertained.
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42
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July 15
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Two unidentified motorcyclists
opened fire at Dr. Nadir Khan, a Professor of Medicine at Bolan
Medical Complex, and injured him when he was on his way to a hospital
in Quetta. Police said that Prof. Khan, from the Shia sect, could
have been attacked for sectarian reasons.
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43
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July 18
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In a suspected sectarian incident,
two unidentified assailants shot dead the owner of a school, Syed
Tahir Reza Rizvi, and injured his wife in Quetta.
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44
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July 28
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114 suspected militants are reported
to have been arrested in Quetta, in the ongoing crackdown on Islamist
extremism. "We have rounded up around 114 people from all over
the city," disclosed Pervez Zahoor, a Senior Superintendent of
Police, adding that hate material, including books and computer
discs, were also recovered. Most of those who have been arrested
reportedly belong to the outlawed Sunni group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan
(SSP).
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45
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July 30
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Quetta Police defused a 10-kg
bomb at Aalmo Chowk on Airport Road. The bomb, attached to a bicycle,
was meant to target a security convoy, which passed the site within
minutes of the bomb being defused.
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46
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August 10
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A Shia businessman, Syed Anwar
Abdi, was shot dead by two motorcycle-borne assailants in a sectarian
incident at Quetta.
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47
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August 15
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At least seven bombs exploded
and more than 10 rockets were fired at Kohlu, Mach and Quetta
in the Balochistan province during the last 24 hours but causing
no casualties. Suspected Baloch insurgents are reported to have
targeted, among other installations, a police station and railway
tracks.
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48
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August 18
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A cache of arms and ammunition
was seized from the Punchapai area during an operation by the
Frontier Corps (FC). The FC personnel recovered the cache, hidden
underground in an uninhabited area, which included 81 mortar bombs,
five hand grenades, one rocket launcher, one rocket, one 12.7mm
gun and 170 bombs.
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49
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September 14
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In a sectarian incident, unidentified
assailants shot dead a Shia man, Ejazul Hasan, in Quetta.
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50
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September 20
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Three bomb blasts were reported
from Quetta. However, no one was injured in these explosions.
The first bomb, planted in the Killi Qambrani area, exploded at
7:50pm (PST) while another exploded after 50 minutes at Pod Killi
Chowk. A third explosion occurred near the residence of provincial
Minister Mir Asim Gaillu Kurd in the Railway Housing Society area.
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51
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October 25
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A rocket attack was reported from
the cantonment area of Quetta. However, it did not cause any damage.
A rocket landed in the residential area near Chiltan Market damaging
an under-construction apartment and some cars. In another incident,
police recovered a live rocket from the Killi Gul Mohammad area.
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52
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October 26
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A Shia teacher, Murid Abbas, is
killed on his way to school in Quetta.
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53
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October 30
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Saboteurs fired a rocket at the
Khuzdar cantonment area of Quetta. Police sources said that unidentified
men had fired a rocket from the mountains in the west of the township
targeting the office of an intelligence agency.
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54
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November 1
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SFs are reported to have killed
a foreign al Qaeda suspect and arrested another in Quetta. "Security
forces had an encounter when they raided a house [at Sirki Road]
in Quetta on Tuesday. They captured a foreigner and killed another
and they may be Al Qaeda operatives," Information Minister Sheikh
Rashid told. "They are Arabs but their nationality is not yet
known," Rashid added. Security agencies are reportedly trying
to establish if one of the men is a wanted Syrian national, Mustafa
Setmariam Nasar alias Abu Musab Al Suri, who has a bounty of $5
million. Nasar is an Al Qaeda trainer at terrorist camps in Afghanistan
and an expert in using poisons and chemicals. He is allegedly
also linked to the Madrid and London bombings.
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55
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November 7
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A rocket attack was reported from
the Satellite Town area. However, no loss of life or injuries
was reported.
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56
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November 20
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The police seized weapons from
the suburbs of capital Quetta and arrested one person. Police
raided the Killi Qamrani area and seized 13 shells of 82 MM, one
rocket launcher, 10 shells of RPG and some ammunition.
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57
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December 6
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The insurgents planted explosives
on the track in Sariab area. Ghulam Rasool, Deputy Controller
of Pakistan Railways, informed that the blast delayed a freight
train but the damaged track was repaired in about three hours
and passenger trains were not disturbed.
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58
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December 9
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Police seized an anti-aircraft
gun and arrested a man from a house near the airport in Quetta.
Addressing a press conference, Senior Superintendent of Police,
Ghulam Mohammad Dogar, informed that a police team raided a house
in Killi Jumma Khan near the Quetta airport and seized an anti-aircraft
gun along with 350 rounds and also arrested one person, identified
as Ghousuddin.
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59
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December 13
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Two rocket explosions were reported
from the cantonment area. The first rocket landed in an open place
close to the golf course of Quetta Club, while the second exploded
near Madressah road soon after. However, no loss of life or injuries
was reported.
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60
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December 16
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Balochistan Police have reportedly
detained more than 250 suspects in the last two days in connection
with the increasing incidence of sectarian violence in the province.
Quetta Range Deputy Inspector General of Police, Salman Syed,
told that about 221 suspects were arrested in Quetta, capital
of Balochistan, only. Around 12 incidents of targeted killing
have been reported this year in which 10 people were killed and
two were injured. Three people have been killed in separate incidents
in this month so far.
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61
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December 21
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Two rocket attacks were reported
from Quetta. However, no casuality or loss of property was reported.
Official sources said the first rocket was fired at around 9.35pm
in an open area on the Sirki Road. The other rocket, fired about
half and hour later, exploded at a place in the cantonment area.
Meanwhile, reports from Harnai said that two bomb explosions occurred
near the railway station but caused no damage.
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