No
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Date
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Incident
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1
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January 6
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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.
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2
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January 8
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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.
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3
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January 9
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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.
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4
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January 14
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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.
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5
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January 17
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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."
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6
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January 18
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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.
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7
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January 20
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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.
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8
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January 24
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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.
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9
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January 26
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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.
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10
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January 27
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There were two successive bomb
blasts in a CD market near Wakho Pul on the Kohat Road in Peshawar.
However, no casualty was reported.
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11
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January 28
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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.
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12
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January 29
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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.
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13
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January 30
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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.
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14
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January 30
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Two music shops were damaged
in a bomb blast in the Afridiabad area of Peshawar. No casualties
were reported.
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15
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February 15
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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.
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16
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February 23
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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.
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17
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February 25
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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.
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18
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February 26
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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.
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19
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February 26
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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.
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20
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February 27
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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.
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21
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March 3
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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.
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22
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April 3
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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.
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23
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April 20
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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.
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24
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May 10
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Police defused a bomb planted
in the limits of Badaber Police Station.
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25
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May 20
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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.
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26
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May 24
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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.
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27
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June 9
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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.
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28
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June 9
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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.
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29
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June 21
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Unidentified militants abducted
25 Christians from Academy Town in Peshawar.
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30
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July 1
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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.
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31
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July 21
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A man killed three Taliban militants
in the Hassan Khel area near capital Peshawar.
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32
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August 8
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Hundreds of armed militants
attacked Mattani police station, killing a policeman and injuring
two others.
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33
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August 12
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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.
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34
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August 20
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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.
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35
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August 21
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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.
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36
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August 25
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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.
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37
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August 26
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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.
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38
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September 3
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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.
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39
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September 6
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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.
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40
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November 3
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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).
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41
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November 4
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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.
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42
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November 6
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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.
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43
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November 6
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A 500KV electricity pylon was
blown up near Badabher, briefly disrupting power supply to provincial
capital Peshawar before it was restored through alternative
sources.
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44
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November 7
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A Taliban militant was killed
when a lashkar (militia) and security forces clashed
with the militants in Adezai under Mattani police station in
Peshawar.
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45
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November 7
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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.
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46
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November 11
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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.
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47
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November 11
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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.
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48
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November 12
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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.
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49
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November 12
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Search operations by the SFs
in the suburbs of capital Peshawar resulted in the killing of
two militants and injury to five others.
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50
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November 13
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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’.
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51
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November 24
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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.
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52
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November 24
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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.
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53
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November 25
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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.
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54
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November 25
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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.
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55
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November 26
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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.
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56
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December 4
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In the capital Peshawar, a Deputy
Superintendent of Police survived an assassination attempt by
the Taliban.
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57
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December 5
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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.
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58
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December 7
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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.
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59
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December 8
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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.
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60
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December 9
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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.
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61
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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.
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62
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December 11
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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.
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63
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December 12
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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.
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64
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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.
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65
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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.
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66
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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.
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67
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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.
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68
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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.
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69
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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.
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70
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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.
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71
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December 31
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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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