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Terrorism-related Incidents in Peshawar - 2007

 

No

Date

Incident

1

January 4

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.

2

January 14

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.

3

January 27

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.

4

January 31

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.

5

February 10

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.

6

March 27

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."

7

April 5

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.

8

April 6

An explosion at the Peshawar bus terminal in the Gulbahar area damaged a Quetta-bound vehicle.

9

April 16

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.

10

April 28

A bomb exploded at the Peshawar International Airport canteen causing minor damage to the building.

11

May 15

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.

12

May 21

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.

13

May 24

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.

14

May 29

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.

15

June 4

A senior Government official, Syed Mehdi Hussain, was shot dead in Peshawar. Police suspect it to be a sectarian attack.

16

June 5

A bomb was lobbed into a private school in the Hayatabad locality of Peshawar. However no loss of life or property was reported.

17

June 11

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.

18

June 14

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.

19

June 15

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.

20

June 17

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.

21

June 27

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.

22

June 30

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.

23

June 30

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.

24

July 4

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.

25

July 8

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.

26

July 9

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.

27

July 18

Police defused a toy bomb planted under a vehicle near a family planning office in the Machni Police station area.

28

July 27

Three people were arrested in Peshawar for their alleged involvement in bomb blasts in the NWFP.

29

August 6

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.

30

August 7

A time-bomb exploded at a bus terminal in Peshawar, damaging a vehicle but causing no casualties.

31

August 8

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.

32

August 12

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.

33

August 21

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.

34

August 29

A civilian was injured when suspected militants fired a rocket on a vehicle in the Yakatoot Police precinct.

35

September 8

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.

36

October 9

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.

37

October 28

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.

38

November 2

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.

39

November 9

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.

40

November 13

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.

41

November 26

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.

42

December 2

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.

43

December 3

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.

44

December 4

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.

45

December 6

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.

46

December 8

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.

47

December 11

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.

48

December 17

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.

49

December 18

Militants lobbed a bomb at a police post on Ring Road in the precincts of Yakatoot Police Station. However, there were no casualties.

50

December 19

Suspected militants bombed an audio-cassettes shop in the Chamkani Police Station limits. The blast damaged the shop, but no casualties were reported.

51

December 20

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.

52

December 21

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.

53

December 26

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.

54

December 26

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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