January 3 |
A bomb exploded and three rockets were fired targeting
sites in Quetta. However, no loss of life or injuries was reported.
The rockets were fired at a highway police checkpoint in suburban
Quetta near Hazaar Ganji at about 11:00pm (PST). Earlier, a bomb
exploded behind the Balochistan Board of Intermediate and Secondary
Education building at about 8:00pm. Capital City Police Officer,
Pervez Rafi Bhatti, said the attacks were in reaction to the 15
arrests made in Quetta and other parts of Balochistan after the
Meezan Chowk bomb attack last month in which 11 people died.
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January 7
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Rocket attack destroys a gas pipeline in the Sui
area.
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January 9
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Unidentified people blow up a gas pipeline again
at Sui killing six people, including two Frontier Corps personnel,
and injuring 11 others.
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January 10
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Two more people die in continued rocket attacks
by unidentified people on a gas installation in the Sui area.
Three brothers are killed and their parents’ sustain
injuries when an explosive device went off in their home in the
Drengar area of Mastung district.
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January 11
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At least two Defence Services Guard personnel
are killed and five others sustain injuries as unidentified people
attacked the Sui gas field. Military authorities extend the deadline
for two wanted militants in South Waziristan to surrender to January
26.
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January 14
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The Balochistan Government formally seeks Federal
Government's assistance to ensure security of natural gas installations
in the Sui area.
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January 15
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Unidentified assailants fire six rockets targeting
a checkpoint of the paramilitary forces in Kohlu district, located
some 160 kilometers north of Sui.
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January 17
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Unidentified persons fire at least six rockets
at a Frontier Corps camp near Mach.
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January 24 |
A bomb exploded in the ministers' block of the
Balochistan Civil Secretariat in Quetta without causing any damage.
It was the second bomb blast in the ministers' block in a month.
Earlier, a bomb exploded at a washroom of the ministers' block
on December 18, 2004.
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January 26
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Three rockets were fired in the Quetta, Sibi and
Dhadar areas of Balochistan province, but no loss of life or damage
to property was reported. While a rocket landed in the Askari
Park area of provincial capital, Quetta, another rocket was fired
in Sibi, and a third rocket targeted the Dhadar area, headquarters
of Bolan district.
The Pakistan Army has set up a new military base
near the Sui gas field, where troops have been deployed after
a series of rocket attacks disrupted fuel supplies earlier this
month. The decision was announced to journalists on a trip organised
by the military to Balochistan.
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January 27 |
23 Afghans were reportedly in Quetta, capital
of Balochistan province on suspicion of their links with the Taliban
and al Qaeda. The suspects, who included a former deputy governor
and ex-police chief of Kabul, were arrested from three places
in Quetta, said Balochistan Police chief, Mohammed Yaqub. He said
the detainees had held "important positions during Taliban's tenure"
in Afghanistan, and "we suspect that some of them have close links
with Al Qaeda." Yaqub disclosed that the suspects were detained
during raids in Kharotabad, Pashtun Abad and Nawan Kili.
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January 28 |
At least two bomb explosions and as many rocket
attacks were reported from Quetta. However, no casualties were
reported. Police said a powerful bomb exploded in the Zarghoon
road residence of Munir Ahmed, an official of the Pakistan Railways,
who has recently assumed his charge after being transferred from
Sibi. When police teams were inspecting the site of the blast,
another explosion occurred near the Officers Club of Pakistan
Railways next to Quetta railway station.
Unidentified miscreants are reported to have fired
two rockets targeting the Quetta cantonment.
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January 30 |
A bomb explosion was reported from the Askari
Park area of Quetta. However, no casualty was reported. A second
blast partially damaged an oil tanker in the Kuchlak suburb of
the city. Further, Police are reported to have defused a third
bomb planted inside the Askari Park.
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January 31
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President Pervez Musharraf has, in principle,
reportedly approved the recommendations of the Parliamentary Committee
on Balochistan, which envisage issues pertaining to gas royalty
as also provincial autonomy and may require constitutional amendments,
besides removal of concerns on the location of Frontier Constabulary
check posts in Sui and some other parts of the province. This
was stated by Choudhury Shujaat Hussain, President of the ruling
Muslim League, at a news conference in Karachi on January 31.
The former Prime Minister also said that the Government wanted
an understanding with Baloch leaders, Nawab Akbar Bugti and Sardar
Attaullah Mengal, on the recommendations.
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February 1
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Security Forces (SFs) are reported to have escaped
possible losses when two rockets targeting a key garrison in Quetta,
failed to explode after their timers malfunctioned. "We got information
that two rockets fitted with timers had been placed on the western
by-pass in the suburbs of Quetta… Luckily the timers did not work,
otherwise the rockets could have caused damage in the cantonment
area," said city police chief Pervez Rafi Bhatti. Nobody has claimed
responsibility for the failed attack, added Bhatti.
One person was killed and nine others sustained
injuries during two bomb blasts in Quetta. City Police Officer,
Pervaiz Rafi Bhatti, said that the person killed in an explosion
was a saboteur, identified as Bahar Khan, and blew himself before
planting the explosive in a busy center.
Nine persons were wounded when a bomb exploded
near the Quetta Railway Station. The Balochistan Liberation Army
(BLA) claimed responsibility for the explosion.
The BBC Urdu Service reported that bomb explosions
cut electricity to Balochistan plunging the entire province into
darkness. The report said that a high-tension power supply line
was blown up by bomb attacks in the Mithri Pirak area of Sibi
at approximately 9:15 pm (PST).One person is killed and nine others
sustained injuries during two bomb blasts in Quetta, capital of
Balochistan.
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February 3
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A telephone tower, an electric supply tower and
a railway track were blown up in continuing attacks on vital Government
installations in the Balochistan province. The Balochistan Liberation
Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for some of the attacks.
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February 5
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Suspected insurgents blow up a railway track that
links Pakistan with Iran in the Balochistan province, but caused
no casualties.
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February 8
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A bomb blast destroyed a railway track in Bakhtiarabad,
railway controller, Aziz Ahmad told. Another bomb blast hit a
rail track in Killi Almo, on the outskirts of provincial capital
Quetta, at around the same time, said railway official Mohammad
Jawaid. However, there were no casualties in these explosions.
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February 11 |
Police in the provincial capital, Quetta, claimed
to have arrested an alleged terrorist, identified as Hussain Marri,
and recovered 120 kg of Russian-made explosive material after
an exchange of fire in the Marri camp area. Deputy Inspector General
of Police, Rafi Pervez Bhatti, said that Hussain, a bodyguard
of veteran Baloch nationalist leader, Nawab Khair Bukhsh Marri,
was an activist of the BLA.
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February 15 |
Police arrested a Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) terrorist,
identified as Faisal Rafiq, from Quetta. Balochistan Inspector
General of Police, Choudhury Mohammed Yaqoob, said "we suspect
he was preparing to carry out a suicide attack against Shias."
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February 18
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Two suspected terrorists of the outlawed Sunni
group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), blow themselves up with hand grenades
during an exchange of fire with the police at Ghilzai road in
Quetta.
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February 22 |
Police arrested three alleged terrorists and recovered
three rockets from their possession during a raid conducted at
Marri camp in Quetta.
Police arrested a suspected Taliban activist from
the Kuchlak area. A Kalashnikov rifle with ammunition, a mobile
phone and a Thuraya satellite phone were seized from his possession.
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February 25 |
Two successive bomb explosions occurred in Quetta.
However, no loss of life or injuries was reported. Police said
one of the bombs exploded on the Samungli road near Saddar police
station and the second blast occurred near Pishin-spot. Meanwhile,
unconfirmed reports said six explosions occurred in different
localities of Quetta, including Patel Bagh, Wahdat Colony and
Shahbaz town.
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February 26 |
Unidentified persons hurled a hand grenade at
the building of Radio Pakistan Quetta. However, no casualty was
reported, police said, adding that the windowpanes of some rooms
of the building were destroyed in the explosion. Later, another
explosion occurred near Railway Quarters at Zarghoon road. A local
device along with timer for the blast was used, sources said.
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February 27
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Police seize a huge arms cache and explosive material,
including 43 rockets, and unearth a private jail and torture cells
while arresting 20 suspects during an operation targeting the
Marri camp in the outskirts of Quetta.
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March 1 |
An explosion was also reported from the Wahdat
Colony area of provincial capital Quetta. However, no loss of
life or injuries was reported in these incidents.
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March 2 |
Two bomb blasts occurred at Quetta. However, no
loss of life or injuries was reported. Police said terrorists
planted an explosive device near the house of Police Constable,
Riaz Hussain, which exploded, damaging the boundary wall.
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March 3 |
Four bombs exploded in the provincial capital
Quetta, without causing any damage.
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March 4 |
A LeJ terrorist, Ramzan Mengal, is reported to
have been arrested from Quetta for his alleged involvement in
a number of sectarian killings in Quetta. Mengal was arrested
from the New Saraib area, Capital City Police Officer, Rafi Pervez
Bhatti, said. He was responsible for a number of sectarian killings
between 2001 and 2004 and carried a Rupees 1 million bounty on
his head.
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March 6
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Two bombs exploded in the provincial capital Quetta,
without causing any damage.
A 1000-line telephone exchange in the Dera Bugti
district is set ablaze and a Frontier Corps check-post in Kohlu
district is attacked by insurgents.
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March 8 |
Over 25 people have reportedly been arrested in
connection with bomb blasts, rocket-firing incidents and targeting
vital installations in different parts of the Balochistan province.
They were detained during recent police raids on the Marri camp
and Killi Kambrani, Quetta, Kalat and Sibi districts, Inspector
General of Police (IGP), Choudhury Yaqoob, told a press conference
in the provincial capital Quetta. During interrogation, the IGP
claimed, the suspects had confessed to their involvement in terrorist
activities and revealed the presence of terrorist training camps
in Kohlu district.
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March 10 |
Three bomb explosions were reported from the Balochistan
province. A bomb exploded near a telephone cabinet in the Kalat
district, while two successive explosions occurred in the provincial
capital Quetta. However, no loss of life or injuries was reported
in these explosions.
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March 18
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A fierce gun-battle between insurgents and the
Frontier Corps in the Dera Bugti district that ended early on
March 18 left up to 31 people dead, including 10 Frontier Corps
personnel, and more than 70 injured.
At least two passengers of the Quetta and Lahore
bound Chiltan Express trains are killed and nine others sustain
injuries during two separate bomb explosions in the trains at
the Mach and Mushkaf areas.
An explosion occurred in Quetta near the Al-Gailani
road. However, no casualties were reported.
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March 19
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At least 50 people are killed and over 100 others
sustain injuries during a bomb explosion at a crowded gathering
near the shrine of a Shia saint at Fatehpur village in the Jhal
Magsi district.
A bomb exploded on the Smangli Road in Quetta
without causing any damage.
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March 20
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Bugti tribesmen have surrounded at least 300 FC
personnel and Government officials at a base in the Dera Bugti
area where fears of fresh fighting between the tribesmen and troops
have forced thousands of residents to flee for safety, says Balochistan
Governor, Awais Ahmed Ghani, in Quetta.
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April 8
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Government agrees to withdraw security forces
deployed between Dera Bugti and Sui.
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April 9 |
Police arrested three people and seized a huge
cache of weapons from them including hand grenades, kalashnikovs
and pistols in Quetta. Superintendent of Police (CIA) Wazir Khan
Nasir said the weapons had been used in bomb blasts and rocket
firing incidents in the province. Among the weapons seized were
100 hand grenades, 204 explosive rods, 486 bullets, 97 rocket
fuses, 4,400 kalashnikov bullets, three kalashnikovs, 15 kalashnikov
magazines, two pistols, four pistol magazines, 26 remote control
circuits, 48 hand grenade fuses and 300 detonators.
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April 12 |
The Police seized a 100mm Russian-made rocket
from the Killi Aminabad area of capital Quetta.
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April 13
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The Bugti tribesmen end blockade of the Dera Bugti-Sui
Road and leave their trenches set up after a clash with security
forces on March 17.
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April 19 |
Two bomb explosions occurred in the provincial
capital Quetta without causing any damage.
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April 20
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Four power supply towers of 33-KV are blown up
by suspected insurgents near Hun Lake in the Barkhan district.
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April 27
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One Frontier Corps personnel is killed during
a landmine explosion in the Kahan area.
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May 1
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A portion of the main railway track linking the
provincial capital Quetta with the rest of the country is blown
up near the Domboli area of Nasirabad district.
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May 2
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The Parliamentary Committee on Balochistan adopts,
with certain amendments, the Mushahid Hussain sub-committee report
comprising eight recommendations, including payment of gas royalty
within a fixed period and a financial package for the development
of Sui, Gwadar and Quetta.
The Government announces results of a countrywide
Afghan census and disclosed that there were 3,047,225 Afghans
living in Pakistan, including refugees and residents.
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May 3
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One person is killed and four others sustain injuries
during an explosion in the border town of Chaman.
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May 8 |
Police claimed to have foiled terrorism attempts
and seized a large cache of weapons, including rockets and hand-grenades,
during a raid conducted at Eastern bypass in Quetta, capital of
Balochistan province. The seizure included one rocket launcher,
five rockets, 25 hand-grenade and seven detonators. However, no
arrests were made.
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May 9 |
Three powerful explosions were reported from the
Gwadar town and two others occurred in Quetta, capital of Balochistan
province. In Quetta, a device exploded near a mosque on the Jaint
Road and another exploded along the wall of a playground on Spani
Road. However, no loss of life or injuries has been reported in
these blasts.
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May 13 |
A bomb exploded on the premises of the heavily
guarded district court in Quetta, capital of Balochistan province.
However, no loss of life or damage was reported.
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May 19
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Two police personnel are killed during an attack
on their vehicle in the Bagh area of Bolan district.
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May 27 |
There were three bomb explosions in Quetta, capital
of Balochistan province. However, no casualties were reported.
Police said a bomb exploded near the Balochistan Irrigation Department,
while there were two explosions in the Pakistan Telecommunications
Corporation Limited Colony on Saryab Road, damaging windows of
the adjacent buildings. No group has claimed responsibility for
these explosions.
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June 2
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One Frontier Corps personnel is killed and another
sustained injuries during an attack by suspected insurgents in
the Mangochar area of Kalat district.
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July 13
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Three children are reported to have died and three
persons sustained injuries when a bomb exploded in a house in
the Jhal Magsi area.
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June 14 |
A bomb explosion occurred in Quetta, capital of
Balochistan province. However, no casualty was reported from the
incident site. A bomb planted near a school in Jinnah Town exploded
around 11.15pm (PST) causing panic among the people.
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June 19 |
A bomb exploded near a shop at Jinnah Town in
Quetta, the provincial capital, on the same day. However, no loss
of life or injuries was reported from both the incident sites.
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June 23 |
The police seized a huge quantity of explosive
material and rockets during a raid in Quetta, capital of Balochistan
province. The seizure included 48-kg high power T&T material,
14 rockets, 97 detonators, 27 time pencil bombs, seven disposable
rocket launchers, a map showing the important installations in
Quetta and other weapons. However, no arrests were made.
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June 25 |
Two rockets were fired at the residence of Balochistan
Chief Minister Jam Muhammad Yousuf in Quetta. However, no casualties
were reported in the attack.
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July 14 |
Four bomb blasts were reported from Quetta, capital
of the Balochistan province. While a hand-grenade was lobbed at
the building of the office of the Director-General of Health Services,
another grenade targeted the office of excise department on Sariab
Road after five minutes. The third targeted the head office of
the Post Master General Balochistan in the same area. The location
of fourth explosion could not be immediately ascertained.
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July 15 |
Two unidentified motorcyclists opened fire at
Dr. Nadir Khan, a Professor of Medicine at Bolan Medical Complex,
and injured him when he was on his way to a hospital in Quetta,
capital of Balochistan province. Police said that Prof. Khan,
from the Shia sect, could have been attacked for sectarian reasons.
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July 18
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In a suspected sectarian incident, two unidentified
assailants shot dead the owner of a school, Syed Tahir Reza Rizvi,
and injured his wife in Quetta.
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July 28 |
At least 114 suspected militants are reported
to have been arrested in Quetta, capital of Balochistan province,
in the ongoing crackdown on Islamist extremism. "We have rounded
up around 114 people from all over the city," disclosed Pervez
Zahoor, a Senior Superintendent of Police, adding that hate material,
including books and computer discs, were also recovered. Most
of those who have been arrested reportedly belong to the outlawed
Sunni group SSP.
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July 30 |
Quetta Police found and defused a 10-kg bomb at
Aalmo Chowk on Airport Road. The bomb, attached to a bicycle,
was meant to target a security convoy, which passed the site within
minutes of the bomb being defused.
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August 10 |
A Shia businessman, Syed Anwar Abdi, was shot
dead by two motorcycle-borne assailants in a sectarian incident
at Quetta, capital of Balochistan province.
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August 15 |
At least seven bombs exploded and more than 10
rockets were fired at Kohlu, Mach and Quetta in the Balochistan
province during the last 24 hours but causing no casualties. Suspected
Baloch insurgents are reported to have targeted, among other installations,
a police station and railway tracks.
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August 18 |
A cache of arms and ammunition was seized from
the Punchapai area of Quetta, capital of Balochistan province,
during an operation by the FC. The FC personnel recovered the
cache, hidden underground in an uninhabited area, which included
81 mortar bombs, five hand grenades, one rocket launcher, one
rocket, one 12.7mm gun and 170 bombs.
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September 20 |
Three bomb blasts were reported from Quetta, capital
of Balochistan province. However, no one was injured in these
explosions. The first bomb, planted in the Killi Qambrani area,
exploded at 7:50pm (PST) while another exploded after 50 minutes
at Pod Killi Chowk. A third explosion occurred near the residence
of provincial Minister Mir Asim Gaillu Kurd in the Railway Housing
Society area.
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August 22
|
Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Muhammad Yusuf
escapes unhurt after seven rockets were fired at the camp of Frontier
Constabulary near Kohlu.
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August 31
|
One person is killed and two others sustained
injuries during a bomb blast in the Mastung district.
|
September 14
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In a sectarian incident, unidentified assailants
shot dead a Shia man, Ejazul Hasan, in Quetta.
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September 21
|
Presenting its interim report in the Senate, the
Parliamentary Committee on Balochistan said the Frontier Constabulary
and Coast Guard should be withdrawn from interior Balochistan,
and proposed a number of other measures to improve the economic
and social conditions of the province.
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October 3
|
Supply of gas from Sui Southern Gas Company to
five districts of Balochistan province, including capital Quetta,
was disrupted when suspected insurgents blew up a portion of the
main pipeline near Kolpur.
|
October 25 |
A rocket attack was reported from the cantonment
area of Quetta, capital of Balochistan province. However, it did
not cause any damage. A rocket landed in the residential area
near Chiltan Market damaging an under-construction apartment and
some cars. In another incident, police recovered a live rocket
from the Killi Gul Mohammad area.
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October 26
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A Shia teacher, Murid Abbas, is killed on his
way to school in Quetta.
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October 30 |
Saboteurs fired a rocket at the Khuzdar cantonment
area of Quetta, capital of Balochistan province. Police sources
said that unidentified men had fired a rocket from the mountains
in the west of the township targeting the office of an intelligence
agency.
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November 1 |
SFs are reported to have killed a foreign Al Qaeda
suspect and arrested another in Quetta, capital of Balochistan
province. "Security forces had an encounter when they raided a
house [at Sirki Road] in Quetta on Tuesday. They captured a foreigner
and killed another and they may be Al Qaeda operatives," Information
Minister Sheikh Rashid told. "They are Arabs but their nationality
is not yet known," Rashid added. Security agencies are reportedly
trying to establish if one of the men is a wanted Syrian national,
Mustafa Setmariam Nasar alias Abu Musab Al Suri, who has a bounty
of $5 million. Nasar is an Al Qaeda trainer at terrorist camps
in Afghanistan and an expert in using poisons and chemicals. He
is allegedly also linked to the Madrid and London bombings.
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November 7
|
Three suspected terrorists are killed when a bomb
exploded in a house in the Malikabad area of Turbat district.
A rocket attack was reported from the Satellite
Town area of Quetta, the provincial capital. However, no loss
of life or injuries was reported.
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November 8
|
The Balochistan Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani promulgates
the Societies Registration (Balochistan Second Amendment) Ordinance,
2005 in the province with immediate effect. Under the Ordinance,
all Madrassas (seminaries) shall not operate without getting themselves
registered. All seminaries, according to the Ordinance, shall
submit an annual report of its educational activities to the Registrar.
Every Madrassa is to carry out an audit of its accounts and submit
a copy of its report to the Registrar. Under the law, no seminary
shall teach or make public any literature, which promotes militancy
or spreads sectarianism or religious hatred.
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November 15
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At least three people are killed and 20 others,
including two South African women, sustain injuries in a powerful
car bomb explosion in front of the KFC restaurant in Karachi.
The bomb was planted in a car parked outside the PIDC House. Chakar
Azam, a spokesperson for the Balochistan Liberation Army, claimed
responsibility for the attack.
Many vehicles are damaged when a rocket hit the
camp site of a Chinese construction company in the Tallar area
of Gwadar district. The Chinese company is constructing a road
to link Gwadar with the Turbat area of Makran.
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November 20 |
The police seized weapons from the suburbs of
capital Quetta and arrested one person. Police raided the Killi
Qamrani area and seized 13 shells of 82 MM, one rocket launcher,
10 shells of RPG and some ammunition.
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November 22
|
The Frontier Corps seizes 26 rocket launchers,
15 Kalashnikovs, six rifles and 158 mortar bombs, two land mines,
116 detonators, 56 grenades, 27 rocket shells, one pistol and
over 30,000 rounds of different calibre from the Mungochar area
of Kalat district.
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November 28
|
An Anti-Terrorist Court in Quetta sentences five
people to death for killing five army personnel and another man
near Khuzdar on August 1, 2004.
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December 2
|
Gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead a Shia cleric,
Allama Badar-ud-Din, as he left his home to go to a mosque in
Dera Murad Jamali, some 240 kilometers south of Quetta.
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December 6 |
Suspected Baloch insurgents blew up a railway
track in the Balochistan province, delaying a train but causing
no casualties. The insurgents planted explosives on the track
in Sariab area on the outskirts of Quetta, capital of the Balochistan
province. Ghulam Rasool, Deputy Controller of Pakistan Railways,
informed that the blast delayed a freight train but the damaged
track was repaired in about three hours and passenger trains were
not disturbed.
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December 7
|
The Government detects existence of five to six
camps, known as Ferari camps, in the Balochistan province where
people are being trained to carry out terrorist activities.
During the past year, 261 bomb blasts occurred
in Balochistan and 167 rockets were fired, says a report.
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December 9
|
Police seizes an anti-aircraft gun along with
350 rounds and arrested a man, identified as Ghousuddin, from
a house near the airport in Quetta.
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December 11
|
The Jamhoori Watan Party chief Nawab Akbar Bugti
and National Party chief Sardar Attaullah Mengal have said the
Government is planning a military operation in the Balochistan
province.
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December 13
|
At least three people, including a child, are
killed and six persons sustain injuries when approximately 12
rockets struck their homes at Dera Bugti.
Two rocket explosions were reported from the cantonment
area of Quetta, capital of Balochistan. The first rocket landed
in an open place close to the golf course of Quetta Club, while
the second exploded near Madressah road soon after. However, no
loss of life or injuries was reported.
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December 16
|
Balochistan Police have reportedly detained more
than 250 suspects in the last two days in connection with the
increasing incidence of sectarian violence in the province. Quetta
Range Deputy Inspector General of Police, Salman Syed, told that
about 221 suspects were arrested in Quetta, capital of Balochistan,
only. Around 12 incidents of targeted killing have been reported
this year in which 10 people were killed and two were injured.
Three people have been killed in separate incidents in this month
so far.
A helicopter carrying the Frontier Corps Inspector
General (IG) Major General Shujaat Zameer Dar is attacked in Kohlu,
injuring the IG and his deputy, DIG Brigadier Salim Nawaz.
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December 19
|
According to Dawn, paramilitary forces continued
their operation in different areas of the Kohlu district of Balochistan
province, destroying more ‘hideouts and camps of outlaws’, while
the Frontier Corps (FC) camp in the Kohlu township came under
rocket attacks. The Marri tribesmen and the four-party Baloch
Alliance claimed that over 50 people had been killed and around
100 injured in helicopter attacks and air strikes in different
areas over the past two days. The Anjuman Ittehad Marri claimed
that 70 people, including women and children, had died and 150
injured in bombings by aircraft and helicopter gun-ships.
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December 20
|
The Balochistan Students Organisation claims that
70 people had been killed and hundreds injured so far due to the
firing of gunship helicopters in Kohlu district of Balochistan.
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December 21 |
Two rocket attacks were reported from Quetta,
capital of Balochistan province. However, no casuality or loss
of property was reported. Official sources said the first rocket
was fired at around 9.35pm in an open area on the Sirki Road.
The other rocket, fired about half and hour later, exploded at
a place in the cantonment area. Meanwhile, reports from Harnai
said that two bomb explosions occurred near the railway station
but caused no damage.
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December 26
|
In the ongoing military operations in Balochistan,
SFs continued to target camps of suspected insurgents in the Kohlu
and Dera Bugti areas. Officials claimed that out of 13, six camps
had been dismantled in Kohlu since the launch of the operations
on December 18.
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