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Date
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Incident
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1
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January 5
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One Frontier Corps soldier died
and two other sustained injuries when unidentified miscreants
ambushed them in the Spinny Road area.
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2
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January 10
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Six people were injured after
they tried to prevent an attack on a barber’s shop in the Essa
Nagri area. According to police, a group of people tried to capture
the assailant but he attacked with a hand-grenade and opened fire,
injuring six of them. The man later escaped in the ensuing confusion.
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3
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January 18
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Two Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ)
militants escaped from a sub-jail located inside the headquarters
of the Anti-Terrorist Force (ATF) in the Quetta cantonment area.
Usman Saifullah and Shafiqur Rehman were tried by Anti-Terrorism
Court in several cases of sectarian killings. The court had sentenced
Usman to death for sectarian attacks and Shafiq to life imprisonment
in another case.
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4
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January 31
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Six people sustained injuries
when a bomb strapped to a bicycle outside the offices of the District
Coordination Office and Anti-Terrorist Court on the Anscomb Road.
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5
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February 5
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A suspected suicide bomber was
killed at Sabzal Road when the explosives he was carrying detonated
accidentally. The blast also injured two pedestrians.
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6
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February 17
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Four persons, including two police
officers, were injured in Killi Qambrani when some people attacked
the polling station with a hand-grenade. Some people lobbed a
hand-grenade on the roof of a government school in Killi Ismail
housing a polling station. Another blast was reported from the
Sariab area while two other polling stations and the office of
a union council were bombed in Mashkey. However, no casualty was
reported in these blasts.
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7
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February 21
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Unidentified assailants shot dead
three traffic policemen in Quetta. Capital City Police Officer
Mohammad Akbar said the officers, Sub-Inspector Abdul Latif and
Constables Bashir and Muhammad Ayub, were performing routine traffic
duty in Killi Ismail when assailants rode up to them on a motorcycle
and opened fire. Bibarg Baloch, a spokesman of the banned Balochistan
Liberation Army, claimed responsibility for the attack.
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8
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February 29
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Suspected militants triggered
a bomb blast in an open ground at Killi Khezi. However, no loss
of life or property was reported.
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9
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March 3
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Suspected insurgents damaged a
gas pipeline in Hazargangi in the outskirts of Quetta.
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10
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March 8
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Five suspected suicide bombers
were arrested after a powerful explosion left four of them injured
in a house in Pashtoonabad. "A suicide jacket, around 3kg
of high explosive material, two remote-controlled systems, four
electronic detonators, Jihadi literature and CDs were seized from
the house," said Rehmatullah Niazi, Deputy Inspector General
of Police (Operations).
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11
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March 10
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Five persons were wounded when
a truck of the Frontier Corps passing through the Eidgah Road
was attacked with a hand-grenade. Another explosion in a street
off the busy Orchard Road injured a six-year-old girl.
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12
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March 19
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A FC soldier, identified as Zulfiqar
Ali, was killed and another sustained injuries by armed men on
a motorbike on the Manu Jan Road in Quetta.
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13
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March 24
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Unidentified people blew up a
bulldozer and a vehicle of the security forces with explosives
in Quetta. However, no loss of life was reported.
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14
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March 27
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A railway track linking the provincial
capital Quetta with Iran was blown up near Dalbandin.
A bomb blast was reported from
Quetta and a grenade exploded in a grid station in Sariab.
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15
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March 28
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Railway traffic between Quetta
and the rest of the country was suspended for several hours after
a portion of the main track was blown up by saboteurs near the
Degree College. However, no loss of life or injuries was reported.
A gas pipeline was blown up on
the outskirts of Quetta causing suspension of gas supply to various
parts of the provincial capital.
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16
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March 29
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A policeman, Syed Jamil Shah,
was killed by suspected insurgents in the Saddar Police Station
area of Quetta by unidentified militants.
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17
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April 1
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Police said that unidentified
gunmen killed one Frontier Corps trooper, Habibur Rehman, and
injured four soldiers after opening fire at them in Quetta. Police
official Raja Fayyaz told AP that the soldiers came under fire
as they traveled through Quetta on a routine patrol. There was
no claim of responsibility.
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18
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April 2
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Two SF personnel were shot dead
by unidentified armed men at the Quetta airport road near Killi
Alamo. The SF personnel were on their routine assignment in plain
clothes when unidentified assailants attacked them. The Balochistan
Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the killing.
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19
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April 3
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Three linemen of the Quetta Electric
Supply Company were wounded when a landmine exploded in the Pashkram
village of Mastung district. They were repairing a power pylon
which had been blown up on April 2-night.
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20
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April 6
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Balochistan Governor Nawab Zulfiqar
Ali Magsi has said that reconciliation efforts have begun in the
province and the new Government will take steps to make them successful.
He informed the media in provincial capital Quetta that stopping
military operation and restoring peace and normality in the province
would be the new Government’s priority. He said the Government’s
first task should be to initiate dialogue with dissidents because
the use of force over the past five years had not yielded any
positive result.
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21
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April 13
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A hand-grenade lobbed on children
playing cricket and football in the Ayub Stadium in Quetta, caused
injuries to three boys.
A spokesman for the BLA, Beebargh
Baloch, claimed responsibility for the killing of FC personnel
in Quetta. He also said that the BLA was behind landmine explosions
in Mastung and Khuzdar. He accused the security forces of arresting
many innocent people during search operations in the Seiah Koh
area of Marri and Dera Bugti.
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22
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April 15
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Two FC personnel, Saifur Rehman
and Saifitullah, were shot dead in Quetta.
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23
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April 17
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Unidentified armed men killed
a police constable and injured two others in Quetta. Constable
Amin Atif was shot dead by unidentified persons on the city’s
Joint Road while another policeman, Munir Ahmed, and a civilian,
Abdul Sattar, were injured in the incident.
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24
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April 18
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An explosion near the building
of the Balochistan Intermediate and Secondary Education Board
in the provincial capital Quetta damaged the windowpanes of the
adjacent buildings without causing any causality.
The banned BLA claimed responsibility
for the killing of a policeman in Quetta on April 17, and warned
that it would carry out more such attacks in future. Attacks by
the BLA have reportedly intensified since the new government took
over, despite an offer by Chief Minister Nawab Muhammad Aslam
Raisani to resolve differences through dialogue. The BLA has rejected
the offer.
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25
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April 22
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The Pro Vice-Chancellor of the
Balochistan University, Dr. Safdar Kiyani, was shot dead by insurgents
in Quetta. According to sources, two people on a motorbike opened
fire on Dr. Kiyani when he came out of his house in the Green
Town area on Sariab road for an evening walk. The BLA has claimed
responsibility for the murder. "He had been working for intelligence
agencies and we had already warned him," the BLA spokesman Beebargh
Baloch told reporters from an unspecified location
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26
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April 28
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The railway link between provincial
capital Quetta and the rest of Pakistan was cut off after the
main track was blown up by insurgents in the Sariab area. It was
the second incident of the blowing up of railway track in 24 hours.
According to sources, a four-foot portion of track was blown up
by some people in the Dashat area, some 30km off Quetta, at 2am.
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27
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May 1
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A policeman, Jumma Khan, was shot
dead by the insurgents in Quetta. The Baloch Liberation Army claimed
responsibility for the attack.
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28
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May 3
|
Three bomb blasts were reported
from Quetta. Police said two explosions occurred in the early
hours at two nearby streets in the Huda area. The bombs had been
planted in dustbins close to houses at the Sheikh Omar road and
the Ahmed Shah Street. Another explosion occurred in the afternoon
close to the house of one Nizamuddin Kakar in the Balochi Street
area. However, no one was injured in the explosions.
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29
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May 4
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The federal Government has decided
to withdraw the Frontier Corps (FC) from Gwadar and Quetta and
hand over the responsibility of managing the law and order to
police in the two cities. APP reported that FC sources said more
than 600 FC troops had been withdrawn from 28 check-posts in the
provincial capital Quetta, adding that about the same number of
troops had also been recalled from the Gwadar district.
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30
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May 7
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Two policemen and a civilian were
shot dead in Quetta, triggering a reaction by local businessmen,
who shut down their businesses in protest against the killings.
Suspected insurgents shot dead two policemen, Noor Ahmed Shahwani
and Muhammad Nasir, and passerby Abdul Karim on Quetta’s Sariab
Road. The Balochistan Liberation Army claimed responsibility for
the attack
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31
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May 9
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A bomb exploded at a restaurant
in Quetta, injuring at least 19 persons. A handmade bomb was detonated
at the Al-Saeed Hotel on Smungali Road in Quetta’s Jinnah Town,
said Capital City Police Officer Mohammad Akbar.
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32
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May 13
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A policeman was killed and two
others sustained injuries in an attack by the insurgents in Quetta.
The BLA claimed responsibility for the killing. It also reportedly
warned the people of Balochistan to quit working for law-enforcement
agencies or "the BLA will kill them". BLA spokesman Bibarg Baloch
said that Baloch people should quit their jobs in the army, Frontier
Corps and police, adding that people should also refrain from
seeking jobs in the law-enforcement agencies. He also asked the
people not to stand near police or security check-posts, to avoid
collateral damage that might result because of the BLA’s plans
to target security forces. "Regular attacks will take place on
government installations and policemen. The BLA feels sorry for
innocent people who are often killed in attacks on security forces,"
he said.
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33
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May 14
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A militant group called the Ghazi
Abdul Rashid Shaheed Brigade (GARSB) has threatened video shops
owners in Quetta to quit their business or "face suicide attacks."
"All music centre owners, cable operators and cinema owners should
immediately quit their businesses and seek Allah’s forgiveness
otherwise such individuals will be killed and suicide attacks
will be carried out against them," reads a recent warning from
the GARSB. The group is named after Islamabad’s Red Mosque’s slain
prayer leader Ghazi Abdul Rashid.
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34
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May 15
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An anti-terrorism court in Quetta
sentenced five accused persons to life imprisonment for their
involvement in a suicide attack on an Ashura procession. At least
44 people were killed and 154 were injured when two suicide bombers
blew themselves up in the Liaquat Bazaar on March 2, 2004. The
five persons were identified as Daud Badani, Shaukat Ali, Habibullah,
Haider Khan and Usman Saifullah.
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35
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May 28
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Motorcycle borne gunmen shot dead
two persons, identified as Mohammad Israr and Mohammad Iqbal,
near a shop near the Railway Girls High School in Quetta. "It
is a target killing," a senior police officer said. In another
incident in the railway guard colony in Quetta, a soldier and
a civilian were shot dead.
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36
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May 30
|
Six youths were shot dead and
four others sustained injuries in an ambush by the insurgents
on the Samungli Road in Quetta. A spokesman for the BLA claimed
responsibility for the attack. A majority of the murdered boys
belonged to Quetta’s ethnic Hazara minority. The BLA claimed that
those killed were spying for the Military Intelligence and the
Inter-Services Intelligence.
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37
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June 3
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Five Afghan children were killed
and an equal number of them sustained injuries in an explosion
in a house on the Sariab Road in Quetta. The explosion occurred
in the house of an Afghan scrap dealer when the children were
reportedly attempting to dismantle a mortar shell.During another
incident in Quetta; Police foiled an attempt to blow up the offices
of the Inspector General of Prisons by defusing a bomb planted
near the department on Samungli road.
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38
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June 29
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Police seized 650 kilograms of
high explosives from a vehicle in the Killi Darwishabad area of
provincial capital Quetta after a clash with suspected militants.
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39
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July 1
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Power supply to Mastung, Kalat
and Quetta was suspended after a pylon of the 132-KV Quetta-Mastung
transmission line in the Mianghundi area was blown up by the insurgents.
However, no loss of life or injury was reported.
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40
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July 2
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A man lobbed a hand-grenade on
the City Police station in a busy shopping area of provincial
capital Quetta. The grenade exploded inside the police station,
injuring a sub-inspector.
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41
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July 3
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Four local workers assisting a
foreign media team were injured when unidentified assailants opened
fire on them in the Kanak area of Mastung district, the hometown
of Balochistan chief minister, some 40-kilometres from Quetta.
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42
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July 4
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A bomb fixed on a motorcycle exploded
outside a bank in Quetta, killing a five-year-old girl and injuring
12 others, including five policemen.
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43
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July 6
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In the provincial capital Quetta,
a civilian, identified as Ghulam Mustafa Shah, was killed and
two other persons were injured. Unidentified men killed the district
president of the Shia group Tehreek-e-Jaferia Pakistan (TJP) and
injured a minor boy. President of the TJP unit in Nasirabad district,
Syed Ghulam Mustafa Shah, was killed at the Sariab Road in the
provincial capital Quetta.
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44
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July 7
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A young girl was killed and 13
persons, including five policemen, sustained injuries in a bomb
blast at Minan Chowk in Quetta. Unidentified assailants shot dead
a Punjabi-speaking Shia lawyer, Ghulam Mustafa Qureshi, on the
Jan Muhammad Road in Quetta. Amanullah Baloch, newly elected president
of the Balochistan Bar Association said, "Mustafa was a Punjabi
as well as a member of the Shia community. Thus, it is premature
to say who could have killed him, but we hope that the government
will take the culprits to task." In the provincial capital Quetta,
police arrested two alleged militants involved in firing on police
teams. Two pistols were seized from their possession.
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45
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July 21
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Police claimed to have foiled
an attempt to carry out a series of car bomb blasts in Quetta
and arrested five persons, including Tajiks from Afghanistan’s
Kandahar province. Apart from defusing the explosives packed in
the cars, Police also seized 13 live detonators and 10 mobile
phones connected with the detonators. Security force personnel
arrested a suspected Taliban commander from a house in the Kharotabad
area of Quetta. Sources told Dawn that the arrested commander,
Abdul Rahim, belonged to Hilmand province of Afghanistan and had
come to Quetta a few days ago.
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46
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July 23
|
Police arrested 10 alleged militants
from the Kashmirabad area of provincial capital Quetta and recovered
two kilograms of explosive materials from their possession.
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47
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July 26
|
A police constable, Khalid Mehmood,
was shot dead by unidentified assailants on Quetta’s Masjid Road.
A spokesman for the Balochistan Republican Army (BRA) claimed
responsibility for the attack. The group also claimed responsibility
for the killing of four security officials in an attack on a security
officials’ camp in Kohlu Kahan.
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48
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July 27
|
A top leader of the banned Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
(LeJ) was arrested from Quetta for his alleged involvement in
several acts of sectarian terrorism. Shafiq-ur-Rehman was involved
in suicide bombings on a mosque in 2003 and on an Ashura procession
in 2004. The two attacks left over 100 people dead and about 180
injured, Capital City Police Officer Mohammad Akbar told a press
conference.
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49
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July 29
|
Suspected insurgents killed a
traffic policeman and injured another in the provincial capital
Quetta. Though no group has claimed responsibility for the attack,
the incident is reportedly part of the ongoing series of target
killings of policemen by the Baloch nationalists. So far, around
fifty personnel from the police and other security agencies have
been killed in such attacks in Balochistan.
In Quetta, police recovered a
grenade placed outside a beauty parlour in the Industrial Police
Station jurisdiction.
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50
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July 30
|
An organization of Afghan Ulema
(religious scholars) living in the provincial capital Quetta have
rejected a proposal for talks with western diplomats and pledged
to continue their fight against US-led allied forces. The Quetta-based
organization, Ittehad-i-Ulema of Afghanistan, said in a statement
that talks could be held only after the US withdrew its troops
and paid compensation to Afghans for the war losses
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51
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August 3
|
A Frontier Corps trooper, Ghulam
Abbas, was killed and three others sustained injuries when armed
men on motorcycles opened fire on them near the Askari park area
of Quetta, capital of Balochistan.
Suspected Taliban militants set
ablaze furniture, computers and records of a private girls’ school
in a suburb of Quetta. Officers of the Sariab Police Station said
that four rooms of the Babul Islam Model Public Girls School in
Ghilji colony had been destroyed.
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52
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August 6
|
Two persons were injured when
suspected insurgents lobbed a hand grenade at a stall in the Chaman
Pathak area of Quetta, the provincial capital.
An attempt to blow up a gas pipeline
near Abdullah Town in Quetta was reportedly foiled. The explosion
caused minor damage to the pipeline.
In addition, another minor blast
on the outskirts of Quetta caused no casualties, police said.
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53
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August 14
|
A head constable of the Balochistan
Constabulary was shot dead on the airport road in the provincial
capital Quetta.
The blowing up of the railway
line caused suspension of train between Quetta and Chaman.
Three explosions were reported
from Turbat town, triggering panic among the people. No casualty
was reported.
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54
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August 24
|
Eight persons were injured in
a hand grenade attack in the Sabzal road area of Quetta. According
to police, the grenade was hurled on people sitting outside their
homes in the Essa Nagri area.
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55
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September 7
|
The driver of an oil tanker was
killed and his associate wounded when a rocket hit their vehicle
in Quetta. According to Police, armed men fired the rocket targeting
the tanker carrying fuel for NATO forces deployed in Afghanistan.
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56
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September 13
|
A hand grenade was lobbed by unidentified
assailants at a Police station in the Khuzdar area of Quetta.
However, no casualty was reported.
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57
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September 15
|
The law enforcement agencies detained
three suspected terrorists and recovered 1,000 kilogram’s of explosives
in a raid on a Baloch settlement in the outskirts of Quetta.
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58
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September 17
|
Three rockets were fired in the
Quetta city. Police said that the first rocket exploded near the
Chaman Housing Society minutes before Iftar, the second
near a food outlet on Smungali road and the third near an apartment
in the same area. No casualty was reported, but windowpanes of
nearby houses and shops were smashed. The Baloch Liberation Army
claimed responsibility for the attacks and said these were in
response to the operation being carried out by security forces
in the New Kahan area.
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59
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September 19
|
A bomb exploded at a madrassa
(seminaries) run by the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam in Quetta, killing
five people and injuring 10 more.
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60
|
September 19
|
Unidentified terrorists riding
a motorcycle fired at a Police patrol vehicle in Quetta, killing
one officer and wounding a Policeman and a passer-by. It was unclear
if the two incidents were related.
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61
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September 22
|
Three Hazara tribesmen were shot
dead at two places in Quetta. Armed assailants on a motorcycle
gunned down, Yousuf Ali and Mohammad Alam, who were going to their
homes in the Hazara Town. In another incident, armed assailants
on a motorbike killed Zaman Ali in the Munawar Colony.
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62
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September 24
|
A teenaged female student, Shahida,
was killed and 22 others were injured in a suicide blast targeting
a Frontier Corps (FC) convoy in the Quetta cantonment area.
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63
|
September 28
|
11 people were injured in two
blasts in the Quetta’s main commercial area. A homemade explosive
device went off in a CD shop in Nitha Singh Street, injuring several
people. The second blast occurred in Dawood Shopping Plaza where
a gas cylinder exploded.
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64
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October 9
|
Unidentified assailants lobbed
a hand grenade at the car of Baloch Republican Party leader, Saifullah
Jattak, in Quetta, partially damaging the vehicle.
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65
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October 20
|
Two journalists, including a photojournalist,
were injured when a bomb planted near a gas geyser went off outside
the offices of local newspapers in Universal Complex in Quetta.
Sub-editor Abdul Qayyum and photojournalist Jamal Tarakai of Daily
Awwam sustained minor injuries in the incident. The explosion
also damaged the windows of nearby buildings, shops and a medical
complex.
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66
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October 20
|
The Rail link between Quetta and
the rest of the country were cut off after a powerful blast blew
up a track in the Sariab area. The explosive device was planted
at a track near Musa colony.
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67
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November 7
|
Murtaza Marri, an information
officer from the Balochistan Directorate of Public Relations,
and his father Abdullah Marri, a senior banker, were shot dead
by suspected militants at Khatm-e-Nabuwat chowk in Quetta.
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68
|
November 13
|
Three Afghan nationals of Tajik
tribe were killed by unidentified assailants in the Sariab area
of Quetta. According to Police, the slain persons were identified
as Gul Khan, his brother Mohammad Manzoor and Mohammad Hussain.
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69
|
November 19
|
One person was injured when a
bomb exploded near the Quetta railway station.
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70
|
November 19
|
A bridge was damaged in a bomb
blast in Khuzdar. Sources said that a road bridge at Quetta Karachi
highway was partially damaged in an explosion that occurred under
the bridge in Khuzdar.
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71
|
November 20
|
The BLA claimed responsibility
for the killing of a civilian and injuries to two others in Quetta
and Khuzdar, saying the victims were ‘spying’ against Baloch interests.
Unidentified motorcyclists opened indiscriminate fire killing
Mohammad Ayub in the outskirts of capital Quetta. An official
of the Balochistan High Court Malik Aftab, was wounded when unidentified
persons shot him in Shahbaz Town. In another incident on Brewery
Road in Quetta, motorcyclists opened fire on another civilian,
Ali Raza, injuring him.
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72
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November 20
|
A bomb explosion occurred in Quetta
city while rockets were fired at a check post of Frontier Corps
in Loti gas field area. However, no casualty was reported.
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73
|
November 21
|
A Police constable and a man were
shot dead in the Dashat area, some 20 kilometers from capital
Quetta, on the Quetta-Sibi road. Police said motorcycle borne
gunmen opened fire on Constable Ghulam Hazrat and Allama Hasan
Zakri when their van pulled up at a petrol station. They died
on the spot. Zakri was a Pesh Imam (prayer leader) at the Punjabi
Imambargah in Quetta.
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74
|
December 4
|
A bomb blast destroyed an Internet
café in the Universal Complex of Quetta but did not cause
any injuries. The bomb, which had been planted in a cabin inside
an Internet café called Matrix, went off at around 6pm,
said Mohammad Asif, a Police official. No one present inside the
café, including the owner and Internet users, was injured,
he added.
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76
|
December 11
|
The Jama’at-ud-Da’awa office in
Quetta, capital of Balochistan, was sealed as part of the countrywide
crackdown against the outfit.
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77
|
December 12
|
Police sealed a JuD office and
a library on New Zarghoon Road in capital Quetta. However, no
arrests were made.
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78
|
December 16
|
The Provincial Police Officer
Balochistan, Asif Nawaz Warraich, has said that no arrest of any
member of the JuD was made. However, there was one office of JuD
in Quetta which was sealed.
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79
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December 17
|
Militants in Balochistan attacked
an oil tanker destined for NATO forces in Afghanistan near east
of the provincial capital Quetta. "At least three armed men
intercepted a tanker carrying fuel to Kandahar, shot the driver
in his leg and spilled some 60,000 litres of oil," said local
Police official Mohammad Irshad.
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80
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December 24
|
Unidentified assailants shot dead
an off-duty Policeman, identified as Constable Muhammad Yusuf,
in the Hudda area.
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81
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December 28
|
The railway track linking provincial
capital Quetta with other parts of the country was blown up and
a Karachi to Quetta train was damaged in the Dasht area, Police
and railway officials said. They said that no one was injured
in the explosion.
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