Terrorism-related Incidents in Lahore - 2012

Date

Incident

January 4

A man, identified as Mohammad Waqas, received serious injuries in an indiscriminate firing by unknown armed assailants in Gawalmandi area of Lahore.

Thousands people gathered at Data Darbar in Lahore in support of the former Punjab Governor Salmaan Taseer's assassin Malik Mumtaz Qadri, and called for his release.

Former Chairman of the Punjab Bar Council's Executive Committee, Advocate Chaudhry Nasrullah Warraich, was shot dead by unidentified militants in Lahore District. Police said some unidentified militants visited Nasrullah Warraich's house, and enquired about his son Mansoor. Nasrullah responded, and as he turned back, the accused opened fire and fled.

A bomb hoax at Atif Aslam concert held at the Al Hamra Cultural Complex in Lahore led to a stampede that killed three girls and injured five others. The deceased girls were identified as Maheen Naseem (17), Sara Nawaz (22) and Nimra (16). There were reportedly between 6000 and 7000 girls at the concert. The stampede was caused when the crowd exiting was told by boys passing by that a bomb was planted at the concert venue, said administration officials of the Punjab Group of Colleges. There was no Police or Al Hamra security inside where guards employed by Punjab Group of Colleges were taking care of the security.

An Afghan girl (9), identified as Haleem, carrying 50 bullets and an Afghan man, identified as Gul Mohammad (25) were arrested by Security Force deployed at the main procession of Hazrat Imam Hussain's Chehlum in Kashmiri Bazaar in Lahore District.

A senior professor, Shaharyar, of King Edward Medical University in Lahore District received threats after he asked a student not to wear the ''Hijab'' (headscarf) in his classes. Shaharyar, the head of the Oncology Department had asked a girl attending a fourth-year MBBS class not to wear the Hijab.