No
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Date
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Incident
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1
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January 7
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Police arrested an important ‘leader’
of the TTP, Israr Amin, from Islamabad. A stolen military vehicle
along with unlicensed arms and ammunition were recovered from
his possession. Quoting the arrested TTP leader, Israr Amin, Police
sources said that Amin intended to use the vehicle for a suicide
attack on sensitive locations in Rawalpindi and Islamabad. Amin
confessed during interrogation that he was tasked with stealing
vehicles before supplying them to a certain militant group to
carry out suicide bombings, added Police sources. The TTP leader
had stolen five military vehicles in the Federally Administered
Tribal Areas and the North West Frontier Province for suicide
attacks on Army installations in the country, including Rawalpindi,
Police sources added further. Islamabad Police Deputy Inspector
General Binyamin confirmed the TTP leader’s arrest. However, Dawn
reports that the arrested militant was the ‘deputy chief’ of TTP.
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2
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February
5 |
The JuD, front organisation
of the LeT, held a public meeting in Islamabad, vowing to seize
Kashmir by force and threatening "rivers of blood" in India. In
Lahore too, the JuD organised a public rally, led by its chief
Hafiz Saeed, alleged by India to have masterminded the Mumbai
attacks. The rally went from the JuD headquarters in Chauburji
to the University Grounds, where Hafiz Saeed led the participants
in Friday prayers.
The Lok Virsa (Museum
situated in Islamabad) in collaboration with the Kashmir Affairs
and Gilgit-Baltistan Ministry organised a festival in Islamabad
to show solidarity with Kashmiris struggling for their right of
self-determination.
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3
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March 3 |
The British High
Commission in Islamabad received a call from an unidentified person
threatening to "blow them up" if the BHC did not close down its
offices in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
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4
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March 14 |
Around 279 suspects
were arrested from Rawalpindi and Islamabad during search operations
in the wake of militant activities in Lahore.
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5
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March 15 |
Police recovered
around 70 kilograms of explosive material from a Toyota Hiace
(LXK-1618) during checking near Toll Plaza on I. J. Principal
Road under Sabzi Mandi Police Station in Islamabad.
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6
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March 22 |
Police arrested two militants
who were masterminds behind a bomb attack on a UN office that
killed five persons in Islamabad on October 5, 2009. Acting Police
Chief of Islamabad Bani Amin Khan said both militants belonged
to the TTP and were planning more attacks, including strikes on
a western club in Islamabad and a hotel used by foreigners.
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7
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April 6 |
A mini-truck belonging to the
National Logistical Cell was snatched away in Islamabad by unidentified
persons after intoxicating and injuring the driver. As the NLC
provides logistic support to armed forces, missing of a vehicle
of such an important organization has raised many questions. "It
is of no use for an ordinary car snatcher. It can be used for
any terrorist activity as has happened in the past when militants
used army uniforms in an attack on the GHQ (General Headquarters),"
said a Police officer.
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8
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April 7 |
A bomb exploded in a parking lot
adjacent to a patrol pump in the Jinnah Super Market in Islamabad.
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9
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April 13 |
An explosive device, apparently
home-made, went off here in the green belt near Overseas Pakistanis
Foundation College in Sector H-8/4 of Islamabad at around 1:00
p.m (PST), almost at the time of the college closure, causing
fear among the students and parents.
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10
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April 18 |
The capital city police arrested
three TTP militants, including the mastermind of the Rescue 15
bomb blast. The militants were identified as Shafiqur Rehman alias
Adam, Abdul Qayum alias Mufti and Ghulam Tabassum. Police sources
said Mullah Shafiq and Ghulam Tabassum were the masterminds of
Suicide attack on Rescue-15 offices in Sector G-9/1 of Islamabad
on June 6, 2009, which killed two Policemen and injured four others.
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11
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May 5 |
A court in Islamabad acquitted
four persons accused of planning and masterminding the suicide
bomb attack on the five-star Marriott Hotel on September 20, 2008
on grounds of insufficient evidences.
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12
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May 6 |
Punjab Government has issued orders
to place the four persons accused of masterminding the Marriot
Hotel blast under house arrest for one month. The order came shortly
after their release by an Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) due to inadequate
evidence.
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13
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May 23 |
As many as 40 personnel of Islamabad
Police have died in the line of duty during the last few years,
whereas 90 militants, including would-be suicide bombers, were
arrested from the administrative jurisdiction of Islamabad Capital
Territory (ICT) in Punjab averting possible disasters in the same
period, said Islamabad Inspector General of Police (IGP) Syed
Kaleem Imam in a press statement.
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14
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May 26 |
The Islamabad Capitol Territory
Police arrested a militant and two of his accomplices and seized
a hand grenade from their possession from sector I-10/1 in Islamabad
in Punjab. The arrested militant, identified as Muhammad Naeem,
a resident of Malakand Agency, had received terrorist training
in Afghanistan and was working as a recruiter for the Taliban
(TTP) militants. His accomplices were identified as Nurullah and
Saleemullah.
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15
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May 30 |
An attempt to abduct Interior
Minister Rehman Malik's brother was foiled by his driver in Islamabad
in Punjab. Unidentified armed men attempted to stop Khalid Malik
outside the Ministers Enclave when he was leaving his residence
in a car. However, the armed men fled from the scene after the
driver sped away and reached a nearby Police check post.
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16
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June 8 |
Unidentified militants attacked
and set fire to a convoy of about 50 tankers and containers of
the NATO forces heading towards Peshawar on the Motorway, at the
Sangjani area of Ternol near Islamabad in Punjab, killing four
persons and injuring three others.
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17
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June 8 |
Law enforcement agencies have
arrested some 26 persons in Islamabad and recovered weapons from
them.
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18
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July 6
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Taking advantage of the new violence
in Kashmir, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM) ‘chief’ Syed Salahuddin addressed
a rally in Islamabad to "denounce human rights violations in Kashmir".
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19
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August 4 |
The Islamabad Police shot dead
an alleged militant in sector G-8 and arrested another in an encounter.
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20
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August 5 |
The Islamabad Police obtained
seven days physical remand of a suspected terrorist to interrogate
him about his accomplices.
Islamabad Capital Territory (ICT)
Police claimed that the alleged terrorist Zahirud Din, who was
killed in G-8, was shot dead by his own fellow.
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21
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August 17 |
Four suspected TTP terrorists
were arrested by intelligence agency from Fatehjang Road in Islamabad.
Their arrest also led to the recovery of three Kalashnikovs, six
pistols and maps of five sensitive installations located in Rawalpindi
and Islamabad. The arrested militants were identified as Mohammad
Uzair, Jehangir, Talha and Rustam Ustad.
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22
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August 22 |
The Islamabad Capital Territory
Police left the security of mosques at the disposal of mosque
committees exposing the faithful to the risk of terrorism during
Ramzan.
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23
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September 8 |
The Police claimed to have arrested
three accomplices of Faisal Shahzad, the main suspect/accused
of Time Square bombing plot in New York. Police said that arrested
suspects Akhtar, Shoaib Mughal and Shahid had provided financial
help to Shahzad. All the suspects belong to TTP, Police added.
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24
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September 12 |
The Police foiled a terrorist
bid to blow up tankers carrying fuel supplies for NATO by defusing
10 kilogrammes explosive attached to one of them near a petrol
pump located on G.T. Road, a kilometres away from Rawat area of
Islamabad.
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25
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September 15 |
Firing on Islamabad Expressway
from where motorcade of PM passed sometime earlier showed a serious
security lapse. After passing of PM's motorcade from the Expressway
two militants started aerial firing near Dhoke Kala Khan area.
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26
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September 17 |
The Police defused a bomb found
from the place from where few days ago two bombs were found in
the limits of Rawat Police Station in Islamabad.
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27
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September 28 |
Three suspected militants of the
TTP were arrested from Jinnah town, located in the limits of Sihala
Police Station in Islamabad in Punjab. Sources said one of them,
Zar Wali, was an important TTP leader in Swat's Charbagh area.
The three suspects were members of Qari Mushtaq outfit of Charbagh,
they added.
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28
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September 30 |
A suspected TTP militant, Faisal
Abbasi, was arrested by SFs from Islamabad of Punjab for allegedly
facilitating Faisal Shahzad, the failed New York Time Square car
bomber.
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29
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October 3 |
Six persons were killed and over
a dozen sustained injuries when unidentified militants opened
fire at 28 NATO oil tankers and set them ablaze near the DHA Phase
2 on Grand Trunk Road in Islamabad, the national capital of Pakistan.
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30
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October 18
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Police arrested 12 suspects, including
Afghans, and seized 21 vehicles, including 10 motorcycles, in
a search operation in Sihala and Koral areas of Islamabad
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31
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November 15 |
The Federal Capital Police foiled
an attack on the office of the CIA, arrested a terrorist and recovered
explosive material with a detonator from his possession. The suspect
was trying to sneak into the main office of CIA to blow up the
building. The alleged terrorist was identified as Muhammad Rafique,
son of Noor Muhammad, belonging to Jabba area of Abdur Rahimkhail
in Orakzai Agency of FATA.
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32
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November 22 |
The Islamabad Police recovered
130 kilograms of explosive material which was concealed in seven
cartons and being transported from Peshawar to Rawalpindi and
Islamabad for subversive activities.
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33
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November 26 |
SFs arrested two suicide bombers
attempting to attack the Parliament and a mosque in an up market
neighbourhood in the capital city of Islamabad. Interior Minister
Rehman Malik said one of the militants came from the north western
town of Bannu in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and intended to carry out
a suicide attack on a mosque in F8-1, a neighbourhood where many
Westerners and wealthy Pakistanis live. Later, the militants confessed
that they were cadres of a South Waziristan Agency based terrorist
outfit linked with TTP.
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34
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December 2 |
Security of the National University
of Modern Languages (NUML) in Islamabad was beefed up, and the
university closed for three days, after intelligence reports and
a threat letter received by the NUML revealed that terrorists
planned to attack it.
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35
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December 16
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The JuD ‘chief’ and November 26,
2008 Mumbai attacks mastermind Hafiz Saeed made his first public
appearance since his release in 2009, on December 16 in the national
capital, Islamabad, in the company of leading Pakistani politicians,
and stoutly opposed Pakistani Government's move to repeal the
country's controversial blasphemy law.
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36
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December 23 |
Abdulrauf Rigi, a senior member of the Jundallah,
was arrested from Islamabad. Jundallah was involved in the December
15 terrorist attack at the Imam Hussein Mosque in Chabahar in
Sistan-Baluchestan Province of Iran where at least 38 persons
were killed and more than 89 others were injured.
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