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Balochistan Timeline - 2010

Date

Incidents

January 01

Unidentified militants attacked two NATO tankers travelling through Balochistan to supply fuel to NATO troops in neighbouring Afghanistan.

Law enforcement agencies claimed the capture of an agent of the Indian spy agency, R&AW in Qila Saifullah District.

January 05

The Rockets targeted the Balochistan Governor House and provincial Civil Hospital in Quetta, injuring one person, in the night.

January 10

The driver of a truck carrying goods for NATO forces in Afghanistan sustained serious injuries when a roadside bomb went off in Baghbana area near Khuzdar town.

January 16

Four non-Baloch persons were killed in different parts of Balochistan in an apparent backlash of January 15 killings of two Baloch nationalists. Three of the killings have been confirmed as target killings. Two Punjabi settlers were killed in Ghosiabad Police Station area in the Satellite Town area of Quetta. A Punjabi settler was shot dead in Khuzdar District. Meerak Baloch, a spokesman for the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) called the offices of various newspapers and accepted responsibility for killing the three Punjabi settlers.

January 18

Unidentified assailants exploded a bomb in the building of the Works and Services Department (W&SD) at Khuzdar, damaging the building.

January 21

Two Security Force (SF) personnel were injured when unidentified militants attacked a security checkpost in Naseerabad area. They also abducted two SF personnel.

January 22

Five persons, including a Police official, were injured when unidentified motorbike riders hurled a hand grenade at a Police party.

January 23

At least two Army personnel were killed and two others were injured after unidentified motorcyclists opened fire on a group of soldiers in a market in Khuzdar.

January 25

One Frontier Corps (FC) trooper was killed and 10 others were injured in a bomb blast in a crowded market of the Pakistan-Iran border town of Panjgur.

January 26

Seven persons - including the District Police Officer (DPO) - were injured in a remote-controlled blast targeting a crowded bus station in Jaffarabad District in Balochistan. The device - which had been fitted to a motorbike - went off as DPO.

January 27

A roadside bomb explosion partially damaged an oil tanker at Lakpass, some 20 kilometres off Quetta.

January 28

Two persons were killed and another 20 others were injured when a bomb exploded in Jaffarabad District of Balochistan.

Two Punjabi settlers were shot dead in separate incidents in Khuzdar and Labela Districts.

At least two people - Shakir Ali and Shahbaz Ahmed - were injured after unidentified masked men - on a motorbike - hurled a hand grenade at a shop owned by a non-local in Noshki District.

January 29

Unidentified assailants opened fire on pilgrims, killing three Shias and injuring seven others, in a sectarian attack in Quetta in Balochistan.

 

 

 

 

 
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