Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa): Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2018

On February 3, 11 Pakistani Army soldiers were killed and 13 wounded in a suicide bombing near a Pakistani Army camp in Kabal area in Swat District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, reports Dawn. Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility for the attack. According to reports, the sicide bomber blew himself up in a ground where soldiers were playing volleyball. Read less...

Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) local leader Malik Tufail was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Mughalkhel area of Bannu District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on February 4, reports Dawn. Tufail was killed when unidentified assailants on a motorcycle opened fire at him in Mughalkhel area. The suspects escaped from the site after the incident. Read less...

Two security force personals were killed and three others were injured when their vehicle was targeted by terrorists in Mir Ali tehsil of North Waziristan on February 7 (today), reports Dawn. Read less...

Life in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Mardan District came to a halt on February 9 as thousands of workers and supporters of religious parties took to roads to pressure the Government into releasing the 31 men convicted in the murder of Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan student Mashal Khan, who was lynched in April 13, 2017 after being falsely accused of blasphemy, reports Dawn. Thousands of members of the Tahaffuz Khatm-i-Nabuwat Organisation, Jamaat-i-Islami (JI) and Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) joined by locals participated in the protest that began at Pakistan Chowk after Friday prayers. Holding banners that read "Mashalyon [Mashal supporters], stop us if you can!”. the protesters chanted slogans against Mashal and the Government. The demonstration led by Tahaffuz Khatm-i-Nabuwat leader Qari Ikramul Haq demanded that the men convicted for the murder be released. Several of the men acquitted by the court, including Ajmal Mayar, attended the rally and were given a "Ghazi welcome" [Muslim fighters' welcome]. The rally was scheduled to march from Pakistan Chowk to College Chowk, but concluded earlier at Katlang Chowk after a dua (grand prayer) for those acquitted. Read less...

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Counter-Terrorism Department (CTD) on February 10 arrested a facilitator of the terror attack on Peshawar’s Agricultural Directorate, reports Daily Times. According to CTD, the man identified as Muhammad Yasir was taken into custody near Larma camp in Peshawar and belongs to Bajaur Agency. The arrested suspect has been shifted to undisclosed location and is being interrogated. On December 1, 2017, terrorists attacked the Peshawar’s Agricultural Directorate in which nine people were killed and thirty eight others injured Read less...

A motorcycle containing Improvised Explosive Device (IED) exploded and injured three civilians including a Government official at Dir Colony on Peshawar’s Ring Road, on February 23, reports Daily Times. The injured civilians were identified as Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Provincial Disaster Management Authority Deputy Director Muhammad Shakeel, Latif, (29) and Wadan Gul (47).Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)’s Jama’atul Ahrar faction claimed responsibility for the attack. Read less...