Acts of Terrorism in Pakistan

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Militant attack in Bannu injures five security personnel | DAWN.COM

BANNU: A explosion near a security checkpost followed by militant firing injured five security personnel in Bannu district’s Haweed post area early on Tuesday, DawnNews reported.

All injured were shifted to District Hospital where the condition of one wounded was reported as critical.

Security forces cordoned off the area as investigations into the incident went underway.

No further details were available till the filing of this report.

 

[karan.1970]

Militant attack on Bannu police station injures four policemen | DAWN.COM

BANNU: Militants attacked Kaki police station, 15 kilometres south of Bannu, injuring four policemen including the Station House Officer (SHO) in an exchange of fire early on Monday.

According to Dawn.com sources Army arrived at the site of attack and surrounded the area whereas local villagers also supported the security personnel during the clash.

While talking to Dawn.com’s correspondent, security sources confirmed that two militants blew themselves up inside the police station whereas three local civilians aiding the security forces were killed during the clash.

The militants were holed up in a mosque inside the police station compound, enabling the attackers to resist the security forces and to prolong the gun-battle till three hours.

Hospital sources confirmed receiving two injured policemen including the SHO of Kaki police station.

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

Bomb attack kills 16 in Jamrud: Officials

PESHAWAR: A car bomb attack killed 16 people and wounded around 70 on Monday in a Pakistan market in the northwestern town of Jamrud, close to the Afghan border, officials said.
The bomb exploded in a small market near a bus stop, killing and wounding people waiting for buses to take them across the northwest and to other parts of the country, according to officials.
Pools of blood and charred pieces of human flesh littered the roadside, along with at least 20 burnt vehicles, said an AFP reporter. Clothes, school books, children’s shoes and burqas lay everywhere.
A government office of the district administration was around 100 metres from where the bomb detonated but was not damaged in the attack, according to an AFP reporter.
“At least 16 people were killed and 71 others wounded in the blast caused by an explosive-laden car, which had been parked very close to the waiting area for passengers,” Khyber’s most senior administration official, Mutahir Zeb, told AFP.
He said ordinary civilians and not the government office, some distance from the explosion, were the target.
“We are still are ascertaining what procedure was exactly used to blow up the vehicle,” he said.
Local administration official Jehangir Azam also confirmed that 16 people died.
“The blast also damaged 10 vehicles and more than 15 shops in the market,” Azam told AFP.
Officials had earlier said 12 people were killed.
Two intelligence officials, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the explosives had been packed into a Suzuki Alto vehicle.
The government says more than 35,000 people have been killed as a result of terrorism in the country since the 9/11 attacks on the United States.
There has, however, been a noticeable decline in the number and severity of attacks since 2009, when the Pakistan army fought major operations against local Taliban in the northwestern district of Swat and the tribal district of South Waziristan.
According to an AFP tally there have been more than 100 bombings, killing 550 people, so far this year, compared to 203 recorded in 2009, when the death toll was tallied at 1,840

Bomb attack kills 16 in Jamrud: Officials – The Express Tribune

 

[Daywalker]

19 killed in Jamrud bazaar car bombing - thenews.com.pk




19 killed in Jamrud bazaar car bombing


Saeed Zaman Afridi
Tuesday, December 18, 2012
From Print Edition




[19 killed in Jamrud bazaar car bombing]


JAMRUD: Nineteen persons, including four Afghan refugee women, were killed and 48 other people sustained injuries when an explosive-laden car parked in the main bazaar of Jamrud town in Khyber Agency exploded on Monday, eyewitnesses said.



The Suzuki Alto car, apparently filled with explosives, had been parked at a small vehicles workshop located close to a bus stand in the Jamrud Bazaar. It exploded at 10:15am when there was a rush of people there. The site of the explosion was not far from the Bab-e-Khyber, the famous gateway to the Khyber Pass.



All those killed were civilians and included shopkeepers and vendors, customers, drivers and passengers. Among the dead were four women and two minors of an Afghan family on its way to Afghanistan from Peshawar in a car. They were caught in the deadly explosion and their burnt bodies were charred and almost beyond recognition.



Some of the dead were identified as Aqal Mir, Muhammad Rasool, Muhammad Shakir, Wahid Khan, Khanabad, Sher Zaman, Waheedur Rehman and Asif Khan. The identity of 11 charred bodies lying in the mortuary of the Tehsil Headquarters Hospital in Jamrud could not be established.



The injured included Janbaz, Dauran, Riaz, Allah Noor, Ehsanullah, Naqeeb Khan, Fateh Muhammad, Irfanullah, Muhammad Ikram, Hazrat Khan, Fahad Khan, Maidan Gul, Samin Jan, Mir Askar, Shaukatullah, Lal Muhammad, Jamal Shah, Janat Gul, Altaf, Hazrat Umar, Nawab, Amir Jan, Muhammad Pervez, Daulat, Hamid Khan, Shahzeb, Usman Gul, Abdul Hannan, Noor Shah, Jan Nawaz, Abad Khan and Faqir Hussain. The majority of the injured were said to be Afghan nationals.



The injured were rushed to the Hayatabad Medical Complex in Peshawar where two of them succumbed to their injuries, raising the death toll to 19.Following the explosion, the personnel of security forces and officials of Khyber Agency’s political administration reached the site of the bombing. The soldiers fired warning shots in the air.



About seven shops were completely destroyed and 22 vehicles parked near the explosive-laden car in the market were damaged. The residents helped the authorities in shifting the injured to hospitals in their own vehicles. The Al-Khidmat Foundation arranged coffins for the slain persons.



Visiting the blast scene, Khyber Pukhtunkhwa Minister for Information Mian Iftikhar Hussain said: “Those who carried out this act of cowardice are neither Muslims nor human beings.”The minister, who has made it a point to visit almost every site of bombing, said the war on terror would continue till the eradication of militancy present in the area. He reiterated that the government was not afraid of terrorists and would fight them to the end. He conveyed his deep sympathies to the families of the deceased and injured.



Meanwhile, Khyber Agency’s Political Agent Muttahir Zaib announced Rs300,000 each as compensation for the families of the dead and Rs100,000 each for the injured.



No militant group has yet claimed responsibility for the attack. Normally, the militants don’t claim responsibility for bomb attacks in which civilians and innocent people are killed. The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which is quick to claim responsibility for the bomb attacks and suicide bombing, kept quiet over the act of terrorism in Jamrud.



Though sections of the media quoted unnamed security officials as saying that members of the Zakhakhel Afridi tribe were the target of the attack for raising an anti-militant Lashkar in Landikotal and Tirah valley in Khyber Agency, this wasn’t being confirmed by tribal sources and the militants. The workshop or the adjacent bus stand in the Jamrud bazaar is not frequented by the Zakhakhels only as people of every Afridi tribe besides others are seen there. Also, there was no presence of security forces, Levies or Khassadars at the site who could have become a target and there was no government or military installation there.



It also wasn’t clear if the explosive-packed car was intended for use where it exploded or was to be detonated somewhere else.There have been big bomb explosions in Jamrud in the past also, including one in the bazaar at a bus stand frequented by the Zakhakhels and another at a mosque at the Bagyari checkpost near the Jamrud town. Dozens of people were killed in these explosions.

 

[Inception-06]

The actual Situation in Pakistan is like in Iraq after the US invasion !

 

[RescueRanger]

God damn taliban retards, what the hell will they get out a place like Chitral. May they burn in the fire of a thousand suns.

 

[karan.1970]

Gunmen attack passenger buses near Mach in Balochistan; three killed | Pakistan | DAWN.COM

QUETTA: Unidentified gunmen attacked two passenger buses near Mach in Balochistan’s Bolan district late on Thursday killing three and injuring six. Some passengers were kidnapped by the attackers as well, DawnNews reported.

According to sources in Levies Forces, unknown attackers, apparently came down from nearby hills, opened fire on two passenger buses near Mach which spread chaos among the passengers.

The Sadiqabad-bound buses were coming from Quetta.

Initial reports suggest the attackers have taken some of the passengers hostages.

The injured were being transferred to a Quetta hospital. The incident has halted traffic on Quetta-Jacobabad highway.

 

[Doctor Death]

ANOTHER POLICE CONSTABLE SHOT DEAD

KARACHI, Dec 26: Another policeman was gunned down in Pak Colony on Wednesday night, bringing the number of policemen killed in the city during the current year to 120. Only a day ago, four policemen had lost their lives while protecting a leader of the Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat in Gulshan-i-Iqbal. The officials added that police constable Amjed Suleman was shot at and wounded near the Lyari River within the remit of the Pak Colony police station. The attackers fled following the shooting. The victim died before he could be taken to hospital, the police said. The deceased was posted at the Garden police headquarters and was heading home when the attack was carried out. According to the official data, the latest killing put the number of policemen killed in Karachi during this year to 120. Robbers kill man An elderly man was killed and two others were wounded when bandits opened fire on them while looting a shop in New Karachi on Wednesday, police said. The police added that half a dozen armed robbers were depriving people of their cash and cellphones in New Karachi Sector 11-B near Disco Morr when someone from a nearby dry-cleaner’s shop fired at them. “The suspects returned fire killing a man wounding two others sitting on the stairs of the dry-cleaner’s shop,” said SP New Karachi Syed Salmam Hussain. Mohammad Salahuddin, 65, sustained a gunshot wound in the chest causing his instant death. Abdul Rasheed, 60, and Mehboob Sultan, 70, suffered gunshot wounds in the leg and shoulder, respectively, the SP said. Like this:Be the first to like this.

Pakistan News Watch - Another police constable shot dead

 

[niaz]

A poignant article in the 'Dawn' about reasons for continued militancy in Pakistan.

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Uzbeks: a one-para article
From the Newspaper | Muhammad Ali Siddiqi | 15 hours ago 5


I HAD long wanted to write an article which wouldn’t go beyond one paragraph. What editor would publish a two-and-a-half-line ‘article’? The intended paragraph was: if Uzbek militants are keen on waging a jihad and conquering the world, what are they doing in Pakistan? Why don’t they go back to their country to begin their jihad from Uzbekistan? After all, charity begins at home.

Luckily, another sentence sprouted: shouldn’t Osama bin Laden’s deputy and now head of Al Qaeda, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, go back to Egypt, where the Muslim Brotherhood has achieved power by democratic means? What is he doing in the Pakistani mountains — or Abbottabad?

Zawahiri has officially declared war on Pakistan. Isn’t Egypt more deserving of a jihad, because Cairo (unlike Islamabad) has diplomatic relations with Tel Aviv, and thousands of Israeli tourists visit Egypt each year and go nightclubbing? So Zawahiri’s first priority should be to sort out Mohamed Morsi and Egypt as he is sorting out Pakistan and Pakistanis. Or as an Egyptian would he hate to spill Egyptian blood?

A letter found on the body of a Dagestani militant killed in the ‘jihad’ on the Peshawar airport and airbase last week said it is obligatory to kill infidels. Agreed. But why didn’t the fighter from north Caucasus kill Dagestani kafirs before turning his guns on the kafirs that we Pakistanis are?

The question then stretches, for the query asked of Zawahiri, Uzbeks and the Dagestani could be put to all those foreign militants who have made Pakistan their homes for the honourable and highly moral purpose of killing Pakistanis, spreading terror and thereby inflicting one defeat after another on America.

Let us go back to Uzbekistan, where Islam Karimov, the Soviet-era dictator, allegedly dunks his dissidents in boiling water. This form of torture, which escaped Reichsfuhrer Himmler’s mind, would have remained unknown, but for a mother who wrote to a British diplomat whose report to his government found its way into the media and shocked the world. Uzbekistan doesn’t have anything even remotely resembling a free press or opposition parties. That’s why Uzbek ‘mujahids’ come to Pakistan. If ever that Central Asian country had an Oxford-educated hero who combined deadly outswingers with perforating barbs at Comrade Karimov’s policy he would know for the first time in his life what boiling water is.

The Uzbeks and other foreign militants enjoy immense advantages in Pakistan. A section of the media, politicians and civil society try to justify their killings; imams in Friday sermons either skip the subject or lend indirect support to them, and, above all, the terrorists have secret apologists in the judiciary and the armed forces, especially, it seems, the air force.

Money and arms are no problem — both are in plenty — and their Pakistani hideouts are more well-defended than PNS Mehran and GHQ. Above all, the militants do not get flak because some immature minds in the media have yet to grasp the relationship between state, society, human rights and Bentham’s “greatest good for the greatest number”.

Why would Uzbeks or Zawahiri go back to their countries? Pakistan has all one can hope for to kill and sow terror and be applauded.

The writer is a staff member.

mas@dawn.com
Uzbeks: a one-para article | Opinion | DAWN.COM

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Additionally, you have political leaders such Rana Sana Ullah of PML-N, Taliban Khan of PTI, & Syed Munawwar Hasan of JI who refuse to condemn Taliban despite TTP accepting that they attacked the school girl Malala Yusufzai.

INMHO this explains why terrorists roam about in Pakistani cities without fear and will continue to do so in the foreseable future.

 

[notsuperstitious]

A poignant article in the 'Dawn' about reasons for continued militancy in Pakistan.

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Uzbeks: a one-para article
From the Newspaper | Muhammad Ali Siddiqi | 15 hours ago 5


I HAD long wanted to write an article which wouldn’t go beyond one paragraph. What editor would publish a two-and-a-half-line ‘article’? The intended paragraph was: if Uzbek militants are keen on waging a jihad and conquering the world, what are they doing in Pakistan? Why don’t they go back to their country to begin their jihad from Uzbekistan? After all, charity begins at home.

Luckily, another sentence sprouted: shouldn’t Osama bin Laden’s deputy and now head of Al Qaeda, Ayman Al-Zawahiri, go back to Egypt, where the Muslim Brotherhood has achieved power by democratic means? What is he doing in the Pakistani mountains — or Abbottabad?

Zawahiri has officially declared war on Pakistan. Isn’t Egypt more deserving of a jihad, because Cairo (unlike Islamabad) has diplomatic relations with Tel Aviv, and thousands of Israeli tourists visit Egypt each year and go nightclubbing? So Zawahiri’s first priority should be to sort out Mohamed Morsi and Egypt as he is sorting out Pakistan and Pakistanis. Or as an Egyptian would he hate to spill Egyptian blood?

A letter found on the body of a Dagestani militant killed in the ‘jihad’ on the Peshawar airport and airbase last week said it is obligatory to kill infidels. Agreed. But why didn’t the fighter from north Caucasus kill Dagestani kafirs before turning his guns on the kafirs that we Pakistanis are?

The question then stretches, for the query asked of Zawahiri, Uzbeks and the Dagestani could be put to all those foreign militants who have made Pakistan their homes for the honourable and highly moral purpose of killing Pakistanis, spreading terror and thereby inflicting one defeat after another on America.

Let us go back to Uzbekistan, where Islam Karimov, the Soviet-era dictator, allegedly dunks his dissidents in boiling water. This form of torture, which escaped Reichsfuhrer Himmler’s mind, would have remained unknown, but for a mother who wrote to a British diplomat whose report to his government found its way into the media and shocked the world. Uzbekistan doesn’t have anything even remotely resembling a free press or opposition parties. That’s why Uzbek ‘mujahids’ come to Pakistan. If ever that Central Asian country had an Oxford-educated hero who combined deadly outswingers with perforating barbs at Comrade Karimov’s policy he would know for the first time in his life what boiling water is.

The Uzbeks and other foreign militants enjoy immense advantages in Pakistan. A section of the media, politicians and civil society try to justify their killings; imams in Friday sermons either skip the subject or lend indirect support to them, and, above all, the terrorists have secret apologists in the judiciary and the armed forces, especially, it seems, the air force.

Money and arms are no problem — both are in plenty — and their Pakistani hideouts are more well-defended than PNS Mehran and GHQ. Above all, the militants do not get flak because some immature minds in the media have yet to grasp the relationship between state, society, human rights and Bentham’s “greatest good for the greatest number”.

Why would Uzbeks or Zawahiri go back to their countries? Pakistan has all one can hope for to kill and sow terror and be applauded.

The writer is a staff member.

mas@dawn.com
Uzbeks: a one-para article | Opinion | DAWN.COM

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Additionally, you have political leaders such Rana Sana Ullah of PML-N, Taliban Khan of PTI, & Syed Munawwar Hasan of JI who refuse to condemn Taliban despite TTP accepting that they attacked the school girl Malala Yusufzai.

INMHO this explains why terrorists roam about in Pakistani cities without fear and will continue to do so in the foreseable future.

Its fair to assume that common and ruling egyptians and uzbeks have slightly more clarity of thought on the matter of terrorism. In other countries it is chosing between terrorism and civil methods, in Pakistan its about chosing your terrorist. Most Pakistanis who hate TTP have unending love for Afghan Taliban and LET for example.

 

[DroneMailini]

Its fair to assume that common and ruling egyptians and uzbeks have slightly more clarity of thought on the matter of terrorism. In other countries it is chosing between terrorism and civil methods, in Pakistan its about chosing your terrorist. Most Pakistanis who hate TTP have unending love for Afghan Taliban and LET for example Most Pakistanis who hate TTP have unending love for Afghan Taliban and LET for example.

Fateh 71:- Thousands of thanks to you, I would like to add two More points here,

a) you have missed Afghan Mercenaries who fought in kashmir with Indian army, I am not sure whether there were uzbeks in Kashmir insurgency.

b) Until 2007 when war was not bought inside pakistan, Pakistan did'nt care about north waziristan which was full of arabs, uzbeks and other foreign militants.

 

[niaz]

Another very good article:

Critical choices


Zubair Torwali
Friday, December 28, 2012
From Print Edition


"Israel, India and agencies are playing games in Pakistan. They want to capture this country and its nuclear assets". I was given this piece of news by a few knowledgeable men from North Waziristan, the tribal agency in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata), said to be the stronghold of foreign and Pakistani militants. “Malala was shot by the US to malign Pakistan and deprive it of its ‘power’”. “The Baacha Khan Airport in Peshawar was attacked by militants sent by Israel and India, confirmed by the tattoos on the bodies of the dead militants.” “The peace leaders in Fata and Swat are killed by spy agencies in order to keep their powers intact.” “A woman was sent by the Americans to kill Qazi Hussain Ahmed.”

These and many other such theories are repeated ad nauseum on public transport, barber shops, tea houses, and at the work place. The only reaction to these conspiracies can be silence. On social media, especially Facebook – very popular in Pakistan – one has to abstain from confronting those who relish disseminating such conspiracies.

One wonders why these conspiracy theories flourish so much in Pakistan. It is now easier to criticise the powerful security establishment of Pakistan than to condemn the atrocities committed by the terrorists. What becomes evident is how scared people are of these terrorists. Even the most vocal of people are shunned into silence because they think the state is either too fragile or reluctant to protect its citizens, whereas the extremists have their sympathisers who are strong and free enough to silence dissenting voices.

A single apologist or supporter of the militants can challenge hundreds of people from the civil society. Now, after the murder of one of the bravest men in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Bashir Ahmad Bilour, the fear of terrorism is sure to escalate. It is also likely that the government and political parties will fail in working together to save the country from extremists and their ideology. There will be short-lived outrage at Bilour’s martyrdom and soon the larger discourse will turn again to conspiracy theories.

Looking at incidents such as attacks on sensitive targets such as the Mehran base, GHQ, Kamra airbase, the murder of Bashir Ahmad Bilour and the eventual incapacity of state institutions including parliament to curb the menace once and for all, one feels depressed at what the future holds for this country. It is clear from the incapacity of state institutions that they are not on the same page regarding the danger this country and its people have been in over the past decade. This kind of dichotomy at the highest level gives birth to conspiracy theories in the society.

The other reason is the lack of clarity on terrorism among many of our political leaders. When leaders like Qazi Hussain Ahmed declare the suicide attack on him an American plot; when Imran Khan thinks the attacks on mosques, tombs, shrines, bazaars and ordinary citizens are retaliation against the US-conducted drone operations in Fata; and when respected leaders like Nawaz Sharif avoid even mentioning the names of the attackers what can we expect from ordinary people other than speculation and interpretation in their own way. When I asked a taxi driver who was convinced that Israel is behind all that is happening in Pakistan what he knew about Israel, his response was that it is a group of terrorists in Pakistan.

Most people think that terrorist outfits in Pakistan are fighting for Islam. Even the soldiers on duty to look after the detained terrorists ask them (detainees) to pray for them. And whenever the sipah salar (military commander) is forced to say that ‘it is our war’, it implies that the half-literate soldiers in the lower ranks are sceptical about this being a just war. And when the army chief announces that the investigation against generals and the criticism in the media demoralise the forces, it is also an indicator of the latent rifts within the military’s ranks. A lot of the people also think that the ‘war on terror’ is a financial manoeuvring to keep the sinking economy afloat; and that the state is not determined to solve the problem of rising terrorism.

To them counter-terrorism is an enterprise of the Pakistani state as terrorism has now grown as a franchise for criminals. Ideally the civilian governments should be least corrupt, least inefficient but more vigilant and honest because of all the challenges they have faced in assuming power. Despite the all time slogan ‘Pakistan is in a critical situation’, what is evident from their actions is sloth and corruption. What would be the logical result of all this mess? National confusion and conspiracy theories galore!

We are now dawdling towards general elections. Politicians and the security forces will again have ‘Pakistan is going through a critical phase of its history’ as their slogan. Pakistan is most certainly in a critical situation but it is now time to decide the fate of this very ailing country. The choice is clear: hand over Pakistan to the forces of terror or emancipate the people from these violent groups. The state and its institutions can manage this if they only try.

The writer heads IBT, an independent organisation dealing with education and development in Swat. Email: ztorwali@gmail.com

Critical choices - Zubair Torwali

 

[RabzonKhan]

Slain Levies personnel: Not just a number

The Express Tribune
By Yasir Ali
December 31, 2012

PESHAWAR: On late Saturday night, 21 kidnapped Levies personnel were killed by militants in Frontier Region (FR) Peshawar. Among the slain men were three friends, Imran, Abbas and Shakoor, who had enrolled in the force together a year ago.

They went on duty together and were executed beside each other, after nearly 200 militants stormed three check posts and abducted over 22 personnel on December 27.

Their funeral prayers were held and they were laid to rest together.

Wazir Khan, also among the killed, was a father of six daughters. He had enlisted himself in the Levies force eight months ago after retiring from the army. Wazir was the sole breadwinner of the family and his oldest daughter was supposed to get married in 12 days.

Another killed soldier, Shamim, had been blessed with a son a month ago. He was planning to treat his friends to dinner at the check post.

Inayatullah was not on duty on the day of the incident, but was killed when he rushed to the check post with his gun on hearing about the attack.

Hayat Ali was his parent’s only son. On hearing the news of his death, his grief-struck mother also passed away.

The funeral of both the mother and the son was held together.

After the personnel were abducted, the local FR political administration convened a jirga of the elders. At this jirga, the locals were given two days to recover the abducted men under the local area responsibility arrangement.

However, the levies’ force captors chose to execute them.

 

[American Pakistani]

Some Good news too.
کوئٹہ سے کراچی جانے والی بولان میل کو بم سے اڑانے کی کوشش ناکام

دہشت گردوں کی کاروایاں جاری: کوئٹہ سے کراچی جانے والی بولان میل کو بم سے اڑانے کی کوشش ناکام بنا دی گئی،6کلوگرام وزنی بم ناکارہ بنا دیاگیا،میڈیا رپورٹس کے مطابق بولان میل کوئٹہ سے کراچی جارہی تھی کہ سریاب میں ریلوے ٹریک پر نصب بم برآمد ہوا،10منٹ بعد سریاب سے بولان میل کو گزرنا تھا،ٹرین حادثہ سے بال بال بچ گئی،بم کو ناکارہ بنا دیاگیا

Got from FB, anyone plz confirm.

P.S i post here cuz i don't know where to post it.

 

[karan.1970]

16-inch gas pipeline blown up in Dera Bugti – The Express Tribune

DERA BUGTI: Miscreants blew up a 16-inch gas pipeline in the Pirco area of Dera Bugti on Wednesday, suspending gas supply in the area, reported Express News.
According to officials, fire erupted after the blast but was soon extinguished.
Authorities said it might take three to four days for the pipeline to be repaired.

In Balochistan, miscreants often blow up gas pipelines suspending supply to homes and factories. Last year in December, unidentified militants planted explosives next to the main pipeline in Swabi which suspended supply in the area for a day causing inconvenience.