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Month/Date
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Incidents
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January 1
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Police foiled a terror plot in
Kala Shah Kaku area of Ferozewala in Sheikhupura District of Punjab
after 41 bombs, attached to two electricity towers, were recovered
and defused.
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January 3
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Two persons, including a policeman,
were killed and another sustained serious injuries in a hand grenade
blast in a shop near Al-Muslim Masjid in Muslim Town of Rawalpindi
in the night.
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January 7
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Police arrested an important 'leader'
of the TTP, Israr Amin, from Islamabad.
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| January 15 |
Security has been tightened at
the Farooqabad Police Training School after intelligence reports
revealed that the school was on the hit list of militants.
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| January 18 |
Mianwali Police arrested seven
terrorist, who were wanted for their involvement in various terrorist
attacks, from Kactcha Gujrat area.
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| January 20 |
A notorious criminal with suspected
terrorist links identified as Akhtar Ali Joiya alias Akhtari,
carrying head money of PNR two million and his accomplice carrying
head money of PNR 200,000 were killed in an encounter at Khudian
area in Kasur District.
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| January 28 |
A bomb explosion
in a CD market injured six people and damaged 10 shops in Jand
town of Attock District in Punjab.
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| January 29 |
Taliban militants
gave brothels in Pakistan's Northern Attock District in Punjab
five days till February 2 to shut down or face bombardment.
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| February
1 |
An anti-terrorism
court (ATC) in Lahore awarded eight times death sentence along
with PNR 200,000 fine each and total 30 years of rigorous imprisonment
to the four convicts involved in the killing of Punjab Additional
Advocate General (AAG) Muhammad Arif Bhindar and seven others.
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| February
5 |
The JuD, front organisation
of the LeT, held a public meeting in Islamabad, vowing to seize
Kashmir by force and threatening "rivers of blood" in India. In
Lahore too, the JuD organised a public rally, led by its chief
Hafiz Saeed, alleged by India to have masterminded the Mumbai
attacks. The rally went from the JuD headquarters in Chauburji
to the University Grounds, where Hafiz Saeed led the participants
in Friday prayers. It proceeded to the famous Masjid-e-Shohada
on Mall road, where the second tier leadership of the group made
anti-India speeches.
The Lok Virsa (Museum
situated in Islamabad) in collaboration with the Kashmir Affairs
and Gilgit-Baltistan Ministry organised a festival in Islamabad
to show solidarity with Kashmiris struggling for their right of
self-determination. The daylong festival named 'Yakjehti Mela'
(Solidarity Fair) to mark Kashmir Solidarity Day drew together
Kashmiri artisans, artists, NGOs and Government organisations
working for the cause of Kashmir.
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February 8
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Police arrested six
suspected militants, including a would-be suicide bomber who was
allegedly plotting to attack a five-star hotel and kill US nationals,
from Grand Trunk Road in Shahdara area of Lahore. Addressing a
press conference, Senior Superintendent of Police (Investigation)
Zulfiqar Hameed said the TTP-linked militants were planning to
target foreigners living at a well-known hotel in Lahore, adding
that Police recovered detonators, suicide jackets, 26 grenades,
four kilogrammes of hashish and explosive material from their
possession. The arrested militants were identified as Abdul Baseer
alias Qari Waqar from Khyber Agency, Mohiuddin alias Saifullah
from Chitral, Abdur Rehman Ghani from Lower Dir, Skhai Shah and
Tehsil Khan, both from Mohmand Agency and Dilawar Saeed from Mardan.
Daily Times quoting
intelligence reports said that TTP had sent eight female suicide
bombers to attack high-value targets in Punjab. According to the
reports, the would-be female bombers are veiled and would be wearing
gloves and socks to further conceal their identities. The intelligence
sources added further the females may pose as social workers.
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| February
17 |
An ATC in Sargodha
in Punjab rejected the bail applications of five Americans, accused
of having links with militants.
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| February
19 |
SFs shot dead two
militants in an encounter in Faisalabad who were involved in the
GHQ attack in Rawalpindi on October 10, 2009.
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| February
21 |
A cadre of the TTP
was arrested by SFs from the outskirts of Lahore. A suicide jacket,
hand grenades and explosives were recovered from his possession.
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| February
26 |
Lahore High Court
temporarily restrained Federal and Punjab Governments from handing
over Mullah Baradar and four other Afghan Taliban militants to
America or any other country and added that the detainees would
not be moved out of Pakistan without its prior permission.
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| March 2 |
The Police submitted
a charge sheet against five American national detained in 2009
in an ATC in Sargodha on charges of plotting terrorism.
ATC in Rawalpindi
has acquitted seven persons accused of a suicide attack on a Government
bus because of lack of evidence. The Attock Police had registered
a case against the accused for their alleged involvement in the
suicide attack on a bus, which was carrying schoolchildren on
February 10, 2007.
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| March 3 |
The British High
Commission in Islamabad received a call from an unidentified person
threatening to "blow them up" if the BHC did not close down its
offices in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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| March 4 |
An unidentified person,
suspected to be a suicide bomber, was killed in a blast at a grocery
shop, about seven kilometres from the Sarwar Chowk of Shaheed
town.
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| March 8 |
13 persons were killed
and 80 others injured in a suicide bomb blast in front of the
Special Intelligence Agency's (SIA) office in the Model Town area
of Lahore. 13 persons included a woman, a five-year-old girl and
security personnel.
A spokesman for the
TTP claimed responsibility for attack on the SIA's office in Model
Town. "The attack was to avenge (US) drone attacks and (Pakistani)
military operations in the Tribal Areas," said Taliban spokesman
Azam Tariq.
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| March 09 |
The death toll in the Lahore bomb
blast of March 8 rose to 15 as rescuers recovered a dead body
from the debris and shifted it to morgue while another injured
person succumbed to his injuries at the Jinnah Hospital.
The CIA arrested four Tehreek-e-Taliban
Afghanistan militants from Lahore. The arrestees were identified
as Muhammad Yasin, Muhammad Kamran of Sahiwal, Abubakar and Khurshid
Ali. All are of Pakistani origin.
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| March 11 |
Authorities declared red alert at
sensitive installations after the reported entrance of an explosive-laden
car in the Lahore.
The law enforcement agencies warned
the authorities concerned that 19 militants were deputed in 12
cities of the province will most likely target National Accountability
Bureau offices and anti-terrorism courts.
The law enforcement agencies have
discovered that the suicide attack on the SIA office in Model
Town on March 8, 2010, had been planned in Lahore.
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| March 12 |
At least 57 persons, including eight
soldiers, were killed and more than 90 persons were injured as
twin suicide blasts, moments apart from each other, ripped through
the Lahore's RA Bazaar in the cantonment area.
Five persons were injured when seven
low-intensity explosions, six in Allama Iqbal town Police Station
area and one in the Samanabad area of Lahore, were carried out
in the late night.
Intelligence sources warned that
four bombers were still present in the city awaiting instructions
to hit their targets.
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| March 14 |
A truck loaded with explosives was
seized in Haji Shah area of Attock District. However, the three
culprits managed to escape.
Around 279 suspects were arrested
from Rawalpindi and Islamabad during search operations in the
wake of militant activities in Lahore.
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