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Incidents
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January 1
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At least 90 persons were killed
when a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden pickup truck
in the middle of a volleyball game in the Shah Hasan Khel village
of Lakki Marwat District in the Bannu Division of the North West
Frontier Province (NWFP). Police said more than 60 persons were
injured.
Hangu District Police Officer
Abdul Rashid Khan said that two suicide bombers were killed when
explosives in their jackets went off accidentally due to a malfunction
in the Zargari area of the Hangu District.
The SFs conducted search and operations
in Khawazakhela, Alpurai, Aligrama, Kabal and Nawagai areas of
Swat and arrested 15 Taliban militants.
Five militants surrendered at
Gwalerai, Jowar and Waliabad area.
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January 2
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At least five Taliban militants
were killed in an encounter with the SFs in Kullachi tehsil
(revenue unit) of Dera Ismail Khan District.
The local Police identified two
suicide bombers who were killed in Zargari area of Hangu District
on January 1.
The Police registered cases of
terrorism against eight militants in Doaba Police Station for
deputing suicide bombers to attack targets in Zargari.
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January 3
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A roadside bomb killed at least
four people in Hangu District, including former NWFP Irrigation
Minister Ghaniur Rehman.
SFs killed two suspected Taliban
militants during Operation Rah-e-Rast at Qadir Banda Post near
Gwalerai.
A patrolling party moving from
Shagai to Piochar shot dead two suspected militants.
Three suspected militants were
arrested during a search operation in Metari Narai near Mir Khoni
and Khajuri.
Police arrested a 14-year-old
would-be suicide bomber, Sharif, at Deewana Baba Police Post in
Buner District.
11 suspected persons were arrested
during search operations in different areas of Swat.
Five suspected persons surrendered
to SFs in Ningulai near Charbagh.
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January 5
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The SFs killed three Taliban militants
in the continuing Operation Rah-e-Nijat (Path to Salvation) at
Mora Kandao in Swat District.
Police arrested four suspected
persons from Swabi District and recovered a cache of explosives
from their possession.
The SFs conducted operations in
various areas of Swat and arrested eight suspected militants and
recovered a cache of arms and ammunition.
Four suspected militants surrendered
at Watakai near Mingora and Sakhra.
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January 6
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SFs killed seven militants in
separate encounters in Kabal of Swat District.
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January 7
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Four Taliban militants were killed
and four others arrested by SFs from different parts of Swat and
Malakand in NWFP during Operation Rah-e-Rast (path to truth).
The FC personnel Noor Sher, who
was severely injured in an attack by militants, succumbed to his
injuries at the Combined Military Hospital in Peshawar. Two SFs
were also injured in an attack on the Do Jang checkpost.
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January 8
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A suspected militant 'commander',
identified as Irfan, blew himself up during a Police raid in the
Adezai village in Matni on the outskirts of Peshawar. Six Policemen
were injured in the incident.
SFs arrested 10 suspected Taliban
militants in Swat and Malakand division and recovered arms and
ammunition from their possession.
Four Taliban militants also surrendered
at Waliabad, Gokhela and Bhai Kalle.
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January 9
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Seven Policemen were injured when
an alleged suicide bomber blew himself up in a house in Adezai
village in Mattani area of Peshawar. During the raid, Taliban
'commander', Irfan, who was the only one present in the house,
blew himself up.
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January 10
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An ANP lawmaker, Alamgir Khalil,
in the NWFP Assembly survived a bomb attack in Pavaka area under
Pishtakhara Police Station area in Peshawar.
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| January 13 |
At least three Taliban militants were killed while
nine others were arrested by SFs during the ongoing Operation
Rah-e-Rast in Swat.
A teenager, Muhammad Shoaib, was killed and six
other boys were injured when an explosive device exploded at a
playground in the Civil Lines area of Tank, the headquarters of
Tank District.
A headless body of a man was recovered by the
Police in the Peepal Kalay area in Hangu District.
The SFs arrested one of the top 'commanders' of
TTP, identified as Rafiullah, during a search operation in the
Tora Warai area of Hangu District.
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| January 14 |
SFs arrested two militants besides recovering
arms and ammunitions during a search carried out in Jandole area
of Lower Dir.
Two caves were discovered in Kass area in Maidan
from where explosives were recovered and defused.
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| January 15 |
The bullet-riddled dead bodies of seven Taliban
militants were recovered while an anti-Taliban leader was also
killed in different areas of NWFP.
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| January 17 |
Two militants were killed by the SFs in the in
Malakand area.
The Police arrested a tribal elder along with
his three sons involved in terrorism while recovering a huge cache
of arms and five suspicious vehicles from their hideout in Khwasi
Banda.
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| January 18 |
Malakand Levies claimed of arresting 13 suspected
persons during a search operation at Salgaro Banda under Malakand
Agency.
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| January 19 |
Eight terrorists shot dead two Awami National
Party (ANP) activists in Pir Baba area of Buner District. The
terrorists abducted Union Council Malakpur Secretary General Amin
Khan and Sultan from the village of Beshonai. They were then taken
to the Ellam Mountain where the terrorists opened fire on the
two activists killing them on the spot.
Police arrested six militants, including a teenage
would-be suicide bomber, and recovered explosives from their possession
during an operation in mountainous Bahadar Baba area in Nowshera.
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| January 20 |
Five persons, including an ANP member of the provincial
assembly, Aurangzeb Khan, were injured in a remote-controlled
bomb explosion in Peshawar NWFP.
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| January 21 |
Five militants, including a 'commander', were
killed in a clash with SFs in Madyan area of Swat District.
29 officials in the NWFP Education Department
were sacked for their alleged links with militants.
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| January 22 |
Bodies of two tribal elders were found dumped
under a bridge on Tank-Wana Road near Pattar village.
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| January 23 |
At least four persons including a trooper were
killed in a suicide car bombing near a Police Station at Gomal,
about 25 kilometres south of Tank District.
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| January 24 |
A close aide of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)
chief of Swat Division was killed in clashes with SFs at Imam
Dheri in Swat.
Taliban militants blew up a girls' school at Shabqadar
area in Peshawar.
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| January 26 |
A Taliban 'commander' was killed by SFs in Swat
District and another arrested in Daggar town in Buner District.
SFs carried out a search operation in Muslim Khwor
village of Dir District and recovered a cache of arms and ammunition.
The NWFP government has sacked 55 employees for
having links with the Taliban militants.
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| January 27 |
Three children were killed in a bomb
explosion in Nanger Khani village of Dir District.
Armed militants opened fire at a
patrol Police vehicle in Mardan and killed the Station House Officer
(SHO) and injured five constables in Mardan in NWFP.
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| January 28 |
Suspected militants blew up a bridge
on a link road connecting Peshawar's Badbher village in NWFP to
Khyber Agency's Bara town in the FATA.
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| January 31 |
Unidentified militants blew up a
Government-run girls' primary school on the outskirts of Bannu
in NWFP.
Troops arrested 10 suspected Taliban
militants from Swat, said a spokesman for the Swat media centre.
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| February
1 |
Unidentified Taliban militants blew
up a tanker carrying oil supply to NATO forces in Afghanistan
on the ring road in the Chamkani Police Station area of Peshawar
in NWFP.
The Security Forces recovered a cache
of arms and ammunition during a search and clearance operation
in the Awarai village area of Dir District.
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| February
2 |
Three militants were killed and eight
persons injured in a clash with SFs in Malikabad, a mountainous
area in Gadoon Amazai, of Swabi District.
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| February
3 |
Three US troopers and four female
students were among nine persons killed when a blast targeted
a military-led convoy in Lower Dir. At least 115 persons, including
95 schoolgirls, were also injured in the attack. The TTP claimed
responsibility for the bomb attack that killed three US troopers,
a Spokesman for the network claimed in a telephone call.
Police arrested two alleged militants
believed to be Afghanistan nationals on Grand Trunk Road in Nowshera
under Nowshera Kalan Police Station.
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| February
4 |
Three of the seven wanted 'militants'
surrendered before the SFs in Malikabad village of Gadoon Amazai
region under Swabi District.
The NWFP CM Ameer Haider Hoti approved
to establish an institutional framework for the victims of terrorism.
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| February
5 |
Two unidentified
militants attacked a check post and killed a trooper of the Malakand
Levies in the Gul Muqam area of Malakand District. |
| February
6 |
The Taliban militants blew up a girls'
school in the Huwaid village, eight kilometres north of Bannu.
Police arrested seven Taliban militants,
including an important militant 'commander', identified as Tahir
alias Ibne Qasim, during raids in Nowshera.
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| February
7 |
The investigators probing into the
two recent suicide bombings in Shahi Koto area of Lower Dir said
that militants fleeing from Bajaur Agency of FATA as a result
of the military operation are behind the terrorist attacks in
Lower Dir on February 3 that killed nine persons including three
United States troopers.
The fugitive chief of Taliban in
Lower Dir, 'Commander' Hafizullah claimed that February 3's suicide
attack in Shahi Koto area was aimed at the US military personnel,
regretting the killing of schoolgirls and harm to journalists.
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| February
8 |
The TTP Lakki Marwat chapter threatened
local politicians of attack for their alleged involvement in protecting
feudal lords and creating law and order problem in the Lakki Marwat
District of NWFP. A leaflet circulated by the TTP in Lakki City
and Naurang bazaar stated that the political figures including
former provincial minister and PML-N leader Anwar Kamal Khan Marwat,
former MNA and joint candidate for by-election Naseer Muhammad
Khan Maidadkhel and Aslam Khan Issakhel had adopted various tactics
to defend "khanism" (feudalism) in the District.
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| February
9 |
The bomb disposal squad defused a
seven-kilogrammes explosive device planted close to NWFP Minister
Ayub Khan Asharai's house in Matta tehsil of Swat District.
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| February
10 |
At least two persons were injured
in a bomb blast in a CD shop in the main bazaar of Hangu in NWFP.
This was the first militant attack after the Government brokered
peace agreement of February 4, according to which the rival sects
are bound not to target shops and houses.
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| February
11 |
At least 15 persons were killed and
24 others injured in a twin bomb blast in Bannu of NWFP. This
is the third of its kind against Security Force personnel in northwest
part of Pakistan in 24 hours. Official sources said two explosions,
at least one of which was caused by a suicide bomber, went off
in quick succession outside a Police training centre in Bannu
just as a patrol headed by local District Police Officer Iqbal
Marwat was returning. Eight Policemen, a child and six civilians
had been killed, the doctor said, having mentioned an earlier
toll of 12 Policemen. He said another 24 people, including two
children, were brought in wounded. "There were two blasts. The
first one was near the gate. The second was a suicide attack.
We have confirmed reports it was a suicide attack," said Sardar
Abbas, the Senior Administrator of Bannu District said.
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| February
12 |
Two militants were killed and a soldier
injured during a clash between SFs and militants in a border area
of Swat and Buner in NWFP. The SFs recovered arms and communication
equipment from the area.
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| February
14 |
Four militants were arrested after
an encounter with the SFs in the Darsamand area of Hangu District
in NWFP. However, their 'commander', Noor Nawaz, managed to escape.
The arrested militants were identified as Adnan, Sher Rahman,
Malik Ashraf and Muhammad Saeed. Two Kalashnikov rifles, one pistol
and rounds were recovered from the possession of the arrested
militants.
The Police during a search operation
arrested 18 suspected persons, including Afghanistan prayer leaders
and defused a rocket in the Tugh Lalma area of Kohat District.
Arms and ammunition were also recovered during search operation.
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| February
15 |
SFs arrested four wanted militants
during a raid on a madrassa (seminary) in the Bisham area of Shangla
District in the NWFP.
The SFs arrested a local doctor in
a raid in the Sholabar area of Bara, as the doctor was involved
in the treatment of LI militants.
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| February
17 |
Three civilians and a policeman sustained
injuries when a suspected militant opened fire on Police in Marghazar
Town of the Bunrh area in the outskirts of Mingora in the NWFP.
SFs arrested a senior 'commander'
of the Swat Taliban, Abdul Rashid, from Nowshera.
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| February
18 |
A Policeman was killed and a passer-by
injured when armed militants opened fire at a Police patrol party
in the Mingora city of NWFP.
The SFs arrested two militants during
a search operation and neutralised the ex-plosive-laden car recovered
near Chunai area in Abakhel village in Lakki Marwat District in
the night.
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| February
19 |
The Police arrested six 'most-wanted'
Taliban militants and recovered 11 kilogrammes of explosive powder
along with dynamite from a cave during search operations in the
mountainous region of Sawaldher, Rama, Katlang and Choora in Mardan
District of NWFP.
Police arrested a person allegedly
involved in terror activities from Jamal Ghari village under Jabar
Police Station.
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| February
20 |
Two suicide bombers attacked Police
Stations in Balakot and Mansehra areas of NWFP, killing a SHO
and wounding several others. According to Police sources, Khalilur
Rehman, SHO of Balakot Police Station, was killed and several
others injured in the attacks at the police stations.
Four Taliban militants were killed
in a clash with the Security Forces in Ogda Takhta Band area in
the outskirts of Mingora in Swat.
The dead body of a person abducted
by the Taliban militants a year ago was found. He was identified
as Ziadullah, a businessman from Landaki area of Swat.
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| February
21 |
Eight unidentified militants were
killed and two troopers sustained injuries in a clash during a
search operation in Darra Adamkhel of NWFP.
The militants launched a rocket attack
on the flour mills of NWFP Minister for Housing, Amjid Afridi,
near Gumbat in Kohat.
Police arrested Maulvi Kabir, one
of the top 10 most-wanted Taliban leaders and a former Governor
of Nangahar province of Afghanistan, from Nowshera.
Three militants surrendered to SFs
in Charbagh Tehsil of Swat District during a search operation.
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| February
22 |
13 persons, including three Security
personnel and four women, were killed and 41 others injured when
a suicide bomber hit a SFs convoy at the Nishat Chowk in Mingora
city of NWFP.
A prominent member of the Shia community
was shot dead while his friend sustained injuries when unidentified
attackers opened fire on them in Yakatoot area of Peshawar in
NWFP.
SFs arrested 34 suspected militants
during a joint operation by Police and FC in Thall, Doaba, Kahi,
Darsamand and Naryab areas of Hangu along the region bordering
Orakzai Agency.
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| February
23 |
The Taliban militants attacked a
vehicle owned by a local lashkar (army) chief in Adezai
village on the outskirts of the provincial capital of NWFP, Peshawar.
The CENTCOM chief General David Petraeus
and British General David Richard arrived in Mingora. Sources
said that Pakistani military officials held a briefing for the
two generals at the Circuit House in Mingora.
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| February
24 |
Three passengers were killed and
three others sustained injuries when unidentified militants opened
fired at a railway coach in the Tor Ghar area of Thall Tehsil
in Hangu District of NWFP.
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| February
25 |
Four militants were killed during
an encounter between SFs and militants in the Charsadda District
of NWFP.
Suspected militants blew up a tanker
carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan in Bhanamari Police
Station area of Peshawar.
A senior Taliban 'commander', Musa
Khan, was arrested along with his two accomplices in Damghar area
of Kabal tehsil (revenue unit) of Swat District.
Police arrested three militants during
a raid at Hajiabad in Charsadda District. Sophisticated weapons
were recovered from the possession of the arrested militants.
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| February
26 |
At least 17 Taliban militants were
killed in an operation in the Pastawana area of Kohat in NWFP.
The SFs and Intelligence Agencies
arrested a nephew of TTP Swat chapter 'head' Maulana Fazlullah
from Pirsabak village in Nowshera District.
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| February
27 |
A suicide bomber rammed an explosive-laden
vehicle into a Police Station in Karak District, killing four
persons including two Policemen and wounding 23 others.
Unidentified gunmen opened fire on
a religious procession in the Dhaki More neighborhood of Dera
Ismail Khan District of NWFP, killing a person and wounding several
others.
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| February
28 |
SFs killed 25 militants in frontier
region of Peshawar in NWFP in the first four days of Operation
Spring Cleaning, according to officials.
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| March 01 |
Seven people were killed and 44 others
injured in sectarian violence in Dera Ismail Khan area of NWFP.
SFs recovered the dead bodies of
a senior Taliban 'commander' and five of his accomplices from
the Madyan area of Swat.
Suspected Taliban militants blew
up a tanker carrying fuel for NATO troops based in Afghanistan
near Jamil Chowk on Ring Road of Peshawar, the capital of NWFP.
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| March 02 |
Two important Taliban 'commanders',
identified as Muhammad Tufail alias Abdullah and Muhammad
Iqbal, were killed by SFs in an exchange of fire during the ongoing
Operation Spring Cleaning in Frontier Region of Peshawar, the
capital of NWFP.
Taliban militants detonated explosives
planted around the house of a pro-Government tribal elder, Malik
Zaliman Shah, in Aliabad area of Hangu District, injuring 10 members
of the family.
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| March 03 |
SFs killed a local Taliban 'commander',
identified as Sultan Azeem, during an encounter in the Malakand
Agency of NWFP. Sultan Azeem's body was found lying by the roadside
in Palai area.
The SFs killed a supplier of suicide
jackets and explosives, Mohammad Iqbal, who operated a key inter-city
network during an encounter in the north-western part of Peshawar.
The Army sources said Iqbal belonged to TTP faction of Khyber
Agency.
The Education Department terminated
the services of five teachers in Lower Dir for having alleged
links with the Taliban. Education Department officials said that
education officers in Lower Dir had carried out investigations
and discovered proof of the five terminated teachers' links with
the Taliban.
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| March 04 |
An IED planted at the Ganj Bakhsh
market in the Mardan area of NWFP went off, destroying five shops.
SFs arrested 25 suspected militants,
including three militant 'commanders', in separate raids in Ziarat
Kaka Sahib and Badrashi areas of Nowshera District. The sources
said the law-enforcement agencies recovered arms, explosives and
important documents from the arrested persons. The 'commanders'
were identified as Maulana Arshad, Maulana Insaf alias Habib,
resident of Darra Adamkhel and Shakeel alias Nasir. Maulana Arshad
was reported to be the 'deputy leader' of militants operating
in Nowshera and Charsadda under the TTP, the sources said.
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| March 05 |
Twelve persons, including four women,
were killed and 33 others injured when a suicide bomber targeted
a Parachinar-bound civilian convoy carrying Shia passengers in
Tull area of Hangu in NWFP.
Five militants were killed in clashes
with SFs in Charbagh and Matta tehsils in Swat Valley of NWFP.
SFs killed a militant, identified
as Abdullah, in Qalagai area in Matta tehsil. SFs also set ablaze
the house of militant 'commander' Shah Wazir Khan in Barikot tehsil.
SFs killed a militant in Narai Sar,
in the outskirts of Mingora, and arrested seven others.
Police arrested three militants,
identified as Noorul Alam, Shaukat Ali and Gul Qadar, from the
Ellam Mountain in Buner District.
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| March 10 |
Six persons, including two women,
were killed and seven others were injured when over a dozen militants
armed with Kalashnikov rifles, pistols and hand-grenades attacked
the office of World Vision International, a US-based Christian
aid agency, in Oghi village in Mansehra of NWFP.
At least 60 militants, including
two would-be suicide bombers, were arrested during a week-long
search operation in Hangu, security officials said.
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| March 11 |
The Swat Taliban 'chief' Mullah Fazlullah
overcame the security siege in the region to flee the valley to
avoid siege, Lieutenant General Masood Alam of Peshawar corps
commander said.
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| March 12 |
Four persons were killed and 25 others
injured when a powerful bomb exploded near the Bara Qadeem checkpost
close to a market on the Bara Road in Peshawar.
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| March 13 |
At least 17 persons including two
Policemen and an army trooper were killed in a suicide attack
at a checkpoint manned by Police and military personnel at Mingora
town of Swat District in NWFP.
A civilian, Ikramullah, was killed
in a landmine explosion in the Gara Akhunzada area of Dera Ismail
Khan in NWFP.
The bomb disposal squad defused a
five kilograms of explosive device found near the venue of a public
meeting of former Chief Minister Mohammad Akram Durrani in the
Cantonment Police jurisdiction of Bannu.
The SFs recovered one kilogram explosive,
five rockets, 10 shells, hand grenades, six Kalashnikovs and 2,000
cartridges from a militant during a search operation in the jurisdiction
of the Kaki Police Station.
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| March 14 |
The Police arrested a suspected militant,
Fida Hussain, involved in planting explosive devices at the house
of a journalist, Misri Khan Orakzai, and at a Police post in Hangu.
The BDS defused another explosive
device planted near the Police post in Mamoo Banda area of Thall
tehsil on the main Thall-Hangu Road.
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