Terrorism-related Incidents in Lahore - 2015

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January 18

Hafiz Muhammad Saeed, the Chief of JuD, and the founder of LeT, during a rally in Lahore while urging Muslims across the world to boycott French commodities in protest against the publication of sacrilegious caricatures by French magazine Charlie Hebdo said that the UN should declare blasphemy as terrorism and pass an international law against it.

The CIA Police arrested a veiled woman, identified as Maria Sultan, from outside Kotwali CIA office in Lahore for her alleged links with al Qaeda. Police sources claimed the woman was a proclaimed offender and was involved in a suicide attack at Gujranwala Police Office.

According to Intelligence sources, the SFs arrested a local 'commander' of the IS, identified as Yousuf al-Salafi, as well as his two accomplices involved in recruiting and sending fighters to Syria from provincial capital Lahore. Three unnamed intelligence sources said the man, Yousaf al-Salafi, was arrested in the eastern city of Lahore and confessed during interrogation that he represented IS in Pakistan.

JuD 'chief' Hafiz Muhammad Saeed led Friday prayers and delivered a fiery sermon followed by a protest by hundreds of his supporters on Lake Road near Chauburji Chowk in provincial capita Lahore.

LEA arrested two terror suspects from the Manga Mandi area in Lahore District on the information of an arrested terror suspect Yousuf al-Salafi, who is directly linked with the Islamic State (Daish), and shifted them to an unidentified location for interrogation.

January 27

Lahore Police have so far arrested 329 suspects for violating three recently promulgated ordinances by the Punjab Government in January 2015 and booked 673 others for violating the Foreigners Act 1946 and Code of Criminal Procedures 1898 to implement the NAP against terrorism.

March 4

Security around the University of Engineering and Technology (UET) in provincial capital Lahore was put on high alert by Police after the University received a threatening letter from the militant group Islamic State (IS or Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, ISIS).

At least 15 persons, including 13 Christians and two Policemen, were killed and more than 70 were injured when two suicide bombers attacked two churches near Youhanabad neighbourhood in Lahore District, sparking mob violence in which two other militants were killed.

April 9

The CIA arrested a TTP militant and 'commander' of HuM, identified as Hafiz Sanaullah alias Qari Zarar, who is accused of abducting Colonel Imam, a retired officer of the ISI and squadron leader (retired) Khalid Khawaja in 2009 from Lorry area of provincial capital Lahore.

The LeT founder and JuD 'chief' Hafiz Muhammad Saeed held a rally in support of Kashmir separatist leader Masarat Alam in Lahore. This rally came right after Alam was arrested for raising pro-Pakistani slogans and waving Pakistani flag in Srinagar on Syed Ali Shah Geelani's return from Delhi.

April 29

The Intelligence Agencies personnel arrested four militants belonging to Mohmand Agency Chapter of TTP, identified as Mir Khan, Abdul Rehman, Zarab Khan and Ameer Khan, and recovered suicide jackets, huge cache of modern weaponry and explosive material from their possession during a crackdown in Youhanabad area of provincial capital Lahore.

May 15

LeT founder and JuD Chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed while delivering Friday sermon at Jamia Qudsia mosque on Lytton Road in Lahore District warned that without eliminating the secret interference of United States and India in the country, neither the terrorism nor the Karachi-like killings could be controlled.

At least two people, including a police SI, were killed and three Policemen were injured, in a suicide attack near Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore District. The blast took place when a day-night match between Pakistan and Zimbabwe was underway.

The Minar-e-Pakistan located in Iqbal Park of Lahore District remained off limits to visitors over a terrorism threat by the TTP.

A suicide bomber blew himself up while three others were killed in a joint search operation carried out by Police and Intelligence Agencies in Rachna Town and Khan Colony near GT Road area in Lahore District.

CIA arrested two suspects from Lahore allegedly linked with TTP, involved in kidnap for ransom and recovered illegal weapons, along with PKR three million in cash, from them.

A man, identified as Mohammad Din, who claimed affiliation with JuD, was arrested from Lahore District for planning to target foreign dignitaries visiting a private club along the canal through a tunnel from his house.

Seven suspects were detained from different areas of Lahore. Three of the arrested suspects were identified as Qari Attiqur Rehman, Mohammad Irshad and Abdul Razzaq.

Four Police Officials were arrested in two separate incidents in Lahore District, on suspicion of having link with terrorists.

A terror suspect was arrested by the Police and the officials of sensitive agencies from Chungi Dogaij area of Lahore.

Three suspected terrorists, identified as Hassan Punjabi, Shah Qanoon and Imran, were killed and a SI, identified as Mehmood Hayat, was injured during Police operation in Batapur locality of Lahore.

The CTD claimed to have arrested three al Qaeda militants from Raiwind town in Lahore.

Two suspected terrorists, identified as Khalid Mahmood and Amanullah, were arrested from a village near Thokar Niaz Beg area in Lahore.

The councillor of Union Cuncil-5 Abbas Gujjar was shot dead by two unidentified armed assailants near Bijli Ghar on Multan Road within the Sabzazar Police in provincial capital Lahore.

Four LeJ terrorists, including the founding member of the outfit, identified as Haroon Bhatti, were killed while three Policemen were injured in a Police encounter in Badami Bagh area of Lahore.

The CTD arrested nine suspected militants belonging to LeJ from the Farooq-i-Azam Madrassah in the Cantonment area of Lahore.

At least five persons, including two Policemen, were injured when two unidentified armed assailants hurled a cracker at the office of, Din News, in Gulberg area of Lahore.

The CTD arrested Ghalib Ata, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Administrative Sciences of Punjab University, for his alleged association with Hizb-ut-Tahrir (HuT), during a raid in his house in Allama Iqbal Town of Lahore.

The District Administration in Lahore removed anti-Ahmadi posters and stickers from the city's largest mobile and computer equipment market. Numerous shopkeepers in Hafeez Centre located in the Gulberg locality of Lahore displayed signs and stickers prominently on their shop windows, inscribed with statements such as, "We do not do business with Ahmadis" or "Ahmadis are not allowed".

Police claimed to have arrested a suspect, identified as Abid Hashmi, involved in putting up a notice against a religious minority group outside his shop in Gulberg locality of Lahore.

A Punjab University faculty member, identified as Amir Saeed, and one student, Waqar, were taken into custody by the Lahore CTD during a raid on university premises for their links with the HuT.

The CTD of Punjab Police arrested six LeJ militants from provincial capital Lahore. The Police also claimed to have recovered a huge amount of explosives and electronic detonators from their possession.