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Incidents
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January 28
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Unidentified people destroyed
a gas pipeline to Lahore in the Punjab province, suspending gas
to more than half of the city. A bomb planted beside the pipeline
– 18 inches in diameter – was blown up near Head Baloki, cutting
of gas to the southern part of Lahore, Changa Manga, Pattoki,
Kasur and Manga Mandi. Rasheed Lone, Managing Director of Sui
Northern Gas Pipelines Limited, told that terrorists were responsible
for the act.
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January 31
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Rail traffic on the Dera Jacobabad
section of Dera Ghazi Khan district in the Punjab province is
reported to have remained suspended for more than four hours after
a bomb explosion damaged portion of the track near Darwaish Lashari
railway station. The explosive device went off at 2.45pm (PST),
two hours before the arrival of the Peshawar-bound Khushhal Express.
However, no casualty was reported from the incident site.
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February 11
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Unidentified terrorists blew up
the Parco pipeline in the Dera Ghazi Khan district.
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February 13
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A low pressure pipeline of the
Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited (SNGPL) ruptured due to a bomb
blast near Muridke in the Punjab province. However, no loss of
life or damage is reported.
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March 6
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A Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ)
terrorist, Haji Nisar Ahmad, who is wanted in different terrorist
cases across Pakistan, was arrested at Okara in the Punjab province.
The Police arrested two of his accomplices from Rawalpindi and
Sahiwal and based on their information arrested Nasir.
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March 18
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Police arrested two suspected
terrorists near Mono Nager on the GT Road in Punjab province and
seized a large cache of arms and ammunition from their possession.
District Police Officer, Zafar Iqbal Awan, disclosed at a press
conference that they had received information on a possible attempt
to smuggle arms from the North West Frontier Province to Punjab
by some terrorist group. The seizure included 180 hand-grenades,
21,415 bullets, 428 Kalashnikov magazines, 18 pistols, 26 AK-47
rifles and 23.97kg explosive material.
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April 30
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A bomb exploded on the main Multan-Karachi
railway track, damaging a 10-foot long section of the track and
disrupting train traffic. Ahmed Mukhtar, Senior Superintendent
of Police for Multan Railways, said a high-intensity bomb exploded
near Pul Sandani, three kilometres from Sadiqabad, even as no
casualties are reported in the blast.
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May 2
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The Government announced the results
of a countrywide Afghan census and disclosed that there are 3,047,225
Afghans living in Pakistan, including refugees and residents.
Sajid Hussain Chattha, States and Frontier Regions Secretary,
Najam Hasan, Chief Census Commissioner and Guenet Guebre-Christos,
United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Pakistan,
told a news conference in Islamabad that the census carried out
between late February and early March counted a total of 3,047,225
Afghans who had arrived after December 1, 1979. The census determined
that there are 1,861,412 Afghans in North West Frontier Province,
783,545 in Balochistan, 136,780 in Sindh, 207,754 in Punjab, 44,637
in Islamabad and 13,097 in Pakistan occupied Kashmir.
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May 12
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Suspected terrorists blew up the
main Sui gas transmission line near Chanda Qilla bypass at Gujranwala,
injuring two people and causing gas shortage in Gujranwala and
the industrial area on Grand Trunk Road.
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May 30
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Three persons are arrested from
Sargodha in the Punjab province on suspicion of having links to
the May 27-suicide attack at a Shia mosque in Islamabad in which
at least 25 people were killed and over 100 wounded. The three,
Zafar Iqbal, Mansoor Ahmad and Saeed alias Mistri, belonged to
the outlawed Sunni group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ).
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May 31
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The Lahore Police is reported to
have arrested a suspected member of the LeJ from Harbanspura.
The man, identified as Qazi Manzoor and hailing from southern
Punjab, had escaped from Karachi and the Lahore Police arrested
him from a house in Harbanspura and subsequently took him to an
undisclosed location for interrogation.
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June 3
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One person is killed and ten others,
including two children, are wounded in an explosion at Aiman Abad,
some 15 kilometers from Gujranwala.
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June 16
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A bomb explosion damages one pillar
of the tower supporting the main power transmission line at Kher
in the Dera Ghazi Khan district, while three other devices planted
nearby failed to explode.
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July 5
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An Afridi tribesman, identified
as Amanullah Shah, is arrested at Attock after police recovered
13 assault rifles, 12 pistols and more than 6,000 rounds of ammunition
in his car.
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July 16
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The Punjab government arrested
10 people from Faisalabad, Gujranwala and Lahore during a crackdown
against militant outfits. Sources said the crackdown was launched
after the media reported that some London bombing suspects had
stayed at various seminaries.
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July 19
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At least 30 cadres of outlawed
groups are arrested in the Punjab province, including 11 at Lahore
and three in Faisalabad. A senior leader of the Jaish-e-Mohammed,
Maulana Ilyas Ghumman, is among those detained at Sargodha.
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July 21
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Security agencies targeted activists
of banned religious groups, including Hizb-ul-Tehrir, and arrested
dozens of militants, clerics and activists in various parts of
the Punjab province. Sources said more than 50 people were arrested
in Lahore, Faisalabad, Multan, Sargodha, Jhelum and other parts
of the province.
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July 22
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Lahore Police detained at least
150 people on charges of misusing loudspeaker in mosques and another
15 suspected cadres of outlawed groups, as part of the ongoing
crackdown against Islamist extremism in the Punjab province. Most
of the arrests –- 80 — are made in the Multan division. Those
arrested belonged to the outlawed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Jaish-e-Mohammed,
Lashkar-e-Toiba and Hizb-ul-Tehrir. Some Madrassas (seminaries)
are also raided, and at least three offices of the proscribed
groups are sealed in southern Punjab.
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July 24
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The Punjab police continued its
raids on outlawed outfits and arrested at least 47 people, including
some Khateebs of mosques, under Anti-Terrorism Act and
Amplifier (loudspeaker regulation) Act.
Hasan Iseem Afzal, Home Secretary
of Punjab, stated that Pakistan will try over a hundred members
of different militant groups, detained in the central Punjab province
over the past week under the Anti-Terrorism Act.
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August 7
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Security agencies are reported to
have arrested an alleged al
Qaeda operative,
identified as Osama bin Yousuf, from the Sargodha Road area of
Faisalabad.
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August 12
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Hate-provoking religious literature
is reportedly being openly and freely disseminated in Government
offices, including those of senior bureaucrats in the Punjab Civil
Secretariat. A report stated that an unidentified person visited
the Civil Secretariat and freely distributed extremist religious
propaganda material, including the latest issues (August 2005)
of monthly newspaper Majalat-ul-Dawa published from Lahore,
the weekly newspaper Ghazwa and another monthly newspaper
for women called Tayyabaat.
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August 16
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Security agencies have identified
18 Afghan settlements, located in different parts of Lahore, capital
of the Punjab province, and names of 70 Afghanis involved in smuggling
weapons and supplying them to the outlawed religious organizations.
The agencies have reportedly gathered evidence that over 40 minor
and large Afghan groups have links with outlawed religious groups,
providing them weapons in large numbers which are later used in
terrorist activity in Lahore and elsewhere.
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September 11
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Three of the four pillars of a
high-tension power supply line tower near Sakhi Sarwar on Dera
Ghazi Khan-Quetta Road are destroyed by a powerful bomb explosion.
There is, however, no suspension of power supply as the tower
stood intact on the fourth pillar. The transmission line feeds
Balochistan’s tribal areas along the Punjab border. It is reportedly
the eighth sabotage activity in the district during the last five
months and second attempt on a power installation.
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September 14
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Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed
Khan Sherpao informed that five top leaders of banned religious
organizations were arrested in different parts of the country
in the last two days. However, he did not disclose their names
and group affiliation. Talking to journalists after the inauguration
of the Islamabad Highway, the minister said these arrests were
made in the North West Frontier Province, Punjab and Sindh. He
also said 190 leaders and activists of banned groups had been
arrested during the current operation.
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September 17
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Nine terrorists are reportedly
arrested during cordon and search operations by the troops in
the Dua Toi and Goor Waik areas of North Waziristan. The arrested
persons belonged to Punjab and the North West Frontier Province.
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September 22
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Personnel of the Customs Intelligence
(CI) in North West Frontier Province seized a large quantity of
silencer fitted AK-47 assault rifles that were being smuggled
from Dara Adamkhel to the Punjab province. A senior CI official
informed at a press conference in Peshawar that 23 automatic/semi
automatic riffles, 67 magazines and 13,300 bullets had been recovered
from a truck. Three persons, Alam Khan, Khalil, and Mohammad Islam
were arrested.
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September 25
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Gas supply to Punjab is suspended
after a pipeline blast near Kandhkot in the Sindh province. The
supply is suspended after a pipeline of 60-inch diameter from
Sui to Punjab is destroyed after a bomb blast in the jurisdiction
of the Ghulam Sarwar Sarki police station.
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September 29
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Police in Sargodha foiled an attempt
to plant explosives in the district courts and arrested an alleged
terrorist. The police seized about three kilograms of explosives
material along with a detonator, hand-grenades and a battery from
the accused.
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October 7
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Eight persons are killed and 19
others are injured when unidentified assailants opened fire in
an Ahmadiyya place of worship at Mong village near Mandi Bahauddin
in the Punjab province.
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October 22
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The Punjab Government has reportedly
re-arrested 20 activists of proscribed sectarian groups under
Section 11-EEE of the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997. Punjab Home Department
sources said that the activists were re-arrested soon after their
release on October 19, after being jailed for 90 days. The activists
belong to Khoshab, Bahawalpur, Bahawalnagar, Toba Tek Singh, Lahore
and Hafizabad.
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November 1
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A bomb exploded at village Nigahi
in the Jhang district, killing 11-year-old Mujahid Hussain and
injuring two women and a man.
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November 6
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Security agencies detained 32
activists of banned religious organisations during Eid celebrations
ahead of the cricket Test match between Pakistan and England.
The Government has prepared a list of 190 activists belonging
to Jaish-e-Mohammed, Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan and other terrorist
outfits and arrested 32 of them from Multan, Bahawalpur, Sargodha
and Faisalabad.
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December 7
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The Lahore Police claimed to have
arrested five suspected terrorists belonging to the Balochistan
Liberation Army (BLA) for carrying out bomb blasts in Punjab and
Karachi.
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December 13
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Police arrested Ihsanullah Shah
alias Bara Shah, a member of the outlawed Sunni group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi,
from the Sadiqabad area. The government had announced a reward
of Rupees 500,000 for his capture. Police officer Jamaat Ali Bakhari
informed that Ihsanullah Shah is the kingpin in weapons supply
to terrorists.
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December 17
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Police arrested an activist of
the outlawed Lashkar-e-Toiba outfit who was allegedly involved
in running a publishing outfit. Sadique Moavia was wanted in two
cases lodged with the South Cantonment police station and another
one with the Muridke police. Sadique is allegedly involved in
fanning sectarian disharmony across Punjab through provocative
material being published in his magazine, Zarb-e-Momin,
police said.
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December 28
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Punjab Government decides to start
an operation against foreign seminary students to deport them
before December 31. A television channel quoted government officials
as saying that 81 foreign students are studying in the Punjab
province. They belong to Afghanistan, Philippines, Jordan, Bangladesh,
Thailand, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Macedonia, Portugal, Chad, Ethiopia,
Tanzania and China.
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