Acts of Terrorism in Pakistan

[TruthSeeker]

Iran embassy man shot in Pakistan

Abdul Hasan Jaffery died on the way to hospital

Gunmen have killed a Pakistani working at the Iranian consulate in the city of Peshawar, officials say.

Police that say Abul Hasan Jaffery, head of public affairs at the consulate, was leaving his home in Peshawar when he was attacked.

Before joining the Iranian consulate, Mr Jaffery was a well-known journalist.

Correspondents say that Iranian diplomats and nationals have been targeted in Pakistan since the 1990s amid Shia-Sunni sectarian tensions.

Relations between Iran and Sunni-majority Pakistan have been strained since Iran said Pakistan-based agents were involved in a recent suicide bombing in south-east Iran.

Forty-two people died in October's attack, which has been blamed on the Sunni resistance group, Jundullah. Islamabad has dismissed claims that the leader of Jundullah was in Pakistan.

Attackers escaped

"Two men on foot intercepted Mr Jaffery as he was leaving for office," head of the local police station Abdul Rehman told the BBC.

"An automatic pistol was used and the attackers were able to escape afterwards."

He said Mr Jaffery died as he was being taken to the nearest hospital.

Mr Jaffery had served with the provincial government as press officer and worked for two chief ministers.

He resigned from his government position a few years ago to join the Iranian mission as the head of public affairs.

BBC NEWS | South Asia | Iran embassy man shot in Pakistan

 

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Islamabad suicide attacks master mind arrested
Updated at: 1325 PST, Friday, November 20, 2009


ISLAMABAD: The master mind of suicide attacks on World Food Program and Rescue 15 offices has been arrested.

In a media briefing, Federal Police IG said Jamsheed alias Tahir has belonged to Mulla Rahim group and Ghazi force of Orakzai Agency and also fought in Swat. A suicide jacked recovered from Jamsheed was also presented in the briefing.

IG said Jamsheed used Muhammad alias Ilyas and Haroon as suicide bombers to attack World Food Program and Rescue 15 offices. Police have also got key clues about the elements involved in firing incidents on military officials in Islamabad, he added.

Islamabad suicide attacks master mind arrested

 

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Three, including DSP, killed in Quetta shooting
PAKISTAN - 19 DECEMBER 2009

QUETTA: Three officials from the Balochistan Constabulary were killed and two others injured in a firing incident in Quetta on Saturday. The incident is said to be yet another target killing in the city.
According to the police, DSP Habibullah Qaisrani and five other personnel of the Balochistan Constabulary were heading to their office in an official vehicle earlier Saturday when they were targeted by unknown armed men with automatic weapons.

The attack took place a few yards away from the DSP’s residence on Sheikh Umar road in Hudda area of the city.

Three officials, including the DSP, died on the spot, while two others were wounded. A large number of police, Balochistan Constabulary and FC personnel rushed to the site immediately after receiving the information. The bodies were then shifted to civil hospital.

Meanwhile, Balochistan's chief minister Nawab Aslam Raisani has condemned the incident, directing law enforcement agencies to arrest the culprits immediately. Raisani has also ordered an inquiry into the incident.

The attack took place a few yards away from the DSP’s residence on Sheikh Umar road in Hudda area of the city.




Source: DAWN Media Group

 

[kidwaibhai]

This is an act of the BLA. Why do the authorities catch these people who kill and bomb innocent all the time. I think the government should quickly give provincial autonomy to the provinces. This will take away their excuse that they are fighting for the rights of the baloch people. then the government agencies should go after them.

 

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Private school blown up in Peshawar
PAKISTAN - 20 DECEMBER 2009

PESHAWAR: Unidentified men blew up a private school in Dak Kalay area of Mathra, on the outskirts of Peshawar on Sunday.

According to police, the main gate and boundary wall of the school were completely destroyed, while the building of the school was partially damaged.

Police said some unidentified men planted a time-device inside the Mohsin Public School and detonated it.

The school's watchman left the building at the midnight and no one was present inside when the explosion occurred. No casualty has been reported.

Policemen survey near the rubble of a school, hours after it was destroyed in the early morning, in the outskirts of Peshawar December 20, 2009



Source: DAWN Media Group

 

[Hari]

Major Militant Attacks in Pakistan Since October

A look at major attacks in Pakistan since the start of October:

-- Dec. 24: Suicide bomber kills four near government buildings in the main northwest city of Peshawar.

-- Dec. 22: Suicide bomber kills three at the Peshawar Press Club.

-- Dec. 15: Suicide car bomber kills 33 near a lawmaker's home in the Punjab province town of Dera Ghazi Khan.

-- Dec. 7: Two bombs kill 34 at a market in eastern city of Lahore, while a suicide bomber kills 10 people outside a Peshawar court.

-- Dec. 4: Gunmen and a suicide bomber attack a mosque in a military installation in Rawalpindi, killing 35.

-- Dec. 2: Suicide bomber kills 2 outside Pakistani navy headquarters in Islamabad.

-- Nov. 19: Suicide bomber kills 19 outside judicial complex in Peshawar.

-- Nov. 16: Suicide truck bomber attacks a police station in northwest, killing six.

-- Nov. 14: Suicide car bomber attacks a police checkpoint in northwest, killing 11.

-- Nov. 13: Suicide car bomber strikes regional headquarters of the main spy agency in Peshawar, killing 10.

-- Nov. 12: Gunmen kill a Pakistani working at the Iranian Consulate in Peshawar.

-- Nov. 10: Suicide car bomber attacks crowded market in northwest, killing 26.

-- Nov. 8: Suicide bomber hits crowded market in northwest, killing 12.

-- Nov. 2: Suicide bomber kills 35 outside bank near Pakistan's military headquarters in Rawalpindi.

-- Oct. 28: Car bomb explodes in a crowded market in Peshawar, killing at least 112.

-- Oct. 23: Suicide bomber kills seven close to a major air force complex in northwest.

-- Oct. 22: Militants shoot and kill a senior army officer and a soldier in Islamabad.

-- Oct. 20: Two suicide bombers attack the International Islamic University in Islamabad, killing six.

-- Oct. 16: Three suicide attackers hit a police station in Peshawar, killing 13.

-- Oct. 15: Teams of gunmen attack three security facilities in the eastern city of Lahore, leaving 28 dead.

-- Oct. 12: Suicide car bomb explodes near a market in the northwestern Shangla district, killing 41.

-- Oct. 10: Raid on the army headquarters in Rawalpindi leads to a 22-hour standoff that leaves nine militants and 14 others dead.

-- Oct. 9: Suicide car bomb in busy market area in Peshawar kills 53.

-- Oct. 5: Bomber dressed as a security official kills five staff members at the U.N. food agency's headquarters in Islamabad.

 

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Militants attack school in Khyber
PAKISTAN - 3 MARCH 2010

PESHAWAR: Taliban militants blew up a boys' school and assailants threw grenades into a music event, killing a student, in separate incidents in north and southwest Pakistan, officials said Wednesday.

The boys' school attack took place overnight in the Spin Qabar area of Khyber, a lawless district that straddles the main supply line for Nato troops fighting the Taliban in Afghanistan.

“All four rooms of the government boys' primary school were completely destroyed. Taliban are responsible,” Khyber's top administrative official Shafirillah Khan told AFP, adding that no one was hurt as the school was closed for the night.

Militants opposed to co-education and advocating sharia law have destroyed hundreds of schools, mostly for girls, in northwest Pakistan in recent years — including 16 last month.

In the southwestern province of Balochistan, unknown attackers hurled three grenades into a cultural show at an engineering university in Khuzdar district, some 300 kilometres south of the provincial capital Quetta.

One student was killed and 13 wounded, district police chief Nazir Ahmad Kurd told AFP.

“This was an attack on a cultural show while students were enjoying music,” he said.

Pakistan has seen a growth in religious conservatism in parts of the northwest and Balochistan, which borders Afghanistan and Iran, with militants opposing music and films and instead advocating Islamic education.

No one claimed responsibility for either incident.


Source: DAWN Media Group

 

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Shias targeted in Pakistan blast
Thirty civilians were injured in the blast [AFP]

At least twelve people have been killed in northwest Pakistan as a suicide bomber attacked a convoy of Shia Muslims guarded by security forces, police have said.

The victims were passing through a petrol station in the town of Hangu on Friday when the lone attacker on foot set off the bomb, Akram Ullah, a police official, said.

Thirty civilians were injured in the blast. No casualties were reported among the security forces escorting the buses.

"Our convoy was hit by a big explosion," Javed Hussain, who was in the bus convoy travelling to the city of Peshawar, said.

"It's all chaos here. I myself have seen four dead, two of them are children. I have seen four wounded women."

Tensions between Pakistan's majority Sunni Muslims and Shias have made the road unsafe for minorities travelling to the nearby Kurram tribal region.

Police recently had declared it safe, but Shias are provided security to travel through it.

More than 4,000 people have died in sectarian violence between the country's Sunni majority and Shia minority since the late 1980s.

 

[Justin Joseph]

Backgrounder: Violence claims over 500 lives in Pakistan in 2010

14:08, April 18, 2010

Roughly more than 500 people have been killed and more than 1,300 others injured so far this year in terror attacks in Pakistan.

Observers believe that actual number of causalities is much higher than what has been reported. The incidents of blasts and terrorism are given below in chronological order, however, certain incidents of target killing are ignored.

Jan. 1: At least 105 people were killed and dozens of others injured when a suicide bomber blew up his vehicle in a crowd watching a volleyball game in the southern district of Lakki Marwat in northwestern part of Pakistan, North West Frontier Province (NWFP).

Jan. 3: In the north-western Pakistani town of Hangu, a former NWFP provincial minister Ghani-ur Rehman and two other people were killed in a roadside bomb attack.

Jan. 8: In Pakistan's southern city of Karachi unknown gunmen went on the rampage killing at least 7 people within the area.

Jan. 20: Four persons including Aurangzeb Khan, a politician and member of the provincial ruling Awami National Party, were seriously injured in a bomb blast in Peshawar, the capital of NWFP.

Jan. 23: A suicide bomber killed children among five people outside a police station in Gomal, Tank District, lying near Pakistan's tribal areas.

Jan. 30: A suspected suicide bomber killed at least 16 people and wounded 20 others, when he attacked a checkpoint in the northwestern Pakistani town of Khar, headquarters of Bajaur tribal region.

Feb. 3: At least 10 people were killed, including three United States soldiers, when a bomb blast hit a convoy near a school in the northwest region of Pakistan. Three schoolgirls were also among the dead and it is believed that this blast injured up to another 70 people within the area.

Feb. 5: At least 13 were killed and 50 injured in a blast in a mini bus near Nursery Road in Karachi. After two hours the second planted bomb blasted at motorcycle stand emergency gate of government Jinnah hospital killing 10 and injuring dozens others including rescuers.

Feb. 9: A senior Pakistani politician was attacked by militants in Pakistan's garrison city of Rawalpindi in the Punjab province. The politician, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, survived this attack however 3 of his security guards were killed.

Feb. 11: Two bomb explosions in Bannu district in NWFP, near a police compound left at least 12 people killed and another 20 injured.

Feb. 18: A bomb attack in crowded a market resulted in the deaths of at least 15 people and wounded more than 100 others in Pakistan's Tirah valley of the Kyber tribal region.

Feb. 22: Two Pakistani soldiers among 5 people were killed and many others injured in a bomb attack in Mingora, the main city in the Swat region of northwest Pakistan.

Feb. 27: Three police officers were killed and 13 other people wounded when a suicide bomber targeted a police station in the Karak area of NWFP. The blast also damaged a nearby mosque, as well as part of the police station.

March 5: 12 people were killed and another 25 were injured in the Hangu district of north-west Pakistan when a suicide bomber targeted a convoy of vehicles traveling from the Hangu district to the Kurram region.

March 8: A suicide bomb attack killed at least 13 people in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore, provincial capital of Punjab, and wounded more than 60 others. The bomber reportedly rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into a building that housed an anti- terrorist wing of the federal investigative agency.

March 10: Unidentified gunmen attacked the office of a Western aid agency, in the Mansehra district of Pakistan's NWFP. Six persons were killed in this assault.

March 12: Two suicide bomb attacks in Lahore resulted in the deaths of at least 45 people and wounded 100 others. Both of these bomb attacks reportedly targeted military vehicles as they were passing through a crowded area.

March 13: A suicide blast near the city of Mingora, Swat Valley, left 10 people killed and 37 others injured.

March 21: Two policemen among three people were killed and 14 otehrs were wounded after a bicycle bomb exploded in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan province in southwestern Pakistan.

April 5: At least 49 people were killed and more than 50 others were wounded after a suicide bomber attacked a political party rally in the Lower Dir district, bordering tribal areas in Pakistan.Minutes after the blast unknown militants attacked the U. S. consulate in the city of Peshawar. It has been reported that at least seven people were killed in the attack in Peshawar.

April 16: At least 10 people were killed and another 35 others were injured after a suicide bomb attack took place at a hospital, in the Pakistani city of Quetta. A TV camerman, as well as teo police officers were among the dead in the attack.

April 17: At least 41 people were killed and more than 50 others injured after two suicide bombers attacked an Internally Displaced Persons's camp in northwest Pakistan's Kohat city.

Source: Xinhua


Backgrounder: Violence claims over 500 lives in Pakistan in 2010 - People's Daily Online



Why chinese are saying "Observers believe that actual number of causalities is much higher than what has been reported."


Is it true??

 

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Suicide Bombing Attempt Foiled

LAKI MARWAT, Oct 18 (APP): Averting a major terror attempt, the police personnel on Monday morning destroyed an explosive-laden vehicle killing the suicide bomber here in Jabukhel area.

According to police sources, police on a tip off beckoned an explosive packed vehicle to stop at a check point in Jabukhel area; however, the driver did not stop and tried to flee which prompted the police to open fire on the vehicle.

As a result of firing the suicide bomber was killed whereas explosives on vehicle went off with a loud bang destroying completely destroying the vehicle.

 

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^ Good job..

 

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‘Warn against terrorism thru effective strategy’


Quetta—Commander Southern Command Lieutenant General, Javed Zia said that Pak Army has performed its duties well by confronting threats and took tangible steps to improve performance of Law Enforcement Agencies.

Addressing to concluding ceremony of Police Anti Terrorists training as Chief guest here on Wednesday, Commander Southern Command Lieutenant General, Javed Zia said that the purpose of the training course is to increase strength of Law Enforcement Agencies so that war against terrorism could continue through effective strategy.

The training course started from 27th September and 102 jawans from Balochistan Constabulary, Balochistan Police and Anti Terrorists Force participated in the course. During the course the jawans were given physical training and use of different kind of weapons were taught. He appreciated the performance of police Jawans.

The jawans of Balochistan police belonging to Quetta, Sibbi, Loralai, Gwadar Noshky and Zhob range participated in second training course. On the end of the ceremony Javed Zia distributed prizes among those jawans showed good performance during the training course.

 

[Veeru]

'Militants blow up gas pipeline in SW Pakistan'

QUETTA, Pakistan — Tribal rebels blew up a gas pipeline in Pakistan's insurgency-hit southwestern province of Baluchistan early Thursday, cutting supplies to several areas in cold weather, officials said.

The pre-dawn blast damaged the main pipe bringing gas from Jafarabad district to the provincial capital Quetta and five other districts, Sui Southern Gas Company spokesman Inayatullah Ismail told AFP.

"The gas supply to thousands of consumers has been suspended," he said, adding that it could take two days to repair the pipeline.

Local police and security officials confirmed the attack, claimed by the Baluch Republican Army, a nationalist group.

Impoverished Baluchistan, which borders Iran and Afghanistan, has been wracked by an insurgency waged by ethnic Baluch tribes seeking more political rights and a greater share of profits from the region's natural resources.

"We carried out the attack," Sarbaz Baluch, a spokesman for the rebel group told local media.

"It is in retaliation for extrajudicial killings on our youth by the intelligence agencies," he said.

Hundreds of people have died in violence ripping through the province since the insurgency flared in late 2004.

The region has also been hit by attacks blamed on Taliban militants, although sabotage of gas pipelines are a trademark of nationalist rebels.

AFP: 'Militants blow up gas pipeline in SW Pakistan'

 

[Veeru]

Bomb attack kills police officer in Pakistan

(CNN) -- A bomb set off by remote control killed one police officer and injured five others in northwest Pakistan, police said.

The bomb targeted a police van patrolling a village in Bannu, a district in the province of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, said Muhammad Iftikhar, a police official.

The blast comes a day after a suicide car bomb rammed into a police station in Bannu, killing 18 people.

The district of Bannu is located next to North Waziristan, widely believed to be a stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban and Al Qaeda linked militants fueling the insurgency across the border in Afghanistan.

Over the past two years North Waziristan has been the site of scores of U.S. drone missile strikes targeting suspected militants.

Bomb attack kills police officer in Pakistan - CNN.com

 

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Police targeted in Pakistan blasts - Central & South Asia - Al Jazeera English


Four officers dead in two attacks in northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa region, a day after deaths of 17 people in bombing.