January 3
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Six terrorists affiliated
to the Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP)
and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM)
are arrested in Lahore in connection with the December 25, 2003,
assassination attempt on President Pervez Musharraf in Rawalpindi.
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January 6
|
India and Pakistan
agree to commence the process of composite dialogue from February
2004 to resolve all outstanding bilateral issues, including Kashmir.
The Indian External Affairs Minister Yashwant Sinha and his Pakistani
counterpart Khurshid Mahmood Kasuri, at separate press conferences
in Islamabad, read out to the media a joint press statement on
the talks between Indian Premier Atal Behari Vajpayee and President
Pervez Musharraf.
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January 9
|
Four soldiers are
killed during a rocket attack on a Pakistan Army camp in the South
Waziristan Agency, several hours after a military operation in
the area in which three houses of tribesmen were demolished for
allegedly harbouring "foreign terrorists."
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January 10
|
The cabinet approves
amendments to the Anti-Terrorism Act 1997 and increases the minimum
and maximum punishment for financiers of terrorism, besides making
it a non-bailable offence.
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January 11
|
A local intelligence
official, Muhammad Naeem, is arrested in Islamabad for allegedly
tipping off the two suicide bombers who tried to crash their explosive
laden vehicles into President Musharraf’s convoy at Rawalpindi
on December 25, 2003.
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January 15
|
At least 14 persons
are injured and a dozen vehicles damaged in two explosions within
a period of fifteen minutes along the parking area of the Karachi's
Holy Trinity Church.
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January 17
|
Addressing a joint
session of parliament, President Musharraf calls for a Jihad against
extremism that he said was one of four "dangerous allegations"
facing the country, and urged parliamentarians to prove themselves
worthy of shouldering important responsibilities. The other such
allegations cited by him were militants operations in Afghanistan,
cross-border terrorism in Kashmir and nuclear weapons proliferation.
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January 21
|
President Musharraf
rules out any unilateral shift in Pakistan’s Kashmir policy, saying
both New Delhi and Islamabad would have to show flexibility to
resolve the issue for peace in South Asia.
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February 4
|
The founder of Pakistan’s
nuclear weapons programme, Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan, makes a mercy
petition to President General Pervez Musharraf after admitting
that he proliferated nuclear technology.
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February 5
|
President Pervez
Musharraf accepts the mercy petition of Dr Abdul Qadeer Khan,
founder of Pakistan’s nuclear weapons programme, consequent to
the latter’s admittance of nuclear technology proliferation.
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February 15
|
In a suspected terrorist incident, a Muttahida
Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) leader from the Jamiat-Ulema-e-Islam (JuI)
party is shot dead by unidentified assailants at Sahiwal in Multan.
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February 18
|
India and Pakistan reach an agreement on a framework
for talks on bilateral issues including Kashmir, terrorism and
nuclear weapons. Indian Foreign Secretary Shashank and his Pakistani
counterpart Riaz Ahmad Khokhar, according to a joint statement,
endorse the agreement worked out at the Joint Secretary-Director
General level dialogue held in Islamabad on February 16 and 17.
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February 18
|
Suspected Islamist radicals opposed to female
education attempt to blow up a girl’s school in the remote town
of Chilas in the Gilgit area of Northern Areas.
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February 20
|
Unidentified persons are reported to have set
ablaze another school in the Diamer district of Gilgit in the
Northern Areas of Pakistan, raising the number of damaged schools
to nine.
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February 21
|
Mohammad Ilyas Kashmiri, the Muzaffarabad-based
chief of Harkat-ul-Jehadi-e-Islami (HuJI),
is released after a one-month detention for suspected links with
suicide terrorists who targeted President Pervez Musharraf’s motorcade
in Rawalpindi on December 25, 2003.
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February 24
|
At least 20 Al Qaeda suspects, including some
foreign nationals, are arrested during raids in South Waziristan
Agency bordering Afghanistan.
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February 28
|
A suicide bomber is killed and four worshippers
sustain injuries in an attack on an mosque in the Satellite Town
area of Rawalpindi.
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March 2
|
At least 47 persons are killed and more than
150 wounded when a procession of the Shia sect is attacked by
rival Sunni extremists at Liaquat Bazaar in Quetta, capital of
Baluchistan.
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March 5
|
Senator Lt General (retd.) Javed Ashraf Qazi
says in Islamabad that the outlawed Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM)
was involved in the December 2003 assassination attempts on President
Pervez Musharraf. "We must not be afraid of admitting that Jaish
was involved in the deaths of thousands of innocent Kashmiris,
bombing the Indian Parliament, Daniel Pearl’s murder and attempts
on President Musharraf’s life," said Senator Qazi, who is also
a former Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) Director General.
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March 6
|
A member of the Sindh Assembly affiliated to
the Pakistan People's Party (PPP), Abdullah Murad Baloch, is shot
dead along with his driver by unidentified assailants in the Al-Falah
Society area of Karachi.
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March 8
|
Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali says
in Islamabad that no Al Qaeda
network existed in Pakistan, but sometimes its operatives entered
Pakistan through the porous border with Afghanistan.
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March 15
|
President Musharraf says in Peshawar that a
Libyan national was involved in the two attempts on his life during
December 2003.
Police prevent a huge car-bomb from exploding
outside the US Consulate in Karachi two days before US Secretary
of State Colin Powell’s visit to Pakistan.
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March 16
|
At least sixteen soldiers and 24 terrorists
are killed and 22 troops sustain injuries during an operation
against Al Qaeda and Taliban
suspects in the South Waziristan tribal agency bordering Afghanistan.
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March 18
|
The MMA regime in North West Frontier Province
asks Federal Government to immediately stop the military operation
in South Waziristan.
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March 19
|
Lahore Police arrests former Member of National
Assembly, Amanullah Sial, who had been declared a proclaimed offender
in the Maulana Azam Tariq murder case.
The US State Department says that $300 million
Foreign Military Financing assistance requested for next year
will strengthen Pakistan’s ability to fight terrorism. A fact
sheet of the Department indicates that other security assistance
to Pakistan would help strengthen its law enforcement and counter-narcotics
capacities.
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March 21
|
According to a half yearly review report of
the Asian Development Bank released in Islamabad, Pakistan receives
almost $100 million per month, on account of logistics support,
it provides to the US troops in the war against terrorism.
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March 22
|
At least 13 soldiers are killed and 22 others
wounded as terrorists ambush a Pakistan Army convoy near the town
of Wana in South Waziristan.
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March 23
|
At least four soldiers are killed and four others
sustain injuries during a rocket attack at Kurram Agency in the
North West Frontier Province (NWFP).
Four persons, including three police personnel,
are killed and a soldier is wounded in an explosion near the Barani
Bridge at Bannu in NWFP.
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March 24
|
The United States lifts sanctions imposed after
the 1999 coup that brought Gen. Pervez Musharraf to power, saying
the action would ease democratic transition in Pakistan and contribute
to the war on terrorism. The lifting of restrictions on Pakistan
"would facilitate the transition to democratic rule in Pakistan"
and "is important to the United States efforts to respond to,
deter or prevent acts of international terrorism," President George
W Bush said in a letter to Secretary of State Colin Powell.
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March 25
|
Arabic television Al Jazeera airs a purported
new tape by senior Al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahri in which he
called on Pakistanis to overthrow "traitor" President Pervez Musharraf’s
regime. "I call on Muslims in Pakistan to get rid of their government
which is working for Americans," said the voice on the tape.
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March 26
|
Lahore High Court orders the release of Allama
Syed Sajid Ali Naqvi, chief of Tehreek-e-Jaferia Pakistan (TJP,
now known as Millat Jaferia Pakistan), who was arrested for his
alleged involvement in the murder of Sunni leader and chief of
Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP)
Maulana Azam Tariq.
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March 28
|
Three Jaish-e-Mohammed terrorists are arrested
for their alleged involvement in the December 25, 2003, suicide
attack on President Pervez Musharraf.
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March 29
|
Pakistan military announces that the Al Qaeda
intelligence chief, Abdullah, was killed during recent military
operations in the Wana area of South Waziristan.
A court in Karachi sentences an Islamist terrorist
to death for killing two police personnel guarding the US Consulate
in Karachi on February 28, 2003.
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March 30
|
The Director General of Inter-Services Public
Relations (ISPR) Shaukat Sultan denies in Islamabad that Abdullah,
killed during the military operation in South Waziristan, was
the Al Qaeda intelligence chief.
Police in London arrest eight Muslims believed
to be of Pakistani origin along with a cache of explosives for
suspected terrorist links.
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March 31
|
An Anti-Terrorism Court in Islamabad delivers
death sentences to three convicts and life imprisonment to another
four for a terrorist attack on a missionary school in Murree on
August 5, 2002. Six persons were killed and four others wounded
in the attack on a Christian missionary school in Jhika Gali,
Murree.
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April 3
|
Chief of the Mohajir Qaumi Movement-Haqiqi (MQM-H),
Afaq Ahmed, is arrested from the Defence area in Karachi.
|
April 4
|
Five police personnel are killed and another
sustains injuries in an attack by unidentified terrorists on the
Gulistan-e-Jauhar police station in Karachi.
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April 6
|
Four Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Altaf Hussain
(MQM-A) activists are
shot dead by unidentified assailants at Raza Square in the Gulshan-e-Iqbal
area of Karachi.
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April 10
|
A civilian is killed and seven others are wounded
during a bomb explosion near the Defense Housing Authority Golf
Club in Karachi.
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April 12
|
Karachi Police arrests six Harkat-ul-Mujahideen
Al-alami (HuMA) terrorists from a house in the Manzoor Colony
area when they were allegedly planning terrorist attacks.
|
April 14
|
Three Zalikhel sub-tribes form a 1500-man force
in Wana, South Waziristan, to help authorities fight the Al
Qaeda remnants and their supporters.
|
April 15
|
A 21-year-old Pakistani student in Australia
is charged, after being arrested from Sydney, with receiving training
from the Lashkar-e-Toiba.
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April 16
|
Two terrorists of the Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, including
a suspect in the abduction cum murder of Wall Street Journal reporter
Daniel Pearl, are arrested in Lahore.
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April 18
|
US Ambassador to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad,
says in Kabul that the Al Qaeda, Taliban
and Hizb-e-Islami elements were still in Pakistan and blamed them
for cross-border terrorist activities.
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April 22
|
Faheem Khalid Lodhi, a Pakistani-born man, is
charged with planning a terrorist attack in Australia. Lohdi was
allegedly planning an attack on a major infrastructure facility
and had used a shelf company to price chemicals that could be
used to make a bomb.
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April 24
|
Five tribesmen accused of sheltering Al Qaeda
terrorists surrender to the Pakistan army at a Jirga (tribal council)
at a Madrassa (seminary) in Shakai, 20 kilometers north
of Wana, in South Waziristan.
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April 29
|
A teenaged boy is reportedly killed and 12 people
sustain injuries during a bomb blast at Naikupura Bazaar near
Pul Aik in Sialkot.
|
May 1
|
The South Waziristan political administration
releases 78 tribesmen arrested last month during operations against
Al Qaeda terrorists and their local sympathisers in the tribal
areas.
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May 3
|
Three Chinese engineers working on a sea-port
project are killed and eleven persons, including nine Chinese
nationals, sustain injuries in a car bomb attack near Gwadar,
about 500 kilometers west of Karachi, near the border with Iran.
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May 5
|
A tribal Jirga (council) at Lowara in the North
Waziristan Agency near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border asks the
Pakistan Army and paramilitary forces to withdraw from the area
as the tribesmen would defend the country’s western frontiers
against the US-led coalition forces.
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May 7
|
At least 15 Shia worshippers and a suspected
suicide bomber are killed and over 200 persons sustain injuries
when a powerful bomb exploded at Hyderi Mosque, situated within
the premises of the seminary Sindh Madrasa-tul-Islam, in the Mithadar
area of Karachi.
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May 10
|
Tribesmen in South Waziristan Agency announce
the formation of an armed force to neutralise foreign terrorists
and their local protectors following the failure of talks between
the Government and the representatives of the tribesmen.
|
May 11
|
In a video posted on an Islamist militant website
showing the beheading of an American civilian in Iraq, an Al
Qaeda-affiliated group said it is "ready to take on Pakistani
soldiers on the borders with Afghanistan", according to reports
in The Associated Press.
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May 12
|
The Government of Pakistan has "no connections"
with terrorist organisations operating in the Indian State of
Jammu and Kashmir "none today, whatsoever", claims Principal Deputy
Assistant Secretary of State Michael G Kozak while testifying
before the House Sub Committee on Human Rights and Wellness.
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May 13
|
Pakistan expresses confidence that the peace
process with India would continue despite the defeat of the incumbent
Government led by Atal Behari Vajpayee in the recently concluded
elections.
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May 15
|
President Pervez Musharraf calls for a review
of "controversial" Islamic laws that human rights groups say are
discriminatory against women and minorities.
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May 19
|
Security agencies in Peshawar arrest five Al
Qaeda suspects, including two Arab nationals, two ethnic Uzbeks
and an Afghan, who had allegedly escaped during the Pakistan Army
operation in the South Waziristan tribal area.
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May 21
|
Macedonia has apologised over its security forces’
killings of six Pakistanis two years ago, after they were falsely
accused of involvement in alleged terrorist plots to attack the
US Embassy, said the Pakistani Foreign Ministry.
|
May 22
|
Pakistan is re-admitted into the Commonwealth,
four-and-a-half years after its membership was suspended consequent
to the October 1999-coup that brought General Pervez Musharraf
to power.
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May 23
|
In an interview to the Lahore-based Daily Times,
Yahya Mujahid, a spokesperson of the outlawed Lashkar-e-Toiba
(LeT),
claims that it has no international network and ‘ambitions’ against
the West. He was responding to allegations in the Western media
that LeT was part of the Al Qaeda network that planned terrorist
attacks in the United States, Europe and Australia.
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May 24
|
At least 14 security force personnel and a civilian
are wounded during a bomb explosion in the outskirts of Quetta.
|
May 25
|
One person is killed and three others sustain
injuries when a parcel bomb explodes near gate No 17 of the Karachi
Port Trust.
|
May 26
|
Two persons are killed and at least 33 others,
mostly police and media personnel, are wounded when two car bombs
explode in succession near the Pakistan-American Cultural Centre
(PACC) and the residence of the US Consul-General in Karachi.
|
May 28
|
Some terrorists from the Chinese province of
Xinjiang are hiding in Lahore and Rawalpindi, Chinese Deputy Director
of Public Security, Ma Mingyue, states in Urumqi.
|
May 30
|
The pro-Taliban Sunni cleric and chief of Binoria
mosque in Karachi, Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, is killed and his
son, nephew and driver are wounded, when armed men ambushed their
vehicle in front of the mosque.
|
May 31
|
At least 24 worshippers are killed and 34 others
sustain injuries when a high-intensity bomb explodes during the
evening prayers at a Shia mosque situated on the MA Jinnah Road
in Karachi.
|
June 1
|
The Northern Areas administration decides to
close all Government schools in the Gilgit and Skardu districts
for an indefinite period amidst strikes initiated by the Shia
community over the controversial syllabi in educational institutions.
|
June 3
|
A suspected Uzbek operative of the Al Qaeda
and a soldier of Shawal Scouts are killed in a suspected suicide
attack, while two soldiers sustain injuries at a check-post in
the North Waziristan agency, close to the Afghanistan border.
One person is killed and several others sustain
injuries when Shia protestors clashed with troops in the Gilgit
city during a curfew that was imposed in the city’s municipal
limits.
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June 6
|
Three persons are killed in the Gilgit city
of Northern Areas when troops opened fire on a vehicle violating
a round-the-clock curfew imposed on June 3 due to sectarian unrest
amid agitation by the Shia community demanding changes to Islamic
textbooks.
Two persons are killed and two others sustain
injuries during a landmine explosion in the Kohlu distinct of
Baluchistan province.
|
June 7
|
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
(UNHCR) is reported to have limited its operations, while other
foreign non-governmental organisations closed their offices in
Quetta, capital of Baluchistan province, despite assurances from
the Home Department regarding provision of security to them.
|
June 8
|
Protesting against the launching of military
operations against tribesmen in Wana, South Waziristan, 11 parliamentarians
from the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) announce withdrawal
of support to the Federal Government.
|
June 9
|
At least 25 persons, including 17 troops, are
killed and eleven persons sustain injuries during a gun-battle
with terrorists in the Tiyarza area of South Waziristan.
|
June 10
|
At least 11 persons, including seven Army personnel
and three police personnel, are killed and 12 others sustain injuries
when a group of seven to eight unidentified terrorists ambush
the convoy of Corps Commander, Karachi, Lt. Gen. Ahsan Saleem
Hyat, near the Clifton Bridge in Karachi.
Tribal leader Nek Muhammad, who is wanted by
the Government for sheltering Taliban and Al Qaeda terrorists,
reportedly threatens to spread his fighting to other cities of
Pakistan.
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June 11
|
Thirty-five terrorists and 15 soldiers are killed
during continuing military operations in South Waziristan.
|
June 12
|
The Hindu reports that Lashkar-e-Toiba has set
up a full-blown unit in Pakistan for suicide squad operations
against Western forces in Iraq. Up to 2,000 men, mainly between
the ages of 18 and 25, are believed to have signed up for the
armed operations in Iraq.
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June 13
|
Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat announces
that security forces have arrested a nephew of a top Al Qaeda
operative and several other foreigners blamed for a series of
attacks including the June 10-assassination attempt on the Karachi
Corps Commander.
|
June 14
|
At least three paramilitary personnel are killed
and three more sustain injuries when a bomb blew up their vehicle
in North Waziristan near the Afghan border.
|
June 15
|
Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali says
in Islamabad that no law against the Holy Qur’aan and the Sunnah
could be enacted in the country.
Muhamad Syaifudin, an Indonesian student charged
with involvement in terrorist activity, claims in Jakarta that
he met Osama bin Laden in Karachi before the September 11 attacks.
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June 16
|
At least six persons, including three soldiers,
are killed and an unspecified number of them sustain injuries
during an encounter after suspected terrorists attacked a paramilitary
checkpoint in the Ladah area of South Waziristan.
US President George W Bush designates Pakistan
as a ‘major non-NATO ally’.
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June 17
|
At least 330 people were killed in 82 terrorist
attacks across Pakistan in the past 18 months, Interior Minister
Faisal Saleh Hayat discloses in Islamabad.
Nek Muhammad, tribal militant leader, is killed
along with five other tribesmen during a missile attack on his
hideout near Wana in South Waziristan on June 17-night.
|
June 19
|
Terminal of the Sui airport in the Dera Bugti
district of Baluchistan province is destroyed after a bomb explosion.
However, no loss of life was reported.
|
June 23
|
Seven police personnel are wounded when unidentified
terrorists targeted the Saddar Police Station with at least two
rockets and eight hand grenades.
|
June 24
|
The National Assembly Standing Committee on Interior
was informed that personnel of law enforcement agencies were involved
in most of the terrorist incidents that occurred in Karachi since
9/11.
|
June 25
|
Eight children and a woman are wounded and three
houses partially damaged when unidentified assailants fired three
missiles at the Bannu cantonment in North West Frontier Province.
|
June 26
|
Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali resigns as Prime Minister
of Pakistan.
|
June 27
|
At least two police personnel and three tribesmen
are killed during an encounter at Maiwand in the Baluchistan province.
|
June 30
|
Police in the capital Islamabad arrest three
Iraqis during a raid on a house at Mullaha Rajagan on suspected
terrorism-related charges.
|
July 1
|
An Anti Terrorism Court in Karachi indicts nine
activists of the proscribed Harkat-ul-Mujahideen Al-alami (HuMA)
for their involvement in the Macedonian consulate bomb blast case.
|
July 2
|
President Pervez Musharraf reportedly orders
a crackdown on almost 30 terrorist groups in Karachi after a report
on various dimensions of terrorism in the city was presented to
him.
Seven Frontier Constabulary personnel are wounded
during a landmine blast at Dera Murad Jamali in the Sui area of
Baluchistan province.
|
July 5
|
A security threat forces the British High Commission
to close down temporarily and the US Embassy to postpone its Independence
Day reception in Islamabad.
|
July 6
|
The Federal Government and the Islamist alliance
Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) agree to co-operate on the issue
of registration of foreigners in Wana, headquarters of South Waziristan,
and on steps to combat sectarianism and terrorism.
|
July 10
|
Inspector Raja Saqlain, Station House Officer
at the Westridge Police Station, known for having detected several
sectarian attacks, is shot dead along with his driver, by armed
men riding a motorcycle in Rawalpindi.
|
July 12
|
Ten civilians, including a woman and two children,
are killed during clashes between foreign terrorists and security
forces’ in South Waziristan.
|
July 13
|
Two children are killed during a mortar attack
by suspected Al Qaeda-linked terrorists on a military check-post
near Wana in South Waziristan.
|
July 14
|
The US Deputy Secretary of State, Richard Armitage,
says in New Delhi that the terrorist infrastructure in Pakistan
still exists and stressed that infiltration, which continues,
should end.
A civilian and a soldier are killed while two
soldiers sustain injuries during a gun-battle between the troops
and terrorists near Shakai in South Waziristan.
|
July 16
|
At least 24 Al Qaeda-trained terrorists are
still hiding in Karachi, says a top police official, Tariq Jamil.
Three tribesmen are killed and six others sustain
injuries in an exchange of fire between army personnel and terrorists
in South Waziristan.
|
July 18
|
The chief of MMA in Baluchistan province and
Member of National Assembly, Maulana Muhammad Khan Sherani, survives
an attempt on his life at Chena Baratkhel in the Qilla Saifullah
district.
|
July 19
|
Three terrorists are killed and six others sustain
injuries during an encounter with the troops near Mantoi valley
in South Waziristan.
|
July 20
|
Security force personnel are reported to have
killed at least ten foreign terrorists while targeting two hideouts
with artillery and gunship helicopters at Shakai in South Waziristan.
|
July 23
|
President Pervez Musharraf and the visiting
Indian External Affairs Minister, Natwar Singh, hold a 90-minute
meeting at the Army House in Rawalpindi and stressed the need
for resolving all bilateral issues, including Jammu and Kashmir.
|
July 24
|
An employee of a local Madrassa (seminary)
is killed and seven people, including four teachers, are injured
during a bomb attack in the Gulshan-e-Maimar area of Karachi.
|
July 25
|
Syed Salahuddin, chief of Hizb-ul-Mujahideen,
says in Islamabad that the outfit would declare a cease-fire if
the Indian Government withdraws its troops from Jammu and Kashmir
and begin tripartite negotiations on the Kashmir issue.
|
July 26
|
Two army personnel are killed and three troops
sustain injuries in a rocket attack on a security forces caravan
in the coastal area of Turbat.
|
July 28
|
A terrorist group holding two Pakistani contractors
hostage in Iraq says that it had killed the men, but freed their
Iraqi driver, according to the Al-Jazeera television station.
The group, identified as ‘Islamic Army in Iraq’, had claimed in
a video on July 26 that it had abducted Raja Azad and Sajad Naeem
and had ‘sentenced them to death’ because their country was discussing
sending troops to Iraq.
|
July 29
|
Pakistan says it has arrested a senior Al Qaeda
terrorist wanted for the 1998 bombings of US embassies in Kenya
and Tanzania that killed more than 200 people. Interior Minister
Faisal Saleh Hayat identified the man as Ahmed Khalfan Ghailini
and said he was a Tanzanian national carrying a head money of
$25 million.
|
July 30
|
Seven persons, including the attacker, are killed
in a suicide bomb attack on the car of Finance Minister and Prime
Minister-designate, Shaukat Aziz, at village Jaffar in Fateh Jang.
|
July 31
|
One soldier is killed and six others sustain
injuries when an army convoy hit a remote-controlled explosive
device at Pash Ziarat near Shawain in North Waziristan.
|
August 1
|
Five soldiers and a civilian are killed when
three unidentified terrorists attacked their vehicle at Khuzdar
in the Baluchistan province. Government announces a cash reward
of Rupees 10 million for providing information on the terrorists
involved in the assassination attempt on Finance Minister Shaukat
Aziz.
|
August 2
|
Baluchistan Chief Minister Jam Muhammad Yousaf
escapes unhurt when his cavalcade was attacked by unidentified
terrorists near Surab, about 180 kilometers south west of Quetta.
A constable and one of the attackers were reportedly killed and
three persons sustained injuries during the incident.
|
August 5
|
At least 11 persons are killed and 12 others
sustain injuries in an exchange of fire between troops and terrorists
in different parts of South Waziristan. Separately, an unconfirmed
report said that terrorists ambushed an Army convoy at Khomrang,
close to the Shakai valley in South Waziristan, killing at least
eight soldiers.
|
August 6
|
Six tribesmen are killed and two others sustain
injuries when several houses were hit by mortar shells fired by
the security forces in pursuit of terrorists at Shakai in South
Waziristan.
|
August 7
|
Two persons are killed and three others wounded
during a bomb blast in the Defence Phase-II area of Karachi.
Maulana Abdul Jabbar, chief of the proscribed
Khudam-ul-Furqan (a breakaway faction of the Jaish-e-Mohammed),
has reportedly been released by security agencies after a long
detention for the suicide attack on President Pervez Musharraf.
|
August 8
|
At least 10 people, including a three-year-old
boy, are killed and 50 others sustain injuries in two bomb explosions
near the Binoria mosque and seminary in Karachi.
A senior Al Qaeda operative, Qari Saifullah Akhtar,
leader of Harkat-ul-Jehadi-e-Islami, is reported arrested in Dubai
and handed over to Islamabad. Qari was linked to two assassination
attempts on President Musharraf and has been described by one
source as "an operational head of al-Qaeda in Pakistan."
|
August 9
|
A driver is killed and 17 personnel of the Pakistan
Army and Frontier Corps are wounded when a bus en route to Wana
in South Waziristan was hit by an improvised explosive device.
|
August 10
|
Two Iraqi nationals are arrested from a mosque
in the Shakargarh area of Gujranwala while collecting charity
for Iraqi and Afghan militants. They were identified as Abdulsalam
and Sulaman, who introduced themselves as preachers from Saudi
Arabia and Egypt.
|
August 11
|
Pakistan and India exchanged lists of wanted
fugitives they say are hiding in each other’s countries at the
end of two-day talks on terrorism and drug trafficking in Islamabad.
|
August 14
|
A soldier is killed and five persons, including
four women, were injured in clashes between security forces and
terrorists in the South Waziristan tribal agency.
|
August 16
|
Five paramilitary troops are killed and 12 others
sustain injuries in two attacks near the Sui gas fields of Balochistan
province.
Six persons, including two police personnel,
were wounded when three bomb blasts damaged the main railway line
at Nawabshah and Tando Adam railway stations.
|
August 18
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A leader of the Islamist alliance, Muttahida
Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), Qari Noor Muhammad, who was arrested few
days ago on suspicion of links with the Al Qaeda, is reported
to have died in custody at Kotwali Police Station in Faisalabad.
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August 19
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Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat denies
a TV channel report that a man said to be a driver of Osama bin
Laden had been arrested during a raid conducted at a mosque in
Islamabad on August 17.
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August 20
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An Uzbek terrorist and a member of the Zalikhel
sub-tribe are killed during clashes between terrorists and troops
in the Santoi and Mantoi mountains of South Waziristan.
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August 22
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President Pervez Musharraf has reportedly disclosed
that a Libyan Al Qaeda suspect masterminded the two assassination
attempts on him during December 2003. He is "the mastermind behind
the two plots," Gen. Musharraf said this in an interview to the
Time magazine, to be published on Aug 30.
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August 23
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Security forces are reported to have killed
four Uzbek terrorists during an encounter in the Miranshah area
of North Waziristan.
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August 24
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Four Uzbek nationals were arrested for alleged
terrorist links during a raid in South Waziristan, Interior Minister
Faisal Saleh Hayyat said in Islamabad.
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August 26
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Two soldiers are reported to have died and five
others sustain injuries during a bomb blast in the Lawarki area
of South Waziristan.
Sajjad Nasser, a Pakistani national accused of
attending a terrorist training camp, is deported from the United
States to Pakistan.
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August 29
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Two soldiers of the Frontier Corps are killed
and eight others sustain injuries when terrorists fired three
missiles on a camp of the troops at Wana in South Waziristan.
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August 31
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Four people, including three intelligence officers,
are killed and 15 others sustained injuries during a bomb explosion
at a sweet shop in Qalat, 140km south of Quetta, capital of Balochistan
province.
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September 1
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The security agencies are reported to have arrested
two foreigners, including a man believed to be a senior Al Qaeda
operative, during a raid in Quetta, capital of Balochistan province.
A former Taliban ‘commander’, Maulvi Noor Muhammad,
is shot dead by two unidentified gunmen in Peshawar.
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September 4
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The Foreign Secretaries of India and Pakistan,
Shyam Saran and Riaz Khokhar, agreed to recommend to their Foreign
Ministers, who meet over the next two days, that the composite
dialogue process be continued.
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September 5
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Two soldiers and a tribesman are killed and
two persons sustained injuries during a landmine explosion at
Jag Zawar in South Waziristan.
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September 6
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India and Pakistan decide to continue the cease-fire
along the Line of Control (LoC) which came into force on November
25, 2003. This was reportedly decided during the two-day talks
between External Affairs Minister Natwar Singh and his visiting
Pakistani counterpart, Khurshid Mehmood Kasuri, in New Delhi.
India rejects a Pakistani proposal for appointing
"higher level representatives" to discuss the Jammu and Kashmir
issue exclusively, saying it was unnecessary as an appropriate
mechanism to sort out all issues, including the Kashmir issue,
already existed.
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September 7
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An Al Qaeda-linked Saudi terrorist, identified
as Abdullah, is arrested near Peshawar. He was allegedly hiding
in a house at Shakas village in the Jamrud district, about 25
kilometers west of Peshawar.
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September 8
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Curfew is imposed after the killing of eight
civilians and wounding of 18 others in an explosion followed by
security forces’ firing in Wana, headquarters of South Waziristan.
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September 9
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At least 50 terrorists, including some Chechens,
Uzbeks and Arabs, are reported to have been killed and 120 others
were wounded during an aerial raid on their training camp at Bad
Awaz Garang in the Kaikhel area of South Waziristan.
Two persons are killed and another sustained
injuries during a bomb explosion at a state-run space centre in
Somyani, 650 kilometers south of Quetta, the capital of Balochistan
province.
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September 10
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Seven soldiers and six suspected terrorists
are killed during clashes in the Kanigoram and Karwan Manza areas
of South Waziristan.
In a suspected sectarian attack, unidentified
gunmen kill Atiqul Hasan Naqvi, a retired professor of the Balochistan
University, in Quetta.
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September 11
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Two people are killed and two others sustain
injuries during a landmine explosion near the Sui Frontier Constabulary
picket in the jurisdiction of Kashmore police station of Balochistan
province.
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September 12
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At least 13 people, including five soldiers,
are killed in fierce clashes between security forces and terrorists
in an area inhabited largely by the Mahsud tribe in South Waziristan.
Unidentified assailants are reported to have
shot dead Maulana Ibrahim Salfi, a central leader of Lashkar-e-Toiba
(LeT)
in Lahore.
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September 13
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At least eight civilians are killed after army
helicopters targeted suspected terrorist hideouts in the Makeen
area of South Waziristan.
The Cambodian police have arrested four men believed
to be of Pakistani origin over the weekend in connection with
terrorist activities, a Government spokesman confirmed on September
13.
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September 14
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At least eight people are killed when security
forces clashed with suspected Al Qaeda terrorists in the Makin
area of South Waziristan.
A soldier and two suspected terrorists were reportedly
killed during a rocket attack on a Rangers picket at Rojhan Mazari
in Kashmore near the Sindh-Balochistan-Punjab border.
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September 15
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Eight soldiers and four terrorists are killed
during clashes between security forces and terrorists in the Laddha
area of South Waziristan.
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September 19
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An Algerian national, identified as Ibrahim
alias Ali, is arrested along with a Pakistani from the Spina Warai
village near Peshawar for their suspected links to a terrorist
network.
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September 21
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During an interview in New York, President Pervez
Musharraf states that Pakistan would not hand over Dr A.Q. Khan,
who is alleged to have sold nuclear secrets illegally, for questioning
by American investigators.
Unidentified attackers kill three members of
a Shia family and wounded another at village Ratta Kalachi in
Dera Ismail Khan.
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September 24
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At least 20 dead bodies were recovered from
the jungles of Karwan Manza in South Waziristan after fierce clashes
between security forces and terrorists on September 23 and 24.
After an hour-long meeting between Prime Minister
Dr. Manmohan Singh and President Pervez Musharraf in New York,
India and Pakistan said that they had agreed to strive "to restore
normalcy and cooperation" in the spirit of the January 6, 2004-statement
signed by the then Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee, with
Gen. Musharraf in Islamabad.
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September 25
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At least three police personnel and a suspected
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi terrorist are killed when unidentified gunmen
attacked a senior Pakistani police officer in Quetta.
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September 26
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Amjad Farooqi, a top Al
Qaeda terrorist allegedly involved in an assassination attempt
on President Pervez Musharraf and indicted in the murder of US
journalist Daniel Pearl, is killed and seven persons, including
two women and three children, were arrested by the police in Nawabshah,
Sindh province.
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September 27
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Terrorists attack a military convoy in South
Waziristan with three remote-controlled explosive devices, killing
five soldiers and injuring 10 others.
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September 28
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Four soldiers are killed and five others sustain
injuries during a remote-controlled landmine explosion in the
Shakai area of South Waziristan.
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October 1
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At least 31 people are killed and 75 others
sustain injuries in a suspected suicide bombing at a Shia mosque
at Sialkot in the Punjab province during the Friday prayers.
A landmine explosion kills four schoolchildren,
aged between nine and 13, and wounded another in the Sarwakai
area of South Waziristan.
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October 4
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Four terrorists are killed and nine security
force personnel sustain injuries during an encounter in South
Waziristan.
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October 5
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Two soldiers are killed and seven others sustain
injuries in a remote-controlled improvised explosive device explosion
near Jandola on the Tank-Wana road.
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October 6
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Two police personnel were killed and a civilian
injured in an attack by unidentified gunmen on a security post
outside a Shia mosque in Karachi.
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October 7
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At least 40 people are killed and more than 100
injured in twin explosions in the city of Multan, in a large gathering
assembled to mark the first anniversary of the killing of Sunni
leader and Sipah-e-Sahaba (SSP)
chief Maulana Azim Tariq.
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October 9
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Two Sunni clerics, Mufti Mohammad Jamil, a close
aide of the late Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, and Maulana Nazeer
Ahmed Taunsvi were shot dead on Jehangir Road in Karachi by unidentified
armed men.
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October 10
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Five people killed and six others injured as
a suicide bomber blows himself up at a Shia mosque in the Mochi
Gate area of Lahore.
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October 12
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Four persons are killed and 35 others injured
in a grenade attack at a wedding ceremony at the home of an Afghan
refugee in the Mardan district of North West Frontier Province.
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October 13
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President Pervez Musharraf, during a meeting
with Indian journalists in Islamabad says that India and Pakistan
can resolve the Kashmir dispute in ‘one day’ provided the two
sides give up their ‘maximalist course’.
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October 14
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One of the two Chinese hostages and five abductors
were killed in a rescue operation launched by the Pakistan Army
commandos near Chakmalay village in the South Waziristan province.
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October 15
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President Pervez Musharraf and Prime Minister
Shaukat Aziz urge the Muslim clerics to consider issuing a decree
against suicide attacks on mosques and imambargahs, at a meeting
with at Rawalpindi.
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October 18
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National Assembly amends the Anti-Terrorism Act
(ATA) of 1997.
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October 19
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Three soldiers are killed and five others sustain
injuries as suspected terrorists ambush a military convoy in South
Waziristan’s Spinkai Raghzai town.
Corps Commander of Peshawar Lt Gen Safdar Hussain
states that the Pakistan Army and the Frontier Corps have lost
171 troops during the military operations in South Waziristan
while 246 terrorists including more than 100 foreign terrorists
were also killed.
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October 20
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Four civilians and a militant are killed in clashes
in the Spinkai Raghzai area in South Waziristan.
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October 22
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Two soldiers and three civilians were killed
in clashes between security forces and militants in different
parts of the South Waziristan.
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October 23
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Ten militants were killed in an hour-long clash
with the troops near Lalizai village, north-east of Wana.
Pakistan formally proposes holding foreign secretary
talks with India on December 21 and 22 in Islamabad to discuss
the core issue of Kashmir as well as issues relating to peace
and security.
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October 25
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Addressing a gathering of editors and senior
journalists in Islamabad, President General Pervez Musharraf proposes
a new formula for the solution of the Kashmir problem, by dividing
the region into seven regions.
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October 26
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17 tribesmen of the Mahsud jirga are killed and
many injured in a rocket attack near Jandola in the South Waziristan
agency.
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October 27
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Three people are killed and two others injured
as paramilitary troops open fire on a van at a checkpoint near
Azam Warsak in the Wana region.
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October 28
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Foreign Minister Khurshid Kasuri states that
Pakistan wanted a change in the status quo in Kashmir but would
not undertake any 'unilateral flexibility' on the issue.
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October 30
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A Pakistan Army soldier was killed and two others
sustain injuries in a clash with militants in the Karwan Manza
mountainous area in South Waziristan.
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October 31
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The Pakistan bureau of Al Jazeera television
receives the latest videotape of Osama
bin Laden, in which he warns the United States of more attacks
like those on September 11, 2001.
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November 1
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The Spanish newspaper El Pais reports that the
ten Pakistanis arrested in Barcelona in mid-September this year
were believed to have funded Al
Qaeda operatives by transferring money to Pakistan from Spain.
The Senate, adopted "The President to Hold Another Office Bill,
2004", specifically applicable to President Pervez Musharraf,
allowing him to hold the office of the chief of the Army staff
till 2007.
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November 3
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Four people, including a woman, injured in car
bomb explosion behind the Chief Minister's House on the Pir Masoom
Shah street in Quetta.
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November 4
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Eight soldiers are killed and six others injured
when their vehicle hit a landmine planted by militants near Kanigoram
in South Waziristan.
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November 8
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Foreign office spokesman Masood Khan said at
his weekly press briefing in Islamabad that that no solution based
on the Line of Control (LoC) would be acceptable to Pakistan,
adding there was no pre-conceived formula for the settlement of
the Kashmir dispute.
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November 9
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Pakistan Army starts another operation against
militants in South Waziristan, killing six of them. Three soldiers
are also killed in the operation.
Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Sherpao says that
the influx of foreign militants into Wana region is continuing
from neighbouring countries, making it difficult for Pakistani
security forces to combat terrorism.
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November 10
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Spanish police sources state they had arrested
two Pakistanis in Barcelona for alleged membership of an Islamic
terrorist group, which they said they had broken up in a September
raid.
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November 11
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Five most wanted tribal militants sign an agreement
with the government, pledging to live peacefully and not to harbour
foreign militants in South Waziristan.
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November 12
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At least three Army personnel were killed and
22 injured while six militants were killed and one injured in
an army operation into a militant stronghold near the Afghan border
in South Waziristan.
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November 16
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A bomb explosion in a cinema house kills two
people and injures 32 others in Mingora, the main town in the
hill resort district of Swat, about 75 miles north-east of Peshawar.
Asim Ghafoor alias Qasim Sukkurwala, affiliated
to the Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM)
shot dead in an exchange of fire with police personnel in Saeedabad
area of Karachi.
A web statement purportedly from Al Qaeda ‘chief’
Osama Bin Laden calls on the Pakistani Muslims to fight, saying
their country and neighbouring Afghanistan faced an American invasion.
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November 17
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Osama Nazir, one of the alleged masterminds of
attempts on the lives of President General Pervez Musharraf and
Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz, arrested from the Madressah Fatehul
Quran Al Arabia, adjacent to the Jamia Masjid Zikriya, in Civil
Lines area of Faisalabad.
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November 18
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In an interview with Agence France Presse (AFP),
President Gen Pervez Musharraf said that Pakistan is not encouraged
by the signals coming from India over its efforts to solve the
Kashmir dispute.
Pakistan Army recovers 3,600 kilogrammes of explosives,
hundreds of 82mm mortar rounds, 75mm rifle rounds, 18 107mm rockets
and 40,000 rounds of different calibres from Kanigarram in the
South Waziristan Agency.
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November 22
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An Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) spokesman
stated that troops have killed 20 militants in raids on a seminary
and a camp in South Waziristan as part of ongoing operations against
Al Qaeda-linked fighters.
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November 23
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Two foreign militants, belonging to Uzbekistan
and Tajikistan arrested in cooperation with a tribal peace committee
in South Waziristan’s Makeen area.
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November 26
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Corps Commander Lt-Gen Safdar Hussain while speaking
at a jirga of the Ahmadzai Wazir tribe at the Governor House in
Peshawar announced the withdrawal of troops and removal of check
posts from all parts of the Wana subdivision of the South Waziristan
tribal region.
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November 27
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An ISPR handout clarifies that there was no pullout
of troops from the South Waziristan region, and that operation
would continue in the Mehsud tribe's area where some of the wanted
men were still at large and had not yet surrendered.
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November 28
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Former Prime Minister of Pakistan occupied Kashmir
(PoK) Sardar Abdul Qayyum Khan stressed for an interim solution
of the Kashmir issue, saying a permanent resolution of the problem
was impossible and unlikely to be accepted by the parties concerned.
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November 29
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Police arrests an alleged Chechen terrorist who
had attacked police and other people with a hand-grenade after
failing to rob a money-changer in the Qandahri bazaar.
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November 30
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Acting President Mohammedmian Soomro signs the
'President to Hold Another Office Bill-2004' that allows President
Pervez Musharraf to retain the office of the Chief of Army Staff
beyond December 2004.
At least 10 police personnel are wounded when
terrorists hurled two hand grenades at police teams during a crackdown
launched by law-enforcement agencies against the accomplices of
an arrested Chechen terrorist in Killi Paind Khan.
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December 1
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The Balochistan Government imposes a ban on all
kinds of political and religious processions in the province for
three months with immediate effect. According to an official notification
issued in Quetta, the ban would be effective from November 28
to February 28, 2005.
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December 3
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Pakistan and India end a two-day meeting on reviving
the Khokhrapar-Munnabao rail link and agreed to take necessary
steps for an early resumption of the train service. The Railways
officials of the two countries discussed the modalities of reviving
the rail-link that was suspended after the 1965 war.
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December 6
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At a breakfast meeting with editors of leading
British dailies in London, President Pervez Musharraf stated that
bilateralism had a last chance for finding a peaceful solution
to the Kashmir issue. "I am giving bilateralism a final chance.
Let it not fail," the President noted.
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December 7
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Pakistan rejects India’s latest offer of use
of entry permits along with passports by the passengers and insisting
on state subject certificate as travel document for the Srinagar-Muzaffarabad
bus link.
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December 8
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The military operation in South Waziristan would
soon come to an end as negotiations for a political settlement
are going on with the tribesmen along with army operation in Mahsud
area, said Major General Shaukat Sultan, Director-General, Inter-Services
Public Relations (ISPR), in Peshawar.
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December 10
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Eleven persons, including two army personnel,
are killed and 26 others sustained injuries when a bomb attached
to a bicycle exploded at Quetta in the Baluchistan province.
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December 13
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The Multan Police is reported to have arrested
five cadres of the outlawed Sunni group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi. Multan
District Police Officer, Sikander Hayat, said they had obtained
some valuable information from the arrested about the outfit’s
network in Karachi, Lahore and other cities.
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December 15
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Two tribesmen are killed and four others sustain
injuries during an ambush near Solay Khan Saraey in South Waziristan.
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December 16
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President Pervez Musharraf says that the Government
will neutralise all anti-Pakistan movements, especially in Balochistan.
"We are gathering information through intelligence and other sources
that who is doing what in the area and I warn them because when
the government starts action against them, they will be crushed,"
Gen. Musharraf stated while addressing a group of journalists
at Turbat during his two-day visit to the province.
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December 17
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According to Dawn, military sources have indicated
that during the first week of October 2004, Rupees 60 million
was distributed through the Al Qaeda network to its three key
operatives in the Waziristan area. One of the recipients was fugitive
tribal militant leader, Abdullah Mehsud, said sources.
The Government announces a Rupees five million
reward for the capture of Waziristan-based tribal militant Abdullah
Mehsud.
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December 18
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Two tribesmen were reported to have died while
seven others and five Rangers personnel were wounded when Bugti
tribesmen attacked a Rangers post in the border area near Rojhan
in Multan.
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December 20
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Lahore Police arrests at least six associates
of the Libyan Al Qaeda operative, Abu Al-Faraj, who carries a
Rupees 250 million bounty on his head for his suspected involvement
in the two assassination attempts on President Pervez Musharraf
in 2003.
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December 23
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The Government rejects an offer to surrender
from the South Waziristan-based tribal militant leader, Abdullah
Mahsud.
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December 24
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A military court has reportedly convicted two
soldiers, sentencing one to death and the other to life imprisonment,
for their involvement in an assassination attempt during December
2003 on President Pervez Musharraf. They were accused in the first
of two bombings targeting Gen. Musharraf’s motorcade in Rawalpindi
on December 14, 2003, said spokesperson Maj. Gen. Shaukat Sultan.
Unidentified people attack two vehicles carrying
paramilitary forces in Turbat, Balochistan province, killing at
least four personnel and injuring five more.
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December 25
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Suspected
Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM)
terrorists shot dead two persons and set ablaze five vehicles
at the Aga Khan Foundation office in Chitral district, North West
Frontier Province.
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December 29
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A lawyer and
an activist of a banned religious party are shot dead in suspected
sectarian attacks at Dera Ismail Khan in the North West Frontier
Province.
A tribal politician
with close links to Afghan President, Hamid Karzai, is shot dead
by suspected Al Qaeda-linked
terrorists in Wana, South Waziristan.
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December 30
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Two children
were reportedly killed and four others sustained injuries when
a hand-grenade they were playing with exploded at Sheikhi village
near Cherat in the North West Frontier Province.
President
Pervez Musharraf states that he would retain the office of the
army chief till 2007 because any change at this stage could prove
'dangerous' for Pakistan. South Waziristan chief administrator,
Asmatullah Gandapur, is wounded during a roadside bomb explosion
near the Tank area.
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