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Date |
Incident |
1
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January 12
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Suspected Baloch insurgents blew
up the railway track near the Airport road suspending train services
between Quetta and the border town of Chaman.
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2
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January 15
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A house was attacked with a hand-grenade
in the Shahbaz town of Quetta.
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3
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January 17
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A bomb explosion was reported
from a Government employees' colony on the White Road area in
Quetta. However, there was no loss of life or injuries.
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4
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January 18
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A powerful explosion occurred
in Quetta. However, no casualties were reported.
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5
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January 22
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A bomb exploded in Quetta, without
causing any loss of life or damage to property. The device which
had been planted near a hotel in the cantonment area exploded
at 10.15pm.
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6
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January 26
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A bomb exploded at the Join Road
area in Quetta. However, no loss of life or injuries was reported.
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7
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January 29
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A rocket exploded in the house
of a senior official of the Balochistan Government in the cantonment
area. Police said the rocket fired from an unknown place hit the
rooftop of the house of Captain (retd) Niaz Mohammad Jaffar. However,
no loss of life or injuries was reported.
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8
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February 12
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A bomb exploded on the White Road
area, damaging a building. No casualties were reported.
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9
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February 25
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Suspected insurgents targeted
the residence of Livestock Minister, Mir Abdul Qudoos Bizenjo,
with rockets, killing one person and injuring eight others. Police
said three rockets were fired on his official residence in the
Railway Housing Society. One rocket hit the guesthouse in the
building, killing a villager who had come to Quetta for treatment
and injuring eight others. Another rocket landed in the house
but it did not explode. Bizenjo himself was reportedly in Islamabad
attending a course at the National Defence College. A caller identifying
himself as Azad Baloch and spokesman for the Balochistan Liberation
Army (BLA), told reporters that the BLA had carried out the attack.
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10
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February 27
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A pipeline supplying gas to parts
of the Sariab area was blown up in Quetta. Following the blast
which damaged the pipeline, gas supply to several areas was suspended.
A spokesman for the Sui Southern Gas Company said the explosion
caused serious damage to the six-inch diameter pipeline.
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11
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March 1
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Insurgents killed a pro-government
politician, Pakistan Worker's Party Chairman Nasrullah Kakar,
in Bostan.
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12
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March 3
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Two girls, Mahnoor Ejaz and Mussarat
Nazir, were killed and three other children sustained injuries
in a hand-grenade attack in the PTCL Colony area.
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13
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March 9
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A Police constable and his eight-year-old
daughter were wounded during a grenade attack in Quetta.
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14
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March 15
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14 people, mostly schoolgirls,
were wounded when a bomb exploded near a girls' college at Brewery
Road. The bomb was planted in a store adjacent to the college,
said Police official Wazir Khan Nasir.
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15
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March 18
|
There were two bomb explosions
in the provincial capital Quetta, one of them near the house of
Nawabzada Gazin Marri, the son of Baloch nationalist leader Nawab
Khair Bakhsh Marri. However, no casualties were reported in these
explosions.
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16
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March 25
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57 suspected insurgents were arrested
for their alleged involvement in attacks on Security Forces (SFs)
and Government installations in Balochistan. The Police detained
some 57 suspects, including 24 arrested in a raid on a camp run
by the Marri tribe near Quetta, city Police officer Mujibur Rehman
said.
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17
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April 1
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Insurgents lobbed a hand grenade
into the house of a Policeman in the Sariab Road locality injuring
his daughter-in-law.
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18
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April 19
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Unidentified men killed two soldiers,
identified as Fraz and Muhammad Murad, in the Awran area.
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19
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April 23
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Three persons, including an alleged
terrorist, were injured in a bomb blast at a bus stand in Quetta.
Police said the blast occurred as the accused, identified as Mohammad
Saeed Khilji, attempted to enter a bus. "The accused is an Afghan
national and belongs to the Babul area in Afghanistan," Balochistan
Inspector-General Police Choudhury Mohammad Yaqoob said.
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20
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April 25
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A suspected Afghan bomb-maker
and four members of his family are killed when an explosive device
he was building blew up in their home on the outskirts of Quetta.
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21
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April 30
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Police in Quetta arrested two
Afghans suspected of planning to carry out suicide bombings. The
two men were arrested on the basis of information secured from
another suspected suicide bomber, Syed Muhammad, a report quoted
Quetta's Senior Superintendent of Police (Operations) Ghulam Muhammad
Dogar as saying. Muhammad was arrested while attempting to blow
himself up on Quetta's Circular Road a few days ago.
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22
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May 6
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Gunmen riding on a motorcycle
killed a former regional Taliban leader, Mullah Samad Barakzai,
who was head of the Department for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention
of Vice in Helmand during the Taliban's rule, near a seminary
in Quetta. Qazi Abdul Wahid, an area Police chief, said, "We have
made no arrest, but it seems that he has been killed by Taliban."
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23
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May 11
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Six Police personnel of the Anti-Terrorist
Force are killed and 13 others sustain injuries in five powerful
bomb explosions at the firing range of the Police Training College
in Quetta. The banned Baloch Liberation Army claimed responsibility
for the blasts.
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24
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May 31
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A bomb exploded near the city
branch of the National Bank of Pakistan in Quetta. Windowpanes
of the bank and nearby buildings were damaged. However, no casualty
was reported.
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25
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June 1
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Police arrested a Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
(LeJ) activist from the Sariab area. Habibullah Zehri was reportedly
wanted in 28 sectarian cases and had a PKR 1 million reward on
his head.
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26
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June 2
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Police seized a large quantity
of arms from a house on the outskirts of the provincial capital
and arrested a man, identified as Mohammad Azam, who allegedly
smuggled the weapons from Afghanistan.
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27
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June 12
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Five people were killed and 17
sustained injuries in a bomb blast at Gul Balochistan Hotel on
the Sariab Road at 10:35am. Mir Shoaib Nausherwani, the Balochistan
Home Minister, blamed the Balochistan Liberation Army for the
blast. However, Sardar Akhtar Mengal, the Balochistan National
Party President, accused intelligence agencies of masterminding
the blast in order to defame the Baloch leaders.
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28
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June 25
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Unidentified militants fired three
rockets in Quetta, injuring a civilian. One of the rockets hit
a house in front of the Combined Military Hospital, the second
hit a hotel on Jinnah Road while a third landed on Muno Jan Road
in the Kili Arbab area. Police officials said that they had defused
another rocket found on Muno Jan road.
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29
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June 29
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Two civilians, identified as Khuram
and Mushataq Ahmed, were shot dead in separate incidents by unidentified
insurgents in the Quetta District.
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30
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July 5
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Four persons, including a woman
and a child, were wounded as a powerful bomb exploded at Qili
Spain. Another bomb explosion was reported in Gadai.
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31
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July 7
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14 civilians were injured when
a bomb exploded at the crowded Suraj Ganj bazaar.
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32
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July 17
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SFs arrested a Taliban commander,
identified as Nawa Killi, and 42 Afghans during raids conducted
in different areas of Quetta.
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33
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July 28
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Unidentified gunmen shot dead
two civilians, Munir Ahmed and Zahoor Ahmed, at Wahdat Colony.
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34
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August 4
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A boy was injured when a bomb
exploded in a residential area on Wafa Road.
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35
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August 13
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A bomb explosion was reported
near the house of an official, Mazhar Rasheed Khokhar, in the
Wahdat Colony. However, no one was hurt in the blast.
Another bomb exploded in the Shahbaz
Town near the house of an officer of the State Bank without causing
any damage. Police said that two separate bomb blasts occurred
in the Patel Bagh and Khojak Road areas. One of the bombs was
planted inside a dustbin while the other was placed near the wall
of a girls' convent school. The wall of the school was damaged.
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36
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August 13
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Police arrested at least 50 suspects
from different areas of Quetta in connection with the gas pipeline
blast that suspended gas supply to Quetta, Pishin and Ziarat for
at least four hours.
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37
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August 15
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Four bombs exploded in Quetta.
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38
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August 15
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Security agencies arrested 29
Taliban suspects, including a local 'commander', during a raid
on the Al Khair Hospital on Zargoon Road. "Ten of the Taliban
were under treatment at the hospital, while the reaming Taliban
were in the hospital to meet them," said sources. The suspects
were being treated for wounds sustained in fighting in Afghanistan's
Kandahar province in recent weeks, said a hospital official.
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39
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August 24
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16 persons, including two girls,
are wounded in two bomb blasts at Model Town close to a busy bus
stand and headquarters of the Frontier Corps in Quetta.
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40
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August 28
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Police detain some 100 Baloch
students, including Gulzar Baloch, general secretary of the Baloch
Students Organisation, bringing the total detained in provincial
capital Quetta to approximately 550.
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41
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September 3
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Six people were injured in a hand
grenade attack on the Jail Road.
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42
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September 10
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Power supply to 15 of the 29 Districts
of Balochistan, including capital Quetta, was disrupted after
four pylons supporting two transmission lines in Mach were blown
up by the insurgents. According to the Quetta Electric Supply
Company (Qesco), saboteurs planted explosives round four pylons
of 220kv Uch-Sibi-Quetta transmission line and 132kv Sibi-Mach-Quetta
line and detonated it. The blast blew up the huge towers plunging
more than half of Balochistan province into darkness.
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43
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September 10
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18 people were injured when a
bomb exploded on the Prince Road. The bomb was reportedly in a
packet left on a bicycle parked near a restaurant.
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44
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September 13
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Police claimed to have arrested
14 suspected Taliban operatives in a raid on a private hospital
on Zargoon Road in Quetta. "Six of the arrested Taliban were injured
while the rest had come to see them at the hospital when the Police
arrested them," official sources said, adding that the suspects
were from Afghanistan's Helmand province, and that some of them
had been admitted to the hospital after they were injured in a
clash. Taliban 'group commander' Mullah Ghaffar was among those
arrested. Balochistan Police chief Chaudhry Mohammed Yaqoob, however,
refused to confirm the arrests.
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45
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September 18
|
Three civilians and two Police
personnel were wounded when a time bomb exploded in a crowded
market in Quetta.
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46
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September 23
|
Insurgents blew up a natural gas
pipeline, cutting supply to thousands of homes. There were no
casualties when the pipeline, supplying gas to suburban areas
of provincial capital Quetta, was hit by explosives, said Police
official Mohammad Arif Shah.
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47
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September 28
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Unidentified persons fired two
rockets in Quetta. While one rocket landed at an isolated place
in the Brewery area, the other fell in the foothills of Murdar
mountain in Marriabad. No loss of life or injuries was reported.
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48
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October 1
|
An explosion at Barori road in
Quetta, shattered windowpanes of the nearby buildings. A homemade
bomb device was planted near a house in Faisal Town in the provincial
capital, which exploded. The blast made a crater and shattered
windowpanes in nearby buildings but no casualties were reported
in the incident.
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49
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October 1
|
An unidentified person lobbed
a hand-grenade on the house of one Mohammad Jan Qabrani in the
Faisal Town area of Quetta. Another explosion occurred near the
house of Major (retd) Safiuulah Khan, head of an NGO. However,
no loss of life or injuries was reported in these incidents.
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50
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October 1
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Police arrested nine Taliban suspects
during a raid on Al-Khidmat Hospital, a private hospital, in Quetta.
Six of the arrested were reportedly injured in a fight in Afghanistan
and were under treatment at the hospital, while three others were
there to look after the injured.
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51
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October 7
|
Police arrested over 45 suspected
Taliban operatives during a series of raids in the Balochistan
province near the Afghan border. The arrests were made in the
provincial capital Quetta and in a raid on a hotel in the nearby
town of Kuchlak. "We have arrested around a dozen suspects from
Kuchlak and 33 from Quetta," said Qazi Abdul Wahid, a senior Police
official in Quetta.
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52
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October 11
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Police arrested 17 suspected Taliban
operatives in two raids on buildings in the Pashtoonabad locality
of Quetta.
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53
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October 12
|
Two bomb blasts in Quetta damaged
Government building windows, but caused no casualties. The first
blast damaged the boundary wall of a water pumping station in
the Kharotabad area, while the second blast near the civil secretariat
damaged office windows. Another bomb exploded in the remote town
of Naushki near a tile factory, but there were no casualties,
a local Police official said.
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54
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October 19
|
Police personnel were injured
in a hand-grenade attack in Quetta.
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55
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October 24
|
A bomb blast occurred in the the
Wahdat Colony area. However, no casualty was reported.
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56
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October 26
|
Insurgents exploded bombs attached
to three legs of an electricity pylon near Quetta. However, no
casualty was reported.
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57
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October 28
|
A bicycle bomb exploded outside
a Police barracks in Quetta, killing at least one person and injuring
12. The blast reportedly occurred near Global Plaza on the Police
Line in the highly sensitive area of Quetta Cantonment.
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58
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October 29
|
Two rockets fired from an unknown
place in the west of Quetta city with brief interval causing panic
among the residents of these areas. However, no casualty was reported.
The rockets landed in open areas near the Jinnah Market and Chaman
railway crossing.
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59
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November 2
|
Two Police officers and a civilian
were killed in a bomb blast on Shahra-e-Gulastan in front of the
Inspector General's office in Quetta.
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60
|
November 2
|
Quetta Police defused an 18 kilogram
explosive device from an abandoned bike in front of a local hotel
in the crowded premises of the Liaquat Bazaar.
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61
|
November 5
|
Police raided different areas
of Quetta and arrested about 100 suspects in connection with a
car bomb explosion in front of the Central Police Office on November
2. According to Police sources, most of the suspects are Uzbeks
from northern Afghanistan. "We have arrested around 70 Uzbeks
and handed them over to the authorities concerned for interrogation,"
said Senior Superintendent of Police (Quetta) Qazi Abdul Wahid.
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62
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November 6
|
Police arrested a suspected member
of the Balochistan Liberation Army, Bakht Ali Bugti, in a raid
at a house in the BMC Colony of Zarghoon Town in Quetta. They
also seized five Klashnikovs, two hand grenades, three timers
of 107 rockets and a huge quantity of explosive material from
his hideout.
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63
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November 8
|
Unidentified men hurled a hand
grenade on the house of a bank employee, Irfan Baig, in the Jinnah
Town area of Quetta. However, there was no loss of life or property.
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64
|
November 10
|
Unidentified assailants fired
a rocket at the Balochistan Assembly building in Quetta. No loss
of life or injuries was reported.
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65
|
November 13
|
Two persons, including an eight-year-old
girl, were killed and 15 others sustained injuries when a powerful
bomb exploded outside a fast food centre in the Smmungli area
of Quetta.
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66
|
November 21
|
Police arrested 47 suspected Taliban
operatives from various areas in Quetta. "They are the real Taliban.
They had illegally crossed into Pakistan a week ago," Salman Syed,
the Capital City Police Officer said. According to sources, Police
arrested 28 of them from the Pashtoonabad area. They had been
living in a rented house which was being used as a seminary. One
of them was found in injured condition and was shifted to the
Civil Hospital. Four other suspects were detained from the Saddar
area. Another group of 15 Taliban activists were arrested from
Kuchlak, a small town about 25 km from Quetta. Officials said
that the Taliban suspects belonged to southern parts of Afghanistan,
including Zabul, Uruzgan, Kandahar and Helmand provinces.
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67
|
November 26
|
A hand-grenade was lobbed at a
private residence of a Pakistan Air Force officer in the Samugali
Housing Scheme area of Quetta. The grenade exploded in the backyard
of the house and there were no casualties.
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68
|
November 30
|
Police arrested seven suspected
Taliban activists during a raid on a house in the Pakhtunabad
area. One of the suspects was injured in the raid. Those arrested
were identified as Maulvi Amir Mohammad, Maulvi Anuddin, Naseer
Ahmad, Mohammad Yousuf, Maulvi Amir Hamza, Abdul Wahid and Abdul
Ahad. They belonged to Kandahar, Zabul and Urzgan in Afghanistan.
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69
|
December 8
|
A powerful explosion was reported
from Quetta. Sources said that it was a rocket fired from the
Brewery area but it was not clear where it exploded.
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70
|
December 20
|
14 civilians are injured when
a bomb went off at a cycle stand near the Quetta Police station.
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71
|
December 20
|
Seven persons, including some
Afghan nationals, are arrested from Quetta in connection with
the December 20 bomb blast in which 14 persons were injured.
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72 |
December 23 |
A bomb placed in a garbage box explodes on New
Najmuddin Road in Quetta, without causing any damage.
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73 |
December 23 |
Unidentified assailants lobbed an explosive device
at a hotel on the Jinnah Road area.
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74 |
December 29 |
Police arrests a tribal militant wanted in connection
with bomb blasts, and also killed his accomplice on the outskirts
of provincial capital Quetta.
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75 |
December 29 |
Unidentified assailants lobbed two hand grenades
into the servant quarter of the Saddar Police station and Quetta
District Jail, but there are no casualties.
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