Acts of Terrorism in Pakistan

[Jango]

detonators use heat, flame, spark or meckanical shock to explode a small amount of primary explosive to set off the main (much less sensitive) charge

could be faulty detonator, wiring, anything really....


i'm not shedding tears over one more dead terrorist...that's all i can say

Ah...nobody cares about these guys.

But a detonator killing a guy seems strange. The police yesterday said that they shot him and he died as a result.

And if the detonator was set off, then the need to defuse the bomb seems a bit weird.

Oh well, all's well if it ends well!!

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

ya but you know how the media is....they lend to the confusion and dont just wait to get the facts

in theory, the detonator could go off improperly or prematurely and by miracle or due to faults, the explosive remained intact....and could still pose danger to public

 

[BATMAN]

The body was shifted to Bolan Medical College (BMC) Teaching Hospital for autopsy. The identity of the alleged bomber could not be ascertained as yet.

Rehman Malik controls the identity record and immigration.

 

[Jango]

ya but you know how the media is....they lend to the confusion and dont just wait to get the facts

in theory, the detonator could go off improperly or prematurely and by miracle or due to faults, the explosive remained intact....and could still pose danger to public

Or the bomb maker might have been a noob!!!

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

Security official among two killed, five people injured in militant attack

QUETTA: At least two people, including a security official, were killed and three security men among five others wounded when unidentified armed men targeted a passenger wagon near Rakhni area of Barkhan district, on Friday.
According to Levies Force sources, a passenger van was heading towards Barkhan from Loralai when a group of armed men, who had taken up positions on nearby mountain tops opened fire as the van neared.
“The incident took place near Rakhni. Two occupants, including a security official, were killed on the spot while five others received serious wounds in the attack,” a Levies official confirmed.
Sources said, some security forces were heading to their hometowns in Punjab to spend their vacations when they were attacked by a militant group. The assailants fled from the scene after targeting the van.
Those injured, and bodies of the dead were taken to a nearby state-run hospital where the deceased were identified as security official Hasnain Majeed, and a civilian Sayed Mohammad. “Three security men among five were injured in the attack,” a local official said.
Levies personnel and other law enforcement agencies reached the site after the incident and started a search operation in the area to trace the attackers. No group has so far claimed responsibility for the attack till the filing of this report.

Assailants target police van carrying suspect in Mardan

MARDAN: At least five policemen were wounded when a police van was targeted by a remote-controlled bomb in the Rustam area of Mardan on Friday, officials said.
Police officials said that the bomb was detonated when a van of Rustam Police Station was passing through a bridge near Nawa Kalay area of Mardan District.
Mardan Deputy Inspector-General Abdullah Khan told reporters that 10kg of explosives were used in the attack. He said that explosive material was planted beneath the bridge to target police vans that usually patrol the area.
According to injured SHO Khan Khel, the attack occurred while they were shifting a suspected criminal to a lock-up in Rustam Police Station. He said he had apprehended the man with an AK-47 rifle.
Those injured were identified as SHO Khan Khel, driver Hashmat Ali, constables Subhan, Kachkool, and Iqbal.
Residents took them to District Headquarter Hospital Mardan, where doctors said one of the injured policemen was in critical condition.
A search for the culprits was launched immediately.

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

Jamrud blast kills two, injures 14

JAMRUD: Two people were killed and fourteen others were injured when an explosive-laden vehicle exploded in a bus stand of the Zakhakhel Tribe, in Jamrud sub-division of Khyber Agency on Sunday, said officials.
The bus stand was relocated to Bypass Road in Jamrud after a car-bomb attack on January 10, 2012 left more than 30 people dead.
An explosive-laden vehicle parked near a cluster of workshops went off, injuring several people, however, two of them succumbed to their injuries.
Abid, a mechanic at one of the workshops told The Express Tribune that an Alto a man parked an Alto near one of the workshops and started walking away quickly after parking it.
“An explosion took place and the whole area was engulfed by fire” is how Abid explains the incident. “There were people lying unconscious everywhere,” he said.
Officials investigating the incident believe that it was a remote-controlled improvised explosive device (IED) that caused the damage in which three shops and a number of smaller kiosks were also destroyed.
The Zakakhel Tribe has been consistently targeted by a number of militants groups in Khyber – particularly the Lashkar-e-Islam – because of its tribal militia the Zakhakhel Qaumi Lashkar.
Assistant Political Agent Jamil Khan told the media that they had received information about an explosive-laden vehicle. “We had closed down all the routes for the vehicle to be intercepted, although we manage to restrict the vehicle to Jamrud and saved Peshawar but it had still caused damage,” he said.
The injured were shifted to Hayatabad Medical Complex (HMC) in Peshawar.
Officials said that there were around 15 people that were brought to the hospital out of which one expired at the hospital while another was received dead.
Doctors say that the condition of three injured was critical.

Missing no more: Body of Red Cross official found

QUETTA: The bullet-riddled body of a British employee of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), who was kidnapped nearly four months earlier, was found dumped near Airport Road in Quetta on Sunday morning.
Dr Khalil Ahmed Dale, a Yemen-born British national, was kidnapped on January 5, by a group of armed men near his office in the Chaman Housing Scheme — a high-security zone where offices of all international organisations are located.
According to Superintendent Police Malik Arshid, the body was found in a gunny bag dumped near the Killi Umar area on Airport Road.
“A local official of ICRC identified him as Dr Khalil Ahmed Dale,” Arshid told reporters.
The body was shifted to Sandeman Provincial Hospital for autopsy. ”The body bore multiple bullet wounds and marks of tortures,” doctors said.
However, the body is yet to be identified by senior ICRC officials. “A team from ICRC was sent to the hospital to identify the body,” a senior official said. “For the time being we cannot confirm anything because we are gathering more information and senior officials are on their way to the hospital.”
Police found a note from the body in which the kidnappers wrote that they killed the ICRC official because the organisation did not fulfill their demands despite repeated warnings.
Deputy Inspector General (Investigations) Quetta had earlier claimed that the kidnappers had shifted Dr Dale to Waziristan.
The ICRC has also curtailed its activities in Pakistan, with the closure of three of its centres. In Balochistan the ICRC mainly focuses on health programmes, and supports several health centres, including a hospital and an orthopedic ward.
“The ICRC continued to support health centres and hospitals after the kidnapping of Dr Dale,” an official of the organisation said requesting anonymity.
The ICRC did not confirm if they had been approached for ransom money by the kidnappers. Relations with the British government are to become more tense following the tragic incident, observers said.

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

Unrest in Balochistan: Four killed as saboteurs target infrastructure

QUETTA: Four people, including a man and his son, were shot dead in two separate incidents of firing in the industrial towns of Hub and Kalat on Sunday – a day when two bodies were also found elsewhere in the restive Balochistan province.

Gunmen killed two people in the Dasht-e-Goran area of Kalat, police said and identified the dead as Allah Baksh and Abdul Wahid.

The bodies were shifted to a hospital for autopsy. Police said that investigation was under way and cited personal enmity as a possible reason for the double murders.

In another incident, a man and his son were gunned down in Hub Town.

Police said Ghulam Muhammad and his son Muhammad Zahid were shot dead by two armed men, who were riding on a motorbike. The motive behind the killings is yet to be ascertained.

Meanwhile, the Balochistan Levies Force found bullet-riddled bodies dumped in separate areas near Quetta. The victims appeared to be young men – however, their identities have not been ascertained yet.

Separately, a railway track and a gas pipeline were blown up in separate incidents of sabotage in Naushki and Dera Bugti areas.

A gas pipeline measuring 16 inches in diameter was blown up by suspected saboteurs in the Pir Koh area of Dera Bugti. The explosion resulted in the suspension of gas supply to a water purification plant.

Law enforcers cordoned off the area to allow engineers to repair the damaged pipeline.

The banned Baloch Republican Army (BRA) claimed responsibility for the attack. Its spokesman, who identified himself as Sarbaz Baloch, said his organisation had targeted the pipeline.

In the other incident, a three-foot portion of a railway track was destroyed when a bomb went off about 20km from Nushki Town, the Balochistan Levies said.

The blast resulted in the suspension of rail service from Quetta to Zahedan, but no casualties were reported.

A heavy contingent of the Levies Force reached the spot soon after the blast and cordoned off the area.

Officials say the explosives were planted near a railway bridge, but only the track was destroyed while the bridge remained intact. No one as yet has claimed responsibility for the attack.

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

Peshawar blast: One policeman killed, another injured in roadside blast

PESHAWAR: A community police personnel was killed and a policeman sustained serious injuries after a bomb exploded on Charsadda Road near Garhi Sobat Khan in Peshawar on Monday evening.

Police officials talking to The Expess Tribune said that a police party, mix of regular police and community police personnel, were on a routine patrol within the remits of Khazana Police Station when they came under a bomb attack which injured two police men.

One of the injured was identified as Javed. They were rushed to the hospital where Javed succumbed to his injuries.

DSP Riazul Islam told The Express Tribune that it was a powerful bomb attack which targeted a police patrol. “Gulzar and Javed are among the injured men. Javed is a community police personnel, who was hired on a two year contract,” he explained.

Islam said that the entire area has been cordoned off and a search operation is underway in the area.

“Javed expired in the hospital while the other injured is out of danger now,” said the DSP.

Earlier on April 16, a six year old student was killed, while another one was injured when unidentified miscreants threw a hand grenade into a school in the Chargo Kalay area of Peshawar.

Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, including Peshawar has been regularly targeted by militants, attacking schools and tribal leaders for supporting the government in quashing militancy in the province.

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

Or the bomb maker might have been a noob!!!

like i said, i aint sheddin no tears over another dead lizard eater

let them all be noobs....saves us bullets

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

Blast on Saryab Road: FC convoy targeted in Quetta

QUETTA: A convoy of the Frontier Corps was targeted in a blast on Saryab Road in Quetta on Tuesday.
At least two people were killed and 16 injured as a result of the blast. The dead included a student in his early teens.
Five security personnel and a police constable were among the injured.
It has also been reported that families of the FC personnel were traveling with the convoy at the time of the blast.
Express News correspondent Irfan Rana reported that the blast took place near WAPDA Grid Station when the FC convoy was passing by. Initial reports had suggest that this could have been a remote controlled bomb.
Police officials have claimed that the bomb was planted inside a car.
Nearby transportation also caught fire after the blast.
Police and security personnel cordoned off the area and emergency teams were dispatch to the site.
An emergency was declared at Civil hospital after the blast.

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

Two bodies of missing persons found in Balochistan

QUETTA: For two families, the mystery of their missing beloved ended on Tuesday when the bodies of their relatives were found dumped in a deserted place in the Lasbela district of Balochistan.

According to the Balochistan Levies, some passers-by spotted the bodies and informed the Levies Thana.

The local administration and Balochistan Levies officials rushed to the spot and shifted the bodies to District Headquarters Hospital Uthal.

Local official Abdul Ghafoor Mundra said they found the National Identity Cards (NIC) along with the bodies and identified the deceased as Mohammad Murad Marri – resident of Kohlu and Dil Murad Marri – resident of Sibi.

The hospital sources revealed that the bodies have marks of torture on them and electric shocks might have caused their death.

According to Voice for Baloch Missing Person (VBMP), an organisation striving for the recovery of Baloch missing persons, the victims were kidnapped a few months ago from the Vindar area of Lasbela district.

The relatives had earlier lodged complaint with the Chief Justice of Supreme Court Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry regarding their missing relatives and recorded their statements on April 30, during the hearing of Supreme Court in Quetta.

We will continue to carry out attacks such as Bannu: TTP

MIRANSHAH: “We will continue to carry out attacks such as the one in Bannu,” said Asim Mehsud, a spokesperson for the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) while also denying reports that escaped prisoners were handed over under any truce with the government.

Speaking from an undisclosed location on Tuesday, Asim denied reports published in a Peshawar based Urdu daily which stated that the Taliban had decided to hand over the escaped prisoners to the government as their sole aim was to release Adnan Rashid.

Rashid, a former junior technician of the Pakistan Air force, was one of the 384 prisoners who escaped the Bannu Central jail in an attack by the TTP on April 15. Rashid was allegedly involved in the murder plot of former President Pervez Musharraf.

“There were no talks between the government and the TTP for the release of the prisoners, neither any plans to hand them back to the government” Asim said.

Commenting on the condition of the escaped prisoners, the TTP spokesperson said that all prisoners had reached safe locations.

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

Bombs target ATMs, bank branches across Sindh

KARACHI: At least four people were injured as a series of bombs went off outside various bank branches and Automated Teller Machines (ATM) in different cities of Sindh early Wednesday morning, Express News reported.
The bombs had targeted bank branches and ATMs in Hyderabad, Nawabshah, Sukkur, Dadu, Larkana, Kotri, and Badin.
Unknown assailants targeted seven branches of National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) in Sukkur, Ranipur, Dadu, Dokri, Nawabshah and two branches in Larkana.
The two branches in Larkana located on Bakrani Road and VIP Road — were attacked by low-intensity bombs.
Senior Superintendent of Police Hyderabad Haseeb Afzal Baig said that at least 500gms of explosives were used in the bombs.
A watchman named Sammo sustained injuries when assailants hurled cracker bombs outside a local bank in Dokri.
Express News reported saying that at least 11 blasts occurred in Hyderabad.
The first blast was heard between 5:30-5:45am.
The explosives used in the cracker blasts throughout Sukkur, Larkana, Dokri weighed 6gms each.
No casualties were reported in the incidents, however, bank branches received damages.
An organisation named Sindhu Desh Liberation Army (SDLA) claimed responsibility for the attacks.
Deputy Superintendent of Police Hyderabad City Aijaz Bhatti confirmed that the police found pamphlets belonging to the organisation near the banks targeted in Hyderabad.
Mirpur Mathelo railway track destroyed
Approximately 2.5 feet of a railway track in Ghotki district near Mirpur Mathelo was destroyed when attackers bombed it.
Jaffer Express was en route to Karachi on the same track. Villagers gathered on the track and signaled the train to stop and averted a possible accident.
Inspector Tahir of the Bomb Disposal Squad revealed that the explosives used in the device weighed about 8kgs and that it was a locally made remote-controlled device.
Cracker bomb explodes near KESC complaint office
Meanwhile, Unknown assailants hurled a cracker bomb near the complaint office of Karachi Electric Supply Company in Block 15 of the Gulistan-e-Jauhar area of Karachi.
The traffic on the road was thin which prevented any casualties

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

FC convoy targeted: Two killed in Quetta explosion

QUETTA:
A powerful car bomb killed two people and wounded 16 others, including five security men, on Saryab Road, which lies on the outskirts of Quetta.
Two passers-by, including a school student in his early teens, were killed, while five security personnel and a police constable were among the injured.
“A remote-controlled blast targeted a Frontier Corps (FC) convoy,” Capital City Police officer Ehsan Mehboob told The Express Tribune, while confirming the death toll. “The civilians suffered the casualties in the explosion while the vehicles of security forces were partially damaged,” Mehboob added.
Eyewitness accounts claimed that some FC personnel had also been killed in the explosion. However, the FC spokesperson did not confirm the casualties.
TTP’s Quetta branch spokesperson Sar Kalam Mujahid, while talking to The Express Tribune on phone, accepted responsibility for the attack, saying it was a revenge for the killings of the friends of the Taliban. He warned the people to stay away from government and military offices, adding that they were the prime targets of the militants.
The explosive device was planted under a white car and was detonated just as the FC convoy passed by. Two FC vehicles were partially damaged.
According to the Bomb Disposal Squad, 30 to 35 kilogrammes of explosive material was used in the bomb.
According to eyewitnesses, human flesh and limbs were found within a 500-metre radius of the attack scene.
A heavy contingent of security forces and police reached the spot and cordoned off the area, while firefighters were called in to extinguish the blaze that engulfed other vehicles.
“I was on my way to Spini Road from Saryab when I heard a loud siren and security forces shouting to clear the road for their convoy. A powerful explosion occurred as the FC convoy crossed my rickshaw,” Mohammad Khair, a rickshaw driver who was injured in the blast, told The Express Tribune.
“We received two bodies and 11 injured victims. Four of them are in critical condition,” Medico-Legal Officer Dr Safdar said. He added that the injured received multiple splinter wounds, while one was burnt.
The deceased and injured were shifted to the Sandeman Hospital, while the injured security personnel were shifted to the Combined Military Hospital (CMH).
The deceased were identified as 14-year-old Tanveer and Mohammad Khalid, a clerk at the University of Balochistan.
Those injured have been identified as Aminullah, Zar Wali, Mohammad Ali, Gul Mir, Mohmmad Rafay, Mohammad Kareem, police constable Mohammad Ikram, Mumtaz, Ibrar Hussain, Raza Mohammad and Mohammad Khair.
The five injured FC personnel were identified as Karam Elahi, Nor Mohammad, Anar Khan, Sher Bahar and Waheed.

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

FC convoy targeted: 1 killed, 1 injured in Kalat blast

QUETTA: An official of the Frontier Corps was killed while another sustained injuries as a remote-controlled bomb went off in Kalat, about 45km away from Quetta.

Assistant Commissioner Noor Baksh confirmed the casualty and number of injured.

Sources said that the blast targeted an FC convoy which was patrolling in the area.

A heavy contingent of police and FC personnel reached the blast site and cordoned off the area.

The injured has been shifted to a nearby hospital.

On Tuesday, a powerful car bomb had killed two people and wounded 16 others, including five security men, on Saryab Road. The blast had targeted FC personnel.

 

[Roybot]

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