No
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Date
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Incident
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1
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January 4
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In a suspected sectarian incident,
unidentified gunmen shot dead Shia leader, Syed Ali Imam Jaffari,
in the Kotwali Police precincts of Peshawar. Syed Ali Imam Jafari,
president of the local unit of the Shia outfit Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Fiqh-e-Jafria
and caretaker of Imam Bargah Ali Imam in Kotwali, was on his
way home in Mohallah Telian after Fajr prayers when three assailants
shot him dead.
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2
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January 14
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Security Forces foiled a sabotage
bid by defusing a time bomb connected with a grenade, which
had been placed close to the Meteorological Department building
in front of the NWFP Assembly in Peshawar. The explosive device
had been placed in a shopping bag and the timer had started
the countdown when a Police constable on duty, Murad Khan, discovered
it at around 10:40am.
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3
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January 27
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15 persons, including six Police
officials, were killed and 60 others injured in a suicide attack
targeting a Muharram procession near Qasim Ali Khan Mosque in
the Dilgaran area of Peshawar. Peshawar Police commissioner
Mallik Muhammad Saad, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, three
other Police personnel and a Nazim (local official) were
among those killed. Superintendent of Peshawar Police, Zaibullah,
said that an unidentified bomber detonated explosives strapped
to his body when Police stopped him from entering the procession,
which was to be taken out from Qasim Ali Khan Mosque.
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4
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January 31
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A Police personnel who was injured
in a suicide blast in Peshawar succumbed to his injuries, bringing
the total number of Police personnel killed in the incident
to seven.
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5
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February 10
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A blast at the office of the
International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Peshawar
at around 4:30am damaged four vehicles and some property, but
nobody was injured as the office was closed. The US advised
American citizens to avoid crowded markets and public demonstrations
in Peshawar, following the blast at the ICRC. "Americans are
advised against visiting Peshawar’s Old City and Sadar Bazaar,
and restrict movement throughout the city, staying mainly in
the University Town area," read a notice issued by the US Embassy
in Islamabad.
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6
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March 27
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The NWFP capital Peshawar was
rocked by an explosion near an aid agency’s office, hours after
a March 26 evening blast in the cantonment area, which injured
a senior Awami National Party leader and three others, said
Police. Peshawar Police chief Abdul Majeed Marwat said March
27 blast in the Pishtakhara area, near an International Committee
of the Red Cross (ICRC) facility, caused no casualties, and
"the explosion aimed to scare people."
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7
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April 5
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A bomb exploded near the City
District Women Degree College in the Hashnagri region on the
Grand Trunk Road in Peshawar. Police said that the blast occurred
at 7:15 pm but nobody was hurt, adding that the explosive weighing
1.5 kg had been planted in an empty plot. However, AFP reported
that two passers-by were wounded.
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8
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April 6
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An explosion at the Peshawar
bus terminal in the Gulbahar area damaged a Quetta-bound vehicle.
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9
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April 16
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Three children were killed and
four other people, including two women, were wounded when a
hand grenade exploded inside a house in the Badhbare village
in the outskirts of Peshawar.
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10
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April 28
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A bomb exploded at the Peshawar
International Airport canteen causing minor damage to the building.
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11
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May 15
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25 persons were killed and at
least 35 others wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up
on the ground floor of the Marhaba Hotel in Peshawar. Most of
those killed were Afghans, including the restaurant’s owner
Sadruddin and his two sons, two women and a five year-old child.
Witnesses and Police said that restaurant owner Sadruddin was
an Uzbek of Afghan origin and he was a supporter of former Uzbek
warlord Abdur Rashid Dostum. The NWFP Law Minister Malik Zafar
Azam told reporters that it was a suicide attack.
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12
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May 21
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Suspected militants blew up
a music shop in a grenade attack on Interior Minister Aftab
Ahmed Khan Sherpao’s village in the NWFP. The shop, which sold
local and foreign music, was destroyed in the attack in Sherpao
village, 25 kilometers outside provincial capital Peshawar,
senior Police officer Feroz Shah said. Shah said two militants
on a bicycle lobbed a hand grenade into the Wahab Music Centre
and later fled. However, one of them was subsequently arrested.
A dental clinic and a computer business were also damaged in
the blast.
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13
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May 24
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Police recovered some arms and
ammunition from a passenger bus on the Kohat Road and arrested
an alleged smuggler. Chief Capital City Police Officer, Abdul
Majeed Marwat, said they received information that arms and
ammunition would be smuggled through a bus from Peshawar to
Karachi, capital of Sindh province. A Kalashnikov, two repeaters,
two pistols and about 1600 rounds were seized from the bus and
its driver, identified as Nadeem, arrested.
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14
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May 29
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A car bomb blast outside the
Peshawar High Court (PHC) building killed a court employee and
injured eight people, including a six-year-old child. Peshawar
Police chief Abdul Majeed Marwat said the blast was caused by
a time-bomb weighing three kilograms. The blast followed an
anonymous phone call eight days ago warning that two suicide
bombers in lawyers’ suits had entered the court building.
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15
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June 4
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A senior Government official,
Syed Mehdi Hussain, was shot dead in Peshawar. Police suspect
it to be a sectarian attack.
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16
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June 5
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A bomb was lobbed into a private
school in the Hayatabad locality of Peshawar. However no loss
of life or property was reported.
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17
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June 11
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The Karachi Police has arrested
three terrorists and identified the suicide bomber who was allegedly
responsible for the Nishtar Park incident in Karachi on April
11, 2006. Two LeJ cadres were arrested during raids in two different
areas of Karachi. Based on their information, the Police conducted
an operation in Peshawar, in NWFP where it arrested the third
alleged terrorist. All three of them, Police claimed, had confessed
to their involvement in the suicide attack. The suicide bomber
has been identified as Siddiq and is said to have hailed from
Mansehra in the NWFP.
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18
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June 14
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Unidentified people set ablaze
two music shops in the Akhundabad area of Peshawar, damaging
several CDs and television sets. The shops were reportedly owned
by Iqbal and Amir Nawaz.
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19
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June 15
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A video/CD shop was blown up
injuring two passers-by in the Balokhel area on Kohat Road.
This is the third incident of targeting CD shops in Peshawar
during the last three months.
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20
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June 17
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A man hailing from the Federally
Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) was killed in Peshawar allegedly
by Taliban as they suspected him of selling narcotics. The deceased,
identified as Syed Kamal Mulakhel, was returning home from his
under-construction building in Mulakhel when motorcycle-borne
attackers opened fire on him. He was reportedly warned by the
Taliban about two weeks ago to terminate his narcotics business.
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21
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June 27
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Three CD shops were blown up
in the Matani locality. However, no loss of life or injuries
was reported. Owners of the shops, Akhtar Munir, Hamayun and
Iftikhar, told the Police that they had not received any prior
letters or calls for the closure of their businesses. This is
the fourth incident of attacks on CD and video shops in the
city. Earlier, video and CD shops were attacked on March 18,
June 12 and 15.
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22
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June 30
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Two suspected terrorists were
killed while attempting to plant a bomb in a Hazarkhani warehouse,
in the jurisdiction of Yakatoot Police station in Peshawar.
Three time bombs, hand grenades and two kilograms of explosives
were recovered from the incident site.
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23
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June 30
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Two people were wounded in a
bomb explosion inside a bus at a bus terminal in Peshawar. Witnesses
said three buses were destroyed and seven others were partially
damaged.
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24
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July 4
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Four Police personnel were killed
and two others sustained injuries when suspected Taliban militants
attacked their vehicle in the Mattani Police precincts of Peshawar.
An unnamed senior Police official disclosed that a group of
25 to 30 attackers opened fire on a Police picket at around
1:30am. The attackers also shot at a Police vehicle which arrived
at the incident site, killing four Police personnel and wounding
two others. The official said that the attackers fired nearly
500 rounds on the Police party amidst slogans of ‘Allah-o-Akbar’.
He added that the assailants had come from Darra Adam Khel,
which borders Matani village.
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25
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July 8
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Unidentified gunmen shot dead
three Chinese workers and injured another in Peshawar The Chinese
reportedly were engaged in the business of turtles and exported
hides to China and other countries.
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26
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July 9
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Unidentified assailants shot
dead an activist of the outlawed Sunni group Sipah-e-Sahaba
Pakistan (SSP) late night in the jurisdiction of Shah Qabool
Police station. Police officer Latif said that Hayat Khan was
shot dead at around 2 a.m. outside his Nishtarabad house.
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27
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July 18
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Police defused a toy bomb planted
under a vehicle near a family planning office in the Machni
Police station area.
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28
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July 27
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Three people were arrested in
Peshawar for their alleged involvement in bomb blasts in the
NWFP.
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29
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August 6
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Two personnel of the PAF and
a child accompanying them were injured when a bomb exploded
near their vehicle on the Kohat Road. The Bhana Manri Police
said the explosive device had been planted on the structure
of under-construction shops along the main road, which exploded
when the PAF vehicle was passing by the place.
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30
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August 7
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A time-bomb exploded at a bus
terminal in Peshawar, damaging a vehicle but causing no casualties.
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31
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August 8
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The Police foiled a terrorist
attempt to target hit the Peshawar International Airport and
seized five missiles aimed at the airport. The missiles had
been placed on the bed of the Bara River near the Bazidkhel
village.
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32
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August 12
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The provincial secretary-general
of the banned SSP, Aslam Farooqui, was shot dead in Peshawar.
Alam Zeb, brother of the deceased leader, caught hold of one
the attackers and handed him over to Police. A Police official
said one Shoaib Hussain of Parachinar, who belonged to a paramilitary
force, had been arrested.
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33
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August 21
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Security force personnel arrested
Mumtaz, a top Taliban ‘commander’ from Afghanistan, during a
raid in the Saddar Bazaar area of Peshawar. Mumtaz, hailing
from the Nangarhar province, is believed to be a loyalist of
senior Taliban leader Maulana Jalaluddin Haqqani.
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34
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August 29
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A civilian was injured when
suspected militants fired a rocket on a vehicle in the Yakatoot
Police precinct.
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35
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September 8
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24 persons were injured when
a time bomb planted in a car exploded within the limits of the
East Cantonment Police station in Peshawar at around 11.15 am.
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36
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October 9
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25 people were injured in a
bomb blast at the Hussain CD Market in Peshawar. The bomb, planted
on a water cooler, exploded at 4pm (PST) when a large number
of people were present in the plaza. It was a Russian-made time
device, which badly damaged at least 10 shops, Police and officials
of the Bomb Disposal Squad said. Capital City Police Officer
Abdul Majeed Marwat linked the incident to the series of bomb
attacks on CD shops across the province. An unknown radical
outfit had reportedly been issuing threatening letters to owners
of CD shops for the last four months to terminate their "un-Islamic"
business, otherwise, they would be taken to task.
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37
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October 28
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Unidentified terrorists attacked
the Peshawar Cantonment with three rockets, one of which landed
at the residence of nationalist leader Bashir Ahmad Bilour,
narrowly missing the US Consulate building in the city. Russian-made
MBR-12 rockets were fired through a launcher from Bazidkhel
village on the outskirts of the provincial capital. Two other
rockets were recovered from the spot. No loss of life was reported
in the attack.
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38
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November 2
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An explosion at the Karkhano
Market of Peshawar city destroyed at least 14 shops and cabins
selling CDs, TV sets and music albums. The bomb exploded at
the junction of SS and Shinwari Markets and also damaged two
electricity transformers.
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39
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November 9
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Three persons are killed and
two others, including a former provincial minister, are injured
when a suicide bomber blows himself up in the house of Federal
Minister for Political Affairs Amir Muqam in Peshawar. The blast
occurs at around 3.45pm (PST) when the minister was having a
meeting with some of his associates at his home in Hayatabad.
Muqam, who is also provincial president of the ruling Pakistan
Muslim League, escaped unhurt.
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40
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November 13
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A man died when a bomb exploded
in a cyber café in the Gulbahar Police precincts of Peshawar.
Gulbahar Police Station Investigation Officer Mirza Khan informed
that a Russian made bomb, weighing around 700-800 grams, exploded
around 2.30pm in the Nihar Net Café located near the
Gulbahar Police Station.
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41
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November 26
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A bomb exploded in the Government
Girls Primary School in the village of Sher Bahadur near the
provincial capital Peshawar, destroying the main gate, windows,
doors and boundary wall of the school. However, no loss of life
or injuries was reported.
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42
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December 2
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A CD shop was damaged when a
bomb exploded in Zargerabad while another explosive planted
beside a CDs market in Mohallah Faisalabad was defused before
it could explode. No loss of life or injuries was reported.
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43
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December 3
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A CD shop and a barber shop
were blown up in the Sheikh Mohammadzai area. The owner of the
CD shop, Daud Khan, told Police that they had received threats
from some people.
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44
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December 4
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In the first such attack of
its kind, a female suicide bomber blew herself up in a high
security zone in Peshawar. Except for the suicide bomber, who
was said to be in her mid-30s, no other casualty was reported
in the blast. Peshawar Police chief Tanveerul Haq Sipra said
the bomber blew herself up when she was stopped at a military
check-post on the on Babar Road. Sipra said the woman’s belly
was blown up while her chest, face and legs were intact. "From
her body parts, we have confirmed the gender of the bomber.
She seems to be an Afghan and around 34 years of age," he added.
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45
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December 6
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Police arrested two persons,
identified as Aman and Baz Mohammed, and recovered automatic
weapons and ammunition from their possession. The arms and ammunition
were apparently being smuggled to Punjab.
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46
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December 8
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A girls’ school was damaged
in a bomb blast in Ahmed Shah village near Peshawar. Teachers
and students of the Government Girls Middle School had earlier
received several warning letters asking them to start wearing
the veil.
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47
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December 11
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Four CD and video shops were
destroyed in separate bomb blasts in the Badha Bera Bazaar and
adjoining areas of the provincial capital. No loss of life or
injuries was reported. Owners of CD and video shops had recently
received anonymous letters, asking them to close their business.
The letters stated that selling of CDs was un-Islamic and it
spread obscenity.
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48
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December 17
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Suspected militants detonated
two bombs that damaged the shrine of Abdul Shakoor Malang Baba
situated in the limits of Chamkani Police station. However,
no loss of life or injuries was reported.
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49
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December 18
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Militants lobbed a bomb at a
police post on Ring Road in the precincts of Yakatoot Police
Station. However, there were no casualties.
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50
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December 19
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Suspected militants bombed an
audio-cassettes shop in the Chamkani Police Station limits.
The blast damaged the shop, but no casualties were reported.
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51
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December 20
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An internet centre and two CD
shops were blown up in various areas of Peshawar. According
to Police, the explosives had been planted inside the shops.
An unnamed senior Police official said the explosion left Police
with no other option but to force the owners of internet centres,
snooker clubs, CD and video shops to close their businesses,
which was not being tolerated by the Taliban.
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52
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December 21
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50 persons were killed and 80
others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the
midst of worshippers offering Id-ul-Adha prayers at the Markazi
Jamia Masjid Sherpao in Charsadda, 20-km from Peshawar. The
apparent target was Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, the Interior Minister
in the just-dissolved Government, who was among the worshippers.
The former Minister, however, escaped unhurt in the attack,
but his son Mustafa was among the wounded. The mosque is located
next to the former Minister’s home and was packed with more
than 1,000 worshippers at the time of the attack.
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53
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December 26
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Unidentified people blew up
the office of a cable TV network situated on the Agha Mir Jani
Shah Road. Sources said that the owner of the office, Ejaz Hussein,
had been threatened to close the business.
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54
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December 26
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Police arrested a would-be suicide
bomber who tried to enter the rally of former Prime Minister
Benazir Bhutto in Peshawar. The 15-year-old boy, who had a small
bomb consisting of dynamite and nails, was caught at the security
checkpoint by the Police, said local Police officer Rahim Shah.
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