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Pakistan Timeline - 2010


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Incidents
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January
1
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At least 90 persons
were killed when a suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden
pickup truck in the middle of a volleyball game in the Shah Hasan
Khel village of Lakki Marwat District in the Bannu Division of
the North West Frontier Province NWFP.
More than 60 persons were injured.
Six persons, including
an anti-Taliban tribal elder, were killed when a remote-controlled
bomb exploded in the Mandal area of Salarzai tehsil (revenue
unit) in the Bajaur Agency of FATA.
Five Taliban militants
were killed and another seven injured in different parts of Orakzai
Agency of FATA.
Three US drones fired
two missiles at a car in North Waziristan Agency in FATA, killing
three Taliban militants and injuring another three persons.
Two suicide bombers
were killed when explosives in their jackets went off accidentally
due to a malfunction in the Zargari area of the Hangu District
in NWFP.
The TTP claimed that
they used a turncoat CIA operative to carry out a suicide bombing
that killed seven American CIA employees in Afghanistan as revenge
for a top militant leader's death in a US missile strike.
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January
2
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Eight
Taliban militants were killed when fighter jets destroyed four
of their hideouts in the Orakzai Agency of FATA.
At least five Taliban
militants were killed in an encounter with the SFs in Kullachi
tehsil (revenue unit) of Dera Ismail Khan District in NWFP.
Four Taliban militants
were killed in the ongoing Operation Rah-e-Nijat (path to salvation)
in South Waziristan in FATA.
Three volunteers
of a local lashkar (tribal militia) were also killed in
a clash with militants in Sturikhel area of the Orakzai Agency
in FATA.
Two militants were
killed and two others were arrested during an encounter with SFs
near Jani Khel of Jandola sector in South Waziristan in FATA.
Two Taliban militants
were killed and another two injured as they attacked a checkpost
near Shuza Algad in South Waziristan in FATA.
A trooper was killed
and another five were injured at Metari Narai when militants fired
rockets at a SF checkpost.
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January
3
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The SFs killed seven
Taliban militants during operation in South Waziristan Agency
of FATA.
The missiles fired
by a suspected US drone killed five militants in Mosakki village,
about 25 kilometres east of Miranshah in FATA.
A roadside bomb killed
at least four people in Hangu District, including former NWFP
Irrigation Minister Ghaniur Rehman.
SFs killed three
militants during an encounter carried out in Shuza Algad near
Sararogha in FATA.
Two tribal elders
were killed and another four injured when a remote controlled
bomb exploded in Salarzai tehsil of Bajaur Agency in FATA.
Two persons, including
a policeman, were killed and another sustained serious injuries
in a hand grenade blast in a shop near Al-Muslim Masjid in Muslim
Town of Rawalpindi in Punajb.
SFs killed two suspected
Taliban militants during Operation Rah-e-Rast at Qadir Banda Post
near Gwalerai of NWFP.
A patrolling party
moving from Shagai to Piochar in NWFP shot dead two suspected
militants.
An IED killed a trooper
and injured five others in Jandola Sector of South Waziristan
Agency in FATA while they were moving from Jandola to Top Sar.
Another trooper was
killed when unidentified militants fired three rockets followed
by intermittent firing at the Pash Ziarat checkpost in Razmak
Sector of in North Waziristan Agency in FATA.
Extremists squeezed
out of Pakistan and Afghanistan will emerge in struggling states
like Yemen and Somalia, said British Prime Minister Gordon Brown.
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January
4
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SFs neutralised two
militant hideouts, killing seven Taliban militants and arresting
two others in Operation Sherdil (Lion Heart) in the Bajaur Agency
of FATA.
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January
5
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The SFs killed three
Taliban militants in the continuing Operation Rah-e-Nijat (Path
to Salvation) when they tried to attack SFs at the Pungai checkpost
in South Waziristan of FATA.
The SFs killed three
Taliban militants in the continuing Operation Rah-e-Nijat at Mora
Kandao in Swat District of NWFP.
Two volunteers of
peace committee were killed and as many sustained injuries during
a clash with militants in Baizai sub-division in Mohmand Agency
in FATA.
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.
SFs said they flushed
out most of the militants from the Mohmand tribal region of Mohmand
Agency in FATA. "Mohmand is a big agency and up till now 80 per
cent of the area has been cleared," commander of the Mohmand Operation,
Colonel Saifullah, said.
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January
6
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13 persons were killed
when three US drones targeted a house in Sumzalai, 50 kilometers
west of Miranshah, in the Dattakhel tehsil of North Waziristan
in FATA.
SFs killed seven
militants in separate encounters in Kabal of Swat District of
NWFP.
Three SF personnel
killed in a suicide bomb blast at an Army training school in Tararkheil
town of Sudhanoti District in PoK.
A trooper was killed
and two others sustained injuries in a rocket attack in the Tabi
Sar area of Razmak in South Waziristan Agency in FATA where Operation
Rah-e-Nijat is being carried out.
Around 350 militants
were killed by the SFs in operations while 104 pro-Government
elders and volunteers of a peace committee as well as 65 SFs personnel
were killed in the Mohmand Agency of FATA in the year 2009, said
Mohmand Agency Additional Political Agent (APA) Ahmed Jan.
The News quoting
its Government survey reports that up to 8,000 houses were damaged
in the Swat District of NWFP during militancy spanning over two
years and the subsequent military operations.
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January
7
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At least 10 Taliban
militants were killed and several were injured as gunship helicopters
bombed militant's hideouts in Orakzai Agency of FATA.
Five militants were
killed when the vehicle they were travelling in, exploded in the
Darr village of Kurram Agency in FATA.
Four Taliban militants
were killed and four others arrested by SFs from different parts
of Swat and Malakand in NWFP during Operation Rah-e-Rast.
A trooper was killed
while two others sustained injuries following a rocket attack
by militants in Tabi Sar area of Razmak sector in South Waziristan
in FATA where operation Rah-e-Nijat is being carried out.
The FC personnel
Noor Sher, who was severely injured in an attack by militants,
succumbed to his injuries at the Combined Military Hospital in
Peshawar in NWFP.
Police arrested an
important 'leader' of the TTP, Israr Amin, from Islamabad in Punjab.
Prime Minister Yousaf
Raza Gilani unveiled a relief package for militancy-affected areas
of NWFP and FATA, announcing tax concessions, rebates in duties
and relief in utility bills - in addition to allocating an additional
1 percent share to the province from the federal divisible pool.
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January
8
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Eight persons were
killed and 11 others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself
up at the gate of the headquarters of the militant outfit Ansar-ul-Islam
in Tirah area of Khyber Agency in FATA. The bomber was reportdely
a member of rival militant outfit Lashkar-e-Islam.
Six persons, including
one civilian were killed in an explosion in a house near Babri
mosque in Baldia town locality of Karachi.
Six militants were
killed and three others injured in air strikes on suspected militant
hideouts in upper Orakzai Agency of FATA.
Four Taliban militants
were killed and two injured when drones fired two missiles, one
at a car and the other at a house, in Palali village in North
Waziristan Agency in FATA.
Two militants were
killed and three others injured in a clash with the SFs in Nawagai
tehsil of Bajaur Agency in FATA.
One trooper was killed
as the Taliban militants fired at the SFs near Mazakai, Ghundi
Gar, Pungai, Gani Khel and Sinetiza area of South Waziristan in
FATA during operations Rah-e-Nijat.
A suspected militant
'commander', identified as Irfan, blew himself up during a Police
raid in the Adezai village in Matni on the outskirts of Peshawar
in NWFP.
Operation Commander
Major General Ashfaq Nadeem said that a large number of Taliban
militants in Swat of NWFP have fled to Karachi and South Waziristan
to escape the Army operation Sherdil (lion heart) in Malakand
division.
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January
9
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A US drone strike
killed at least four terrorists in North Waziristan of FATA,.
Seven Policemen were
injured when an alleged suicide bomber blew himself up in a house
in Adezai village in Mattani area of Peshawar in NWFP.
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January
10
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Unidentified militants
shot dead two tribal elders in the Pandyalai sub-division of Mohmand
Agency in FATA.
The National Crisis
Management Cell of the Interior Ministry of Pakistan warned that
TTP has decided to attack newspaper offices and renowned journalists
across the country.
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| January 11 |
Eight Taliban militants
and one trooper were killed during a clash between Taliban militants
and SFs in the ongoing operation Rah-e-Nijat in South Waziristan
Agency of FATA.
The Taliban militants
fired on a checkpost at Pash Zairat in Razmak sector of South
Waziristan Agency in FATA, killing a trooper and injuring three
others.
A Jordanian Taliban
'commander', who moved to Afghanistan in 1999 and stayed on to
fight US-led forces, was killed in a US drone attack in Waziristan.
Police arrested a
key TTP 'commander', Hayatullah alias Humayun, from a house in
Baloch Goth in Orangi Town area of Karachi.
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| January 12 |
Four Taliban militants
and a soldier were killed in a gunbattle when dozens of Taliban
militants attacked a checkpost in Mohmand Agency of FATA.
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| January 13 |
At least three Taliban
militants were killed while nine others were arrested by SFs during
the ongoing Operation Rah-e-Rast in Swat of NWFP.
Two unidentified
passers-by were killed in an exchange of fire between SFs and
militants in Qambarkhel area of Bara tehsil in Khyber Agency
in FATA.
A teenager, Muhammad
Shoaib, was killed and six other boys were injured when an explosive
device exploded at a playground in the Civil Lines area of Tank,
the headquarters of Tank District.
A headless body of
a man was recovered by the Police in the Peepal Kalay area in
Hangu District in NWFP.
Law enforcement agencies
have so far arrested 2,200 suspected terrorists from across the
country, including 80 suspects from Islamabad, federal capital,
Interior Minister Rehman Malik told the Senate.
Interior Minister
Rehman Malik categorically said that India was interfering in
Balochistan while missing Baloch were forcibly taken to training
camps in Afghanistan.
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| January 14 |
A US drone targeted
TTP chief Hakeemullah Mehsud in South Waziristan Agency in FATA
and security agencies area waiting for confirmation if Hakeemullah
is among the 10 militants killed in the strike. TTP has denied
media reports that the group's chief, Hakeemullah Mehsud, has
been killed in a US drone strike.
The Chief of the
pro-government Khwazai Peace Committee, Muhammad Akbar, and one
of its member, Gulistan, were killed and seven others persons
sustained serious injuries in a roadside blast at Dorbakhel area
of Halimzai sub-division in Mohmand Agency of FATA.
The JuD, front organisation
of the Lashkar-e-Toiba has declared suicide bombings un-Islamic
and said those involved in killing of Muslims were playing in
the hands of the US, India and Israel.
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| January 15
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Two US drone strikes
killed at least 11 Taliban militants in North Waziristan Agency
of FATA.
Ibrahim Kukikhel,
the tribal malik (leader) and head of the Kukikhel Qaumi Jirga,
was shot dead while his wife and a son were injured in Wazirdand
area of Jamrud tehsil in Khyber Agency in FATA.
A US drone strike
killed one of FBI's most-wanted terrorists, a Palestinian suspected
in a 1986 plane hijacking with a USD five million bounty on his
head, said three Pakistani intelligence officials. The intelligence
officials said a January 9 missile strike in North Waziristan
killed Jamal Saeed Abdul Rahim.
TTP warned the Government
against continued drone attacks in the Tribal Areas amid reports
that TTP chief Hakeemullah Mehsud is "under treatment" for "serious
injuries" sustained in a drone strike on January 14.
The bullet-riddled
dead bodies of seven Taliban militants were recovered while an
anti-Taliban leader was also killed in different areas of NWFP.
Two dead bodies,
including that of Taliban 'commander' of Khawazakhela area Mohammad
Rehman, were recovered from Khawazakhela in Swat in NWF.
Security has been
tightened at the Farooqabad Police Training School after intelligence
reports revealed that the school was on the hit list of militants.
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| January 16 |
Five militants were
killed in clashes with Security Forces in Spin Qabar area of Bara
of Khyber Agency in FATA.
Four non-Baloch persons
were killed in different parts of Balochistan in an apparent backlash
of January 15' killings of two Baloch nationalists. Three of the
killings have been confirmed as target killings. Meerak Baloch,
a spokesman for the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) called the offices
of various newspapers and accepted responsibility for killing
the three Punjabi settlers
A suicide bomber
attacked an Army vehicle near the town of Rawalakot in Pakistan
Occupied Kashmir (PoK), injuring two troopers.
Asmatullah Muaviya,
one of the main 'commanders' of the TTP Punjab chapter, was among
the 10 persons killed in a US drone strike in South Waziristan
of FATA. The drone had targeted a militant's compound at Shaktoi
village on January 14. Earlier, a local news agency also reported
the death of Qari Hussain and Muhammad Mehsud in the Shaktoi strike.
Qari Hussain, who had a 50 million head money, was believed to
be a "master trainer" of suicide bombers.
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| January 17 |
A US drone strike
killed at least 20 Taliban militants, including foreign terrorists
(Uzbeks), in a South Waziristan Agency area in the FATA.
Two tribesmen, including
a prominent tribal elder and agency councillor, were killed in
two separate incidents in FATA.
Two militants were
killed in a clash with the SFs in the Mulla Said area of Salarzai
tehsil in FATA.
Two militants were
killed by the SFs in the in Malakand area of NWFP.
On Shakai Sector
in FATA, the SFs conducted search and clearance operation in the
Zawar Darman Khel, Shankai - Dargai and killed at least one militant.
The Taliban released
another audio message purportedly containing the voice of their
chief Hakeemullah Mehsud. Hakeemullah said that he was releasing
the message on January 16 and the missile attack had been carried
out in Shaktoi on January 14.
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| January 18 |
SFs killed 10 Taliban
militants and arrested five others in a clash in North Waziristan
in FATA.
Taliban militants
attacked lashkar personnel in Mohmand Agency in FATA, resulting
in the death of one tribesman and three militants.
Three militants were
killed as a bomb exploded near central Kurram Agency in FATA.
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| January 19 |
SFs during a search
operation exchanged fire with the Taliban near Kunar Sar area
in Admi Kot area of South Waziristan in FATA. 10 Taliban militants
were killed and five others arrested during the operation.
Five Taliban militants,
including 'local commander' Hamad, were killed when militants
opened fire at members of a peace committee in Baizai tehsil in
the Mohmand Agency in FATA. Two committee members were also killed
and two others injured in the clash.
Six Taliban militants
were killed when a US drone fired two missiles at a compound in
Degan village of North Waziristan's Dattakhel tehsil in the FATA.
In Jandola Sector
in FATA, two soldiers were killed in a bomb blast near Janata,
where the SFs defused three roadside bombs.
Eight terrorists
shot dead two Awami National Party activists in Pir Baba area
of Buner District in NWFP.
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| January 20 |
Five Taliban militants,
including Ghulam alias Adil, a key 'commander', were killed and
two others injured in a raid conducted by members of the peace
committee at Khewzai area of Mohmand Agency in FATA.
A notorious criminal
with suspected terrorist links identified as Akhtar Ali Joiya
alias Akhtari, carrying head money of PNR two million and his
accomplice carrying head money of PNR 200,000 were killed in an
encounter at Khudian area in Kasur District of Punjab.
Several militants
were believed to be killed and their hideouts destroyed when gunship
helicopters attacked various areas of Safi and Baizai subdivisions
in the Mohmand Agency in FATA.
A jirga (council)
of Mehsud tribe agreed to hand over 378 men, including Tehreek-e-Taliban
Pakistan chief Hakeemullah Mehsud, to the Government and announced
to fully support Islamabad in maintaining peace in South Waziristan.
An alleged 'commander'
of 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.
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| January 21 |
Clashes between the
SFs and terrorists left at least nine terrorists dead in Mohmand
Agency in FATA.
A roadside bomb killed
two tribal elders and a woman travelling on a bus in Salarzai
District of Bajaur Agency in FATA. 20 other passengers were injured
in the explosion.
Five militants, including
a 'commander', were killed in a clash with SF in Madyan area of
Swat District in NWFP.
One soldier was killed
while eight others sustained injuries in an Improvised Explosive
Device (IED) blast during the ongoing operation Rah-e-Nijat in
near Janata in Jandola Sector of South Waziristan Agency in FATA.
Pakistani Intelligence
officials said that a Filipino militant, identified as Abdul Basit
Usman, wanted by the US, is believed to have been killed in a
drone strike in the Tribal Areas close to the Afghanistan border
on January 14.
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.
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| January 22 |
SFs attacked the
stronghold of local and foreign Taliban militants killing 15 of
them and arresting 25 others in Machis camp near Miranshah in
North Wazristan in FATA.
Two militants and
a soldier were killed in a clash at Bilandkhel area in Orakzai
Agency in FATA.
Bodies of two tribal
elders were found dumped under a bridge on Tank-Wana Road near
Pattar village in NWFP.
One Taliban militant
was killed and five others injured in a gunbattle between the
SFs and the militants at the Ghutti Sar check post in FATA.
Unidentified men
had planted an IED on the roadside in Talai village in Salarzai
in Bajaur Agency in FATA. A woman was killed and 23 passengers
injured when a vehicle hit the device.
29 officials in the
NWFP Education Department were sacked for their alleged links
with militants.
One of the two dacoits,
from whose custody two abducted persons were rescued, belonged
to al-Qaeda. They were abducted from Larkana IN Punjab a few days
ago and were rescued from the jurisdiction of Fatehpur Police
Station of Dokri.
The Special Investigation
Group (SIG) of the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has traced
the names and addresses of nine terrorists who were involved in
a suicide attack on former President General Pervez Musharraf.
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| January 23 |
14 Taliban militants
and three SF personnel were killed while 12 other Taliban militants
were injured in clashes in Orakzai Agency in FATA.
At least four persons
including a trooper were killed in a suicide car bombing near
a Police Station at Gomal, about 25 kilometres south of Tank District
in NWFP.
At least two Army
personnel were killed and two others were injured after unidentified
motorcyclists opened fire on a group of soldiers in a market in
Khuzdar of Balochistan.
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| January 24 |
Taliban militants
killed seven persons on suspicion of spying for the US in North
Waziristan Agency of FATA.
One trooper was killed
and another injured in an IED blast in Khyber Agency. Subsequently,
in a search operation, SFs killed three militants and arrested
12 others. The slain militants included senior 'commander' Gul
Hakim.
A close aide of TTP
chief of Swat Division was killed in clashes with SFs at Imam
Dheri in Swat of NWFP.
Taliban militants
claimed to have shot down a US drone in Hamzoni village near Miranshah,
the main town in North Waziristan. Government and Military officials
confirmed the plane crash but were not sure about the cause of
the incident.
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| January 25 |
SFs backed by fighter
jets and helicopter gunship targeted Taliban strongholds across
the FATA, killing 25 militants in the Kurram and Bajaur Agencies.
Air strikes by the jet fighters continued for more than two hours
killing 10 terrorists in Khar in Bajaur. At least 15 suspected
militants were killed when SFs, backed by helicopter gunship and
artillery, pounded their positions in Kurram Agency.
One FC trooper was
killed and 10 others were injured in a bomb blast in a crowded
market of the Pakistan-Iran border town of Panjgur in Balochistan.
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| January 26 |
Three militants were
killed and several others sustained injuries when gunship helicopters
fired at suspected hideouts of insurgents in Mamond and Salarzai
tehsils in Bajaur Agency in FATA.
Militants killed
one person and freed two out of the four abducted tribesmen in
Salarzai in FATA.
A Taliban 'commander' was killed
by SFs in Swat District in NWFP.
Taliban militants in North Waziristan
claimed to have shot down another US drone in Boya village of
Dattakhel tehsil near the border with Afghanistan but failed to
provide any proof in this regard.
Appreciating the role played by FATA
parliamentarians in the fight against militancy, Prime Minister
Yousaf Raza Gilani asked them to closely follow various phases
of the development process in their respective areas.
NWFP government has sacked 55 employees
for having links with the Taliban militants
As many as 2,072 persons have been
killed in 1,780 incidents of terrorism across the country since
April 2009, the National Assembly (NA) in Islamabad was informed.
Speaking during the question hour in the NA, Interior Minister
Rehman Malik said the people killed included 565 individuals from
various law enforcement agencies. He added that 6,253 persons
had been injured in these attacks, including 1,590 Security Force
personnel.
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| January 27 |
12 Taliban militants were killed
and three others injured in clashes between Salarzai laskhar (pro
government Tribal militia) and militants in Chinnar village of
Bajaur Agency in FATA. One trooper was killed in the attack.
Three children were killed in a bomb
explosion in Nanger Khani village of Dir District.
Pakistani investigators that there
is "sufficient incriminating evidence against" the seven arrested
terrorists for their involvement in the Mumbai (India) terrorist
strikes on November 26, 2008.
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| January 28 |
SFs killed nine militants and injured
five others in a clash in Salarzai tehsil of Bajaur Agency
in FATA.
SFs killed four Taliban militants
in Operation Rah-e-Nijat (Path to Salvation) in South Waziristan
Agency.
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| January 29 |
SFs killed 24 Taliban militants in
air strikes and clashes in Bajaur Agency FATA. In one incident,
the fighting erupted when militants attacked a check post manned
by the Frontier Corps and members of an anti-Taliban militia in
the Chinar town. Troops retaliated and killed 14 militants. A
paramilitary soldier was also killed and three others were wounded
in the clash.
Fighter jets bombarded a Taliban
hideout in the town of Sewai in the Mamoond tehsil killing 10
terrorists and injuring 15 others.
Five suspected militants were killed
and four others sustained injuries in a drone attack in Dattakhel
area of North Waziristan.
Unidentified assailants opened fire
on pilgrims, killing three Shias and injuring seven others, in
a sectarian attack in Quetta in Balochistan.
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| January 30 |
A suicide bomber killed 16 people,
including 14 civilians and two Police officers, and wounded 20
others at a police check point in the Bajaur Agency of FATA.
Suspected US missiles killed nine
alleged militants. Three US missiles hit a compound and a bunker
in the Mohammad Khel area of North Waziristan Agency, part of
a surge of the drone-fired strikes. Two missiles attack hit the
compound being used by the militants, killing seven of them. The
third killed two more insurgents in the bunker.
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| January 31 |
Nine Taliban militants were killed
when fighter jets bombed Taliban hideouts in Swoi and Damadola
areas of Mamoond tehsil in Bajaur Agency of FATA.
The state-owned PTV channel reported
that TTP chief Hakeemullah Mehsud died a few days ago, while some
private channels also claimed that he was buried in Orakzai Agency
of FATA three days back. Meanwhile, Interior Minister Rehman Malik
told a private television channel that the Government was trying
to verify the report. Further, the Army said it was investigating
reports of Hakeemullah's death.
TTP Orakzai Agency chief Malik Noor
Jamal said that the reports of Hakeemullah Mehsud's death and
his subsequent burial in Mamuzai in Orakzai Agency are baseless.
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| February
1 |
The SFs killed at least 20 Taliban
militants in different clashes during operation Sherdil
(Lion heart) in Bajaur Agency of FATA where a solider was also
killed and 11 others injured.
Six Taliban militants were killed
during clashes with SFs in Chinagai, Shinkot and Kharki areas
of Bajaur Agency.
An ATC in Lahore awarded eight times
death sentence along with PNR 200,000 fine each and total 30 years
of rigorous imprisonment to the four convicts involved in the
killing of Punjab Additional Advocate General (AAG) Muhammad Arif
Bhindar and seven others.
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| February
2 |
The SFs killed 20 Taliban militants
while two soldiers were killed and another injured in various
clashes in Bajaur Agency of FATA. Two Taliban militants were also
reportedly injured in the attacks. SFs consolidated territorial
gains by regaining control of Damdola area.
At least 16 Taliban militants were
killed after US drones fired 18 missiles at Datta Khel village
in North Waziristan of FATA.
Three militants were killed and eight
persons injured in a clash with SFs in Malikabad, a mountainous
area in Gadoon Amazai, of Swabi District in NWFP.
The TTP chief Hakimullah Mehsud's
close aide Qari Hussain, the top trainer of suicide bombers and
one of his potential successors, was killed in the same United
States drone attack that fatally injured him, sources said. The
sources said Qari Hussain died in the attack in North Waziristan
on January 14, 2008.
Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq said
that there is no need to release proof that TTP leader Hakeemullah
Mehsud is alive, just to refute reports that he succumbed to his
injuries sustained in a US drone strike in January.
Chairman of US Joint Chiefs Staff
Admiral Mike Mullen at a Congressional hearing reports that Pakistan
has reversed the Taliban territorial gains through a series of
military operations and also advocated Washington's help towards
resolving the India-Pakistan tensions for South Asian stability.
Five American nationals accused by
Pakistan of having contacts with al Qaeda-linked groups pleaded
their innocence, saying they were being 'set up' and tortured
by the FBI and the Pakistani Police.
Al-Qaida can be expected to attempt
an attack on the US in the next three to six months, senior US
intelligence officials told Congress.
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| February
3 |
12 Taliban militants were killed
in various areas of Mamoond tehsil (revenue unit) in Bajaur
Agency of FATA when fighter jets and helicopter gunships bombed
Taliban hideouts.
Three US troopers and four female
students were among nine persons killed when a blast targeted
a military-led convoy in Lower Dir of NWFP. At least 115 persons,
including 95 schoolgirls, were also injured in the attack. The
TTP claimed responsibility for the bomb attack that killed three
US troopers, a spokesman for the network claimed in a telephone
call.
The death toll in the February 2
attack by eight US drones at Datta Khel village in North Waziristan
of FATA rose to 31 as 14 more dead bodies were retrieved from
the houses destroyed in the missile strikes.
The COAS General Ashfaq Kayani has
strongly rejected allegations that Pakistan's premier intelligence
agency, ISI, is pursuing double standards in the war on terror,
reported a private TV channel. General Kayani said that the Indian
"Cold Start Strategy" is an aggressive strategy and Pakistan cannot
close its eyes towards it.
Pakistan's nuclear arsenal is safe
since the country's military knows there would be "catastrophic
consequences, primarily for Pakistan", if any of its nuclear bombs
fell into the wrong hands, the US National Intelligence Director
Dennis Blair said.
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| February
4 |
SFs killed 12 Taliban militants,
including four foreigners, while 16 militants were arrested from
different areas of Bajaur Agency in the FATA.
An anti-India jihadi rally to express
Yakjehti-e-Kashmir (Solidarity with Kashmir) was organized
in Muzaffarabad of PoK by the JuD, frontal organization of the
LeT and Hizb-ul-Mujaheedin (HM).
The NWFP CM Ameer Haider Hoti approved
to establish an institutional framework for the victims of terrorism.
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| February
5 |
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
(40th Day after death) ceremony.
SFs bombed Taliban hideouts in various
areas of Mamoond Tehsil (revenue unit) in the Bajaur Agency of
FATA, killing five Taliban militants.
The JuD, front organisation of the
LeT, held a public meeting in Islamabad, vowing to seize Kashmir
by force and threatening "rivers of blood" in India. In Lahore
too, the JuD organised a public rally, led by its chief Hafiz
Saeed, alleged by India to have masterminded the Mumbai attacks.
The rally went from the JuD headquarters in Chauburji to the University
Grounds, where Hafiz Saeed led the participants in Friday prayers.
It proceeded to the famous Masjid-e-Shohada on Mall road, where
the second tier leadership of the group made anti-India speeches.
The Lok Virsa (Museum situated in
Islamabad) in collaboration with the Kashmir Affairs and Gilgit-Baltistan
Ministry organised a festival in Islamabad to show solidarity
with Kashmiris struggling for their right of self-determination.
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| February
6 |
SFs killed seven Taliban militants
and injured five others in Mamond tehsil (revenue unit)
of Bajaur Agency in the FATA. SFs took over the Taliban stronghold
of Damadola after nine years, local sources said.
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 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.
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| February
7 |
The investigators probing into the
two recent suicide bombings in Shahi Koto area of Lower Dir in
NWFP said that militants fleeing from Bajaur Agency of FATA as
a result of the military operation are behind the terrorist attacks
in Lower Dir on February 3 that killed nine persons including
three United States troopers. Meanwhile, the fugitive chief of
Taliban in Lower Dir, 'Commander' Hafizullah claimed that February
3's suicide attack in Shahi Koto area was aimed at the US military
personnel, regretting the killing of schoolgirls and harm to journalists.
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| February
8 |
At least 12 troopers were killed
and two others were injured in a clash with militants during the
ongoing operation Rah-e-Nijat (path to salvation) in Ahmed
Wam area of South Waziristan Agency in FATA.
A minor girl was killed and four
others including a woman sustained serious injuries when militants
fired four rockets at the Army garrison and a surrounding village
in Khugakhel area of Landikotal in the Khyber Agency
A powerful explosion completely destroyed
container carrying supplies for United States-led NATO forces
in Afghanistan near the Torkham pass along the Pakistan-Afghanistan
border.
Police arrested six suspected militants,
including a would-be suicide bomber who was allegedly plotting
to attack a five-star hotel and kill US nationals, from Grand
Trunk Road in Shahdara area of Lahore.
Daily Times quoting intelligence
reports said that TTP had sent eight female suicide bombers to
attack high-value targets in Punjab.
The TTP Lakki Marwat chapter threatened
local politicians of attack for their alleged involvement in protecting
feudal lords and creating law and order problem in the Lakki Marwat
District of NWFP.
Blackwater is not operating in the
country and NSA is protecting the Prime Minister and the President,
Interior Minister Rehman Malik said. "No Blackwater or foreign
security agency is providing security cover to the President or
the Prime Minister. Our Police and security agencies are fully
capable of providing them security,"
The Pakistani SFs have captured several
members of the Jundallah militant group and handed them over to
Iranian authorities, National Assembly Speaker Fehmida Mirza said,
according to Iran's Press TV channel.
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| February
9 |
A civilian was killed in a militant
attack on SFs and 12 suspected militants were arrested in search
operations in different parts of the Khyber Agency in FATA.
Five militants were arrested while
the houses of six others were destroyed during search operation
in Banda area in Salarzai and Mamond sub-divisions of Bajaur Agency,
official sources said.
SFs arrested a militant 'commander'
who also happens to be the nephew of LI 'leader' Mangal Bagh during
a search operation in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency.
SFs sources claimed to have killed
74 militants and injured 54 others and wrested the strategically
important hilltops and areas from the insurgents during the weeklong
military operation in the Mamond subdivision of Bajaur Agency.
At least four persons including two
children were injured in a bomb explosion in Gahi Khan Chowk area
of Quetta, capital of Balochistan.
The bomb disposal squad defused a
seven-kilogramme explosive device planted close to NWFP Minister
Ayub Khan Asharai's house in Matta tehsil of Swat District.
The Taliban claimed to have developed
a new bomb nicknamed 'Omar' after their leader, which they say
is impossible for Western mine sweepers to detect.
The Interior Minister Rehman Malik
indicated that militants who had fled military operations in Federally
Administered Tribal Areas and Swat are active in Karachi.
Calling Pakistan's anti-militancy
efforts over 2009 "terrific", Unite States Defence Secretary Robert
Gates said Pakistanis are in the driver's seat in combating Taliban
on their soil.
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani
said asked militants to lay down their weapons and adopt the right
path or face death.
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| February
10 |
A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden
car into a khasadar patrol vehicle, killing 17 persons, including
11 khasadar personnel in Wazir Dhand area of Jamrud tehsil in
Khyber Agency of FATA.
Four Taliban militants and two women
were killed in bombings in various areas of Mamoond tehsil in
Bajaur Agency.
A brigadier was killed while a colonel
and lieutenant were injured after suspected Taliban militants
attacked a rescue team sent after a crashed Cobra helicopter in
Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency.
SFs along with the Mamoond Qaumi
Lashkar (tribal militia) burnt the houses of six militants in
the Taliban stronghold of Damadola and destroyed underground bunkers
and training centres.
At least two persons were injured
in a bomb blast in a CD shop in the main bazaar of Hangu in NWFP.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik said
that he had credible reports regarding the death of TTP 'chief'
Hakeemullah Mehsud in a drone attack in North Waziristan in mid-January.
TTP lashed out at the Government
for referring to "credible reports" that their leader Hakeemullah
Mehsud had died after a US drone attack in mid-January.
Pakistan has always preferred dialogue
to war with India, Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani said and
praised New Delhi's "intention" to resume dialogue with Islamabad.
Indian Indus Water Commissioner G.
Aranga Nathan said that India and Pakistan will not go into war
with each other over the water issue because the Indus Water Treaty
is intact and being respected.
The Pakistan military commanders
discussed India's offer to Pakistan for talks among other issues
at a meeting of the top brass held at the General Headquarters
in Rawalpindi.
Pakistan will keep Kashmir the first
item on the agenda for negotiations with India at any level, Information
Minister Qamar Zaman Kaira said.
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| February
11 |
At least 15 persons were killed and
24 others injured in a twin bomb blast in Bannu of NWFP.
Four persons, including an arms dealer,
were injured when their double-cabin pickup truck was blown up
in a bomb blast near Miramshah Bazaar in North Waziristan Agency
of FATA.
The death toll in February 10 suicide
attack in Jamrud of Khyber Agency reached 19, when a Levies official,
Lance Naik Abdul Mannan, succumbed to injuries at the Hayatabad
Medical Complex in Peshawar.
US Vice-President Joe Biden said
that his greatest concern was not Afghanistan, not Iraq, nor the
Iranian nuclear crisis, but Pakistan.
The US military is planning to set
up new training centres inside Pakistan where American special
operations trainers would work with Pakistani forces close to
the Afghanistan border battle zone, a senior defence official
said.
The US National Security Adviser
General James Jones and his delegation visited Swat of NWFP.
Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani
said that while composite dialogue is the only way forward for
the resolution of all outstanding issues and India has offered
Pakistan talks, New Delhi "does not want to talk on Kashmir."
The Foreign Office said that Pakistan
wants to resume peace talks with India, but they should be wide-ranging
and cover all outstanding issues, including the Kashmir dispute.
Syed Salahuddin, 'chief' of the HM,
said that talks between Pakistan and India will fail if they do
not focus on the "core issue" of Kashmir. Talks would be "a futile
exercise" if they did not address the dispute over the Himalayan
region.
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| February
12 |
Four militants were killed and several
others sustained injuries during a clash with SFs at Charmang
in Nawagai tehsil of Bajaur Agency in FATA.
The militants handed over dead bodies
of two slain pilots unconditionally to the political administration
through the efforts of the Federal Minister Hamidullah Jan Afridi
in Jamrud tehsil of the restive Khyber Agency.
Two militants were killed and a soldier
injured during a clash between SFs and militants in a border area
of Swat and Buner in NWFP.
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.
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| February
13 |
A student of Iqra University Karachi
was killed, while another was injured in an ambush on the RCD
Highway near Mangochar in Kalat of Balochistan.
The Taliban militants blew up a boys'
high school in the village of Qamardin at Safi area of the Mohmand
tribal District in FATA along the Pakistan- Afghanistan border.
SFs continued their search operation
and arrested 16 suspected militants from different areas of FATA
and NWFP during the past 24 hours.
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| February
14 |
A US drone killed seven Taliban militants
at a training compound in the Mir Ali town of North Waziristan
Agency in the FATA.
The SFs killed three Taliban militants
in the Charmang area of Bajaur Agency, while a would-be suicide
bomber and three other Taliban militants were killed in a blast.
Unidentified militants shot dead
three persons, including two pro-Government tribesmen, in separate
attacks in Khyber Agency.
SFs arrested 11 militants, including
a 'local commander', during a search operation in Khyber Agency.
Three persons were killed and 16
others injured in bomb blast on the Cinema Chowk in the main town
of Dadu District.
Two bomb blasts occurred on a railway
track in the Sariab area of Quetta in Balochistan.
Four militants were arrested after
an encounter with the SFs in the Darsamand area of Hangu District
in NWFP.
The Police during a search operation
arrested 18 suspected persons, including Afghanistan prayer leaders
and defused a rocket in the Tugh Lalma area of Kohat District.
The US Secretary of State Hillary
Clinton, while condemning the recent terrorist events in Karachi,
said that al Qaeda had killed more than 2,000 people in Pakistan
within few months.
US Vice-President Joe Biden said
that American forces have killed al Qaeda militants under ground
- 12 top leaders and 100 of their associates.
Pakistan's Ambassador to the US,
Hussain Haqqani, said, that "Pakistan doesn't want America to
interfere in its affairs nor does the US want to do so".
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| February
15 |
A US drone attack killed at least
three Taliban militants in the North Waziristan Agency of FATA,
security officials said.
SFs arrested four wanted militants
during a raid on a madrassa (seminary) in the Bisham area
of Shangla District in the NWFP.
The SFs arrested a local doctor in
a raid in the Sholabar area of Bara, as the doctor was involved
in the treatment of LI militants.
The Ahmedzai Wazir tribes in South
Waziristan Agency of FATA demanded a separate administrative status
for areas under their control during a jirga (council) also attended
by Chief of Army Staff General Ashfaq Kayani, tribal elders said.
The key objectives of the military
operation Rah-e-Nijat in South Waziristan Agency in FATA have
been achieved and most of the high profile terrorists have been
wiped out from the area, a private TV channel quoted Chief of
the Army Staff (COAS) General Ashfaq Kayani as saying.
Top terrorist 'commander' Ilyas Kashmiri,
whose '313 Brigade' is an operational arm of the al Qaeda, has
vowed to continue attacks across India until the Indian Army leaves
Indian-held Kashmir and gives the Kashmiris their right to self-determination.
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| February
16 |
SFs backed by jet fighters and gunship
helicopters pounded Taliban hideouts and killed 10 Taliban militants
in the Bajaur Agency of FATA.
Two women were killed when an artillery
shell hit their house in Bandai area of Mamoond tehsil. Eight
other persons were also injured in the same incident.
Unidentified militants blew up a
school in Lakaro village of Safi tehsil in Mohmand Agency in the
late night.
A powerful bomb blast destroyed a
house situated along Rehman Kewal Road in Quetta.
Daily Times quoting New
York Times reported that the US and Pakistani intelligence
services arrested the top military 'commander' of Taliban, Mullah
Abdul Ghani Baradar, in Karachi.
An Afghan Taliban spokesman, Yousuf
Ahmadi, denied a US report that the group's military commander
had been arrested by US and Pakistani forces in a secret operation
in Pakistan.
The Interior Minister Rehman Malik
branded as "propaganda" reports that the top Taliban military
'commander' had been arrested in a joint Pakistani-US spy operation.
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| February
17 |
Unidentified assailants killed six
militants allegedly to be associates of Taliban 'commander' Noor
Jamal alias Maulana Toofan by ambushing their vehicle in central
Kurram Agency of FATA.
A US drone strike killed at least
three suspected Taliban militants at a compound close to the Afghanistan
border in North Waziristan.
SFs arrested nine suspected militants
from the Khyber Agency and cleared five caves used by militants
in the Bajaur Agency, according to a FC statement.
SFs arrested five militants, identified
as Ghulam Ullah, Gulab, Abdul Ghaffar, Khan and Jaipur, from in
Mamoond tehsil (revenue unit) of Bajaur Agency.
Unidentified militants shot dead
a journalist, identified as Hameed Marwat, at the Sariab Road
in Quetta.
Ashfaq Mangi, a reporter of a private
television channel was shot dead by unidentified militants in
front of the Gambat Post Office in Khairpur.
Three civilians and a policeman sustained
injuries when a suspected militant opened fire on Police in Marghazar
Town of the Bunrh area in the outskirts of Mingora in the NWFP.
SFs arrested a senior 'commander'
of the Swat Taliban, Abdul Rashid, from Nowshera.
The CID arrested a 'Taliban commander',
Abdullah alias Abu Waqas, who was about to train 270 teenage girls
as suicide bombers.
An ATC in Sargodha in Punjab rejected
the bail applications of five Americans, accused of having links
with militants.
Interior Minister Rehman Malik confirmed
the arrest of a senior Taliban leader Mulla Abdul Ghani Baradar
from Karachi.
The Pakistani Army confirmed that
the Afghan Taliban's top military commander, Mullah Abdul Ghani
Baradar, has been arrested.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
praised "valuable" US-Pakistan cooperation in fighting extremism,
saying the Pakistani leadership "recognises that standing firm
against the threat is important to the country's future".
President Asif Ali Zardari announced
a plan for the upgradation and strengthening of paramilitary Levies
Force in tribal areas to improve the Levies Force's capability.
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| February
18 |
At least 30 persons, including a
LI 'commander', were killed and 110 others injured in a suicide
attack near a mosque in Akakhel area of Tirah valley in Khyber
Agency of FATA.
AFP quoted an intelligence official
as saying, "There is a possibility that the rival outfit, AI,
attacked the LI base."
Four Taliban militants, including
a Taliban 'commander' Jalaluddin Haqqani's son Muhammad Haqqani,
were killed when US drones fired two missiles in Danday Darpakhel
village near Jalaluddin Haqqani's madrassa (seminary),
four kilometres north of Miranshah, the headquarters of North
Waziristan in FATA.
A remote-controlled bomb exploded
near a tanker in Baghbana area of Khuzdar District in Balochistan.
A Policeman was killed and a passer-by
injured when armed militants opened fire at a Police patrol party
in the Mingora city of NWFP.
The SFs arrested two militants during
a search operation and neutralised the ex-plosive-laden car recovered
near Chunai area in Abakhel village in Lakki Marwat District in
the night.
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.
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| February
19 |
Five Taliban militants were killed
in Banda and Ghundo areas of Nawagai tehsil (revenue unit)
in Bajaur Agency of FATA when fighter jets and helicopter gunships
bombarded Taliban hideouts.
SFs claimed to have recovered Indian-made
IED from South Waziristan. Security officials recovered five sacks,
each containing 20 kilograms of polypropylene with the text "Reliance
Industries Ltd, Jamnagar, Gujrat, India" printed on them.
SFs shot dead two militants in an
encounter in Faisalabad who were involved in the GHQ attack in
Rawalpindi on October 10, 2009.
Four officials of Mercy Corps (MC),
an international NGO, were abducted by unidentified militants
from Shankai area of Qillah Saifullah District in Balochistan.
The Police arrested six 'most-wanted'
Taliban militants and recovered 11 kilogrammes of explosive powder
along with dynamite from a cave during search operations in the
mountainous region of Sawaldher, Rama, Katlang and Choora in Mardan
District of NWFP.
Police arrested a person allegedly
involved in terror activities from Jamal Ghari village under Jabar
Police Station.
The South Korean Police claimed to
have arrested a Pakistani national, who was allegedly a member
of the Taliban, on charges of using a fake passport.
The SFs arrested one Sipah-e-Mohammad
Pakistan militant, Syed Hammad Riaz, from Karachi allegedly involved
in the assassination of the SSP, Ameer (Chief) Maulana
Azam Tariq.
Pakistan will not turn over the Afghanistan
Taliban's 'second-in-command' and two other terrorists captured
in the month of February to the US, but may deport them to Afghanistan,
Interior Minister Rehman Malik said.
Pakistan's direct and indirect cost
in the war on terror has been around USD 35 billion over the last
three years, Minister of State for Economic Affairs Hina Rabbani
Khar said.
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| February
20 |
SFs killed at least 36 Taliban militants
during operations in the various regions of FATA. The SFs killed
at least 30 Taliban militants during operation Rah-e-Nijat
(path to salvation) in various areas of Shawal mountains in South
Waziristan Agency.
Six Taliban militants, including
a 'commander', were killed in clashes with the SFs at Chapri Ferozkhel,
the border area between Khyber and Orakzai Agencies.
Two suicide bombers attacked Police
Stations in Balakot and Mansehra areas of NWFP, killing a SHO
and wounding several others. According to Police sources, Khalilur
Rehman, SHO of Balakot Police Station, was killed and several
others injured in the attacks at the police stations.
Four Taliban militants were killed
in a clash with the Security Forces in Ogda Takhta Band area in
the outskirts of Mingora in Swat.
The dead body of a person abducted
by the Taliban militants a year ago was found. He was identified
as Ziadullah, a businessman from Landaki area of Swat.
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| February
21 |
Eight unidentified militants were
killed and two troopers sustained injuries in a clash during a
search operation in Darra Adamkhel of NWFP. The sources said SFs
carried out a search operation in Turk Ismailkhel, Jawakai and
Shindhand areas where the militants opened fire on SFs.
The militants launched a rocket attack
on the flour mills of NWFP Minister for Housing, Amjid Afridi,
near Gumbat in Kohat. However, no casualty was reported.
Police arrested Maulvi Kabir, one
of the top 10 most-wanted Taliban leaders and a former Governor
of Nangahar province of Afghanistan, from Nowshera.
Three militants surrendered to SFs
in Charbagh Tehsil of Swat District during a search operation.
The headless dead body of two abducted
Sikh persons recovered in Khyber Agency of FATA. However, Daily
Times reports that one Chopal Singh's dead body was recovered.
The Taliban militants blew up two
boys' schools in Mohmand Agency. However, there was no casualty.
SFs hoisted the Pakistani flag in
the Damangi area for the first time after clearing it of the Taliban.
SFs arrested at least 74 suspects
during a search operation in Wazir Dhand area of Jamrud tehsil
in Khyber Agency.
A cadre of the TTP was arrested by
SFs from the outskirts of Lahore. A suicide jacket, hand grenades
and explosives were recovered from his possession.
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| February
22 |
13 persons, including three Security
personnel and four women, were killed and 41 others injured when
a suicide bomber hit a SFs convoy at the Nishat Chowk in Mingora
city of NWFP.
A prominent member of the Shia community
was shot dead while his friend sustained injuries when unidentified
attackers opened fire on them in Yakatoot area of Peshawar in
NWFP.
SFs arrested 34 suspected militants
during a joint operation by Police and FC in Thall, Doaba, Kahi,
Darsamand and Naryab areas of Hangu along the region bordering
Orakzai Agency.
Militants fired several rockets and
mortar shells at the Fort Salop in Bara sub-division of Khyber
Agency in FATA.
43 militants, including four commanders,
surrendered before SFs in Mamond sub-division of Bajaur Agency.
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| February
23 |
Five Taliban militants were killed
and four others were injured when the explosives that they were
planting around their hideout detonated accidentally in Ali Sherzai
Dar village of Kurram Agency in FATA.
The militant outfit LI organised
the public execution of a tribesman in the Tirah Valley of Khyber
Agency, after pronouncing him guilty of double murder at a self-styled
Islamic court, tribesmen said.
SFs destroyed four hideouts of TTP
in Ali Baz Kalay of Darra Adam Khel while arresting six militants.
The Taliban militants attacked a
vehicle owned by a local lashkar (army) chief in Adezai
village on the outskirts of the provincial capital of NWFP, Peshawar.
The CENTCOM chief General David Petraeus
and British General David Richard arrived in Mingora. Sources
said that Pakistani military officials held a briefing for the
two generals at the Circuit House in Mingora.
Pakistan has made some 'real progress'
in the war against terrorism and it is committed in securing its
long border with Afghanistan, US Defence Secretary Robert Gates
said.
Foreign Minister Makhdoom Shah Mahmood
Qureshi said that "Pakistan would welcome any role (to bridge
the gap between India and Pakistan) given to China because of
the trust and confidence we enjoy among each other".
South Korean Police said that they
were investigating whether a Pakistani Muslim cleric, who was
arrested for travelling on a fake passport, was also involved
in militant activities.
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| February
24 |
A Taliban 'commander', Mohammed Qari
Zafar, wanted in connection with the 2006 bombing of the US consulate
in Karachi, was among 13 persons killed in a suspected missile
strike in the Dargah Mandi area of North Waziristan of FATA near
the border with Afghanistan.
A rocket fired from an unknown direction
hit the house of Haji Awal Khan in Kohi Sher Haider area of Bara
tehsil in Khyber Agency and injured his two daughters.
Nine Taliban militants were killed
when a US drone fired missiles into a Taliban compound in the
Dandey Darpa Khel area of North Waziristan in the FATA.
The Taliban militants beheaded three
men, including two Afghans, in North Waziristan, accusing them
of spying for the US.
A soldier was killed in a roadside
bomb explosion in Salarzai sub-division of Bajaur Agency.
The SFs demolished the house of a
militant 'commander', Maulvi Abdullah, during search operation
in the Banda area of the same Agency.
Unidentified militants fired several
rockets on Lagharai village In Mamond subdivision. However, the
rockets missed the target and landed in the fields.
16 Taliban militants
including two 'commanders' surrendered to SFs in Mamond sub-division.
Three passengers
were killed and three others sustained injuries when unidentified
militants opened fired at a railway coach in the Tor Ghar area
of Thall Tehsil in Hangu District of NWFP.
One alleged TTP militant,
Omer Abdul Rehman alias Sailaab, was arrested in a joint raid
by Security Force personnel from the Lasbela District.
A militant of the
Jalaluddin Haqqani Network, identified as Amanullah Mehsud, was
arrested by the Security Force personnel from the Clifton area
of Karachi.
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| February
25 |
Unidentified militants
blew up a primary school in Saafi tehsil (revenue unit)
of Mohmand Agency.
25 suspected militants
were arrested during a search operation in Akakhel, Kohi Sher
Haider and Sipah areas of Bara tehsil.
Four militants were
killed during an encounter between SFs and militants in the Charsadda
District of NWFP.
Suspected militants blew up a tanker
carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan in Bhanamari Police
Station area of Peshawar.
A senior Taliban
'commander', Musa Khan, was arrested along with his two accomplices
in Damghar area of Kabal tehsil (revenue unit) of Swat
District.
Police arrested three militants during
a raid at Hajiabad in Charsadda District.
The 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.
President Asif Ali
Zardari urged the aggrieved Baloch leaders not to resort to violence
as the Government acknowledged their rights and was doing all
within its means to help them.
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| February
26 |
At least 17 Taliban
militants were killed in an operation in the Pastawana area of
Kohat in NWFP.
The SFs and Intelligence
Agencies arrested a nephew of TTP Swat chapter 'head' Maulana
Fazlullah from Pirsabak village in Nowshera District.
The CID of the Sindh
Police arrested three militants belonging to the LeJ outfit from
a hideout near Jamshed Road in Karachi.
The Lahore High Court
temporarily restrained Federal and Punjab Governments from handing
over Mullah Baradar and four other Afghan Taliban militants to
America or any other country and added that the detainees would
not be moved out of Pakistan without its prior permission.
Taliban have blown
up 16 schools in the tribal regions of Mohmand Agency, Bajaur
Agency, Khyber Agency and Orakzai Agency of FATA during the month
of February, NWFP Education Minister Sardar Hussain Babak said.
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| February
27 |
A suicide bomber
rammed an explosive-laden vehicle into a Police Station in Karak
District, killing four persons including two Policemen and wounding
23 others.
Unidentified gunmen
opened fire on a religious procession in the Dhaki More neighbourhood
of Dera Ismail Khan District of NWFP, killing a person and wounding
several others.
The personnel of
Intelligence Agencies arrested two militants from Saeedabad in
Karachi.
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| February
28 |
SFs killed 25 militants
in frontier region of Peshawar in NWFP in the first four days
of Operation Spring Cleaning, according to officials.
12 persons were injured
when a remote-controlled explosive went off in Thari Mirwah town
in Khairpur in Sindh.
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| March 01 |
Seven people were
killed and 44 others injured in sectarian violence in Dera Ismail
Khan area of NWFP.
SFs recovered the
dead bodies of a senior Taliban 'commander' and five of his accomplices
from the Madyan area of Swat. Sources said that dead bodies of
former Taliban 'commander' in Buner, Muhammad Alam, Matta tehsil
'commander' Shamsul Haq, and their accomplices Abdullah, Muhammad
Musafir and Sher Zaman were found at a roadside in Madyan area.
Suspected Taliban
militants blew up a tanker carrying fuel for NATO troops based
in Afghanistan near Jamil Chowk on Ring Road of Peshawar, the
capital of NWFP.
An al Qaeda-linked
militant who had called for attacks on China over its treatment
of Muslims was killed in a US missile strike in North Waziristan
of FATA.
Two of the three
Sikhs who were abducted for extortion escaped from Taliban captivity
and reached the Jamrud of Khyber Agency.
SFs set the houses
of 15 militant commanders on fire in the Charmang valley of Nawagai
tehsil (revenue unit) in Bajaur Agency.
The Taliban issued
'threatening pamphlets', claiming responsibility for the suicide
attack on the Khasadar (tribal Police) personnel in Jamrud tehsil
of Khyber Agency on February 10, 2010.
Interior Minister
Rehman Malik urged Ulema ( Muslim religious leaders) belonging
to different schools of thought to foil the conspiracy aimed at
fanning sectarian strife in the country and play an effective
role in thwarting terrorism.
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| March 02 |
Seven militants,
including a 'commander', were killed in a clash between two factions
of militants in the Dogar area of Kurram Agency in FATA. The sources
said the factions of militants headed by Mulla Toofan and Mulla
Rafique clashed in Dogar area using heavy weapons and ammunition.
At least two persons
were killed and five others injured in a bomb blast in a cultural
function on the premises of a local Engineering University in
Khuzdar of Balochistan.
Two important Taliban
'commanders', identified as Muhammad Tufail alias Abdullah and
Muhammad Iqbal, were killed by SFs in an exchange of fire during
the ongoing Operation Spring Cleaning in Frontier Region
of Peshawar, the capital of NWFP.
Taliban militants
detonated explosives planted around the house of a pro-Government
tribal elder, Malik Zaliman Shah, in Aliabad area of Hangu District,
injuring 10 members of the family.
The Police submitted
a charge sheet against five American national detained in 2009
in an ATC in Sargodha on charges of plotting terrorism.
ATC in Rawalpindi
has acquitted seven persons accused of a suicide attack on a Government
bus because of lack of evidence.
The Interior Minister
Rehman Malik said that the SSP and TTP were involved in terrorist
activities in the country and warned of strict action against
them. Referring to the SSP, the interior minister said it had
close links to al-Qaeda and Taliban.
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| March 03 |
SFs killed a local
Taliban 'commander', identified as Sultan Azeem, during an encounter
in the Malakand Agency of NWFP. Sultan Azeem's body was found
lying by the roadside in Palai area.
The SFs killed a
supplier of suicide jackets and explosives, Mohammad Iqbal, who
operated a key inter-city network during an encounter in the north-western
part of Peshawar.
The Education Department
terminated the services of five teachers in Lower Dir for having
alleged links with the Taliban. Education Department officials
said that education officers in Lower Dir had carried out investigations
and discovered proof of the five terminated teachers' links with
the Taliban.
One person was killed
and two others injured in a landmine explosion that took place
in the outskirts of Dera Bugti District.
Protesters blocked
the Quetta-Karachi Highway, ransacked a state-run utility store
and set a post office on fire following the blast in a cultural
function at the Balochistan University of Engineering and Technology
in Khuzdar on March 2.
A private TV channel
reported that the recently arrested Iranian militant Abdul Malik
Reigi, leader of the banned Jundullah outfit, was among the 25,000
foreign recipients of Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs)
issued by National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA).
One trooper died
and four others injured in the overnight gun battle after an early
morning attack on an Army check post in Chamarkand area of the
Momand region of FATA.
The death toll in
factional clash of the Taliban militants in the Kurram Agency
of FATA rise to 10.
The Taliban militants
blew up a boys' school in the Spin Qabar area of Khyber Agency
in the midnight. However, there was no loss of life and property
was reported.
Six militants surrendered
to the SFs in the Malangi area of Bajaur Agency. Tribal sources
said the local elders persuaded the militants to lay down arms
and surrender to the SFs.
Paramilitary Forces
claimed to have killed 38 Taliban militants during the weeklong
Operation Spring Cleaning.
US Special Representative
for Pakistan and Afghanistan Richard Holbrooke said that the February
26 terrorist attack in Kabul did not target the Indians specifically
and cautioned against jumping to conclusions without any solid
proof. "In regard to this attack, I do not accept the fact that
this was an attack on an Indian facility like the embassy. They
were foreigners, non-Indian foreigners hurt. It was a soft target,"
he told reporters at a State Department briefing.
The militant training
camps for those fighting in Jammu and Kashmir (India) are once
again being established in 'AJK' and recruitment is also on the
rise in Punjab, the BBC said.
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', identified as Alam Mehsud,
from Surjani town in Karachi. Alam was a close aide of the slain
TTP 'chief' Baitullah Mehsud.
The British High
Commission in Islamabad received a call from an unidentified person
threatening to "blow them up" if the BHC did not close down its
offices in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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| March 4 |
Nine more Taliban
militants were killed in the on going factional clash between
followers of Noor Jamal alias Mullah Toofan and Rafiq Mengal in
the Neka Ziarat area of Kurram Agency.
The SFs arrested
three persons, including an Afghan national and recovered arm
and explosives from an Afghanistan-bound passenger vehicle at
Michni check post in Khyber Agency in the night.
An unidentified person,
suspected to be a suicide bomber, was killed in a blast at a grocery
shop, about seven kilometres from the Sarwar Chowk of Shaheed
town of Muzaffargarh.
An IED planted at
the Ganj Bakhsh market in the Mardan area of NWFP went off, destroying
five shops.
SFs arrested 25 suspected
militants, including three militant 'commanders', in separate
raids in Ziarat Kaka Sahib and Badrashi areas of Nowshera District.
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| March 5 |
Twelve persons, including
four women, were killed and 33 others injured when a suicide bomber
targeted a Parachinar-bound civilian convoy carrying Shia passengers
in Tull area of Hangu in NWFP.
Five militants were
killed in clashes with SFs in Charbagh and Matta tehsils
in Swat Valley of NWFP.
SFs killed a militant,
identified as Abdullah, in Qalagai area in Matta tehsil. SFs also
set ablaze the house of militant 'commander' Shah Wazir Khan in
Barikot tehsil.
SFs killed a militant
in Narai Sar, in the outskirts of Mingora, and arrested seven
others.
Police arrested three
militants from the Ellam Mountain in Buner District. Sources said
the militants were identified as Noorul Alam, Shaukat Ali and
Gul Qadar.
At least 30 Taliban
militants were killed when SFs retaliated against a predawn attack
on Marjhana security post in the Chamarkand area of Safi tehsil,
some 45 kilometres northeast of Ghallanai, in Mohmand Agency of
FATA.
The Army officials
said there were strong indications that senior TTP 'commanders',
including Maulvi Faqir Mohammad, Maulvi Abdul Wali, Qari Ziaur
Rahman and Omar Rahman alias Fateh, were killed or injured in
heavy bombing by the Army gunship helicopters in Pindyali tehsil
in Mohmand Agency of FATA.
Two Taliban 'commanders'
Latifullah and Najeebullah along with their 35 aides surrendered
before the SFs in the Bajaur Agency. Latifullah and Najeebullah
left the defunct Tehreek-e-Taliban (Latif faction), a militant
outfit, and announced complete support to the SFs and the political
administration for maintaining peace in the area.
Pakistan Prime Minister
Yousaf Raza Gilani said, "We have dealt severe blows to terrorists
and the day is not far when we will rid the country of them".
Yousaf Raza Gilani
vowed to restore the 1973 constitution to its original form. He
said his Government would complete its constitutional term after
which it would appear before the nation once again to be held
accountable.
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| March 7 |
At least eight militants
were killed and two injured as fighter jets pounded Taliban hideouts
in Hamdana area of Sararogha tehsil (revenue unit) in South
Waziristan of FATA at around 2pm (PST).
The unidentified
militants abducted and beheaded a pro-Government tribal elder,
Malik Taj Mohammad, in Orakzai Agency.
Unidentified gunmen
killed a local Taliban 'commander', identified as Maulvi Noor
Muhammad, on the outskirts of Miranshah in North Waziristan.
The SFs blew up the
house of a militant 'commander', Ali Rehman, and arrested his
father and bother in Erab area of Mamond subdivision.
Six insurgents were
arrested during raid on a seminary in Kas area of Bajaur Agency.
Three Bugti tribesmen
were injured in a bomb explosion at Achanak Chowk in Dera Bugti.
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.
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| March 8 |
13 persons were killed
and 80 others injured in a suicide bomb blast in front of the
Special Intelligence Agency's (SIA) office in the Model Town area
of Lahore. 13 persons included a woman, a five-year-old girl and
security personnel.
A spokesman for the
TTP claimed responsibility for attack on the SIA's office in Model
Town. "The attack was to avenge (US) drone attacks and (Pakistani)
military operations in the Tribal Areas," said Taliban spokesman
Azam Tariq. "We have 2,800 to 3,000 more suicide bombers ... We
will target all Government places, buildings and offices," he
added.
Three missiles fired
by a US drone killed five Taliban militants in the Miranshah area
of North Waziristan in FATA.
Two pro-Government
tribal leaders were killed while another was injured when some
unidentified Taliban militants blew up their car in Shakai area
of South Waziristan.
Two persons including
brother of a commander of Ansarul Islam outfit was killed in Bara
tehsil of Khyber Agency.
A minor girl was
killed and her mother and sister sustained serious injuries when
a stray mortar shell hit their house in Alingar area in Safi tehsil
of Mohmand Agency.
A Salarzai lashkar
(tribal militia) set ablaze 130 Taliban houses in Bajaur Agency.
One Taliban militant was killed and nine others arrested in a
joint operation of the political administration and an armed lashkar
of the Salarzai tribe.
The SFs arrested
four suspected militants from the Akakhel area of Bara tehsil
in the night.
SFs arrested a potential
Afghan suicide bomber while planting a landmine on a roadside
in the Koz Chamarkand area in Safi tehsil and also recovered a
suicide vest from his possession.
A gunman, identified
as Noorul Haq, was shot dead by the Police in the Kashmirabad
area near Sariab Road in Quetta.
Hafiz Saeed, the
founder and 'chief' of Lashkar-e-Toiba (also known as Jama'at-ud-Da'awa)
and the alleged mastermind of the Mumbai terror attacks, accused
India of waging water wars on Pakistan while addressing a public
rally in Lahore.
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| March 9 |
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 death toll in the Lahore bomb
blast of March 8 rose to 15 as rescuers recovered a dead body
from the debris and shifted it to morgue while another injured
person succumbed to his injuries at the Jinnah Hospital.
The CIA arrested four Tehreek-e-Taliban
Afghanistan militants from Lahore. The arrestees were identified
as Muhammad Yasin, Muhammad Kamran of Sahiwal, Abubakar and Khurshid
Ali.
SFs and a local tribal lashkar
set ablaze 14 houses of the Taliban militants in the Mamoond tehsil
of Bajaur Agency in FATA.
SFs arrested three suspected Taliban
militants in Barokhel area of Halimzai tehsil and demolished the
house of a wanted militant in Safi tehsil.
The CIA Director Leon Panetta said
counter terrorism operations have placed al Qaeda's top leaders
under extreme pressure and many are "on the run" but recent thwarted
terror plots in the US indicate the terror network is changing
its tactics.
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| March 10 |
At least 14 Taliban militants were
killed in a US drone attack in the North Waziristan Agency of
FATA in the night. Sources based in Miranshah said that in the
first attack, a US drone fired four missiles on a vehicle in Macha
Madakhel at Dada Khel tehsil, killing six militants.
Six persons, including two women,
were killed and seven others were injured when over a dozen militants
armed with Kalashnikov rifles, pistols and hand-grenades attacked
the office of World Vision International, a US-based Christian
aid agency, in Oghi village in Mansehra of NWFP.
At least 60 militants, including
two would-be suicide bombers, were arrested during a week-long
search operation in Hangu, security officials said.
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| March 11 |
At least four civilians were killed
and 20 others injured when a suicide bomber, who was supposed
to target a paramilitary convoy, prematurely detonated explosives
at Old Bara area near Khyber Agency on the border between Khyber
and Peshawar of FATA.
Three persons, including a soldier,
were killed in clashes between the Mamond Lashkar backed SFs and
militants in Mulla Killay, Lagharai and adjoining areas of Mamond
subdivision in Bajaur Agency.
Three more militants, including one
senior Taliban 'commander' Qari Mohammad Ayub, were shot dead
by unidentified assailants at Naurak village near Mirali subdivision
of North Waziristan Agency.
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.
The Swat Taliban 'chief' Mullah Fazlullah
overcame the security siege in the region to flee the valley to
avoid siege, Lieutenant General Masood Alam of Peshawar corps
commander said.
Authorities declared red alert at
sensitive installations after the reported entrance of an explosive-laden
car in the Lahore.
The law enforcement agencies warned
the authorities concerned that 19 militants were deputed in 12
cities of the province will most likely target National Accountability
Bureau offices and anti-terrorism courts.
The law enforcement agencies have
discovered that the suicide attack on the SIA office in Model
Town on March 8, 2010, had been planned in Lahore.
Pakistan's relationship with Afghanistan
is close to the core of Islamabad's National Security interests
and Pakistan must be a partner in finding solutions to Afghanistan's
problems, British Foreign Secretary David Miliband said.
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| March 12 |
At least 57 persons, including eight
soldiers, were killed and more than 90 persons were injured as
twin suicide blasts, moments apart from each other, ripped through
the Lahore's RA Bazaar in the cantonment area.
Five persons were injured when seven
low-intensity explosions, six in Allama Iqbal town Police Station
area and one in the Samanabad area of Lahore, were carried out
in the late night.
Intelligence sources warned that
four bombers were still present in the city awaiting instructions
to hit their targets.
Four persons were killed and 25 others
injured when a powerful bomb exploded near the Bara Qadeem checkpost
close to a market on the Bara Road in Peshawar.
Four persons were injured during
an explosion in Sariab Road area of Quetta in Balochistan.
"Pakistan's military is likely paying
compensation to the families of the terrorists killed in the Mumbai
attacks", says chairman of US House Subcommittee on the Middle
East and South Asia Gary Ackerman on March 11 and blamed Islamabad
for allegedly continuing to support LeT.
A Pakistani-American expert, Shuja
Nawaz, said that the LeT was "a Frankenstein's monster", which
assumed a broader regional role.
Shuja Nawaz said that "Resolving
the Kashmir problem by itself is not going to remove this threat
because the aim of these groups is to leverage themselves into
a position of power inside Pakistan and to take control."
A resolution of Kashmir dispute between
India and Pakistan would no longer satisfy LeT and it would continue
to pose a serious threat to both India and the western world in
particular the United States, top experts have told American lawmakers.
The Interior Minister Rehman Malik
has said that there is solid evidence of the Indian involvement
in acts of terror in Balochistan and that the Pakistani Government
was taking up the matter diplomatically with the Indian Government.
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| March 13 |
At least 17 persons including two
Policemen and an army trooper were killed in a suicide attack
at a checkpoint manned by Police and military personnel at Mingora
town of Swat District in NWFP.
A civilian, Ikramullah, was killed
in a landmine explosion in the Gara Akhunzada area of Dera Ismail
Khan in NWFP.
The bomb disposal squad defused a
five kilograms of explosive device found near the venue of a public
meeting of former Chief Minister Mohammad Akram Durrani in the
Cantonment Police jurisdiction of Bannu.
The SFs recovered one kilogramme
explosive, five rockets, 10 shells, hand grenades, six Kalashnikovs
and 2,000 cartridges from a militant during a search operation
in the jurisdiction of the Kaki Police Station.
Unidentified assailants killed the
commander of a local lashkar (tribal militia) and his two bodyguards
in Mohmand Agency of FATA. However, in Mohmand Agency, about seven
anti-Taliban lashkar are operating, while locals said the Taliban
had warned their heads and volunteers of dire consequences through
media and other sources.
The SFs and volunteers of local lashkar
(militia) arrested the wife and brother-in-law of TTP spokesman
Maulvi Omar, who is already in detention in the Bajaur Agency
since August 2009.
The Khasadar (local tribal force)
Force defused an explosive device planted in an oil tanker near
Jamrud in the Khyber Agency.
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| March 14 |
At least 18 Taliban militants were
killed when fighter PAF jets bombed their hideouts in Orajzai
Agency of FATA.
Two persons, including the brother
of the Jamaat-e-Islami Bara chapter 'president', were killed in
firing incidents in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency.
Two unidentified assailants shot
dead Muhammad Amin, son of Nawab Khan, a resident of Malik Dinkhel,
besides two passers-by identified as Tasleem, son of Jalil and
Akhtar Sher, son of Hazrat Sher, sustained injuries in the firing.
The Police arrested a suspected militant,
Fida Hussain, involved in planting explosive devices at the house
of a journalist, Misri Khan Orakzai, and at a Police post in Hangu.
The BDS defused another explosive
device planted near the Police post in Mamoo Banda area of Thall
tehsil on the main Thall-Hangu Road.
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.
Unidentified assailants tried to
blow up a SF vehicle, carrying Law Enforcement Agency personnel,
at the Hazarganji Road in Quetta.
An oil tanker carrying fuel for NATO
forces in Afghanistan was blown up in Chaman, injuring a passer-by.
The FC personnel defused a bomb planted
at a grid station located along the Airport Road in Khuzdar.
A truck loaded with explosives was
seized in Haji Shah area of Attock District. However, the three
culprits managed to escape.
Around 279 suspects were arrested
from Rawalpindi and Islamabad during search operations in the
wake of militant activities in Lahore.
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