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

Two Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) were killed and four militants were arrested in an Intelligence Based Operation (IBO) in the Kulachi area of Dera Ismail Khan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on January 4, reports Dawn. The deceased militants, included wanted Zahir Shah and his unidentified accomplice, who were responsible for the killing of Army Major Ishaq during an encounter initiated by the Security Forces (SFs) on November 22, 2017, in the same area. Read less...

355 suspected persons were arrested by Police during search operations in various areas of Kohat District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), reports The Nation on January 6. According to District Police Officer (DPO) Kohat, thirty-three proclaimed offenders and a number of Afghan citizens living in the area without valid travelling documents were among the arrested people. Arms and ammunition were recovered from them. Read less...

The Peshawar High Court (PHC) on January 8 granted bail to the father-in-law of Maulana Fazlullah ‘chief’ of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and founder of Tehreek-e Nafaz-e-Shariat Mohammadi (TNSM) Sufi Mohammad reports The Nation. As a pro-Taliban cleric he was the architect of a violent movement for the enforcement of Sharia (religious code of conduct) in Pakistan´s northwestern Malakand District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP). Read less...

Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) on January 9 granted bail to two suspects Wasihullah and Hamid Khan charged by the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) with possessing explosive material and a hand grenade in Mardan District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on October 18, 2017  reports Dawn. In the petition, both the suspects had claimed that they were taken into custody by Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) and that after remaining in illegal confinement for many weeks, they were implicated in a concocted case, which was registered by the CTD. Read less...

Five suspects were arrested and weapons recovered in Barabhed area in Peshawar in KP on January 13, reports The Nation. Four of the arrested persons were identified as Dawood, Jalil, Naved Iqbal and Farman. The recovery included 274 AK-47 riffles, one G3 rifle, 76 pistols, included seven 9mm, 20 pistols of 38 bore, 32 pistol of AK-47 style, 14 China riffle 7.62 mm, rifle Dangar bore 13,11 repeater and hundreds of cartridges of deferent bores. Read less...

Police acting on information shared by the Intelligence Agencies (IA) arrested two suspects and recovered 121 rifles and 16,000 cartridges in a truck near Sefan Square on Kohat Road in Peshawar in KP on January 13, reports The Nation. The suspects were identified as Bilour and Raj Khan revealed that the weapons were being transported for smuggler identified as Pervez, a resident of Masho Khail in Peshawar in KP. Read less...

One child was killed and another injured in an explosion in Bannu District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on January 14, reports Daily times.  Read less...

Police arrested 58 suspects including two facilitators of militants during search operations from Kohat district in KP on January 14, reports Daily times. District Police Officer (DPO) Majeed Abbas said that the Police teams had conducted the operations in various areas of Kohat. Read less...

Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan(TTP) ‘commander’ Asad Mansoor of the Hakimullah Mehsud group surrendered to the Security Forces (SFs) in Dera Ismail Khan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) ,reports The Express Tribune on January 16. The name of the surrendered ‘commander’ resembles that of the spokesperson of the TTP’s breakaway faction Jammat-ul-Ahrar (JuA), Asad Mansoor, but he has sent an email to media outlets denying that he had laid down arms, while an (unnamed) official says that he had surrendered three weeks back. Read less...

A grade 12th student, Fahim Ashraf, at Islamia College in Charsadda District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa shot his college principal, Sareer Khan, dead on January 22 after being censured for skipping school to attend the November 2017 sit-in of religio-political parties in Faizabad area of Federal capital Islamabad, reports Dawn. In a video acquired by Dawn, the student, while being arrested, appeared to justify the murder saying he believed the college principal had committed blasphemy. "I have been taught... to kill... to not be afraid. Don't be afraid of disrespecting the one who" commits blasphemy, the student can be heard saying in the video in Pashto. "You can kill me," he tells the arresting officers. Police said the principal Sareer Khan had earlier expressed his anger at Faheem over his being absent from college for three days. Fahim Ashraf had been angry that he was marked absent during the days he was attending the Faizabad sit-in. Read less...

At least two Haqqani network militants were killed in a drone strike on January 23 at a house in Speen Thal area of Hangu District of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, reports The Express Tribune. According to sources, two missiles were fired from a drone at a house in Speen Thal area killing two militants of the Haqqani network identified as Ahsanullah alias Khorai and Nasir Mehsud. The deaths were also confirmed by Station House Officer (SHO) of Thal Police Station, Ameer Zaman. Read less...