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Date |
Incident |
1
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January 3
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Police in Quetta arrested two
militants allegedly involved in gas pipeline explosions in the
province.
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2
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January 16
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Police arrested nine suspected
Taliban militants in
Kuchlak, some 25 kilometers from Quetta. A senior police official
said the militants – believed to be from Ghazni province of Afghanistan
– were staying at a small hotel.
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3
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February 10
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Gas supply to parts of Quetta
is disrupted for over 12 hours after suspected insurgents blew
up a major gas pipeline. The 16-inch diameter pipeline was ruptured
in the Kili Kambarani locality on the outskirts of Quetta. However,
no loss of life or injuries is reported.
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4
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February 12
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Two bomb blasts occurred in Quetta.
According to police sources, unknown people fired a rocket around
11:30pm that landed and exploded in Pashtoonabad area. A portion
of the house was damaged due to the explosion. Another powerful
explosion was reported from the Balock-5 area of the Satellite
town. However, no loss of life or injuries was reported.
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5
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February 17
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17 people, including a senior
civil judge, were killed and 30 others injured in a suicide bombing
in the Quetta District Courts compound. The blast occurred inside
the courtroom of Senior Civil Judge Abdul Wahid Durrani at 11:05am
(PST). Tariq Masood Khosa, Balochistan’s Inspector General of
Police, said, "It was a suicide bombing which is evident from
the recovery of the heads of two persons. One of them entered
the courtroom and blew himself up."
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6
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February 18
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Special police teams raided different
places in Quetta and detained around 50 suspects, including 25
Afghan nationals, in connection with the suicide-bombing of February
17 in which at least 17 people were killed.
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7
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February 20
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Rail link between Quetta and the
rest of the country is cut off as insurgents reportedly blew up
a main railway line in the Parkaniabad area of Sariab.
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8
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February 20
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Supply of gas to four districts
in Balochistan and a private power plant is disrupted as insurgents
blew up a main pipeline in Akhtarabad, a suburb of Quetta. According
to police sources, militants planted a powerful explosive device
beneath the pipeline near Killi Raisani of the Akhtarabad area
and blew it up.
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9
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February 22
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Police seized eight kilograms
of explosive material, a detonator and a remote-controlled bomb
from the Hazar Gangi area, but no arrests are made.
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10
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February 25
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Insurgents blew up a two-foot
section of the railway track near the provincial capital with
a powerful bomb. Police defused three other bombs found near the
blast’s site.
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11
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February 27
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Security Forces captured a high-ranking
Taliban leader, Mullah Obaidullah Akhund in Quetta. An unidentified
security official said that Akhund, the third most senior member
of the Taliban’s 10-member leadership council, was arrested hours
after a visit to Pakistan by United States Vice-President Dick
Cheney.
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12
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February 28
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Five Afghans with suspected links
to the Taliban were arrested during a raid in a hotel. Police
official Qazi Abdul Wahid said, "They appeared to be affiliates
of the Taliban..."
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13
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March 16
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The provincial capital was rocked
by three separate blasts. Sources said that a child was injured
in a blast caused by a hand grenade that was lobbed into a Police
constable’s house.
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14
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March 17
|
A rocket fired by suspected insurgents
at troops in Quetta garrison missed its target and hit a civilian
residential building and damaged the roof. No one was injured.
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15
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March 18
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Part of a main railway track was
blown up with explosives in the Spazend area, about 22 kilometres
south of Quetta, but there was no disruption to the train service,
railway official Mohammad Javed said. No one was injured
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16
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March 20
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Two policemen were injured in
a hand-grenade attack on a Police vehicle in Quetta.
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17
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March 22
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Two rockets exploded in different
areas of Quetta while the Quetta-Sibi train link was severed after
insurgents blew up the main railway line.
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18
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March 27
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Four bomb blasts were reported
from Quetta. However, there were no casualties. The first blast
took place on Barori Road, shattering windows of nearby buildings.
The other three blasts were only heard by people, but Police said
none of these explosions had been reported to them.
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19
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April 3
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A watchman of the Quetta Electric
Supply Company was killed when he struck a landmine during the
repair work of the transmission lines damaged in subversive acts
in Bolan district. Four towers of 220 KV and 132 KV transmission
line were blown up in Bolan on April 1, causing power suspension
in over 18 districts of Balochistan.
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20
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April 27
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A portion of the boundary wall
of the Balochistan University of Information Technology and Management
Sciences in Quetta was damaged and the windowpanes of the nearby
houses were destroyed when a bomb exploded at 9:15 pm. However,
no loss of life or injuries was reported.
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21
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May 2
|
A portion of a gas pipeline in
the Kharotabad suburbs of Quetta was damaged by an explosion and
gas supply was suspended to the adjoining areas.
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22
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May 9
|
A bomb exploded near the residence
of Livestock Minister Mir Abdul Qadoos Bizenjo. Police said that
windowpanes of the minister’s and adjacent houses were damaged
in the blast. The minister and his family were not present in
the house at the time of the blast. It was the second bomb blast
near the residence of Bizenjo. The police are reported to have
defused another bomb in the same area.
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23
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May 27
|
A security guard of a private
company was killed and another wounded when a bomb planted in
a van exploded in the parking lot of the Sui Southern Gas Company
office in Quetta. Deputy Inspector General of Police (Operations),
Rehmatullah Niazi, disclosed that security guard, Hamidullah,
was killed on the spot while another guard, Mullah Dad, sustained
injuries.
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24
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May 27
|
A bomb was reportedly lobbed into
the house of councillor Aziz Qureshi, injuring police constable
Tahir-ul-Hasan who was passing by the area.
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25
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May 28
|
Three civilians were injured in
six separate bomb blasts in Quetta. The intervals between the
blasts ranged from 12 to 15 minutes. The first blast occurred
at Satellite Town in the house of a retired health inspector,
the second one at a warehouse where three labourers were injured.
The third and fourth blasts occurred in Qili Hussaini and Qili
Mubarik. Two more blasts were heard, but their locations could
not be determined. The Baloch Liberation Front claimed responsibility
for these blasts.
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26
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May 30
|
One person, identified him as
Inyatullah, was killed and eight others sustained injuries in
a hand grenade attack in the Sariab road area. Police said two
people on a motorcycle hurled the grenade on a hair-cutting saloon.
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27
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June 6
|
Three suspected Taliban militants
were arrested from a residential complex on the Jinnah Road. Sources
said that Anti-Terrorist Force personnel raided a flat in the
complex and arrested them after an exchange of fire.
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28
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June 6
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Police arrested three people from
the Patel Bagh and the Airport Road areas and seized explosive
material from them.
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29
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June 12
|
Three police personnel and a civilian
were injured in a hand grenade attack on a hotel at Golli Mar
Chowk in Quetta.
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30
|
June 14
|
Seven army soldiers, a police
constable and a passer-by were killed when some unidentified armed
men attacked a van on the Zarghoon road in Quetta. Police said
the victims were going to the Quetta Staff College from the railway
station in a hired vehicle after arriving in the city by Chiltan
Express. When the van reached near the Railway Rest House, the
armed men opened fire, killing seven people on the spot and injuring
six others. The armed men also shot at two police personnel on
a motorcycle, injuring them seriously. One of the police personnel
later died in a hospital.
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31
|
June 22
|
Four people were injured when
an unidentified man lobbed a hand grenade at a barber’s shop on
the Prince Road.
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32
|
June 26
|
Unidentified terrorists killed
two people in the Satellite Town area. Amir Hussain Mughal and
Rizwan had come to Quetta from Mandi Bahauddin on June 25-night.
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34
|
July 8
|
Four senior associates of Taliban
chief Mullah Mohammed Omar were arrested from two areas in Quetta,
said an Afghan intelligence source. Those arrested included two
men responsible for Mullah Omar’s letters and communications —
Mullah Jahangir and Mullah Mohid. The others in detention are
Mullah Nazir, former Taliban commander in the southern Afghan
province of Uruzgan, and Mullah Tahir, the former Taliban commander
of Kabul.
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35
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July 14
|
One Frontier Corps (FC) personal
was killed and three others injured in an ambush in the Balida
area. The FC personal were busy in relief activities when they
were attacked.
|
36
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July 25
|
Police arrested Zahoor alias Choota
Waqar, an activist of the proscribed Sunni group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
(LeJ). Zahoor belongs to Dera Murad Jamali and is wanted for the
killing of important Shiite personalities of Quetta, and two bomb
blasts in Shia places of worship.
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37
|
July 27
|
Abdul Raziq Bugti, spokesperson
for the Balochistan Government and a prominent politician, was
assassinated in a high-security zone of Quetta by unidentified
gunmen. The BLA claimed responsibility for the incident which
occurred on the Zarghoon road, half a kilometre away from the
Governor House and Balochistan Secretariat. 55-year old Raziq
Bugti was on his way home from the PTV Quetta Station,
when unidentified armed men opened indiscriminate fire on his
vehicle, killing him on the spot.
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38
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August 12
|
Three people, including the two
police personnel, were wounded in Quetta when motorcyclists lobbed
a grenade at them.
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39
|
August 13
|
Police said two persons lobbed
a hand-grenade in the house of a retired government employee at
Kalat Street in Quetta. However, no loss of life or injuries was
reported.
|
40
|
August 13
|
Two explosions were heard in two
different areas of Quetta, but their locations could not be ascertained.
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41
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August 21
|
A bomb blast was reported from
a residential colony in the Brewery Road area. However, no loss
of life or injuries was reported.
|
42
|
August 22
|
16 persons, including two women,
were injured in two grenade attacks in the provincial capital
Quetta. In the first attack, six people in a barber shop on the
Zarghoon Road were wounded and in the second 10 people in and
around a tailor’s shop in the Brewery area sustained injuries.
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43
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August 24
|
Two children were injured in two
explosions in Quetta. Police sources said some people hurled a
grenade into the house of Imran Rajput on the Sariab Road wounding
his daughter.
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44
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August 24
|
A boy was injured in a bomb blast
at Killi Khezi on the outskirts of Quetta.
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45
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August 26
|
Two hand-grenades were lobbed
into a house in the Sariab road area. One of the grenades exploded,
damaging windowpanes of the house.
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46
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August 26
|
Insurgents blew up a gas pipeline
in Killi Omar, suspending gas supply to many villages near Quetta.
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47
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August 26
|
A spokesman for the Anjuman Ittehad
Marri said that police personnel conducted raids on the new Kahan
camp on the outskirts of Quetta and arrested 32 people.
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48
|
August 31
|
A hand-grenade was lobbed at the
house of a police constable in the Abdul Hameed Street of Quetta.
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49
|
August 31
|
An explosion damaged the wall
of a ladies park near Jinnah town.
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50
|
September 5
|
Two personnel of the Frontier
Corps and a passer-by were shot dead in an attack by armed assailants
on the Brewery Road.
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51
|
September 7
|
Two bomb blasts occurred in Quetta.
The first blast was caused by an explosive device planted in a
dustbin on the Sabzal Road while the second explosion was reported
from a nearby area. However, no loss of life or property was reported.
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52
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September 23
|
A bomb blast occurred in satellite
town near Muhammadi Masjid (mosque) in Quetta. No loss of life
or injury was reported.
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53
|
September 26
|
The Superintendent of Police (Investigation
Cell), Syed Sharyab, and his two guards died when their vehicle
was ambushed in the Samungli area. His driver and security in
charge of the Pakistan Television Centre (Quetta) were
wounded in the incident. The proscribed Baloch Liberation Army
claimed responsibility for the attack.
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54
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October 10
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Unidentified gunmen ambushed the
car of a prominent ruling Pakistan Muslim League leader, Sher
Jan Marri, and shot him dead in Quetta, senior police official
Qazi Abdul Wahid said. No one immediately claimed responsibility
for the killing. Marri was a former deputy mayor of Kohlu district.
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55
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November 12
|
A grenade was lobbed into the
Quetta city police station, wounding a police official.
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56
|
November 21
|
Three people were killed in the
Huda area after unidentified armed men riding a motorbike opened
fire on them.
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57
|
November 21
|
A group of armed men opened fire
on a police van on the Brewery road, killing a constable and injuring
three other policemen.
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58
|
November 21
|
Arsonists torched an ambulance
of the Bolan Medical Complex and a building formerly housing a
government organisation in Killi Shabo.
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59
|
November 21
|
Two policemen were injured after
a bomb exploded near the WAPDA grid station in Sariab.
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60
|
November 21
|
Two Frontier Corps personnel were
injured when a hand grenade was thrown at their vehicle in the
Sariab area.
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61
|
November 21
|
An office of the Punjabi Ittehad
was set ablaze on Query road in the provincial capital.
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62
|
November 22
|
There were two bomb blasts in
the Killi Bunglezai and Smungli Road areas of Quetta.
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63
|
November 25
|
A woman was killed and seven members
of her family, including four children, sustained injuries when
a rocket exploded in their house on the Tareen Road. Police sources
said the rocket had landed on the roof of the house of one Abdul
Haq Rind and exploded, killing the woman, identified as Zainab
Bibi.
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64
|
November 25
|
Hand-grenades were hurled in two
houses in the Satellite Town area, injuring one person. Another
hand-grenade hit a house on the Ahmed Shah Street of Jail Road.
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65
|
November 26
|
Unidentified people killed two
Government officials in Quetta as violence that erupted in the
city after the death of Baloch nationalist leader Balach Marri
continued. Noshaki District Tehsildar (revenue administrative
officer) Asghar Mengal and his security guard were killed in an
ambush on the Dr Bano Road. A passerby was also injured in the
incident, while the assailants managed to escape from the scene.
However, Quetta police said that the incident was result of a
tribal feud.
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66
|
December 4
|
One Frontier Corps personnel,
Khan Zaman, was killed and a Balochistan Constabulary soldier,
Ali Mohammad, sustained injuries in an attack on their check-post
in the Hudda area.
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67
|
December 7
|
A civilian sustained injuries
in a bomb blast in a sweet shop on Jinnah Road.
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68
|
December 12
|
Two Balochistan Constabulary personnel,
Ismail Khan and Muhammad Yaqoob, were shot dead in Quetta. The
Balochistan Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the incident.
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69
|
December 13
|
Two suicide bombings near an army
check-post in Quetta killed seven people, including three personnel
of the Pakistan Army, military spokesman Major General Waheed
Arshad said. Official sources said that a young, bearded man approached
the military checkpoint at the Hana Road in the cantonment area
and when the military police tried to stop him, he blew himself
up at about 5pm. As the military personnel were busy in the rescue
operation and stopping people from getting close to the scene
of the first bombing, a second suicide bomber detonated his explosives.
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70
|
December 17
|
A boy was killed while nine other
persons, including a police constable, were injured in a bomb
blast on the Abdul Sattar Road of Quetta.
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71
|
December 17
|
A civilian sustained injuries
in a landmine blast in Quetta.
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72
|
December 17
|
A landmine was defused by the
Police in the provincial capital.
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