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Terrorism-related Incidents in Peshawar - 2008

2008

No

Date

Incident

1

January 6

A man was killed and six shops, including two video centres and two barber shops, destroyed in two successive bomb blasts in the Shiekh Mohammadi village of Peshawar, capital of the NWFP. Unidentified terrorists had planted explosives to blow up two CD centres and an equal number of barber shops near Tangu Adda in Shiekh Mohammadi village, located 10 kilometers south of the provincial metropolis.

2

January 8

Unidentified terrorists fired 11 rockets on the Army Officers Colony on Warsak Road in Peshawar, slightly damaging a few buildings. However, no casualty was reported.

3

January 9

Owners of various video centres in Peshawar received threatening letters, asking them to close their businesses. The owner of a video centre in the Sufaid Dheri area said that militants identifying themselves as local Taliban had asked him to stop dealing in CDs and video cassettes business. They threatened to blow up shops selling CDs in case the instructions were not followed. The letters, he said, stated that dealing in CDs and cassettes meant spreading obscenity.

4

January 14

A low intensity bomb exploded at a billiard club in the jurisdiction of Gulbahar police station in the provincial capital Peshawar. However no causality was reported. The Bomb Disposal Squad defused another explosive device planted in another billiard club in the same area.

5

January 17

At least 12 persons were killed and 25 others wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up in an imambargah (congregation hall for Shia rituals) in Peshawar. Police said that the teenage bomber blew himself at the crowded Mirza Qasim Baig Imambargah in the Mohalla Janghi area at around 6.55pm (PST). "It was a suicide attack," interior ministry spokesman Brigadier Javed Cheema confirmed, adding that "The bomber was 15 or 16 years old and he blew himself up after entering the gate leading to the prayer hall."

6

January 18

A bomb exploded outside a CD shop in Peshawar, but no casualties were reported. An official said that the explosives were placed outside the Gulab CD and Music Centre located within the Pandu Police Station jurisdiction.

7

January 20

A rocket fired from unknown location exploded near Shalman Park in the Hayatabad area of Peshawar. However, no loss of life or injuries was reported.

8

January 24

Police in Peshawar defused a roadside time bomb minutes before the PML-N chief and former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif was due to pass the spot, said Senior Superintendent of Police (Operations) Imtiaz Shah.

9

January 26

A convoy of army vehicles escaped casualties when a remote-controlled bomb exploded in the Badabher area near Peshawar. Soldiers opened fire seconds after the blast and blocked the highway for a few hours.

10

January 27

There were two successive bomb blasts in a CD market near Wakho Pul on the Kohat Road in Peshawar. However, no casualty was reported.

11

January 28

Six militant outfits appear to be operating in Darra Adam Khel, with two having extended their sway to within 20 kilometers of Peshawar. The HuM, LeT, JeM, LeJ, the Muslim United Army International and the local Taliban have been "active in the area since mid-2005," said a former Darra resident, who used to live near a militant stronghold in Mazeedkhel.

12

January 29

Unidentified people fired two rockets from an undisclosed location which landed on the outskirts of Peshawar. However, no casualty was reported. According to the police, one rocket landed in the fields near Peshtakhara on Canal Road while another exploded near Akunabad.

13

January 30

An explosion in a house in the outskirts of Peshawar killed three men who police said were making bombs when the explosives detonated prematurely. The blast occurred in the guestroom of a house located in the Badshah Dak area of Tauheed Colony in Phandu police precincts. "Initial evidence suggests that they were suicide attackers," police officer Farid Shah told AP.

14

January 30

Two music shops were damaged in a bomb blast in the Afridiabad area of Peshawar. No casualties were reported.

15

February 15

A junior commissioned officer of the Frontier Constabulary (FC) was killed and a soldier sustained injuries when suspected militants attacked a security post close to Matani, southwest of Peshawar, with mortar shells.

16

February 23

Three SF personnel were killed and six others sustained injuries when armed militants men attacked a check-post on the outskirts of Peshawar. A police official claimed that a militant was also killed and several others were injured in an exchange of fire. The assailants reportedly took away the body and their injured colleagues to the tribal area.

17

February 25

Three missiles landed in Peshawar, including one in the cantonment area which struck the wall of a motor workshop opposite a hotel and destroyed at least three cars. One of the missiles landed near a farm near Supaid Dheri in the Pishtakhara area but failed to detonate. A police official said another missile, found near the Ring Road, was defused. He said the location of the third missile could not be immediately ascertained.

18

February 26

In a suspected sectarian incident, a Shia leader was shot dead in Peshawar. Police said Haji Ghulab Hussain was going to his shop at around 9:15am (PST) when unidentified assailants opened fire and injured him seriously in the jurisdiction of Khan Raziq Shaheed police station. He later succumbed to injuries at the Lady Reading Hospital.

19

February 26

Over 100 suspected militants attacked a police post in Badhaber area on the outskirts of Peshawar, set the two-room building on fire and forced the six police personnel there out of the post.

20

February 27

Police foiled an attempted act of terrorism and recovered a remote control bomb that was planted at the Ring Road in the limits of Peshtakhara police station.

21

March 3

10 people were killed and six others injured when dozens of armed men belonging to the Khyber Agency-based Lashkar-e-Islam (LeI) attacked Shiekhan village on the outskirts of Peshawar with rocket launchers and other sophisticated weapons before bulldozing a shrine and four houses.

22

April 3

Militants blew up four CD shops within the Badabher Police Station precinct of Peshawar. Militants planted four homemade bombs in front of the CD shops in the Baroo Stop area on Kohat Road, sources said. The blasts, which occurred at around 2pm, damaged the shops and shredded their shutters. However, no casualties were reported.

23

April 20

Ahmad Shah alias Mullah Ismail, a Taliban commander blamed for the deadliest attack on US troops since they entered Afghanistan in 2001, was killed in a shootout with security forces at a roadblock near Peshawar.

24

May 10

Police defused a bomb planted in the limits of Badaber Police Station.

25

May 20

Unidentified militants fired four rockets in different areas of Peshawar, but no loss of life was reported. Gubarg Police Station officer Qurban Ali said that a rocket hit the house of Air Commodore Javed Naeem on Mall Road, Peshawar Cantonment, while another hit Colonel Attique’s residence on Jalil Road. The other two rockets landed in the Hazar Khawani and Wakho Pul areas.

26

May 24

Two Policemen were killed and two injured in a roadside bomb blast in Peshawar. Cantonment Superintendent of Police Imran Shahid said that Station House Officer Khaista Khan and his driver Shoaib died in the blast at around 10.30am (PST) while they were on routine patrol in the Nasir Bagh Police station precincts.

27

June 9

Four Policemen were killed and a SHO was injured when around 20 militants opened fire on a Police mobile unit on a routine patrol near the Mattani bypass in Peshawar. Militants also set ablaze the vehicle and stole the Policemen’s weapons.

28

June 9

A bomb blast damaged an internet cafe in the Phandu Police station limits in Peshawar. Officials said unidentified militants blew up the cafe in the Malik Sarwar Plaza at around 11:30pm (PST). The blast damaged the cafe slightly and no causalities were reported. This is the first incident of its kind in which an internet cafe had been blown up in the provincial metropolis, after an accident on April 3 in which suspected militants blew up four CD shops in the limits of the Badhaber Police station.

29

June 21

Unidentified militants abducted 25 Christians from Academy Town in Peshawar.

30

July 1

Police arrested seven members of the outlawed LeI group during an operation in various areas of Peshawar. Police personnel, backed by the Frontier Constabulary, raided a number of houses in the Hayatabad, Peshtakhara, Daudzai, Chamkani, Ormar and Khazana areas. The seizure included nine Kalashnikovs, three rifles, seven pistols and 328 cartridges.

31

July 21

A man killed three Taliban militants in the Hassan Khel area near capital Peshawar.

32

August 8

Hundreds of armed militants attacked Mattani police station, killing a policeman and injuring two others.

33

August 12

Six Pakistan Air Force (PAF) personnel and seven civilians were killed and 14 persons were wounded when a car bomb exploded near a bridge on the main Peshawar-Kohat Road in the southern part of Peshawar. The explosion occurred when a van carrying PAF personnel was going from the Badbher PAF base to Peshawar. Among the dead were a six-year-old girl and two women who were going to a wedding ceremony.

34

August 20

Taliban militants in Peshawar shot dead two women after accusing them of being prostitutes. The militants crushed the face of one of the women, apparently using rifle butts and stones, and left a note warning that whoever engaged in "immoral" activities would meet the same fate, police said. The note was signed by the Jaish-e-Islami militant group. "We warned these whores but they did not stop their business," said the note left with the bodies of the women.

35

August 21

Unidentified militants fired five rockets at the Badabher Police Station in Peshawar at around 2:30am, killing a policeman, Zahir Shah, and injuring two Frontier Constabulary personnel, Habibullah and Shaukat. The rockets damaged the police station building and some vehicles parked nearby.

36

August 25

Militants attacked a girls’ school in Peshawar. Senior Superintendent of Police Nasirul Mulk Bangash told Daily Times that the militants had planted explosives in the school building, located near Speen Jumat. All the 26 rooms were destroyed along with 16 computers and office records. He said it was the first school to be destroyed by the militants in Peshawar.

37

August 26

The US Consulate’s Principal Officer Lynne Tracy escaped a gun attack in Peshawar. She was en route to the consulate situated on the Rehman Baba Road in a bullet-proof car when gunmen opened fire. Even as her car managed to speed away to safety, an auto-rickshaw driver was injured.

38

September 3

Around 50 recruits of the Police Training College (PTC) at Hangu in the NWFP were abducted while on their way to the college from provincial capital Peshawar via Khyber Agency.

39

September 6

At least 30 persons, including seven policemen, were killed and more than 70 injured when a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a security checkpoint in the outskirts of Peshawar.

40

November 3

A rocket fired by unidentified persons landed in a grove of trees in Peshawar Airport premises in the limits of Tehkal Police Station. There were no reports of causalities or damage, police said, adding the rocket was fired at around 3am (PST).

41

November 4

Unidentified militants fired two rockets at the Peshawar International Airport from an unidentified location at around 12:30am (PST). One of the rockets landed on the runway and damaged it, while another landed in the nearby house of a military officer at Sahibzada Gul road near the PAF Cinema. The rocket that landed in the house of the military officer damaged a toilet. This was the second attack on the airport in as many days.

42

November 6

Five rockets fell in the Peshawar airport and Cantonment area, but there were no casualties. One fell in Tehkal police station jurisdiction. This was the third rocket attack on the Cantonment this week. The rockets were apparently fired from the Regi area bordering Khyber Agency.

43

November 6

A 500KV electricity pylon was blown up near Badabher, briefly disrupting power supply to provincial capital Peshawar before it was restored through alternative sources.

44

November 7

A Taliban militant was killed when a lashkar (militia) and security forces clashed with the militants in Adezai under Mattani police station in Peshawar.

45

November 7

The Cantonment Police Superintendent Abdul Qadir Qamar said that the Cantonment and Peshawar airport areas were attacked with rockets from Khyber Agency. The rocket attacks started after the police launched an operation targeting abductors, said Qamar.

46

November 11

A suicide bomber blew himself up at a packed Qayyum Stadium in Peshawar, killing four people, including a policeman and three civilians. 13 more persons were wounded. Senior Taliban militants operating in Darra Adam Khel claimed responsibility for the attack and said that senior NWFP minister Bashir Ahmed Bilour was their target.

47

November 11

Three persons were killed during clashes following a combined search operation by Pakistan Army and the paramilitary Frontier Corps and contingents of the Frontier Police at Mathra in the limits of Peshawar district.

48

November 12

A USAID official, heading a project of the FATA Development Authority, was killed along with his driver near the American Club in the Peshawar town. Stephen de Vance, the chief of the USAID-funded FATA Livelihood Development Programme, was en route to office when unidentified attackers ambushed his car at around 9:00 am on the Ataturk Road.

49

November 12

Search operations by the SFs in the suburbs of capital Peshawar resulted in the killing of two militants and injury to five others.

50

November 13

Unidentified gunmen abducted an Iranian diplomat in Peshawar’s Hayatabad locality and killed his police guard. According to the police and witnesses, three gunmen with beards and flowing hair stopped Iranian commercial councillor Heshmatollah Atharzadeh’s vehicle some distance from his house in Phase-IV of Hayatabad, bordering Khyber Agency and took him away. The Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Hassan Qashqavi condemned the kidnapping as ‘a terrorist act’.

51

November 24

SFs claimed to have killed 25 hardcore militants, including some foreigners, during a military operation in the Michini area of Peshawar district. They also claimed arresting 40 militants and seizing a huge quantity of arms and ammunition. Addressing a press conference at a military base camp in Shno Ghondai area near Mohmand Agency, the NWFP’s Inspector General of Police, Malik Naveed, said a police constable and two Frontier Constabulary personnel were also killed.

52

November 24

Ten people, including a woman, were injured in two bomb blasts in Peshawar. Syed Kamal Shah, the caretaker of Hussainia mosque, his wife and seven other people sustained injuries in the first blast which occurred in the second-storey washroom of his residence. The other blast took place in the Pando area injuring one person.

53

November 25

Five rockets hit different areas of Peshawar. Sources said unidentified miscreants fired five rockets from unknown locations at about 11:35pm. There were reports that an elderly man was injured when one of the rockets hit his home at Saeedabad. Police sources confirmed that a total of five rockets had been fired from undisclosed locations that fell near the building of Peshawar High Court, in the vicinity of Bacha Khan Markaz, Hassan Ghari and Saeedabad.

54

November 25

One of the three young tribesmen who were tipped off by the intelligence agencies as potential suicide bombers and assigned to hit important security establishments in Peshawar, surrendered to the police in the provincial capital. Ali Raza, 21, is a final-year student at the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication, University of Peshawar.

55

November 26

Five persons, including three Taliban militants, were killed in two separate clashes between the Taliban and police in Peshawar. The first clash erupted when over 100 militants, believed to have entered the city from Darra Adam Khel, besieged the house of Adezai Union Council chief Abdul Malik. According to Malik, the Taliban ordered him to surrender or join them. Upon refusal, they targeted his house with rockets and hand-grenades. Malik’s two relatives, Khayal Gul and Sher Mast, were killed while six people were injured in the attack. Malik said security forces came to his rescue soon and attacked the Taliban. After a two-hour battle, the Taliban fled from the incident site leaving behind two dead bodies.

56

December 4

In the capital Peshawar, a Deputy Superintendent of Police survived an assassination attempt by the Taliban.

57

December 5

A car bomb explosion outside an Imambargah (congregation hall for Shia rituals) near the Qisakhwani Bazaar in Peshawar killed at least 34 persons and injured more than 150 others. Imambargah Alamdar Karbala and several adjacent buildings in the Kocha Risaldar alley were damaged and the ensuing fire engulfed buildings, markets and vehicles.

58

December 7

At least 171 vehicles of the US-led NATO forces, including 62 armoured personnel carriers, were torched by armed attackers in two parking bays on the Ring Road in the vicinity of Pishtakhara in Peshawar. Around 130 vehicles were completely destroyed in the attack, while 40 others were partially damaged. The attack is the biggest ever on NATO logistics in Pakistan, during which a watchman was killed while two others were injured when they offered resistance to over 300 attackers, who were armed with rocket launchers, hand grenades, petrol bombs and AK-47 rifles.

59

December 8

Taliban torched at least 53 vehicles destined for NATO forces in Afghanistan in an attack on the outskirts of Peshawar, the second such raid in two days, police and locals said. Armed gunmen shouting ‘God is great’ attacked Bilal Container Terminal near Jamil Chowk on the Ring Road at around 3am, said Zahid Ali, a local resident. He said he heard gunshots and explosions after which a large part of the terminal caught fire. City Superintendent of Police Chaudary Ashraf said it was a sabotage attack. The number of attackers could not be ascertained, he said, and it was not clear how they entered the terminal and set ablaze the vehicles.

60

December 9

A key Taliban commander accused of masterminding attacks on cargo terminals harbouring NATO supplies was arrested from a Peshawar suburb. Musatafa Kamal Kamran Hijrat allegedly organised two separate attacks on three cargo terminals on December 7 and 8 to burn hundreds of containers and the military and other supplies they carried. He is also blamed for the hijacking of two US military Humvees and 13 truckloads of wheat on their way to Afghanistan in November 2008. However, the Peshawar Police chief did not confirm the arrest.

61

December 11

Two US military trucks were destroyed when suspected militants attacked a parking lot with petrol bombs on the Ring Road in Peshawar. The assailants hurled explosives in the premises of the Bilal Parking and by the time fire-fighters doused the flames two military vehicles had been destroyed.

62

December 11

In Peshawar, Police sealed the Jama’at-ud-Da’awa office in Fowara Chowk. However, Attiqur Rehman Chohan, the provincial spokesman for the Da’awa, told from an unspecified location that the organisation had decided to close its offices in Peshawar and other cities and suspend its activities for the time being.

SFs also raided an office of the Da’awa in Parhana area of Mansehra District and arrested five of its activists. SFs had sealed the relief camp-cum-office a day before Eidul Azha.

63

December 12

12 more containers were set ablaze in a parking lot on the Ring Road in Peshawar. This is the fifth attack on NATO logistics since December 1, prompting the authorities to deploy Frontier Constabulary paramilitary troops at the transport terminals to secure supplies. There were reports that five rockets were fired at the Port World Logistic and the VSF Terminal, a parking lot transshipping containers to Afghanistan that was attacked for the third time in less than two weeks. Firing of automatic weapons and shots were also reportedly heard after the explosions at around 2:30 am. Sources said 12 containers were destroyed in the rocket attack while Police officials confirmed torching of only five containers.

JuD officials in Peshawar said Police had arrested 150 operatives in a province-wide operation and sealed 46 offices.

64

December 14

Four shops and a police post were damaged in two separate bomb blasts in the provincial capital. However, there were no casualties. A police official told that a blast caused by a low-intensity explosive device at around 5am had damaged an electric store, a public call office, a snooker club and an embroidery shop in Gang Area in the Kotwali police station precincts. Another bomb blast later in the day damaged a police post on Ring Road in the Faqirabad police station jurisdiction.

Suspected Taliban militants fired two rockets on the city, but there were no casualties. One rocket landed in Army Stadium and the other in open fields near Faqir Kilay.

Police arrested Taliban commander Khalid Raheem near Hangu while he was returning from Peshawar. Raheem is wanted by the police in several cases and is also said to be involved in the recent attacks on police stations and Frontier Constabulary check-posts.

65

December 14

The Taliban torched at least 11 trucks en route to Afghanistan carrying NATO supplies, in another attack targeting coalition goods on Peshawar’s Ring Road,. Police official Awaz Khan said that 11 trucks were gutted in the fire that started in the early hours of the day at Bilal Terminal on Ring Road. 13 containers had also been destroyed.

66

December 15

At least two persons were injured when a rocket fired by suspected Taliban militants hit a house in the Civil Quarters area. A bomb disposal squad official said the attackers used a Russian-made MRB-12 rocket, which has a range of 10-13 kilometers and weighs around 19 kilograms. He said the rocket was fired from Muslim Abad Colony on Dalazak Road. This was reportedly the first rocket attack carried out in daylight in Peshawar.

67

December 15

SFs continued the crackdown against JuD and arrested 12 workers and sealed its assets in different parts of the NWFP. JuD provincial spokesman Atiq ur Rehman Chohan said Police had sealed Al Dawa Model School in the Tehkal area of Peshawar.

68

December 22

At least four persons were injured when the Taliban detonated a private school building after torching four buses in the limits of Mathra Police Station in Peshawar. Samiullah, a guard at Peshawar Model School’s boys campus, who was present at the time of the attack, said around 12 armed men scaled the school walls and torched the four buses. The Taliban later planted a bomb in the school’s administration block and the subsequent explosion severely damaged the school building. Four school employees - Naveed, Sher Muhammad, Muhammadullah and Aurangzeb – were injured. The Taliban also torched two classrooms and a deep freezer and also detonated explosives at the gate of Frontier Model School, located opposite to Peshawar Model School, but there were no casualties.

69

December 22

Militants blew up a music centre in the Dir Colony of Yakatut area. However, no casualty was reported. A police official said the explosion destroyed the building and other valuable items in the centre. A bomb disposal squad official said militants had exploded a time bomb that was locally made and weighed about two kilograms.

70

December 26

Suspected Taliban militants blew up an Internet café destroying five other shops in the Gunj area. Locals told that the blast had damaged six shops in Mohallah Mawatyan area. However, no casualty was reported. A bomb blast had damaged at least four shops in the same locality on December 14.

71

December 31

The main pipeline of the Sui Northern Gas Pipeline Limited was blown up at the Ring Road in Peshawar. The explosion caused suspension of gas supply to several localities, including Hayatabad, Badbher, Ormar, Achenay and adjacent villages.

 

 

 

 

 

 
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