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Date |
Incident |
1
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January 5
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A powerful bomb explosion was
reported from the Almo Chowk area near the airport in Quetta.
Separately, a rocket attack was reported from the Killi Khalil
area. However, there were no casualties in these incidents.
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2
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January 6
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A bomb exploded outside a bungalow
in the Cantonment area. However, no loss of life or injuries was
reported in the explosion.
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3
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January 9
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Two low intensity bombs exploded
in the Kolpur area. However, no loss of life or injuries was reported.
The first bomb exploded in a garbage bin and the second, tied
to an electricity pole, exploded 15 minutes later, said Riaz Khan,
a police officer in Quetta.
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4
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January 9
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One person was injured in a landmine
explosion at Kohlu near Quetta. The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA)
is reported to have claimed responsibility for the landmine explosion.
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5
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January 17
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A bomb exploded at the Takeem
Das street near Archer Road in Quetta. No casualties have been
reported in the explosion. Another bomb planted near the blast
site was reportedly defused by the bomb disposal squad of the
police department.
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6
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January 21
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Two bombs exploded in Quetta.
A bomb in a garbage dump on Muno Jan Road went off at 6:00pm and
a second bomb planted near a school exploded a little while later.
No casualties have been reported in the incident.
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7
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January 30
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The check posts of the Pakistani
Rangers and two villages came under rocket attack on Sindh-Balochistan
and Sindh-Punjab border areas. The reports stated that a group
of armed persons attacked the check posts established to safeguard
the Sui gas pipeline and two villages, Ghulam Hussain Mazari and
Shah Dost Mazari. Fifteen rockets were reportedly fired out of
which eight landed near the Rangers check posts, while seven landed
near village Mazari. However, no casualties were reported in the
incident.
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8
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January 31
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A rocket was fired by unidentified
persons at Killi Nasirabad in Quetta. Police personnel recovered
the fuse and battery, believed to have been used in the firing
of the rocket from Arbab Karam Khan Road.
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9
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February 11
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Two successive bomb blasts were
reported from two localities in Quetta. However, there were no
casualties in these explosions. While the first explosion occurred
near the officers' rest house of the Pakistan Railways at Zarghoon
Road, the second blast was reported from Bashir Khan Chowk.
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10
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February 12
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Unidentified assailants are reported
to have hurled a hand grenade near the private residence of Balochistan
Chief Minister Jam Muhammad Yousuf in Quetta. However, no loss
of life or injuries was reported.
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11
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February 20
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Two powerful bombs exploded at
two different places in Quetta. However, no loss of life or injuries
was reported. While the first explosion occurred at New Faqir
Muhammad Road near Lal colony, the second was reported from Khair
Muhammad Street, approximately 120 yards away from the site of
the first explosion.
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12
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February 24
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A powerful bomb exploded outside
the boundary wall of daily Jang at Mir Khalilur Rehman Road in
Quetta. However, no loss of life or injuries was reported.
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13
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February 24
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A Frontier Corps (FC) check-post
was targeted by unidentified terrorists who lobbed three rockets
near it in the Kohlu area. However, no casualties were reported
from the incident site.
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14
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March 2
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47 persons are killed and more
than 150 wounded when a procession of the Shia sect is attacked
by rival Sunni extremists at Liaquat Bazaar in Quetta.
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15
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March 18
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A powerful bomb exploded near
a coal depot in the Quetta cantonment. However, no loss of life
or injuries was reported.
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16
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March 22
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A bomb explosion was reported
from the Anscomb Road area near the Chief Minister's residence.
However, no fatality or other damages was reported.
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17
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April 23
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A powerful bomb exploded at Shahrah-e-Hali.
However, there was no loss of life or injuries.
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18
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May 1
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A powerful bomb exploded near
the office of Pakistan State Oil office in Quetta. However, no
loss of life or injuries was reported. No one has claimed responsibility
for the blast, according to police official Sher Nawaz Marwat.
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19
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May 6
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A bomb exploded at the Quetta
Railway Station without causing any damage. A locally-manufactured
bomb exploded near the Reservation Section at the railway station.
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20
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May 7
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Three persons, including one police
personnel, were wounded during a bomb explosion within the premises
of Balochistan High Court in Quetta. This was the second explosion
in Quetta within as span of 10 hours as earlier a bomb exploded
near the reservation office of Pakistan Railway.
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21
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May 9
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Police in Quetta said it had arrested
a key suspect in a bombing last week that killed three Chinese
engineers in Gwadar. Mohammed Usman was arrested during a raid
on May 8 from a house in Gwadar. "We believe he is the main suspect,"
said Gwadar police chief Malik Yasrab. He also said that 18 other
people have also been detained thus far for questioning.
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22
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May 16
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A Pentecostal preacher is suspected
to have been abducted by an unidentified Islamist militant group,
after he disappeared in Quetta. Wilson Fazal, a Pakistani Christian
cleric at a local city church, had reportedly been receiving threatening
letters from an unidentified Islamist group urging him to convert
to Islam or face unspecified consequences. His son Jerry said
the latest hand-written letter was delivered to their house five
days ago asking Wilson to stop preaching Christianity. The letter
was apparently sent by a group calling itself Mahaz-e-Jihad, or
"Frontier of the Holy War."
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23
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May 21
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One person was reportedly wounded
as seven rockets hit the Gwadar airport. Police officials said
in Quetta that they recovered six empty cases of rocket propelled
grenades and 37 submachine guns and Kalashnikovs from west of
the city airport. Seven rockets were fired at the residential
area of the airport, disclosed Sher Jan Baloch, provincial minister
for the Gwadar Development Authority. Meanwhile, an unidentified
person informed the police and that the Baloch Liberation Army
and Baloch Liberation Front had claimed responsibility for the
attack. Earlier on May 3, three Chinese engineers working on a
sea-port project were killed and 11 persons, including nine Chinese
nationals, sustained injuries in a car bomb attack near Gwadar,
about 500 kilometers west of Karachi, near the border with Iran.
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24
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May 24
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14 Security Force (SF) personnel
and a civilian are wounded during a bomb explosion in the outskirts
of Quetta.
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25
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June 6
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A bomb blast was reported from
the Arab Karam Khan Road area in Quetta. However, there was no
loss of life or property during the explosion.
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26
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June 30
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One bomb disposal squad personnel
was reportedly wounded during two explosions in Quetta. Two bombs
exploded on the Jan Muhammad Road within a span of 20 minutes.
The first bomb, planted in a sewerage line, exploded on Abdul
Hameed Street and another explosion occurred when the bomb disposal
squad reached the scene, injuring one member of the squad.
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27
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July 11
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Police arrested four people in
Quetta for suspected links to al Qaeda.
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28
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July 15
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Unidentified terrorists are reported
to have attacked a FC check post in the Mand area near Quetta
with automatic rifles besides firing three rockets at the post.
However, they escaped consequent to retaliatory firing by the
FC personnel. No casualties were reported.
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29
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July 17
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A boy was injured and some houses
were reportedly damaged as a bomb planted in a drain exploded
at Quetta.
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30
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August 13
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Two bombs exploded in a high-security
area near the Governor's House in Quetta. However, there were
no casualties reported. "The explosions were meant to create panic
and instill terror in the people celebrating Independence Day
[August 14, today]," a security official told.
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31
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August 14
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At least ten serial bomb blasts
occurred in Quetta. However, no loss of life was reported. Police
sources stated terrorists planted 10 homemade explosive devices
in different localities of the city. The first bomb exploded at
around 12:45 pm near in Killi Ibrahimzai and after five minutes
another explosive device went off in the same locality. Three
more successive powerful homemade bombs exploded in Patel Road,
New Al-Gilani Road and Joint Road areas. A spokesman for the BLA
claimed responsibility for the explosions in a telephonic call
to the Quetta Press Club.
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32
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August 30
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The security officials raided
the Jamia Matlaul Uloom seminary on Brewery Road and arrested
a suspected Al Qaeda operative. Hafiz Hussain Ahmad, a Muttahida
Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) member of the National Assembly, runs the
seminary. "Police arrested a former student of the Madrassa, who
taught in a religious school at Kuchlak," Hafiz Munir Ahmed, elder
son of the MMA leader said.
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33
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September 1
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Security agencies arrested two
foreigners, including a man believed to be a senior al Qaeda operative,
during a raid in Quetta.
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34
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September 10
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Unidentified gunmen are reported
to have killed Atiqul Hasan Naqvi, a retired professor of the
Balochistan University in Quetta, in what police said appeared
to be a sectarian attack. Two assailants, riding a motorcycle,
opened fire at Naqvi killing him immediately as he drove out of
the Balochistan University. Naqvi, a prominent member of the Shia
community, had been seriously wounded in an attack two years ago
that killed his 25-year-old son, Arshad. "It appears to be sectarian
as he was also targeted in the past," an unnamed police official
said in Quetta.
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35
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September 25
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Three police personnel and a suspected
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) terrorist are killed when unidentified
gunmen attacked a senior Pakistani police officer in Quetta.
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36
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September 28
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A teenager was killed when a bomb
planted on his bicycle exploded near the Ayub Stadium in Quetta.
Nine civilians, including a woman, were also wounded in the blast,
which occurred on the Jafar Khan Jamali Road.
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37
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October 3
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Three women were wounded when
unidentified attackers fired a rocket targeting the Ayub Stadium.
The rocket was fired half an hour after a bomb exploded in Suraj
Ganj Bazaar. The explosion damaged a vehicle but no loss of life
was reported.
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38
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October 6
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Six persons, including an army
officer, were injured during a bomb explosion in the cantonment
area. "It was a cycle bomb," Deputy Inspector General of Police,
Pervez Rafi Bhatti, told, adding that the device had been planted
in a bike with Russian-made timer.
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39
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October 19
|
A large areas in Barkhan and Kohlu
districts plunged into darkness after a huge tower of the 132kv
Rakhni-Barkhan transmission line was damaged by a rocket attack
in the Badi area of Barkhan in Quetta. Saboteurs reportedly fired
three rockets targeting the main Rakhni-Barkhan transmission line
in the Shaheed Barkhan post near Badi.
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40
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October 24
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Saeed Ahmed Notani, suspected
to be involved in the May 3 bomb blast in Gwadar in which three
Chinese workers were killed, surrendered to the local administration
in Quetta. Earlier, an anti terrorism court had issued arrest
warrants for Saeed Ahmed Notani and had declared him proclaimed
offender.
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41
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November 3
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Four people, including a woman,
are injured in car bomb explosion behind the Chief Minister's
House on the Pir Masoom Shah street.
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42
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November 3
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Police arrested two al Qaeda suspects,
including a foreign national, from the Satellite Town area. The
"suspects include an Iraqi national," sources said, identifying
him as Khaled. The nationality of the other suspect could not
be ascertained. They were in Quetta in connection with an arms
deal, the report added.
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43
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November 24
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Three people were injured when
a bomb exploded in front of the Saryab police station. Senior
Superintendent of Police Rahmatullah Niazi said that the bomb
was made locally and it exploded under a truck that was in police
custody.
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44
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November 29
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Police arrested an alleged Chechen
terrorist who had attacked police and other people with a hand-grenade
after failing to rob a money-changer in the Qandahri bazaar. "The
Chechen national came from Wana along with other companions,"
Balochistan IGP Chaudhary Yaqoob told. Initial investigations
showed that the accused, identified as Abdul Ghafar, was a Chechen
and along with other Chechens had escaped from South Waziristan
and taken shelter in Quetta, after the military action in the
tribal areas.
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45
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November 30
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10 policemen were wounded when
terrorists hurled two hand grenades at police teams during a crackdown
launched by law-enforcement agencies against the accomplices of
an arrested Chechen militant in Killi Paind Khan. Police launched
the operation on information received from the Chechen militant
Abdul Ghafar, who was arrested by police when he hurled a hand
grenade at people at Mannan Chowk on November 29 after a failed
robbery attempt.
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46
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December 10
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11 persons, including two army
personnel, are killed and 26 others sustained injuries when a
bomb attached to a bicycle exploded at Meezan Chowk in Quetta.
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47
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December 11
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14 persons were arrested for their
alleged involvement in the bomb blast in Quetta a day earlier.
11 people died in the blast which occurred in the Meezan Chowk
area. "Police arrested 14 suspects during raids in Quetta and
other areas," Deputy Inspector-General Rafi Pervez Bhatti told.
He rejected the claim of the BLA that it was responsible for the
blast and said such an organization did not exist. Raids were
also conducted in the Gwadar, Kalat, Khuzdar, Nushki, and Dera
Murad Jamali areas of the province.
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48
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December 18
|
A bomb explosion was reported
from the minister's block of the Civil Secretariat in Quetta.
However, there were no casualties. Capital City Police Officer,
Parvez Rafi Bhatti, said that two suspects had been arrested after
the explosion.
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49
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December 22
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A suspect in the December 10-bombing
that killed 11 people in Quetta was arrested.
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50
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December 27
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A FC soldier was wounded when
unidentified people fired a rocket at an FC checkpoint on the
Sariab Road. Police sources said the rocket was fired from five
to six km away and hit a wall near the checkpoint. Capital City
Police Officer, Pervez Rafi Bhatti, added that another explosion
was heard from the same area at the same time, but there were
no reports of any damage.
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51
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December 27
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A bomb exploded on the Adalat
Road area, but caused no damage to life or property.
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