Terrorism-related Incidents in Peshawar - 2012

Date

Incident

January 3

Two persons were killed and 19 others got injuries when a bomb planted in a motorbike at Azam Tower on Arbab Road in Peshawar.

Unidentified militants blew up a tower of Sheikh Muhammadi transmission line near Rashakai, disrupting power supply to Peshawar and adjoining areas.

At least seven LI militants and three SF personnel were killed in an attack on a checkpost in Sarbanda, a suburb of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the late night.

Four militants, involved in attack on Riaz Shaheed Police Post in Sarbanda, the suburb of Peshawar, in the night of January 12, were arrested during a search operation in the area.

Unidentified militants shot dead an elder from Mohmand Agency of FATA at Bakhshi Pul area on the outskirts of Peshawar.

Three German nationals were taken into custody for their alleged involvement in 'suspicious activities' from a house located in University Town of Peshawar. The suspects, who were interviewed after reports they were living in the house on the Park Lane Street illegally, failed to produce documents validating their stay in Pakistan.

A 'commander' of AI, identified as Haji Akhunzada, and three others, including his nephew and son-in-law, were killed in a suicide attack in Pakha Ghulam area, on the outskirts of Peshawar. Seven people were also injured, of whom five were reported in critical condition.

Unidentified militants shot dead the leader of a tribal militia, identified as Malik Wazir (70), at Bakhshi Pul area on Charsadda Road in Peshawar.

13 persons, including three PESCO officials were abdcuted by unidenfied militants in Badhber area on the outskirts of Peshawar.

Police were put Peshawar on high alert following a Special Branch report regarding a potential suicide attack in the city. The tip-off came two days after the Peshawar Police recovered improvised explosives attached to a motorcycle near the border with Khyber Agency of FATA. According to the report, TTP had grouped with other terror organisations in the area and was planning attacks on Peshawar.

Four persons were killed and several others injured in a car bomb attack on the house of a tribal elder in the Pishtakhara area of Peshawar.

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government launched a crackdown on unregistered seminaries in Peshawar and arrested 100 madrassa students belonging to TTP and Afghan Taliban in one such raid on Jamia Zuberia in Yakatut area, Police said.

Authorities at a public sector hospital in Peshawar are perturbed over the manner in which missing persons are brought there by Intelligence Agencies in critical condition and with slim chances of their survival, an official at the hospital said.

Local Police have begun random checking of Khyber Agency's IDPs and directed people to avoid renting out houses without informing them. Some families residing in the limits of Yakatoot Police Station informed that Police had begun visiting houses of IDPs and they were worried about their children and could not move freely.

Eight persons including three Policemen were injured when a man hurled a hand grenade at them on Bara Road in suburbs of Peshawar. An official said that an unidentified man hurled a hand grenade on Policemen when they were sitting at a roadside makeshift restaurant in Batatal area.

Militants tried to target members of a peace committee in Mashokhel area of Badhber with a bomb but no one was injured in the blast.

A low intensity bomb planted in a motorcycle that was parked in the Mathani bazaar in Peshawar, exploded.

At least 15 people, including two children, were killed and 38 injured when in a car bomb attack at bus stand on Peshawar-Kohat Road in Peshawar.

Police claimed to have killed two militants in a shootout following an attack on a Police van that was on routine patrol in the Dagglarra area within the Mithri Police precinct in Peshawar.

At least four Policemen were killed and six others injured when three suicide bombers blew themselves up in a Police Station on Circular Road in Peshawar.

Two unidentified armed militants killed two people, including a Chinese woman, identified as Jiang Hua (30) in Jahangirpura Bazaar of Peshawar.

A bomb exploded in Suraizai village on the outskirts of Peshawar. However, no loss of life was reported in both the incidents.

Peshawar Police recovered a toy bomb, weighing 15 kilograms, placed in a bag full of hashish near Tata Park in Hayatabad.

At least five people sustained injuries when a rocket fired from Khyber Agency in FATA landed at Ibrahim Market in Hayatabad locality in Peshawar.

Unidentified militants shot dead an IB inspector, Bashir Khan (38), in a target killing incident near Abasar Colony on Warsak Road in Peshawar.

The driver of a Police patrol vehicle was killed in an ambush by unidentified militants at Landi Akhun Ahmad area of Peshawar in the evening.

At least four persons, including two women, were killed and two others injured when unidentified armed assailants opened fire after entering a house in Shaheen town area on University Road in Peshawar.

The Difa-e-Pakistan Council (DPC) held a rally in Peshawar, demanding the immediate release of missing persons in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Ismail Darvesh of JUI-F and Jamaatud Dawa leaders also addressed the rally.

A suicide bomber blew himself up at a funeral in the suburban Badbher area of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, killing 17 persons and injuring 32 others.

Police claimed to have foiled a major terror bid by recovering a huge quantity of explosive material from a vehicle parked near a Police check post in Peshawar.

Police arrested an Afghan 'hired assassin' from a private medical centre at Dabgari Garden in Peshawar.

A minor girl was killed and five people, including four personnel of FCB, were injured in a rocket attack on a Police post at Janay Khwar in Mattani area of Peshawar.

SP-Rural Kalam Khan was killed when a bomb ripped through his car at the Pishtakhara Chowk in Peshawar.

A low-intensity roadside bomb ripped through a suburban locality of Peshawar, Qadirabad. However, no loss of life and property was reported in the explosion.

The BDS neutralised a terrorism bid by defusing 20 kilogrammes of explosives on a roadside in Sarbanda area of Peshawar.

A Policeman of the Special Branch, Ali Zar Khan, who was injured in the evening of March 17 when two unidentified assailants opened fire on him at Yar Hussain Bazaar of Peshawar, succumbed to his injuries.

The students and teachers of Islamia College Peshawar (Chartered University) staged a protest demonstration in Peshawar against the Government for its failure to recover Professor Ajmal Khan, the abducted vice-chancellor of the university. The protesters also blocked the busy University Road for all kinds of vehicular traffic. They threatened to launch a full-fledged protest movement if the vice-chancellor was not recovered till March 22.

Two Policemen, identified as Hazrat Ali and Hassan, were killed and six others were injured when a bomb planted in a rickshaw exploded on the Ring road bridge in the Garhi Qamardin area of Peshawar.

Four persons were killed and two others sustained bullet injuries when unidentified armed militants opened fire at them near Shero Jhangi area on Charsadda Road in Peshawar.

One Policeman sustained injuries when unidentified militants attacked a Police mobile van by detonating an IED near Arbab checkpost in the outskirts of Peshawar.

Three persons sustained injuries when explosive material, planted by unidentified militants, went off near the residence of PPP-S leader Malik Nadeem on Dilazak Road in Faisal Colony of Peshawar.

A gas pipeline was blown up by unidentified militants with a low-intensity bomb near Ring Road on the outskirts of Peshawar.

Intelligence agencies arrested several suspected persons and recovered a suicide jacket during a raid at a house at Peshawar road under Tehalka Police Station area of Peshawar.

An alleged LI militant was decapitated and his head displayed on a rooftop as a 'warning' in Sarbanda on the outskirts of Peshawar.

An excise inspector, identified as Khaista Mir, was killed when a remote-controlled explosive device exploded outside his residence at Ghani Rehman Qila in Daudzai area in Peshawar.

A student was killed and two others sustained injuries when unidentified assailants threw hand grenade at Iqra Public School in Charganokaly on Charsadda Road in Peshawar.

The BDS neutralised a four-kilogramme bomb at Balarzai village in the limits of Badhaber Police Station in the outskirts of Peshawar.

Unidentified assailants opened fire on a car, which was going from Peshawar to Adezai village, killing four persons, including two brothers, in the limits of Mattani Police Station of Peshawar, the provincial capital of KP.

A cab driver, Yousaf, was killed by unidentified assailants in the limit of Badhber Police Station.

A clinic was damaged when two bombs went off in Salmankhel village in the limits of Badhber Police Station. Police said militants had planted two bombs outside the doors of the clinic of Dr Misal Khan.

Militants blew up a primary school building in Peshawar. Police defused another 12-kilogramme bomb planted in the vicinity of the site of the first incident.

An eight-year-old Afghan boy, Israrullah, was killed and two shopkeepers injured after a hand grenade hurled by suspected militants at a FCB checkpost in Bara Qadeem area of Peshawar missed the target.

A comedian who poked fun at the TTP's practice of apprehending thieves and meting out summary punishment to them was abducted from Matani, a suburb of Peshawar, while he was entertaining guests at a wedding.

A Policeman was killed and another received injury in a bomb blast in Ghari Suhbat Khan area on the suburbs of Peshawar.

Police foiled a sabotage bid in Hamza Town on the outskirts of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, by defusing a roadside bomb.

Unidentified assailants killed a tribal elder, Malik Dilawar, in Hashtnagri area of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

One man was killed and several wounded when around five rockets landed in the Hayatabad area of Peshawar.

Faqirabad Circle DSP Banaras Khan survived a bomb attack near the Ring Road Bridge in Peshawar.

A Policeman was killed and 20 others, including six cops and a woman, were injured when two vans carrying prisoners to Mardan were attacked outside Gulbahar Police Station on GT Road in Peshawar.

Eight people, including a 12-year-old boy, were injured in a remote-controlled bomb near a Police checkpost on Ring Road near the cattle market in Peshawar.

Five mortar shells in quick succession hit the Hayatabad area of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in the evening, leaving five persons injured.

Three persons, including two girls, were injured when a grenade attack targeted the house of a local trader, Ehsanullah, in the New City Homes area of Peshawar.

A businessman, identified as Mohid Khan (30), was killed and another injured when a remote-controlled bomb exploded in their spare parts shop near Scheme Chowk on the outskirts of Peshawar.

Suspected militants attacked a checkpoint with a hand grenade in the limits of Hayatabad Police Station, leaving two private guards injured.

The District administration ordered Police to crack down on Afghan nationals illegally living in Peshawar, the provincial capital of KP at the expiry of the one-month deadline for their voluntary return. District coordination officer, Peshawar, Siraj Ahmad Khan issued the orders under Section 188 and 14 Foreign Act, according to a statement issued in Peshawar.

Two rockets were fired at the Hayatabad town of Peshawar damaged a house.

A peace volunteer, who was kidnapped on May 19, was found slaughtered in Matani area on the outskirts of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Six persons, including three US nationals, were detained at the Peshawar Motorway toll plaza after Police discovered a large cache of illegal arms from their vehicles.

A Peshawar local judicial magistrate granted bail to three Pakistani staffers of the US Consulate, including two drivers and a security guard, charged with transportation of unlicensed automatic weapons in two diplomatic vehicles.

At least 21 persons were killed and over 40 others injured when a powerful bomb ripped through a bus carrying Government employees in Gulbela area on the Charsadda Road in the jurisdiction of Daudzai Police Station in Peshawar.

At least two Policemen, identified as Abdul Jabbar (40) and Naheedullah (38), were killed and five others, including three civilians were injured in a suicide attack targeting the convoy of Faheem-ur-Rehman, the head of the anti-Taliban Bazidkhel Qaumi Lashkar at Bazidkhel Chowk in Badhaber area of Peshawar.

Unidentified armed militants shot dead famous Pashtu singer Ghazala Javed along with her father in Peshawar.

A bomb on a donkey cart killed three people at a Sufi shrine in Peshawar, the Provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Suspected militants blew up two high power transmission towers at Suraizai Mera area in the limits of Badhber Police Station in Peshawar.

Three Policemen were injured when a Police foot patrol came under attack from a roadside remote controlled bomb on the Shah Aalam Road within the jurisdiction of Daudzai Police station on the outskirts of Peshawar.

Militants of LI destroyed a road roller near Mashokhel Bridge and another power pylon located in Gula Khan forest area, by firing rockets on it in limits of the Badhber Police Station in Peshawar. However, their attempt to kidnap a factory worker, identified as Ashraf was foiled by the Police on Frontier Road.

Some shops and a workshop of power transformers were burnt down on Ring Road Chowk in Peshawar after fire broke out due to a bomb blast. No damage to human life was reported.

A senior TTP 'commander', Umar, was killed during a Police encounter in Mashugagar area in the outskirts of Peshawar.

The bullet-riddled body of chief of the anti-Taliban Bazidkhel Qaumi Lashkar (community militia), Fahim-ur-Rehman, who escaped at least seven attempts on his life since 2008, was found in his white Land Cruiser on the Ring Road of Peshawar.

A portion of Mian Neka shrine was damaged when a remote controlled explosive device went off in Suraizai area in the limits of Badhber Police Station in Peshawar. However, no loss of human life was reported.

Police repulsed militants' attack on Sheikhan check post in Peshawar after a crossfire which lasted for two hours and in which cops from nearby police stations also joined in, reports Frontier Post.

A Police SI was killed and three constables were injured when a roadside bomb exploded near their van on Takhtabad road in the limits of Daudzai Police Station in Peshawar, in the evening. An official said that SI Dad Mohammad Khan of Shabqadar was killed while constables, including Zahir Shah, Sajjad Khan and Shah Mohammad, suffered serious injuries.

The authorities in Peshawar finalised a set of security measures to provide protection to NATO supply vehicles and ward off any sabotage threat. A senior security official said that there would be complete ban on parking of vehicles - supplying goods for NATO forces in Afghanistan - in the limits of provincial capital, while these vehicles would be allowed to enter Peshawar District early in the day and leave for Afghanistan before sunset.

Unidentified armed persons shot dead an assistant Sub-Inspector of Police on Charsadda Road in the limits of Khazana Police Station in Peshawar.

The tehsildar of Mullagori tehsil in Khyber Agency of FATA escaped a bomb blast near Juma Khan Kallay on Nasir Bagh Road in Peshawar.

Unidentified militants blew up a primary school for girls at Mera Mashokhel under Badhber Police Station in Peshawar.

At least eight persons were injured when unidentified persons hurled a hand grenade at Picture House Cinema in the jurisdiction of Khan Raziq Police Station in Peshawar.

Unidentified militants blew up part of a hotel near Kohat bus terminal. However, no damage to human life was reported in the attack.

The Hayatabad Police recovered a young businessman Saifullah of Jamrud Ghundi area in Khyber Agency of FATA. According to details, Saifullah was kidnapped along with his driver Inayat on June 29 from Industrial Estate Hayatabad and was shifted to Jamrud Ghundi area. Later kidnappers released the driver.

A stray mortar bomb smashed through a house in a Sheikhan village, a suburb of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, killing three children and their mother and injuring their father.

Unidentified militants blew up Nashokhel Boys High School in Peshawar. However, no human loss was reported. The boundary wall of the School damaged completely.

At least three unidentified dead bodies, including that of a young girl, were found in different parts of Peshawar. Two bodies were found in Gulay Baba Graveyard in the limits of Tehkal Police Station while the body of the girl, packed in sack, was recovered from Mohalla Ghori Khan in Sarki Gate.

Five persons, including a woman, were injured in a bomb blast in the limits of Paripura Police Station in Peshawar.

Suspected militants hurled two hand grenades at a Police patrolling party in the limits of Sarbanda Police Station. However, no casualty was reported.

A Government primary school in the Naseerabad area of Matani in Peshawar, was bombed.

Unidentified militants attacked a Police post in Sheikhan area under Badhber Police Station of Peshawar.

Two persons were injured when a medium intensity bomb went off in the Horezai area of Badabher, a suburb area of Peshawar.

PPP-S President Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao narrowly escaped a terrorist attack when unidentified persons hurled a hand grenade at his office in Hayatabad, leaving one injured.

One militant 'commander' was killed during an encounter in Mashugagar area on the outskirts of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The slain commander was identified as Umer, a commander of TTP in Khyber Agency.

Unidentified militants blew up a Government school with explosives in Badhber area of Peshawar. No casualty or injury was reported.

In Peshawar, city circle Superintendent Of Police Asif Iqbal told that the student, Haseeb Ali, was kidnapped on June 19, 2012 from Qazi Town area on Dalazak Road in the limits of Paharipura Police Station when he was on way to home from local mosque after Isha prayer.

Police arrested 20 accused involved in different cases in Peshawar. A police spokesman said that of the accused several proclaimed offenders had also been rounded up. Police also recovered eight pistols (30 bore), two Kalashnikovs, hundreds of cartridges and contraband items from their possession.

Unidentified militants detonated a remote-controlled bomb at Nasir Bagh area of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. However, no casualty has been reported.

Three detained militants and two soldiers were killed in a shootout at a detention centre in R.A Bazaar near Corps Headquarters in Peshawar.

The Peshawar High Court put on notice the DG ISI, Regional Director MI and Police officials in the missing persons' cases to explain the whereabouts of the detainees picked up by the spy agencies. The bench asked the respondents to inform the court about the whereabouts of the missing persons.

Nine persons, including three paramilitary soldiers and a major, were injured on in a remote-controlled blast of an improvised explosive device near an under-construction bridge near Board Bazaar of Peshawar.

Police recovered two bodies from the Mera Kachuri area under Chamkani Police Station of Peshawar.

Six dead bodies dumped in gunnysacks were recovered from three separate places in Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

A dead body was recovered in Budhrani area of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According to Police figures, this is the 12th dead body recovered from Peshawar in the month of August itself.

Leaders of anti-Taliban Adezai Qaumi Lashkar developed serious differences on the issue of supporting the Government's initiative against militants in the provincial capital Peshawar. One group of the lashkar has withdrawn support to the Government insisting payment of salary to the special Police force working with the peace body has been suspended, while the other continues offering support and cooperation to the Government against militants.

A member of the Matani Peace Committee, identified as Ahmad Gul, was shot dead at Matani Bazaar on the suburbs of Peshawar.

At least 12 people were killed and another 12 injured in a car bomb attack near a mosque in Matni Bazaar of Peshawar. The political tehsildar of North Waziristan Agency Hashim Gul, his son Sajeel, brother Zahir Shah, and a cousin, identified as Ajab Gul, were killed in the car bomb blast.

At least four persons, including two Americans, were reportedly killed and 19 others injured in when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden vehicle in the University Town area of Peshawar, the provincial. Officials said the target of the bombing was apparently a vehicle in use by US nationals.

Police claimed to have foiled a terror bid by killing a militant and recovered 105 kilogrammes of explosive material in Bara Sheikhan area of Peshawar.

A house was partially damaged when an IED exploded at Pandu area in the limits of Chamkani Police Station in Peshawar. No casualty was reported.

Unidentified militants blew up a Government-run primary school in the Badbher area in Peshawar. The blast flattened two rooms, but no loss of life was reported.

Police recovered a dead body of a youth, identified as that of Jamil Hussain, from paddy fields in the limits of Mathra Police Station in the suburbs of Peshawar.

The Peshawar High Court asked the Federal and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governments to ensure immediate end to the dumping of human bodies in gunnysacks in Peshawar and adjoining Districts and said it would act against them in line with the Constitution if they failed to do so. It later adjourned hearing to September 27, 2012.

A powerful car bomb targeting a vehicle of the PAF near Scheme Chowk on Kohat Road in Peshawar killed 10 people and wounded 34 others, including women and children. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.

At least six persons including an industrialist Ijaz Rafiq and two employees of a cellular phone company Akbar Khan and his driver Nadeem Siddiqui were abducted by suspected militants at gunpoint from main Peshawar-Kohat Road in Matani area of Peshawar.

The other abductees include, District Revenue Officer of Bannu District, Sajid Nawaz, his gunman and driver, at gunpoint. However, the revenue officer managed to flee while his driver and gunman were abducted. DSP Fazl Maula said that five of the militants were injured in exchange of fire. Later another official said that during a search operation about 15 suspected persons of the area were arrested.

Police foiled a terrorist bid by recovering a bomb which was placed in a cooking oil container in the Bhana Marri Police Station area of Peshawar.

The BDS defused a bomb in Badhber area of Peshawar, averting a terror bid near a Police checkpost.

A BDS official, Hukam Khan (50), was killed while trying to defuse a device in Sheikhan village under Badhaber Police Station in Peshawar.

A suspected militant was killed while trying to plant a bomb in an oil tin in Badhaber graveyard of Peshawar.

Three Policemen were injured when suspected militants attacked their vehicle in Mattani area.

Police foiled a sabotage bid by defusing a five-kilogram bomb at Shaikhan area on the outskirts of Peshawar.

Unidentified militants killed a FC official and a child in separate incidents in Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Three unidentified militants on motorbikes shot dead FC official Ali Rehman in the Ghani Kalay area.

Unidentified assailants opened fire in the suburban area of Badhaber, killing one child.

The Peshawar High Court directed the Defence and Interior Ministries to produce lists of all detention facilities operated and maintained by intelligence Agencies, including ISI, MI and intelligence wing of FC, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA.

Two unidentified dead bodies were recovered from roadside at Gul Bela area in the jurisdiction of Dawoodzai Police in the outskirts of Peshawar.

A Policeman was shot dead outside a mosque during Friday prayer in Bakhshi Pul area on Charsadda Road of Peshawar.

Five SF personnel, including SP Rural Khurshid Khan, were killed while 10 Police and FC men were injured when TTP militants attacked two check posts of Mattani Police Station on the outskirts of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

Five militants and a soldier of Frontier Constabulary were killed in Shaikhan village under Badhaber Police Station in Peshawar.

Investigations started against six SF personnel in the wake of recovery of a satellite phone from Doctor Shakeel Afridi who is detained in Central Jail Peshawar and used the phone to give interviews to foreign newspapers and to make calls within and outside Pakistan.

Police repulsed a militant attack on their checkpost in Mashogagar area on the outskirts of Peshawar. An official of Badbher Police Station said several militants armed with rocket launchers and Kalashnikovs attacked the post but they had to flee after police opened fire on them.

The severed heads of a senior police officer and a soldier of FCB were found in Gulshanabad area of Matani on the suburbs of Peshawar. The militants had slaughtered SP Khurshid Khan and another FC man identified as Mohammad Diyar on the night of October 14, 2012 during an attack on Ghaziabad Police post in the limits of Matani Police Station.

Three people, including owner of the CD shop, Bashir Khan, was injured when a blast occurred at Scheme Chowk in the limits of Badbher Police Station in Peshawar.

Two bombs planted by suspected militants along Bara-Shaikhan Road in Peshawar exploded.

Families of eight local labourers who were allegedly abducted by LI militants led by Mangal Bagh in Badh Pir area of Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa for ransom over eight months back, setting deadline till Eid-ul-Azha, demanded their early recovery at a demonstration in Muzaffargarh District of Punjab.

A blast in a plaza on Frontier Road in Badabher area, a suburb of Peshawar, injured three FCB personnel.

At least four FCB soldiers were injured in a remote-controlled bomb blast at Faqirabad Chowk in Badhber area of Peshawar.

Militants attacked Bacha Khan Markaz, the headquarters of the ANP, on the Pajaggi Road in Peshawar with an IED.

Two Policemen were injured when over a dozen militants stormed a security post in the jurisdiction of Badaber Police Station in Aziz Market in Peshawar.

Police foiled a possible terror attack by defusing a three kilogram powerful explosive device packed in a canister planted at Chowk Yadgar in Peshawar. An official of Kotwali Police Station said that terrorists had planted a bomb with the wall of a dispensary within the premises of Ghanta Ghar.

A medium-intensity remote-controlled bomb planted inside Mian Umar Chamkani's shrine in Peshawar was defused by the BDS. Devotees gather in large numbers every Friday.

Police claimed to have arrested 52 accused during raids in different parts of Peshawar and recovered four Kalashnikovs, two rifles, 21 pistols and 52 kilograms of hashish from their possession.

Security is on high alert in Peshawar in the backdrop of SFs' operation against militants in Khyber Agency and due to Friday prayers. According to Police, SFs are battling against the militants in the adjoining tribal belt of Peshawar due to which additional Police check posts have been set up in the suburban areas of Matani and Badaber while additional troops have also been deployed.

The Sheikh Panju shrine located in a graveyard on Phandu Chowk in Peshawar was blown up. No casualties were reported in the incident.

Unidentified persons detonated explosives weighing around two kilogrammes near a gas pipeline in Jabba Suhail area of Yakatut in Peshawar. However, no damage to the pipeline or human life was reported.

Yakatut Police recovered 30 hand grenades, four mortar shells, two artillery shells, 53 fuses and 53 empty cases of gun during a raid on a scrape warehouse near Hazarkhwani area along Ring Road.

Police arrested two tribesmen, resident of Bara in Khyber Agency of FATA, during a raid on a bomb factory at Wadpagga, a village near Peshawar, for allegedly making bombs and supplying them to militants. 65 kilogrammes of explosive material, 100 kilogrammes of artillery shells and 200 kilogrammes of other shells and material used in bomb making were recovered from their possession.

Six persons, including SP, Investigation, Hilal Haider and four other Policemen, were killed in a suicide attack in Qissa Khawani Bazaar of Peshawar. TTP claimed responsibility for the attack.

Unidentified militants shot dead a tribal elder, identified as Malik Asim Khan from Mohmand Agency of FATA at the Zargarabad area of Peshawar.

Unidentified militants shot dead a tribal elder, identified as Malik Asim Khan from Mohmand Agency of FATA at the Zargarabad area of Peshawar.

Three Police constables were injured when unidentified militants opened fire at a Police van in the limits of Badaber Police Station of Peshawar.

ANP MNA Khurshid Begum along with her husband Saeed Shah escaped an attack when unidentified militants opened fire on their car on the Peshawar-Kohat Road.

SFs arrested four suspects under collective responsibility clause of FCR and defused an explosive device, planted on the main Peshawar-Bajaur Road.

At least two persons, identified as security guard, Naik Mohammad and another person, whose name couldn't be known, were injured in a mortar shell attack in Peshawar. The official said that a mortar shell fired from an unknown location landed inside the office of a foreign organisation in University Town.

The militants attacked the Riaz Shaheed Checkpost in Sarband in Peshawar. It was learnt the militants fled after the cops manning the checkpoint returned the fire. No casualty was reported.

At least two Police constables, identified as Rehman Wali and Shamsur Rehman, were killed after militants attacked a Police and Paramilitary force at the Speen Qabar checkpost of Badhaber area in Peshawar.

Two bombs were defused near Gulbahar-Nishtarabad flyover in Gulbahar area of Peshawar.

Tribal elders at a jirga in Peshawar said that innocent tribe people were being killed under a conspiracy and their rights violated. The Jirga members said tribesmen were being killed in US drone strikes and the businesses in the tribal area had been destroyed.

Three Policemen received minor injuries after a roadside bomb hit their vehicle at Sarband area of Peshawar.

Police recovered an unidentified decomposed bullet riddled body of a young man from a dried-up nullah near Ahmadkhel village under Badaber Police Station in Peshawar.

Policemen remained unhurt though their van was hit by a roadside bomb on Inqilab Road in the suburbs of Peshawar.

Police had foiled a terrorism bid by defusing a "powerful" bomb planted in a motorcycle on Grand Trunk Road on the outskirts of Peshawar.

The remote-controlled bomb targeted a Police patrol, killing two officers and injuring two others in Shahabkhel village on the Badhaber suburb of Peshawar.

Police arrested 61 accused, including 15 proclaimed offenders, during raids in the provincial metropolis of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Peshawar. A Police spokesman said that Police had arrested the accused during night raids and also recovered 23 pistols, two rifles and contraband from their possession.

Police thwarted a major terrorism bid as it confiscated a truck loaded with explosives in a raid at a godown at Peshawar.

Police recovered 6,000kg of chemicals being used in making explosives as well as illegal wireless devices during a raid on a warehouse in Chamkani area of Peshawar.

Eight persons were injured in a remote-controlled blast close to the venue of ANP's political meeting in Peshawar where party chief Asfandfyar Wali Khan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Chief Minister Ameer Haider Hoti were present.

The PAF base inside the Bacha Khan International Airport of Peshawar (provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) was attacked by militants, with a simultaneous rocket barrage, resulting in the killing of seven people, including five militants, and injuries to 40 others.

Security Forces killed five more militants - said to be Uzbeks - in a fierce encounter in Pawaki village, just one kilometer from the PAF airbase in Peshawar (provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa), clearing the area off miscreants after the December 15 night's attack on the Bacha Khan International Airport and PAF base.

Police foiled a terrorist attack designed to blow up Shama cinema near Bacha Khan Chowk of Peshawar.

Unidentified assailants on motorbike opened fired on two sisters working on polio vaccination, killing one, in the Tirayee Payanin area, a suburb of Peshawar.

One polio vaccination worker killed outside the city of Peshawar.

A doctor, Dr Yaseen, was abducted from Ring Road in limits of Paharipura Police Station in Peshawar.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Senior Minister Bashir Ahmed Bilour and at least eight other persons were killed and 17 injured in a suicide bomb explosion in Qissa Khawani Bazaar area of Peshawar.

Suspected militants blew up a Government primary school for boys at Mushtarzai village on the outskirts of Peshawar in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. However, the blast caused no loss of life.

Another blast took place on Canal Road near Pawaka village in the limits of Pishtakhara Police Station. The blast did not cause any loss to people.

Police claimed to have recovered four suicide jackets, 59 hand grenades and 541 Kalashnikovs during the 2012 in Peshawar. A Police spokesman said that 5,383 dynamites, 223,329 detonators, 136 rockets, 141 fuses, 329 Explosive Devices and over 0.6million rounds, 6,444 pistols, 102 Kalakovs, 230 rifles and 1,096 shotguns were recovered in the 2012. He said that 1,439 proclaimed offenders were arrested during raids.