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Date
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Incident
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1
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January 7
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Three suspected al
Qaeda terrorists, including a Yemeni national Shaikh Yousuf,
were arrested from the Super Highway area. A lap top computer,
a satellite phone and a Russian-made weapon were recovered from
their possession.
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2
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January 9
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An alleged conspirator in a plot
to kill President Pervez Musharraf has escaped, Time reported
on its Website. The suspect escaped sometime around New Year’s
Day from state security in Karachi, the US magazine claimed. A
nationwide manhunt has failed to yield any leads in the whereabouts
of the suspect, identified as Mushtaq Ahmad, one of the ringleaders
in the December 14, 2003-plot on Musharraf’s life.
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3
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January 30
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Two unidentified men opened fire
outside a mosque in Karachi, killing a cleric belonging to the
outlawed Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP;
now known as Millat-e-Islamia) and his bodyguard. Maulana Haroon
Qasmi, the mosque’s imam, and his bodyguard, Aqil Ahmed, were
attacked on their way home after prayers at the Jamia Mamoor mosque
on Tariq Road.
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4
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February 4
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Two bomb explosions occurred in
Karachi without causing any loss of life or injuries. The first
blast occurred in a garbage dump near the Chief Minister’s residence
house at 7.50am (PST), while an hour later, another blast took
place in front of the Expo Centre at Hasan Square.
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5
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February 8
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Karachi Police arrested four terrorists
suspected of planning suicide attacks on Shia processions during
the holy festival of Muharram that starts later this week. The
Police found approximately 17 kilograms of explosives and other
material used for bomb making during an overnight raid on a hideout
in the Civil Lines area. One of the four, identified as Mohammed
Asghar, belonged to the outlawed Sunni group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
(LeJ), said Gul Hameed Soomo, Additional Inspector General of
Police. The other three – Mohsin Khan, Saeed Omar and Mohammed
Zahid – belonged to the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen al-Almi (HuMA) group,
he added. Police sources also said the suspects had been trained
in Wana, South Waziristan.
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6
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February 15
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Tatheer-ul-Islam, an absconding
most-wanted activist of the banned Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP),
was reportedly arrested from the Lyari area. He is alleged to
have been providing funds, arms and support, through various means,
to his accomplices. Several arrested SSP activists had disclosed
his name as their main supporter and his name was included in
the Red Book of the CID, Police officer Mazhar Mashwani told The
News.
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7
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February 27
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Karachi Police arrested two Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
(LeJ) cadres along with hand-grenades near a Church in the Sadar
area. The Deputy Superintendent of Police (Investigations), Gul
Hameed Samoon, said four hand-grenades and two TT pistols were
recovered from their possession. The arrested terrorists were
identified as Ishaque alias Saad and Imran alias Bakreywala.
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8
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March 2
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Karachi Police arrested a key
suspect in a suicide bomb blast in front of the Sheraton Hotel
on May 8, 2002, which claimed 14 lives, including 11 French engineers
and the suicide bomber. Police said Sohail Habib, affiliated to
the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI), was also involved in the
beheading of US journalist Daniel Pearl. Habib was a close associate
of al Qaeda terrorist Amjad Farooqi who was killed by the Police
last year in Nawabshah.
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9
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April 2
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Police arrested nine activists
of the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) and Jamaat-e-Islami and seized
explosive devices from them in Karachi. Deputy Inspector General
of Police Operations Mushtaq Shah stated that a Police team raided
Idara-e-Noorul Haq’s central MMA office in Karachi and seized
one and a half kilogram of explosive material, four pistols and
37 bottles of petrol.
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10
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April 3
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Karachi Police arrested five suspected
terrorists and seized a cache of arms and ammunition during raids
conducted on April 3-night. The men, allegedly members of Baqiyatullah,
a little known group, were identified as Muzaffar Ali, Azhar Hussain,
Shujaat Ali, Raza Ali and Mustafa Kirmani. Fifty grenades, 10
rockets, eight AK-47 rifles, four pistols and an unspecified amount
of ammunition and land mines were seized in the raids. Baqiyatullah
is believed to be an offshoot of the outlawed Shia group Sipah-e-Mohammed
Pakistan (SMP).
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11
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April 6
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Maulana Mohammed Amin Qadri, Sunni
Tahrik leader and a Government schoolteacher, was shot dead by
unidentified gunmen in the Pirabad area of Karachi.
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12
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April 26
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Karachi Police arrested two terrorists
of the Jaish Mohammed (JeM) and seized six locally-made bombs
and more than 55 kilograms of explosive material during a raid
at a house in the Orangi Town area. The duo was identified as
Mohammad Anis and Nafees Siddiqui.
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13
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May 1
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Security agencies raided a seminary
in Karachi and arrested a Taliban activist wanted by the Afghan
Government in the killing of a prominent pro-US Afghan leader.
An unnamed official said Sirajul Haq and another unidentified
man were arrested during a raid in the Malir area. Haq is wanted
in the murder of Abdul Haq, who was killed by the Taliban in 2001.
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14
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May 9
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Five LeJ terrorists were arrested
from Karachi for their alleged involvement in 15 sectarian killings.
"The suspects have confessed their involvement in the killing
of six employees of the Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission
in October 2003," an unnamed Police official was quoted as saying
in Dawn. They were also allegedly involved in the murder
of nine people at a mosque in the Al Falah area during February
2003.
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15
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May 30
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Six people, including two of the
three assailants, among them a suicide bomber, were killed and
19 persons sustained injuries in an explosion in the courtyard
of a Shia mosque at Gulshan-e-Iqbal. Syed Akhtar Hussain, a witness,
told Daily Times that the congregation had just commenced
prayers when gunshots were heard in the courtyard followed by
a large explosion. Police said three men approached the well-guarded
mosque and one of them snatched the machinegun of a head constable.
They shot him dead while the other Police personnel killed one
assailant and injured another. The mosque’s private guard, Fida
Hussain, was also killed while two Police personnel were wounded.
The suicide bomber managed to run into the courtyard and blow
himself up, killing one worshipper, the witness said, adding that
the bomber’s head was decapitated and looked of African origin.
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16
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May 31
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Four employees of a US fast-food
franchise Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC) were burnt alive and two
others froze to death in the outlet’s refrigeration unit in Karachi
during a riot that followed a suicide attack on a Shia mosque
in Karachi. Six people, including two of the three assailants,
among them a suicide bomber, were killed and 19 persons sustained
injuries in an explosion in the courtyard of a Shia mosque at
Gulshan-e-Iqbal in Karachi on May 30-evening.
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17
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May 31
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An activist of the Sunni Tehrik
(ST) was killed and three others sustained injuries during a sectarian
clash between Sunnis and Shias in Karachi. A group of Shias gathered
outside the Farooq-e-Azam mosque and tried to burn down a board
with the names of the caliphs, Police said, adding that this led
to an argument between the management of the mosque (belonging
to the ST) and the Shia group. An unidentified man shot at the
mosque’s management during the argument, killing Mukhtiar, an
ST cadre, and injuring three others.
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18
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June 7
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The Crimes Investigation Department
(CID) of Sindh arrested two LeJ cadres for their alleged involvement
in the suicide bomb attack on a mosque in Gulshan-e-Iqbal area
on May 30. Mufti Altaf alias Mufti Shahid and Qari Bilal
Farooqi were arrested near Kamran Chowk in the Gulistan-e-Jauhar
Police jurisdiction and five kilograms of explosives, four dynamite
sticks and a hand grenade were also recovered from their possession.
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19
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June 23
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Mufti Atiqur Rahman, a cleric
at the Jamia Binoria mosque and madrassa (seminary) at
SITE Town in Karachi, is shot dead and his son and a man accompanying
them are wounded in an attack near the Sindh Secretariat.
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20
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June 24
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Maulana Irshadul Haq, who was
wounded during an attack in which a leading cleric of the Binoria
mosque and madrassa, Mufti Atiqur Rehman, was killed, died on
June 24. Mufti Rehman, his son Ammar and Maulana Irshadul Haq
were shot at near the Sindh Secretariat on June 23-night.
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21
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July 9
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Unidentified men shot dead a cleric
in Orangi Town. The men kidnapped Maulana Shamsuddin, head of
the Darul Uloom Hanafia in Sector 11-D of Orangi Town, while he
was on the way to give lessons at a madrassa at Banaras
Chowk after offering prayers. He was later found murdered near
Metro Cinema.
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22
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July 11
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Karachi Police arrested an alleged
cadre of the outlawed Shia group Sipah-e-Mohammed Pakistan after
a shootout in the western part of the city. Jamil Abbas and two
of his associates reportedly opened fire on a Police patrol party.
In the ensuing encounter, while two of his associates escaped,
Abbas was arrested. Police also seized a pistol and two dynamite
sticks from the incident site. During his interrogation, Abbas
said he trained in explosives near Parachinar, a tribal town in
northwestern Pakistan close to the Afghan border.
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23
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July 17
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A cleric, Maulana Abdullah Ahmed
Madni, was killed and his father, Mufti Muhammad Ahmed Madni,
sustained injuries when unidentified gunmen opened fire on them
in the Buffer Zone area. Both of them were affiliated to the Jamia
Madrassa Mehmoodia Trust. Mufti Muhammad Ahmed Madni is a step-brother
of Maulana Azam Tariq, the assassinated chief of banned Sunni
group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP).
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24
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August 21
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At least nine wagons of a Lahore-bound
goods train derailed after a bomb blast, while passing over the
Malir bridge in Karachi. Unconfirmed reports said that two Police
personnel were wounded in the blast.
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25
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September 8
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Mufti Mohammad Sabir, a terrorist
affiliated to the Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HuJI), was arrested
for allegedly planting explosives in a car that was used for the
May 8, 2002-suicide attack which killed nine French naval technicians
and five Pakistanis outside the Sheraton Hotel in Karachi. Police
seized a pistol, one pound of explosives, two rocket shells, bomb-making
material and 250 bullets from his possession.
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26
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September 8
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Two bomb blasts occurred within
a span of eight minutes at the KFC and McDonald’s restaurant in
Karachi, injuring at least three people. Tariq Jamil, the city
Police chief, said a bomb exploded on the mezzanine floor of the
KFC restaurant wounding three people and eight minutes later,
another explosion was reported from outside the McDonalds restaurant
near Karachi’s crowded beach front.
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27
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September 11
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Power supply in several areas
of Karachi was adversely affected following two bomb blasts which
damaged the 220 kilovolt ampere transmission line tower opposite
the Zulfiqarabad Oil Terminal in Razakabad on the National Highway
in the early hours. Unconfirmed reports indicated that two of
the tower’s pillars each had half a kilogram of explosives attached
to them.
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28
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October 8
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An Islamist militant who authorities
believe played a role in a failed attempt to kill President General
Pervez Musharraf on December 25, 2004, was arrested in Karachi.
Sharafat Ali was arrested from a residential area after a shootout,
city Police chief Tariq Jamil said. Ali was also involved in attacks
against Christians in Karachi and in three other cities of Punjab.
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29
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October 21
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Karachi Police arrested an activist
of the outlawed Sunni group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi after an encounter
in the Orangi area. The suspect was identified as Hafiz Qasim
Rasheed belonging to the Asif Choto group, carrying a head money
of 500,000. However, his accomplice, identified as Amjad Husain,
managed to escape from the incident site. Police recovered two
hand-grenades and a pistol from Rasheed’s possession. During interrogation,
the suspect reportedly disclosed that he had planned to kill Superintendent
of Police, Fayyaz Khan, and some informers after the holy period
of Ramadan.
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30
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October 29
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Karachi Police arrested five cadres
of the outlawed Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) for collecting donations
for earthquake victims. Mamoor Khan, a Police inspector, said
the five men were collecting donations in the name of a charity,
Al-Rahmat Trust, recently set up by the JeM.
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31
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November 1
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Karachi Police arrested Muhammad
Kashif, a LeJ cadre, during a raid in the Sultanabad area. The
Government of Sindh had fixed Rupees 0.5 million for his capture,
according to The News.
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32
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November 15
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Three people died and 20 others,
including two South African women, sustained injuries in a powerful
car bomb explosion in front of the KFC restaurant in Karachi.
The blast, at around 8:40 am (PST) in a car parked in front of
the food outlet, destroyed a Muslim Commercial Bank branch, a
wing of the PIDC House and the outer elevation of the KFC.
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33
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November 16
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A man has been arrested for the
November 15-car bombing in Karachi, President Pervez Musharraf
said on November 16. "The man who did it, we have arrested him,"
Gen. Musharraf told reporters, adding "We are trying to get more,
who he is representing really, what was his motivation." He said
others had also been detained, in Quetta, capital of Balochistan
province. Police said they included Baloch tribal separatists.
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34
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December 5
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Two gunmen opened fire inside
a bakery in Karachi, killing a Sunni cleric before escaping on
a motorcycle. Qari Habibur Rehman was buying food at the Fine
Bakers after leading morning prayers at a nearby mosque when he
was shot dead, Police inspector Bahauddin Babar said. No one claimed
responsibility for the killing, but Babar suspected it was the
latest in a series of sectarian attacks.
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