Acts of Terrorism in Pakistan

[Shardul.....the lion]

^^^^^ Update

Bajaur Agency blast kills 8, injures 15

BAJAUR: At least eight people were killed and 15 others were injured in a bomb blast at a local market in the Salarzai district, Express News reported on Thursday.

The injured were shifted to Pusht Headquarters Hospital whereas police and security forces cordoned off the area.

The nature of the blast and its intensity is unknown although there is specualation that it was either an improvised explosive device (IED) or a remote controlled blast.

Earlier, at least two people were injured when a medium intensity bomb went off in the Horezai area of Badabher village.


Bajaur Agency blast kills 8, injures 15 – The Express Tribune

 

[Abu Zolfiqar]

showing their true colours as always -- and that too during a holy month

theyre in hell already.....bastards

 

[karan.1970]

2 policemen among five killed in Quetta | DAWN.COM

QUETTA: Two policemen and three other people were gunned down in different areas of Quetta on Sunday night.

According to police, Jalaluddin Qadri and Mohib Ali Qadri were shot dead by men on motorcycles on Sabzal Road when they were going home. Police took the bodies to the Bolan Medical College Hospital.

About half an hour later, men on motorcycles opened fire on a general store on Arbab Karam Khan Road, killing its owner Saddam Hussain Khilji.

In another incident, armed men on a motorbike attacked a police van patrolling the area during Taraveeh prayers, killing constables Muhammad Sadiq and Muhammad Asif.

Security was tightened in and around the city after the killings, but no arrest was reported till the filing of this report.

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

Grenade attack on police in Quetta

A police station was attacked with hand grenades in the provincial capital on Tuesday. Elsewhere in Balochistan, at least three people were killed in violence.
Suspected insurgents lobbed two hand grenades at the Saryab police station at Iftar, damaging the building and its gate. Police registered a case and started investigation.
Separately, gunmen opened fire outside the residence of provincial Information Minister Yunus Mullahzai in the Jail Road area of Quetta. As a result, one of the minister’s security guards was wounded.
Meanwhile, two persons – Muhammad Hashim and Abdul Khaliq – were gunned down in the Mahzai area of Sinjavi on Monday night. The motive behind the double murders could not be ascertained.
In another incident, a man, identified as Ali Murad, was killed in a clash over a land dispute in the Baba Goth area of Tambo, Jaffarabad district.
Separately, Asadullah, 11, was wounded when a bomb concealed in a toy exploded in the Kuda-i-Raheem area of Chagai district. He was driven to the Prince Fahad Hospital where medics referred him to a hospital in Quetta.
Two bodies found in Khuzdar and Gaddani towns. The body found in Khuzdar was identified as Arshad, who hailed from Punjab.
Published in The Express Tribune, August 1st, 2012.

Grenade attack on police in Quetta – The Express Tribune

 

[Dark Warrior]

Two Rangers men were shot dead in the area of Banaras near Bacha Khan Chawk on Tuesday night.
The mishap occurred when both of the Rangers Inspector Bahar Ali and Sub Inspector Abdullah were sitting at a hotel that two
armed men on motorcycle came there and started indiscriminate firing on them.

As a result, both of them died on the spot while miscreants managed to escape from the site of occurrence.

Following the mishap, security men cordoned off the area and started search operation while closing all the main points. However, nobody could be arrested till the file of news.

Before this, two civilians also have been killed by miscreants in different areas

Dunya News: Pakistan:-Two Rangers men shot dead in Karachi...

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

2 children among 4 killed in Quetta blast

QUETTA:
Four people, including a woman and two children, were killed and 10 others critically wounded in a mysterious explosion in the Faizabad neighbourhood of Quetta on Sunday.

“A car packed with explosives went off in the parking lot of a private residence, pulling down the facade of the building,” said Deputy Inspector General (Operations) Wazir Khan Nasar.

The explosion was so powerful that its bang was heard within a radius of four kilometres. The death toll and nature of the blast, however, remained unclear. While rescuers said six people were killed, security officials put the number of fatalities at four.

At least 10 people – four women and six children – were wounded in the blast who were driven to Quetta’s Civil Hospital.

Some of the critically wounded persons were referred to the Combined Military Hospital, according to medics at the Civil Hospital.

“We have recovered the bodies of a woman and two children from the debris and also found a severed head, believed to be of a militant who was killed in the blast,” police officer Mukhtar Ahmed told AFP.

Following the blast, police, Frontier Corps personnel and rescue workers rushed to the site and pulled out the victims from the rubble.

DIG Nasar said around 80 kilogrammes of explosives were used in the blast and investigations were under way to ascertain how the vehicle managed to land in the parking lot of a private residence. “We have detained a resident of the house for questioning,” he added.

Local residents said the house belonged to Dr Azam Mengal, who is currently living in Dubai and had rented the house to people from Nushki district. Women and children were often seen going in and out of the house, they added.(WITH ADDITIONAL INPUT FROM AFP)

Published in The Express Tribune, August 6th, 2012.


2 children among 4 killed in Quetta blast – The Express Tribune

 

[karan.1970]

Explosion kills five in Khyber | DAWN.COM

LANDI KOTAL: Five militants, including a key commander, were killed in a roadside bomb blast in the northwestern tribal region of Khyber on Monday, DawnNews reported.

A locally manufactured bomb was used in the blast that took place in the Bara area of Khyber, government sources told DawnNews.

Also in Bara, a mortar shell fell on a house, injuring six people.

Khyber is among Pakistan’s seven tribal districts near the Afghan border which are rife with homegrown insurgents and are alleged to be strongholds of Taliban and al Qaeda operatives.

Militants have killed more than 4,800 people across Pakistan since July 2007.

 

[Irfan Baloch]

own goal?

Explosion kills five in Khyber | DAWN.COM

LANDI KOTAL: Five militants, including a key commander, were killed in a roadside bomb blast in the northwestern tribal region of Khyber on Monday, DawnNews reported.

A locally manufactured bomb was used in the blast that took place in the Bara area of Khyber, government sources told DawnNews.

Also in Bara, a mortar shell fell on a house, injuring six people.

Khyber is among Pakistan’s seven tribal districts near the Afghan border which are rife with homegrown insurgents and are alleged to be strongholds of Taliban and al Qaeda operatives.

Militants have killed more than 4,800 people across Pakistan since July 2007.

 

[karan.1970]

own goal?

Yeah! I first thought I should post it in a action against militants thread.. But then decided to cheer up this thread instead.. More poetic..

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

Four personnel of Balochistan Constabulary killed in blast

TURBAT: At least four members of the Balochistan Constabulary were killed and up to eight others sustained injuries when a remote controlled explosive targeted their convoy in Saami area of Shapuk in Kech District, Turbat on Tuesday evening, Express News reported.

According to the report, two trucks of Balochistan Constabulary carrying personnel was on its way from Quetta to Turbat when they were hit by remote controlled blast.

A large number of law enforcement agencies personnel, including Frontier Corps, Police and local administration rushed to the spot soon after the incident and started rescue and relief operation.

The injured were shifted to the Divisional Headquarters Hospital in Turbat for treatment.

The whole area remained under complete cordon and law enforcing agencies, mainly police and Levies, launched a manhunt for the culprits responsible for planting the roadside explosive device.

No group has so far claimed the responsibility of the attack on the BC

Four personnel of Balochistan Constabulary killed in blast – The Express Tribune

 

[karan.1970]

Blast in Peshawar injures nine | DAWN.COM

PESHAWAR: A remote-controlled bomb exploded in Peshawar’s Hayatabad area near an under construction bridge on Wednesday, Dawnnews reported.

A vehicle of the Frontier Corps (FC) parked near the site of explosion was damaged and three FC personnel onboard the vehicle including a Major suffered injuries in the attack.

Injured were rushed to nearby hospital.

Authorities said the bomb was detonated via remote control.

Security personnel reached the spot and cordoned off the area closing the Hayatabad-University Road for traffic as a search operation and investigation into the blast went underway.

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

Deadly militancy: Three soldiers killed in North Waziristan

MIRAMSHAH:
Three security personnel were killed and as many wounded in an accident in North Waziristan Agency, according to security officials.

Talking to The Express Tribune, a security official said that a vehicle, part of a security forces convoy, overturned on the Mir Ali-Miramshah Road, killing three personnel and injuring another three. He added that the dead and the injured were driven to a hospital in Miramshah, the main town of North Waziristan Agency. The injured were later transferred to the Combined Military Hospital in Peshawar.

Local sources, however, claimed that an improvised explosive device (IED) caused the casualties.

Another security official also said that it was a bomb attack and not accident.

“Three soldiers were killed and three were wounded in the blast. Their vehicle was completely destroyed,” the official based in Peshawar told AFP.

Meanwhile, three security personnel were injured by an IED blast in Frontier Region (FR) Bannu while they were en route to Miramshah.

According to a security official, the IED detonated when a security forces convoy drove past in the Khwaja Khwar area in FR Bannu. He added that the forces halted their movement soon after the blast and conducted a search operation in the area. No one was arrested, however.

North Waziristan political administration (PA) officials imposed a curfew in most parts of the agency from 5am to 4pm following the incident. At the same time, security forces and PA officials have closed all routes in and out of the agency.

(with additional input from afp)

Published in The Express Tribune, August 13th, 2012.


Deadly militancy: Three soldiers killed in North Waziristan – The Express Tribune

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

12 hurt in Quetta bomb blast : Police

QUETTA: At least 12 people were wounded when a bomb hidden under a cot exploded near a restaurant where people had gathered to celebrate Independence Day in Quetta late Monday, police said.

The explosive device, fitted with a timer, was placed outside the restaurant in Quetta, local police chief Mir Zubair Mehmood said.

It was timed to explode late in the night when people had gathered on the eve of Independence Day being observed on Tuesday, he said.

“At least 12 people were injured, one of them is in serious condition,” Mehmood told AFP.

He blamed militants, saying “they wanted to create panic to disturb the national day celebrations”.

There was no claim of responsibility for the latest incident but the province which borders Iran and Afghanistan suffers from Taliban attacks.

It is also a flashpoint for sectarian violence involving Sunni and Shia Muslims that has left thousands of people dead since the late 1980s.

Bomb blasts and attacks on police and security forces are frequent in insurgency-plagued Balochistan.

12 hurt in Quetta bomb blast : Police – The Express Tribune

 

[Shardul.....the lion]

At least 25 killed in Orakzai clash: Officials

KALAYA, ORAKZAI AGENCY: At least 20 militants and five soldiers were killed when Pakistani forces and a group of militants clashed in Orakzai on Tuesday, military officials said.

The skirmish, which took place in the Ghaljo area of the northwestern Orakzai tribal region, began when militants ambushed a military patrol.

Officials said 18 soldiers were wounded in the ambush.

The death toll could not be independently verified, and militants often dispute official figures.

The military has been conducting operations against militants in Orakzai for months.

Several militant groups are active in the northwestern semi-autonomous tribal regions, near the border with Afghanistan, including the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), responsible for many of the bombings across the country in recent years.


At least 25 killed in Orakzai clash: Officials – The Express Tribune

 

[SR 71 Blackbird]

15 killed as passenger bus attacked in northern Pakistan.
English.news.cn 2012-08-16 16:42:14
ISLAMABAD, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- At least 15 people were killed when a passenger bus was attacked by unknown gunmen in Pakistan's northern Gilgit area on Thursday, reported local media Dunya.

15 killed as passenger bus attacked in northern Pakistan - Xinhua | English.news.cn