North West Frontier Province Timeline- 2005

Month/Date

Incidents

January 17

Police in Swat region of North West Frontier Province (NWFP) arrested a man who is said to have confessed to his role in high-profile terrorist attacks, including an attempt to kill President Pervez Musharraf and a suicide bomb attack on the US Consulate in Karachi. Deputy Inspector-General (Malakand) Attaullah Wazir, who commands the police in the northern districts of the NWFP, stated that Mohammad Jamil Memon had been detained in Swat in December 2004 on some suspicion, but his interrogation led investigators to believe that he is not an ordinary criminal. Son of Usman Ghani Memon of Nazimabad, Jamil belonged to the militant Harkat-ul-Mujahideen Al-alami organization and had received training in terrorist activities in Afghanistan, the official said.

July 21

At least two members of a Tablighi Jamaat (fraternity of traveling Muslim preachers), Salahuddin and Muhammad Rahman, are killed and four persons sustained injuries when some unidentified people hurled a hand grenade at them in a mosque in the Khapyanga village of Kurram Agency in NWFP. 15 Afghan refugees have reportedly been arrested subsequently for their alleged links to the killing. It is for the first time that Tablighi Jamaat members have been targeted in Pakistan.

July 29

In the NWFP, Police reportedly set free 39 men arrested in the crackdown against members of banned militant organisations. They are "innocent," said an unnamed police official in Peshawar. "They are released after we are unable to find any evidence against them," he disclosed.

September 6

Parts of a railway track are blown up by unidentified saboteurs in the Dera Ghazi Khan district of NWFP. The track between Dera Ghazi Khan railway station and Shadan Lond was blown up by two bombs, which had been planted on both sides of the track.