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Terrorism-related Incidents in Peshawar - 2006

 

No

Date

Incident

1

March 28

One person was killed and 16 others sustained injuries when a bomb planted on a motorcycle parked outside Haroon Mansion in Shuba Bazaar exploded at 5:05 pm. A senior Awami National Party leader Lateef Afridi is believed to have been the target of the blast, which Police said was remote-controlled.

2

April 17

Police arrested two Afghans and an Arab, suspected to be al Qaeda operatives, after a gunfight outside Peshawar. While one of the arrested men was injured in the hand, an AK-47 rifle and some grenades were recovered from the incident site.

3

April 23

Police in Peshawar seized a cache of ammunition and arrested a Afghan national. The seizure included nine Kalashnikovs, one Kalakov, two repeaters, a pistol, seven rifles and 50,000 rounds.

4

May 21

Security agencies are reported to have arrested three Afghans in Peshawar for their suspected links to al Qaeda. However, their identities were not disclosed.

5

August 31

Police arrested four members of a banned religious outfit in Peshawar for providing shelter to foreign militants. While two were arrested from Sufaid Dheri, two others were arrested from the Achini area. Three hand-grenades and documents indicating their links with foreign militants were reportedly seized from their possession.

6

September 18

A bomb explosion was reported from the parking area adjacent to the West Cantonment Police station in Peshawar. The device, placed under a car exploded at 4:20pm damaging 25 vehicles. Window-panes of the nearby Cantonment Hospital and other buildings on the Sunehri Masjid Road and Gulberg area were also broken. However, no casualty was reported.

7

October 12

An Afghan fruit vendor, identified as Roohullah, was injured in a bomb blast in the Haji Camp area of Peshawar. A low intensity bomb exploded around 30 minute prior to the Iftari (breaking of the Ramadan fast), injuring the Afghan in front of the Daewoo Bus Stop at GT Road. The blast is third of its kind in a row during the holy month of Ramadan and fourth of its kind in the metropolis in the past two months.

8

October 20

A powerful bomb exploded in a crowded market near the headquarters of a paramilitary force at Peshawar, killing seven persons and injuring more than 30 others. The bomb, which had been left in a fruit cart, exploded in the markets 10 minutes before the evening prayers, said Senior Superintendent of Police (Operations) Iftikhar Ahmed. Inspector General of Police Raffat Pashah said it was "a terrorist act" and the bomb was "locally made."

9

November 6

Unidentified terrorists fired three Russian-made rockets at Peshawar. No casualty is, however, reported from any of the three places, located in the jurisdiction of Pishtakhara Police station at a little distance from each other. The Russian-made multi-barrel missiles, MBR-12, were fired from an unknown location towards the city at around 12:10 pm (PST). One of the rockets landed near a religious seminary in Afridi Garhi, while another fell in the thickly populated Nawab Abad, Spina Warai. The third rocket hit the ground of a plot near the house of one Bukhari Shah in Pawaka.

10

November 17

A suicide bomber killed himself and injured two Police personnel when he targeted a Police van in Peshawar. "It was a suicide bombing," said a senior Police official. The bomber, identified as Nadeem Khan, blew himself up near the Police patrol van parked beside a temporary Police post at the Bara intersection on the Ring Road at around 7:15am. Police said the bomber was from the Pishtakhara village in the outskirts of Peshawar Cantonment. He was identified by the national identity card he was carrying.

11

December 1

A bomb attached to a motorcycle exploded in the Defence Officers Colony area of Peshawar, killing one person.

12

December 5

An Intelligence Bureau (IB) official was arrested with explosives near the Chief Minister's Secretariat in Peshawar, with Chief Minister Akram Durrani appearing to suggest that he is the target of a bomb plot hatched by the IB. Durrani told a press conference that Muhammad Tufail, the IB employee, was arrested by Police at around 11am outside his Peshawar office while "trying to plant a bomb" in a dustbin.

13

December 26

One person was killed and two are injured when a powerful time bomb, planted in a car, exploded in a parking area outside the Peshawar airport. Police said the bomb, weighing around two kilograms, completely destroyed the car it was planted in, in addition to razing the boundary wall of Risalla Lane of the Pakistan Army ground.

 

 

 

 

 

 
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