Sindh Timeline- 2010

Month/Date

Incidents

January 1

The Police recovered a bomb from a local video shop in the Shadman Town area under Sharea Noor Jehan Police Station of Karachi.

January 4

The investigation team, investigating the Ashura blast in Karachi that the blast was not suicide attack.

January 5

An Ahmadi leader Muhammad Yousaf (70) was shot dead allegedly for seeking Police protection against sectarian zealots in Ferozewala Police Station area of Karachi.

One person, identified as Sajid (25), who had sustained injuries in the Ashura procession on M.A. Jinnah Road in Karachi on December 28, 2009, passed away at the hospital. This brings the death toll of blast victims to 45.

January 8

Six persons, including one civilian were killed in an explosion in a house near Babri mosque in Baldia town locality of Karachi in the morning.

A bomb hoaxes created panic among the employees of Jang Group and the Wapda House for over three hours in Karachi.

Police arrested a key TTP 'commander', Hayatullah alias Humayun, from a house in Baloch Goth in Orangi Town area of Karachi.

The CID of Sindh Police arrested one TTP 'commander' during a raid in the Manghopir area of Karachi.

Interior Minister Rehman Malik informed the National Assembly that according to initial reports, a banned organisation, Laskhar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), has been found involved in the Karachi Ashura procession blast.

An alleged 'commander' of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) was granted bail against a solvent surety of PNR 50,000 in an illicit arms case by Judicial Magistrate, Malir, Aslam Sheikh in Karachi.

The Hyderabad Police claimed to have arrested three militants of the Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) outfit by foiling a robbery bid in a house in the limits of the Cantonment Police Station.

One of the two dacoits, from whose custody two abducted persons were rescued, belonged to al-Qaeda.

Four suspected militants accused of plotting and carrying out the Ashura bomb attack that killed over 50 people on M. A. Jinnah Road on December 28, 2009, were arrested by the Police in Karachi.

Unidentified attackers attacked three trucks carrying NATO supplies to Kandahar, injuring three people on the Hub River Road, in Karachi in Sindh .

At least 25 persons were killed and over 100 others, including women and children, wounded in twin blasts in Karachi as the city marked Hazrat Imam Hussain's chehlum (40the Day after death) ceremony. The first explosion occurred at around 3:03pm (PST) in the Shahrah-e-Faisal area of Karachi targeting a bus taking 30-40 mourners to the city's main chehlum procession at Nishtar Park. The second explosion took place at around 4:55pm at Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where those injured or killed in the first explosion were being taken amid a crowd of victims' relatives and the media.

The National security institutions for probe into Karachi blasts said that there is similarity between the February 5's twin blasts in Karachi and blast on M A Jinnah Road on Youm-e-Ashur on December 28, 2009.

The BDS defused a bomb weighing 20-25 kilogrammes and placed inside a computer monitor in front of Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre's emergency ward.

Death toll in the February 5 Karachi twin blasts raised to 33 as six more persons succumbed to injuries.

Karachi Anti-Terrorism Court's Administrative Judge Justice Amir Hani Muslim on February 6 remanded two accused, stated to be activists of the banned outfit Jundullah, to judicial custody until February 13 in the Karachi Ashura bomb blast of December 28, 2009.

The Anti-Extremism Cell of the Sindh Police's CID arrested a 'commander' of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen Al-alami and recovered weapons and Jihad (holy war) literature from his possession. Official sources said Saifullah was arrested near the Sindh High Court in Karachi. One TT pistol was recovered from his possession on the spot while an 8mm rifle and literature were later found from the place, he had pointed out during interrogation.

Three persons were killed and 16 others injured in bomb blast on the Cinema Chowk in the main town of Dadu District. The explosion damaged several buildings in the area, including a sweet shop that bore the brunt, said eyewitness Ghulam Nabi Panwar.

Daily Times quoting New York Times on February 16 reported that the US and Pakistani intelligence services arrested the top military 'commander' of Taliban, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, in Karachi.

Ashfaq Mangi, a reporter of a private television channel was shot dead by unidentified militants in front of the Gambat Post Office in Khairpur.

The CID arrested a 'Taliban commander', Abdullah alias Abu Waqas, who was about to train 270 teenage girls as suicide bombers.

Two senior Taliban militants were arrested in recent days in Pakistan after their military 'commander' Mulla Abdul Ghani Baradar was arrested by the US intelligence agencies and their Pakistani counterparts only days earlier.

A militant of the Jalaluddin Haqqani Network, identified as Amanullah Mehsud, was arrested by the Security Force personnel from the Clifton area of Karachi. According to Intelligence sources, the arrestee occupied the third rank among the top 10 'commanders' of the Jalaluddin Haqqani network, an independent militant organisation in Afghanistan and Pakistan that is closely allied with the Taliban.

The Crime Investigation Department (CID) of the Sindh Police arrested one Abdul Aziz, a close aide of Qari Hussain Mashood, a mastermind of suicide bombing squad of the banned militant group TTP from the Sohrab Goth area in Karachi.

An ATC in Karachi awarded death sentence to two persons, identified as Kamran and Farhan, for killing two Policemen on October 12, 2006, in the limits of the Shah Latif Town Police Station.

The CID of the Sindh Police arrested three militants belonging to the LeJ outfit from a hideout near Jamshed Road in Karachi.

Personnel of Intelligence Agencies arrested two militants from Saeedabad in Karachi. The arrestees were identified as Mullah Tayyab Popalzai and Hakeemuddin Mehsud.

12 persons were injured when a remote-controlled explosive went off in Thari Mirwah town in Khairpur in Sindh. District Coordination Officer (DCO) Khairpur, Muhammad Abbas Baloch said that the explosive was placed in a tin suspended from a date tree.

Motasim Agha Jan, son-in-law of Taliban 'supreme' leader Mullah Omar was arrested by Intelligence Officials from a house in Ahsanabad area in Karachi.

The CID of Sindh Police arrested a TTP 'commander' from Surjani town in Karachi. Alam was a close aide of the slain TTP 'chief' Baitullah Mehsud.

Daily Times quoting a Government official source reports that Adam Gadahn, the American-born spokesman for al-Qaeda, was recently arrested by the Pakistani intelligence personnel in Karachi.

An activist of the MQM, Zulfiqar-ul-Hasan alias Papu, was shot dead by unidentified assailants in the Saeedabad Police Station area of Karachi.

A letter send by an anonymous sender to Sindh Police IG Sultan Salahuddin Babar Khattak and Sukkur Regional Police Officer reports that as many as 66 militants belonging to the banned TTP have arrived at Sindh including Karachi to carry out terror attacks.

The noted religious leader and chief of the Aalmi Majlis-e-Tahafuza-e-Khatam-e-Naboowat (AMTKN), Mufti Saeed Jalalpuri, was shot dead along with three associates in Karachi.

An attempt was also made on Maulana Abdul Ghafoor Nadeem, a leader of the SSP, in which he was injured, while his son lost his life.

A suspected cadre of the TTP, identified as Hidayatullah Barki (32), was shot dead and one of his associates, Usman Khan (22), got injured during foiled bid to abduct a property dealer in Manghopir Police station area of Karachi.