January 1
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Four persons are killed and three
children sustain injuries when a bomb exploded inside a house
in the Mashkal area of Kharan district.
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January 2
|
At least three people are killed
and eight others sustain injuries in clashes between paramilitary
forces and Bugti tribesmen in Balochistan.
|
January 3
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Security forces (SFs) killed two
tribesmen and injured seven others in a shoot-out in the Dera
Bugti district.
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January 4
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Three people are killed and four
others sustain injuries during a clash between SFs and tribesmen
around the Sui area.
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January 7
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Suspected insurgents fired more than
20 rockets at paramilitary camps in the Machh area of Bolan and
Mand area of Makran division, killing at least one person.
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January 10
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One Frontier Corps personnel is killed
and two others sustained injuries in a gun-battle between tribesmen
and SFs in the Loti gas field area.
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January 12
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At least 15 people, including three
Frontier Corps personnel, were killed and three others injured
in an armed clash between the paramilitary force and armed tribesmen
in the Pirkoh area of Dera Bugti district.
In the provincial capital Quetta, suspected Baloch
insurgents blew up the railway track near the Airport road suspending
train services between Quetta and the border town of Chaman. Further,
suspected assailants fired two rockets from atop Jindran mountain.
However, no fatalities were reported. Separately, the FC personnel
arrested a wanted outlaw, Naimatullah, alias Nimko, in a raid
conducted in the Mand area of Turbat district. He was wanted in
a case of bomb attack on officials of the paramilitary force.
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January 14
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Paramilitary forces launched another
operation in the Marri area using helicopter gun-ships and heavy
weapons. Mir Balach Khan Marri, a member of the Balochistan Assembly,
informed that SFs had been lobbing mortars and rockets at the
small township of Kahan for the last two days in which 25 people,
mostly women and children, had been killed and several others
injured.
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January 15
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At least eight people were killed
in clashes between armed men and SFs in the Kahan area of Kohlu
district.
Two explosions were reported from the Wadh town
and a house was attacked with a hand-grenade in the Shahbaz town
of Quetta.
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January 16
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SFs killed three children in an attack
at Kahan and other adjacent areas of Balochistan province.
|
January 17 |
A bomb explosion was reported from
a Government employees' colony on the White Road in the provincial
capital Quetta. However, no loss of life or injuries was reported.
|
January 18
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One Frontier Corps personnel is killed
and another sustained injuries in a landmine explosion in the
Pirkoh area.
A powerful explosion was reported from Quetta.
However, no casualties were reported in this blast.
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January 19
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At least one person was killed when
unidentified men fired more than 20 rockets at SF camps in the
Machh area of Bolan and Mand area of Makran division.
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January 20
|
Jamhoori Watan Party spokesperson
Agha Shahid Hasan Bugti claimed that nine people were killed and
31 others injured in shelling on the town by SFs. He said paramilitary
forces started massive shelling on the town at 11.30am, in which
six children, two women and a man were killed and 23 others wounded.
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January 22 |
A bomb exploded in Quetta. However,
it did not cause any loss of life or damage to property. The device
which had been planted near a hotel in the cantonment area exploded
at 10.15pm. |
January 23
|
Former Chief Minister of Balochistan,
Sardar Attaullah Mengal, has claimed that Pakistani security forces
are using chemical weapons in the province. Mengal, who addressed
the media at the Karachi Press Club, supported his claim by showing
pictures of Baloch civilians who he said had been hit by chemical
weapons.
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January 25
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Six passengers were killed and five
others sustained injuries when a minibus hit a landmine at Kharcha
in the Dera Bugti district.
|
January 26 |
A bomb exploded at the Join Road in
the provincial capital Quetta police said. However, no loss of life
or injuries was reported. |
January 29
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A rocket exploded in the house of a senior official
of the Balochistan Government in the cantonment area of Quetta.
Police said the rocket fired from an unknown place hit the rooftop
of the house of Captain (retd) Niaz Mohammad Jaffar. However,
no loss of life or injuries was reported.
The Uch power plant was shut down
while operations of the Loti gas purification plant was affected
when significant portions of the pipelines supplying gas to the
two units were blown up in separate incidents in the Balochistan
province.
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January 31
|
At least one Frontier Corps personnel
was killed and four others sustained injuries in a landmine explosion
near Pirkoh gas plant in the Dera Bugti district.
|
February 1
|
Three persons are reported to have died when Frontier
Corps personnel returned fire during an attack on their outpost
in the Dera Bugti district.
|
February 2
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At least six people were injured on the third
day of a gun-battle between paramilitary forces and Bugti tribesmen
in the Dera Bugti town.
|
February 3
|
Baloch insurgents are reported to have fired over
270 rockets on the town of Dera Bugti, targeting communication
and national installations. Dera Bugti administration officials
said most of the rockets hit the Frontier Corps fort, its check-post,
civil colony and Government offices.
|
February 4
|
Six people, including two security guards, are
killed and 12 persons, including women and children, were injured
in a missile attack on the Sui town.
|
February 5
|
At least 14 people are killed and 19 injured when
a powerful bomb exploded on a passenger bus in the Mastung district.
The explosion occurred when the Lahore-bound bus, which was carrying
34 passengers, reached Kolpur, some 55 kilometers from Quetta,
capital of Balochistan.
|
February 10
|
Three members of a family, including two women,
are killed and four persons sustain injuries in a landmine explosion
near Sangsilla in the Dera Bugti district.
|
February 11
|
Four people, including three Frontier Corps personnel,
are killed and 15 others injured in three different incidents
in the Turbat and Kohlu districts.
|
February 12 |
A bomb exploded on the White Road
in Quetta, capital of Balochistan, damaging a building. No casualties
from the blasts were reported. |
February 15
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Three Chinese engineers and a Pakistani driver
are killed in Hub city, about 700 kilometers south of provincial
capital Quetta.
|
February 17
|
Three pipelines of the Loti and Pir Koh gas fields
are blown up and a driver of the Oil and Gas Development Corporation
was wounded when a landmine exploded in the same area.
|
February 22
|
Insurgents ambushed a military convoy at Pinjra
Pull, killing two soldiers and injuring four others.
|
February 24
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A Frontier Corps personnel and a tribesman are
killed in fighting near Dera Bugti.
|
February 25 |
Suspected insurgents are reported
to have targeted the residence of Livestock Minister, Mir Abdul
Qudoos Bizenjo, with rocket attacks at Quetta, capital of Balochistan
province. One person was killed and eight others sustained injuries
in the incident. Police said three rockets were fired on the official
residence of the Minister in the Railway Housing Society. One rocket
hit the guesthouse in the building, killing a villager who had come
to Quetta for treatment and injuring eight others. Another rocket
landed in the house but it did not explode. Bizenjo himself was
reportedly in Islamabad attending a course at the National Defence
College. A caller identifying himself as Azad Baloch and spokesman
for the BLA, told reporters that the BLA had carried out the attack.
|
February 27 |
A pipeline supplying gas to parts of the Sariab
area was blown up in Quetta. Following the blast which damaged
the pipeline, gas supply to several areas was suspended. A spokesman
for the Sui Southern Gas Company said the explosion caused serious
damage to the six-inch diameter pipeline.
|
February 28 |
Suspected insurgents fired rockets at a security
forces' checkpoint and a telecommunications building in separate
incidents. Three rockets landed in a field near a paramilitary
post in Dera Bugti, said District Coordination Officer Abdul Samad
Lasi. In a separate attack, insurgents fired two rockets at a
telecommunications tower in Bolan, southeast of provincial capital
Quetta, police official Ilahi Bakhsh said. The rockets missed
the tower but landed nearby, shattering windows in a building
at the tower's base. However no casualties were reported in these
incidents.
|
March 1 |
Insurgents are reported to have killed a pro-government
politician in Balochistan, hours after they blew up a gas pipeline
in the province. Pakistan Worker's Party Chairman Nasrullah Kakar
was killed in Bostan, 30 kilometers north of provincial capital
Quetta, by unidentified attackers. Balochistan Government spokesperson
Raziq Bugti said that Kakar had opposed nationalist forces and
was supporting President Pervez Musharraf's policies in the province.
|
March 3
|
Two girls, Mah-Noor Ejaz and Mussarat Nazir, were
killed and three other children sustained injuries in a hand-grenade
attack in the PTCL Colony area of Quetta.
|
March 9 |
A police constable and his eight-year-old
daughter were wounded during a grenade attack in Quetta, provincial
capital. |
March 10
|
At least 29 people are reported to have died during
a landmine explosion in the Dera Bugti district. A wedding party,
comprising some 35 people of a family, including women and children,
was en route to Rakhni from Bekar when their tractor-trolley hit
an anti-tank landmine near Dera Bugti.
|
March 15 |
14 people, mostly schoolgirls, were wounded when
a bomb exploded near a girls' college at Brewery Road in Quetta,
capital of Balochistan province. The bomb was planted in a store
adjacent to the college, police official Wazir Khan Nasir told.
The bomb was set off when the children were boarding a bus to
go home, he added.
|
March 16
|
Pakistan is holding a Syrian-born man with suspected
terrorism links, a Pakistani official said. The official gave
no further details, including when or where the man was detained.
Pakistani authorities had said in November 2005 that they were
trying to determine whether a man detained during a police raid
in Quetta was Mustafa Setmarian Nasar, an Al Qaeda-linked Syrian
native who holds Spanish citizenship. Nasar has had a $5 million
US bounty on his head and has been described by the US Justice
Department as a former trainer at Osama bin Laden's camps in Afghanistan
who helped teach extremists to use poisons and chemicals. US authorities
have said he is likely to be in Afghanistan or Pakistan. Media
reports have linked Nasar, also known as Abu Musab al-Suri, to
the 2004 commuter train bombings in Madrid, Spain, that killed
191 people, and to the July 7 attacks in London that left 56 dead.
A major power breakdown affected several districts
of the Balochistan province and its capital Quetta in the early
hours when suspected insurgents blew up a pylon of the Quetta-Sibi
transmission line and damaged two others.
|
March 17
|
One person, Nehal Khan, was killed during a landmine
explosion in a village in the Jaffarabad district.
|
March 18 |
There were two other bomb explosions in the provincial
capital Quetta, one of them near the house of Nawabzada Gazin
Marri, the son of Baloch nationalist leader Nawab Khair Bakhsh
Marri. However, no casualties were reported in these explosions.
|
March 19
|
Unidentified men fired upon three men picnicking
in the Pir Ghaib area killing two of them and wounding another.
Unidentified men killed a tribal elder, Haji Abdul
Quddus Khan Sanjrani, at Girdi Jangal bazaar in Girdi Jangal.
|
March 21
|
Gas supply to Punjab and the North West Frontier
Province was suspended from the Sui gas plant after a gas pipeline
was blown up in Doli, some 20km from the Sui township.
|
March 23
|
A man was killed and nine people, including two
children, were injured in a bomb blast at a public telephone booth
in the Kohlu town.
|
March 25 |
At least 57 suspected insurgents were reportedly
arrested for their alleged involvement in attacks on security
forces and Government installations in Balochistan. The police
detained some 57 suspects, including 24 arrested in a raid on
a camp run by the Marri tribe near the provincial capital Quetta,
city police officer Mujibur Rehman said.
|
March 26
|
Three persons were killed in an exchange of fire
between security forces and insurgents in the Peshbogi area of
Dera Bugti district.
Another insurgent was killed when his motorcycle
hit a landmine as he tried to escape after the shootout near Sui.
|
March 28
|
At least one person is reported to have been killed
in heavy fighting between SFs and insurgents in the Kohlu district.
|
March 29
|
A villager was killed when a landmine exploded
at Dera Murad Jamali.
|
March 30
|
One soldier was killed and four others sustained
injuries in a landmine explosion at Mullah Bakhsh village in the
Nasirabad district of Balochistan.
|
March 31
|
An employee of the Water and Power Development
Authority was killed and three others wounded in a landmine explosion
in the Mach area of Bolan district in Balochistan province.
|
April 1 |
In the provincial capital Quetta, Baloch insurgents
hurled a hand grenade into the house of a police personnel in
the Sariab Road locality wounding his daughter-in-law.
|
April 2
|
13 people, including nine SF personnel, were killed
and 28 others sustained injuries in a series of landmine blasts
and attacks on troops in various parts of Balochistan province.
|
April 4
|
At least seven personnel of the Frontier Corps
were killed and 11 injured in two landmine blasts in the Loti
and Ghori areas of Dera Bugti district in Balochistan province
on April 3 and 4, according to Nawab Akbar Bugti.
|
April 7
|
At least three persons were killed in landmine
blasts and exchange of fire between security forces and insurgents
in the Wadh area of Khuzdar district and Dera Bugti in Balochistan.
|
April 9
|
The Government banned the Balochistan Liberation
Army (BLA) after declaring it as a terrorist organisation for
its alleged involvement in terrorist activities. According to
evidence collected by the Federal Government, a notification said
the BLA was involved in sabotage activities, including rocket
attacks on national installations, civilian population and security
forces. It was also accused of laying landmines in various parts
of the province.
|
April 10
|
Two persons, identified as Ahmed Yar and Muhammad
Nawaz, was killed and 20 others sustained injuries in a bomb explosion
at Kohlu in the Balochistan province.
|
April 12
|
Two persons, identified as Mian and Shahil, are
killed and an equal number injured in a landmine blast in the
Sui area of Dera Bugti district in the Balochistan province.
|
April 16
|
One person is killed and a Major of the Frontier
Corps was wounded in an exchange of fire between security forces
and insurgents in the Toba Kakari area of Pishin district.
|
April 17
|
President Pervez Musharraf claims that the Government
had resolved the Balochistan issue "amicably" and no law and order
situation exists there anymore.
|
April 19
|
Unidentified men kill two soldiers, identified
as Fraz and Muhammad Murad, in the Awran area of Quetta.
|
April 23 |
Three people, including an alleged terrorist,
were injured in a bomb blast at a bus stand in Quetta, the provincial
capital. Police said the blast occurred as the accused, identified
as Mohammad Saeed Khilji, tried to enter a bus. "The accused is
an Afghan national and belongs to the Babul area in Afghanistan,"
Balochistan Inspector-General Police Choudhury Mohammad Yaqoob
said.
|
April 25
|
A suspected Afghan bomb-maker and four members
of his family are killed when an explosive device he was building
blew up in their home on the outskirts of Quetta.
|
April 30 |
Police in Quetta, capital of Balochistan province,
have arrested two Afghans suspected of planning to carry out suicide
bombings. The two men were arrested on the basis of information
secured from another suspected suicide bomber, Syed Muhammad,
the channel quoted Quetta's Senior Superintendent of Police (Operations)
Ghulam Muhammad Dogar as saying. Muhammad was arrested while attempting
to blow himself up on Quetta's Circular Road a few days ago.
|
May 2
|
One person is killed and two others sustain injuries
when two landmines exploded in Dera Bugti and Chattar area of
Nasirabad district.
Jamhoori Watan Party chief Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti
claims that at least 19 SF personnel were killed and six others
injured in a landmine blast in the Sarposh area of Dear Bugti
district.
|
May 6
|
Gunmen riding on a motorcycle killed a former
regional Taliban leader in the Balochistan province. Mullah Samad
Barakzai, who was head of the Department for Promotion of Virtue
and Prevention of Vice in Helmand during the Taliban's rule, was
killed near a seminary in Quetta, said Qazi Abdul Wahid, an area
police chief. Barakzai, who is also known as Maulvi Yar Muhammed,
had become a supporter of President Hamid Karzai's Government,
Wahid said adding, "We have made no arrest, but it seems that
he has been killed by Taliban".
|
May 7
|
At least three people are killed and seven others
sustain injuries in four landmine explosions in different areas
of Balochistan.
|
May 11
|
Six police personnel of the Anti-Terrorist Force
are killed and 13 others sustain injuries in five powerful bomb
explosions at the firing range of the Police Training College
in Quetta. The banned Baloch Liberation Army claimed responsibility
for the blasts.
Four Bugti tribesmen are killed and five others
wounded in an armed clash between two factions of the Mandwani
and Kalpar Bugtis in the Lanjo area of Dera Bugti district.
|
May 14
|
Nawab Akbar Bugti claims that three Frontier Constabulary
personnel were killed and five injured in clashes with his supporters
in Barboz.
|
May 21
|
A tractor trolley carrying wheat crop hit a landmine
near Patokh village in the Dera Bugti district, leaving the driver
Wahid Bakhsh Bugti dead and one Abdul Majeed Bugti injured.
|
May 25
|
Two villagers are killed when a landmine blew
up a bullock cart near Lehri in the Sibi district of Balochistan
province. "It was an anti-tank mine planted on the mud-road,"
officials said.
|
May 27
|
Six SF personnel are killed and eight others sustain
injuries during clashes with insurgents in the Dera Bugti area.
|
May 30
|
Four people are killed in landmine blasts in the
Dera Bugti district. The blasts occur in the Habib Rai, Putikh
and Jodi areas.
|
May 31 |
A bomb exploded near the city branch of the National
Bank of Pakistan in Quetta, capital of Balochistan province. Windowpanes
of the bank and nearby buildings were damaged. However, no casualty
was reported.
|
June 1 |
Police arrested a LeJ activist from the Sariab
area in Quetta, capital of Balochistan province. Habibullah Zehri
was reportedly wanted in 28 sectarian cases and had a Rs 1 million
reward on his head. Inspector General of Balochistan Police Chaudhary
Yaqoob told a press conference that Zehri joined the banned LeJ
in 1997 and subsequently went to Afghanistan where he met the
outfit's chief Riaz Basra. Since then, he has been involved in
sectarian attacks in Quetta and other parts of the country, Yaqoob
added.
|
June 2 |
Police seized a large quantity of arms from a
house on the outskirts of the provincial capital Quetta and arrested
a man, identified as Mohammad Azam, who allegedly smuggled the
weapons from Afghanistan.
|
June 6
|
Gas supply to vast areas in the country is suspended
late evening when the main compressor plant at Sui was closed
after the main pipeline feeding the plant was blown up by insurgents.
|
June 9
|
11 people are injured when a bomb exploded in
a restaurant in the industrial town of Hub.
|
June 11
|
Five unidentified insurgents are killed and 11
injured when SFs retaliate to an attack at Dera Bugti.
|
June 12 |
Five people were killed and 17 sustained injuries
in a bomb blast at a hotel in Quetta, capital of Balochistan province.
An improvised explosive device weighing four kilograms and placed
under a bicycle reportedly exploded at Gul Balochistan Hotel on
the Sariab Road at 10:35am. Mir Shoaib Nausherwani, the Balochistan
Home Minister, blamed the Balochistan Liberation Army for the
blast. However, Sardar Akhtar Mengal, the Balochistan National
Party President, accused intelligence agencies of masterminding
the blast in order to defame the Baloch leaders.
|
June 13
|
At least five insurgents are killed and seven
others arrested during an operation launched by the Frontier Corps
in the Dera Bugti district.
|
June 15
|
Unidentified gunmen attack a paramilitary vehicle,
killing one soldier.
|
June 16
|
Two civilians are killed in a landmine blast in
the Nelakh vicinity in Sui.
|
June 19
|
President Pervez Musharraf is reported to have
claimed that life is returning to normal in Dera Bugti and nearby
areas as terrorists have been eliminated from Balochistan.
|
June 25 |
Unidentified militants fired three rockets in
Quetta, capital of Balochistan province, injuring a civilian.
One of the rockets hit a house in front of the Combined Military
Hospital (CMH), the second hit a hotel on Jinnah Road while a
third landed on Muno Jan Road in the Kili Arbab area. "The first
rocket hit a residence located in front of CMH on Nizamuddin Lane.
The boundary walls of the house were damaged and a man was injured,"
a source told. Police officials said that they had defused another
rocket found on Muno Jan road.
|
June 27
|
A Frontier Corps personnel, identified as Imran
Shah, is killed and another injured in a landmine blast in the
Dera Bugti district.
|
June 29
|
Three insurgents are killed and two others sustain
injuries in a gun-battle with SFs in the Nal area of Kohlu district.
Two civilians, identified as Khuram and Mushataq
Ahmed, were shot dead in separate incidents by unidentified insurgents
in the Quetta district.
|
July 4
|
Unidentified gunmen shot dead Abdullah Samad Achakzai,
general secretary of the Pashtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party, and his
bodyguard in an ambush at Shella Bagh in the Qilla Abdullah district.
|
July 5 |
Four persons including a woman and a child were
seriously wounded as a powerful bomb exploded at Qili Spain in
Quetta. Another bomb explosion was reported in Gadai.
|
July 7
|
Insurgents claim to have shot dead at least seven
SF personnel in separate clashes in Balochistan.
At least 14 civilians were wounded when a bomb
exploded at the crowded Suraj Ganj bazaar in Quetta.
|
July 8-9
|
At least 23 insurgents are killed in a series
of strikes against their hideouts in the Sangsilla and Bamboore
areas of Dera Bugti district.
|
July 13
|
The British Government declares the BLA as a terrorist
organization.
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, while talking to
the media in Islamabad, rules out general amnesty for “miscreants”
in Balochistan.
|
July 14
|
Suspected insurgents claim to have killed at least
14 SF personnel in two separate incidents in the Dera Bugti district.
|
July 15
|
Insurgents claim to have killed at least nine
soldiers in various parts of the Dera Bugti district.
|
July 17 |
The SF arrested a Taliban commander, Nawa Killi,
and 42 Afghans during raids conducted in different areas of Quetta
city.
|
July 26
|
Unidentified gunmen shot dead Wing Commander (retd.)
Mian Maqbool Ahmed Rehbar, principal of the Mastung Cadet College,
at his official residence in Mastung.
A spokesperson for the Bugti tribe told reporters
via satellite phone from an undisclosed location in the Dera Bugti
district that five security force personnel have been killed and
14 others injured in separate incidents of landmine blasts by
insurgents during the past four days.
|
July 28 |
Unidentified gunmen shot dead two civilians, Munir
Ahmed and Zahoor Ahmed, at Wahdat Colony in Quetta. Separately,
at least 21 people, including a woman and a child, were wounded
in twin bomb explosion
|
July 30
|
Three soldiers, Mohammad Taslim, Ali Mohammad
and Wali Bakhsh, are killed and three others sustain serious injuries
when their vehicle hit a landmine at Kahan in the Kohlu district.
|
August 4 |
A boy was injured when a bomb exploded in a residential
area on Wafa Road in Quetta, capital of the Balochistan province.
|
August 6
|
A suspected suicide bomber riding a bicycle is
killed at Hub.
|
August 12
|
Two people are killed in a bomb blast near Chaman,
close to the Afghan border.
|
August 13 |
A bomb explosion was reported near the house of
an official, Mazhar Rasheed Khokhar, in the Wahdat Colony of provincial
capital Quetta. However, no one was hurt in the blast. Another
bomb exploded in the Shahbaz Town of Quetta near the house of
an officer of the State Bank without causing any damage. Police
said that two separate bomb blasts occurred in the Patel Bagh
and Khojak Road areas. One of the bombs was planted inside a dustbin
while the other was placed near the wall of a girls' convent school.
The wall of the school was damaged.
Police arrested at least 50 suspects from different
areas of Quetta in connection with the gas pipeline blast that
suspended gas supply to Quetta, Pishin and Ziarat remained without
gas for at least four hours.
|
August 15
|
At least eight people, including three security
force SF personnel, are killed and 19 others sustained injuries
in nine explosions and armed clashes in different areas of Balochistan.
Four more bombs exploded in the provincial capital
Quetta and two in the Kalat and Mach areas.
Security agencies are reported to have arrested
29 Taliban suspects, including a local 'commander', during a raid
on a private hospital in Quetta, capital of the Balochistan province.
Sources told that agencies raided Al Khair Hospital on Quetta's
Zargoon Road. "Ten of the Taliban were under treatment at the
hospital, while the reaming Taliban were in the hospital to meet
them," said sources. The suspects were being treated for wounds
sustained in fighting in Afghanistan's Kandahar province in recent
weeks, said a hospital official.
|
August 16
|
Security forces recovered 2,000 handmade bombs,
bullets and Kalashnikovs near Bhamboor.
|
August 17
|
Three soldiers, Amjad Ali, Tasawar Hussain and
Matloob Hussain, are killed and seven others sustain injuries
when a vehicle carrying SF personnel hit a landmine in the Karmo
Wadh area of Kohlu district.
Two personnel of the Frontier Corps, Kashmir Khan
Afridi and Abdul Khaliq Afridi, are killed and five others injured
when their vehicle hit a landmine in the Bhamboor area of Dera
Bugti district.
|
August 24
|
Two soldiers are killed and three others sustain
injuries in an exchange of fire between insurgents from the Marri
tribe and SFs in Kohlu.
16 people, including two girls, are wounded in
two bomb blasts at Model Town close to a busy bus stand and headquarters
of the Frontier Corps in Quetta.
The first-ever tribal Jirga (council) of its kind
in the history of Dera Bugti in the Balochistan province held
at the Jinnah Stadium unanimously announces to abandon the “Sardari
system” (a feudal system) in the Bugti tribe.
|
August 25
|
Four insurgents and two SF personnel are killed
and an officer wounded as the SFs used helicopter gun-ships to
launch another operation in parts of the Kohlu district.
|
August 26
|
Nawab Akbar Bugti, leader of the Bugti tribe and
President of the Jamhoori Watan Party, is killed in a massive
military operation in the Bhamboor Hills, an area between the
cities of Kohlu and Dera Bugti in the Balochistan Province. As
many as 21 army commandos and 37 insurgents are also killed in
the same operation, which targeted 50 to 80 of Nawab Bugti’s closest
family members and top commanders.
|
August 27
|
At least three persons are killed on as protests
spread in the Balochistan province and Baloch-populated areas
in Karachi after Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti’s death in a military
operation a day earlier.
Around 450 students of the Balochistan University,
Bolan Medical College and Polytechnic Institute are arrested for
violence while the four-party Baloch National Alliance and the
Baloch Students Organisation has announced a 15-day mourning period
for Nawab Bugti. The MMA announced a countrywide strike on September
1.
|
August 28
|
Violent protests against the killing of Nawab
Akbar Bugti continue across Balochistan province and in Karachi,
with one death and dozens of injuries reported. Riots erupt in
the Baloch-populated areas of Karachi in Sindh province, with
violence also spilling over into other areas.
Police detain some 100 Baloch students, including
Gulzar Baloch, general secretary of the Baloch Students Organisation,
bringing the total detained in provincial capital Quetta to approximately
550.
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said that Nawab Akbar
Khan Bugti was not the target in the military operation.
|
August 29
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At least five persons are killed in a bomb blast
as violence continued in the Balochistan province for the third
consecutive day after funeral prayers for the slain Baloch leader
Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti. The blast in Hub, an industrial town close
to the Sindh border, also wounded ten people.
Military regime spokesperson Maj. Gen. Shaukat
Sultan said in Islamabad that there is no chance of retrieving
the body of Nawab Akbar Bugti from the cave in which he died for
four to five days. He said the bodies of three officers and four
soldiers along with Rs 100 million and $96,000 cash, two satellite
phones, documents, eight AK-47 rifles and some rockets is recovered
from the rubble of the cave.
Six important Marri commanders and 2,000 militants
surrendered to district authorities in Tadri, a town 140 kilometers
from Kohlu in the Balochistan province.
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August 30
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Mobs protesting the killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti
cut off the main highway connecting Quetta, capital of Balochistan
province, to Karachi at four points and another heading west to
Iran as the number of arrests in four days rose to nearly 700.
Baloch National Party chief Attaullah Mengal warns
in a statement that the strikes would continue until the Government
handed over Bugti’s body to his family.
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August 31
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The body of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti is retrieved
from a cave in the Kohlu district as efforts to recover the bodies
of other tribesmen continued.
A high-level meeting chaired by Chief Minister
Jam Muhammad Yousuf is informed that rioters had set ablaze or
damaged 93 Government buildings, 87 shops, 31 houses, 28 banks
and 37 vehicles over the past four days in various parts of the
province, including capital Quetta.
Baloch leader Sardar Khair Baksh Marri describes
the killing of Nawab Bugti as target killing. He said he fears
for the life of his own son, Balach Marri, because the Government
had the ‘mistaken notion’ that Marri was the epicentre of all
anti-state and terrorist activities, and Balach Marri was an ‘icon
of resistance’.
A high-level meeting chaired by Chief Minister
Jam Muhammad Yousuf was informed that rioters had set ablaze or
damaged 93 Government buildings, 87 shops, 31 houses, 28 banks
and 37 vehicles over the past four days in various parts of the
province, including capital Quetta. The meeting also reviewed
the law and order situation in the province, one day ahead of
today's countrywide strike called by the Alliance for the Restoration
of Democracy.
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September 1
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Leader of the Baloch tribe, Nawab Akbar Bugti,
killed on August 26 by security forces, was buried at his ancestral
graveyard at Dera Bugti in Balochistan on September 1. The funeral
prayer was led by a cleric from the Bugti tribe who identified
Bugti's remains, and no heirs of Bugti were present at the funeral.
Officials said that Bugti's relatives were contacted for attending
the funeral, but they demanded handing over the body to the heirs.
Bugti's relatives reportedly wanted an open funeral for Bugti
in Quetta and refused to attend the funeral after their demand
for being given the body was turned down.
Two paramilitary personnel were killed and several
people injured during the general strike observed by the combined
opposition against the Government on various issues, particularly
the killing of Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Bugti.
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September 3
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Six people were injured in a hand grenade attack
on the Jail Road in Quetta.
A bomb blast damaged a gas pipeline in the mountainous
area of Lakpass, cutting supplies to thousands of homes but causing
no injuries.
Frontier Corps personnel is reported to have seized
195 kilograms of explosives dumped at a place in the Zhob area.
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September 4
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Three persons from a Bugti sub-tribe are killed
in an ambush in the Naseerabad district.
President Pervez Musharraf told Baloch politicians
and other leaders that the Government had sealed six points through
which arms and money were being sent into Balochistan. He said
that sophisticated weapons were being funneled to Bugti areas
from abroad through Rahimyar Khan, Sanghar, Jacobabad, Waziristan,
Zhob and Chagai and the sealing of the points had stopped arms
supplies.
Gas supply to the Sui plant was affected when
insurgents blew up the main pipeline near Sui.
Principal Officer of the US Consulate in Lahore,
Bryan David Hunt, said that America is not in anyway involved
in the incidents happening in Balochistan, while the killing of
Nawab Akbar Bugti is an internal affair of the country and it
is the responsibility of the Government to settle it the way it
likes.
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September 5
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A member of the Bugti tribe is killed in a landmine
blast in the Sangsila area of Dera Bugti.
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September 6
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A wheel-jam and shutter-down strike was observed
throughout Balochistan on the call of All Parties Conference in
protest against the killing of Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Bugti,
military operations in Kohlu and arrests of hundreds of political
workers.
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September 8
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At least six people were killed and 17 others
sustained injuries in a bomb blast in the Rakhni Bazaar area of
Barkhan district.
One personnel of the Airport Security Force was
wounded in a grenade attack on a camp near Gwadar airport.
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September 10
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Power supply to 15 of the 29 districts of Balochistan,
including capital Quetta, was disrupted after four pylons supporting
two transmission lines in Mach were blown up by the insurgents.
According to the Quetta Electric Supply Company (Qesco), saboteurs
planted explosives round four pylons of 220kv Uch-Sibi-Quetta
transmission line and 132kv Sibi-Mach-Quetta line and detonated
it. The blast blew up the huge towers plunging more than half
of Balochistan province into darkness.
At least 18 people were injured when a bomb exploded
on the Prince Road in Quetta. The bomb was reportedly in a packet
left on a bicycle parked near a restaurant.
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September 11
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A bomb blast was reported near a post office in
the Kharan town.
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September 12
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Three soldiers were wounded when their vehicle
struck a landmine in the Loti area of Dera Bugti district.
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September 13
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A landmine exploded in the Loti area near Dera
Bugti, wounding three soldiers who were clearing a roadside minefield.
Five rocket explosions were reported from the
Mach town. Officials said that the rockets were fired from nearby
mountains but none of them caused any damage as they landed in
a hilly area near the Mach railway station. No casualty was reported
in the attack.
A bomb explosion was reported from Khuzdar. Further,
another blast was reported from the Kharan town.
Police claimed to have arrested 14 suspected Taliban
operatives in a raid on a private hospital in Quetta, capital
of Balochistan province, on September 13. Police arrested the
14 during a raid on Pakistan General Hospital on Zargoon Road.
"Six of the arrested Taliban were injured while the rest had come
to see them at the hospital when the police arrested them," official
sources said, adding that the suspects were from Afghanistan's
Helmand province, and that some of them had been admitted to the
hospital after they were injured in a clash. Taliban 'group commander'
Mullah Ghaffar was among those arrested. Balochistan Police chief
Chaudhry Mohammed Yaqoob, however, refused to confirm the arrests.
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September 17
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A bomb blast outside a Punjabi settler’s house
injured two children and three women in the Khuzdar district.
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September 18
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Three civilians and two police personnel were
wounded when a time bomb exploded in a crowded market in Quetta.
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September 22
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Suspected insurgents fired four rockets at a Frontier
Corps (FC) check post in the Wadh area of Khuzdar district.
FC personnel have seized arms and ammunition worth
PKR 140 million from insurgents in the Dera Bugti district since
January 2006, Col. Muhammad Naeem told Quetta-based journalists
who visited Dera Bugti on September 22.
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September 23
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Insurgents blew up a natural gas pipeline, cutting
supply to thousands of homes. There were no casualties when the
pipeline, supplying gas to suburban areas of provincial capital
Quetta, was hit by explosives, said police official Mohammad Arif
Shah.
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September 26
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A bomb blast occurred in a residential area at
Hub. Police said the explosive device was armed with a timer.
However, no casualty was reported.
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September 28
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Unidentified persons fired two rockets in Quetta.
While one rocket landed at an isolated place in the Brewery area,
the other fell in the foothills of Murdar mountain in Marriabad.
No loss of life or injuries was reported.
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October 1
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A 12-year-old boy was killed in a landmine blast
in the Sibi district.
A tanker, carrying oil for allied forces in Afghanistan,
was blown up near the customs house in the border town of Chaman.
An explosion at Barori road in Quetta, shattered
windowpanes of the nearby buildings. A homemade bomb device was
planted near a house in Faisal Town in the provincial capital,
which exploded. The blast made a crater and shattered windowpanes
in nearby buildings but no casualties were reported in the incident.
An unidentified person lobbed a hand-grenade on
the house of one Mohammad Jan Qabrani in the Faisal Town area
of Quetta. Another explosion occurred near the house of Major
(retd) Safiuulah Khan, head of an NGO. However, no loss of life
or injuries was reported in these incidents.
Police arrested nine Taliban suspects during a
raid on Al-Khidmat Hospital, a private hospital, in Quetta. Six
of the arrested were reportedly injured in a fight in Afghanistan
and were under treatment at the hospital, while three others were
there to look after the injured.
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October 2
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A bomb blast shattered windows and damaged walls
at a police radio control room in the Khuzdar town.
Over 35 commanders of the Marri tribe running
fugitive camps surrendered before authorities in Kohlu. They handed
over anti-aircraft guns, rocket launchers and other heavy arms
to the authorities. The commanders from 12 branches of the Marri
tribe were running four fugitive camps, PTV reported.
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October 3
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Three SF personnel were killed and two others
sustained injuries when their convoy was ambushed in the Bhombor
area of Kohlu district. The SF convoy was reportedly going to
the Kahan area to defuse landmines planted by tribesmen in a vast
area to restrict their movement. When it reached Bhombor mountain
range on the border of Dera Bugti and Kohlu districts, unidentified
people attacked it, using heavy weapons, including rockets.
100 Marri tribesmen have surrendered with their
weapons and renounced insurgent activities. They reportedly belonged
to the Murghlani, Mehkani and Thangiani sub-clans of Ghazini Narri
clan of Marri tribe and had announced support for the Government.
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October 4
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Unknown assailants blew up a gas pipeline using
a bomb at Mangli. However, there was no loss of life or injuries.
Five rockets were fired at a check-post of the
Frontier Corps in the Kahan area of Kohlu district, without causing
any casualty.
A bomb explosion was reported from the Sumangli
area.
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October 5
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Suspected insurgents fired rockets at security
check-posts in the Kohlu district, while a bomb blast in Mustung
damaged windows of nearby buildings. However, there were no casualties
in any of these incidents.
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October 7
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Police arrested over 45 suspected Taliban operatives
during a series of raids in the Balochistan province near the
Afghan border, Reuters reported. The arrests were made in the
provincial capital Quetta and in a raid on a hotel in the nearby
town of Kuchlak. "We have arrested around a dozen suspects from
Kuchlak and 33 from Quetta," said Qazi Abdul Wahid, a senior police
official in Quetta.
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October 10
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A gas line and water pipeline was reportedly
blown up by suspected insurgents in the industrial area of Pir
Koh, resulting in the suspension of water and gas supply to adjacent
areas. The Balochistan Liberation Army claimed responsibility
for the blast.
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October 11
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Police arrested 17 suspected Taliban operatives
in two raids on buildings in the Pashtoonabad locality of Quetta.
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October 12
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Two bomb blasts in Quetta damaged Government
building windows, but caused no casualties. The first blast damaged
the boundary wall of a water pumping station in the Kharotabad
area, while the second blast near the civil secretariat damaged
office windows. Another bomb exploded in the remote town of Naushki
near a tile factory, but there were no casualties, a local police
official said.
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October 15
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Gas supply was suspended to the industrial estate
and other areas of the Hub township after the main pipeline near
the Civic Centre was blown up.
A hand grenade was thrown into the house of one
Mohammad Asif in the Shafi Colony near the Balochistan University.
However, no loss of life or injuries was reported.
An explosion occurred in the official residence
of a jailer in Zhob, without causing any damage.
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October 16
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai told The Associated
Press that Mullah Omar, the fugitive Taliban leader, is hiding
in Quetta, capital of Balochistan province.
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October 18
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Security forces arrested Baz Khan Marri, a ‘commander’
of the insurgents belonging to the Marri tribe, along with his
three associates after an exchange of fire in the Fazil Chal area
of Kohlu district.
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October 19
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A police personnel was injured in a hand-grenade
attack in Quetta.
Two bomb blasts were reported from Gwadar and
Zhob.
Baz Khan Marri, a Marri militant commander, arrested
in an injured condition on October 18 from Kohlu district, is
reported to have died at the hospital the next day.
Suspected insurgents fired rockets and gunshots
on the Quetta-bound Chiltan Express near Panir railway station
in the Bolan district. However, an alert engine driver drove the
train into a nearby tunnel, thereby averting a major disaster.
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October 23
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Suspected insurgents blew up a 14-inch diameter
pipeline at Sui, suspending the supply of gas to the plant from
well No 8. Industrial zones in Sindh and Punjab had been affected
because of low gas pressure after the blast.
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October 24
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A bomb blast occurred in the the Wahdat Colony
area of Quetta. However, no casualty was reported. Another blast
was reported from the Nushki town in which a house was partially
damaged. In other incidents, suspected insurgents damaged a power
pylon after detonating an explosive device in the Dasht area of
Mastung district while armed men fired rockets at a Frontier Corps
check-post in Mand, a small town bordering Iran in the Turbat
district.
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October 25
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Security forces fired rockets in two clashes with
insurgents in the Dera Bugti district but there were no casualties.nsurgents
exploded bombs attached to three legs of an electricity pylon
near Quetta.
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October 26
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Insurgents are reported to have opened machinegun
fire from surrounding mountains when the Rawalpindi-bound Quetta
Express reached Mashkaf town, 100 kilometers south of the provincial
capital Quetta, injuring two persons. They also launched two rockets
but they did not hit the train.
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October 28
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A bicycle bomb exploded outside a police barracks
in Quetta, killing at least one person and injuring 12. The blast
reportedly occurred near Global Plaza on the Police Line in the
highly sensitive area of Quetta Cantonment.
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October 29
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Two rockets fired from an unknown place in the
west of Quetta city with brief interval causing panic among the
residents of these areas. However, no casualty was reported. The
rockets landed in open areas near the Jinnah Market and Chaman
railway crossing.
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October 31
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Two Frontier Corps soldiers were killed and another
sustained injuries when a landmine exploded in the Pirkoh area
of Dera Bugti district. According to official sources, Frontier
Corps personnel were defusing landmines planted by the insurgents
in the Doie Wadh area, some 15 km north of the Pir Koh gas field,
when a vehicle was hit by a landmine, killing soldiers Javed Afzal
and Mohammad Saeed.
Rockets were fired on the village of a former
speaker of the Balochistan Assembly near Dera Murad Jamali.
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November 2
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Two police officers and a civilian were killed
in a bomb blast on Shahra-e-Gulastan in front of the Inspector
General’s office in Quetta.
Quetta Police defused an 18 kilogram explosive
device from an abandoned bike in front of a local hotel in the
crowded premises of the Liaquat Bazaar.
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November 5
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Police raided different areas of Quetta and arrested
about 100 suspects in connection with a car bomb explosion in
front of the Central Police Office on November 2. According to
police sources, most of the suspects are Uzbeks from northern
Afghanistan. “We have arrested around 70 Uzbeks and handed them
over to the authorities concerned for interrogation,” said Senior
Superintendent of Police (Quetta) Qazi Abdul Wahid.
Security forces arrested Dilshad Bugti, an alleged
militant, from the Sui area of Dera Bugti district along with
six kilograms of explosive substance and detonators.
Obaidullah Afghan, a spokesman for the Kandahar-based
Mirwais Baba Movement, told journalists at Chaman in Balochistan
on satellite phone that this group was behind the November 2-Quetta
blasts. He said that if blasts in Afghanistan were not stopped
more explosions would be carried out in Pakistan.
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November 6
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Police arrested a suspected member of the Balochistan
Liberation Army, Bakht Ali Bugti, in a raid at a house in the
BMC Colony of Zarghoon Town in Quetta. They also seized five Klashnikovs,
two hand grenades, three timers of 107 rockets and a huge quantity
of explosive material from his hideout.
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November 8
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Unidentified men hurled a hand grenade on the
house of a bank employee, Irfan Baig, in the Jinnah Town area
of Quetta. However, there was no loss of life or property.
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November 10
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Unidentified assailants fired a rocket at the
Balochistan Assembly building in Quetta. No loss of life or injuries
was reported.
A bomb blast occurred outside a Government official’s
office in the Kharan district. Separately, a vehicle of the security
forces was damaged due to a landmine explosion in Dera Bugti.
No loss of life or injuries was reported in these incidents.
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November 13
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At least two persons, including an eight-year-old
girl, were killed and 15 others sustained injuries when a powerful
bomb exploded outside a fast food centre in the Smmungli area
of Quetta.
A soldier was killed and another wounded during
an encounter between security forces and unidentified militants
in the Kahan area of Kohlu district. “We carried out this attack,”
Mir Azad Baloch of the Baloch Liberation Army said in a telephone
call to the press club in Quetta. Soon after the attack, the security
forces opened retaliatory firing, killing two militants.
A rocket was fired towards the Turbat town. However,
there was no loss of life or property.
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November 15
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Power supply to Jamshoro was disrupted after four
pylons supporting high-power transmission lines were blown up
by insurgents in the Hub area.
A bomb explosion occurred in the Khuzdar area.
However, no loss of life or injuries was reported.
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November 16
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woman and two girls were injured when a bomb exploded
in the Railway Colony area of Mach.
The train link between Quetta and the rest of
Pakistan was suspended when suspected insurgents blew up the main
rail track near Mach.
Security forces seized 17 rockets and other explosive
material in the Shaiban region of Chaghi.
A shutter-down strike and a black-day were observed
in Quetta and others parts of Balochistan on a call of the National
Party to protest against the visit of President Pervez Musharraf
to Gwadar and Turbat. More than 100 political activists were arrested
for “forcing people to close their shops” in Quetta.
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November 17
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President Pervez Musharraf said that at least
60 terrorist camps have been raided and destroyed in Balochistan.
Speaking to nazims (chief elected official of local government)
and notables in Gwadar, he said terrorists trained at the camps
had taken part in anti-state activities like bomb blasts and blowing
up of electricity pylons, gas pipelines and railway tracks.
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November 21
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The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has directed
all banks and development financial institutions to freeze the
accounts of two granddaughters of the slain Baloch leader Nawab
Akbar Khan Bugti because of their alleged links with the Balochistan
Liberation Army (BLA), according to Daily Times. According to
an SBP notification, the Interior Ministry has declared that the
daughters of Rehan Bugti, Mrs. Zamour Domki and Mrs. Zawazboh,
have links with the BLA. Sources said that all of Mrs. Domki and
Mrs. Zawazboh’s accounts had been frozen. They said the Interior
Ministry had also contacted Interpol to trace BLA accounts abroad.
Police arrested 47 suspected Taliban operatives
from various areas in Quetta, capital of Balochistan. "They are
the real Taliban. They had illegally crossed into Pakistan a week
ago," Salman Syed, the Capital City Police Officer said. According
to sources, police arrested 28 of them from the Pashtoonabad area.
They had been living in a rented house which was being used as
a seminary. One of them was found in injured condition and was
shifted to the Civil Hospital. Four other suspects were detained
from the Saddar area. Another group of 15 Taliban activists were
arrested from Kuchlak, a small town about 25 km from Quetta. Officials
said that the Taliban suspects belonged to southern parts of Afghanistan,
including Zabul, Uruzgan, Kandahar and Helmand provinces.
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November 22
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Power supply to vast areas in the Kohlu and Barkhan
districts was suspended after a pylon of the main transmission
line was blown up near Barkhan.
The Sariab police have registered a treason case
against Nawabzada Jamil Bugti, son of slain Baloch leader Nawab
Akbar Bugti, for speaking against the army and the government
in his press conference in October 2006.
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November 23
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Heavy fighting between security forces (SFs)
and insurgents was reported from the Karmo Wadh and Tartani areas
of Kohlu district. Clashes erupted when insurgents attacked a
vehicle of the SFs in the Tartani area and fired rockets on a
post in Karmo Wadh. Insurgents hiding in mountains fired a number
of rockets on the vehicle, but it was not hit. Troops present
in the area rushed to the place and returned fire. Insurgents
also attacked a SF post in Karmo Wadh using rockets and heavy
weapons. After foiling both the attacks, SFs launched a search
operation in Karmo Wadh, Tartani and Pir Koh areas of Kohlu and
Dera Bugti districts. There were no reports about casualties in
the fighting. A caller identifying himself as Azad Baloch and
claiming to be spokesperson of the banned Baloch Liberation Army
said that the attacks in Tartani and Karmo Wadh areas had caused
heavy casualties.
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November 24
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Police arrested a suspected Afghan terrorist
while he was coming to Quetta and seized explosives and other
material. Deputy Inspector General of Police (operation) Ghulam
Qadir Thebo told a press conference that the arrested man, Shah
Khan, belonged to Afghan army. He had illegally crossed into Pakistan
three days ago through an unfrequented route. Police also recovered
15 rolls of high intensity explosives, 30 pencil timers, 29 detonators
and wire from his possession.
The Anti-Terrorist Force conducted a raid in the
Mach area of Bolan district and arrested four suspected activists
of the banned Baloch Liberation Army.
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November 26
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Security forces and insurgents exchanged fire
at Kohlu. Armed insurgents used rockets and automatic weapons
to attack SFs deployed in the Tartani area of Kohlu district.
The exchange of fire continued for more than an hour, after which
the insurgents escaped.
A hand-grenade was lobbed at a private residence
of a Pakistan Air Force officer in the Samugali Housing Scheme
area of provincial capital Quetta. The grenade exploded in the
backyard of the house and there were no casualties.
The Balochistan National Party (Mengal) president
Sardar Akhtar Mengal has said that security agencies have arrested
over 350 leaders and workers of the party from different parts
of the province to stop a long march planned by the party. Speaking
at a press conference in the Hub town on November 26, he said
the government was scared of BNP-M's 'Lashkar-i-Balochistan' long
march from Gwadar to Quetta on November 30.
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November 27
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Three persons were wounded in a landmine explosion
in the Dera Bugti district. The landmine was reportedly planted
near the main gate of the house of Wadera Saeed Khan Masoori Bugti.
A bomb exploded near the house of a government
employee in Mastung town. However, there were no casualties.
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November 28
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Balochistan National Party (BNP-Mengal) president
Sardar Akhtar Mengal has been detained in a farmhouse in Sakran,
which has been declared a sub-jail.
A heavy exchange of fire between insurgents and
security forces was reported from Nushki following an attack on
a check-post on the RCD highway. An encounter between security
forces and armed insurgents was also reported from the Kahan area.
At least a dozen rockets were fired on positions
of the security forces. However, no loss of life or injuries was
reported.
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November 30
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Police arrested seven suspected Taliban activists
during a raid on a house in the Pakhtunabad area of Quetta. One
of the suspects was injured in the raid. Those arrested were identified
as Maulvi Amir Mohammad, Maulvi Anuddin, Naseer Ahmad, Mohammad
Yousuf, Maulvi Amir Hamza, Abdul Wahid and Abdul Ahad. They belonged
to Kandahar, Zabul and Urzgan in Afghanistan.
A main pipeline supplying gas to the Sui purification
plant from the field was blown up. Suspected insurgents reportedly
blew up the pipeline from at least five points.
Unidentified militants fired rockets at a camp
of security forces in the Bakhtiarabad area of Sibi district.
Official sources said that at least nine rockets landed and exploded
in the area but none of them was able to hit their target. The
security forces retaliated by firing rockets towards the positions
of the attackers. However, no casualty was reported.
Security agencies arrested seven suspects in connection
with the planting of four explosive devices on the railway tracks
between Quetta and Nushki. The train service between Quetta and
Zahidan could not be restored till November 30-night as the railway
tracks that had been blown up in the Glangoor area of Chagai district
a day earlier were being repaired.
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December 2
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A seventeen-year-old boy, Mohammad Younus Baloch,
was killed and three other people were injured when a bomb exploded
at Nushki. Police sources said the powerful bomb had been planted
on an electricity pylon 200 yards away from the fort of the Chagai
Militia, a wing of the Frontier Corps, on the Mess Road.
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December 4
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A soldier, identified as Abdul Waheed, was injured
in a landmine explosion in the Kahan area of Kohlu district. According
to official sources, the soldier was going to his camp when the
anti-personnel landmine blew up.
Insurgents fired rockets on some areas in Nushki
and Mastung. Three rockets landed in an open place in Nushki,
while an equal number exploded in Mastung. However, no loss of
life or injuries was reported.
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December 8
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Unidentified assailants threw a hand grenade inside
the house of a civilian at Panjgur district, killing a 10 year-old
young boy and injuring four others, including two women. Police
said that the boy had been playing with a toy inside his house
when the grenade detonated, killing him on the spot and injuring
two female relatives.
Gas supply was suspended to Mastung and adjoining
areas in the Balochistan province after a pipeline was blown up
near the township. According to police, an explosive device planted
under the pipeline exploded, damaging over two feet of the pipeline.
A powerful explosion was reported from the provincial
capital Quetta. Sources said that it was a rocket fired from the
Brewery area but it was not clear where it exploded.
A bomb blast damaged a government rest house
in the Muslim Bagh district. However, there were no reports of
casualties.
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December 10
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A man was killed and his mother suffered injuries
in a landmine explosion near Punjabi Dob village in the Jaffarabad
district. Police said that Maroof Bugti and his mother were on
their way home when their cart hit a landmine.
A police patrolling party reportedly came under
attack in the same area. The attackers escaped after a brief crossfire.
However, no loss of life or injuries was reported.
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December 13
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Unidentified assailants blew up
a gas pipeline at Mastung in the Balochistan province on, suspending
the supply of gas to surrounding areas.
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December 15
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A bomb explosion occurs beneath
a bridge on the RCD Highway near the Mastung township in Balochistan.
However, no casualty is reported.
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December 19
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A former commander of the insurgents,
Bangan Khan, who was a close associate of slain tribal chief Nawab
Akbar Bugti before surrendering to the government in July 2006,
dies during a landmine blast in the Ghot Habib Rai area of Dera
Bugti district, while his four associates are injured. BLA claims
responsibility for the attack.
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December 20
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14 civilians are injured when
a bomb went off at a cycle stand near the Quetta police station
in Balochistan.
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December 21
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At least seven persons, including
Afghan nationals, are arrested in connection with December 20
blast wounding 11 persons in Quetta.
An internal assessment made by
the UNICEF has accused Pakistani authorities of preventing aid
groups from helping more than 80,000 people - many of them acutely
malnourished children - who were displaced by fighting in Balochistan.
The Government seeks intervention
of the UN to help avert nutrition crisis among 84,000 displaced
persons in Balochistan.
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December 23
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A bomb placed in a garbage box
explodes on New Najmuddin Road in Quetta in Balochistan province.
Unidentified assailants lob an
explosive device at a hotel on Jinnah Road in Quetta.
Armed men abduct four persons
from the Hamidpur Police area in Jafferabad district when they
were going to Uch power plant to meet their friend.
Three traders are kidnapped from
the Nautal area of the Bhag Police area when they were going to
Sindh from Balochistan’s Bhag area in a car.
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December 24
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Suspected insurgents blew up a
pipeline supplying gas to Dera Bugti from Loti Gas Field. Gas
supply to Dera Bugti and adjoining areas area suspended after
the explosion.
Insurgents blew up two electricity
towers in the Dera Bugti, suspending electricity supply to the
area.
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December 26
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The Balochistan National Party
(Mengal) chief, Sardar Akhtar Mengal, is sent to jail till January
5 by an ATC in the army personnel hostage-taking case.
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December 27
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A bomb blast damages a bridge
on the RCD highway near Tarkhali area. Traffic between Wadh and
Karachi remains suspended for some time following the explosion.
A bomb explosion damages a sewerage
pipeline in the Saddar police station area of the Hub town.
A vehicle coming from the Loti
gas field area is blown up near Sui when it hit a landmine.
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December 29
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Pakistani troops backed by military
helicopters dismantle several bases of the insurgents in Balochistan.
At least eight helicopters reportedly took part in an operation
against the tribesmen at Zain Koh near Dera Bugti, said a security
official.
Police arrests a tribal militant
wanted in connection with bomb blasts, and also killed his accomplice
on the outskirts of provincial capital Quetta.
Unidentified assailants lob two
hand grenades into the servant quarter of the Saddar police station
and Quetta District Jail, but there are no casualties.
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December 31
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Two security force personnel are
injured when armed insurgents opened fire at a vehicle of the
Makran Scouts near Mand in the Balochistan province. A vehicle
carrying personnel of the Makran Scouts was on its way to Turbat
from Mand, a border town between Pakistan and Iran. When it crossed
Mand, armed men open fire at it and in the ensuing encounter,
two soldiers were wounded.
Two electricity pylons are blown
up, suspending power supply to Dera Bugti.
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