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No
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Date
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Incident
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1
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December 7
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The Lahore Police claimed to have
arrested five suspected militants belonging to the Balochistan
Liberation Army for carrying out bomb blasts in Punjab and Karachi.
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2
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October 30
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Lahore Police arrested a Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
(LeJ) cadre, Awais
alias Faisal, from the Model Town area. Explosives weighing
two kilograms and some detonators were seized from his possession.
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3
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October 2
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Police arrested four activists
of a proscribed terrorist group from various areas of Lahore.
Police sources said the men were arrested as part of a campaign
against expected terrorism during Ramadan, adding that
the raids occurred at Wadat Colony, Township, Hanjerwal and Sabzazar.
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4
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September 27
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The Lahore Police arrested four
Afghan terrorists following an encounter in the Gulberg area.
Senior Superintendent of Police (Operations), Aamir Zulfiqar Khan,
stated at a press conference that the men were probably trained
in terrorist camps in Afghanistan and also took part in the war
against American forces there. He said the detainees had admitted
to over 100 crimes, which included robberies and murders, during
interrogation. Khan identified the four as Bashar alias Bashri
and Naseebullah Khan, residents of Jalalabad in Afghanistan, Peshawar
resident Namet Khan and Khan Colony resident Gull Khan. Police
also recovered Rupees 150,000, some gold, two stolen cars, Afghan
and Japanese currency, three pistols, two Kalashnikovs, a shotgun
and a large number of bullets from them.
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5
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September 23
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Police have arrested two men and
a couple for the September 22 bomb blasts in Lahore. Police sources
said that two men were arrested from Sadiqabad with explosives
and other bomb-making material on September 23-night, and on their
information, a couple was arrested from Lahore. The couple, Pathanay
Khan and Zarina Khan, were arrested from their rented house near
Data Darbar shrine and PKR 200,000 in cash was recovered from
them.
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6
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September 22
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Nine persons were killed and over
33 persons injured in two separate bomb blasts. The first bomb,
reportedly a home-made time-device strapped to a bicycle, detonated
about 10.40 am (PST) outside the public toilets located near Minar-e-Pakistan
in the precincts of Lorry Adda police station. A vendor, Ghulam
Yasin, died and 15 persons sustained injuries. Within an hour,
another 'cycle bomb' exploded near a cigarette shop along the
Ferozepur Road in Ichhra police limits, killing four people on
the spot. Another injured person succumbed to his injuries later.
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7
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September 12
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The Lahore Police is reported
to have raided a house in the Walton Road area and arrested two
members of an outlawed group. During the raid, police also seized
two kilograms of explosives, detonators, compact discs and audio
cassettes about Jehad, said Police officer Chaudhry Shafqaat Ahmed.
He did not name the group to which the men - identified as Mubashir
Ishaq and Rana Javed - are suspected of having links.
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8
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September 9
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The Lahore Police foiled a possible
terrorist attack by arresting three terrorists from the Lorry
Adda Area. They also recovered 30 electric detonators, two walkie-talkie
sets, some explosive material and an unspecified number of timer
devices and hand grenades minutes before the terrorists were to
carry out an attack at the busy Lorry Adda locality. The terrorists
were identified as Rana Nukhaiz, Amir Iqbal and Asif Saeed, suspected
to be part of the outlawed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ). "These terrorists
having direct links with some defunct religious organisations,
are well-trained and experts in producing poisonous gases from
chemicals", said Police officer Chaudhry Shafqaat Ahmed.
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9
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July 22
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Lahore Police detained at least
150 people on charges of misusing loudspeaker in mosques and another
15 suspected cadres of outlawed groups, as part of the ongoing
crackdown against Islamist extremism in the Punjab province. Those
arrested belonged to the outlawed LeJ, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Lashkar-e-Toiba
and Hizb-ul-Tehrir.
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10
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July 21
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Security agencies targeted activists
of banned religious groups, including the Hizb-ul-Tehrir, and
arrested dozens of militants, clerics and activists in various
parts of the Punjab province. Sources said more than 50 people
were arrested in Lahore, Faisalabad, Multan, Sargodha, Jhelum
and other parts of the province.
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11
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July 19
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At least 30 cadres of outlawed
groups are arrested in the Punjab province, including 11 at Lahore
and three in Faisalabad.
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12
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July 16
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The Punjab Government arrested
10 people from Faisalabad, Gujranwala and Lahore during a crackdown
against militant outfits. Sources said the crackdown was launched
after the media reported that some London bombing suspects had
stayed at various seminaries.
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13
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May 31
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The Lahore Police is reported
to have arrested a suspected member of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ)
from Harbanspura. The man, identified as Qazi Manzoor and hailing
from southern Punjab, had escaped from Karachi and the Lahore
Police arrested him from a house in Harbanspura and subsequently
took him to an undisclosed location for interrogation.
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14
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May 18
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Two members of the outlawed Sunni
group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) were arrested during a raid at a
hotel in Lahore. Unconfirmed reports identified them as Mohammed
Khaliq and Maulvi Mohammed Sadiq. The latter was wanted by the
police for a suspected role in the killing of an Iranian diplomat
in 1992 and is believed to be a fund-raiser for al Qaeda, an unnamed
intelligence official said.
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15
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April 1
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Allama Ghulam Hussain Najafi,
Vice Principal of a leading Shia seminary Jamia-ul-Muntazir, was
shot dead, while his daughter and a teenage student sustained
injuries, during a terrorist attack in the Model Colony area.
Najafi was on the hit list of sectarian terrorists and had already
been attacked on three earlier occasions.
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16
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March 15
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Lahore Police arrested five LeJ
activists, including Imran alias Bobby, the alleged mastermind
of the Sialkot mosque and Mochi Gate suicide bombings in October
2004. Bobby was arrested from Lahore during Muharram and later
his four accomplices in Jhang.
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17
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March 14
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Mufti Eid Muhammad, an explosives
expert for the outlawed Sunni group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, was arrested
in Lahore. Eid Muhammad, who carried a Rupees 500,000 bounty,
also directed the police to arrest two of his accomplices hiding
in Karachi. According to Daily Times, Eid Muhammad is alleged
to have who rigged Chaklala Bridge, Rawalpindi, with explosives
in an attempt to assassinate President Pervez Musharraf on December
14, 2003, in Rawalpindi. He is also alleged to have rigged a bridge
on the Raiwind Road with explosives in an attempt to assassinate
former Prime Minister, Nawaz Sharief, on January 3, 1999, in Lahore.
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18
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February 15
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A bomb exploded near a gas pipeline
in the Wahdat Colony area. However no causality was reported.
"It was a terrorist activity by miscreants who wanted to destroy
the gas pipeline", said an unnamed police officer. The blast reportedly
occurred adjacent to a mosque, where hundreds of people were attending
a gathering.
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19
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January 30
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Security agencies arrested three
persons from Lahore for suspected links with al Qaeda.
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20
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January 7
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Five terrorists of the outlawed
Sunni outfit, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), were arrested from the
Harbanspura area. The detainees who included a woman were taken
to an unidentified location for further investigations, sources
said, adding that a large number of weapons including grenades,
automatic rifles and bullets were seized.
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