Acts of Terrorism in Pakistan

[Perceptron]

JUI-F leader killed in Panjgur

QUETTA: Jamiat Ulam-e-Islam (F) Panjgur General Secretary Hafiz Ahtishamul Haq was gunned down in Kori Koran area of Panjgur district on Sunday. Police sources told APP on telephone that unidentified armed motorcyclists opened fire at the JUI-F leader while he was standing outside his house. As a result, he sustained multiple shot injuries and breathed his last on the spot. Balochistan Chief Minister Nawab Aslam Raisani took serious notice of the incident and directed law enforcement agencies for bringing the culprits to justice as early as possible. Meanwhile, JUI-F Quetta Amir Hafiz Hamdullah condemned the murder of his party leader and demanded for early arrest of the criminals.

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Prime witness of Allama Turabi case shot dead

* Companion of Malir president of banned religious outfit Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan Jabbar Qureshi injured in attack

Staff Report

KARACHI: The president of banned religious outfit Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), for Malir District, was gunned down while his companion injured in a target killing incident here on Sunday.

SSP Malir’s president Jabbar Qureshi, along with a local leader of his party Imdadullah, was on his way home when two armed motorcyclists sprayed bullets on them at Korangi Crossing. Resultantly, Qureshi died on the spot while Imdadullah was critically injured and rushed to a hospital.

Police officials termed the incident an act of target killing on sectarian basis.

Ahle Sunnat Wal Jamaat strongly condemned the incident and said that at least nine SSP men have been killed in recent days and law enforcement agencies should take action against the culprits involved in these incidents.

The deceased and injured were taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre (JPMC) for medico-legal formalities and treatment.

Separately, the prime witness of suicide bombing on Muttahida Majilis-e-Amal (MMA) leader Allama Hassan Turabi was gunned down in Malir.

According to sources, deceased Qasim Ali was shot and fatally injured near Malir City in Saudabad police remit. Ali was later taken to JPMC where he succumbed to the injuries.

Reports say that the deceased was a prosecution witness in the case of a suicide attack on Maulana Turabi. Police officials also confirmed the report and said that nothing could be said about the motive of culprits until the investigation is finalised.

It is pertinent to mention here that MMA leader and Sindh chief of Tehreek-e-Islami, Allama Hassan Turabi and his young nephew Ali Imran Turabi were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside his residence in Abbas Town, Gulshan-e-Iqbal on July 14, 2006.

 

[Perceptron]

Four injured in Tirah blast
LANDI KOTAL/SWABI, Oct 30: Four persons were injured when an explosive device went off in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency on Sunday.

Officials said that unidentified persons planted a bomb at the shop of Nek Amal Khan in Tirah Sakorhi village of Kukikhel. The device exploded when a large number of villagers were present in the shop, they added. “Jan Badshah, Said Bahadar, Arif Khan and Salim were injured in the blast,” officials said. They said that the injured were taken to a local clinic in critical condition.

Meanwhile, the vehicle of a police mobile party was partially damaged in a remote controlled blast in Swabi district on Sunday.

However, the policemen remained unhurt in the blast. Officials said that the mobile van of Parmuli police post, carrying ASI Zahid Khan and three constables, was on a routine patrol.—Dawn Report

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Militants kill one soldier in NW Pakistan

Heavily-armed militants have stormed a security checkpoint in northwest Pakistan, killing at least one soldier and wounding several others, Press TV reports.


The incident took place in the South-Waziristan tribal region near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border, a Press TV correspondent reported on Monday.

The injured soldiers have reportedly been taken to local hospitals.

Security forces have launched a search operation in order to find the militants. A curfew has been imposed on the area as well.

Locals say that a bomb blast also ripped through a shrine in northwestern Pakistan's tribal region of Dera Ismail Khan.

Further details regarding casualties have not yet been released.

Tehrik-e Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants are the main suspects in similar incidents.

Over the past several years, TTP militants have destroyed hundreds of schools, especially in the areas of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, previously known as the North-West Frontier Province, as part of their activities.

Militants say the attacks are in response to unauthorized US assassination drone attacks inside Pakistan's tribal zone.

The attacks have prompted US officials to seek alternative routes for transferring supplies bound for foreign troops in Afghanistan.

Thousands of people have died in incidents of violence across the country since 2007.

 

[Perceptron]

Pakistan minister escapes Taliban attack

(AFP)

31 October 2011 PESHAWAR — A provincial cabinet minister from Pakistan’s main ruling party escaped unhurt on Monday when Taliban militants opened fire on his vehicle in the country’s troubled northwest, officials said.

Amjad Khan Afridi, minister for housing and physical planning in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, was travelling in his bullet-proof car when militants hiding in the Bilitang area of Kohat district opened fire, police said.

“Militants fired three sniper shots from the nearby hills. One bullet hit the car’s windscreen. The minister is safe,” Mubarak Zeb, police chief in Kohat district, told AFP.

“The minister was the target. Militants were involved in this attack,” he added.

An intelligence official in Peshawar, the provincial capital, blamed the attack on the Taliban.

Afridi, a member of President Asif Ali Zardari’s Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) had a police escort at the time of the attack, the official added.

Pakistan’s northwest is deeply troubled by violence blamed on the Taliban and Al-Qaeda allies, who have strongholds in semi-autonomous tribal districts on the border with Afghanistan, where US troops are fighting a 10-year war.

Since Pakistani troops stormed a radical mosque in Islamabad in 2007, more than 4,700 people have been killed across the country in militant attacks.

 

[Perceptron]

Three injured as security convoy blasted

NORTH WAZIRISTAN - At least three personnel of the security forces sustained injuries when a roadside bomb exploded in North Waziristan Agency on Sunday.

Sources said that a convoy of the security forces was on its way from Miranshah to Bunnu, when it hit an already planted Improvised Explosive Device (IED) exploded on Miranshah-Bannu road. As a result, three personnel of the security forces sustained injuries. The injured were rushed to army medical camp at Miranshah. The sources said that condition of the injured was stated stable.

Soon after the blast, curfew was also imposed at tehsil Razmak and Mirali.

 

[Roybot]

Three headless bodies found in Bannu, School blown up

BANNU/PESHAWAR, Oct 31: Three headless bodies were found in Bannu district while a school was blown up by suspected militants in Peshawar on Monday.

Police said that the headless bodies of three persons were found on Indus Highway in the limits of Domail police station. “We bring the bodies to district headquarters hospital for postmortem. The deceased were identified with the help of national identify cards in their pockets,” they added.

The deceased were identified as Maulana Qari Hussain Ahmed, a resident of Sarai Naurang, Sirajud Din of Shabakkhel Lakki Marwat and Noor Rehman, a resident of Serkot area of Miramshah in North Waziristan Agency.

The Domail police registered a case and started investigation.

Meanwhile, suspected militants blew up a primary school in Adezai on the suburbs of Peshawar early on Monday, police said.

An official of Matani police station told Dawn that terrorists planted two improvised explosive devices at the main pillars of the building and detonated them through remote control at about 1:30am.

He said that each of the bombs was about two kilograms that destroyed the school building. Police launched a search operation in the area but so far no one had been arrested, he added.

Adezai Qaumi Lashkar deputy chief Fazal Malik, when contacted, said that it was the last school in the area to be destroyed. About 12 schools in the area had been blown up so far, he added.

“Basically it was a school for boys but girl students had also been shifted here after destruction of their schools in the locality,” he said.

Mr Malik said that militants were still present in the surrounding localities and were capable to attack the pro-government people.

Three headless bodies found in Bannu | Provinces | DAWN.COM

 

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holy **** this thread is huge..

 

[Roybot]

Bomb blast kills two in Turbat | Provinces | DAWN.COM

QUETTA: Two security officials were killed and two were injured in a remote-controlled bomb blast in Balochistan’s Turbat city on Wednesday, DawnNews reported.

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Two security officials killed in Mohmand clash | Pakistan | DAWN.COM

PESHAWAR: Two security officials were killed and two others were injured in an attack on a check post in the Mohmand tribal region, DawnNews reported.

Official sources said the militants had attacked the check post located in Mohmand’s Sira Karpai area between Tuesday and Wednesday.

Security officials and militants exchanged fire for about an hour. Personnel injured in the clash were shifted to Peshawar for medical treatment.

Separately, militants abducted three labourers working on Mohmand’s Ghalanai dam on Wednesday.

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Seven hurt in Peshawar bomb attack | Metropolitan | DAWN.COM

PESHAWAR: Seven people were wounded when a bomb exploded alongside the car of an influential tribal elder on the outskirts of Pakistan’s northwestern city of Peshawar on Wednesday, police said.

 

[Paan Singh]

Seven hurt in Peshawar bomb attack | Metropolitan | DAWN.COM

 

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Seven hurt in Peshawar bomb attack | Metropolitan | DAWN.COM

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Three security personnel killed in ambush:

LADHA: Three security personnel were killed and seven others injured in an ambush in Speena Mella area of South Waziristan on Saturday, intelligence reports said.

Three vehicles of a bomb disposal squad were travelling to Zangara check-post from Zahidullah security post when militants ambushed them with rockets and Kalashnikovs in Speena Mella area.

Three security personnel were killed and seven others suffered injuries in the attack. Their names could not be ascertained. The injured were taken to the combined military hospital in Bannu.

Security forces cordoned off the area after the incident and started a search operation.

Speena Mella is located near Zangara where Baitullah Mehsud and his wife were killed in a drone attack on the house of his father-in-law on Aug 5, 2009.

Three security personnel killed in ambush | Newspaper | DAWN.COM

 

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Taliban kill five soldiers in North Waziristan | Provinces | DAWN.COM

MIRANSHAH: Taliban militants launched an attack on a military convoy in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal belt on Saturday, killing five soldiers and wounding three others, security officials said.

The convoy came under attack near Razmak town, more than 50 kilometres (31 miles) south of Miranshah, the main town in the North Waziristan tribal district along the Afghan border, officials said.

“The convoy was moving from one area to another when Taliban militants attacked it, killing five soldiers and wounding three others,” a security official in Peshawar told AFP.

Another security official in Miranshah confirmed the incident, saying militants were armed with rockets and automatic weapons.

“They also hurled grenades in the attack,” the official said.

Troops retaliated immediately with small and heavy weapons but there was no report of Taliban casualties, he added.

North Waziristan is the main target of US drone strikes and the most notorious bastion of Afghan Taliban and Al-Qaeda-linked fighters in Pakistan’s semi-autonomous tribal belt.

Washington has called the northwest region the global headquarters of Al-Qaeda and US officials are increasing pressure on Islamabad to launch an all-out military offensive in North Waziristan.

Despite Pakistan coming under huge pressure after Osama bin Laden was killed by US troops in a garrison city on May 2, Islamabad insists any operation in North Waziristan would be of Pakistan’s choosing.

More than 4,700 people have been killed across Pakistan in attacks blamed on Taliban and other extremist networks based in the tribal belt since government troops stormed a radical mosque in Islamabad in 2007.

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I thought N Waziristan had GOOD taliban and not the bad ones

 

[Paan Singh]

Convoy attack: Five soldiers killed in North Waziristan ambush

Convoy attack: Five soldiers killed in North Waziristan ambush – The Express Tribune

 

[Roybot]

Tribal elder among four killed | Newspaper | DAWN.COM

LADDAH / KHAR: A pro-government tribal elder and the wife of another elder were among four people killed in attacks by militants in South Waziristan and Bajaur agencies on Sunday.

Four people were injured. Two militants are reported to have been killed.

Political sources said Malak Amanullah, one of the leaders of a tribal lashkar, and two other people were gunned down when suspected militants opened fire in Azam Warsak bazaar, about 20km west of Wana.

 

[Roybot]

Former senior government official killed in Swabi blast | Provinces | DAWN.COM

PESHAWAR: A suicide bomber attacked a former government official in northwestern Pakistan, killing him and one of his guards, police said.

Police officer Ijaz Khan said the bomber detonated his explosives Monday morning as Malik Hanif Khan Jadoon was leaving a mosque in the Swabi district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.

He said Jadoon and his guard were killed and nine other people were wounded, including the former official’s son.

Jadoon was a senior official in Swabi and a member of the Awami National Party, whose members have often been targeted by the Pakistani Taliban.

He and his family had just finished morning prayers celebrating the Islamic holiday of Eidul Azha when the bomber struck.

 

[American Pakistani]

Pakistani politician, bodyguard killed in suicide bombing

By Reza Sayah, CNN

updated 12:39 AM EST, Mon November 7, 2011




Islamabad, Pakistan (CNN) -- A Pakistani politician and his bodyguard were killed Monday in a suicide attack in northwest Pakistan, a Pakistani police official told CNN.

Hanif Jadoon had just finished morning prayers on the Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha when a bomber approached his car and detonated his explosives, said police official Muhammad Ejaz Khan.

Jadoon was a member of the Awami National Party, a secular party often targeted by the Taliban.

Nine others were injured in the attack.

No one has claimed responsibility for the attack, police said.

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Pakistani politician, bodyguard killed in suicide bombing - CNN.com

Source: CNN

RIP to dead,
Death to terrorists.

Again Question Mark on Security Authorities.