2001
|
|
January
16 |
The
SSP and its Shia rival
organisation, the Tehreek-e-Jaferia Pakistan (TJP)
reportedly assured the Punjab provincial government of co-operation
in the elimination of terrorism from the country. |
January
28 |
Masked
gunmen ambush a school van, killing five Sunni Muslims and wounding
three others . The attack leads to violent protests, with hundreds
of Sunni Muslim students pelting police with stones, setting cars
on fire and vandalizing billboards |
February
3 |
The
Punjab leadership of the SSP and another Shia outfit, Sipah-e-Muhammad
Pakistan (SMP) announce
its willingness to overcome differences and to withdraw cases filed
against each other |
June
6 |
In
a statement released from Islamabad Al-Badr
chief Bakht Zameen criticises Gen. Musharraf's remarks that religious
bodies were misappropriating Jihad funds. |
June
20 |
Chief
Executive Gen. Pervez Musharraf dissolves Parliament .
Replacing titular President Rafi Tarar, Chief Executive Gen Pervez
Musharraf names himself President while also remaining the Chief
of Army Staff |
July |
Musharraf
meets Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee in the first summit
between the two neighbours in more than two years. The meeting ends
without a breakthrough or even a joint statement because of differences
over Kashmir. |
August
20 |
Sipah-e-Sahaba
Pakistan (SSP) Chairman
Maulana Azam Tariq say in Sahiwal, August 20, that the outfit would
launch a 'court arrest' movement if the government failed to release
all the detained SSP workers by August 31, 2001. |
September
|
Musharraf
stands besides the US in its fight against terrorism and supports
attacks on Afghanistan. US lifts some sanctions imposed after Pakistan's
nuclear tests in 1998, but retains others imposed after Musharraf's
coup. |
September
20 |
The
SSP join other members of the Afghan Jehad Council on announcing
a Jehad against the US forces if they used Pakistani soil to carry
out military attacks on the Taliban regime. |
October |
India
fires on Pakistani military posts in the heaviest firing along the
dividing line of control in Kashmir for almost a year. |
October
11 |
At a protest rally in Peshawar, SSP provincial chief Maulana Fazal
Ahad said that the US should withdraw from Afghanistan, failing
which it would "taste fatal upset just like former Soviet Union
during Afghan Jihad."
Jamaat-Ulema-e-lslam declares Jehad against the US and its allies.
|
October
12 |
Security
force personnel killed and seven more injured in Karachi in clashes
with a large group of violent demonstrators, led by the Pak-Afghan
Defence Council (PADC), protesting US air raids on Afghanistan's
Taliban regime. More than 70 demonstrators are arrested. |
October
14 |
Two
police personnel killed by unidentified gunmen in Karachi. |
October
22 |
34
Pakistani HUM terrorists killed in a bombing raid by US planes on
a building in Kabul. |
October
23 |
Sultan
Bashiruddin Mahmood, former Director General of the Pakistan Atomic
Energy Commission (PAEC), founder of UmmahTamir-e-Nau (UTN)
is arrested, from Islamabad along with his associate Abdul Majeed
(arrested in Lahore) for their alleged links to Osama bin Laden's
Al Qaeda network.
Media reports say 23 terrorists, citizens of Pakistan, killed in-an
unspecified date in US-led military strikes in Afghanistan. |
October
26 |
Doctor
killed and four others injured in Lahore blast. |
October
27 |
News
reports from Bajaur, North West Frontier Province, indicated that
approximately 10,000 Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM)
cadres led by their Chief, Maulana Sufi Mohammed, cross the Pakistan-Afghan
border. |
October
28 |
A
policeman and 17 Christians, including five children, are killed
and nine others injured when six unidentified gunmen opened indiscriminate
fire on a church in Model Town, Bahawalpur. The SSP is suspected
to be responsible for the massacre.
Two Army personnel and another are killed, while 25 more are injured,
in a blast inside a bus in the cantonment area in Quetta. |
November
2 |
Four
HuM terrorists and a security force personnel are injured in gunfire
opened by unidentified armed-men on a reception camp of the HuM
in Karachi during the night. |
November
4 |
Five
persons, including a former District Council chairman, are killed
and two more injured in firing by unidentified gunmen near Mehargam,
Quetta. |
November
6 |
Federal
government freezes bank accounts of the JeM and the Rabita Trust,
a Lahore-based Islamic charity. |
November
8 |
85
Pakistani cadres of HuJI killed in US air raids on the defence line
at Darae Noor, Dara-i-Souf valley, in the Balkh province of Afghanistan.
|
November
17 |
Three
security force personnel and a tribesman are killed in an exchange
of fire near Fort Salop, in the Bara sub-division of Khyber Tribal
Agency. Two more security force personnel and a tribesman are injured,
too. |
November
23 |
Hafiz
Mohammed Saeed, erstwhile LeT chief, says many Lashkar terrorists
are fighting alongside the Taliban militia. |
November
24 |
Unidentified
terrorists fire a rocket at a college building in Karachi, close
to the US Consulate and a military training centre. |
November
26 |
Six
tribesmen of the former Asmat militia are killed in US bombing in
the Adha area 5km north-east of Chaman inside Afghanistan while
waiting to attack the Taliban together with men owing allegiance
to the anti-Taliban ex-Governor of Kandahar. |
December |
India
imposes sanctions against Pakistan, to force it to take action against
two Kashmir militant groups blamed for a suicide attack on parliament
in New Dehli. Pakistan retaliates with similar sanctions.
India, Pakistan mass troops along common border amid mounting fears
of a looming war. |
December
9 |
Former
Taliban Ambassador Mullah Zaef prevented from entering a madrassa
in Islamabad. |
December
10 |
LeT
relocates headquarters to Muzaffarabad, the capital of PoK, following
'government pressure'. |
December
12 |
Jaish-e-Mohammed
renamed as AI-Furqan. |
December
13 |
19
persons injured in a bomb blast at a residential area, Abdul Hameed
Colony, in Orangi Town in Karachi. |
December
16 |
Lashkar-e-Toiba
demands evidence of its involvement in the December 13-attack on
India's parliament. |
December
21 |
Interior
Master Moinuddin Haider's brother murdered in a-suspected terrorist
attack in Karachi. |
December
23 |
All
seven of UTN's directors are detained |
December
24 |
State
Bank of Pakistan (SBP) freezes LeT accounts.
Lashkar-e-Toiba chief resigns; parent organisation Markaz rechristened.
|
December
26 |
Masood
Azhar's brother among 25 JeM terrorists arrested in Bahawalpur. |
December
30 |
Hafiz
Mohammed Saeed, who has just relinquished the post of Lashkat-e-Toiba
chief, arrested in Islamabad for making inflammatory speeches and
inciting people |
December
31 |
15
persons injured in a bomb blast in the Defence Housing Authority
area, Karachi. |
2002 |
|
January |
President
Musharraf bans two militant groups - Lashkar-e-Toiba
and Jaish-e-Mohammad
- and takes steps to curb religious extremism.
Musharraf announces that elections will be held in October 2002
to end three years of military rule.
Musharraf wins another five years in office in a referendum criticised
as unconstitutional and fraught with irregularities. |
January
5 |
Sipah-e-Sahaba
Pakistan (SSP) activists
arrested in a series of raids by security agencies on January 4-5
in Sindh and Punjab |
January
12 |
The
SSP is one of the five outfits that have been proscribed by President
Pervez Musharraf. |
January
15 |
In
a crackdown on bank accounts of banned organisations, the accounts
State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) seizes the accounts of Sipah-e-Sahaba
Pakistan. |
March
16 |
Five
SSP cadres killed near Merik Sial in Jhang by a group of 10 unidentified
assailants. |
April
15 |
Two
SSP cadres indicted by a Karachi Anti-Terrorism Court in a sectarian
killing case in which 10 persons were killed and five others injured
in Al-Falah Colony off Shahrea-i-Faisal. |
May
5 |
SSP
cadre killed by two unidentified gunmen in the Gulbahar area of
Karachi. |
May
6
|
Three persons––principal of a government institute, his driver
and assistant, killed in an ambush in Al-Falah, Karachi.
|
May
7
|
Noted religious scholar Ghulam Murtaza Malik, his driver and a
police personnel are killed in Mehran Block, Gulshan-e-Iqbal in
Lahore.
|
May
8
|
Nine French nationals and five Pakistanis, including a suspected
suicide bomber, are killed and 34 more injured in a bomb explosion
inside a bus opposite Sheraton Hotel, Karachi.
Two
police personnel killed and another injured in Rawalpindi.
|
May
9
|
298 persons, primarily those with links to terrorist groups, are
arrested in a countrywide crackdown following the May 8-Karachi
Sheraton Hotel-suicide attack.
|
May
10
|
Dozens of activists of the proscribed Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi
(TNSM) arrested in
Malakand for alleged links with terrorist groups.
|
May
11
|
400 Afghan nationals arrested in the crackdown on illegal immigrants
in Islamabad.
United
States agrees to let Pakistan try Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, JeM
terrorist and prime accused in the abduction-cum-murder of US
journalist Daniel Pearl, before initiating any moves seeking his
extradition.
|
May
14
|
Pakistan’s most wanted sectarian terrorist, Riaz Basra, also the
chief of the proscribed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ),
a Sunni group, killed along with three accomplices in an encounter
in Mailsi, Multan.
|
May
15
|
Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT)
chief Hafiz Mohammed Saeed arrested from Lahore on arrival from
Lahore in Islamabad.
|
May
16
|
Three persons arrested in Karachi direct the police to the spot
where they claimed murdered US journalist Daniel Pearl had been
buried.
|
May
17
|
Five persons were killed and more
than 40 injured, including the High Commissioner of Sri Lanka
to Pakistan, in a grenade attack on a church in Islamabad. The
attack occurred during the Sunday morning service at the Protestant
International Church located between the American and Russian
Embassies in the heavily protected area of the Diplomatic Enclave.
According to media reports, a terrorist walked into the prayer
hall and hurled six grenades on worshipers and later managed to
escape from the incident site. Some eye witness accounts, however,
have indicated the presence of two or three terrorists. Amongst
those killed were Barbara Green, wife of an American diplomat
and her daughter, two Pakistanis and an Afghan. The injured belonged
to different countries including the USA, Britain, Australia,
Canada, Switzerland, Afghanistan, Iran, Ethiopia, Iraq and Sri
Lanka.
|
May
19
|
A spokesperson of a hitherto unknown organisation, Hezbullah Alami,
claims responsibility for the May 8-bomb blasts in Karachi and
murder of US journalist Daniel Pearl.
|
May
22
|
A local leader of proscribed Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP)
killed in Gulistan-e-Mustafa, Karachi.
|
May
24
|
Sunni Tehreek (ST) cadre killed and four others injured as unidentified
gunmen open fire on an ST rally in Majeed Colony, Karachi.
|
June
9
|
Front-ranking leader of Baluchistan National Party (BNP), Mir
Aslam Gichki assassinated along with an associate in Mashkey,
Quetta.
|
June
14
|
10 persons, including five women, killed and 51 others injured
in a car-bomb blast outside the US Consulate in Karachi.
|
June
16
|
Haqiqi Mohajir Quami Movement (MQM-H)
activist killed in Karachi.
|
June
17
|
Three Shia worshippers killed in suspected sectarian attack outside
a mosque in Multan.
Akram
Lahori, front ranking terrorist of the LeJ, and five accomplices
arrested from Orangi Town, Karchi.
|
June
19
|
Hizb-ul-Mujahideen rules out ceasefire with India.
|
June
21
|
Anti-Terrorism Court (ATC) in Hyderabad, Sindh, frames 28 charges
against Omar Sheikh, front ranking JeM terrorist and prime accused
in the Daniel Pearl abduction-cum-murder case.
|
June
24
|
One person killed in suspected sectarian attack in North Karachi.
|
June
25
|
Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF)
faction chief Amanullah Khan condemns President Musharraf's pledge
to permanently end terrorist incursions into the Indian State
of Jammu and Kashmir.
|
June
26
|
Pakistan National Kashmir Committee chairman Abdul Qayyum Khan
says presence of foreign mercenaries in Jammu and Kashmir is detrimental
to ‘Kashmir struggle’.
|
June
27
|
Shia activist killed in sectarian attack in Multan.
Two
arrested LeJ activists, Akram Lahori and Attaur Rehman, reportedly
confess to their involvement in the June 14-car-bomb blast outside
the US Consulate in Karachi.
|
June
28
|
A senior official of the proscribed Shia group Tehreek-e-Jaferia
Pakistan (TJP) killed
in Multan in suspected sectarian attack.
|
July
1
|
Akram Lahori, LeJ chief, confesses to involvement in 38 cases
of sectarian killings in Sindh.
|
July
2
|
Four suspected members of a proscribed group killed in an encounter
with police in Shahdara town, near Haji Kot.
|
July
3
|
Four Al Qaeda terrorists
and two security force (SF) personnel killed and two police personnel
injured in an encounter near Jarma bridge in Kohat.
|
July
4
|
Maulvi Ghulam Syed Haqqani, former Taliban leader, killed in Mamond
subdivision, Bajaur.
|
July
13
|
12
persons, including seven Germans, injured in a terrorist attack
at an Archaeological site in Mansehra.
|
July
15
|
An
Anti-Terrorism Court in Hyderabad awards death sentence to JeM
terrorist Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and life term to three co-accused
in the Daniel Pearl abduction-cum-murder case.
|
July
15
|
MQM-A
activist killed near 'Nine Zero', Azizabad, MQM-A headquarters,
in Karachi.
|
July
16
|
United
States says it would not push Pakistan for extraditing JeM terrorist
Omar Sheikh, sentenced to death on July 15 for abducting and murdering
Daniel Pearl.
|
July
17
|
Two
terrorists of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen Al-Aalami (HuMA) confess
to the judicial magistrate in Karachi that they were involved
in a conspiracy to kill President Pervez Musharraf on April 26.
|
July
18
|
12
foreigners arrested in Peshawar for links with the Al Qaeda.
|
July
19
|
Violence
breaks out in Karachi following arrest of 60 MQM-A activists.
|
July
20
|
Mir
Ghulam Qadir Baloch, Baluchistan National Movement (BNM) leader,
shot dead in Turbat Bazaar, Quetta.
|
July
22
|
Four
LeJ terrorists arrested in Vehari in connection with the October
28, 2001-Bahawalpur church attack.
|
July
24
|
20
suspected Al Qaeda terrorists arrested in Bajaur, near Pak-Afghan
border.
Separately,
one HuMA activist arrested in connection with the June-14 car-bomb
explosion near US Consulate in Karachi.
|
July
27
|
Four
foreigners arrested for links with Al Qaeda by a US Federal Bureau
of Investigation (FBI) team along with Pakistan Rangers in Khairpur.
|
July
28
|
Six
terrorists killed in Bahawalpur encounter.
|
July
29
|
United
Jehad Council (UJC) says terrorist camps in PoK are closed.
|
July
30
|
One
person killed after violence erupts in Malir Town, Karachi, following
the arrest of four MQM-A leaders.
Lahore
High Court extends detention of JeM chief Maulana Masood Azhar
till August 15, 2002.
|
July
31
|
Federal
and Provincial governments deny ordering the arrest of LeT chief
Hafiz Saeed, and state that he is not in their custody.
|
August
1
|
World
Bank study says approximately 15-20 per cent of madrassas (seminaries)
are involved in military-related teachings and training.
|
August
2
|
Reports
say US authorities have placed six Pakistanis on the list of suspected
terrorists, businesses and organisations suspected of supporting
terrorism.
Lawyer
representing LeT chief Hafiz Saeed petitions to the Lahore High
Court seeking his client’s release, saying that the government
had detained him illegally.
|
August
3
|
Government
decides to join the International Convention on the Suppression
of Terrorist Bombings, that came into force on January 12, 1998,
and sign the Organization of Islamic Conference (OIC) Convention
on Combating International Terrorism.
|
August
4
|
Peshawar tribal
council turns-in Al Qaeda collaborator to authorities.
Osama bin
Laden not responsible for 9/11 attacks says President Musharraf.
|
August
5
|
Six
persons killed and four others injured in terrorist attack on
Christian missionary school in Jhika Gali, Murree.
36
activists of SSP and TJP arrested in Gujranwala.
|
August
6
|
Three suspects
in the August 5-Murree School attack blow themselves up in Khapadar,
PoK.
MQM-A activist
killed in Gulshan-e-Iqbal area of Karachi.
A local–level
leader and central council member of the JuI is killed and two
others injured in Quetta.
National Database
and Registration Authority (NADRA) Director Brigadier Bartar Hasan
Naqvi injured in Quetta.
|
August
7
|
Hitherto
unknown terrorist organisation, Al-Intiqam, claims responsibility
for the August 5-Murree Christian school attack.
|
August
8
|
16
missiles recovered in Akakhel village, Khyber Agency.
|
August
9
|
Three
women and a terrorist are killed, and 24 others injured as terrorists
attack John C. Heinrich Memorial chapel in the Mission Hospital
at Taxila.
|
August
14
|
Bin Laden
and Taliban chief Mullah Omar could be dead, says President Musharraf
in an interview to Russian daily Izvestia.
27
terrorists arrested in Punjab province.
|
August
15
|
Karachi
court orders release of three Harkat-ul-Mujahideen Al-Aalmi terrorists.
|
August
16
|
Suspected
JeM terrorist killed in Sahiwal-seminary blast.
|
August
17
|
58
prisoners of Pakistani origin registered at Guantanamo Base in
Cuba, says Interior Minister Moinuddin Haider.
|
August
18
|
A
youth is killed and three women injured in an explosion at Skardu.
Five
Somalis arrested near the Afghan border for suspected links with
Al Qaeda.
|
August
21
|
14
terrorists accused in the attack on foreign tourists at Archaeological
site in Mansehra, on July 13, are released after an interrogation
team finds them innocent.
|
August
23
|
MQM-H
chairman Afaq Ahmed and secretary general Amir Khan survive assassination
attempt in Karachi.
|
August
26
|
Government
rules out allowing US troops to carry out operations against the
Al Qaeda or Taliban terrorists, who might have escaped from Afghanistan
into Pakistan’s border areas.
|
August
27
|
13
Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM) terrorists arrested in Peshawar.
|
September
5
|
Prayer
leader killed by two unidentified assailants in North Nazimabad,
Karachi.
|
September
8
|
Four
LeJ terrorists killed in an encounter in Kehror Pucca area, Lodhran
district.
|
September
9
|
Five
Harkat-ul-Mujahideen-al-Aalmi (HuMA) terrorists arrested in Karachi
for plotting to assassinate President Pervez Musharraf.
|
September
11
|
Two
suspected Al Qaeda terrorists killed and seven security force
personnel injured in an encounter in the Defence Housing Authority
locality, Karachi.
|
September
12
|
Italian
police announce arrests of 15 Pakistani Al Qaeda suspects.
|
September
13
|
Reports
indicate that Ramzi Binalshibh, prime suspect in 9/11 terrorist
attacks on the United States, is spotted and detained.
|
September
15
|
One
person is killed and five others, including a girl, injured in
a bomb explosion in a Karachi-bound bus at Pathan Colony, in Hyderabad,
Sindh.
|
September
16
|
Government
hands over 9/11 suspect and key Al Qaeda terrorist Ramzi Binalshibh
and four others to US custody. All of them are flown out of the
country.
A
woman is killed and a child injured in Miranshah, Peshawar, in
a toy-bomb explosion.
|
September
17
|
An
MQM-A activist is killed in Karachi.
|
September
18
|
Eight
terrorists of the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen Al-Alami (HuMA) are arrested
from different places in Karachi.
|
September
21
|
Five
HuMA terrorists are arrested in Karachi.
|
September
22
|
Five
Al Qaeda suspects are arrested in Peshawar and Mianwali.
|
September
25
|
Seven
persons are killed and three others injured in a terrorist attack
on a Christian welfare organisation's office––the Idara Amn-O-Insaaf
(Institute for Peace and Justice).
An
anti-terrorism court in Peshawar grants bail to 11 HuM terrorists.
|
September
26
|
A
former MQM-A activist is killed in Karachi.
|
September
29
|
Two
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ)
terrorists commit suicide to avoid arrest in Jhang.
|
October
4
|
A grenade attack is launched on a Christian hospital in Bannu.
|
October
5
|
Sahiwal police arrest four SMP terrorists in Qutab Shana village,
in Multan district.
|
October
6
|
The Altaf faction of the MQM alleges that the rival Haqiqi faction
had killed one of its activists in Karachi.
|
October
8
|
Police in Peshawar arrest three local residents and two Afghans
from the Shamshato refugee camp on charges of providing shelter
to Al Qaeda suspects.
|
October
9
|
A letter purportedly written by Osama bin Laden on the eve of
the general elections exhorts Pakistanis to struggle for the removal
of the military regime and the establishment of an Islamic government.
|
October
11
|
General elections are held across the country.
|
October
12
|
No party secures a clear majority in the general elections. Pakistan
Muslim League (Quaid-e-Azam) emerges as the single largest party
winning 76 of the 272 seats. The Right-wing Muttahhida Majlis-e-Amal
Pakistan wins 53 seats.
|
October 16
|
Three-parcel
bomb explosions cause injuries to eight police personnel and a
civilian in Karachi
|
October 21
|
Government
announces pull back of troops from the International Border (IB)
with India.
|
October 22
|
Government
makes formal request to the USA to set free 57 Pakistanis detained
at the US naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
|
October 23
|
Seven persons
are injured in bomb blast in Rawalpindi.
|
October 25
|
Unidentified
persons kill an MQM-A cadre in Pak Colony, Karachi.
|
October 29
|
An SSP activist
is killed within the precincts of Clifton police station in Karachi.
|
October 30
|
Maulana Azam
Tariq, SSP chief, is released after 11 months in detention at
a prison in Rawalpindi.
|
October 31
|
Hafiz Saeed,
LeT chief, is set free but later put under house arrest in Lahore.
|
November 1
|
Unidentified
terrorists kill two police personnel in Quetta.
A Shia doctor is killed by unidentified assailant in the Upper
Mall locality, Lahore.
|
November
5
|
Three Pakistanis are arrested in California for attempting to
supply US-made Stinger missiles to the Al Qaeda.
|
November
8
|
Ummah Tamir-e-Nau is among nine groups placed on US terrorism
blacklist for visas.
|
November
11
|
17 Pakistani Taliban cadres held as prisoners in Afghanistan for
fighting alongside the former Taliban militia are released in
Kabul.
|
November
14
|
Pakistani terrorist Mir Aimal Kasi, convicted for the 1993-killing
of two Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) employees in front of
the agency's headquarters, in Langley, Virginia, is executed at
the Virginia state prison.
|
November
15
|
Two persons are killed and nine more injured in a bomb explosion
inside a passenger bus in Hyderabad, Sindh.
|
November 17
|
Four unidentified
assailants kill an Afghan Taliban, the chief priest at a Karachi
mosque, within the mosque compound.
Federal
government amends anti-terrorism law allowing police to detain
terror suspects for up to one year without charges.
|
November 18
|
Lahore
High Court declares detention of LeT chief Hafiz Muhammad Saeed
as unlawful and orders his immediate release, if not required
in any other case.
|
November 19
|
LeT chief
Hafiz Muhammad Saeed is released from house arrest as following
an order by Punjab Home Secretary Brigadier Ijaz Shah to remove
police presence around his Johar Town-residence in Lahore.
Lahore-based
doctor Amir Aziz, arrested on October 21 for alleged links with
the Taliban and Al Qaeda, is released.
|
November 21
|
Pakistan Muslim
League-Quaid-i-Azam candidate Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali elected
as the 16th Prime Minister of Pakistan.
|
November 22
|
An MQM-H activist
is killed by two unidentified assailants outside his residence
in Landhi, Karachi.
Al
Omar Mujahideen ‘supreme commander’ Mushtaq Zargar arrested in
Islamabad.
|
November 24
|
One person
is killed and six vehicles are set afire in MQM violence in Karachi.
United
States’ Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Pakistani law
enforcement agencies arrest three Al Qaeda suspects from Satellite
Town in Quetta.
|
November 29
|
Canadian government
designates the Jaish-e-Mohammed and Harkat-ul-Mujahideen as terrorist
groups.
Six
Pakistanis are among the 12 persons arrested for questioning in
Kenya in connection with the November-28 terrorist attacks in
Mombassa in which 16 persons were killed.
|
December 2
|
65 MQM-H activists
are arrested in separate raids in Karachi.
|
December 4
|
Three
persons are killed in a bomb blast at the Macedonian Honorary Consul
General’s office in Karachi. |
December
7 |
Four
members of a family are killed and seven more injured in a landmine
explosion in Shahkas village, 25km west of Peshawar. |
December
8 |
An
MQM-H cadre is abducted from Gulistan-e-Jauhar area in Karachi and
later killed by unidentified assailants. |
December
14 |
A three-member
Review Board of Lahore High Court orders the release of Jaish-e-Mohammed
(JeM)
chief Maulana Masood Azhar.
Police arrest
three terrorists in Karachi and foil a plot to kill US diplomats
in a suicide attack.
|
December
15 |
An
MQM-A activist is killed by unidentified assailants within the precincts
of Liaquatabad police station in Karachi. |
December
19 |
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
chief Ramzi and six others are killed in an explosion at a house
in Allahwala Town, Korangi area, Karachi.
US Federal
Bureau of Investigation (FBI) arrests leading a medical practitioner
and eight members of his family from their residence alongside
GT Road in Manawan, Lahore.
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December
21 |
Two
persons are killed and seven others, including two security force
personnel, are injured in a bomb explosion in a bus in Hyderabad,
Sindh. |
December
24 |
11
persons are injured in a bomb explosion at Peerwadahi Bus Stand,
Rawalpindi. |
December
25 |
Three women are killed and 15 persons injured
in grenade attack on the United Presbyterian Church near Sialkot,
Punjab province.
Lahore High Court stops immediate extradition of three Al
Qaeda suspects arrested in a raid involving US agents on December
19.
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