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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Timeline- 2013


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January 1
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Seven persons, including six women,
working for a NGO, were shot dead at Sher Afzal Kalley area in
Swabi District of KP. An employee for Support with Working Solutions
(SWWS) organisation, working on health and education, told that
the van was on its way from a centre of the NGO when the gunmen
ambushed it at Sher Afzal Kalley. The driver of the vehicle carrying
the local NGO staff was wounded critically, District Police Officer
Abdur Rashid said.
Police foiled a terrorism bid
in the Sarband area of Peshawar, the provincial capital of KP
by defusing a 70-kilogramme bomb. The bomb was planted in a drum
outside a tribal elder's house in the semi-tribal village of Keena
Bala. The Bomb Disposal Squad neutralised the bomb.
Unidentified militants exploded
two home-made explosive devices at boys' primary school at Dallokhel
village in Lakki Marwat, damaging a portion of its boundary wall.
An official said that the bombs weighed 2.5 kilogrammes each and
the watchman who was present in the school building remained unhurt.
In another such incident the same
night, unidentified assailants attacked a house with a hand grenade
in Abakhel village.
Sub-Divisional Education Officer
Rehmatullah Khan asked the heads of primary schools to ensure
presence of watchmen in their respective schools during night
time. The instructions to this effect have been delivered to headmasters
in Meenakhel, Tajazai, Serai Gambila, Tattarkhel, Gandi Khankhel
and Kala Manjiwala circles.
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January 2
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Five students received minor injuries
slightly when an explosive device went off at University of Peshawar
in Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. About
one kilogram of explosives were used in the blast occurred in
the conference hall of Institute of Islamic and Arabic Studies,
UoP, Campus Police Station SHO Saidullah Afirdi said.
Dera Ismail Khan Police busted
the network involved in two bomb attacks on Ashura processions
and arrested four top members of the group, a Senior Police Official
said. DIG of Police, Dera Ismail Khan, Qazi Jamilur Rahman told
reporters that four persons associated with the LeJ and the TTP
were arrested and suicide jackets, detonators and explosives and
ammunition recovered from their hideouts.
A single-member Peshawar High
Court bench directed the Provincial Government to raise money
from philanthropists for safe release of eight Water and Power
Development Authority workers abducted over four months back.
The WAPDA workers were abducted by militants on August 15 when
they were on the way to Tank District from the dam site in South
Waziristan Agency of FATA. The abductors have demanded PKR 150
million ransom. At the same time, the court asked the families
of the abductees not to protest, observing that the act may threaten
the life of their members. While issuing these directions, Chief
Justice Dost Mohammad Khan gave another week to the Government
for the safe recovery of the WAPDA workers associated with Gomal
Zam dam project, and adjourned hearing to January 10.
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| January 3 |
The bullet-riddled body of a local
mosque's prayer leader was found in the Shahmansoor Mountains
of Swabi District. The prayer leader, Naseebullah alias Zarbat
Khan, belonged to Orakzai Agency of FATA and he went missing after
he offered Asr prayer in his mosque.
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| January 4 |
Two persons were killed and one
another injured in a bomb explosion in Badhaber area on the outskirts
of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. A local
cricketer Ijaz Khan along with his friend Aman was returning from
the playground after a match when they were hit by the powerful
bomb.
A man, suspected of involvement
in the January 1 murder of seven aid workers in Swabi, was killed
in an exchange of gunfire with Police. The suspect, who had holed
up in a house in the Gar area of Swabi District, was among the
gunmen who killed the seven workers, Swabi District Police Officer
Abdur Rashid Khan was quoted as saying. His companion, a suspected
accomplice, escaped, officials said. Khan said that a motorcycle
and a pistol that was used in the killing had been recovered from
the suspected terrorists.
The militants also stormed a security
post in Mera Matani area of Peshawar in the evening. The alert
Police commandos and Frontier Constabulary personnel resisted
the attack. The exchange of fire continued for some time before
the attackers escaped. No casualty was reported in the attack.
Explosives planted at the building
of a private school in Hassan Garhi went off. The explosion was
heard in many parts of the provincial capital. However, no casualty
was reported in the blast that slightly damaged the boundary wall
of the school.
Unidentified militants blew up
a house in the Kaingar village of Bannu District. Luckily, no
loss to human life took place. However, the house was badly damaged
by the powerful explosion.
Three person sustained injuries
in a blast in the limits of Miryan Police Station. The sources
said a blast outside the hujra, of one Qalandar Khan injured him
and also Sher Dawar and Izzat Khan. The Sources said that it could
not be ascertained whether it was a hand-grenade attack or explosives
were planted outside the hujra.
Four explosions destroyed the
under-construction District Jail in Rehmanabad area of Hangu.
Talking to reporters, DPO Dr Mian Saeed Ahmed said that militants
had placed explosives inside the under-construction jail building
in Rehmanabad and triggered the explosions around midnight. The
BDU officials said that 35 kilograms of explosives had been used
in the four blasts. 'Spokesman' for the TTP, Darra Adamkhel chapter,
Muhammad, claimed responsibility for blowing up the under-construction
prison.
Police arrested two brothers in
Baffa area of Mansehra District over allegedly threatening a lady
health worker of dire consequences for administering anti-polio
drops to children in their village. The FIR was lodged on the
written complaint of lady health worker Shabnam Bibi. In her application
addressed to the district health officer, she stated that Shamsur
Rehman and his brother Saifur Rehman threatened her of dire consequences
during the anti-polio drive in December 2012.
SFs arrested a militant 'commander'
of LI during a search operation in Jalozai camp. The sources said
that the SFs sealed the phase-I in "S" sector at the camp and
launched a search operation at 11am. During the operation, Abdul
Haq was arrested and taken to an undisclosed location for interrogation.
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| January 6 |
An explosive device went off near
the hujra of an official of a NGO in Arakh area of Razar tehsil
in Swabi District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The sources said that
unidentified persons had planted two bombs near the main gate
of the hujra of Fazal Muhammad in Arakh area and triggered the
explosion. The blast damaged the main gate and boundary walls
of the structure but didn't cause any casualty. The sources added
the personnel of the BDU recovered a second bomb and defused it.
Six rockets were fired at Bannu
cantonment (Bannu District) from an unspecified direction. However,
no loss of life or property was reported. The local Police officials
said that five of the rockets fell in an open area, while one
hit a residential colony of the Irrigation Department.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information
Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain said that the strength of militants
has increased so alarmingly that now, they can reach anywhere
they want to carry out their activities. "The time has come to
take the final decision on whether to hold dialogue with militants
or to begin a meaningful operation against them," the Minister
Mian Iftikhar Hussain told the provincial assembly on a point
of order about the recent acts of militancy, especially the killing
of seven aid workers, including six women, in Swabi.
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| January 7 |
Three militants and a Police Officer
were killed and a Constable was injured in separate incidents
of firing in Lakki Marwat District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According
to official sources, a Police team headed by DPO Mohammad Idrees
Khan surrounded a house in Abakhel village after a tip that militants
were hiding there. Militants opened fire when Police entered the
house, killing the SHO Mohammad Ismail and injuring a Constable
of the elite force, Zahid Ali. Two militants died when Police
retaliated.
Two suspected militants on a motorbike
attacked a patrol party of Ghaznikhel Police when they signalled
them to stop near Balkhi Koroona area. Police opened fire, killing
one of the attackers. The other suspect was arrested and seven
grenades, four Kalashnikovs and live rounds were recovered from
his possession.
Militants made a serious threat
to the Government against re-starting anti-polio campaign by planting
a bomb weighing three kilograms in a health centre in the Rashidabad
area of Peshawar (Peshawar District), the provincial capital of
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The bomb was, however, detected and defused.
They also found a piece of paper with a message for the Government
and senior health department authorities. "The letter carried
a message, apparently from the militants, for the government authorities."
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| January 8 |
Three Policemen were injured when
unidentified assailants lobbed a hand grenade at them in the Swabi
District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The Policemen were on routine
patrolling in the Swabi bazaar (market) when the attack happened.
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| January 10 |
At least 30 members of the Tablighi
Jamaat were killed and more than 70 were injured in a suicide
blast inside the Tablighi Markaz located on the Takhta Band Road
in Mingora city, the headquarters of Swat District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
Some Police Officials initially claimed that the blast was caused
by a gas cylinder but DIG Malakand Akhtar Hayat later confirmed
that it was a terrorist act.
At least seven militants were
killed when SF pounded the hills of Darra Adamkhel town of Kohat
District with artillery shelling.
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| January 11 |
Police arrested 40 people in connection
with the January 10 bomb blast at a Tablighi Jamaat centre in
Takhtaband area of Mingora area of Swat District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Superintendent of Police (SP, Investigation) Irshad told Dawn
that five kilogrammes explosive device was used in the blast.
No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack. As
reported earlier, 30 people were killed in the blast.
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| January 12 |
Unidentified assailants shot dead
in-charge nurse of the District Headquarter Hospital at a bus
stop in Hakeemabad area of Nowshera in same District in Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa. Officials said the nurse Farzana Kawsar, wife of
Sajjawal Khan of Hakeemabad, was waiting for office vehicle at
the bus stop when unidentified assailants opened fire on her.
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| January 13 |
Three security personnel were
injured when their vehicle came under a bomb attack in Shabqadar
area of Charsadda District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The vehicle
was passing the Qala Shah Baig area when a remote-controlled bomb
planted on the road hit it. Three security personnel and a passer-by
were injured. The security personnel were identified as Asif,
Asim and Ashar Mahmood.
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| January 16 |
Unidentified armed assailants
shot dead an Afghan prayer leader, identified as Abdul Malik,
in the Banda Shiekh Ismail area of Akbarpura in Nowshera District
of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The house of an official of the
IB was partially damaged in an explosion in Bannu District of
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The sources said that the explosive device
was planted near the main entrance of the house.
The building of Government Middle
School was partially damaged when an Explosive Device planted
by unidentified militants went off in Shahdand area of Loundkhor
in Mardan District, but no causalities were reported.
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| January 17 |
Unidentified militants blew up
a CD shop at Chowki Mamraiz area of Nowshera District.
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| January 18 |
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Home Department
has approved a plan to renovate 274 Police mobile vans turning
them into bullet-proof vehicles in the wake of security situation.
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government
proposed amendments to the relevant laws to protect the identity
of judges, prosecutors and witnesses in terrorism related cases.
The proposal has been sent to the Federal Government in writing,
according to provincial Home Secretary Azam Khan.
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| January 19 |
Three unidentified militants entered
a house in Kot Azam Village in Tank District and killed two persons.
According to the SFs, three men, wearing uniform, entered the
house of Ramzan and Rehman in the Kot Azam Village and shot them
dead before fleeing the scene.
A girl's primary school was blown
up by unidentified militants in Badabher, a suburban area of the
Peshawar city. According to the details, miscreants planted explosives
near the main gate of the school which is situated in Mashoo Khel
Village and detonated it with a remote control. Two rooms of the
school were damaged completely, while the blast also affected
some other sections of the school's building.
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| January 20 |
Police arrested four militants
following exchange of fire in Sarband area on the outskirts of
Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According
to the sources, the encounter took place when the militants opened
fire at Police near Riaz Shaheed checkpoint. Police retaliation
injured one attacker. Police arrested the injured attacker and
the other four militants.
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| January 21 |
Unidentified militants abducted
a Sikh businessman for ransom from Quaidabad area of Peshawar
(Peshawar District) in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Rakbir Singh, a shopkeeper
in Hayatabad market, was kidnapped outside his house in the Quaidabad
area.
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| January 22 |
In a sectarian related attack,
one doctor, Dr Shah Nawaz Ali, was shot dead by unidentified assailants
in his cantonment area clinic on Liaquat Street in Saddar Bazaar
of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The
apparent reason for the killing was that Dr Ali belonged to Shia
sect, local residents added. Earlier this month, Dr Riaz Hussain
Shah was shot dead in Dabgari area on January 9.
An explosive device, planted near
a CD shop at Bacha Khan Chowk on Charssada Road, exploded damaging
three shops. However, no casualty was reported. According to Police,
the target of the blast was a CD shop.
Unidentified militants exploded
explosive devices planted under two school buses near Chota Lahore
in Swabi District. However, no casualty was reported. According
to a Police spokesman, the explosive devices, concealed in ghee
tins, were planted under the buses parked outside Quaid-e-Azam
International Model School.
A two-member bench of Peshawar
High Court took exception to the killing of two ‘missing persons’
and summoned Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Provincial Police Officer along
with several other officials, directing them to explain as to
why they failed to trace out the culprits involved in the incidents.
The bench fixed February 14 for next hearing after persistent
requests made by the DAG and AAG.
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| January 23 |
Four pro-Government tribesmen
from a militia were shot dead in the hujra of a local person at
Gul Bagh village on the suburbs of the provincial metropolis Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa, Peshawar (Peshawar District). Police was told that
the tribesmen were asleep inside a room in his hujra when unidentified
assailants killed them. A source said that the deceased belonged
to Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency in FATA but they had shifted recently
to Badhaber area of Peshawar owing to lawlessness in the tribal
region. They were identified as Khan Bahadur, Zaryab Gul, Jangrez
and Abad.
Unidentified assailants shot dead
two Afghan clerics at a mosque in Kata Kani area of Hangu city
in same District on in the night. Sources said that the mosque
attack occurred in Kata Kani area, where the Afghan refugees had
been living for past several months. Those killed were identified
as Maulana Zahir and Maulana Mohammad Yousuf. One person was injured
in the attack.
Five mortars were fired targeting
headquarters of FC in Hayatabad residential area of Peshawar.
These rockets, however, caused no loss of life nor did any damage
to public property, sources said. “Militants fired five mortar
rounds in Hayatabad residential area. Three rounds fell inside
Frontier Corps residential complex in phase 6 of Hayatabad and
two others fell in open field near residential area of civil population,”
sources added.
Hayatabad Police seized a vehicle
loaded with weapons and ammunitions. During search of the vehicle,
Police recovered 115 pistols, 16 Kalashnikov rifles and thousands
of rounds. “Two persons were arrested on charges of smuggling
weapons,” Hayatabad Police said.
Twin blasts in Charsadda town
in the District, on the occasion of the death anniversaries of
Khudai Khidmatgar Khan Abdul Ghaffar and ANP leader Khan Abdul
Wali Khan created panic. The first blast took place at 4 pm near
the Motorway Interchange, 10 minutes after the motorcade of leaders
of ANP led by its provincial chief Senator Afrasiab Khattak crossed
the area. Police said a remote-controlled bomb planted by unidentified
men along the road between a CNG station and the Motorway Interchange
exploded, but it caused no casualties or damage to property. The
second blast took place at 11 am when an explosive device planted
in a shopping bag and placed in the garbage dump in front of Zakat
office on Mardan road went off just before the arrival of the
bomb disposal squad to defuse it.
A Government-run Kablay Marzay
primary school was blown up by unidentified men in Battagram area
of Shabqadar in the middle of the night. No casualties were reported.
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police
busted 12 networks of terrorists and rounded up 459 militants
and killed 52 others during 2012, a Police communiqué said. It
said that during the last 12 months 21 cases of suicide bombings
were registered in different parts of the province. At least 21
Policemen were killed and 45 others sustained injuries in these
attacks. Similarly, the statement said 386 cases of explosive
recovery, missile attacks and blasts at CD and barber shops were
registered in which 54 policemen lost lives and 147 were injured,
the communiqué said. “One suicide bomber was held, five suicide
jackets, 33,036 hand-grenades/dynamites, 6,576 kilogram explosives,
31,416 metre prima chord, 497 rocket shells and 988 metre safety
fuses were recovered,” it added. During 2012, a total of 171 Police
encounters took place in which 11 Policemen were killed and 14
more injured, the communiqué said, adding, some 48 dacoits were
killed and 21 injured in these clashes. Police also recovered
4,715 rifles and light machine guns, 8,702 shotguns, 36,420 pistols,
4,923 Kalashnikov rifles, 2,356 Kalakov, 327 hand-grenades, 51
Stengun and machinegun, 33 bombs and 2019,594 cartridges were
recovered.
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| January 24 |
Militants rained more mortar shells
on Peshawar on the second consecutive day as four shells landed
in Hayatabad. Sources said four mortar shells, fired from Shalobar
area in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency in FATA, landed in Phase-VI,
Hayatabad, injuring two children.
Police recovered 75 kilogrammes
of explosive material, two rockets and two landmines during a
search operation in Jaffarabad Colony in Gillani Town of Dera
Ismail Khan District.
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| January 27 |
A patrol party of the Motorway
Police escaped unhurt in a roadside blast in Nowshera town of
same District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Deputy Superintendent of
Motorway Police Sajjad Sial said they were on a routine patrol
on the Peshawar-Islamabad Motorway near Marhati Banda when they
saw a man with a briefcase. “We stopped and approached the man
to find out the purpose of his waiting,” Sajjad said, adding that
the man ran away towards a motorbike on the other side of the
road, leaving the briefcase on the road. The explosion occurred
as soon as the suspected man left the place on the motorcycle,
he added.
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| January 28 |
A blast in a shop in the Sarband,
a suburb of Peshawar, had panicked Policemen deployed at the nearby
checkpost in the night. In the early report Police said the explosion
was caused by a gas cylinder, later, the experts from bomb disposal
unit said it was caused by explosives.
Police arrested two suspected
militants and recovered a huge quantity of explosives and weapons
during a raid on a depot on Ring Road in Peshawar. The arms and
explosives were hidden underground, Ismail Khan, Assistant Superintendent
of Police for the Gul Bahar area, said. The cache included 116
kilograms of explosives, thousands of bullets, rocket-propelled
grenades, 25 mortar shells and 80 hand grenades.
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| January 29 |
Unidentified militants shot dead
Policeman escorting a polio vaccination team in Kala, a village
in Swabi District of KP. The team was heading to a nearby village
after vaccinating children in Kala, when two armed motorcyclists
shot at them and fled the area, Police said. "The team, after
finishing the campaign in Kala, was heading towards a nearby village
when three men armed with Kalashnikovs appeared from sugarcane
fields and opened fire," District Police Officer Swabi Abdul Rasheed
Khan said.
A man was killed and three others
sustained injuries in a blast in Acheeni Mera near Al-Hamra Township
in Peshawar, the provincial capital of KP. Unidentified militants
had planted explosives in fields in Acheeni that went off, killing
one tribesman, Sardar, hailing from Zakhakhel area in Bara tehsil
of FATA and injuring Gul Shah, Fazal and another person, who couldn't
be identified. Some reports said the bomb had been planted near
a gambling den and the militants had reportedly warned of target
it. However, the police didn't confirm this version.
Unidentified militants lobbed
hand grenade on Baamkhel Police check-post in Swabi District.
However, no causality was reported. According to details, unknown
miscreants riding a motorcycle hurled a hand grenade on Police
check-post in Baamkhel area. A car parked near the post was damaged
while the Policemen on duty remained unhurt.
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| January 30 |
The Police arrested a militant,
Asif Naveed, during a raid on a house in Kumharnwala in the limits
of City Police Station in Dera Ismail Khan town of the same District
in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and recovered explosives from his possession.
The recovery includes a suicide jacket, 15 kilograms of explosives
and a pistol.
The KP Home and Tribal Affairs
Department announced team for carrying out inspection of the arms
and ammunition manufacturers and dealers as well as licence branches
of Bannu division. An official statement said the team would be
carrying out inspection of arms manufacturing and dealership units
in first week of February. The inspection team will furnish reports
along with its recommendations to the competent authority by February
11, 2013.
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| January 31 |
At least 10 persons were injured in
a low-intensity bomb blast targeting a Police mobile van in the
Firdus area under limits of Hashtnagri Police Station in Peshawar,
the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According to Police,
the vehicle was on routine patrol on the GT Road near Jinnah Park.
The Police vehicle narrowly escaped the explosion, while six other
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| February 1 |
Twenty-eight Shia persons were
killed and 46 others injured when a suicide bomber struck outside
a mosque just after the Friday prayers in Pat Bazaar in Hangu
Town of same District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The officials of
the BDU confirmed that it was a suicide attack. "We have recovered
the head and legs of the suicide bomber from the spot. Also, a
mechanical trigger was recovered from there," AIG of the BDU Shafqat
Malik said. He added that around six kilograms of explosives along
with pellets were used in the blast to cause more casualties.
Hangu has a mixed population of Sunnis and Shias and there has
been occasional sectarian strife in the city and also Hangu District.
The situation in the adjoining Orakzai and Kurram tribal agencies
of FATA also has an impact on Hangu.
A Police patrol narrowly escaped
an explosion in the morning in Shinwari Town in Paharipura area
of provincial capital, Peshawar. An official of Paharipura Police
Station said an explosive device fitted to a timer and planted
by a road went off at around 6am shortly after a Police patrol
van passed by. The explosive device weighed around 500 grammes
and was packed in a canister.
Unidentified militants hurled
two explosives into the Badaber Police Station in the night, which
didn't go off. Police called the BDU experts who neutralised the
explosives.
SFs neutralised a mortar shell
in Shadheri area under the Kabal tehsil of Swat District. This
was the fifth mortar shell found in the area.
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| February 2 |
Thirty six persons were killed
when TTP suicide bombers attacked an Army camp in Sarai Naurang
area of Lakki Marwat District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. 13 soldiers
and 12 militants were killed. Eleven civilians were also killed
after a suicide bomber entered a house in a nearby residential
colony and blew himself up. Eleven security personnel were wounded
in the assault, officials said. The Sarai Naurang town is a business
hub of Lakki Marwat district, about 160kms south of Peshawar.
Claiming responsibility for the attack, TTP 'spokesman' Ehsanullah
Ehsan said it was carried out to avenge the killing of two Taliban
commanders - Toofani and Faisal - in a US drone attack in January.
"We had sent only four fighters on the mission," he told journalists
by phone from an unknown location, intending to contradict the
Government's claim that 12 militants lost their lives during the
gunfight.
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| February 3 |
Two low-intensity explosions took
place, causing partial damage to a house and damage to a shop
in Hangu town of same District. But no loss of life was reported.
According to Police sources, one explosion took place near a house
on Warasta Road, partially damaging a house. The second explosion
took place in a vegetable market where an explosive device was
planted near a shop, which was damaged. According to the Bomb
Disposal Squad, half a kilogramme explosive material was used
in each of the blast.
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| February 4 |
A Police constable, Sajjad, was
killed when two motorcycle bourne unidentified assailants opened
fire on him on the Kohat Road near Ring Road Chowk in Peshawar,
the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The BDU defused an IED, weighing
10 kilogram, planted on the rooftop of a filling station on the
Frontier road.
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| February 6 |
Unidentified militants attacked
the Malangi Police check-post in Nowshera town of Nowshera District,
prompting an exchange of fire between them and security personnel,
District Police Officer Muhammad Hussain said. No casualties were
reported, and the militants managed to escape.
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| February 7 |
Police killed three suspected
militants who attacked a Police van near Yar Hussain village in
Swabi District of KP. The Police van was patrolling the area when
the three suspected militants opened fire. Police returned fire
and killed all of them, Police said.
Nearly 24 LI militants invaded
a house in Mera Balarzai, near Badhaber Police Station, in the
provincial capital of KP, Peshawar, and abducted five men in the
night. The LI militants fled after taking Lobia Gul, his sons
Irfan and Hazrat Hussain, and their guests Ibad Khan and Noor
Hussain, residents said. The abducted men belong to Zaka Khel
Afridi tribe from Bara of Khyber Agency (FATA), but were living
in Mera Balarzai since the past few years.
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| February 8 |
Unidentified assailants shot dead
a senior Shia lawyer, Malik Jarrar Hussain, in the Gulbahar area
of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Unidentified
motorcyclists intercepted Malik's car and shot him after he dropped
off his children at school. Malik died en route to the hospital.
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| February 10 |
A grenade attack on Police in
evening left four officers injured on GT Road in the Nishterabad
area of Peshawar, the provincial capital of KP. A police mobile
vehicle was also reported to have caught fire after the grenades
were launched, according to eyewitness reports.
An explosion in Badaber at the
outskirts of Peshawar damaged the shrine of Akhwan Salaq Baba.
The explosives were planted beside the shrine's wall, and it was
damaged in the blast.
The Police averted a terrorism
attempt by defusing two powerful bombs near Pando Chowk in the
limits of Chamkani Police Station. According to the Police, the
hand grenade bombs were concealed in shopping bags and placed
near Pando Chowk on the Ring Road.
The law enforcement personnel
recovered uniforms of the national armies of Pakistan and Afghanistan
in Lower Dir, and arrested four suspects. The raid and arrests
were made in Samar Bagh area of Lower Dir district, a stronghold
of pro-Taliban cleric Maulana Sufi Muhammad, the official sources
said while speaking on condition of anonymity.
KP's new Governor, Engineer Shaukatullah,
said that talks with TTP would start in coming months and days
and he would make them a success. These assuring words followed
the oath-taking ceremony to install the new Governor from Bajaur
Agency, replacing Barrister Masood Kausar.
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| February 11 |
Four persons were killed and another
was injured when unidentified persons opened fire on them in Palai
area in Malakand District. The sources said that Jehanzeb, Amir
Bahadur, Sardar Hussain, Hukamdad and Bahadur Said were returning
from mountains after collecting fuel wood when unidentified persons
opened fire on them.
Suspected militants shot dead
a doctor, identified as Dr Tehseenullah, inside his clinic in
Sardar Ahmed Jan Colony on Charsadda Road of Peshawar (Peshawar
District), the provincial capital of KP. Two medical practitioners
killed in the city over the last few weeks.
A heavy amount of explosive material
and illegal weapons recovered from the house of a banned outfit's
member in Madina Colony of Dera Ismail Khan District. According
to details, acting on a tip-off Cantt Police raided the house
of Ahsan alias Sana Baloch and recovered two magnet bombs with
remotes, two electric detonators with batteries, 65 shrapnels,
ball bearings, two Kalashnikovs, one 30-bore pistol and 50 cartridges.
At least 18 senior members of
two religious-political groups were arrested up as the Police
launched a crackdown to arrest suspects involved in targeted killing
incidents. SSP Operations Imran Shahid confirmed the raids but
said eight persons were arrested. "Raids have been conducted to
arrest suspects behind the targeted killings," the SSP told.
A source said that those arrested
included leaders of the ASWJ as well as elders of the Shia community.
Some of those arrested during the raids were identified as Usman
Farooqi, Irshad Haideri, Siddiqullah, Shah Faisal, Jan Farooqi,
Aurangzeb Farooqi, Mohammad Gul, Nasrullah, Sajid, Sajjad and
Jamal who were held during raids in different parts of the city.
The raids started in the morning. Heavy contingents of Peshawar
Police as well as commandoes of the Elite Police Force participated
in the raids.
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| February 12 |
The Government Postgraduate Degree
College in Mardan town of same District of KP was rocked by a
mild intensity bomb in afternoon. However, no casualty was reported.
According to Police, the bomb which weighed five kilogrammes was
placed in the veranda of the Physics Department on the second
storey of the college building and exploded with a big bang, damaging
the windowpanes of two classrooms.
The BDU official neutralised an
explosive device in Sangarh locality of Hangu town of same District.
The sources said that unidentified persons had planted explosives
to the house of a trader Nadim in Sangarh area, which was spotted
by locals. Two kilograms of explosives were fitted to a remote-control
device.
A man was killed when an improvised
explosive device went off in a house in Behzadi Chakarkot area
of Kohat in the night.
|
| February 13 |
Unidentified militants blew up
a primary school for girls in Taja Koroona Shero village under
Katlang Police Station in Mardan District.
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| February 14 |
11 persons, including three FC
personnel, two Policemen and one Levies man, were killed and over
23 persons were injured as a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden
vehicle into a security post in Spin Thall area of Hangu District.
Police and LEA repulsed a terrorist
attack on Miryan Police Station of Bannu District, killing five
suicide bombers while another blew himself up. TTP claimed responsibility
for the attack on Miryan police station.
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| February 15 |
CM Ameer Haider Khan Hoti of KP
narrowly escaped a suicide attack on his motorcade at Mardan College
Chowk in Mardan Town of same District in KP.
SFs recovered arms and ammunitions
dumped in a field at Mastorai and Kas villages of Maidan tehsil
in Lower Dir District.
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| February 16 |
A terrorist was killed and six
others were arrested following a clash with SFs in Bannu District
in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
|
| February 17 |
Faiz Muhammad Khan, a community
Police constable and brother of Adezai Aman Lashkar's leader Waqif
Khan, was shot dead in the crowded Matani market of Peshawar,
the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP).
A Government high school for boys
was destroyed in an explosion which also partially damaged an
adjacent house in Masho Khel area in the night.
The KP Government informed the
Peshawar High Court that provincial authorities recently moved
about 100 detainees to internment centres. The suspects had been
in army custody since it arrested them in the Swat and Malakand
Districts during the 2009 counter-insurgency offensive.
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| February 18 |
Four Security Force personnel
and one civilian were killed while eight persons, including a
senior government official, were injured when two suicide bombers
attacked the Khyber House, office-cum-residence of Khyber Agency's
political agent in the Cantonment area of Peshawar, the provincial
capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Unidentified assailants shot dead
a head constable of the Special Brach at Akakhel area of Gar village
in the limits of Zaida Police Station in Swabi District. The sources
said that Arshad Iqbal was heading to office on his motorbike
when the attackers sprayed him with bullets at Akakhel, killing
him on the spot.
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| February 19 |
A Police constable, Azmat Khan,
was killed when unidentified assailants opened fire on a Police
check-post at Gulo Dheri in the limits of Charssada Police Station
in Charsadda District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
APA of Landi Kotal (Khyber Agency,
FATA), Khalid Mumtaz Kundi, who was injured in the February 18's
twin suicide blasts on Khyber House in Peshawar, succumbed to
his injuries, raising the death toll to seven. Sources said that
the APA had received multiple injuries in the suicide bombings.
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| February 20 |
Unidentified motorcycle borne
assailants shot dead two persons, including a key commander of
a former peace committee, Gul Muhammad Shah, on Bannu Road in
Tank town of same District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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| February 21 |
Two persons were killed and 17
others injured in a bomb blast in a mobile phone shop in Khushal
Market in old Hashtnagri area of Peshawar, the provincial capital
of KP.
Unidentified assailants shot dead
a soldier of Frontier Constabulary and his cousin in Davil Galli
area of Darband in Nowshera District. Sources said that FC soldier
Mohammad Shabir and his cousin Sajid Wali were on their way to
Larri village in Darband when the attackers opened indiscriminate
firing on them.
The Police neutralised explosive
devices, which were placed near the girls' school at Bangashkhel
village in the limits of Mandan Police Station in Mardan District.
The recovery includes four explosive devices and nine hand grenades.
Intelligence reports said that
12 suicide bombers have entered the city to target certain places,
Police and official. Police and other law enforcing agencies stepped
up security checks in Peshawar after the reports. It is not clear
what the targets of these bombers are.
KP Government has reconstructed
70% of militancy-hit schools in the province, Education Minister
Sardar Hussain Babak said. Militants destroyed or damaged more
than 3,000 KP schools in recent years. However, with domestic
and international financial assistance, KP has rebuilt or repaired
70% of them, he said. "The remaining restoration work will be
completed within a year," he added.
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| February 22 |
Unidentified assailants shot dead
a lawyer in the limits of Paharipura Police Station of Peshawar,
the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Police said that
the lawyer was on way to his home when unidentified assailants
opened firing on him. He was public prosecutor in Peshawar and
belonged to Charsadda District.
|
| February 24 |
A Police head constable was shot
dead by unidentified assailants in Yakatut area of Peshawar, the
provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in the morning. Head
Constable Farman Khan, residence of Tauheed Abad, was going for
Fajr when some unidentified assailants raiding a motorbike opened
indiscriminate fire upon him, killing Farman Khan on the spot.
He was a head constable in CID.
|
| February 25 |
Suspected militants blew up a
Government primary school in Badhber area of Peshawar (Peshawar
District), the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Police said that 195 suspected
militants were arrested during a special campaign in Districts
of Peshawar, Charsadda and Nowshera.
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| February 26 |
A Policeman was shot dead while
protecting a polio vaccination team at Ghalla Dher on the outskirts
of Mardan town of same District.
Three journalists survived attempt
on their lives as they were fired at outside the Swat Press Club
in Mingora, the headquterer of Swat District. Senior journalists
Fayyaz Zafar, Shahzad Alam and Murad Ali said that armed men travelling
in a white car opened fire on them.
|
| February 28 |
The BDU personnel diffused an
eight kilogram of IED planted by militants under a bridge at Sarokhel
in the limits of Doaba Police Station in Hangu District of Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa.
813 Police personnel have lost
their lives in terrorist activities in KP since 2007, citing KP
Police Department records. The deadliest year was 2009, when 201
Policemen were killed. The report showed that 108 Policemen were
killed in 2007, 167 in 2008, 99 in 2012, 142 in 2011, 86 in 2012
and 10 so far this year. Another 1,772 Police personnel have been
injured since 2007, according to the records.
|
| March 1 |
Unidentified assailants killed
a Shia trader and injured another at a shop in Kochi Bazaar in
Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, in the
evening.
Unidentified militants blew up
the Government Primary School for Boys at Wanda Zerhan area in
the limits of Lakki Police Station in Lakki Marwat District. Two
rooms and a veranda were completely destroyed while the boundary
wall was partially damaged.
KP Governor Engineer Shaukatullah
said that the Governor's House would work as a liaison office
between the jirga (tribal council of elders) set up to hold peace
talks with the militants, and the TTP leadership. Briefing media
persons along with Governor Shaukatullah after chairing a meeting
of the 87-member grand tribal jirga at the Governor's House, JUI-F
chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman said that the formation of an authoritative
grand tribal jirga gave the message to the world community that
serious peace initiatives are underway to bring durable peace
in FATA and KP by holding talks with the militant leadership.
|
| March 4 |
LEA recovered a suicide jacket
and hand grenade during a search operation in Domail area of the
Bannu District in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
|
| March 5 |
Police defused two IED bombs at
Maiamzai area in the vicinity of Matni Police Station in suburbs
of Peshawar (Peshawar District), the provincial capital of Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa.
|
| March 6 |
The 'operational commander' of
the TTP, Qari Basit, and an unidentified foreigner were arrested
by personnel of intelligence agencies in Kheshgi town of Nowshera
District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
|
| March 7 |
A Government primary school was
partially damaged in a blast in Katlang area of Mardan District
in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
An under-construction building
was damaged in a bomb explosion in Nowshera area (Nowshera District).
Government Officials said that Police found another bomb there
and defused it safely.
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| March 9 |
At least six people were killed
and 30 others injured in a remote-controlled blast inside Jamia
Hanfia Chishtia Mosque in Meena Bazaar of Peshawar, Provincial
Capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
|
| March 12 |
A man and his son were killed
and 20 people, two of them Policemen, were injured as a bomb triggered
by a remote control exploded in Bannu bazaar (Bannu District).
A Bomb Disposal officer was killed
on the outskirts of Peshawar (Peshawar District), the provincial
capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, while defusing a roadside bomb.
Six persons were injured in a
blast just 60 metres from the home of Mian Iftikhar Hussain, the
information minister for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pabbi town.
|
| March 15 |
A tower of a cellular company
was partially damaged in the blast in Togh Sarai area of Hangu
District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The BDU defused an improvised
explosive device in a crowded bazaar near Lakki Gate in Bannu
town of same District.
|
| March 17 |
Unidentified motorcycle bourne
assailants shot dead two Afghan nationals in the limits of Shabqadar
Police Station in Charsadda town of same District in KP.
Meanwhile, four CD shops were
damaged in a suspected militant attack in Matani area on the outskirts
of Peshawar, the provincial capital of KP.
|
| March 18 |
A Policeman and three civilians
were killed and 49 persons, including a woman additional district
and session's judge, were injured in a suicide attack in a judicial
complex in Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Two suicide bombers entered the complex and one of them blew himself
up in the courtroom of Additional District and Sessions Judge
Kalsoom Zaman while the second was gunned down by police. TTP
'spokesman' Ehsanullah Ehsan said it was in revenge "for the failure
of the country's judiciary to defend jailed Pakistani scientist
Dr Aafia Siddiqui" in the US.
An unidentified assailant shot
dead a Shia lawyer and injured his assistant seriously on Dalazak
Road in Peshawar.
Meanwhile, a cell-phone shop was
blown up in Karbogha Sharif of Doaba area in Hangu District.
The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has become
the first province in the country to set up a Strategy and Analysis
Wing (SAW) with an aim to coordinate efforts at combating crime
and terrorism, analysing data and making use of digital and internet
data to achieve its objectives.
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| March 19 |
Unidentified assailants killed
a soldier of FC, Qadir Khan, and injured two Policemen in Shabqadar
area of Charsadda town of same District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Unidentified militants targeted
the residence of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Assembly member Babar Khan
in the Shabqadar area. A militant-planted bomb exploded overnight
outside the house of the Qaumi Watan Party-affiliated provincial
MP. He was at home at the time but no casualties were reported.
Two IEDs planted near the main
gate of a private se school went off with a bang in Batgram area.
As a result the gate and boundary wall of the school were destroyed
while other parts of the school were partially damaged.
SFs launched a massive search
in the rural Peshawar and adjacent semi-tribal area a day after
the suicide attack on the Judicial Complex in the provincial capital.
Dozens of suspects were arrested during the drive and shifted
to an unknown place.
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| March 20 |
SFs arrested about 60 suspects
in connection with the March 18, 2013, suicide attack on judicial
complex in Peshawar (Peshawar District), the provincial capital
of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Police recovered weapons and drugs
from a truck at a check post on Hangu Road of same District. The
seizure included 25 Kalashnikovs and 125 chargers, two shot guns
and three rifles besides nine kilograms of hashish and opium.
|
| March 21 |
At least 17 persons were killed
and 34 others injured in a car bomb explosion in the Jalozai camp
for IDPs in Nowshera District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Two young girls were killed when
an explosive device, they were playing with, went off in a house
in Sakhakot area of Malakand District.
|
| March 24 |
An explosive device went off near
the house of former MPA Babar Ali Mohmand in Shabqadar tehsil
of Charsadda District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
|
| March 25 |
A low intensity bomb exploded
outside the office of a local advertisement company on Dorra Road
within the jurisdiction of Banamari Police Station in Peshawar,
the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
|
| March 27 |
A senior Federal Government official
was shot dead, in what Police said was an incident of sectarian
killing in the Gulbahar area of Peshawar, the provincial capital
of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. "Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a WAPDA
vehicle carrying Town-2 SDO Khawaja Imran in the Gulbahar area,"
a Police official said. Gulbahar Police said the WAPDA official
was targeted because he belonged to Shia sect.
Separately, a tribesman was shot
dead and a taxi driver injured in an attack at Dabgari area.
Two persons were injured in an
explosion near Yunus Park in Peshawar. The blast reportedly took
place outside an arms dealer shop. The building above the arms
dealer's shop, houses the Peoples Labour office for Peshawar,
an office affiliated with the PPP.
A small intensity explosive device
went off near the house of PPP leader Akbar Khan Mohmand on Shami
Road. Police said that no one had been injured and only a section
of the wall had been damaged.
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| March 28 |
Police neutralised three IEDs
in the limits of Matani and Badaber Police Stations in Peshawar,
the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
BDS foiled a terrorist attempt
and defused a 5-kg bomb placed beneath a bridge on Dera Ismail
Khan Road of same District.
|
| March 29 |
12 persons, including four security
personnel, were killed and 35 others were injured in a suicide
bomber attacked on the vehicle of Commandant of Frontier Constabulary
in the province Abdul Majeed Marwat in the high-security cantonment
area of Peshawar (Peshawar District), the provincial capital of
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.TTP spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan made phone calls
to media offices in Peshawar to accept responsibility for the
attack. "We targeted the FC (commandant) for operations against
the Taliban and tribal people."
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| March 31 |
The dead bodies of three persons,
who were abducted last week, were found in the limits of Doaba
Police Station in Hangu District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Two persons killed and seven others
were injured, among them an election candidate, in a bomb attack
on a motorcade in the Janikhel area of Bannu District. The TTP
claimed responsibility for the attack. Calling from an undisclosed
location, TTP spokesman Ehsanullah Ehsan told journalists that
Mr Wazir was attacked because he was part of the ANP Government
for five years. The TTP threatened more attacks against the ANP.
"We are against ANP. We have directed our associates in Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa to target ANP election rallies and all its leaders,"
Ehsan said.
A Policeman, identified as Havaldar
Mahmoodul Hassan, was injured when unidentified assailants attacked
a Police patrolling party in Jungle Khel area of Kohat District.
Unidentified militants targeted
a Government-run girl's school in Bannu city with explosives,
however no causality was reported.
|
| April 2 |
Five WAPDA employees, including
a SDO, and three community Police personnel were found dead in
fields near Sheikh Muhammadi area in Badhaber, a suburb of Peshawar,
the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, after a militant
attack on a grid station. During the attack, the militants fired
seven rockets at a 500 kilowatt grid station in Sheikh Muhammadi,
causing it to catch fire. An official of the BDS, Abdul Haq, said
14 bombs of five kilograms each had been planted to blow up the
offices and the grid station. "Thirteen bombs exploded while one
was defused by the bomb disposal unit," he said.
Unidentified assailants killed
a man, Syed Zulqarnain Haider (24), on Daora Road under Pando
Police Station.
One Laiq Hussain of Parachinar
(Kurram Agency of FATA) escaped unhurt when unidentified motorcyclists
opened fire on his car near Motorway Bridge.
Unidentified militants blew up
a cellular phone company tower with explosives in Darsamand area
of Hangu District.
Security Forces arrested a militant,
known for his expertise in making of IED, along with his few other
accomplices from Samanth area located east of Michni in Peshawar.
|
| April 5 |
One person was killed and four
others including three minors were injured when three mortar rounds
fired from unknown direction, landed in phase-VI Hayatabad area
of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Unidentified militants targeted
a Police van with a remote-controlled device in the Ghaziabad
area of Kohat town in same District but failed to inflict any
causality.
A shopkeeper sustained injuries
when an IED planted by unidentified militants near a mobile-phone
shop went off in the limits of Ghauriwala Police Station in Bannu
District.
No casualty was reported as two
bombs went off near a Police checkpost in Matani and another in
Khazana area of Peshawar. There was no casualty was the policemen
had not yet arrived at the spot for duty.
KP authorities have declared 1,913
polling stations "more sensitive" and 3,213 polling stations "sensitive,"
Voters will use the polling stations in the May 11 General Election.
|
| April 7 |
A compact disc shop was blown
up in the main bazaar of Hangu town in the same District of Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa. However, no human loss was reported in the blast.
Meanwhile, four PESCO employees
were safely recovered after they were abducted by the militants
on Shiekh Muhammadi Grid Station in Peshawar few days ago on April
2.
|
| April 8 |
A powerful blast has been reported
outside the residence of former senator Nasir Khan Afridi in Hayatabad
Phase-II area of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Rockets fired by unidentified
militants hit the house of Raz Gul in Saeedabad area. Sources
said that a rocket landed in a graveyard while another hit an
open plot.
|
| April 9 |
Suspected militants fired seven
mortar shells from the FATA area on Hayatabad area of Peshawar,
the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, injuring 22 people
and damaging several houses and vehicles.
A CD centre and two nearby shops
were damaged in the busy Mian Iqbal Chowk (Stadium Chowk) in cantonment
area. Police said unidentified militants had planted explosives
with the CD shop owned by one Khairullah that went off at around
5:30 am.
|
| April 10 |
A Policeman was shot dead and
another was injured while escorting a polio vaccination team in
Mosam Koruna area in Mardan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The
polio campaigner remained safe in the attack, according to the
Police.
Police recovered two bodies from
Agra road in Shabqadar area under Prang Police Station of Charsadda
District.
|
| April 11 |
Unidentified militants shot dead
a Policeman and injured his colleague in Mardan District of Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa.
A leader of ANP and former provincial
minister Arbab Ayub Jan escaped a bomb attack, however, three
persons sustained injuries in the blast in Peshawar (Peshawar
District), the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Meanwhile, a blast in Matani hospital
on the suburbs of Peshawar caused panic among the people of the
area. A Police source said that the blast damaged windowpanes
and walls of the hospital; however, it didn't cause any loss of
life.
|
| April 12 |
Three persons, including a Policeman,
were killed and three Policemen received bullet injuries in an
encounter at Shagai Road in the limits of Cantonment Police Station
in Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Three persons, including a woman,
were shot dead and four others sustained injuries at Shifa Market
in Thall tehsil of Hangu District.
ANP candidates Rehmanullah and
his son Ameer Rehman survived attempt on life while a party worker
was injured in a grenade attack on them at Shewa graveyard in
Sheikh Jana area of Swabi District.
Four persons, who hired a taxi
for Peshawar, were abducted and their vehicle found abandoned
near Lado Ustarzai in Kohat District.
After two attacks on election
candidates in KP and assassination of a contestant in Hyderabad,
Sindh, contenders would now be allowed to keep five civilian bodyguards
with licensed arms during the polls campaign.
Former Federal Minister and ANP
leader Ghulam Ahmad Bilour called on the election commission to
provide security to ANP leaders receiving death threats in KP.
Addressing reporters at the press club, he said the KP's caretaker
Government has provided very basic security to leaders of the
ANP, and said these ordinary arrangements are not enough to avoid
potential attacks.
|
| April 13 |
Nine persons were killed in a
bomb blast in a bus passing through the Matani area of Peshawar,
the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
|
| April 14 |
A village defence committee member
and local Awami National Party leader, Mukarram Shah, was killed
in a remote-controlled roadside blast in the Manglawar area of
Swat District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. TTP claimed the responsibility
for the attack. In telephone calls to media offices, TTP 'spokesman'
Ehsanullah Ehsan said his men had carried out the attack. He gave
no reason for this killing.
Syed Masoom Shah, ANP candidate
for PK-21 in Charsadda Town of the same District, received minor
injuries while three others received injuries in a bomb attack
in Katozai area of Shabqadar.
Security Forces foiled terror
attempts by recovering two bombs, planted inside two separate
motorbikes, in Bannu town of same District.
BDS personnel averted a possible
terrorism bid by defusing a bomb planted in the under-construction
house of Muhmmad Naeem Khan, the candidate of PPP for NA-13, in
Swabi Town of same District.
|
| April 15 |
Unidentified assailants killed
two political activists and injured three others on Rampur Road
in the Paharpur town of Dera Ismail Khan District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
A bomb blast killed a local leader
of ANP in the village of Banjot in Swat District, the fourth such
attack targeting members of secular-learning parties during their
campaigns for next month's parliamentary election.
The residence of a woman civil
judge was partially damaged in a blast in Shabqadar area in Charsadda
District. However, no casualty was reported.
Police along with the BDS thwarted
a terrorist bid by defusing two high-intensity bombs in the limits
of Hawaid Police Station in Bannu District.
|
| April 16 |
16 persons, including SHO, were
killed and more than 35 were injured when a suicide bomber targeted
the senior ANP leader Ghulam Ahmad Bilour and his nephew Haroon
Bilour in Mundabheri area of Yakatut in Peshawar, the provincial
capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The TTP claimed responsibility
for the attack.
Two militants were killed and
seven persons, including four Policemen, injured in exchange of
fire near FC Fort on Wana Road in Tank town of same District.
|
| April 17 |
Two persons, including a minor,
sustained injuries when an IED planted by militants went off near
the vehicle of the ANP local leader Farooq Khan in Shadheri area
of Charsadda District.
|
| April 19 |
A bomb disguised to resemble a
toy killed a woman and her two nieces in the Korya area of the
Buner city in same District of KP.
Militants attacked a polio vaccination
team in Gomal village of Tank District, injuring two Levies personnel
guarding the workers vaccinating children.
Police thwarted an attempt to
blow up the Mardan Press Club by defusing a 15 kilogrammes explosive
device near the building.
The KP caretaker Government called
for the immediate return of all FC troops deployed in other parts
of the country to strengthen security for provincial election
activities. The Government decided to deploy about 80,000 troops
at sensitive polling stations across the province.
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| April 21 |
The BDU neutralised a 10 kilogram
of bomb planted on roadside in Bazidkhel village in south of Peshawar,
the provincial capital of KP.
Law-Enforcement Agencies once
again started arresting former militants in Swat and other parts
of the Malakand Division, fearing that those militants freed earlier
could sabotage the May 11 General election.
The Attock District Police, on
the direction of secret agencies, have reviewed the security plan
to keep a check on entry of terrorists from the bordering Districts
of KP.
In the wake of recent militant
attacks on politicians and campaign rallies, the KP caretaker
Government is addressing political parties' concerns by announcing
the deployment of Army Quick Response Forces to provide security
at polling places May 10-12.
|
| April 22 |
A student leader was injured when
unidentified assailants hurled two grenades into an election camp
of the ANP in Maneri town in Swabi District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
in the evening. Sources said that about 13 ANP workers were sitting
in Hujra of Nadeem Khan, which is being used as the election office
of the party, when the grenade attack took place. Osama, president
of Pakhtun Students Federation, the student wing of ANP, was injured.
|
| April 23 |
Five vehicles were destroyed and
three others damaged in a blast near a car showroom on the University
Road near Tehkal area of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa. The blast destroyed five vehicles and damaged three
others.
The BDU neutralised an IED planted
near a graveyard in Matani.
|
| April 24 |
A Policeman died while his colleague
and a passer-by were injured in a bomb blast in Judbah, the headquarters
of Torghar District in KP. According to the Police, unidentified
persons detonated a remote-controlled device concealed in sand
near the River Indus area. A police party was deployed to check
the passengers of ferries moving from Judbah to Darband and other
parts of Hazara when the blast occurred.
Two persons, including a woman,
injured in a bomb blast near Sarki Gate area of Peshawar, the
provincial capital of KP. The blast reportedly took place outside
a house.
A toy bomb explosion in Swat left
six persons injured. The injured include three women and a seven-month
old child.
The former MPA and candidate for
PK-67 Israrullah Khan Gandapur escaped unhurt in a roadside blast
in Parori area of Dera Ismail Khan District. The sources said
that Israrullah Khan Gandapur along with his supporters was on
his way home after attending an election rally at Parori.
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| April 25 |
Two Policemen and four militants,
one of them an Iranian national, were killed in an encounter in
Barbara area of Banda Daud Shah tehsil of Karak District in Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa. Police said that another four Policemen were injured
in the clash and two injured militants were arrested. Officials
said that a pre-dawn operation had been launched following reports
that some suspected militants were present in the area.
The security agencies freed 13
more missing persons picked up on suspicion of having links with
the militant outfits, while body of one missing person was found
in Mardan District, the Peshawar High Court was told. A two-member
bench comprising PHC Chief Justice Dost Muhammad Khan and Justice
Rohul Amin disposed of cases of 13 missing persons after their
lawyers and family members informed the court that the detainees
have been freed by the security agencies and they have returned
home safely.
The counter-terrorism strategies
proposed in the mainstream political parties' election manifestos
do not represent what it would really take to restore peace in
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA, according to experts. The issue appears
to be quite low on their priority list with Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz
proposing its plan for taking on "Militancy and terrorism" in
chapter 13 of its 14-chaptered election manifesto and Pakistan
People's Party Parliamentarians declaring it its sixth priority
out of a list of seven point election programme.
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| April 26 |
Unidentified militant blew up
a Government school in Khwaja Muhammad area in Hangu District
of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Two rooms of the school were destroyed
while the remaining portion of the school's building was damaged.
The number of the schools destroyed by the militants in the area
has reached 11.
Unidentified persons hurled a
hand-grenade inside a house in Dhoda area Kohat District, causing
minor damage but no casualties.
A bomb was defused by the BDS
in Bannu town of same District. Bannu City Police official Miranshah
Khan said at around 8am a pedestrian informed Police about a suspicious
polythene bag lying near the boundary wall of Boys Government
High School No 1.
A 15 kilogrammes bomb was defused
in Shabqadar tehsil of Charsadda. Police official Zaman Khan said
they received a tip-off about a bomb planted near Shabqadar Bazaar.
Further, a low-intensity bomb
weighing two kilogrammes planted by the roadside in Sreekh area
of Battagram was also defused by the BDS.
A bomb allegedly planted to target
ANP activists in Mardan was successfully defused by the BDS late
in the April 25 night. Par Hoti Police official Fazal Rabi said
they were patrolling Sikandray area when they found an abandoned
motorcycle parked at the roadside in Sarai Koruna where activists
of ANP were convening a meeting for their election campaign.
A bomb planted near the house
of a bank manager in Amirabad area of Charsadda town of same District
exploded, damaging its boundary wall. Mandani Police official
Rajab Ali said a huge explosion occurred near Khursheed Khan's
house at around 5:45pm. BDS said two kilogrammes of explosives
were used in the bomb.
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| April 28 |
Five supporters of independent
candidate Syed Noor Akbar for NA-39 (Orakzai Agency in FATA) seat
were killed when his election office was targeted with bomb in
the Kacha Pakka area of Kohat Town in same District of Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa (KP) in the morning. The TTP 'spokesman' Ehsanullah
Ehsan claimed responsibility for the Kohat blast and vowed to
carry out more attacks.
Three persons were killed and
26 others injured in bomb attack on the elections office of independent
candidate Nasir Khan Afridi for NA-46 seat was targeted on Charsadda
Road in Peshawar, the provincial capital of KP.
Two persons, including a seven-year-old,
were killed in the attack, while 16 others were injured in a remote-controlled
blast took place when people were leaving after attending the
election rally of ANP candidate Ameer Rehman in the PK-32 constituency
in Swabi town of same District.
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| April 29 |
At least 10 persons, including
two Afghan diplomats and a journalist, were killed and over 60
others sustained injuries in a suicide attack on the University
Road in Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Those killed in the blast included
the Afghan consulate's Business Attache, Qazi Hilal, and an official
of its refugee section, Mohammad Idrees. Qazi Hilal was son of
the former deputy leader of Hezb-i-Islami and Afghanistan's Former
Minister for Justice and Communications, Qazi Amin Waqad. A journalist,
Arif Shafi, was also among those killed, while another journalist
Gohar Ali's daughter, Ayesha Ali, was wounded.
One person was killed and two
others sustained injuries in an attack on the ANP office in Nowshera
town of same District. Unidentified assailants attacked the election
office of the ANP candidate for PK-13, killing one of his security
guards and injuring two other persons. The slain guard was identified
as Johar Ali (19), while the injured party workers included Shahid
Khan and Adalat Khan. The attackers escaped after the attack.
Two vehicles parked in the hujra (meeting place) were also damaged
in the incident.
A passerby was killed and 20 others
sustained injures when ANP candidate for PK-17, Muhammad Ahmad
Khan, was attacked with a remote controlled bomb in Sar Dheri
of Charsadda town of same District. Khan escaped unhurt. Bomb
disposal Unit officials said two kilogram explosive was used in
the explosion.
The hujra and a nearby mosque
were partially damaged when a bomb planted by militants exploded
near the house of the ANP leader Khan Daraz Khan in Hajyanoo Koroona
in Ghundo village in the limits of Katlang Police Station in Mardan
District.
Two unidentified motorcyclists
attacked the vehicular procession of JUI-S candidate for NA-15
Karak and JUI-S Deputy General Secretary Maulana Shah Abdul Aziz
in Jangrezi area of Banda Daud shah tehsil of Karak District.
It was learnt that both the candidates and their workers remained
unhurt in the attack.
Two assailants opened fire on
the hujra of former JUI-F MPA and now independent candidate for
PK-41 Karak-I Malik Qasim Khan in Khojaki area of Takht-e-Nusrati
on the Indus Highway.
A Government boys' school was
blown up with four bombs in the wee hours in Bannu town of same
District. According to Police, four back-to-back bombs exploded
in the school, completely damaging the school building. No casualty
was reported.
Unidentified persons hurled a
hand-grenade at the Bannu woollen Mills on Dera Ismail Khan Road
in Bannu town of same District in the night. Official sources
said that the main entrance to the mills was partially damaged
but caused no casualty.
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| April 30 |
The BDS neutralised an IED in
Badhaber area on the outskirts of Peshawar, the provincial capital
of KP. According to Police, the personnel of BDS were called in
after an explosive filled pot with a mobile device attached was
spotted by the locals in Badhaber.
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| May 1 |
The BDU official's defused two
bombs planted to target two election contestants in the limits
of Mathra Police Station of Peshawar, the provincial capital of
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
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| May 3 |
Two suspected terrorists, picked
up by intelligence agencies from Butkhela area of Malakand District
in KP in 2009 and 2010, were produced before the Supreme Court.
A three-member bench headed by Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad
Chaudhry had ordered the KP Government on May 2, to produce the
two before the court. Mohammad Ibrahim was picked up on Eid day
on Sept 11, 2010 and Hidayat Shah on Dec 23, 2009. According to
the prosecution, both the suspects belong to Butkhela in the PATA.
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| May 5 |
At least two activists of PTI
and as many Police constables were injured when an improvised
explosive device planted on a roadside went off when a PTI procession
was passing from there to attend a public meeting in Gharibabad
area of Takhbai tehsil in Mardan District of KP.
A bomb planted to target a candidate
of the ANP for PK-8 was defused in Khidrakhel village in the jurisdiction
of Khazana Police Station in Peshawar (Peshawar District), the
provincial capital of KP. Assistant Inspector General of the BDU
Shafqat Malik said that around four kilograms of explosives had
been planted in fields outside the house of Farzand Khan, the
ANP candidate for PK-8.
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| May 6 |
A PPP worker was injured when
a remote controlled bomb planted near the office of a party candidate
in Mirzai area of Shabqadar in Charssada District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,
went off. The bomb was planted near the office of PPP candidate
for PK-22 Haji Asadullah Khan in Mirzai area. The PPP worker identified
as Shahid sustained injuries. The BDU personnel said about four
kilograms explosive was used in the bomb.
Two workers of ANP were injured
when unidentified assailants opened fire on them in Chengolai
area of Swat District. ANP workers Nasruallah and Shah Farooq
were returning home from Khwazakhela bazaar in their car when
unknown armed men ambushed the vehicle just a few yards from their
village.
Dara Adam Khel chapter of TTP
warned the teachers to boycott the polling process "in order to
avoid punishment". The warning has been issued through pamphlets
distributed in various schools, residences of teachers in different
areas of Peshawar, like Sarband, Salman Khel, Masho Khel and some
areas located in Badbher. Local found the pamphlets and informed
the Police, who gathered the letters for investigation and to
determine who distributed them.
According to the letter, TTP Dara
Adam Khel has announced that "we are against those people who
are working for democracy and these people are the enemies of
the Islam who want to destabilise our country and Islam through
democracy". Through the pamphlet, the TTP has also demanded that
people support the TTP, through money or participation in jihad
and reject the election. The TTP also warned the teachers and
citizens that they should not participate in election work.
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| May 7 |
At least 12 persons were killed
and 35 others were injured in a remote-controlled blast when a
candidate of the Fazlur Rehman led JUI-F was conducting his election
campaign in Doaba Town of Hangu District. DPO Sajjad Khan said
militants had parked an explosive-laden motorcycle in the main
bazaar and triggered the explosion when the JUI-F candidate Mufti
Syed Jannan along with his supporters reached there to meet the
shopkeepers and seek votes.
Five persons, including PPP leader
Muhammad Zahir Shah Khan, were killed in a remote-controlled bomb
blast near the Babagam village in Maidan area of Lower Dir District.
One person was killed and three
others were injured when unidentified assailants opened fire at
the cavalcade of AJIP 'chief' Shahram Khan Tarakai near Baja village
in Swabi District. Police sources said Shahram Khan and his supporters
were on their way back after addressing a rally in Baja village
when unidentified assailants opened fire. "The AJIP 'chief' remained
unhurt in the attack but one of his supporters was killed on the
spot," said a Police official.
JI leader, identified as Malik
Bahram Khan, an election candidate for PK-93 Upper Dir-III, and
three other companions of him were injured in a remote-controlled
bomb attack in Akhagram area of Upper Dir District. None claimed
responsibility for the attacks.
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| May 8 |
Two Policemen, a woman and a suicide
bomber were killed and another militant arrested with a suicide
vest during an encounter in Rasheed Garhi area of Peshawar (Peshawar
District), the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. According
to an official, terrorists hurled grenades at Police when they
launched an operation in the locality. Elite Force personnel Misbahullah
of Mian Gujar and Wahab Ali of Mashogagar of Badbher were killed
and a woman and a child injured. The Police official said an injured
intending suicide bomber had been arrested and he had identified
himself as Saadat Khan. City Police Chief Liaquat Ali Khan told
reporters that another suicide bomber had blown himself up in
a house, killing a woman. He said the militant had forced his
way into the building after attacking Police, but detonated his
suicide vest after police surrounded the house.
A policeman and two women were
killed and 27 others injured as a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden
car into Domail Police Station in Bannu city of same District
at 5:00am. Officials said the bomber drove the car through the
densely populated area before hitting the Police Station, destroying
the building and several nearby houses and shops. Police constable
Rehmanullah and two women were killed and 27, mostly children
and women, suffered injuries in the attack. The bomb disposal
unit personnel said 400kg explosives were used in the explosion,
which created an eight feet deep crater.
Two persons were killed and 18
others, including a Policeman, women and some children, injured
in a remote-controlled blast in Jani Chowk of Hangu Bazaar in
Hangu District. Police said the bomb was planted in a handcart
parked on Railway Road in Hangu Bazaar. Police Sub-Inspector and
platoon commander Ahmad Hussain was among the injured.
Five persons, including three
Policemen, were injured in a hand grenade attack in Dera Ismail
Khan City of same District. Police said unidentified persons hurled
a hand grenade partially damaging part of the house injuring two
persons. Police rushed to the place but when they reached there,
a roadside improvised explosive device exploded destroying their
van and injuring Police Constables Mohammad Timur and Inayatullah
and driver Gulam Fareed.
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| May 9 |
At least six persons including
three Policemen were killed and more than 10 others injured in
a remote controlled blast near a Police van in Sarmal Nusratkhail
area in Torghar town of same District. According to Police, militants
detonated a remote-controlled device concealed in sand near the
River Indus. A police party was deployed to check the passengers
of ferries moving from Judbah to Darband and other parts of Hazara
when the blast occurred.
Unidentified militants lobbed
a hand grenade inside the building, the meeting place of an Awami
National Party leader, Haider Ali, in Katlang area of Mardan District.
An official of the Katlang Police said that around 12:30am, an
explosion was heard at the ANP leader's meeting place, while a
car and motorbike parked inside were damaged as a result. None
were killed or injured.
The ANP party's election office
was partially destroyed when explosives planted by unidentified
militants went off in the Bhalola area of Charsadda District.
Official said that unidentified militants had planted a remote-controlled
bomb at the election office of ANP leader Asfandyar Wali Khan,
which exploded and destroyed the front of the office that is situated
in Bhalola Bazaar. No human loss was reported.
A bomb planted at the main gate
of an ANP election office in Yar Hussain village of Swabi District
went off, partially destroying the structure. No one was reported
injured or killed.
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| May 10 |
Two workers of ANP were killed
in a series of bomb blasts which also damaged a polling station
and three election offices in Swabi town of same District in Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa. Three people were injured in the blasts. One blast
took place at the MCB Chowk in Yar Hussain bazaar near the election
office of an ANP candidate for provincial assembly seat PK-33.
Two people killed in this blast were identified as Farman Ali
and Arbab Ali.
Police said an improvised explosive
device had been placed near the election office. Officials said
two other blasts occurred in Swabi Khas, damaging election offices
of two ANP candidates for provincial assembly seats PK-32 (Swabi-II)
and PK-31 (Swabi-I). No one was injured. Sources said explosive
devices had been placed in guest houses of candidates Itibar Khan
and Safdar Khan. The fourth blast damaged a Government school
building where a polling station had been set up. School's watchman
Sher Azam was injured in the blast.
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| May 12 |
Two Policemen were killed and
eight other persons were wounded in two separate attacks in Badaber
area of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,
in the night. Police said a patrolling party of the Badaber Police
Station was on a routine duty when two IEDs planted on the roadside
in Malikhel area was triggered with a remote-control. An assistant
sub-inspector Amjad Kamal and a Constable Sohail Khan were killed
in the twin blasts while four constables and two civilians were
wounded in the attack.
Two Policemen were injured in
an exchange of fire with alleged militants in Sheikh Mohammadi
village. Police said the attackers wanted to kidnap the polling
staff and polling agents from the women polling station in the
area who were busy in counting votes.
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| May 14 |
Police arrested alleged TTP 'commander' and target
killer Abid aka Charger and two other militants during a raid
on a house in the Bahadur Banda area of Hangu District in KP.
Hand grenades and other weapons were recovered from the possession
of the arrested militants, District Police Officer Hangu Sajjad
Khan said.
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| May 15 |
A man detained by intelligence agencies since
2011 told the IHC on May 15 that over 500 terror suspects had
been kept in an internment centre in Lakki Marwat town of same
District in KP. Rana Amir, who went missing in 2011, also was
detained at the centre. This was confirmed by a Defence Ministry
Official who told the court on May 2 to ask the KP Government
to produce him before it. On the directive of Justice Shaukat
Aziz Siddiqui, the Interior Ministry and the KP Government produced
Amir during the hearing of a petition filed by his wife Rashida
Amir.
Responding to the court's questions, Amir said
that intelligence personnel had picked him up from his dairy farm
in Rahim Yar Khan on February 10, 2011. According to him, the
agencies initially kept him in solitary confinement for five months
somewhere in Bahawalpur. From there he was taken to Lahore and
Peshawar and subsequently to Lakki Marwat. He told the court that
the Lakki Marwat centre housed more than 500 suspects in about
20 barracks.
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| May 16 |
Three soldiers and two civilians were killed while
six others sustained injuries in a bomb attack followed by firing
on a Security Forces' convoy on the Kohat Road near Sra Khawra
area of Matani in Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,
in the night. Officials said a convoy of the Army was on its way
from Kohat to Peshawar when it came under a bomb attack, followed
by intense firing near Sra Khawra in Matani. Three soldiers and
two unidentified persons were killed in the blast and firing,
while six others were injured.
The member of Damghar peace committee and PML-N
leader Shah Dawran and his guard were shot dead by unidentified
assailants in Mingora Bazaar of Swat District. Police said Dawran
and his guard, Amanullah of special police force, were bound for
home in Damghar from Mingora in a car and when they reached Green
Chowk, armed men opened fire on them killing the two on the spot.
Unidentified assailants killed the driver of a
NATO trailer and injured his helper on Ring Road in limits of
Pishtakhara Police Station in Peshawar. Injured Akbar Ali told
local police, "We had just returned from Afghanistan on a US vehicle
and were on the way to Haji Camp that unidentified gunmen opened
fire on us on Ring Road." The helper said driver Basharat Ali,
of Faisalabad, suffered bullet injures and died.
Police arrested six kidnappers and recovered an
activist of the PML-N from their captivity in Misri Banda village
of Nowshera District. Senior Superintendent of Police Waqar Ahmed
said the Police launched an operation in Khurram Koroona in Misri
Banda for the recovery of Abdul Wahab, the PML-N senior vice-president
for the provincial assembly constituency, PK-5 in Nowshera District.
Accepting defeat in the General Elections 2013,
ANP chief, Asfandyar Wali Khan claimed his party's anti-terrorism
slogan was the main reason behind their defeat. Asfandyar Wali
Khan said that despite their reservations over the general elections,
the party accepts the results. Khan vowed to reclaim the mandate,
which, according to him, was snatched by "terrorists" in Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa.
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| May 17 |
Twenty-one persons were killed and around 120
others sustained injuries in separate bomb blasts during the Friday
prayer at two mosques in Baz Darra village in Palai Union Council
of Malakand District in KP. Local sources said unidentified militants
had planted explosives inside Bar Jumat mosque in Baz Darra and
triggered the explosion when the faithful were offering the Friday
prayer at 1:25pm. "Everyone headed towards the mosque after hearing
the blast. Those offering prayers at the Koz Jumat mosque also
left the prayers to take part in rescue activities," an eyewitness
said. When they were leaving the mosque, the explosives placed
inside the Koz Jumat mosque also went off.
Two security persons were killed while another
injured when terrorists opened indiscriminate firing on a security
caravan in Matani area of Peshawar, the provincial capital of
KP.
Four Policemen were injured when terrorists targeted
a Police vehicle which was on a routine patrolling in the Maryam
Zai.
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| May 19 |
Two persons were killed when unidentified assailants
opened fire on their car in Khal area of Lower Dir District in
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Six children suffered injuries as unknown miscreants
hurled a hand grenade in the house of Raz Mohammad Khan in Kachkot
Asad Khan village of Surani area in Bannu District. The injured
children were identified as Osman, Aiman, Yousaf Khan, Asad Yar
Khan, Irfan and Hajra.
A Police patrol party escaped a roadside explosion
in the jurisdiction of cantonment Police Station. The bomb was
attached to a bike along the roadside in Azad Mandi area. The
bomb exploded few minutes after the Police party passed the area.
However, no loss of life or property was reported in the incident.
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* The Government of Pakistan passed the bill in the National
Assembly on April 15, 2010 that changed the name of North West Frontier
Province to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
Source:Compiled from news reports and
are provisional.
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