Balochistan Timeline - Year 2006

January 1	Four persons are killed and three children sustain injuries when a bomb exploded inside a house in the Mashkal area of Kharan district.
January 2	At least three people are killed and eight others sustain injuries in clashes between paramilitary forces and Bugti tribesmen in Balochistan.
January 3	Security forces (SFs) killed two tribesmen and injured seven others in a shoot-out in the Dera Bugti district.
January 4	Three people are killed and four others sustain injuries during a clash between SFs and tribesmen around the Sui area.
January 7	Suspected insurgents fired more than 20 rockets at paramilitary camps in the Machh area of Bolan and Mand area of Makran division, killing at least one person.
January 10	One Frontier Corps personnel is killed and two others sustained injuries in a gun-battle between tribesmen and SFs in the Loti gas field area.
January 12	At least 15 people, including three Frontier Corps personnel, were killed and three others injured in an armed clash between the paramilitary force and armed tribesmen in the Pirkoh area of Dera Bugti district.
January 14	Paramilitary forces launched another operation in the Marri area using helicopter gun-ships and heavy weapons. Mir Balach Khan Marri, a member of the Balochistan Assembly, informed that SFs had been lobbing mortars and rockets at the small township of Kahan for the last two days in which 25 people, mostly women and children, had been killed and several others injured.
January 15	At least eight people were killed in clashes between armed men and SFs in the Kahan area of Kohlu district.
January 16	SFs killed three children in an attack at Kahan and other adjacent areas of Balochistan province.
January 18	One Frontier Corps personnel is killed and another sustained injuries in a landmine explosion in the Pirkoh area.
January 19	At least one person was killed when unidentified men fired more than 20 rockets at SF camps in the Machh area of Bolan and Mand area of Makran division.
January 20	Jamhoori Watan Party spokesperson Agha Shahid Hasan Bugti claimed that nine people were killed and 31 others injured in shelling on the town by SFs. He said paramilitary forces started massive shelling on the town at 11.30am, in which six children, two women and a man were killed and 23 others wounded.
January 23	Former Chief Minister of Balochistan, Sardar Attaullah Mengal, has claimed that Pakistani security forces are using chemical weapons in the province. Mengal, who addressed the media at the Karachi Press Club, supported his claim by showing pictures of Baloch civilians who he said had been hit by chemical weapons.
January 25	Six passengers were killed and five others sustained injuries when a minibus hit a landmine at Kharcha in the Dera Bugti district.
January 29	The Uch power plant was shut down while operations of the Loti gas purification plant was affected when significant portions of the pipelines supplying gas to the two units were blown up in separate incidents in the Balochistan province.
January 31	At least one Frontier Corps personnel was killed and four others sustained injuries in a landmine explosion near Pirkoh gas plant in the Dera Bugti district.
February 1	Three persons are reported to have died when Frontier Corps personnel returned fire during an attack on their outpost in the Dera Bugti district.
February 2	At least six people were injured on the third day of a gun-battle between paramilitary forces and Bugti tribesmen in the Dera Bugti town.
February 3	Baloch insurgents are reported to have fired over 270 rockets on the town of Dera Bugti, targeting communication and national installations. Dera Bugti administration officials said most of the rockets hit the Frontier Corps fort, its check-post, civil colony and Government offices.
February 4	Six people, including two security guards, are killed and 12 persons, including women and children, were injured in a missile attack on the Sui town.
February 5	At least 14 people are killed and 19 injured when a powerful bomb exploded on a passenger bus in the Mastung district. The explosion occurred when the Lahore-bound bus, which was carrying 34 passengers, reached Kolpur, some 55 kilometers from Quetta, capital of Balochistan.
February 10	Three members of a family, including two women, are killed and four persons sustain injuries in a landmine explosion near Sangsilla in the Dera Bugti district.
February 11	Four people, including three Frontier Corps personnel, are killed and 15 others injured in three different incidents in the Turbat and Kohlu districts.
February 15	Three Chinese engineers and a Pakistani driver are killed in Hub city, about 700 kilometers south of provincial capital Quetta.
February 17	Three pipelines of the Loti and Pir Koh gas fields are blown up and a driver of the Oil and Gas Development Corporation was wounded when a landmine exploded in the same area.
February 22	Insurgents ambushed a military convoy at Pinjra Pull, killing two soldiers and injuring four others.
February 24	A Frontier Corps personnel and a tribesman are killed in fighting near Dera Bugti.
March 3	Two girls, Mah-Noor Ejaz and Mussarat Nazir, were killed and three other children sustained injuries in a hand-grenade attack in the PTCL Colony area of Quetta.
March 10	At least 29 people are reported to have died during a landmine explosion in the Dera Bugti district. A wedding party, comprising some 35 people of a family, including women and children, was en route to Rakhni from Bekar when their tractor-trolley hit an anti-tank landmine near Dera Bugti.
March 16	A major power breakdown affected several districts of the Balochistan province and its capital Quetta in the early hours when suspected insurgents blew up a pylon of the Quetta-Sibi transmission line and damaged two others.
March 17	One person, Nehal Khan, was killed during a landmine explosion in a village in the Jaffarabad district.
March 19	Unidentified men fired upon three men picnicking in the Pir Ghaib area killing two of them and wounding another. Unidentified men killed a tribal elder, Haji Abdul Quddus Khan Sanjrani, at Girdi Jangal bazaar in Girdi Jangal.
March 21	Gas supply to Punjab and the North West Frontier Province was suspended from the Sui gas plant after a gas pipeline was blown up in Doli, some 20km from the Sui township.
March 23	A man was killed and nine people, including two children, were injured in a bomb blast at a public telephone booth in the Kohlu town.
March 26	Three persons were killed in an exchange of fire between security forces and insurgents in the Peshbogi area of Dera Bugti district. Another insurgent was killed when his motorcycle hit a landmine as he tried to escape after the shootout near Sui.
March 28	At least one person is reported to have been killed in heavy fighting between SFs and insurgents in the Kohlu district.
March 29	A villager was killed when a landmine exploded at Dera Murad Jamali.
March 30	One soldier was killed and four others sustained injuries in a landmine explosion at Mullah Bakhsh village in the Nasirabad district of Balochistan.
March 31	An employee of the Water and Power Development Authority was killed and three others wounded in a landmine explosion in the Mach area of Bolan district in Balochistan province.
April 2	13 people, including nine SF personnel, were killed and 28 others sustained injuries in a series of landmine blasts and attacks on troops in various parts of Balochistan province.
April 4	At least seven personnel of the Frontier Corps were killed and 11 injured in two landmine blasts in the Loti and Ghori areas of Dera Bugti district in Balochistan province on April 3 and 4, according to Nawab Akbar Bugti.
April 7	At least three persons were killed in landmine blasts and exchange of fire between security forces and insurgents in the Wadh area of Khuzdar district and Dera Bugti in Balochistan.
April 9	The Government banned the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) after declaring it as a terrorist organisation for its alleged involvement in terrorist activities. According to evidence collected by the Federal Government, a notification said the BLA was involved in sabotage activities, including rocket attacks on national installations, civilian population and security forces. It was also accused of laying landmines in various parts of the province.
April 10	Two persons, identified as Ahmed Yar and Muhammad Nawaz, was killed and 20 others sustained injuries in a bomb explosion at Kohlu in the Balochistan province.
April 12	Two persons, identified as Mian and Shahil, are killed and an equal number injured in a landmine blast in the Sui area of Dera Bugti district in the Balochistan province.
April 16	One person is killed and a Major of the Frontier Corps was wounded in an exchange of fire between security forces and insurgents in the Toba Kakari area of Pishin district.
April 17	President Pervez Musharraf claims that the Government had resolved the Balochistan issue "amicably" and no law and order situation exists there anymore.
April 19	Unidentified men kill two soldiers, identified as Fraz and Muhammad Murad, in the Awran area of Quetta.
April 25	A suspected Afghan bomb-maker and four members of his family are killed when an explosive device he was building blew up in their home on the outskirts of Quetta.
May 2	One person is killed and two others sustain injuries when two landmines exploded in Dera Bugti and Chattar area of Nasirabad district. Jamhoori Watan Party chief Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti claims that at least 19 SF personnel were killed and six others injured in a landmine blast in the Sarposh area of Dear Bugti district.
May 6	Gunmen riding a motorcycle killed a former regional Taliban leader, Mullah Samad Barakzai, in the Balochistan province.
May 7	At least three people are killed and seven others sustain injuries in four landmine explosions in different areas of Balochistan.
May 11	Six police personnel of the Anti-Terrorist Force are killed and 13 others sustain injuries in five powerful bomb explosions at the firing range of the Police Training College in Quetta. The banned Baloch Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the blasts. Four Bugti tribesmen are killed and five others wounded in an armed clash between two factions of the Mandwani and Kalpar Bugtis in the Lanjo area of Dera Bugti district.
May 14	Nawab Akbar Bugti claims that three Frontier Constabulary personnel were killed and five injured in clashes with his supporters in Barboz.
May 21	A tractor trolley carrying wheat crop hit a landmine near Patokh village in the Dera Bugti district, leaving the driver Wahid Bakhsh Bugti dead and one Abdul Majeed Bugti injured.
May 25	Two villagers are killed when a landmine blew up a bullock cart near Lehri in the Sibi district of Balochistan province. "It was an anti-tank mine planted on the mud-road," officials said.
May 27	Six SF personnel are killed and eight others sustain injuries during clashes with insurgents in the Dera Bugti area.
May 30	Four people are killed in landmine blasts in the Dera Bugti district. The blasts occur in the Habib Rai, Putikh and Jodi areas.
June 6	Gas supply to vast areas in the country is suspended late evening when the main compressor plant at Sui was closed after the main pipeline feeding the plant was blown up by insurgents.
June 9	11 people are injured when a bomb exploded in a restaurant in the industrial town of Hub.
June 11	Five unidentified insurgents are killed and 11 injured when SFs retaliate to an attack at Dera Bugti.
June 13	At least five insurgents are killed and seven others arrested during an operation launched by the Frontier Corps in the Dera Bugti district.
June 15	Unidentified gunmen attack a paramilitary vehicle, killing one soldier.
June 16	Two civilians are killed in a landmine blast in the Nelakh vicinity in Sui.
June 19	President Pervez Musharraf is reported to have claimed that life is returning to normal in Dera Bugti and nearby areas as terrorists have been eliminated from Balochistan.
June 27	A Frontier Corps personnel, identified as Imran Shah, is killed and another injured in a landmine blast in the Dera Bugti district.
June 29	Three insurgents are killed and two others sustain injuries in a gun-battle with SFs in the Nal area of Kohlu district.
July 4	Unidentified gunmen shot dead Abdullah Samad Achakzai, general secretary of the Pashtoonkhwa Milli Awami Party, and his bodyguard in an ambush at Shella Bagh in the Qilla Abdullah district.
July 7	Insurgents claim to have shot dead at least seven SF personnel in separate clashes in Balochistan.
July 8-9	At least 23 insurgents are killed in a series of strikes against their hideouts in the Sangsilla and Bamboore areas of Dera Bugti district.
July 13	The British Government declares the BLA as a terrorist organization. Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, while talking to the media in Islamabad, rules out general amnesty for “miscreants” in Balochistan.
July 14	Suspected insurgents claim to have killed at least 14 SF personnel in two separate incidents in the Dera Bugti district.
July 15	Insurgents claim to have killed at least nine soldiers in various parts of the Dera Bugti district.
July 26	Unidentified gunmen shot dead Wing Commander (retd.) Mian Maqbool Ahmed Rehbar, principal of the Mastung Cadet College, at his official residence in Mastung. A spokesperson for the Bugti tribe told reporters via satellite phone from an undisclosed location in the Dera Bugti district that five security force personnel have been killed and 14 others injured in separate incidents of landmine blasts by insurgents during the past four days.
July 30	Three soldiers, Mohammad Taslim, Ali Mohammad and Wali Bakhsh, are killed and three others sustain serious injuries when their vehicle hit a landmine at Kahan in the Kohlu district.
August 6	A suspected suicide bomber riding a bicycle is killed at Hub.
August 12	Two people are killed in a bomb blast near Chaman, close to the Afghan border.
August 15	At least eight people, including three security force SF personnel, are killed and 19 others sustained injuries in nine explosions and armed clashes in different areas of Balochistan.
August 16	Security forces recovered 2,000 handmade bombs, bullets and Kalashnikovs near Bhamboor.
August 17	Three soldiers, Amjad Ali, Tasawar Hussain and Matloob Hussain, are killed and seven others sustain injuries when a vehicle carrying SF personnel hit a landmine in the Karmo Wadh area of Kohlu district. Two personnel of the Frontier Corps, Kashmir Khan Afridi and Abdul Khaliq Afridi, are killed and five others injured when their vehicle hit a landmine in the Bhamboor area of Dera Bugti district.
August 24	Two soldiers are killed and three others sustain injuries in an exchange of fire between insurgents from the Marri tribe and SFs in Kohlu. 16 people, including two girls, are wounded in two bomb blasts at Model Town close to a busy bus stand and headquarters of the Frontier Corps in Quetta. The first-ever tribal Jirga (council) of its kind in the history of Dera Bugti in the Balochistan province held at the Jinnah Stadium unanimously announces to abandon the “Sardari system” (a feudal system) in the Bugti tribe.
August 25	Four insurgents and two SF personnel are killed and an officer wounded as the SFs used helicopter gun-ships to launch another operation in parts of the Kohlu district.
August 26	Nawab Akbar Bugti, leader of the Bugti tribe and President of the Jamhoori Watan Party, is killed in a massive military operation in the Bhamboor Hills, an area between the cities of Kohlu and Dera Bugti in the Balochistan Province. As many as 21 army commandos and 37 insurgents are also killed in the same operation, which targeted 50 to 80 of Nawab Bugti’s closest family members and top commanders.
August 27	At least three persons are killed on as protests spread in the Balochistan province and Baloch-populated areas in Karachi after Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti’s death in a military operation a day earlier. Around 450 students of the Balochistan University, Bolan Medical College and Polytechnic Institute are arrested for violence while the four-party Baloch National Alliance and the Baloch Students Organisation has announced a 15-day mourning period for Nawab Bugti. The MMA announced a countrywide strike on September 1.
August 28	Violent protests against the killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti continue across Balochistan province and in Karachi, with one death and dozens of injuries reported. Riots erupt in the Baloch-populated areas of Karachi in Sindh province, with violence also spilling over into other areas. Police detain some 100 Baloch students, including Gulzar Baloch, general secretary of the Baloch Students Organisation, bringing the total detained in provincial capital Quetta to approximately 550. Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz said that Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti was not the target in the military operation.
August 29	At least five persons are killed in a bomb blast as violence continued in the Balochistan province for the third consecutive day after funeral prayers for the slain Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti. The blast in Hub, an industrial town close to the Sindh border, also wounded ten people. Military regime spokesperson Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan said in Islamabad that there is no chance of retrieving the body of Nawab Akbar Bugti from the cave in which he died for four to five days. He said the bodies of three officers and four soldiers along with Rs 100 million and $96,000 cash, two satellite phones, documents, eight AK-47 rifles and some rockets is recovered from the rubble of the cave. Six important Marri commanders and 2,000 militants surrendered to district authorities in Tadri, a town 140 kilometers from Kohlu in the Balochistan province.
August 30	Mobs protesting the killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti cut off the main highway connecting Quetta, capital of Balochistan province, to Karachi at four points and another heading west to Iran as the number of arrests in four days rose to nearly 700. Baloch National Party chief Attaullah Mengal warns in a statement that the strikes would continue until the Government handed over Bugti’s body to his family.
August 31	The body of Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti is retrieved from a cave in the Kohlu district as efforts to recover the bodies of other tribesmen continued. A high-level meeting chaired by Chief Minister Jam Muhammad Yousuf is informed that rioters had set ablaze or damaged 93 Government buildings, 87 shops, 31 houses, 28 banks and 37 vehicles over the past four days in various parts of the province, including capital Quetta. Baloch leader Sardar Khair Baksh Marri describes the killing of Nawab Bugti as target killing. He said he fears for the life of his own son, Balach Marri, because the Government had the ‘mistaken notion’ that Marri was the epicentre of all anti-state and terrorist activities, and Balach Marri was an ‘icon of resistance’.
September 1	Leader of the Baloch tribe, Nawab Akbar Bugti, killed on August 26 by security forces, was buried at his ancestral graveyard at Dera Bugti in Balochistan on September 1. The funeral prayer was led by a cleric from the Bugti tribe who identified Bugti's remains, and no heirs of Bugti were present at the funeral. Officials said that Bugti's relatives were contacted for attending the funeral, but they demanded handing over the body to the heirs. Bugti's relatives reportedly wanted an open funeral for Bugti in Quetta and refused to attend the funeral after their demand for being given the body was turned down. Two paramilitary personnel were killed and several people injured during the general strike observed by the combined opposition against the Government on various issues, particularly the killing of Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Bugti.
September 3	Six people were injured in a hand grenade attack on the Jail Road in Quetta. A bomb blast damaged a gas pipeline in the mountainous area of Lakpass, cutting supplies to thousands of homes but causing no injuries. Frontier Corps personnel is reported to have seized 195 kilograms of explosives dumped at a place in the Zhob area.
September 4	Three persons from a Bugti sub-tribe are killed in an ambush in the Naseerabad district. President Pervez Musharraf told Baloch politicians and other leaders that the Government had sealed six points through which arms and money were being sent into Balochistan. He said that sophisticated weapons were being funneled to Bugti areas from abroad through Rahimyar Khan, Sanghar, Jacobabad, Waziristan, Zhob and Chagai and the sealing of the points had stopped arms supplies. Gas supply to the Sui plant was affected when insurgents blew up the main pipeline near Sui. Principal Officer of the US Consulate in Lahore, Bryan David Hunt, said that America is not in anyway involved in the incidents happening in Balochistan, while the killing of Nawab Akbar Bugti is an internal affair of the country and it is the responsibility of the Government to settle it the way it likes.
September 5	A member of the Bugti tribe is killed in a landmine blast in the Sangsila area of Dera Bugti.
September 6	A wheel-jam and shutter-down strike was observed throughout Balochistan on the call of All Parties Conference in protest against the killing of Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Bugti, military operations in Kohlu and arrests of hundreds of political workers.
September 8	At least six people were killed and 17 others sustained injuries in a bomb blast in the Rakhni Bazaar area of Barkhan district. One personnel of the Airport Security Force was wounded in a grenade attack on a camp near Gwadar airport.
September 10	Power supply to 15 of the 29 districts of Balochistan, including capital Quetta, was disrupted after four pylons supporting two transmission lines in Mach were blown up by the insurgents. According to the Quetta Electric Supply Company (Qesco), saboteurs planted explosives round four pylons of 220kv Uch-Sibi-Quetta transmission line and 132kv Sibi-Mach-Quetta line and detonated it. The blast blew up the huge towers plunging more than half of Balochistan province into darkness. At least 18 people were injured when a bomb exploded on the Prince Road in Quetta. The bomb was reportedly in a packet left on a bicycle parked near a restaurant.
September 11	A bomb blast was reported near a post office in the Kharan town.
September 12	Three soldiers were wounded when their vehicle struck a landmine in the Loti area of Dera Bugti district.
September 13	A landmine exploded in the Loti area near Dera Bugti, wounding three soldiers who were clearing a roadside minefield. Five rocket explosions were reported from the Mach town. Officials said that the rockets were fired from nearby mountains but none of them caused any damage as they landed in a hilly area near the Mach railway station. No casualty was reported in the attack. A bomb explosion was reported from Khuzdar. Further, another blast was reported from the Kharan town.
September 17	A bomb blast outside a Punjabi settler’s house injured two children and three women in the Khuzdar district.
September 18	Three civilians and two police personnel were wounded when a time bomb exploded in a crowded market in Quetta.
September 22	Suspected insurgents fired four rockets at a Frontier Corps (FC) check post in the Wadh area of Khuzdar district. FC personnel have seized arms and ammunition worth PKR 140 million from insurgents in the Dera Bugti district since January 2006, Col. Muhammad Naeem told Quetta-based journalists who visited Dera Bugti on September 22.
September 23	Insurgents blew up a natural gas pipeline, cutting supply to thousands of homes. There were no casualties when the pipeline, supplying gas to suburban areas of provincial capital Quetta, was hit by explosives, said police official Mohammad Arif Shah.
September 26	A bomb blast occurred in a residential area at Hub. Police said the explosive device was armed with a timer. However, no casualty was reported.
September 28	Unidentified persons fired two rockets in Quetta. While one rocket landed at an isolated place in the Brewery area, the other fell in the foothills of Murdar mountain in Marriabad. No loss of life or injuries was reported.
October 1	A 12-year-old boy was killed in a landmine blast in the Sibi district. A tanker, carrying oil for allied forces in Afghanistan, was blown up near the customs house in the border town of Chaman. An unidentified person lobbed a hand-grenade on the house of one Mohammad Jan Qabrani in the Faisal Town area of Quetta. Another explosion occurred near the house of Major (retd) Safiuulah Khan, head of an NGO. However, no loss of life or injuries was reported in these incidents. Police arrested nine Taliban suspects during a raid on Al-Khidmat Hospital, a private hospital, in Quetta. Six of the arrested were reportedly injured in a fight in Afghanistan and were under treatment at the hospital, while three others were there to look after the injured.
October 2	A bomb blast shattered windows and damaged walls at a police radio control room in the Khuzdar town. Over 35 commanders of the Marri tribe running fugitive camps surrendered before authorities in Kohlu. They handed over anti-aircraft guns, rocket launchers and other heavy arms to the authorities. The commanders from 12 branches of the Marri tribe were running four fugitive camps, PTV reported.
October 3	Three SF personnel were killed and two others sustained injuries when their convoy was ambushed in the Bhombor area of Kohlu district. The SF convoy was reportedly going to the Kahan area to defuse landmines planted by tribesmen in a vast area to restrict their movement. When it reached Bhombor mountain range on the border of Dera Bugti and Kohlu districts, unidentified people attacked it, using heavy weapons, including rockets. 100 Marri tribesmen have surrendered with their weapons and renounced insurgent activities. They reportedly belonged to the Murghlani, Mehkani and Thangiani sub-clans of Ghazini Narri clan of Marri tribe and had announced support for the Government.
October 4	Unknown assailants blew up a gas pipeline using a bomb at Mangli. However, there was no loss of life or injuries. Five rockets were fired at a check-post of the Frontier Corps in the Kahan area of Kohlu district, without causing any casualty. A bomb explosion was reported from the Sumangli area.
October 5	Suspected insurgents fired rockets at security check-posts in the Kohlu district, while a bomb blast in Mustung damaged windows of nearby buildings. However, there were no casualties in any of these incidents.
October 7	Police arrested over 45 suspected Taliban operatives during a series of raids in the Balochistan province near the Afghan border, Reuters reported. The arrests were made in the provincial capital Quetta and in a raid on a hotel in the nearby town of Kuchlak. "We have arrested around a dozen suspects from Kuchlak and 33 from Quetta," said Qazi Abdul Wahid, a senior police official in Quetta.
October 10	A gas line and water pipeline was reportedly blown up by suspected insurgents in the industrial area of Pir Koh, resulting in the suspension of water and gas supply to adjacent areas. The Balochistan Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the blast.
October 11	Police arrested 17 suspected Taliban operatives in two raids on buildings in the Pashtoonabad locality of Quetta.
October 12	Two bomb blasts in Quetta damaged Government building windows, but caused no casualties. The first blast damaged the boundary wall of a water pumping station in the Kharotabad area, while the second blast near the civil secretariat damaged office windows. Another bomb exploded in the remote town of Naushki near a tile factory, but there were no casualties, a local police official said.
October 15	Gas supply was suspended to the industrial estate and other areas of the Hub township after the main pipeline near the Civic Centre was blown up. A hand grenade was thrown into the house of one Mohammad Asif in the Shafi Colony near the Balochistan University. However, no loss of life or injuries was reported. An explosion occurred in the official residence of a jailer in Zhob, without causing any damage.
October 16	Afghan President Hamid Karzai told The Associated Press that Mullah Omar, the fugitive Taliban leader, is hiding in Quetta, capital of Balochistan province.
October 18	Security forces arrested Baz Khan Marri, a ‘commander’ of the insurgents belonging to the Marri tribe, along with his three associates after an exchange of fire in the Fazil Chal area of Kohlu district.
October 19	A police personnel was injured in a hand-grenade attack in Quetta. Two bomb blasts were reported from Gwadar and Zhob. Baz Khan Marri, a Marri militant commander, arrested in an injured condition on October 18 from Kohlu district, is reported to have died at the hospital the next day. Suspected insurgents fired rockets and gunshots on the Quetta-bound Chiltan Express near Panir railway station in the Bolan district. However, an alert engine driver drove the train into a nearby tunnel, thereby averting a major disaster.
October 23	Suspected insurgents blew up a 14-inch diameter pipeline at Sui, suspending the supply of gas to the plant from well No 8. Industrial zones in Sindh and Punjab had been affected because of low gas pressure after the blast.
October 24	A bomb blast occurred in the the Wahdat Colony area of Quetta. However, no casualty was reported. Another blast was reported from the Nushki town in which a house was partially damaged. In other incidents, suspected insurgents damaged a power pylon after detonating an explosive device in the Dasht area of Mastung district while armed men fired rockets at a Frontier Corps check-post in Mand, a small town bordering Iran in the Turbat district.
October 25	Security forces fired rockets in two clashes with insurgents in the Dera Bugti district but there were no casualties.nsurgents exploded bombs attached to three legs of an electricity pylon near Quetta.
October 26	Insurgents are reported to have opened machinegun fire from surrounding mountains when the Rawalpindi-bound Quetta Express reached Mashkaf town, 100 kilometers south of the provincial capital Quetta, injuring two persons. They also launched two rockets but they did not hit the train.
October 28	A bicycle bomb exploded outside a police barracks in Quetta, killing at least one person and injuring 12. The blast reportedly occurred near Global Plaza on the Police Line in the highly sensitive area of Quetta Cantonment.
October 29	Two rockets fired from an unknown place in the west of Quetta city with brief interval causing panic among the residents of these areas. However, no casualty was reported. The rockets landed in open areas near the Jinnah Market and Chaman railway crossing.
October 31	Two Frontier Corps soldiers were killed and another sustained injuries when a landmine exploded in the Pirkoh area of Dera Bugti district. According to official sources, Frontier Corps personnel were defusing landmines planted by the insurgents in the Doie Wadh area, some 15 km north of the Pir Koh gas field, when a vehicle was hit by a landmine, killing soldiers Javed Afzal and Mohammad Saeed. Rockets were fired on the village of a former speaker of the Balochistan Assembly near Dera Murad Jamali.
November 2	Two police officers and a civilian were killed in a bomb blast on Shahra-e-Gulastan in front of the Inspector General’s office in Quetta. Quetta Police defused an 18 kilogram explosive device from an abandoned bike in front of a local hotel in the crowded premises of the Liaquat Bazaar.
November 5	Police raided different areas of Quetta and arrested about 100 suspects in connection with a car bomb explosion in front of the Central Police Office on November 2. According to police sources, most of the suspects are Uzbeks from northern Afghanistan. “We have arrested around 70 Uzbeks and handed them over to the authorities concerned for interrogation,” said Senior Superintendent of Police (Quetta) Qazi Abdul Wahid. Security forces arrested Dilshad Bugti, an alleged militant, from the Sui area of Dera Bugti district along with six kilograms of explosive substance and detonators. Obaidullah Afghan, a spokesman for the Kandahar-based Mirwais Baba Movement, told journalists at Chaman in Balochistan on satellite phone that this group was behind the November 2-Quetta blasts. He said that if blasts in Afghanistan were not stopped more explosions would be carried out in Pakistan.
November 6	Police arrested a suspected member of the Balochistan Liberation Army, Bakht Ali Bugti, in a raid at a house in the BMC Colony of Zarghoon Town in Quetta. They also seized five Klashnikovs, two hand grenades, three timers of 107 rockets and a huge quantity of explosive material from his hideout.
November 8	Unidentified men hurled a hand grenade on the house of a bank employee, Irfan Baig, in the Jinnah Town area of Quetta. However, there was no loss of life or property.
November 10	Unidentified assailants fired a rocket at the Balochistan Assembly building in Quetta. No loss of life or injuries was reported. A bomb blast occurred outside a Government official’s office in the Kharan district. Separately, a vehicle of the security forces was damaged due to a landmine explosion in Dera Bugti. No loss of life or injuries was reported in these incidents.
November 13	At least two persons, including an eight-year-old girl, were killed and 15 others sustained injuries when a powerful bomb exploded outside a fast food centre in the Smmungli area of Quetta. A soldier was killed and another wounded during an encounter between security forces and unidentified militants in the Kahan area of Kohlu district. “We carried out this attack,” Mir Azad Baloch of the Baloch Liberation Army said in a telephone call to the press club in Quetta. Soon after the attack, the security forces opened retaliatory firing, killing two militants. A rocket was fired towards the Turbat town. However, there was no loss of life or property.
November 15	Power supply to Jamshoro was disrupted after four pylons supporting high-power transmission lines were blown up by insurgents in the Hub area. A bomb explosion occurred in the Khuzdar area. However, no loss of life or injuries was reported.
November 16	woman and two girls were injured when a bomb exploded in the Railway Colony area of Mach. The train link between Quetta and the rest of Pakistan was suspended when suspected insurgents blew up the main rail track near Mach. Security forces seized 17 rockets and other explosive material in the Shaiban region of Chaghi. A shutter-down strike and a black-day were observed in Quetta and others parts of Balochistan on a call of the National Party to protest against the visit of President Pervez Musharraf to Gwadar and Turbat. More than 100 political activists were arrested for “forcing people to close their shops” in Quetta.
November 17	President Pervez Musharraf said that at least 60 terrorist camps have been raided and destroyed in Balochistan. Speaking to nazims (chief elected official of local government) and notables in Gwadar, he said terrorists trained at the camps had taken part in anti-state activities like bomb blasts and blowing up of electricity pylons, gas pipelines and railway tracks.
November 21	The State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) has directed all banks and development financial institutions to freeze the accounts of two granddaughters of the slain Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti because of their alleged links with the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA), according to Daily Times. According to an SBP notification, the Interior Ministry has declared that the daughters of Rehan Bugti, Mrs. Zamour Domki and Mrs. Zawazboh, have links with the BLA. Sources said that all of Mrs. Domki and Mrs. Zawazboh’s accounts had been frozen. They said the Interior Ministry had also contacted Interpol to trace BLA accounts abroad.
November 22	Power supply to vast areas in the Kohlu and Barkhan districts was suspended after a pylon of the main transmission line was blown up near Barkhan. The Sariab police have registered a treason case against Nawabzada Jamil Bugti, son of slain Baloch leader Nawab Akbar Bugti, for speaking against the army and the government in his press conference in October 2006.
November 23	Heavy fighting between security forces (SFs) and insurgents was reported from the Karmo Wadh and Tartani areas of Kohlu district. Clashes erupted when insurgents attacked a vehicle of the SFs in the Tartani area and fired rockets on a post in Karmo Wadh. Insurgents hiding in mountains fired a number of rockets on the vehicle, but it was not hit. Troops present in the area rushed to the place and returned fire. Insurgents also attacked a SF post in Karmo Wadh using rockets and heavy weapons. After foiling both the attacks, SFs launched a search operation in Karmo Wadh, Tartani and Pir Koh areas of Kohlu and Dera Bugti districts. There were no reports about casualties in the fighting. A caller identifying himself as Azad Baloch and claiming to be spokesperson of the banned Baloch Liberation Army said that the attacks in Tartani and Karmo Wadh areas had caused heavy casualties.
November 24	Police arrested a suspected Afghan terrorist while he was coming to Quetta and seized explosives and other material. Deputy Inspector General of Police (operation) Ghulam Qadir Thebo told a press conference that the arrested man, Shah Khan, belonged to Afghan army. He had illegally crossed into Pakistan three days ago through an unfrequented route. Police also recovered 15 rolls of high intensity explosives, 30 pencil timers, 29 detonators and wire from his possession. The Anti-Terrorist Force conducted a raid in the Mach area of Bolan district and arrested four suspected activists of the banned Baloch Liberation Army.
November 26	Security forces and insurgents exchanged fire at Kohlu. Armed insurgents used rockets and automatic weapons to attack SFs deployed in the Tartani area of Kohlu district. The exchange of fire continued for more than an hour, after which the insurgents escaped. A hand-grenade was lobbed at a private residence of a Pakistan Air Force officer in the Samugali Housing Scheme area of provincial capital Quetta. The grenade exploded in the backyard of the house and there were no casualties. The Balochistan National Party (Mengal) president Sardar Akhtar Mengal has said that security agencies have arrested over 350 leaders and workers of the party from different parts of the province to stop a long march planned by the party. Speaking at a press conference in the Hub town on November 26, he said the government was scared of BNP-M's 'Lashkar-i-Balochistan' long march from Gwadar to Quetta on November 30.
November 27	Three persons were wounded in a landmine explosion in the Dera Bugti district. The landmine was reportedly planted near the main gate of the house of Wadera Saeed Khan Masoori Bugti. A bomb exploded near the house of a government employee in Mastung town. However, there were no casualties.
November 28	Balochistan National Party (BNP-Mengal) president Sardar Akhtar Mengal has been detained in a farmhouse in Sakran, which has been declared a sub-jail. A heavy exchange of fire between insurgents and security forces was reported from Nushki following an attack on a check-post on the RCD highway. An encounter between security forces and armed insurgents was also reported from the Kahan area. At least a dozen rockets were fired on positions of the security forces. However, no loss of life or injuries was reported.
November 30	Police arrested seven suspected Taliban activists during a raid on a house in the Pakhtunabad area of Quetta. One of the suspects was injured in the raid. Those arrested were identified as Maulvi Amir Mohammad, Maulvi Anuddin, Naseer Ahmad, Mohammad Yousuf, Maulvi Amir Hamza, Abdul Wahid and Abdul Ahad. They belonged to Kandahar, Zabul and Urzgan in Afghanistan. A main pipeline supplying gas to the Sui purification plant from the field was blown up. Suspected insurgents reportedly blew up the pipeline from at least five points. Unidentified militants fired rockets at a camp of security forces in the Bakhtiarabad area of Sibi district. Official sources said that at least nine rockets landed and exploded in the area but none of them was able to hit their target. The security forces retaliated by firing rockets towards the positions of the attackers. However, no casualty was reported. Security agencies arrested seven suspects in connection with the planting of four explosive devices on the railway tracks between Quetta and Nushki. The train service between Quetta and Zahidan could not be restored till November 30-night as the railway tracks that had been blown up in the Glangoor area of Chagai district a day earlier were being repaired.
December 2	A seventeen-year-old boy, Mohammad Younus Baloch, was killed and three other people were injured when a bomb exploded at Nushki. Police sources said the powerful bomb had been planted on an electricity pylon 200 yards away from the fort of the Chagai Militia, a wing of the Frontier Corps, on the Mess Road.
December 4	A soldier, identified as Abdul Waheed, was injured in a landmine explosion in the Kahan area of Kohlu district. According to official sources, the soldier was going to his camp when the anti-personnel landmine blew up. Insurgents fired rockets on some areas in Nushki and Mastung. Three rockets landed in an open place in Nushki, while an equal number exploded in Mastung. However, no loss of life or injuries was reported.
December 8	Unidentified assailants threw a hand grenade inside the house of a civilian at Panjgur district, killing a 10 year-old young boy and injuring four others, including two women. Police said that the boy had been playing with a toy inside his house when the grenade detonated, killing him on the spot and injuring two female relatives. Gas supply was suspended to Mastung and adjoining areas in the Balochistan province after a pipeline was blown up near the township. According to police, an explosive device planted under the pipeline exploded, damaging over two feet of the pipeline. A powerful explosion was reported from the provincial capital Quetta. Sources said that it was a rocket fired from the Brewery area but it was not clear where it exploded. A bomb blast damaged a government rest house in the Muslim Bagh district. However, there were no reports of casualties.
December 10	A man was killed and his mother suffered injuries in a landmine explosion near Punjabi Dob village in the Jaffarabad district. Police said that Maroof Bugti and his mother were on their way home when their cart hit a landmine. A police patrolling party reportedly came under attack in the same area. The attackers escaped after a brief crossfire. However, no loss of life or injuries was reported.
December 13	Unidentified assailants blew up a gas pipeline at Mastung in the Balochistan province on, suspending the supply of gas to surrounding areas.
December 15	A bomb explosion occurs beneath a bridge on the RCD Highway near the Mastung township in Balochistan. However, no casualty is reported.
December 19	A former commander of the insurgents, Bangan Khan, who was a close associate of slain tribal chief Nawab Akbar Bugti before surrendering to the government in July 2006, dies during a landmine blast in the Ghot Habib Rai area of Dera Bugti district, while his four associates are injured. BLA claims responsibility for the attack.
December 20	14 civilians are injured when a bomb went off at a cycle stand near the Quetta police station in Balochistan.
December 21	At least seven persons, including Afghan nationals, are arrested in connection with December 20 blast wounding 11 persons in Quetta. An internal assessment made by the UNICEF has accused Pakistani authorities of preventing aid groups from helping more than 80,000 people - many of them acutely malnourished children - who were displaced by fighting in Balochistan. The Government seeks intervention of the UN to help avert nutrition crisis among 84,000 displaced persons in Balochistan.
December 23	A bomb placed in a garbage box explodes on New Najmuddin Road in Quetta in Balochistan province. Unidentified assailants lob an explosive device at a hotel on Jinnah Road in Quetta. Armed men abduct four persons from the Hamidpur Police area in Jafferabad district when they were going to Uch power plant to meet their friend. Three traders are kidnapped from the Nautal area of the Bhag Police area when they were going to Sindh from Balochistan’s Bhag area in a car.
December 24	Suspected insurgents blew up a pipeline supplying gas to Dera Bugti from Loti Gas Field. Gas supply to Dera Bugti and adjoining areas area suspended after the explosion. Insurgents blew up two electricity towers in the Dera Bugti, suspending electricity supply to the area.
December 26	The Balochistan National Party (Mengal) chief, Sardar Akhtar Mengal, is sent to jail till January 5 by an ATC in the army personnel hostage-taking case.
December 27	A bomb blast damages a bridge on the RCD highway near Tarkhali area. Traffic between Wadh and Karachi remains suspended for some time following the explosion. A bomb explosion damages a sewerage pipeline in the Saddar police station area of the Hub town. A vehicle coming from the Loti gas field area is blown up near Sui when it hit a landmine.
December 29	Pakistani troops backed by military helicopters dismantle several bases of the insurgents in Balochistan. At least eight helicopters reportedly took part in an operation against the tribesmen at Zain Koh near Dera Bugti, said a security official. Police arrests a tribal militant wanted in connection with bomb blasts, and also killed his accomplice on the outskirts of provincial capital Quetta. Unidentified assailants lob two hand grenades into the servant quarter of the Saddar police station and Quetta District Jail, but there are no casualties.
December 31	Two security force personnel are injured when armed insurgents opened fire at a vehicle of the Makran Scouts near Mand in the Balochistan province. A vehicle carrying personnel of the Makran Scouts was on its way to Turbat from Mand, a border town between Pakistan and Iran. When it crossed Mand, armed men open fire at it and in the ensuing encounter, two soldiers were wounded. Two electricity pylons are blown up, suspending power supply to Dera Bugti.