No
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Date
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Incident
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1
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January 14
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11 persons, including two children,
were killed and more than 50 persons wounded in a bomb blast in
the industrial Landhi suburbs of Gul Ahmadpur in Karachi. "The
bomb was planted on a motorbike and exploded outside a textile
factory in the Landhi District of Karachi," said senior police
official Mohammed Javed.
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2
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January 22
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Security agencies arrested five
suspected militants during several raids in Karachi.
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3
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January 22
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Jahangir Bhatti, a suspected militant
who had just arrived from Saudi Arabia, was arrested at the Karachi
International Airport and shifted to an undisclosed location.
Yousaf Mehsud, a close aide of Baitullah Mehsud — arrested on
January 21 in Sohrab Goth Police Station precincts — reportedly
provided the information about Bhattiti’s arrival. Police personnel
also raided the house of Aitzaz Shah, the 15-year old suspect
arrested in the Benazir Bhutto assassination case, in the Pirabad
area and arrested his father Zahir Shah and uncle Zohaib Shah.
They later raided a madrassa (seminary) at Old Golimar
where Aitzaz Shah used to study before leaving for Afghanistan,
and arrested two suspected militants.
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4
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January 29
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At least seven militants of the
Jundullah group and two police officials, including a Deputy Superintendent,
were killed in two encounters in the Landhi and Shah Latif Town
areas of Karachi. One of the slain militants was identified as
Qasim Toori, a 27-year-old former policeman, who was wanted for
a June 2004 attack on the then Karachi Corps Commander in which
11 people were killed. Five people were arrested including a man
believed to be from Uzbekistan.
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5
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February 4
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Unidentified gunmen opened fire
on a Pakistan People’s Party election rally in Karachi, wounding
one person.
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6
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February 15
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Karachi Police arrested 10 members
of a militant organisation linked to the Taliban who were planning
massive terrorist attacks in the city during the elections. Inspector
General of Police Azhar Ali Farooqi said the militant outfit,
Tehrik-i-Islami Lashkar-i-Muhammadi, had ties with Mullah Dadullah,
Taliban commander Tahir and Sirajul Haq Haqqani. Farooqi disclosed
that the arrested men were formerly members of other banned outfits,
like the Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM),
but after the Lal Masjid operation they formed a group of their
own because their former organisations had ‘deviated’ from their
mission.
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7
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February 17
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Karachi Police arrested six members
of the Hizbut Tehrir while they were pasting posters near Shahra-e-Qaideen.
Geo News stated that the police arrested Ghulam Ali, Rizwan
Ali, Abdul Samad, Talha, Shirafat Ali and Muhammad Sajid, and
recovered a large number of posters from their possession. According
to the police, the posters read: "Change cannot come with the
present democracy and the enforcement of Caliphate is essential
for bringing about a change."
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8
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February 29
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The banned Sunni group Sipah-e-Sahaba
Pakistan (SSP) reportedly
drew several hundred supporters near its headquarters in Karachi
as it denounced the blasphemous caricatures of the holy Prophet
published in some Danish newspapers, and declared jihad against
Denmark and the West if they continued to insult Islam. It was
the fist major public rally by the SSP since it was banned in
2001. The SSP's protest took place after Friday prayers at the
SSP headquarters at Masjid-e-Siddique Akbar in the Nagan Chowrangi
area.
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9
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March 19
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Karachi Police arrested Mohammad
Kashif, an Intermediate student allegedly linked to the Taliban.
Police also claimed that he was a member of the HuMA. He was arrested
during a raid in Landhi and the police claimed to have recovered
weapons and equipment used to seal arms licenses.
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10
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March 27
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Two officers of the Intelligence
Bureau believed to be involved in anti-Al Qaeda operations were
shot dead on a busy street near Regal Chowk in Karachi.
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11
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June 19
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Police arrested Maulana Abdullah
Shah Mazhar, a former JeM leader, from a seminary in the Monghopir
area of Karachi. He was accused of holding a conference on the
‘Martyrs of Islam’ in the seminary without the permission of the
city administration.
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12
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June 22
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Unidentified armed militants shot
dead two policemen and injured four others at Hub in Karachi.
The policemen were on a routine patrol of the area when the militants
attacked them. Hub Station House Officer Abdullah Jan Afridi told
that police have arrested three men allegedly connected to the
armed men and added that the militants are affiliated with an
unidentified Baloch terrorist group.
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13
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July 7
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At least 50 persons, including
seven children, were injured in a series of seven low-intensity
explosions in two busy neighbouring areas of Karachi. The blasts
occurred within 90 minutes of each other, striking residential
and commercial areas. Two of the blasts occurred in Banaras, injuring
16 people. The third explosion, which injured five people, ripped
through a mini-truck in North Nazimabad. The fourth bomb was affixed
to a motorcycle in the Qasba Colony. A fifth explosion occurred
near a children’s school in Hyderi. A policeman was injured in
the sixth blast in Manghopir. The seventh blast occurred in Pak
Colony, injuring seven people.
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14
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July 10
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A trustee of the Hussainian Iranian
Imambargah in Kharadar in Karachi was shot dead. 25-year old Agha
Mansoor Ahmed was attacked while he was sitting with some friends
at his restaurant on the MA Jinnah Road. "According to the initial
investigation, this is a case of a sectarian killing," said Saddar
Town Superintendent of Police, Ameer Sheikh.
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15
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July 22
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Unidentified gunmen killed a senior
security officer of the Pakistan People’s Party Co-chairman Asif
Ali Zardari in Karachi. Ejaz Durrani, a spokesman for Zardari,
said unidentified gunmen opened fire on Khalid Shahenshah’s vehicle
outside his home in the Khayaban-e-Bukhari area.
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16
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August 22
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Karachi Police arrested three
financiers of the TTP, Tariq alias Junaid, Wasim alias Gadda and
Muddasir, from Mauripur and recovered arms and vehicles from their
possession. Two vehicles ands some arms were recovered from their
possession.
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17
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September 8
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Police arrested a cadre of the
Lashkar-i-Jhangvi (LeJ), identified as Zeeshan, in Karachi.
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18
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September 26
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Three would-be suicide bombers,
suspected to be LeJ cadres, were killed along with a handcuffed
hostage when one of the bombers blew himself up following a police
raid on a house in Karachi.
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19
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October 27
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Four persons, including an imam
(prayer leader) and a seminary teacher, were killed and several
others injured, when suspected militants opened fire on them at
Baldia Town in Karachi. The slain persons were identified as Shahzaib
Alam, Shamsul Haq, Muhammad Kamal and Abdul Malik.
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20
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October 31
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Two activists of the Awami National
Party were killed while another was wounded when unidentified
militants opened fire on them with 9-mm pistols near a gas station
in Block-P under Shahrah-e-Noor Jehan police limits in Karachi.
The slain political activists were identified as Gul Feroze and
Mohammed Ali.
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21
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November 3
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The Crime Investigation Department
arrested eight persons belonging to the banned Harkat-ul-Mujahideen
(HuM). They were arrested between October 20 and 22 in raids in
various parts of Karachi, before they could reportedly carry out
planned terrorist activities in the city. The arrested militants
were identified as Asad Ahmed, Ali Ahmed Siddiqui, Asim Farman,
Imran Yousuf, Tuaqeer, Munir Nasir, Noorul Hassan and Rafaqat
Hussain.
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22
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November 5
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A constable was shot dead within
the jurisdiction of Korangi Police Station in the Qayyumabad area
of Karachi.
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28
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December 11
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Police sealed the central office
of the Jama’at-ud-Da’awa in Gulshan-i-Iqbal. City Police chief
Waseem Ahmed said the office was sealed on a directive of the
federal Government and efforts were being made to track down top
leaders.
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29
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December 12
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In the Sindh province, officials
said they had arrested 11 JuD operatives and sealed six offices
and six seminaries, but the group’s officials claimed 100 operatives
had been detained 35 offices sealed. "Seven of the men and
two of the seminaries belonged to Karachi," said Sindh Special
Secretary Collin Kamran Dost
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30
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December 14
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Senior Superintendent of Police
Sohail Zafar Chatta confirmed sealing the Al Amin Trust (AAT)
head office in Karachi. The AAT has three other offices in Karachi
and 20 in 15 other cities. "All of our offices have been
sealed and bank accounts seized," AAT spokesman Muhammad
Abdullah told. "As for the recovery of weapons, we do not
have any arms," he added. Abdullah said the AAT ambulance
service had also been stopped. He claimed the organisation was
engaged in welfare and relief activities. He also said: "We
are still trying to figure out why the government has taken this
step… We will appeal in the court to challenge the imposition
of the ban because we were never involved in any immoral activity
and our relief and other activities in Pakistan are being affected
following this step."
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