S.N.
|
Date
|
Incidents
|
Killed
|
Injured
|
1
|
January 2 |
LEAs including Sindh Rangers' Anti-Terrorist
Wing and the CTD acting on prior intelligence killed three
TTP militants in Kaimkhani Colony area of Baldia Town in Karachi.
An unspecified number of militants managed to escape the encounter
while two Rangers and one CTD Personnel received bullet injuries.
Two suicide jackets, two IEDs, a 9MM pistol, and two SMGs
were recovered from the militant hideout.
|
3
|
3
|
2
|
January 3 |
Karachi Police released a year-end report
detailing its performance for the year 2017. The report detailed
that 184 criminals and 7,373 militants were killed in 480
encounters in Karachi in 2017.
|
Non-violent (Report)
|
3
|
January 5 |
Sixteen TTP militants of the Ustad Aslam faction
were arrested in a joint operation by CTD of Sindh Police
and Sindh Rangers in Sohrab Goth and Mominabad areas of Karachi.
Firing took place during the Sohrab Goth raid. The militants
were identified as Rafiullah Arif alias Qari, Abdul Majid
alias Mufti, Mohammad Younis Arif Ans alias Yousuf Saleem,
Mohammad Razaq, Shams Alhuda alias Maulvi, Umar Khaliq alias
Hussain, Mohammad Junaid alias Abdul Manan, Junaid Ahmed,
Khan Bahadur, Abdul Gaffar alias Abu Huraira, Mohammad Zainul
Abideen alias Siddiqui Arif Saifullah, Saifullah, Mohammad
Asif, Sanaullah, Abdulaziz and Umar Ali. Arms and ammunition
including hand grenades and explosives were also recovered.
|
Non-violent (Arrest)
|
4
|
January 5 |
CTD recovered ten 'block bombs' and several
suicide vests near Guru Mandir neighbourhood of Karachi.
|
Non-violent (Arrest)
|
5
|
January 12 |
Police Constable identified as Shakir posted
in the anti-street crime squad was killed in a targeted attack
by TTP militants on his way to report for duty at Gulberg
Police Station near North Nazimabad area of Karachi.
|
1
|
0
|
6
|
January 13 |
Four TTP militants were killed by the Police
in an encounter after receiving prior intelligence near Shah
Latif Town in Karachi. According to SSP Malik Rao Anwar the
militants were involved in target killings and militancy related
incidents
|
4
|
0
|
7
|
January 13 |
MQM-L Convener Professor Hassan Zafar Arif
was found dead in Ilyas Goth area of Karachi. He had earlier
gone missing on the same day and there were conflicting reports
on whether there were torture marks on his body or not.
|
1
|
0
|
8
|
January 16 |
Three militants were killed in an attempted
suicide attack on SSP Malir Rao Anwar when his convoy comes
under attack in Malir Cantt area of Karachi, the provincial
capital of Sindh. At least four Policemen travelling in the
convoy sustained bullet wounds.
|
3
|
4
|
9
|
February 5 |
A Chinese national, Chen Zhu (46), who was
a top official at a shipping firm, was shot dead by unknown
armed assailants in a 'targeted' attack at Zamzama Park in
Clifton in Karachi the provincial capital of Sindh.
|
1
|
0
|
10
|
March 2 |
An AQIS militant identified as Ahsan Mehsud
alias Roshan with links to the convicts of the Safoora Goth
carnage in May 2015 was arrested by Police from Mominabad
area in Karachi.
|
Arrest
|
11
|
March 13 |
Five militants and one Pakistan Rangers (Sindh)
personnel were killed in an exchange of fire in Zikri Para
area of Lyari area in Karachi.
|
6
|
0
|
12
|
March 22
|
A man was shot dead and two others - including
an infant - were injured in a suspected sectarian attack
in Sachal area of Malir Town.
|
1
|
2
|
13
|
April 8
|
The CTD arrested four LeJ militants
over the allegations of terror financing through bank robberies,
kidnapping for ransom and extortion from unspecified areas
of Karachi.
|
Arrest
|
14
|
May 6 |
The Pakistan Rangers (Sindh) arrested at least
five suspects, including target killers, during raids across
Karachi.
|
Arrest
|
15
|
May 7 |
Three persons were
injured when unidentified assailants carried out an attack at
an office at Ghatib Shah Road of Lyari Town. |
0
|
3
|
16
|
June 4 |
The CTD claimed to have arrested an 'important
commander' of the TTP, Rehmat Ali Shah, from the City Railway
Colony area of Saddar Town in Karachi.
|
Arrest
|
|
17
|
June 6 |
One Pakistan Rangers (Sindh) personnel was
killed and two others suffered injuries during a shootout
with suspected MQM-Haqiqi militants in Zaman Town area of
Korangi in Karachi, the provincial capital of Sindh.
|
1
|
2
|
18
|
June 8 |
Police recovered a cache of arms form a car
in Defence Khayaban-e-Tanzeem area of Karachi. According to
Police, a patrolling Police team stopped a suspected car in
Defence Khayaban-e-Tanzeem, during checking Police seized
a huge cache of weapons including 11 Kalashnikovs, seven repeaters,
10 9-MM TT pistols, four 30-bore pistols, and a large number
of bullets from the hidden compartments of the car.
|
Arms reccovery |
19
|
June 11 |
The CTD claimed to
have arrested three suspects with links to banned outfits, two
of whom were said to be "highly educated" from Sultanabad and
Jubilee areas of Karachi. |
Arrest
|
Total*
|
20
|
12
|