Posts Tagged ‘ Pakistan ’

"A Taliban suicide bomber rammed a pickup truck laden with 180 kg of explosives into the headquarters of the paramilitary Pakistan Rangers in Karachi on Thursday, leaving at least four people dead and 28 others injured. The attacker slammed the truck into the gate of the Pakistan Rangers office in the heavily-populated North Nazimabad area of Karachi at about 7 am."

"A suicide bomber blew himself up in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on Wednesday, killing at least six people including a senior police officer, officials said. The blast ripped through a congested part of the city, which lies close to Pakistan's lawless tribal areas and is frequently hit by bombings, littering the street with blood and body parts, witnesses said." (11/07/12)

"Gunmen shot dead three Shiite Muslims and wounded two others on Tuesday in a fresh sectarian attack in Pakistan’s troubled southwestern province of Baluchistan, police said. The shooting took place in the provincial capital Quetta which is rich in oil and gas deposits but deeply impoverished and unstable." (11/06/12)

"A senior leader of the Awami National Party was gunned down by suspected militants in Pakistan's restive northwest on Monday, police said. ... The ANP rules Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province and is a partner in the ruling coalition at the centre." (11/05/12)

"Police said a suicide bomber has blown himself up near a vehicle carrying the regional head of an anti-Taliban militia in northwest Pakistan, killing him and five others. ... He said Fateh Khan, who is head of the local anti-Taliban militia, was killed along with three guards and two passers-by." (11/04/12)

"Officials on Thursday said Taliban militants poisoned to death six local policemen in the southern province of Kandahar. The governor’s spokesman Sharifullah Nasri told Pajhwok Afghan News that the Taliban fighters poisoned the policemen at a checkpoint in Jamalkhel village in Shah Joy district on Wednesday night. After killing the policemen they escaped with their weapons, he added." (11/01/12)

"Four militants were killed and two others were injured when Pakistani fighter jets pounded militant hideouts in the Tirah Valley of Khyber Agency on Thursday. Talking to The Express Tribune, a security forces official said that, around 4:30pm, two fighter jets dropped bombs on militant hideouts in the remote area of Koki Khel, killing the militants." (11/01/12)

"The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan went on a shooting rampage late on Wednesday night and killed four people, including three ANP activists, including the party’s Sherpao Colony ward president, outside the Al-Naseer PCO in the Quaidabad police limits, police said. Meanwhile, two cops were also killed in unrelated incidents, while there was yet another sectarian attack in the Nazimabad area." (11/01/12)

"At least ten militants were killed and several others wounded in bombardment by Pakistani troops in Khyber Agency on Monday. According to political administrators, security forces backed by helicopter gunships pounded suspected militant hideouts in Bara tehsil of Khyber Agency, killing ten suspected Taliban terrorists and injuring several others. Several hideout positions of terrorists were also destroying in the shelling." (10/30/12)

"A powerful bomb went off outside the shrine of a Sunni Muslim saint in northwestern Pakistan on Sunday, killing at least four people, police said. Senior police officer Mumtaz Khan said 23 people were also wounded in the attack at the shrine of Kaka Sahib in the town of Nowshehra. (10/28/12)

"t least three persons including woman and children were killed and nine others injured on late Monday night when mortar shells fell on houses in North Waziristan agency. According to Security sources, the casualties took place in Miranshah, the headquarters of North Waziristan, where terrorists attacked a check post." (10/23/12)

"At least eight militants were killed and six others injured during an operation of Pakistan security forces in Upper Orakzai Agency of the country’s tribal region, officials said on Sunday. Security officials said that the forces conducted the operation in Mamoonzai and Khadzai area of agency and destroyed the four hideouts of the militants." (10/22/12)

"Eight people including a police officer, a political worker and KMC officer were killed in firing and violence in different areas of Karachi, media reports confirmed. According to police, an Assistant Sub-Inspector identified as Shafi was shot dead in the firing of unidentified armed men in North Nazimabad." (10/17/12)

"Gunmen shot dead four Shiite Muslims on Tuesday, in a fresh sectarian attack in Pakistan's troubled southwestern province of Baluchistan, police said. All those killed ran junk and scrap shops in Kabari Market in Quetta, the provincial capital where sectarian and separatist violence is common." (10/16/12)

"More than 300 militants attacked a small police checkpost in northwest Pakistan, killing seven people, including a senior police official, authorities said. The attack Sunday night in the Matani area outside Peshawar injured 12 others, Dawn reported." (10/15/12)

"A car bomb ripped through a crowded bazaar outside an anti-Taliban office in Pakistan Saturday, killing at least 17 people and wounding 40 near the Afghanistan border, officials said. No group immediately claimed responsibility for the gruesome strike. But the Pakistani Taliban have staged similar attacks in the Darra Adam Khel region to punish tribal elders for backing security forces against the fundamentalist Islamic movement." (10/13/12)

"A bomb attached to a bicycle killed a boy and injured at least 11 other people at a police checkpoint in the southwestern Pakistani city of Quetta Monday, police said. The bicycle was parked at the checkpoint and its four-kilogram (8.8 pound) bomb was detonated by remote control, Quetta police chief Mir Zubair Mehmood told AFP. 'At least 12 people, including four policemen, were wounded,' Mehmood said." (10/08/12)

"Four militants were killed and four policemen injured in a overnight clash on the outskirts of Peshawar city in northwest Pakistan, officials said on Wednesday. The clash began when a group of militants attacked a security check post and a police station in Mattani area." (10/03/12)

"Two Pakistani nationals were killed, allegedly by firing of NATO forces, near Pak-Afghan border, in Chaghi district, on Monday According to sources, two brothers identified as Noor Muhammad and Abdul Ghafoor, residents of Chaghi district, had crossed Afghan territory for bringing firewood and were returning back when Nato forces allegedly opened fire on their vehicle." (10/02/12)

"Three men, including a leader of the main opposition PML-N, were shot dead by unidentified armed men in the restive Balochistan province of southwest Pakistan today, police said. The three men were attacked by the gunmen on Sakran road in Hub town tonight." (09/30/12)

"Three security personnel were killed and 16 others were injured when a military convoy was targetted with an improvised explosive device (IED) in the Mir Ali subdivision in North Waziristan on Wednesday. Security officials and tribal sources said a military convoy was on its way to Spinwam from Shawa tehsil in Mir Ali subdivision when the IED planted by unknown people on the main road exploded and caused injuries to the soldiers." (09/27/12)