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No
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Date
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Incident
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1
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January 4
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Police arrested three terrorists
of the outlawed Sunni group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ)
from the Korangi Industrial Area in Karachi for their involvement
in sectarian killings. They were identified as Maqsood Ahmed Qureshi
alias Abbas alias Faisal, Azhar-ul-Haq alias
Tariq and Nawaz Khan alias Shosha.
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2
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January 15
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Unidentified men ambushed Superintendent
of Police Choudhury Mohammad Aslam’s vehicle in Karachi, killing
two Police personnel. "According to initial investigations, the
assailants appeared to be Baloch," said Police officer Imran Shaukat.
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3
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February 21
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Authorities in Karachi detained
two top leaders of banned Sunni outfit Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan
(SSP) in a bid to
contain the wave of protests in the city.
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4
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March 2
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A US diplomat, identified as David
Fyfe, his Pakistani driver and a Rangers official were killed
and 54 persons injured in a suicide car bombing near the US Consulate
in Karachi, a day before the US President George W. Bush reaches
Pakistan. The blast occurred behind the Marriott Hotel and in
front of the Naval Central Surgery a few yards away from the Consulate.
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5
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April 3
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Karachi Police arrested Mohammed
Junaid, ‘operations chief’ of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen Al-Almi
(HuMA), after a gun battle, said senior Police official Raja Omar
Khitab. Junaid was wanted in connection with several attacks on
the Police and a 2003 bombing at a private club in Karachi that
injured nine people. The Government had offered a reward of PKR
500,000 for information leading to his arrest.
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6
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April 6
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Allama Hasan Turabi, a leader
of the Shia Ulema Council and the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA),
escaped unhurt while four people, including his son and a guard,
suffered injuries in a bomb blast in Karachi.
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7
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April 11
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57 people, including prominent
religious personalities, were killed and more than 50 people sustained
injuries in a suicide bomb attack at Nishtar Park in Karachi.
The blast occurred at a stage erected in a park where religious
leaders and hundreds of faithful were offering evening prayers
on the occasion on Prophet Mohammad's birth anniversary. Prominent
religious personalities, including Tehrik Awam Ahli-Sunnat chief
Haji Mohammad Hanif Billo, Itikhar Bhatti, Abbas Qadri, Akram
Qadri and Hafiz Mohammd Taqi, died in the blast.
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8
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April 16
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Police detained 12 suspected terrorists
in connection with the April 11-suicide bombing at Nishtar Park
in Karachi.
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9
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April 21
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Karachi Police arrested a suspect
wanted by the Balochistan Government in the murder of Chinese
engineers in Hub on February 15, 2006. Three Chinese engineers
and their Pakistani driver were shot dead on the premises of Attock
Cement in Hub city. Police said that they had arrested Wali Mohammad
alias Wallo and his associate Hasnain after a shootout near the
Northern Bypass and found two TT pistols and a hand- grenade in
their possession.
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10
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April 28
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Police detained more than 50 people
in a crackdown on Islamist extremists following the suicide bombing
at Nishtar Park on April 11 in which 57 people were killed. The
detainees include members of both Sunni and Shia radical groups,
Sindh Government spokesman Salahuddin Haider said.
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11
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April 28
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Karachi Police arrested three
members of the banned Harkat-ul-Mujahideen Al-alami (HuMA) group,
and seized three pistols and a hand grenade. The suspects included
Khizar Jamal, who has a Rupees 500,000 bounty on his head, and
his accomplices Mohammad Haris and Sharjeel. The group is suspected
to have carried out the June 2002 bombing outside US Consulate
in Karachi which killed 12 Pakistanis.
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12
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May 5
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Six cadres of the outlawed Sunni
group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), believed to be involved in the
killing of doctors to fan sectarian violence, have been arrested.
According to a press release issued by the office of the Capital
City Police Officer, they arrested six suspects involved in acts
of sectarian target killings after an encounter in the jurisdiction
of Malir City Police. Farooq Awan of the Karachi Police said the
six belonged to the Lahori group of LeJ, who were suspected of
killing doctors both of Sunni and Shia sects in the metropolis
from 1994 to 2003 in a bid to fan sectarian violence.
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13
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May 26
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Police seized a huge quantity
of material used for making explosives while arresting two suspects
from the Mangopir area of Karachi. City Police chief Niaz Ahmed
Siddiqui said two people were arrested in this connection and
425 kg of explosive material comprising sodium nitrate, potassium,
six fuses used in bombs, and 55,000 feet of safety fuse wire were
seized.
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14
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June 15
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Senior prison official, Amanullah
Khan Niazi, and his three associates were shot dead in an ambush
on a busy downtown road in Karachi. Five or six attackers fired
bullets targeting Niazi’s car, followed by an escort vehicle,
as it turned into Aga Khan Road in the built-up Saddar area from
M.A. Jinnah Road.
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15
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June 16
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Habibullah Niazi, brother of the
Deputy Superintendent Karachi Central Prison, Amanullah Khan Niazi,
injured during an ambush, succumbed to his injuries at Liaquat
National Hospital bringing the number of dead to five. Amanullah
Khan Niazi was killed during the same ambush on June 15.
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16
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June 21
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Security agencies arrested an
activist of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Ameer Usman Kurd alias Saifullah,
from Karachi’s Mauripur area.
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17
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June 29
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A Police personnel, identified
as Manzoor Awan, was shot dead by unidentified assailants near
Malir Bridge in Karachi.
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18
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August 11
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A senior official said two Britons
of Pakistani descent along with five other suspects had been arrested
in Pakistan as part of a coordinated operation to foil the alleged
UK terror plot to blow up trans-Atlantic airliners. Officials
in Islamabad said the two Britons provided vital information that
helped foil the plot, while five local "facilitators"
were arrested separately. "One of the suspects was arrested
in Karachi and another was arrested in Lahore. Both the men were
British nationals of Pakistani origin and were key members of
the Britain-based network of militants," a senior Pakistani
Government official told AFP.
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19
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August 15
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Police arrested a suspected Islamist
terrorist accused of training religious students to become suicide
bombers. Police official Chaudhry Aamir Hameed said the suspected
man, Mohammad Ashraf Qureshi, was arrested along with two other
men during a raid in Karachi. "He has been targeting young
boys in madrassas, brain washing them and turning them into suicide
bombers," said Hameed, adding that Qureshi was also involved
in the training of the suicide bombers who killed prominent Shia
cleric Allama Hassan Turabi in Karachi in July 2006. Police identified
the suicide bomber who killed Turabi as 16-year-old Abdul Karim.
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20
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August 21
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Four people were reportedly arrested
from Karachi for alleged involvement in terrorist plots in the
country. Two suspected militants, Anwarul Haq and Usman Ghani,
were arrested for their alleged involvement in a suicide attack
on the US consulate on March 2 that killed US diplomat David Foy,
his driver Iftikhar Ahmed, Rangers official Zafar and security
guard Hasan Shehzad. Sindh Inspector General of Police, Jehangir
Mirza, said the suicide bomber had been identified earlier as
Raja Mohammed Tahir. Mirza added that the mastermind of the plot,
Qari Zafar, was still at large.
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21
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September 1
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Two personnel of the Pakistan
Rangers were shot dead and one Police personnel wounded in separate
incidents in Karachi.
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