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Incidents
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January 14
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Two girls and a woman belonging
to the same family died when they stepped on an explosive device
in the Matta area of Swat district in the North West Frontier
Province (NWFP). Eye-witnesses said that the victims - Nimro,
16, her sister Jan Bibi, 5, and Fahmeeda, wife of Gul Hameed –
were cutting grass in the fields when the explosive device went
off, killing them on the spot.
A bomb exploded at an Afghan refugee
camp in the Nowshera district of NWFP, killing four people and
injuring five others. Eyewitnesses and officials said that the
explosion at around 11 p.m. blew up the house of a prayer leader,
Maulvi Masoodullah, killing his brother Ismail and three guests.
However, officials put the death toll at two. Masoodullah was
reportedly arrested later.
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January 25
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One person is killed and six others
sustained injuries in a car bomb attack at Hangu in the NWFP.
However, AFP reported that two men are killed in the attack
and as many are injured. "At the moment, it appears to be a suicide
attack," Station House Officer of Hangu Police Saeed Khan told
reporters. Saeed said the dead man is identified as Hayat, an
Afghan refugee who is living in the Katakarni camp in Hangu. Deputy
Inspector General of Kohat Police Salahuddin told reporters that
police had arrested three men in connection with the attack– one
in Kohat and the others in Peshawar.
Suspected militants ambushed a
police vehicle and killed one police personnel and injured another
in the Tank town of NWFP, adjoining South Waziristan.
Suspected militants ambushed a
police vehicle and killed one police personnel and injured another
in the Tank town of NWFP, adjoining South Waziristan.
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January 27
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15 people, including six police
officials, were killed and 60 others injured in a suicide attack
targeting a Muharram procession near Qasim Ali Khan Mosque in
the Dilgaran area of Qissa Khawani Bazaar in Peshawar, capital
of NWFP. Peshawar police commissioner Mallik Muhammad Saad, a
Deputy Superintendent of Police, three other police personnel
and a Nazim (local official) were among those killed in
the blast. Superintendent of Peshawar Police, Zaibullah, said
that an unidentified bomber detonated explosives strapped to his
body when police stopped him from entering the procession, which
was to be taken out from Qasim Ali Khan Mosque. A senior security
official said the two severed legs of the suspected bomber had
been recovered from the site. The blast also caused a power outage
that left the city centre in darkness, complicating rescue efforts.
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January 30
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Two people died in a town in NWFP,
where a pre-dawn rocket attack on a Shiite Muslim procession sparked
a burst of sectarian violence. Army personnel were sent into Hangu,
100 kilometres south of Peshawar, capital of NWFP, to restore
order after the rocket landed near police protecting the procession
to mark the holy festival of Muharram. The two fatalities were
from the Sunni community, said Mayor Ghani ur-Rahman. However,
it was not immediately clear if the men are killed by the rocket
or during the brief clashes between Sunnis and Shiites that followed.
Nineteen people were reported injured.
A curfew is imposed in Hangu after
a mortar is fired at a Shia procession and shooting broke out.
The two people killed are reportedly Afghan refugees who were
not taking part in the procession
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January 31
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Two people are killed in a shooting
incident at an unauthorised procession of Muharram in the
under-curfew town of Hangu, adding to two deaths in a mortar attack
on a Shia procession the day before.
A police personnel who was injured
in a suicide blast in Peshawar succumbed to his injuries, bringing
the total number of police personnel killed in the incident to
seven.
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February 10
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A blast at the office of the International
Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Peshawar at around 4:30am
damaged four vehicles and some property, but nobody was injured
as the office was closed. The US advised American citizens to
avoid crowded markets and public demonstrations in Peshawar, following
the blast at the ICRC. "Americans are advised against visiting
Peshawar’s Old City and Sadar Bazaar, and restrict movement throughout
the city, staying mainly in the University Town area," read
a notice issued by the US Embassy in Islamabad.
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February 11
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A non-governmental organisation’s
office in the main bazaar of Darra Adam Khel in NWFP is badly
damaged in a bomb blast. Muhammad Faisal Afridi, chief executive
of the NGO working against the spread of drugs and to rehabilitate
drug addicts, said the blast occurred around 11:15pm. Over the
last week, the offices of two international NGOs – Save the Children
in Battagram and the International Committee of the Red Cross
in Peshawar – have been attacked in NWFP.
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February 14
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In a suspected sectarian incident,
two unidentified gunmen killed Shia leader Jawad Hussain in the
Dera Ismail Khan city of NWFP. Hussain was a local leader of the
Shia group Tehrik Nifaz Fiqa-i-Jafria (TNFJ). Maqbool Hussain,
brother of the deceased, registered an FIR at the City Police
Station, stating that he had been receiving threats for a couple
of days.
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February 15
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The Government has decided to
repatriate all Afghan refugees residing in Pakistan by 2009. This
was announced at a meeting of the Inter-Ministerial Cabinet Committee
held in Islamabad on February 15. The committee – headed by Interior
Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao –devised a strategy to send
all Afghan refugees back to their homeland in three years, from
2007 to 2009. Under the strategy, four camps of Afghan refugees
located in Balochistan and the NWFP will be removed in the ongoing
year. In the first phase, two of them -- one in each province
-- will be dismantled in March. According to official figures,
approximately 2.4 million Afghans are living in Pakistan – one
million in camps and 1.4 million in the urban areas. Since 2002,
about 2.8 million Afghan refugees have reportedly been repatriated
to their homeland.
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February 16
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A bomb blast occurred at the main
market of Tank district. However, no loss of life or injuries
is reported. According to police sources, unknown assailants had
planted the homemade bomb near the house of Akhter Nawaz, a resident
of the area. The blast slightly damaged Nawaz’s house, but there
are no casualties.
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February 20
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A tribal elder is shot dead in
the Tank district. Police said armed men intruded into the house
of Malik Karim Khan in the Totkai locality of Tank and shot him
dead.
Armed men reportedly snatched
an official vehicle from an employee of the Tribal Electric Supply
Company near Tank.
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February 23
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At least five private English
medium schools providing co-education remained closed in Peshawar,
capital of NWFP after security agencies advised their management
to make security arrangements for themselves. The institutions
are reportedly in the grip of rumours that suicide bombers may
target private schools that provide co-education.
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February 27
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A militant is killed and his accomplice
wounded during a clash with police at Tank after a gang took away
the city’s fire engine from Wazirabad locality. Witnesses said
three police personnel are injured when the militants hurled a
hand grenade on them.
A police station is partially
damaged in a rocket attack at Bannu. However, no casualties are
reported. "The Mandan police station is attacked the night between
Sunday and Monday," said police officials.
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March 1
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A madrassa (seminary) teacher, identified as Akhtar
Usmani, is killed by suspected Taliban
militants for allegedly spying for the United States and his beheaded
body is found in Jandola - a town in Tank, near the border of
South Waziristan. Tribal officials aid that the slain teacher
had also made recordings of anti-Taliban speeches. Urdu word 'munafiq'
(hypocrite) is scrawled across his forehead.
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March 9
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Two gunmen on a motorcycle killed
a Shia businessman, Anwar Ali Shah, at Dera Ismail Khan.
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March 10
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Unidentified assailants shot dead
a retired Shia soldier in Dera Ismail Khan and a government employee
from the community in the same region. Local police officer Aslam
Khattak said, "The murders appear to be sectarian terrorism".
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March 13
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Gunmen shot dead two persons,
a Shia and a Sunni, in the Dera Ismail Khan Town, raising the
toll from sectarian violence in the town in the last week to seven.
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March 12
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Suspected Sunni militants shot dead a Shia man,
identified as Syed Arshad Abbas, in Dera Ismail Khan city of the
NWFP.
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March 13
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Gunmen on a motorcycle killed
Maulana Farooq Ahmed, a Sunni cleric, in the same city, said local
police officials. Ahmed was a member of the outlawed SSP.
Gunmen injured Hafiz Ishaq, another
SSP activist.
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March 16
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The NWFP Governor Ali Muhammad
Jan Orakzai said that continued hostilities between two religious
groups in Bara had threatened peace and were hampering development
projects in the Khyber Agency. According to an official statement,
Orakzai was talking to a jirga of Afridi tribe elders, who called
on him at the Governor’s House to apprise him of progress made,
so far, in resolving the dispute between the two religious factions
in the Bara subdivision. He said numerous innocent people had
lost their lives in the ongoing conflict, warning that the political
administration could not allow such a tense situation to persist
any longer, as it was bringing a bad name to the Afridi tribe
and the political administration.
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March 18
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Unidentified men gunned down a
watchman and blew up four video CD shops in Bukshali Bazaar in
Mardan in the NWFP.
Two people were injured in an
explosion in Bhana Marhi Police precincts in NWFP.
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March 19
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Militants shot dead a traffic
policeman at a bazaar in Tank. The shooting appeared to be linked
to a string of attacks on Policemen by suspected pro-Taliban militants
in the region since January.
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March 22
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After Dir and Bajaur, barbers
in Mardan in the NWFP have also received letters from a purported
jihadi outfit to stop shaving beards.
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March 23
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Unidentified insurgents blew up
an electricity tower in Mohmand Agency in the NWFP. Unidentified
miscreants had sabotaged some towers in November 2006. The MRM
has been blamed for previous sabotages of electricity towers and
Government officials have accused the organisation for this recent
subversive activity. However, the MRM has denied involvement in
this incident, saying that the administration was making false
allegations against the organisation to foil its March 26 strike.
The MRM demanded that 25 villages, which were part of the agency
and later included in the settles areas, be re-included in the
agency.
Suspected militants have now started
sending threatening letters to owners of internet cafés
and video centres and principals of Government and private schools
in Charsadda, following similar incidents in other areas. The
letters warn, "Do away with un-Islamic practices, otherwise you
will have to face dire consequences." It was written in the notes
that all video centres and Internet cafes must be closed between
March 23 and April 23. According to the letters, female students
should start wearing veils or "face dire consequences".
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March 24
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The NWFP can only be renamed through
a referendum, Federal Minister for Inter-Provincial Coordination
Salim Saifullah Khan said in a statement.
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March 26
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A police officer and two attackers
were killed, while 13 others, including three paramilitary soldiers
and a constable, were wounded when suspected militants attacked
a police station, an armoured personnel carrier and FC fort with
hand grenades in Tank city of NWFP, Police and residents said.
Suspected militants hurled a hand
grenade on an armoured personnel carrier in Darwaza Bazaar, wounding
three FC personnel — Mohammad Sharif, Lance Naik Wali Mohammad
and Sepoy Abdul Haleem — and six civilians — Mohabat Khan, Saifur
Rehman, Imran, Baz Khan, Maqsud Ali and Hikmat Shah.
Four people, including president
of the NWFP Olympic Association and former Senator Syed Aqil Shah,
were injured when a bomb went off outside a bank on the Saddar
Road.
Militants on a pick-up coming
from the Wana side attacked the FC fort with a hand grenade. FC
personnel opened fire on the vehicle, which sped away, leaving
one wounded attacker, Mohammad Alam Mahsud. A short while later,
the militants in the same truck hurled a hand grenade at the Saddar
police station, wounding two passers-by, Akbar Hussain and Aziz
Barki.
Sources said that a few days ago
militants had picked up a group of more than 20 students from
a government high school and some private schools and shifted
them to an unknown location for training.
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March 27
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Insurgents detonated dynamite
in an open field near the ICRC’s office, which was bombed on February
10, in the Pishtakhara area of Peshawar failing to cause any casualties.
Troops retaliated as militants
fired eight rockets at a paramilitary fort in Tank.
Taliban militants abducted the
principal of a school, Farid Mehsud. He had called for police
protection after the Taliban visited his school in a bid to recruit
youth for jihad.
An all-tribes Jirga (tribal
council) of Tank district has decided to meet pro-Taliban militant
leader Baitullah Mehsud to seek his help in bringing normalcy
to the district, bordering South Waziristan. Senator Saleh Shah
of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal said that representatives of all
tribes in the district would meet Mehsud on March 28 with a "peace
message".
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March 28
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At least 25 Taliban militants
and a paramilitary soldier were killed in a gun battle that continued
for six-hours in the Tank town. Tank District Police Officer Mumtaz
Zarin said that security forces killed at least 25 militants when
more than 200 Taliban cadres attacked the city from all sides.
A police source said that two police stations, a paramilitary
fort and bank branches were damaged in the Taliban attack.
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March 29
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Taliban militants seeking to impose
Islamic law blew up two video shops and torched a cable television
operator’s office in Kohat.
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March 30
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Taliban militants freed the principal
of a high school who was abducted four days ago for stopping the
rebels recruiting his students, said his family. Farid Mehsud,
the principal of the Oxford Public School in Tank, and his brother
Humayun were abducted by about a dozen gunmen from his house on
March 27.
Security agencies will launch
a house-to-house search operation within the next 24 hours to
collect illegal weapons in Tank, said a spokesman. Deputy Inspector
General of Police, Zulfiqar Ahmed Cheema, said security forces
(SFs) would launch an operation if residents did not hand over
illegal weapons voluntarily.
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April 5
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A bomb exploded near the City
District Women Degree College in the Hashnagri region on the Grand
Trunk Road in Peshawar. Police said that the blast occurred at
7:15 pm but nobody was hurt, adding that the explosive weighing
1.5 kg had been planted in an empty plot. However, AFP reported
that two passers-by were wounded.
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April 6
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An explosion at the Peshawar bus
terminal in the Gulbahar area damaged a Quetta-bound vehicle.
Unidentified assailants exploded
two bombs at the site of a mela (fair) scheduled for April 7 (today)
in Dera Ismail Khan. The blast damaged the site of the mela. "The
assailants also left pamphlets calling the mela an un-Islamic
activity, and warned the people to stay way or face such blasts,"
said Police.
A blast in the Bahzadi Chakkarkot
area of Kohat on damaged a music shop. Police said two men planted
a bomb at a music centre in Bangesh Plaza and they had been arrested.
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April 8
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Four paramilitary soldiers were
injured in two separate bomb attacks at Tank and Bannu in the
NWFP. Local police official Abdullah informed that the bomb attacks
had been remote-controlled and that the soldiers had been targeted
from the nearby mountains. Sources added that unidentified men
also snatched a government vehicle with record of development
schemes from local government assistant director Akhtar Munir
near the Chakmalai area in Tank.
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April 9
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A barber’s shop at Darra Adam
Khel was blown up after Taliban militants had warned barbers not
to shave men’s beards because it was "un-Islamic". However, no
loss of life or injuries was reported in the blast which occurred
at the shop in Akhorwal Market. Pro-Taliban militants have reportedly
been distributing pamphlets in towns of the NWFP and the tribal
areas, warning barbers against shaving beards.
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April 10
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Two children sustained injuries
in a rocket attack on a residential area in the Bannu city. Officials
said that two rockets were fired from an unknown location which
hit the house of one Mohammad Ashfaq in the Kastuddin Street.
The explosion partially damaged the house and wounded two children.
District Police Officer Mazharul Haq while confirming the rocket
attack also disclosed that police had seized seven rocket launchers,
four bombs and ammunition from a truck on the same day.
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April 16
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Three children were killed and
four other people, including two women, were wounded when a hand
grenade exploded inside a house in the Badhbare village in the
outskirts of Peshawar.
An official of the Khasadaar Force
(a local security force), Iran Gul, was shot dead and two others
wounded by two suspected militants on the Kohat-Peshawar road.
Militants had reportedly issued warnings to Iran Gul and others
10 days ago to stop taking action against them and not to monitor
their activities. Militants had given them April 10 as deadline
and warned them of dreadful consequences if they did not stop
action against militants.
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April 17
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NWFP Chief Minister Akram Durrani
said no seminary in the province and the tribal areas was involved
in terrorism, adding that some "secret forces" were creating law
and order problems to bring a bad name to the provincial government.
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April 20
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A rocket was fired at the residential
compound of JUI leader Maulana Fazlur Rehman at Dera Ismail Khan.
The rocket created a hole in the outer wall of the compound but
did not cause much damage.
The Taliban have threatened to
launch an attack on Bannu city in the NWFP if the local police
do not release seven of their associates. According to posters
displayed by Taliban throughout the city, Bannu police have been
warned to either release their activists, or prepare for severe
consequences. Bannu police reportedly arrested seven Taliban activists,
including ‘commander’ Fazal Karim, a week ago for forcefully preventing
people from beating drums during a marriage ceremony.
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April 21
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Three video and music shops were
blown up in a bomb blast at the Gulzada Market in Swabi, about
100 kilometres northeast of Peshawar, capital of the NWFP. Islamist
extremists who claim music and movies are un-Islamic have described
the shopping complex as the "Hell market" and some shopkeepers
have received warning letters in the past.
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April 23
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In the Upper Dir district, a salon
and a music shop were blown up in the Wari Bazaar. Traders and
shopkeepers in Wari reportedly took out a procession in protest
against the worsening law and order situation in the area and
declared the blasts a terrorist activity. Barbers and music shop
owners in Upper and Lower Dir had received threatening letters
in March 2007.
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April 24
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Two barber shops were blown up
and four adjacent shops damaged when two bombs exploded at Ahmad
market in Kumbar, the native village of Maulana Sufi Mohammad,
leader of the banned Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi, in
the Maidan area of NWFP.
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April 25
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Unidentified militants shot dead
three people in a targeted sectarian attack in the Dera Ismail
Khan district. The assailants fired from a Kalashnikov rifle on
a vehicle in which two brothers from a prominent Shia family,
Najaf Ali Shah and Syed Ali Shah, and their Sunni employee were
travelling. An unnamed official of the NWFP government is reported
to have blamed the attack on the banned Sunni group SSP and urged
Shias to remain peaceful.
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April 26
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Following the killing of two more
persons in sectarian violence, the administration imposed a curfew
in the Dera Ismail Khan district. Police said two motorcycle borne
unidentified gunmen opened fire on two people sitting outside
a shop, killing them on the spot in the cantonment area.
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April 28
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31 people, including five police
personnel, were killed and Federal Interior Minister Sherpao and
his young son Sikandar Sherpao Khan were among several people
wounded in a suicide attack, moments after the minister finished
a speech at a public rally in his hometown Charsadda in the North
West Frontier Province (NWFP). The head of the suicide bomber,
who had a brown beard and was aged between 30 and 35 years, was
found at the site of the blast near Station Koroona in Charsadda,
and "he looks like an Afghan," NWFP Inspector General of Police
Sharif Virk told reporters.
A bomb exploded at the Peshawar
International Airport canteen causing minor damage to the building.
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April 29
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Investigators said Russian-made
explosive material had been used in the attack on a public meeting
addressed by Interior Minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao. Charsadda
district police officer Feroz Shah said that high-intensity MVU
type explosive had been used in the bomb. Assistant Inspector
General of Police Fiaz Ahmad Khan Toru said preliminary findings
had revealed that the suspect bomber appeared to be from a hilly
area, but it could not be said with certainty if he was an Afghan
or Uzbek.
Two employees of the Barani Area
Development Project of the NWFP government were wounded during
a bomb blast at their office in Kohistan. Local clerics had reportedly
delivered sermons during Friday prayers urging "the faithful"
to attack offices of NGOs who inducted women staff for their project
activities in the remote district. The clerics asked the people
to restrict the entry of female staff of NGOs into their houses,
saying these women were urging local women to go for family planning
against their husbands’ will, which was a sin. Sources added that
two partner NGOs of the BADP had inducted four female employees
for their health and education projects but the local clerics
objected to this and asked them to expel the women.
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May 4
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Suspected militants targeted music shops with
explosive devices, damaging around 20 outlets in two different
places in NWFP. No group has claimed responsibility for the two
blasts but letters from suspected Taliban have warned local shopkeepers
against continuing their businesses.
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May 5
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Two unidentified gunmen killed a Shia man, identified
as Imdad Hussain, at Dera Ismail Khan in the NWFP, days after
a weeklong curfew was lifted.
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May 9
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Video and music shopkeepers in
Mardan district have reportedly sought protection from the government
after two bombs exploded in the video market in the Parhuti area
of Mardan at 1am, destroying 15 shops. The shopkeepers had been
warned in an anonymous letter 20 days ago to wind up their businesses.
In Charsadda, unidentified men
blew up two music shops at Mir Abad in the Umerzai police precincts.
The unidentified men hurled explosives at two CD shops owned by
Kashif and Amjad Ali of Qando Kali at around 00:45am.
Unidentified people blew up a
hair-cutting saloon at Lal Qila in the Maidan area of Lower Dir
district. Barbers in both the Lower and Upper Dir districts had
been reportedly receiving pamphlets from unknown miscreants asking
them to stop shaving off beard or else face destruction of their
shops.
Two motorcyclists abandoned their
vehicle near a police picket in Tangi and escaped. The police
later found a locally-manufactured bomb when they searched the
motorcycle.
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May 13
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Police resorted to baton-charge
and fired teargas shells to disperse protesting activists of the
proscribed TNSM in the Kabal area of Mingora in the NWFP. At least
25 of the group’s activists were arrested and an unspecified number
of police personnel and other people were injured in the clashes.
The activists had reportedly gathered at the Kabal ground to demand
release of their associates arrested during the last couple of
days.
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May 14
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A 24-hour curfew was clamped in
the Tank town of NWFP after a paramilitary soldier and a civilian
were killed and 10 people sustained injuries in a series of grenade
and rocket attacks on SF personnel and exchange of fire between
militants and SFs.
A shutter-down strike was observed
across the NWFP, particularly in the Peshawar, Mardan, Kohat,
Bannu, Dera Ismail Khan and Swat districts, while there was partial
support for the strike in Swabi district during a strike called
by opposition parties and lawyers’ bodies in protest against the
violence in Karachi.
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May 15
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25 people were killed and at least
35 others wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up on the
ground floor of the Marhaba Hotel in Peshawar, capital of the
NWFP. Most of those killed were Afghans, including the restaurant’s
owner Sadruddin and his two sons, two women and a five year-old
child. Witnesses and police said that restaurant owner Sadruddin
was an Uzbek of Afghan origin and he was a supporter of former
Uzbek warlord Abdur Rashid Dostum. The NWFP Law Minister Malik
Zafar Azam told reporters that it was a suicide attack. Azam said
it would be premature to say who was behind the suicide attack,
"but it may be a reaction to Taliban military commander Mullah
Dadullah’s killing two days ago in Afghanistan."
Militants attacked a police post
in the Tank city where authorities imposed a curfew after clashes
between militants and security forces on May 14.
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May 16
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Six people were killed and 15
others, including four police personnel, were injured in clashes
between SF personnel and Islamic militants in the Tank city. According
to witnesses, a rocket fired by the militants landed in the Rizwan
Grain market of the city on Tank-Dera road, killing five civilians,
including two brothers. Clashes in different parts of the city
occurred for more than two hours and both sides used rockets and
light cannons, causing collateral damage to bazaars and residential
areas, residents said.
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May 17
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Police at Bannu arrested three
men suspected of being members of the Taliban and recovered some
explosives from their possession at the GTS Chowk.
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May 18
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Christians at Charsadda have been
warned by some unidentified elements through chalking on a wall
of the Church to convert to Islam or leave the area, otherwise
get ready for serious consequences.
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May 19
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Police in the Bannu district seized
three jackets intended for use in suicide attacks from a Lahore-bound
bus. Police checked the bus on a tip off, and found the jackets
packed in luggage belonging to Islamic preachers. Each jacket
contains six rocket shells filled with plastic explosives.
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May 21
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Four shops were damaged when a
bomb exploded in a market near the house of federal Interior Minister
Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, in the Sherpao area of Charsadda district.
Police arrested a suspect, Mohammed Saeed, a student of a local
seminary, near the blast site.
Ten oil tankers waiting to cross
the Pakistan-Afghanistan to take supplies for US-led coalition
troops in Afghanistan were burnt in a fire sparked by two rockets
fired at a parking lot near the border town of Torkham. The owners,
the drivers and the area residents managed to save the remaining
10 oil tankers. Each oil tanker reportedly contained 40,000 litres
of oil. The authorities later defused three more rockets from
a nearby mound. According to Shakir Afridi, president of the Truckers’
Association, said that 22 oil tankers and containers had been
destroyed and damaged during the last one-and-a-half months in
different parts of the NWFP but no steps had been taken by the
government to provide security to the transporters. He informed
that oil tankers have been attacked and damaged in Peshawar, Kohat
and Khyber Agency.
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May 21
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Suspected militants blew up a
music shop in a grenade attack in Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed
Khan Sherpao’s village. A dental clinic and a computer business
were also damaged in the blast. Two militants on a bicycle lobbed
a hand grenade into the Wahab Music Centre at Sherpao village
and later fled. However, one of them was subsequently arrested.
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May 22
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The Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal led
NWFP government struck a nine-point peace agreement with an Islamist
cleric who has led a campaign through an unlicensed radio station
against polio vaccinations and education for girls in the Swat
district. In exchange for allowing the FM radio station to continue
broadcasts, Maulana Fazlullah of the outlawed TNSM agreed to now
support the polio vaccination campaign and education for girls,
as well as government efforts to establish law and order. He also
agreed to wrap up all training facilities for militants and making
of weapons, and support the district administration in any operation
against anti-state elements.
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May 23
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Suspected militants abducted three
government officials, including a Military Intelligence (MI) agent,
from Bannu, the hometown of NWFP Chief Minister Akram Durrani.
MI agent Hasan Zeb, Christian Hospital contractor Younas Masih
and driver Akhtar Niaz were abducted on the Bannu-Kohat highway
near Dumal at 6:00am.
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May 24
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Unidentified men fired seven rockets
at a paramilitary fort in Tank city in an overnight attack. No
casualties were reported.
Three rockets were fired at a
police station in Bannu, damaging a wall of the station. No loss
of life or injuries was reported.
Police in Peshawar recovered some
arms and ammunition from a passenger bus on the Kohat Road and
arrested an alleged smuggler. Chief Capital City Police, Abdul
Majeed Marwat, said they received information that arms and ammunition
would be smuggled through a bus from Peshawar to Karachi, capital
of Sindh province. A Kalashnikov, two repeaters, two pistols and
about 1600 rounds were seized from the bus and its driver, identified
as Nadeem, arrested.
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May 25
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In a telephonic address on the
occasion of the inauguration of the basement of a mosque at Kohat,
the Islamabad-based Lal Masjid (Red mosque) cleric Maulana Aziz
asked the Taliban to continue their jihad against obscenity,
prostitution, video shops and other social vices and expand it
to the entire NWFP. According to him, "it is now the responsibility
of all believers to support the activities of the Taliban in the
province against CD shops and obscenity."
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May 26
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A roadside bomb exploded near
a military convoy in the Tank town, killing at least two soldiers
and injuring seven others. Mohammed Idris, an area police chief,
said the troops were going to the adjacent South Waziristan when
the blast occurred. Spokesperson for the Pakistan army, Maj. Gen.
Waheed Arshad, confirmed the attack and casualties.
Militants have warned music and
video shops, as well as clandestine hashish and alcohol outlets,
at Dara Adamkhel to close their business. "The Taliban have
set July 1 as a deadline to abandon all ‘un-Islamic’ business
in the area," local resident Murtaza Khan said. The threat
came in pamphlets distributed in the town. The pamphlets also
warned shopkeepers to stop downloading songs as mobile telephone
ring tones. "All the music shops in this area are closing
now," shopkeeper Jan Alam said.
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May 28
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Four local Taliban militants were
killed in a clash with police in the Bannu district. Two police
personnel and civilian were injured in the encounter, officials
said. The four militants belonging to the Hayat group who had
been patronising local Taliban militants in the district have
been identified as Bahadur Khan, Abid, Muhammad Rehman and Amir
Hayat.
A suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden
Land Cruiser into a Frontier Corps (FC) vehicle in the same area,
killing two FC personnel, identified as Fareed Hussain and Nametullah
and injuring another identified as Masood Afsar. Area Force Commander
Muqabil Mahsud said that the FC convoy comprising three vehicles
was heading from Tank to Boltonabad to secure the area when it
was ambushed. He said the explosive-laden Land Cruiser coming
from the opposite direction rammed into the paramilitary vehicle,
causing a massive blast while another car driven by militants
sped away.
Militants shot dead Mir Zarwali
Khan, assistant district officer of the FC in the Boltonabad area
on the Tank-Jandola road in the Tank city. The officer was going
to Peshawar from Tank when the militants ambushed his vehicle
and opened fire, killing him on the spot. The driver of the vehicle
also suffered injuries. Later, the militants set the vehicle on
fire.
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May 30
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Militants attacked the house of
a senior government official in the Jatai Qala area of Tank district
after midnight and shot dead 13 people, including two women. Two
children were injured, police said. Chief of the Gomal police
station, Sanaullah Marwat, informed that militants attacked the
house of Amiruddin Khan, Khyber tribal region’s political agent,
with rocket-propelled grenades, hand grenades and assault rifles.
He said that the militants had come from the adjoining South Waziristan.
The dead reportedly included six members of the family and seven
guests.
The district administrator of
Hangu, Ghani-ur-Rehman, escaped unhurt after a bomb explosion
damaged his vehicle. Rehman was on his way home from his office
in the afternoon when the attack occurred on Thall Road, police
said.
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May 31
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"Independent cells"
on the pattern of al Qaeda inspired by the Taliban are actively
spreading Talibanisation across the NWFP and Tank district is
the "litmus test" for these cells to prove how serious
a threat they pose to the state, officials said.
There is reportedly a province-wide
offensive on girls’ schools, video stores and barber shops in
the NWFP by the Islamist radicals, their supporters and sympathisers.
These three, viewed as "symbols of Western-oriented life",
are being destroyed by religious extremists in a growing wave
of violence. Four girls’ schools have been bombed and violent
threats have been circulated that girls should stay home. While
no girls or school staff have been killed, girls in some areas
have stopped attending classes, the report points out.
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June 1
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A civilian, identified as Mohammed
Rashid, manager of the Agriculture Bank of Pakistan, was injured
in a bomb blast at Bannu. Mohammed Rafiq, a local police official,
informed that the homemade-bomb had probably been planted inside
the civilian’s vehicle.
Unidentified men fired at least
four rockets targeting the Mandan police station in Bannu. However,
no loss of life or injuries was reported.
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June 3
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Two bomb blasts destroyed two
CD shops in different parts of the Kohat city, but no loss of
life was reported. The first blast occurred at 11.30 PM in Bazaar-i-Mustafa,
blowing up a shop owned by Shahid, though he had already declared
that he would soon switch over to some other business. Another
CD shop situated near a mosque was destroyed when a bomb planted
in a ghee can exploded outside the shop.
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June 4
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Militants have banned the movement
of tribesmen at Darra Adamkhel after 10pm and announced that any
vehicle not stopping for ‘checking’ would be fired at. The Taliban
told local people to remove ring tones of film songs from their
cellular phones and personal computers and replace them with Quranic
verses and jihadi songs. The handbills said that Taliban
would launch an armed campaign from July 1 against ‘indecency’
and those involved in ‘un-Islamic activities’, including music
centres, prize bond dealers, usurers, narcotics dealers, car lifters
and barbers who trim beards. A poster pasted on a wall said Taliban
would provide alternative self-employment opportunities to those
affected by the campaign.
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June 4
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A senior Government official,
Syed Mehdi Hussain, was shot dead in Peshawar. Police suspect
it to be a sectarian attack.
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June 5
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A bomb was lobbed into a private
school in the Hayatabad locality of Peshawar. However no loss
of life or property was reported.
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June 7
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Police at Dera Ismail Khan arrested
Rauf Baloch, a leader of the banned Sunni outfit SSP, who was
wanted in various cases of sectarian terrorism and murder.
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June 11
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The Karachi Police has arrested
three terrorists and identified the suicide bomber who was allegedly
responsible for the Nishtar Park incident in Karachi on April
11, 2006. Two LeJ cadres were arrested during raids in two different
areas of Karachi. Based on their information, the police conducted
an operation in Peshawar, in NWFP where it arrested the third
alleged terrorist. All three of them, police claimed, had confessed
to their involvement in the suicide attack. The suicide bomber
has been identified as Siddiq and is said to have hailed from
Mansehra in the NWFP.
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Approximately 22 music shops have
been bombed in recent months at Charsadda, forcing around half
of the 100 such shops in the area to close down, The News reported.
Similar incidents have been reported from across the province
in recent months: barbers are being threatened against shaving
beards, girls are being warned against going to schools without
wearing veils, etc. In some remote parts of the NWFP, radical
clerics are running private FM radio stations to propagate their
teachings, the report said.
Unidentified people set ablaze
two music shops in the Akhundabad area of Peshawar, capital of
the North West Frontier Province, damaging several CDs and television
sets. The shops were reportedly owned by Iqbal and Amir Nawaz.
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June 15
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A video/CD shop was blown
up injuring two passers-by in the Balokhel area on Kohat Road in
Peshawar. This is the third incident of targeting CD shops in Peshawar
during the last three months. |
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June 16
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A suspected militant, identified
as Imtiaz Khan, was wounded when an explosive device went off before
he could plant it outside a vocational centre in Labour Colony on
the main Nowshera-Mardan Road in Mardan. The centre had reportedly
received an anonymous letter about a month ago asking its management
to order female trainees to observe proper veil or be prepared to
face consequences. |
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June 17
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A man hailing from the Federally
Administered Tribal Areas was killed in Peshawar allegedly by
Taliban as they suspected him of selling narcotics. The deceased,
identified as Syed Kamal Mulakhel, was returning home from his
under-construction building in Mulakhel when motorcycle-borne
attackers opened fire on him. He was reportedly warned by the
Taliban about two weeks ago to terminate his narcotics business.
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June 21
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One person was killed and 21 others
sustained injuries in a grenade attack at a religious gathering
at Bannu. Police said the attacker lobbed the grenade at a Tablighee
gathering opposite the Bannu airport at around 10.55pm. People
present at the gathering reportedly captured the attacker, but
he was not handed over to police.
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June 24
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A security guard shot dead a Taliban
militant when they tried to abduct the foreign principal of a
school at Bannu. Four masked men tried to scale the wall of the
private school and the guard opened fire to stop them, local police
chief Dar Ali Khattak said. One was killed by the guard and the
other three escaped, he said, adding that the guard was also injured.
Khattak identified the principal as a New Zealand national, saying
he had been living in Bannu since 1995.
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June 26
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An explosion destroyed the Singeet
Nigar CDs Centre and partially damaged dozens of nearby shops
in the Shabqadar area of Charsadda district. However, there were
no casualties. Police said the locally made bomb weighed two kilograms.
Earlier, CD shops in the Shabqadar area received anonymous letters
asking their owners to shut down their businesses since it was
"un-Islamic."
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June 27
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Three CD shops were blown up in
the Matani locality of Peshawar. However, no loss of life or injuries
was reported. Owners of the shops, Akhtar Munir, Hamayun and Iftikhar,
told the police that they had not received any prior letters or
calls for the closure of their businesses. This is the fourth
incident of attacks on CD and video shops in the city. Earlier,
video and CD shops were attacked on March 18, June 12 and 15.
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June 28
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Pro-Taliban militants at Landi
Kotal blew up 13 oil tankers supplying fuel to international troops
in Afghanistan. The explosion targeted tankers parked in the main
town of Khyber tribal district, 35 kilometres west of NWFP capital
Peshawar.
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June 30
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Two suspected terrorists were
killed while attempting to plant a bomb in a Hazarkhani warehouse,
in the jurisdiction of Yakatoot police station in Peshawar. Three
time bombs, hand grenades and two kilograms of explosives were
recovered from the incident site.
Two people were wounded in a bomb
explosion inside a bus at a bus terminal in Peshawar. Witnesses
said three buses were destroyed and seven others were partially
damaged.
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July 4
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Four civilians were killed and
two police personnel were wounded in a bomb blast that targeted
a police vehicle in the Swat district. Police officer Saeed Khan
said that it was not clear whether a grenade was thrown at the
vehicle or whether a roadside bomb exploded. A number of eyewitnesses
claimed that a suicide bomber carried out the attack using an
IED near the Kanju Bridge. However, police officials did not confirm
the suicide attack but said it cannot be ruled out.
A police personnel, Zahir Shah,
was killed and four others sustained injuries during a rocket
attack on a police station in the Mata area of Swat district.
The blast followed calls on a private Islamist FM radio station
in the area for launching a jihad against the government
in retaliation for the mosque confrontation in Islamabad.
NWFP police chief Sharif Virk
blamed Maulana Fazlullah, who leads a proscribed militant organisation,
for both these attacks. Fazlullah, who had recently signed an
agreement with the NWFP government, in broadcasts on his FM channel
on July 3 and 4, asked his supporters to take up arms against
the government to avenge the action taken against Lal Masjid and
carry out suicide attacks.
Four police personnel were killed
and two others sustained injuries when suspected Taliban militants
attacked their vehicle in the Mattani police precincts of Peshawar.
The official said that the attackers fired nearly 500 rounds on
the police party amidst slogans of ‘Allah-o-Akbar’. He added that
the assailants had come from Darra Adam Khel, which borders Matani
village.
Another attack was carried on
two security force personnel going on a motorbike in the Charbagh
village when armed assailants opened fire on them from a van killing
Faiz Ali on the spot while his colleague Raza Khan escaped.
A shepherd and dozens of his goats
died when a bomb exploded at a graveyard in the Badrashi town
of Nowshera district.
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July 5
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Four missiles were fired on an
army base at Landi Kotal. Officials of the Landi Kotal political
administration said that one missile landed in a garden in front
of the main gate of the Khyber Rifles and another near an abandoned
army store, about 100 meters from the main gate. However, no loss
of life or injuries was reported. This was the first missile attack
on an army camp in the area.
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July 6
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Four Pakistan Army personnel,
including a Major and a Lieutenant, were killed in an IED attack
on a military convoy in the Dir district. According to the locals,
the outlawed TNSM could be "behind the blast." Dir is a stronghold
of the Jamaat-e-Islami and the outlawed TNSM.
Four security force personnel
were injured when their vehicle was ambushed near Matta police
station in the Swat district. Police said the officials were passing
through Baryam Chowk area when their vehicle came under fire from
a hillock.
A Frontier Corps convoy going
to Shandur to provide security to the polo festival escaped a
roadside bomb blast in the Darora area of Upper Dir district.
However, no loss of life or injuries was reported.
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July 7
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Police in the Mansehra district
released four central leaders of the outlawed Sunni group SSP,
a day after their arrest. Hafiz Alam Tariq, Maulana Amir Mahavia
and two other leaders were reportedly arrested from the district’s
Ghazikot area along with two triple-M licensed guns. Sources said
they were released following interrogation.
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July 8
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Unidentified gunmen shot dead
three Chinese workers and injured another in Peshawar The Chinese
reportedly were engaged in the business of turtles and exported
hides to China and other countries.
An Assistant Sub-Inspector of
Police, Sulaiman Khan, was killed and three constables, Naimatullah
Khan, Rasul Jan and Sawdad Khan, wounded when a police party was
ambushed with grenades at Bannu.
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July 9
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A police contingent was reportedly
attacked on the Karakoram Highway in Kohistan. However, no casualties
were reported.
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July 9
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Unidentified assailants shot dead
an activist of the outlawed Sunni group SSP in the jurisdiction
of Shah Qabool police station in Peshawar. Police officer Latif
said that Hayat Khan was shot dead at around 2 a.m. outside his
Nishtarabad house.
A grenade was lobbed at a police
post in the Tajazai area in Ghaznikhel. However, no loss of life
or injuries was reported.
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July 10
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A soldier, Abdul Ghaffar, was
killed and two others sustained injuries after unidentified people
lobbed a grenade targeting a military checkpoint at Kohat. The
army had established temporary checkpoints in many parts of Kohat
on July 9 in view of the Lal Masjid standoff in Islamabad. Further,
a blast was also reported in a populated area along the canal
road.
In the Lower Dir district, 10
policemen were injured in two bomb blasts. Officials said a vehicle
carrying a police contingent was struck by an improvised explosive
device in the Khal area, injuring five police personnel. Another
roadside explosion in the area damaged a police van, wounding
five more police personnel.
In the Battagram district, rioters
reportedly set ablaze offices of two international relief organizations,
the US-based Care International and the French Red Crescent, and
blocked the Karakoram Highway. The tribesmen reportedly took positions
at hilltops in groups and fired shots on passenger vehicles intermittently,
residents said. Eye witnesses said armed men shot at soldiers
of the Frontier Constabulary, injuring one of them.
In the capital Peshawar, NWFP
police chief Sharif Virk termed the incidents a reaction to the
storming of the Lal Masjid-Jamia Hafsa compound. "Except Lower
Dir and Battagram, the overall situation in the province is under
control," said Virk. Army troops have reportedly been dispatched
to the Swat district and army personnel have also started patrolling
the Mingora town.
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July 12
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A suicide bomber killed three
police personnel, Sub-Inspector Taj Maluk and constables Riaz
and Islam Gul, by detonating the explosives wrapped around his
waist in the Swat district. The suicide attack came moments after
a military convoy passed through the area, informed police officer
Abdur Rashid Khan. Unconfirmed reports said that there were two
suicide bombers.
A roadside bomb exploded when
a military convoy was passing through the Kabal area of Swat district.
However, no loss of life or injuries was reported.
Unidentified people fired 17 rockets
targeting a Frontier Constabulary check post at Bara. However,
no casualty was reported.
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July 13
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Police arrested three suspected
militants and seized an explosives-laden vehicle along with arms
and ammunition and some jackets meant for suicide bombers from
a house in the Akber town area of Dera Ismail Khan. Police also
found seven suicide jackets, 10 mortar shells, two anti-tank mines
and two missiles. The three were identified as Jamshed, from Tank
in the NWFP, and Nisar and Ahsan, both from Mirali in North Waziristan.
President Pervez Musharraf directed
all federal and provincial governments to crackdown on religious
extremism and militancy in the country, reiterating the government’s
determination to free the country from terrorism. Referring to
growing extremism in the NWFP, he directed the provincial security
agencies to combat militancy by carrying out coordinated efforts
in the tribal and settled areas of NWFP. Gen. Musharraf also approved
a plan for the immediate deployment of paramilitary forces in
the Swat valley of NWFP to crush the growing militancy in the
area. He also directed armed forces personnel not to wear their
uniforms in public in the NWFP for fear of backlash from the Lal
Masjid operation. He said the federal security agencies would
execute and monitor all military operations in the NWFP and FATA
and the NWFP government would only assist them.
The government moved an army brigade
to the Tank district. Tank District Police Officer Mumtaz Zarin
said that the army had been called in to improve security and
to stop incursions from the tribal areas. He, however, refused
to comment on how many soldiers were being deployed there, but
said the army deployment was a gradual process. Sources said that
12,000 troops, backed by artillery units, were moved to the Tank
and Dera Ismail Khan districts from Okara. Security forces were
also being deployed in the Lakki Marwat and Bannu districts, considered
to be strongholds of militancy. Besides, troops have also reportedly
been stationed in the northern Swat and Lower Dir districts.
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July 15
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At least 47 people were killed
and over a hundred injured in suicide bombings targeting security
forces in the Swat and Dera Ismail Khan districts of the NWFP
in apparent revenge attacks by militants for the Lal Masjid operation.
In the first attack, at least 13 SF personnel and six civilians,
including three children, were killed and more than 50 people
sustained injuries at Matta in the Swat district when two suicide
bombers rammed two cars packed with explosives into an army convoy
early in the morning. No one has claimed responsibility for the
attack so far. At approximately 4:15 pm (PST), a suicide bomber
blew himself up at the Dera Ismail Khan Police Lines as candidates
took police entrance exams. Police official Safiullah said that
26 people were killed, including 12 police personnel and the suicide
bomber, and 61 others were wounded. Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed
Sherpao said the two attacks could be a militant response to the
Lal Masjid assault. Many of the locals were terming the incident
as act of the banned JeM, which according to them had well-trained
and brainwashed people in the district.
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July 17
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Three police personnel, including
the Station House Officer of Och police, were injured when an
explosive device planted along the Chakdara-Timergara road went
off near Gulabad Bridge in the Lower Dir district.
Police recovered a hand grenade
from the same place at Dera Ismail Khan Police Lines where 26
persons were killed and 61 others in a suicide attack on July
15.
Investigators probing into firing
on President Pervez Musharraf’s aircraft on July 6 have arrested
three more persons for their alleged involvement in the incident.
The three suspects have been picked up from Bannu and shifted
to an undisclosed location for investigation. The arrests were
made after gleaning the phone record of the suspects.
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July 18
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A Military Operations Directorate
meeting, chaired by President General Pervez Musharraf, at the
General Headquarters in Rawalpindi has directed the NWFP district
governments to form peace committees at district, tehsil and police
station levels by July 31.
The NWFP government will hold
a meeting with a 45-member jirga (council) that negotiated
the peace deal with the militants in 2006. "We have been invited
for a meeting with NWFP Governor Ali Jan Orakzai on Thursday (today).
We don’t know the agenda, but the meeting will obviously focus
on the peace deal," said Malik Waris Khan from Khyber Agency,
who is among 45 other elders from six tribal regions to attend
the meeting.
Police defused a toy bomb planted
under a vehicle near a family planning office in the Machni police
station area in Peshawar.
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July 19
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15 persons, including a prayer
leader and two children, were killed and several people injured
when a suicide bomber blew himself up during night prayers at
a mosque at Pathan Lines Centre in the Kohat Cantonment area.
Most of the victims were reportedly army officials. The federal
Interior Minister Aftab Sherpao said, "Indirectly these attacks
are a backlash reaction against the Red Mosque."
Five civilians and two police
personnel were killed and 35 others injured when a suicide bomber
set off his explosives-packed car at the Hangu Police Training
College (PTC). Police official Rehman Gul Khan said the suicide
bomber wanted to take his car inside the PTC on the main Hangu-Kohat
Road where 500-600 police cadets were doing their routine morning
parade. The suicide bomber blew up the vehicle when police personnel
deployed at the PTC gate tried to stop him. Hangu District Police
Officer Ghulam Mohammad said that around 40-50 kg of explosives
was packed in the car.
The federal government has decided
to provide PKR 3.6 billion to the NWFP government to recruit more
personnel to the law enforcement agencies in the province. Prime
Minister Shaukat Aziz said that the NWFP government had asked
for an additional 15,000 police personnel where the federal government
agreed to provide half of the grant.
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July 20
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A meeting presided over by President
Pervez Musharraf approved ‘an all-encompassing strategy’ to combat
terrorism, extremism and growing militancy in the country, particularly
in the NWFP and tribal areas. Sources said the meeting decided
to provide ‘necessary financial and security support’ to NWFP
Chief Minister Akram Durrani to restore law and order in the province.
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July 21
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Suspected Taliban militants detonated
three blasts in the Bannu area.
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July 22
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Suspected militants reportedly
attacked a Frontier Corps checkpoint with three rockets and injured
one soldier in the Bakakhel area of Bannu district.
Security forces defused a bomb
planted near a checkpoint in the Fizza Gat area.
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July 23
|
A bomb exploded near Khwazakhela
police station in the Matta area of Swat district, partially damaging
its boundary wall and windowpanes of nearby houses. However, no
loss of life or injuries was reported.
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July 24
|
At least nine persons, including
a woman, were reportedly killed and 40 others wounded when unidentified
militants fired a series of rockets on civilian population in
the Bannu city of NWFP. Police official Khawaja Muhammad said
that a rocket hit a house at Tafsil Street in the Bannu main bazaar
at around 1:35am. He said that when people gathered at the site
another rocket landed in the area, killing nine people. He said
that another rocket hit a house in the Gopa Khel area, one hit
a bookstore in Chowk Bazaar, while a fifth rocket struck a mosque.
Bannu District Coordination Officer Syed Jamaluddin Shah while
confirming the nine deaths said "I am not sure if the attack was
in revenge for Taliban commander Abdullah Mehsud’s death."
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July 26
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The proscribed TNSM has distanced
itself from the recent bomb blasts on security agencies and also
condemned the killing of security force personnel in the Dir district.
TNSM district chief Badshah Zeb alias Gorkoi Mulla said that his
movement had never resorted to violence against the government
in its struggle for Sharia enforcement in the area. "Security
forces personnel are our Muslim brothers and Islam does not allow
killing of Muslims. No Mufti has issued any Fatwa (decree)
to attack army or police and those carrying out attacks on forces
or in public places are committing murders," he said. He claimed
the TNSM had nothing to do with Maulana Fazlullah, who, he added,
was not following the orders of his imprisoned father-in-law and
TNSM founder Maulana Sufi Muhammad.
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July 27
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Three people were arrested in
Peshawar for their alleged involvement in bomb blasts in the NWFP.
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July 28
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Three police personnel were killed
when militants opened fire on them in the Lal Qila Midan area
of the Lower Dir district. An unidentified caller informed police
about the presence of armed people in a graveyard on Hiyaseri-Lal
Qila road, sources said, adding, as the police reached the scene,
the militants opened fire, killing Additional SHO Azam Khan and
another police personnel. Another police personnel, identified
as Shahzad Gul, sustained injuries in the firing and died later.
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July 29
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Suspected militants fired five
rockets in Kohat from mountains near the Ghamkol refugee camp.
Kohat District Police Officer Vaqar said that five rockets fell
into the fields near the camp causing explosions. But, no loss
of life or property was reported.
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July 31
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Suspected militants killed a FC
soldier and abducted four others after a shootout with the paramilitary
personnel in the Bannu district.
In the Tank district, six Frontier
Corps personal were injured when their vehicle was hit by a roadside
bomb.
Four police personnel were wounded
when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb at Allabad area
in the Swat district.
Militants hurled a hand grenade
at former government official’s house at Kuza Banda in Kabal.
But no casualties were reported.
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August 1
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Security forces raided a militant
hideout at Bannu and subsequently attempted to free seven soldiers
taken prisoner a day earlier. One captive soldier was killed,
three rescued, and the militants escaped with the remaining three.
The seven soldiers were seized by suspected militants on July
31 in NWFP as they rode in two vehicles.
A police checkpoint was blown
up in the Shakardara area of Swat district. Suspected militants
had reportedly planted an improvised explosive device at the post
located at some 15 kilometres from Mingora.
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August 3
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A suicide blast targeting the
family of a government official killed two persons and injured
six members of the family in the Gora village of Swat district.
Four persons, including one police
personnel and a prayer leader, sustained injuries in a bomb explosion
near the Serai Naurang police station of Lakki Marwat district.
Police is reported to have defused
a roadside bomb in the Sambat area of Swat district.
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August 4
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Militants blew up two unmanned
police posts in the Swat district, but there were no casualties.
The Sangota check post in the Mingorah police area and Alam Ganj
check post in the Khozakhel police precincts were blown up. These
had reportedly been earlier vacated due to security concerns.
Colonel Jawad and Colonel Sarfaraz
of the Pakistan Army told a meeting of local elders, councillors
and political leaders that there would be no military operation
in Swat. They said the army had been called in to maintain law
and order, which was why the troops did not retaliate despite
terrorists’ attacks on the army.
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August 6
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Suspected pro-Taliban militants
shot dead an alleged leader of a gang after he ignored warnings
to stop criminal activities in the Darra Adam Khel town. Residents
said 45-year old Ameer Sayed, had been warned by militants that
he would be killed if he did not stop activities that allegedly
included car jacking, drug smuggling and kidnapping for ransom.
Two personnel of the PAF and a
child accompanying them were injured when a bomb exploded near
their vehicle on the Kohat Road in Peshawar. The Bhana Manri police
said the explosive device had been planted on the structure of
under-construction shops along the main road, which exploded when
the PAF vehicle was passing by the place.
Police seized three rocket-propelled
grenades, one anti-aircraft gun and other arms and ammunition
from a house in the Danna area of Mansehra district.
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August 7
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Three people were wounded in a
bomb blast near a police station at Bannu.
A time-bomb exploded at a bus
terminal in Peshawar, damaging a vehicle but causing no casualties.
Militants attacked a Frontier
Corps check post at Bagh Deri in the Khwaza Khela area of Swat
district, partially damaging its walls. However, no loss of life
or injuries was reported. Police also reportedly defused a 16-kg
bomb placed near the check post.
Taliban militants snatched rifles
from personnel of the Khasadar force in the Lakki Marwat district.
More than 12 militants came to the Kotikhawa check post in the
Shadikhel locality in three vehicles and snatched rifles from
personnel of the Khasadar force. "Anyone among you if seen at
the check post in future will be killed," sources quoted Taliban
militants as having told the personnel.
Police arrested at least 14 people,
including 11 suspected militants, trying to illegally enter Balochistan
from the NWFP and also seized a large cache of weapons. Alleged
foreign militants were reportedly en route to Balochistan via
Dera Ismail Khan in two trucks, but security forces cordoned off
the area and arrested them. Tajik nationals Agha Muhammad, Abdul
Ghaffar, Samiullah and Bashir, Uzbek nationals Muhammad Hussain,
Shah Wali, Muhammad Latif, Sheer Ahmed and Muhammad Taqqi, and
an Afghan, Wahidullah, were arrested. Three local aides - Abdullah,
Sarwar Khan and Hakeem Khan - were also arrested.
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August 8
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Taliban militants captured Chargano
village at Darra Adamkhel when rival tribesmen surrendered to
them after clashes which left five people dead and at least 10
others injured. Witnesses said that some 20 families of the Qasimkhel
tribe surrendered themselves to the militants after 35-hour-long
gun fight between the two sides. Both sides targeted each other’s
positions with rockets and heavy machine-guns. After capturing
the village, the Taliban militants were seen looting houses of
tribesmen belonging to Qasimkhel.
A mortar shell hit a house in
the Manikhel area, injuring six people while one child was wounded
when a shell struck a compound in the Bazikhel village.
Militants fired five rockets,
which landed in different areas of the Hangu city. However, no
loss of life or injuries was reported.
The police foiled a terrorist
attempt to target hit the Peshawar International Airport and seized
five missiles aimed at the airport. The missiles had been placed
on the bed of the Bara River near the Bazidkhel village.
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August 10
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The Taliban blew up eight houses
of alleged criminals in a "drive against anti-social elements"
at Darra Adam Khel. The Taliban |