Acts of Terrorism in Pakistan

[Shardul.....the lion]

Blast near politician’s house injures three in Peshawar

PESHAWAR: A bomb blast near the residence of Malik Nadeem of Pakistan People’s Party-Sherpao on Tuesday injured three people in Peshawar, DawnNews reported.

According to initial reports, the blast took place on Dilazak Road in Faisal Colony.

Security and rescue officials reached the site and cordoned off the area immediately after the incident.

The unknown miscreants planted explosive material near the hujra of the PPP-S local leader and later detonated it with a remote control device. The blast injured three persons and partially damaged the boundary wall of the hujra.

The injured were rushed to Lady Reading Hospital where their condition was stated to be out of danger.

 

[Joe Shearer]

Its like mafia war, let the gangs kill each other, while the police will kill the remaining survivors.

Actually in India, maoist are not as succesful because they have several factions within them.
Just like one group kidnaps italian persons while another kidnaps an MLA. (shows no purpose or policy directions, just random kidnapping to earn some money)

Just to set the record straight, although this has nothing to do with the thread, the very peculiar goings-on in Odisha are due to factionalism among the Maoists, all right, but there is more to it than a purposeless, lacking in policy direction kind of activity, a sort of random kidnapping.

While the Maoists are present in Odisha, specifically in Keonjhar and in Malkangiri, they are largely Andhra-based leaders. This has been a cause of resentment to the Odisha cadres. It was one of them who ordered the two Italians to be kidnapped, partly for publicity, and partly for a set of demands, including the wife of the dalam leader. The Andhra faction then kidnapped a popular tribal leader and elected member, to the consternation of the Odisha faction, which foresaw a backlash due to the popularity of the kidnapped politician. They were forced to release one of the Italians to lessen the negative impact.

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

Just to set the record straight, although this has nothing to do with the thread, the very peculiar goings-on in Odisha are due to factionalism among the Maoists, all right, but there is more to it than a purposeless, lacking in policy direction kind of activity, a sort of random kidnapping.

While the Maoists are present in Odisha, specifically in Keonjhar and in Malkangiri, they are largely Andhra-based leaders. This has been a cause of resentment to the Odisha cadres. It was one of them who ordered the two Italians to be kidnapped, partly for publicity, and partly for a set of demands, including the wife of the dalam leader. The Andhra faction then kidnapped a popular tribal leader and elected member, to the consternation of the Odisha faction, which foresaw a backlash due to the popularity of the kidnapped politician. They were forced to release one of the Italians to lessen the negative impact.

Thanks for the details, I didn't knew them. Because externally kidnapping looks like having no direction.

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Two members of Hazara community injured in Dasht

QUETTA: Two people belonging to the Hazara community were injured while their three companions escaped unhurt when the car they were riding was attacked by a group of armed men near Dasht area in Mastung district on Wednesday.

According to an official of the Balochistan Levies, the five were travelling to Quetta from Mach town in a car when a group of armed men opened fire at them near Tera Mill area in Dasht. As a result of the attack, Jawad Ahmed and Khadem Hussain sustained bullet wounds while three others in the car escaped unhurt. The attackers managed to make good their escape after committing the crime.

Assistant Commissioner Dasht, Nasir Ahmed Jattak and Naib Tehsildar Mohammad Ramzan along with personnel of the Balochistan Levies reached the spot and cordoned off the area.

The injured were taken to Provincial Sandeman Hospital Quetta for treatment.

However, officials were unsure whether the attack was a sectarian attack or related to something else. “It could be an incident of sectarian targeted killing. However, a manhunt has been mounted in the area for the culprits,” an official told reporters.

The injured were later referred to Combined Military Hospital (CMH) because of security concerns.

It is pertinent to mention that as many as 26 pilgrims belonging to Hazara community were forced off a passenger bus,lined up before being shot in the dead. Similarly, a man was shot dead and another wounded in Quetta as part of a targeted attack. Both belonged to the Hazara community.

Law enforcing agencies have beefed up security on national highways and in Quetta after the attacks on Hazara community surged over the past year.

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Gas pipeline blown up in Peshawar

PESHAWAR: Unknown men blew up a gas pipeline on Ring Road within the jurisdiction of the Bana Marhi police station in Peshawar on Wednesday morning.

Police said that the main supply line of natural gas which connects Hyatabad to the city was blown up by unknown terrorists.

“A low intensity bomb had been attached to the line which exploded, creating a hole in the pipeline,” said local SHO Bashirdad while talking to The Express Tribune.

He added that the device was of at least one kilogram intensity and the main purpose of the blast was to create panic.

The SHO said that there was no loss of life in the explosion

 

[Yeti]

Six killed, seven injured in Balochistan firing incidents

QUETTA: Five people lost their lives in two separate incidents of firing by some unknown armed men, early morning on Thursday, DawnNews reported.

The first attack took place in Kali Mubarak area near Spini road, Quetta, where four people including a women were killed and six people were injured, when some unknown armed men opened fire.

The second attack took place in Mastung, where the vehicle of an NGO came under fire by unknown armed men, killing two people and injuring another.

The Hazara Democratic Party has condemned the attacked and announced a ‘shutter down’ strike call for Friday, 30th March.

 

[AbhijitSingh]

Quetta, Mastung firing incidents leave eight dead

Quetta, Mastung firing incidents leave eight dead | Provinces | DAWN.COM

QUETTA: Eight people lost their lives in separate incidents of firing by unidentified armed men in Balochistan province on Thursday, DawnNews reported.

The first attack took place in Kali Mubarak area near Spini road, Quetta, where five people including a woman were killed and six people were injured, when some unknown armed men opened fire.

According to police sources, a Suzuki pick up was on its way to the city, from Hazara town when it was ambushed by armed gunmen on Spini Road near Kali Mubarak. The indiscriminate firing killed two on the spot, while three of the injured lost their lives on their way to the Combined Military Hospital. The condition of three other injured was also believed to be critical.

The victims belonged to the minority Shia Hazara ethnicity.

The Hazara Democratic Party condemned the attack and announced a ‘shutter down’ strike call for Friday, 30th March.

There were angry demonstrations after the killings of the Shias, in what police described as the latest sectarian attack in the volatile southwest province.

The second attack took place in Mastung district of Balochistan, where the vehicle of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization came under attack.

The gunmen opened fire on the UN staff as they were riding in a car through Mastung district, killing two people, said police officer Rustam Khan.

“A driver and a staff member of FAO were killed and another staffer wounded after gunmen fired at their vehicle,” police official Shakir Ullah told AFP.

It was not immediately clear why they were targeted and so far no one has claimed responsibility, he said.

The two killed included a member of the group’s project staff and a hired driver, said a UN official, speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media. Another staff member was wounded, he said.

The injured was shifted to Civil Hospital Mastung and was said to be in critical condition.

No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

The atmosphere in the province turned tense and some enraged protestors resorted to tyre burning and destruction of public property in many areas. A motor-cycle was torched outside the PMC and business centres and market shut down after the attack.

In another incident, a policeman was shot dead by Shia protesters in the Hazara Town neighbourhood of Quetta, where police tried to break up a road block erected by a mob, local police station chief Ameer Mohammad Dasti told AFP.

“Some protesters fired in the air in anger and one of the bullets wounded a policeman, who was taken to hospital but died,” Dasti said.

Dozens of other Shia muslims also demonstrated in Quetta’s main Meezan Chowk square and outside the provincial police chief’s office, witnesses said.

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

Gas pipeline blown up in Dera Bugti

QUETTA: A gas pipeline was blown up in Dera Bugti on Sunday, suspending the gas supply to Pirkoh Gas field from different wells.

According to sources, unknown persons attached an explosive device to the gas pipeline near Pirkoh Gas field, that went off resulting in a huge explosion. The gas supply from three wells to Pirkoh gas field was suspended due to the blast.

“A 16-inch diameter pipeline was blown up and its repair work has started,” an official from Dera Bugti confirmed.

A heavy contingent of security forces reached the spot soon after the incident and cordoned off the area.

The banned Baloch Republican Army (BRA), in past, has often claimed responsibility for targeting gas pipelines in Dera Bugti. However, there have been no such claims for this latest attack so far.

Security forces have started investigations into the incident.

According to official sources, gas pipelines have been attacked 67 times during the past three months.

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

Blast in Khyber market area kills one

QUETTA: One man lost his life on Monday as a bomb exploded in a commercial area of Khyber agency on Monday, DawnNews reported.

The blast occurred at a taxi stand of Khyber region’s Sadda Market area, wounding 13 people while one was killed on the spot.

The injured were shifted to the district headquarters hospital.

According to hospital officials, some of the injured were in critical condition.

 

[hamza pak]

there are good and bad talibans in our region too ...mostly afghan taliban are freedo fighters....why donot you say to americans to get out from pakistan rather than taliban ..we know the americans are also funding to bad taliban ..but first let the NATO get out from the region ..every thing will be ok..

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

FC helicopter attacked, TTP claims responsibilty

MOHMAND AGENCY: A FC helicopter was attacked on Tuesday causing an emergency landing in Ghalanai, Mohmand Agency.

According to sources, Inspector General (IG) Frontier Corps (FC) and other officials travelling in the helicopter are safe.

No casualties are reported in the attack.

Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed the responsibility of the attack.

The attack was carried by an anti-craft gun, TTP official Mukkaram Khurasani claimed.

“The video of the incident will soon be released on the internet,” TTP official added.

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

Police targeted: Taliban claim responsibility for Karachi suicide attack



KARACHI: Four people were killed and up to 12 were injured on Thursday when the suicide bomber rammed his motorbike in an armoured personnel carrier in the Malir Halt area.
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack.
Brigadier Javed Iqbal of Pakistan Rangers confirmed that it was a suicide attack.
The armoured personnel carrier belonging to Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Malir Rao Anwar’s convoy was targetted in the attack.
“The attack was against me. I was moving with my squad in Malir Halt district when the explosion took place. I am unhurt, but some of my men have been injured,” Anwar told AFP.
He claimed to have been threatened for a month by “unknown terrorists”.
Police officials escaped unhurt while the people present at the site died and sustained injuries.
Anwar was also involved in last December’s raid on a self-styled seminary, where officers said they rescued students, including children as young as seven chained up in the basement, who said they had been regularly beaten.
SSP Anwar was on his way to court over the inquiry into the murder of ex-Malir Bar Association president Salahuddin. The banned outfit Sipah-e-Sahaba was strongly suspected.
The blast occurred near Afshan Printing Press.
Ball bearings were also used in the blast, which left dents in the armoured personnel carrier. One front tyre of the APC exploded.
Approximately 5 to 6kgs explosives were used in the blast.
The injured have been shifted to Jinnah Post Graduate Medical Centre. The police are facing a challenge identifying three bodies sent to JPMC because they are believed to be of beggars.
BSD and rescue teams had reached the blast site and had cordoned off the area.
One suspect has been arrested for investigation.
Nearby shops have been closed down.
Earlier, it was reported that Edhi sources had claimed that they had heard another blast, in the Malir 15 area. However, no official sources had confirmed the news.

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

Six passengers killed, three injured in Jamrud blast

JAMRUD: At least six people were killed and three injured when a remote control bomb exploded near a passenger van, in sub-division of Jamrud, Khyber Agency, said officials.
The Assistant Political Agent (APA) Muhammad Jamil told The Express Tribune that the explosion took place in Khakiabad locality. “It was a remote controlled Improvised Explosive Device (IED) which was planted on the road and it exploded when the vehicle drove over it,” said Jamil, while confirming that the casualties.
Eyewitnesses said that the explosion left a crater at the road where the explosion took place. The eyewitnesses, however, said that the number of injured was seven.
An official of the Hayatabad Medical Complex told The Express Tribune that five bodies and seven injured were brought to the hospital.
The officials said that the target of today’s attack was not clear.
The Zakakhel tribe in Jamrud has previously been the target of the militants, many other government-backed private militias in other parts of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) have also been a target of various terrorist groups functional in the area.

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

Balochistan violence: Two mutilated bodies recovered from Mastung

MASTUNG: Two mutilated bodies were found in the Kanak area of Mastung, about 40km off Quetta, on Friday.
According to an official of the Balochistan Levies, some passers-by spotted two bodies dumped in a deserted location in Kanak – the electoral constituency of Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Muhammad Aslam Khan Raisani – and informed the Levies Station.
The bodies were initially taken to a nearby state-run hospital in Mastung and later shifted to Provincial Sandeman Hospital Quetta for autopsies. “The victims were shot in head,” doctors said.
The bullet-riddled bodies were identified as Abdul Manan and Baigh Mohammad Rais. According to local Levies official Haji Hashim, the bodies were handed over to their families in Kanak.
The victims were listed as missing a few days ago from Kanak area. The motive behind the killings could not be ascertained.
Chief Justice of Pakistan Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry had earlier directed the Balochistan Levies and province’s police chiefs to lodge FIRs for the recovery of bodies and submit the challans before the court within a determined time.
The Balochistan government has claimed before the Supreme Court that the number of mutilated bodies recovered has declined in recent months. According to them, over 300 mutilated and bullet-riddled bodies have so far been found dumped in different parts of Balochistan and a few cases in this regard were registered as well.
The Voice for Baloch Missing Persons (VFBMP), informed the court that all those whose bodies were found in the province were missing persons.

Taliban blow up girls’ school in Mohmand

GHALLANAI: Militant group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has claimed responsibility for blowing up a girls’ school in Safi sub-district of Mohmand Agency on Thursday night, officials said.
The two-room primary school was located in Malak Zargar Adeenkheel village.
A senior official of the agency’s political administration confirmed the incident, saying the veranda and one of the school’s rooms were completely destroyed. The other room was partially damaged.
According to a resident, the school was also housing furniture from a boys’ middle school that was bombed earlier. The attack reduced that furniture to rubble as well.
Safi is the most affected sub-district of the agency where 46 institutions have been destroyed in bombings. Other infrastructure is in a shambles and few job opportunities are available in the area.
Assistant Education Officer Dast Ali told The Express Tribune that about 220 tents are required to continue to temporarily run destroyed schools in the agency. “We have provided tents to two primary schools in Khwaizai and Baizai a few weeks ago,” he said.
Last week, Political Agent Adil Sadique has said that the administration is trying to seek assistance from foreign donors for reconstruction.
A recent report of the Fata education department stated that around 89 schools have been destroyed in the agency. The figure reached 91 following last week’s bombing of a newly-constructed primary school in Khwaizai and the one destroyed last night.
The report said that Rs436.5 million is required for the reconstruction of schools destroyed in the agency, of which Rs265.5 million is needed only for schools in Safi.

 

[AHMED85]

Pakistan is still working on Anti Terrorism but the heaps of years will not dissolve at once but time taking work...

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

Three gunned down in Balochistan

QUETTA: Three persons, including a police official and a security man, were killed in separate incidents of firing in different parts of Balochistan on Saturday.
A driver of a passenger coach identified as Rahim Baksh was shot dead on the Saryab Road in the provincial capital on Saturday morning.
According to eyewitness accounts, an armed man boarded the passenger coach when it reached a bus stop in Quetta from Karachi and opened fire at the driver, killing him instantly.
“The armed man was accompanied by a woman and they escaped from the scene after committing the crime,” sources added.
The shooting sparked protest on the Saryab road where scores of transporters gathered and staged a noisy demonstration. The angry protestors, most of whom were drivers, blocked the Saryab Road and set used tires on fire.
They demanded the government to trace the culprits and bring them to the book. The police registered a case against unknown persons and started an investigation.
In Barkhan district, a security man was killed and another sustained injuries when their checkpost was attacked by a group of armed men.
Two security personnel were manning a checkpost in Barkhan when a group armed with automatic weapons opened fire on them. As a result, a security man died on the spot while another received bullet wounds.
The attackers managed to flee from the scene when the security personnel reached the site and returned fire at the attackers.
The body and the injured were shifted to a hospital where the injured security man is stated to be in a critical condition.
The Baloch militants had carried out this attack, sources in the security forces said. However, no group has so far claimed the responsibility for targeting security forces till this report was filed.
Meanwhile, Assistant Sub-Inspector Abdul Samad Jan was gunned down by unknown assailants in main Kalat bazaar of Kalat district, about 145-kilometer off Quetta. The assailants escaped on a motorbike.
The motive behind the murder could not been known. However, a case has been registered against the unknown persons.

Balochistan violence: Gunmen kill JUP leader in Quetta

QUETTA:
A leader of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Pakistan (JUP) was killed in a firing incident on Saryab Road in Quetta on Friday.
The provincial leader, identified as Maulana Muhammad Qasim, was also the Khateeb of Jamia Masjid Noorani. It had earlier been reported that Qasim was the provincial chief.
He was on his way to lead Friday prayers when he was targeted by unidentified assailants on motorbikes. The body was shifted to the Sandeman Hospital for autopsy. “He was shot in the head and neck,” doctors at the hospital told reporters.
Markets in the area were shut down after the incident and protesters burnt tyres on the road.
Talking to reporters, JUP’s Balochistan chapter president Abdul Qudus Sasoli said it was not the first incident where JUP leaders had been targeted. Party leaders Iftikhar Habibi, Rafiq Sasoli and Maulana Kabir Qambrani were also killed under similar circumstances in Quetta over the past five months. “The government and law enforcement agencies have failed to protect the lives of the common people in Quetta. No one is safe here,” he claimed.
Earlier, two people were shot dead after assailants barged into a medical store and shoe shop on Mecangi Road

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

Security checkpost attacked, two officials killed in Lower Kurram Agency


PESHAWAR: Several heavily armed militants stormed a security checkpost in Lower Kurram Agency, resulting in a clash which killed two security personnel and injured two others, while four militants were also killed in retaliation, officials said.

The attack took place late Sunday night in the village of Khapyanga, in which heavy weapons were used from both sides, a security official told The Express Tribune. “There were a large number of militants that assaulted the checkpost. Two of our security men were killed in the attack while two others were injured,” he stated.

Another security official from the area said that four militants were also killed. “The body of one of the militants was recovered from the site,” he added.

The assault continued for almost an hour, during which the militants managed to take away three of their comrades’ bodies. “The number of injured militants was unknown,” the official claimed.

Ravaged by war, Kurram Agency, bordering Afghanistan, has been plagued with sectarian violence for over a decade. The area is known as one of the most dangerous tribal territories because it shares a border with North Waziristan and Orakzai Agency, considered to be militant strongholds.

The security forces that have blocked the main transport route of the militants come under frequent attacks by the Taliban, who use the route to travel from one tribal area to another.

Four injured in IED explosion

At least four security personnel suffered injuries when a security forces vehicle hit a roadside improvised explosive device (IED) on Sunday near Miranshah in North Waziristan Agency.

An official of the political administration of Miranshah told The Express Tribune that the vehicle was supplying rations to a security outpost when it hit the IED. The subsequent blast injured Tahir Noor and Noor Nawaz along with two other Frontier Corps (FC) personnel. Security forces surrounded the area following the blast and launched a manhunt.

An indefinite curfew has been imposed in areas between Tehsil Miranshah,Tehsil Datta Khel and Razmak sub-division of the North Waziristan Agency.