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January 7
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Rocket attack destroys a gas pipeline in the Sui
area.
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January 9
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Unidentified people blow up a gas pipeline again
at Sui killing six people, including two Frontier Corps personnel,
and injuring 11 others.
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January 10
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Two more people die in continued rocket attacks
by unidentified people on a gas installation in the Sui area.
Three brothers are killed and their parents’ sustain
injuries when an explosive device went off in their home in the
Drengar area of Mastung district.
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January 11
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At least two Defence Services Guard personnel
are killed and five others sustain injuries as unidentified people
attacked the Sui gas field. Military authorities extend the deadline
for two wanted militants in South Waziristan to surrender to January
26.
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January 14
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The Balochistan Government formally seeks Federal
Government's assistance to ensure security of natural gas installations
in the Sui area.
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January 15
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Unidentified assailants fire six rockets targeting
a checkpoint of the paramilitary forces in Kohlu district, located
some 160 kilometers north of Sui.
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January 17
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Unidentified persons fire at least six rockets
at a Frontier Corps camp near Mach.
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January 26
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The Pakistan Army has set up a new military base
near the Sui gas field, where troops have been deployed after
a series of rocket attacks disrupted fuel supplies earlier this
month. The decision was announced to journalists on a trip organised
by the military to Balochistan.
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January 31
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President Pervez Musharraf has, in principle,
reportedly approved the recommendations of the Parliamentary Committee
on Balochistan, which envisage issues pertaining to gas royalty
as also provincial autonomy and may require constitutional amendments,
besides removal of concerns on the location of Frontier Constabulary
check posts in Sui and some other parts of the province. This
was stated by Choudhury Shujaat Hussain, President of the ruling
Muslim League, at a news conference in Karachi on January 31.
The former Prime Minister also said that the Government wanted
an understanding with Baloch leaders, Nawab Akbar Bugti and Sardar
Attaullah Mengal, on the recommendations.
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February 1
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The BBC Urdu Service reported that bomb explosions
cut electricity to Balochistan plunging the entire province into
darkness. The report said that a high-tension power supply line
was blown up by bomb attacks in the Mithri Pirak area of Sibi
at approximately 9:15 pm (PST).One person is killed and nine others
sustained injuries during two bomb blasts in Quetta, capital of
Balochistan.
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February 3
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A telephone tower, an electric supply tower and
a railway track were blown up in continuing attacks on vital Government
installations in the Balochistan province. The Balochistan Liberation
Army (BLA) claimed responsibility for some of the attacks.
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February 5
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Suspected insurgents blow up a railway track that
links Pakistan with Iran in the Balochistan province, but caused
no casualties.
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February 8
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In the continuing attacks on vital installations,
suspected insurgents targeted a paramilitary base, a telephone
tower and a railway track in the Balochistan province.
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February 18
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Two suspected terrorists of the outlawed Sunni
group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ), blow themselves up with hand grenades
during an exchange of fire with the police at Ghilzai road in
Quetta.
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February 27
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Police seize a huge arms cache and explosive material,
including 43 rockets, and unearth a private jail and torture cells
while arresting 20 suspects during an operation targeting the
Marri camp in the outskirts of Quetta.
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March 6
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A 1000-line telephone exchange in the Dera Bugti
district is set ablaze and a Frontier Corps check-post in Kohlu
district is attacked by insurgents.
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March 18
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A fierce gun-battle between insurgents and the
Frontier Corps in the Dera Bugti district that ended early on
March 18 left up to 31 people dead, including 10 Frontier Corps
personnel, and more than 70 injured.
At least two passengers of the Quetta and Lahore
bound Chiltan Express trains are killed and nine others sustain
injuries during two separate bomb explosions in the trains at
the Mach and Mushkaf areas.
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March 19
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At least 50 people are killed and over 100 others
sustain injuries during a bomb explosion at a crowded gathering
near the shrine of a Shia saint at Fatehpur village in the Jhal
Magsi district.
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March 20
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Bugti tribesmen have surrounded at least 300 FC
personnel and Government officials at a base in the Dera Bugti
area where fears of fresh fighting between the tribesmen and troops
have forced thousands of residents to flee for safety, says Balochistan
Governor, Awais Ahmed Ghani, in Quetta.
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April 8
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Government agrees to withdraw security forces
deployed between Dera Bugti and Sui.
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April 13
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The Bugti tribesmen end blockade of the Dera Bugti-Sui
Road and leave their trenches set up after a clash with security
forces on March 17.
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April 20
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Four power supply towers of 33-KV are blown up
by suspected insurgents near Hun Lake in the Barkhan district.
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April 27
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One Frontier Corps personnel is killed during
a landmine explosion in the Kahan area.
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May 1
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A portion of the main railway track linking the
provincial capital Quetta with the rest of the country is blown
up near the Domboli area of Nasirabad district.
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May 2
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The Parliamentary Committee on Balochistan adopts,
with certain amendments, the Mushahid Hussain sub-committee report
comprising eight recommendations, including payment of gas royalty
within a fixed period and a financial package for the development
of Sui, Gwadar and Quetta.
The Government announces results of a countrywide
Afghan census and disclosed that there were 3,047,225 Afghans
living in Pakistan, including refugees and residents.
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May 3
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One person is killed and four others sustain injuries
during an explosion in the border town of Chaman.
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May 19
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Two police personnel are killed during an attack
on their vehicle in the Bagh area of Bolan district.
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June 2
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One Frontier Corps personnel is killed and another
sustained injuries during an attack by suspected insurgents in
the Mangochar area of Kalat district.
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July 13
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Three children are reported to have died and three
persons sustained injuries when a bomb exploded in a house in
the Jhal Magsi area.
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July 18
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In a suspected sectarian incident, two unidentified
assailants shot dead the owner of a school, Syed Tahir Reza Rizvi,
and injured his wife in Quetta.
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August 22
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Balochistan Chief Minister Jam Muhammad Yusuf
escapes unhurt after seven rockets were fired at the camp of Frontier
Constabulary near Kohlu.
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August 31
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One person is killed and two others sustained
injuries during a bomb blast in the Mastung district.
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September 14
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In a sectarian incident, unidentified assailants
shot dead a Shia man, Ejazul Hasan, in Quetta.
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September 21
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Presenting its interim report in the Senate, the
Parliamentary Committee on Balochistan said the Frontier Constabulary
and Coast Guard should be withdrawn from interior Balochistan,
and proposed a number of other measures to improve the economic
and social conditions of the province.
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October 3
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Supply of gas from Sui Southern Gas Company to
five districts of Balochistan province, including capital Quetta,
was disrupted when suspected insurgents blew up a portion of the
main pipeline near Kolpur.
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October 26
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A Shia teacher, Murid Abbas, is killed on his
way to school in Quetta.
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November 7
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Three suspected terrorists are killed when a bomb
exploded in a house in the Malikabad area of Turbat district.
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November 8
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The Balochistan Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani promulgates
the Societies Registration (Balochistan Second Amendment) Ordinance,
2005 in the province with immediate effect. Under the Ordinance,
all Madrassas (seminaries) shall not operate without getting themselves
registered. All seminaries, according to the Ordinance, shall
submit an annual report of its educational activities to the Registrar.
Every Madrassa is to carry out an audit of its accounts and submit
a copy of its report to the Registrar. Under the law, no seminary
shall teach or make public any literature, which promotes militancy
or spreads sectarianism or religious hatred.
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November 15
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At least three people are killed and 20 others,
including two South African women, sustain injuries in a powerful
car bomb explosion in front of the KFC restaurant in Karachi.
The bomb was planted in a car parked outside the PIDC House. Chakar
Azam, a spokesperson for the Balochistan Liberation Army, claimed
responsibility for the attack.
Many vehicles are damaged when a rocket hit the
camp site of a Chinese construction company in the Tallar area
of Gwadar district. The Chinese company is constructing a road
to link Gwadar with the Turbat area of Makran.
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November 22
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The Frontier Corps seizes 26 rocket launchers,
15 Kalashnikovs, six rifles and 158 mortar bombs, two land mines,
116 detonators, 56 grenades, 27 rocket shells, one pistol and
over 30,000 rounds of different calibre from the Mungochar area
of Kalat district.
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November 28
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An Anti-Terrorist Court in Quetta sentences five
people to death for killing five army personnel and another man
near Khuzdar on August 1, 2004.
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December 2
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Gunmen on a motorcycle shot dead a Shia cleric,
Allama Badar-ud-Din, as he left his home to go to a mosque in
Dera Murad Jamali, some 240 kilometers south of Quetta.
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December 7
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The Government detects existence of five to six
camps, known as Ferari camps, in the Balochistan province where
people are being trained to carry out terrorist activities.
During the past year, 261 bomb blasts occurred
in Balochistan and 167 rockets were fired, says a report.
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December 9
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Police seizes an anti-aircraft gun along with
350 rounds and arrested a man, identified as Ghousuddin, from
a house near the airport in Quetta.
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December 11
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The Jamhoori Watan Party chief Nawab Akbar Bugti
and National Party chief Sardar Attaullah Mengal have said the
Government is planning a military operation in the Balochistan
province.
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December 13
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At least three people, including a child, are
killed and six persons sustain injuries when approximately 12
rockets struck their homes at Dera Bugti.
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December 16
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A helicopter carrying the Frontier Corps Inspector
General (IG) Major General Shujaat Zameer Dar is attacked in Kohlu,
injuring the IG and his deputy, DIG Brigadier Salim Nawaz.
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December 19
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According to Dawn, paramilitary forces continued
their operation in different areas of the Kohlu district of Balochistan
province, destroying more ‘hideouts and camps of outlaws’, while
the Frontier Corps (FC) camp in the Kohlu township came under
rocket attacks. The Marri tribesmen and the four-party Baloch
Alliance claimed that over 50 people had been killed and around
100 injured in helicopter attacks and air strikes in different
areas over the past two days. The Anjuman Ittehad Marri claimed
that 70 people, including women and children, had died and 150
injured in bombings by aircraft and helicopter gun-ships.
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December 20
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The Balochistan Students Organisation claims that
70 people had been killed and hundreds injured so far due to the
firing of gunship helicopters in Kohlu district of Balochistan.
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December 26
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In the ongoing military operations in Balochistan,
SFs continued to target camps of suspected insurgents in the Kohlu
and Dera Bugti areas. Officials claimed that out of 13, six camps
had been dismantled in Kohlu since the launch of the operations
on December 18.
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