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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 22
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The Karachi unit Amir (chief)
of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ),
identified as Mohammad Ali alias Mama, was arrested by
the police during a raid in the Korangi area of Karachi. A suspect
in the murders of Lyari’s Qari Habibur Rehman and Maulana Abdul
Kareem Naqshbandi, he is reported to have become the LeJ Karachi
unit chief about a year ago.
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2
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February 1
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Intelligence agencies have arrested
11 militants, including one linked to a Taliban commander, in
Karachi.
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3
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February 16
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The Crime Investigation Department
of Karachi Police raided a house in the Gulistan-e-Jauhar area
and arrested three suspected suicide bombers, identified as Muhammad
Shahid, Muhammad Farhan and Ghani Subhan. Police also seized three
hand grenades, two pistols, one AK-47 assault rifle and a suicide
jacket from their possession. Police said that the three suspects
belonged to a group headed by al Qaeda leader Qari Zafar and they
had been especially sent to Karachi from Wana in South Waziristan
to carry out terrorist activities and suicide attacks.
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4
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April 22
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A suspected al Qaeda operative,
Iqbal alias Akbar, hailing from Afghanistan, was arrested in a
raid at an apartment in the Sharea Faisal police limits of Karachi.
Currency notes of many countries were recovered from his possession.
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5
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May 9
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12 persons were arrested for planning
terrorist activities in Karachi and Kalashnikovs and other ammunition
were recovered from their possession. The 12 suspects had confessed
they planned a terrorist attack in Karachi on May 12, when the
Chief Justice of Pakistan is due to visit the city. The suspects
were arrested from the Lines Area, Shah Faisal Colony and Malir
areas of Karachi.
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6
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June 11
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Karachi Police arrested three
terrorists and identified the suicide bomber who was allegedly
responsible for the Nishtar Park incident in Karachi on April
11, 2006. Two LeJ cadres were arrested during raids in two different
areas of Karachi. Based on their information, the police conducted
an operation in Peshawar, the NWFP capital, where it arrested
the third alleged terrorist. All three of them, police claimed,
had confessed to their involvement in the suicide attack. The
suicide bomber has been identified as Siddiq and is said to have
hailed from Mansehra in the NWFP.
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7
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August 26
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Police killed Fayyaz Dada, a former
member of the banned Sunni militant outfit LeJ, who had joined
a local gang allegedly dealing in drugs in Karachi.
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8
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September 13
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Seven people were killed when
armed assailants lobbed a hand-grenade and opened fire on a minibus
near the Karachi University. The Islami Jamiat Talaba (student
wing of the Jamaat-e-Islami) alleged that activists of the All
Pakistan Mohajir Students Organisation (APMSO) had attacked its
workers who were in the bus. The APMSO, however, denied the allegations.
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9
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September 21
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Police recovered 22-kg explosives,
detonators and two suicide jackets from an area in front of Malir
police station in Karachi town at 10:10 am (PST). The explosives
were defused later.
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10
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October 18
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A suicide bombing in a crowd welcoming
former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto killed 143 persons and injured
approximately 550 others in Karachi. Two explosions struck near
a truck carrying Benazir, but she was not injured and was hurried
to her house, police and officials of her party said. The two
explosions occurred a minute apart shortly after midnight near
Karsaz bridge close to the vehicle Benazir Bhutto was traveling
in, at the head of a procession of hundreds of thousands of Pakistan
People’s Party (PPP) supporters who had flooded the streets of
Karachi to welcome their leader on her return after eight years
in self-imposed exile.
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11
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December 13
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Intelligence agencies have foiled
a plot to assassinate President Pervez Musharraf by arresting
some al Qaeda terrorists from Karachi’s Malir area, and seizing
a large amount of ammunition from their possession. Sources said
that al Qaeda operatives told interrogators that they were plotting
to kill Musharraf during his next trip to Karachi. The terrorists
had planned to blow up the entire bridge on Drig Road at the precise
moment when Musharraf’s convoy was to reach there while coming
from the airport to Shahrah-e-Faisal, sources said, adding that
two more attacks were planned in case Musharraf survived the first
one.
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