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January - 15 
About 400 private schools in Swat in the NWFP have announced to abandon girls’ education in their institutes in the wake of the deadline (January 15) given by the militants to discontinue the practice, depriving more than 40,000 students of their basic right to get education, The News reported. In a
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About 400 private schools in Swat in the NWFP have announced to abandon girls’ education in their institutes in the wake of the deadline (January 15) given by the militants to discontinue the practice, depriving more than 40,000 students of their basic right to get education, The News reported. In addition, 84,248 girl students of state-run schools are unlikely to attend schools due to the fear of militants despite attempts by the local administration to reopen the schools on March 1. Maulana Fazlullah-led militants had asked all Government and private schools on December 24, 2008, to stop imparting female education by January 15, 2009.
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January - 20 
A bank manager of Habib Bank Limited was killed by the insurgents early on January 20, according to Daily Times. The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility, saying the slain banker was ‘spying’ for intelligence agencies. Attiq Ahmed Qureshi, the bank manager, was shot dead by unidentifi
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A bank manager of Habib Bank Limited was killed by the insurgents early on January 20, according to Daily Times. The Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) claimed responsibility, saying the slain banker was ‘spying’ for intelligence agencies. Attiq Ahmed Qureshi, the bank manager, was shot dead by unidentified men on a motorcycle, near the Sariab Police Station. BLA spokesman Bibarg Baloch told Daily Times that Attiq had been warned several times before to stop going against the BLA’s cause by spying for the agencies.
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January - 23 
In an improvised explosive device attack in the Takhtaband area of Mingora town in Swat District on January 23, three civilians, including a woman, were killed and a soldier sustained injuries, The News reported. The militants reportedly intended to target a convoy of the Security Forces but failed
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In an improvised explosive device attack in the Takhtaband area of Mingora town in Swat District on January 23, three civilians, including a woman, were killed and a soldier sustained injuries, The News reported. The militants reportedly intended to target a convoy of the Security Forces but failed in their bid. The Taliban claimed responsibility and warned of more attacks. "As long as bullets are fired at us, such attacks will continue to take place," a spokesman for the Swat chapter of the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan threatened.
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January - 30 
The Taliban on January 30 distributed leaflets in Miranshah and Mir Ali in the North Waziristan Agency warning the Pakistan Army not to set up medical camps, open schools or hospitals in the area, Daily Times reported. The Taliban warned the army and the NGOs to stop their activities in the agency a
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The Taliban on January 30 distributed leaflets in Miranshah and Mir Ali in the North Waziristan Agency warning the Pakistan Army not to set up medical camps, open schools or hospitals in the area, Daily Times reported. The Taliban warned the army and the NGOs to stop their activities in the agency as ‘through these activities they were misleading the tribal people’. "We warn the army and NGOs to refrain from mischief and carrying out such work otherwise they will be responsible for any losses," said the leaflet in Urdu, a copy of which was obtained by AFP.
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February - 5 
The banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on February 5 threatened to intensify attacks on the Government installations and NATO supplies if the military operations in Swat and the tribal areas were not stopped, The News reported. TTP spokesman Maulvi Omar said their men would launch attacks on Gov
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The banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on February 5 threatened to intensify attacks on the Government installations and NATO supplies if the military operations in Swat and the tribal areas were not stopped, The News reported. TTP spokesman Maulvi Omar said their men would launch attacks on Government installations if the military operations against the militants in Swat and other tribal areas continued. He claimed that a decision to accelerate attacks on the NATO supplies had already been taken and now the TTP militants would use all means to stop supplies to the US and its allies in Afghanistan. Omar said Taliban would not allow supplies to the US and NATO forces and their militants would blow up containers taking food and other stuff to the foreign forces.
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February - 8 
Taliban militants on February 8 released a videotape showing the beheading of Polish geologist Poitr Stancza and warned other kidnapped foreigners would meet the same fate if their demands were not met, Dawn reported. Before he was killed, the seven-minute video shows the blindfolded geologist makin
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Taliban militants on February 8 released a videotape showing the beheading of Polish geologist Poitr Stancza and warned other kidnapped foreigners would meet the same fate if their demands were not met, Dawn reported. Before he was killed, the seven-minute video shows the blindfolded geologist making an appeal to the Polish Government not send troops to Afghanistan. He asked the Polish Government to sever diplomatic relations with Pakistan if it did not try to seek his release. The video includes a statement by the Taliban, claiming they had other foreign nationals in their custody, including a Chinese, who would be beheaded if the Government of Pakistan did not accept their demands.
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February - 11 
The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) threatened on February 11 to destroy all educational institutions in Bajaur Agency if the Government did not withdraw Security Forces (SFs) stationed in Government schools in the region within three days, Dawn reported. Talking to reporters on the phone, TTP spoke
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The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) threatened on February 11 to destroy all educational institutions in Bajaur Agency if the Government did not withdraw Security Forces (SFs) stationed in Government schools in the region within three days, Dawn reported. Talking to reporters on the phone, TTP spokesman Maulvi Omar said SFs had set up check-posts and bunkers in almost all Government schools to attack Taliban positions. He said the Government had forced the Taliban leadership to act like the Swat Taliban and attack educational institutions in Bajaur. "Not a single school building will be spared after three days," he added. In reply to a question, he said that talks with Swat Taliban were going on and the ‘ban’ on girls’ education would be lifted soon. The TTP spokesman also threatened to target Government installations and said Khar, the headquarters of Bajaur Agency, would be turned into a battlefield if the military operation continued. He said attacks on SFs would be intensified, even in Khar. Omar said that attacks on schools in other tribal regions would also be launched if the military operation was not stopped.
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February - 11 
Thousands of protesters set a three-day deadline to the Government to implement the Sharia (Islamic law) or they would march towards Islamabad. The protesters staged a rally at Barikot in favour of the Sharia implementation. The protesters, who had come from surrounding villages and gathered in the
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Thousands of protesters set a three-day deadline to the Government to implement the Sharia (Islamic law) or they would march towards Islamabad. The protesters staged a rally at Barikot in favour of the Sharia implementation. The protesters, who had come from surrounding villages and gathered in the Barikot Square, warned that if the Sharia was not enforced within three days, they would march towards Islamabad on foot.
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A close aide of Baitullah Mehsud and senior commander of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on February 12 claimed responsibility for the suicide attack on the Awami National Party (ANP) Member of Provincial Assembly, Alam Zeb Khan, in Peshawar, Daily Times reported. “We carried out this at
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A close aide of Baitullah Mehsud and senior commander of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on February 12 claimed responsibility for the suicide attack on the Awami National Party (ANP) Member of Provincial Assembly, Alam Zeb Khan, in Peshawar, Daily Times reported. “We carried out this attack and will continue such attacks on ANP leaders in future,” Hakeemullah Mehsud, who heads the TTP in Orakzai, Kurram and Khyber tribal regions, said in telephone calls to media offices in Peshawar. Alam Zeb Khan died when a powerful bomb exploded near his car in Peshawar on February 11. He became the first target of the Taliban since the Pukhtoon nationalist party took power in 2008.
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February - 13 
An extremist group has issued threatening emails to public warning them not to celebrate Valentine’s Day or otherwise they would face its wrath, according to Daily Times. A newly formed militant organisation that calls itself ‘Allah Army’, that claimed responsibility for the recent bomb blasts at Al
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An extremist group has issued threatening emails to public warning them not to celebrate Valentine’s Day or otherwise they would face its wrath, according to Daily Times. A newly formed militant organisation that calls itself ‘Allah Army’, that claimed responsibility for the recent bomb blasts at Al-Hamra theatre in Lahore, has threatened to sabotage the Valentine’s Day celebrations. The Federal Interior Ministry has reportedly asked the provincial Governments to take relevant precautionary steps and gather information about the newly formed extremist outfit. ‘Allah Army’ has warned public not to celebrate Valentine’s Day and spots where people would gather to celebrate the event would be targeted by various means.
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February - 17 
Elsewhere in the province, suspected Taliban militants on February 17 patrolled the Harichand Bazaar in Charsadda and threatened barbers, Internet café and CD shop owners to close their “un-Islamic businesses”, Daily Times reported. According to a private TV channel, the militants also destroyed CDs
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Elsewhere in the province, suspected Taliban militants on February 17 patrolled the Harichand Bazaar in Charsadda and threatened barbers, Internet café and CD shop owners to close their “un-Islamic businesses”, Daily Times reported. According to a private TV channel, the militants also destroyed CDs at some shops they visited. They ordered women to wear veils and asked people to support them in the implementation of Sharia (Islamic law) in the area. The Police arrested one of the men and shifted him to an undisclosed location for interrogation.
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February - 17 
Five people were killed and 17 injured in a car bomb blast outside the Hujra (male guest house) of the union council chief in Bazidkhel village of Peshawar in the afternoon of February 17, The News reported. Faheemur Rahman, the union council chief of Bazidkhel, eight kilometres south of Peshawar on
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Five people were killed and 17 injured in a car bomb blast outside the Hujra (male guest house) of the union council chief in Bazidkhel village of Peshawar in the afternoon of February 17, The News reported. Faheemur Rahman, the union council chief of Bazidkhel, eight kilometres south of Peshawar on Kohat Road, alleged that the Mangal Bagh-led Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) was involved in this “cheap act” of terrorism. Eyewitnesses said the blast occurred in a car parked on a street near the Hujra of Rahman. The blast also destroyed two cars and damaged six buildings. “It could be linked to the killing of nine tribesmen in Bazidkhel. Nine members of the LI were killed by a Qaumi Lashkar (militia), comprising residents of Bazidkhel and the nearby villages, when they reportedly made a failed attempt to kidnap Rahman on February 4. Mangal Bagh had warned through his FM radio of revenge, directing the villagers to hoist black flags atop their houses or every villager would be considered equally involved in the murder of his men. The villagers of the nearby towns had constituted a Qaumi Lashkar after threats from the Bara-based militant group and other militant organisations.
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February - 19 
Militants blew up another Government school building. Sources said that militants dynamited the building of the Government Primary School at Tali in the Salarzai sub-division, raising the number of schools destroyed so far to 31. Talking to the media, spokesman of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP)
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Militants blew up another Government school building. Sources said that militants dynamited the building of the Government Primary School at Tali in the Salarzai sub-division, raising the number of schools destroyed so far to 31. Talking to the media, spokesman of the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Bajaur chapter, Maulvi Omar, claimed responsibility for blowing up the school and threatened that their fighters would destroy all educational institutions in the Agency if SFs did not stop the ongoing operation against them. Omar said that buildings of schools and colleges were being used by the troops as their camps to launch operations against the Taliban. "We would take action and destroy all the buildings of educational institutions if security forces continued their operation against our fighters," he warned.
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March - 1 
The Balochistan Liberation United Front (BLUF) holding an American UN worker in Balochistan said on March 1 that it would kill him in four days if the Government did not release more than 1,000 prisoners, The News reported. The threat on the life of John Solecki was made in a letter sent to the loca
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The Balochistan Liberation United Front (BLUF) holding an American UN worker in Balochistan said on March 1 that it would kill him in four days if the Government did not release more than 1,000 prisoners, The News reported. The threat on the life of John Solecki was made in a letter sent to the local news agency Online International News Network that was also read by an Associated Press reporter. UN spokeswoman Maki Shinohara said the world body was aware of the threat through the media and “took it seriously”. In the letter, the BLUF demanded the release of 1,109 activists from Balochistan nationalist groups it claimed had been arrested by the Government. “John Solecki’s mother and his relatives and international human rights groups should play a role for the recovery of thousands of our sons... who are in state-run torture detention cells,” the one-page letter said. “The United Nations and state institutions... are forcing us to kill Mr John Solecki in our protest,” it said.
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March - 1 
The Taliban in Dir District have threatened to carry out suicide attacks against their opponents and district administration in Doog Darra area of Upper Dir if they did not stop organising volunteers against militants to expel them from the area. “The central shura of Taliban has firmly decided unde
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The Taliban in Dir District have threatened to carry out suicide attacks against their opponents and district administration in Doog Darra area of Upper Dir if they did not stop organising volunteers against militants to expel them from the area. “The central shura of Taliban has firmly decided under Sharia principles to carry out further attacks against the US agents in Doog Darra area and the law enforcement agencies if they did not stop disturbing Taliban there,” a Taliban spokesman threatened. Talking to Dawn by telephone from an unspecified location on March 1, the District chief of Dir Taliban Hafeezullah said that Mullah Mansoor had been appointed as their new spokesman in the District. While welcoming the peace deal between the NWFP Government and TNSM chief Maulana Sufi Mohammad, he said the Taliban would restart their activities if the proposed Nizam-e-Adl Regulations 2009 were not enforced forthwith. “Now the ball is not in the court of Taliban but in the court of government,” he added. Later, the newly-appointed spokesman Mullah Mansoor claimed that one of his men had been shot dead by Police in Upper Dir some days ago and then an official statement was issued that he had blown up himself.
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March - 1 
The Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM) chief Maulana Sufi Mohammed warned on March 1 he wanted Islamic courts set up in two weeks, Daily Times reported. He said he was not happy over the fact that there had been no tangible progress since February 16 when the NWFP Government agreed to impl
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The Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM) chief Maulana Sufi Mohammed warned on March 1 he wanted Islamic courts set up in two weeks, Daily Times reported. He said he was not happy over the fact that there had been no tangible progress since February 16 when the NWFP Government agreed to implement the Nizam-e-Adl Regulations 2009. “The Government announced enforcement of Sharia [Islamic law] but so far no practical step has been taken and we are not satisfied… I’m not seeing any practical steps for the implementation of the peace agreement, except for ministers visiting Swat and uttering words,” Sufi told reporters in Swat’s main town Mingora. The cleric said he was also unhappy over a delay in an exchange of prisoners and urged both the Taliban and the Government to release people they were holding by March 10. “If the Government does not appoint Qazis [Islamic judges] by March 15, and the two sides do not release prisoners in their custody, we will set up protest camps,” he said. He also said armed patrol by either side would not be allowed after March 1, and anybody who violated the truce would be charged and punished in line with the Sharia.
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March - 2 
According to Daily Times, al Qaeda has claimed the responsibility for the Marriott blast that took place in Islamabad on September 20, 2008, and threatened to attack the Saudi Airlines’ offices, and important installations in Pakistan, a private TV channel reported on March 2. An Interior Ministry s
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According to Daily Times, al Qaeda has claimed the responsibility for the Marriott blast that took place in Islamabad on September 20, 2008, and threatened to attack the Saudi Airlines’ offices, and important installations in Pakistan, a private TV channel reported on March 2. An Interior Ministry source said that the Saudi embassy had received a message through an email in which al Qaeda had threatened to target Saudi Airlines’ offices and other important installations. According to the channel, immediately after al Qaeda’s threat, the federal Government directed the Punjab Government to beef up security.
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March - 3 
The banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) distributed pamphlets at Landikotal in the Khyber Agency on March 3, threatening the Khyber Khassadar Force (KKF) to vacate all the checkpoints along the Pakistan-Afghanistan Highway, The News reported. The TTP distributed the leaflets for the second time i
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The banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) distributed pamphlets at Landikotal in the Khyber Agency on March 3, threatening the Khyber Khassadar Force (KKF) to vacate all the checkpoints along the Pakistan-Afghanistan Highway, The News reported. The TTP distributed the leaflets for the second time in the current week wherein the KKF was asked to abolish all checkpoints from Jamrud to Landikotal, sources said. The pamphlets said that it was the final warning to them (KKF) to leave the checkpoints or they would face serious consequences. Militants attacked a checkpoint in the Jaba area of Jamrud sub-division last week and kidnapped three KKF personnel, two of whom were later killed while the third one is still missing.
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March - 5 
According to Daily Times, security at the Malaysian embassy in Islamabad was heightened after it received threats of being blown up on March 5. A private TV channel quoted unidentified police officials as saying that an unidentified caller had threatened the embassy that he would bomb it.
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According to Daily Times, security at the Malaysian embassy in Islamabad was heightened after it received threats of being blown up on March 5. A private TV channel quoted unidentified police officials as saying that an unidentified caller had threatened the embassy that he would bomb it.
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March - 13 
Two bodies were found in the Sam Paga area of Upper Orakzai Agency on March 13, Daily Times reported. A note found near the bodies said the men were spying for the United States, warning that anyone found guilty of spying would meet the same fate.
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Two bodies were found in the Sam Paga area of Upper Orakzai Agency on March 13, Daily Times reported. A note found near the bodies said the men were spying for the United States, warning that anyone found guilty of spying would meet the same fate.
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March - 16 
A Police constable was injured and a CD shop was blown up when two explosive devices went off in different areas of Mardan on March 14-night, Dawn reported. Officials said that unidentified persons had planted a bomb near tower of a cellular phone company in Takhtbhai Town, which exploded and injure
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A Police constable was injured and a CD shop was blown up when two explosive devices went off in different areas of Mardan on March 14-night, Dawn reported. Officials said that unidentified persons had planted a bomb near tower of a cellular phone company in Takhtbhai Town, which exploded and injured a constable, Bakht Masood. Meanwhile, another blast occurred at Mir Afzal Khan Market in Mardan City, which destroyed a CD shop. Sources said that the shop owner, Sohrab Khan, had received a letter, threatening him of dire consequences, if he did not wind up the business a week ago.
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March - 16 
The abductors of UNHCR official John Solecki on March 16 threatened to kill him in 48 hours if the Government did not free more than 1,100 Baloch prisoners allegedly in custody, Daily Times reported. Solecki, head of the UNHCR in Balochistan, was abducted at gunpoint from provincial capital Quetta o
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The abductors of UNHCR official John Solecki on March 16 threatened to kill him in 48 hours if the Government did not free more than 1,100 Baloch prisoners allegedly in custody, Daily Times reported. Solecki, head of the UNHCR in Balochistan, was abducted at gunpoint from provincial capital Quetta on February 2. His driver was killed during the abduction. A spokesman for the Balochistan Liberation United Front called Online news agency in Quetta on March 16, saying the UN had to play its role in fulfilling the group’s demands within 48 hours. "If anything happened to John Solecki, who is a heart patient, then we will not be responsible," Online quoted spokesman Shahak Baloch as saying. "We have given our demands to the United Nations that 1,109 of our people and 141 women prisoners should be recovered, but UN officials have not shown seriousness… His condition is deteriorating, we are providing him every possible medical treatment, but it is making no difference," the spokesman said.
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March - 18 
The Taliban on March 18 threatened to kill a Canadian journalist in their custody if their demands were not met by March 30, Daily Times reported. The journalist, Khadeja Abdul Qahaar, went missing in the Jani Khel area of Bannu Frontier Region in November 2008. In a video sent to the Miranshah Pres
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The Taliban on March 18 threatened to kill a Canadian journalist in their custody if their demands were not met by March 30, Daily Times reported. The journalist, Khadeja Abdul Qahaar, went missing in the Jani Khel area of Bannu Frontier Region in November 2008. In a video sent to the Miranshah Press Club, Khadeja said she was seriously ill and appealed to the Canadian and Pakistani governments, and human rights and journalists’ organisations to help in her release.
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March - 22 
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on March 22 ordered all non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to immediately leave Swat, according to Daily Times. In an interview with IRIN, the TTP spokesman Muslim Khan said, “They come and tell us how to make lavatories in mosques and houses. I’m sure we can
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The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on March 22 ordered all non-governmental organisations (NGOs) to immediately leave Swat, according to Daily Times. In an interview with IRIN, the TTP spokesman Muslim Khan said, “They come and tell us how to make lavatories in mosques and houses. I’m sure we can do it ourselves. There is no need for foreigners to tell us this... NGO is another name for ‘vulgarity and obscenity’.” He also said NGOs hired women who worked with men, in the field and in offices. “That is totally unIslamic and unacceptable,” he declared. When asked why the TTP was against the polio vaccination, Khan said, “The TTP is against polio vaccination because it causes infertility.” “I’m 45 and have never had one drop of the vaccine and I am still alive,” he said, adding that another reason the TTP was against polio vaccination was that the campaign was run by NGOs and the vaccine was imported.
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March - 24 
The Taliban on March 24 warned the Government to stop expanding its mobile telephone network in Waziristan, claiming it would be used to spy on them, Daily Times reported. They circulated a pamphlet in Wana, the main town of South Waziristan, telling authorities to stop the network expansion and ord
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The Taliban on March 24 warned the Government to stop expanding its mobile telephone network in Waziristan, claiming it would be used to spy on them, Daily Times reported. They circulated a pamphlet in Wana, the main town of South Waziristan, telling authorities to stop the network expansion and ordering vendors to stop selling SIM cards, residents and officials said. “A Jewish, Zionist-backed company is setting up the mobile phone network in Waziristan, which would be used to spy on Taliban activities and for drone attacks,” said the pamphlet. “This network is equipped with a global positioning system (GPS) and can give the location of a person even if his mobile phone is switched off,” it said. “In Iraq and Afghanistan such a system has been used to launch attacks against Mujahideen,” the leaflet added. “The government and those selling SIMs will be treated as criminals by us,” it warned. A local administration official confirmed that a leaflet had been circulated in Wana.
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March - 24 
The Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM) Maulana chief Maulana Sufi Muhammad on March 24 threatened to halt his efforts for the restoration of peace if the Government did not immediately nullify all un-Islamic laws in the Malakand Division and empower Qazi courts to hear all cases, The News
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The Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM) Maulana chief Maulana Sufi Muhammad on March 24 threatened to halt his efforts for the restoration of peace if the Government did not immediately nullify all un-Islamic laws in the Malakand Division and empower Qazi courts to hear all cases, The News reported. Addressing a press conference in Mingora, Sufi Muhammad said though he was satisfied with the announcement of Sharia (Islamic law) by the Government, he was disappointed with the progress of the peace deal. “I am not convinced of the progress so far made with regard to the peace deal. The government had promised to declare all unIslamic laws in vogue in Malakand null and void but it is yet to be done despite the passage of 38 days,” the TNSM chief said. He also accused the Government of not entrusting Qazi courts with authority to hear all cases. “Qazis in the newly-established Shariah courts are sitting idle as they have not been mandated to hear crucial cases. I am not satisfied with the Qazi courts either,” he said. He threatened to quit the peace efforts in Swat if the Government did not act to practically rescind all un-Islamic laws and authorise Qazi courts to take up all cases.
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March - 27 
Taliban on March 27 killed two Afghan nationals, accusing them of spying for the United States in North Waziristan, Daily Times reported. Bodies of Ibrahim and Noor Gul were found on Mirali-Tall Road in Toda Cheena in the Shwa District. A note left with the bodies warned that anyone found spying for
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Taliban on March 27 killed two Afghan nationals, accusing them of spying for the United States in North Waziristan, Daily Times reported. Bodies of Ibrahim and Noor Gul were found on Mirali-Tall Road in Toda Cheena in the Shwa District. A note left with the bodies warned that anyone found spying for the US would meet the same fate.
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March - 29 
The Malakand chapter of the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) banned the movement and shopping by women in the main bazaars of Dargai and Batkhela on March 29. Sources said shopkeepers in the markets had received threatening letters from the TTP, warning them to stop women from visiting their
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The Malakand chapter of the outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) banned the movement and shopping by women in the main bazaars of Dargai and Batkhela on March 29. Sources said shopkeepers in the markets had received threatening letters from the TTP, warning them to stop women from visiting their shops. “Those who don’t comply with the TTP directives should be prepared to face the consequences,” the letters warned. In addition, women who were going out alone without male family members had also been warned. Some of the shopkeepers in the Super Market, Bara Market, Sitara Market, Abaseen Market, Waqar Market, Waqas Market and other shopping markets have already notified the womenfolk not to visit their shops without their male family members. The letters also warned CD and music shop owners to stop their business immediately, adding that they were spreading obscenity among the youth of the area. Sources said the TTP also warned the medical superintendent of the headquarters hospital in Batkhela to appoint male and lady medical technicians in the emergency and ultrasound wards forthwith, which had been a longstanding demand of patients.
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March - 31 
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Baitullah Mehsud on March 31 claimed responsibility for a series of recent terrorist attacks, including the March 30 assault on a police training centre in Lahore, The News reported. He also threatened to show his power to the world when his people would attack
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The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Baitullah Mehsud on March 31 claimed responsibility for a series of recent terrorist attacks, including the March 30 assault on a police training centre in Lahore, The News reported. He also threatened to show his power to the world when his people would attack the US capital as a reaction to frequent drone attacks in the tribal areas and the reward on his head. “By the grace of Allah Almighty, I am claiming responsibility for the attack on the police training school in Lahore with eagerness, honour and love and will continue similar strikes across the country, if the US drones were not stopped from killing innocent people in the tribal areas,” Baitullah Mehsud said in his telephonic conversation with reporters. Baitullah also claimed responsibility for two other suicide attacks, including one on a military convoy near Bannu in the NWFP on March 30 and another on the Police intelligence office in Islamabad on March 23. Baitullah said his men were out to target Government installations against its failure to protect tribesmen against non-stop drone attacks. About the recent reward of $5 million for his head by the US State Department, he said he loved to be martyred, but threatened his men would soon attack Americans in their own country, not in Afghanistan. He said his men would soon teach a lesson to the Americans in Washington and the White House. An Associated Press report added that Baitullah said his group was planning a terrorist attack on the White House that would “amaze” the world. “Soon we will launch an attack in Washington that will amaze everyone in the world,” said Mehsud. In his latest comments in an interview with local Dewa Radio, a copy of which was obtained by the AP, Mehsud identified the White House as one of the targets In Washington.
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April - 5 
The Taliban on April 5 vowed that they would carry out two suicide attacks per week in Pakistan, according to Daily Times. Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud’s deputy Hakimullah told Associated Press that the Taliban had carried out the April 4 suicide attack against a paramilitary camp in Islamabad and
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The Taliban on April 5 vowed that they would carry out two suicide attacks per week in Pakistan, according to Daily Times. Taliban chief Baitullah Mehsud’s deputy Hakimullah told Associated Press that the Taliban had carried out the April 4 suicide attack against a paramilitary camp in Islamabad and vowed more assaults unless the US shelved drone attacks in the FATA. He also said Pakistani troops should withdraw from parts of the northwest. “The Islamabad attack was in retaliation for a drone attack in Orakzai,” Hakimullah told AFP.
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April - 10 
The Taliban has reportedly prepared a special armed force named “Action Group” to ensure the enforcement of Sharia and punish the violators. Faqir said shaving of beards and walking of men without having cap on their heads were practices of the Jews and their followers, which, he warned, the Taliban
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The Taliban has reportedly prepared a special armed force named “Action Group” to ensure the enforcement of Sharia and punish the violators. Faqir said shaving of beards and walking of men without having cap on their heads were practices of the Jews and their followers, which, he warned, the Taliban would not allow in Bajaur. Faqir said he would not allow the BISP to operate and “mislead” simple women of the tribal region. He said work on preparation of lists of people supporting the BISP and other NGOs had already been initiated. Faqir threatened that the Action Group would soon produce such people before their Sharia Court. In addition, he strictly warned women against coming out of their homes and acquiring Computerised National Identity Cards, which is reportedly mandatory for getting monetary benefits from the BISP. The militant commander said if the people were found guilty of supporting the BISP or getting its monetary benefits, the violators would be punished according to Sharia in which minimum fine would not be less than PKR 10,000.
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April - 10 
The Taliban on April 10 announced the enforcement of Sharia (Islamic law) in the Bajaur Agency of FATA and stopped women from going outside without male relatives, banned shaving of beard and warned the people against availing assistance from the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), The News rep
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The Taliban on April 10 announced the enforcement of Sharia (Islamic law) in the Bajaur Agency of FATA and stopped women from going outside without male relatives, banned shaving of beard and warned the people against availing assistance from the Benazir Income Support Programme (BISP), The News reported. The announcement was made by Maulvi Faqir Mohammad, Taliban chief in the agency, in his 40-minute speech delivered through his group’s illegal FM radio channel. Faqir, who is deputy leader of the Baitullah Mehsud-led Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), addressed the tribesmen on the FM radio on weekly basis. He said he and his men would spare no efforts to strictly implement the Islamic laws in the region.
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April - 10 
The Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM) on April 10 Friday assured the NWFP Government that it would keep the peace deal intact, but warned that the delay by President Asif Ali Zardari in signing the Nizam-e-Adl Regulation could hinder the return of peace to the Swat Valley, The News report
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The Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM) on April 10 Friday assured the NWFP Government that it would keep the peace deal intact, but warned that the delay by President Asif Ali Zardari in signing the Nizam-e-Adl Regulation could hinder the return of peace to the Swat Valley, The News reported. The NWFP Information Minister Mian Iftikhar Hussain and the peace envoy to the NWFP Government Afrasiyab Khattak reportedly went to Batkhela to meet the TNSM chief Maulana Sufi Muhammad, who wound up the peace camp in Swat on April 9. However, Sufi Muhammad refused to meet the visiting delegation in protest against the delay in the signing of the Nizam-e-Adl Regulation. “We met him (Sufi) during the Friday prayers but he did not participate in the talks,” said Mian Iftikhar.
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April - 10 
The Taliban beheaded two men they accused of spying for the United States in North Waziristan on April 10, Daily Times reported. The beheaded body of Shahid Mehsud was found along the Miranshah-Razmak Road in Dundin area, 40 kilometers south of Miranshah, while the body of Gul Mir Jan was found alon
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The Taliban beheaded two men they accused of spying for the United States in North Waziristan on April 10, Daily Times reported. The beheaded body of Shahid Mehsud was found along the Miranshah-Razmak Road in Dundin area, 40 kilometers south of Miranshah, while the body of Gul Mir Jan was found along the Datta Khel-Miranshah Road in Degaan area, 20 kilometers west of Miranshah. Notes found near the bodies warned that anybody found involved in spying for the US would meet the same fate.
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April - 12 
The Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM) and the Swat Taliban on April 12 warned parliamentarians against opposing the Nizam-e-Adl Regulation in the National Assembly. “Even holy prophets had no authority to make religious laws or amend them, then how can the National Assembly do it?” TNSM s
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The Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM) and the Swat Taliban on April 12 warned parliamentarians against opposing the Nizam-e-Adl Regulation in the National Assembly. “Even holy prophets had no authority to make religious laws or amend them, then how can the National Assembly do it?” TNSM spokesman Amir Izzat Khan told The News. “If members of the National Assembly opposed the judicial system of the Shariat-e-Muhammadi, they will enter the category of non-Muslims and Pakistan will become Darul Harb,” he warned. Explaining Darul Harb, he said when the rulers of a country opposed the Sharia (Islamic law), they did not remain Muslims anymore. “So a country with non-Muslims as its rulers becomes Darul Harb,” he said and added that it made Jihad mandatory on rulers. Muslim Khan, the spokesman for the Swat militants, warned that those opposing the Nizam-e-Adl would be declared Murtad or apostate. “Then, he or she should contest election on minority seat, if he or she remains alive,” he said.
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April - 13 
Taliban militants stopped the polio vaccination campaign launched in Darsmand union council area under Tal tehsil (revenue unit) in Hangu District, threatening to abduct health officials if they would go ahead with the campaign, Daily Times reported. Khan Meer, head of one of the polio teams working
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Taliban militants stopped the polio vaccination campaign launched in Darsmand union council area under Tal tehsil (revenue unit) in Hangu District, threatening to abduct health officials if they would go ahead with the campaign, Daily Times reported. Khan Meer, head of one of the polio teams working in Darsmand, told that around 10 am armed Taliban militants came to the area and told his three-member team to stop vaccinating children. He said he stopped work in the area immediately after the Taliban warning, and “this is the reason the Taliban have not done anything so far”.
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April - 21 
Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is reported to have warned lawyers in the Shangla District of NWFP on April 21 of serious consequences if they continued to appear in un-Islamic courts (civil and district courts) from April 22. "Lawyers are warned through this notice not to appear before civil and d
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Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is reported to have warned lawyers in the Shangla District of NWFP on April 21 of serious consequences if they continued to appear in un-Islamic courts (civil and district courts) from April 22. "Lawyers are warned through this notice not to appear before civil and district courts," a member of the Shangla District Bar Association quoted the letter as saying.
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April - 22 
Maulana Fazlur Rehman, chief of his own faction of the Jamiat Ulema-I-Islam (JuI-F) warned in a speech in the National Assembly on April 22 that the Taliban were closing in on Islamabad. "You talk about Swat and Buner, but according to my information, they have reached Kala Dhaka and Tarbela. And if
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Maulana Fazlur Rehman, chief of his own faction of the Jamiat Ulema-I-Islam (JuI-F) warned in a speech in the National Assembly on April 22 that the Taliban were closing in on Islamabad. "You talk about Swat and Buner, but according to my information, they have reached Kala Dhaka and Tarbela. And if they continue advancing, there will be only Margalla Hills between them and the federal capital," he said. He blamed the "civil war-like situation" on former president Pervez Musharraf’s decision to join the US-led war on terror. The Swat peace deal was "based on defeat, not success", he said, adding there was no writ of the state in the NWFP.
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April - 28 
Militants in Swat warned media personnel on April 28 of dire consequences if they did not ‘mend their ways’, Dawn reported. According to a private TV channel, pamphlets sent to the offices of newspapers and TV channels asked them to review their role and avoid following “an anti-Taliban agenda”. It
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Militants in Swat warned media personnel on April 28 of dire consequences if they did not ‘mend their ways’, Dawn reported. According to a private TV channel, pamphlets sent to the offices of newspapers and TV channels asked them to review their role and avoid following “an anti-Taliban agenda”. It was signed by the ‘commander’ of the Fidayeen (suicide squad) section of the Tehrik-i-Taliban. The pamphlets accused the media of following a new trend over the past week which showed that “everybody is following a pro-western policy under pressure or for greed”. The Taliban also warned that they would move the Sharia (Islamic law) courts if the media did not follow their instructions.
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April - 28 
The TNSM has warned of a ‘storm’ across Pakistan if the Malakand peace deal collapses, Daily Times reported. “The peace accord has weakened and is shaky,” Sufi Muhammad’s son Rizwanullah Farooq said by telephone from Swat on April 28. “If it breaks, there will be a storm in the whole country.” Meanw
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The TNSM has warned of a ‘storm’ across Pakistan if the Malakand peace deal collapses, Daily Times reported. “The peace accord has weakened and is shaky,” Sufi Muhammad’s son Rizwanullah Farooq said by telephone from Swat on April 28. “If it breaks, there will be a storm in the whole country.” Meanwhile, TNSM spokesman Ameer Izzat Khan said at a press conference that the Taliban had neither destroyed public property in Maidan nor declared war. He said there was no justification for the operation in Maidan.
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May - 5 
The banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has allegedly warned doctors of the public sector hospitals in Peshawar, the NWFP capital, to stop wearing shirts and trousers or face suicide bombing. A senior doctor at the Lady Reading Hospital told The News they had received a letter from the TTP, askin
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The banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has allegedly warned doctors of the public sector hospitals in Peshawar, the NWFP capital, to stop wearing shirts and trousers or face suicide bombing. A senior doctor at the Lady Reading Hospital told The News they had received a letter from the TTP, asking doctors and all other medical staff to immediately stop wearing shirts and trousers or suicide bombers would target them at their institutions. Two other senior doctors at the Hayatabad Medical Complex and the Khyber Teaching Hospital also confirmed receiving similar threats from the TTP. They said chief executives of all the three hospitals directed their staff members, particularly doctors, to stop wearing shirts and trousers so that they could be saved from suicide bombers. The NWFP Secretary for Health, Dr Sohail Altaf, confirmed the threatening letters that were received by the hospital executives from unknown people. He said he too had received a copy of the letter, adding that he did not believe the Taliban would have sent the letter.
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May - 13 
A Taliban spokesman issued a series of threats and ultimatums against officials on May 13 and demanded that all national and provincial assembly members from the Malakand Division in NWFP must resign within three days, Dawn reported. “Otherwise, we will arrest all their families… We will destroy all
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A Taliban spokesman issued a series of threats and ultimatums against officials on May 13 and demanded that all national and provincial assembly members from the Malakand Division in NWFP must resign within three days, Dawn reported. “Otherwise, we will arrest all their families… We will destroy all their buildings,” Muslim Khan threatened in a telephone interview with CNN. He issued a separate directive aimed at prompting a public show of support for the militants from Islamist political parties. “All these parties must help the Taliban… They must give a press conference to show the people that we need sharia in the Malakand division,” he said.
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May - 18 
The Taliban in Mohmand Agency on May 18 announced they had killed two soldiers of the paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC), who were in their custody, and threatened to execute the remaining four if the Government failed to meet their demand for an exchange of prisoners. Ikramullah, a spokesman for the
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The Taliban in Mohmand Agency on May 18 announced they had killed two soldiers of the paramilitary Frontier Corps (FC), who were in their custody, and threatened to execute the remaining four if the Government failed to meet their demand for an exchange of prisoners. Ikramullah, a spokesman for the banned Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Mohmand Agency chapter, told The News by phone from an undisclosed location that Sepoy Imran was executed on May 17 while Sepoy Zari Badshah was killed on May 18. He said the bodies of the two men were left on Qandaharo Road in Mohmand Agency. The spokesman said the two FC men were executed to avenge the murder of five Taliban prisoners, including commanders Yahya Hijrat and Maulana Arabistan, by Police in the limits of the Yakatoot Police station in Peshawar, the NWFP capital, on May 8. “We are still holding four more FC soldiers. We would execute one soldier every day if the government did not agree to our offer of the exchange of prisoners,” the Taliban spokesman warned.
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May - 28 
Hakimullah Mehsud, a spokesman for the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Baitullah Mehsud, claiming responsibility for the bomb-and-gun attack in Lahore on May 28 that killed 27 persons and injured 326 others, warned of more violence in response to the military operation in Swat and surrounding areas
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Hakimullah Mehsud, a spokesman for the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Baitullah Mehsud, claiming responsibility for the bomb-and-gun attack in Lahore on May 28 that killed 27 persons and injured 326 others, warned of more violence in response to the military operation in Swat and surrounding areas, Daily Times reported. Speaking to the media from an undisclosed location, the Taliban commander said “I appeal to [people] of Lahore, Rawalpindi, Islamabad and Multan to vacate their cities as there will be more such massive attacks, more dangerous than this and we will target government buildings and places”. Referring to the blast site in Lahore, he added, “We [have been] looking for this target for a long time”.
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May - 30 
The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud has ordered his followers to carry out bombings in small villages of Swat and FATA and establish hideouts in other areas of the country, a private TV channel reported on May 30, according to Daily Times. In letters to various Taliban command
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The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud has ordered his followers to carry out bombings in small villages of Swat and FATA and establish hideouts in other areas of the country, a private TV channel reported on May 30, according to Daily Times. In letters to various Taliban commanders in Lower Dir, Swat and Buner, Mehsud said the bombings in the villages would help conduct suicide missions in cities later. He said the army had reached every nook and corner of Swat, therefore, the Taliban must find new hideouts.
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June - 16 
The Ministry of Interior has advised the home departments of all four provinces to tighten security after the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) threatened more suicide attacks on prominent religious leaders, Daily Times reported. “Now it is your turn - we have sent a jacketwala (a man with a suicide
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The Ministry of Interior has advised the home departments of all four provinces to tighten security after the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) threatened more suicide attacks on prominent religious leaders, Daily Times reported. “Now it is your turn - we have sent a jacketwala (a man with a suicide vest) to mend clerics like you. We will also send jacketwalas to other clerics too,” sources told Aaj Kal quoting a threatening letter addressed to a cleric. In light of the letter, law enforcement agencies have been advised to tighten security for leading religious leaders.
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June - 16 
Two shops were destroyed and a shop owner injured when the women’s wing of the Baloch Republican Army (BRA) bombed a shop on the Mezan Chowk in Quetta, capital of Balochistan, on June 16, Daily Times reported. The blast occurred at around 1pm in a juice shop in one of the most crowded business centr
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Two shops were destroyed and a shop owner injured when the women’s wing of the Baloch Republican Army (BRA) bombed a shop on the Mezan Chowk in Quetta, capital of Balochistan, on June 16, Daily Times reported. The blast occurred at around 1pm in a juice shop in one of the most crowded business centres of the provincial capital, destroying two neighbouring shops and injuring one of the shops’ owner. “The blast occurred shortly after a woman wearing a veil left the shop. She must’ve left explosives in the shop,” said the juice shop owner. The women’s wing of the BRA claimed responsibility for the blast. “We accept responsibility for the bomb blast,” said Gohar, spokeswoman of the women’s wing of the BRA, in telephone calls to several newspaper offices. She claimed to have personally put the explosives in the shop. “More such attacks would be carried in the future,” she warned.
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June - 17 
According to Dawn, the Peshawar International Airport was shut down on June 17 after an intelligence report warned of a terrorist attack on aircraft by a militant group based in the tribal region, officials said. The Civil Aviation Authority issued a notice to airmen to alert them of hazards en rout
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According to Dawn, the Peshawar International Airport was shut down on June 17 after an intelligence report warned of a terrorist attack on aircraft by a militant group based in the tribal region, officials said. The Civil Aviation Authority issued a notice to airmen to alert them of hazards en route or at a specific location in the night of June 16 and cabled all national and international carriers to stop their flights to the airport from June 17. An unnamed official said the airport would remain closed till June 18-night, but the notice implied that the move was for an indefinite period.
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June - 18 
The Taliban on June 18 killed two locals in Mir Ali subdivision, 24 kilometers east of Miranshah, for allegedly spying for the US, Daily Times reported. The body of Sher Nawab, a resident of Peshawar, was found on the Bannu-Miranshah Road near Shahab Flourmills, while the body of Muhammad Nawaz, a r
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The Taliban on June 18 killed two locals in Mir Ali subdivision, 24 kilometers east of Miranshah, for allegedly spying for the US, Daily Times reported. The body of Sher Nawab, a resident of Peshawar, was found on the Bannu-Miranshah Road near Shahab Flourmills, while the body of Muhammad Nawaz, a resident of Miranshah, was found near Lakar Mandi in Mir Ali. Notes found near the bodies warned that anyone caught spying for the US would meet the same fate.
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June - 26 
Terrorists have plans to attack the American embassy, consulates and diplomats, according to an intelligence report, Daily Times reported. Sources told Aaj Kal that the National Crisis Management Cell of the Interior Ministry had already notified all provincial home departments of the threat. Accord
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Terrorists have plans to attack the American embassy, consulates and diplomats, according to an intelligence report, Daily Times reported. Sources told Aaj Kal that the National Crisis Management Cell of the Interior Ministry had already notified all provincial home departments of the threat. According to the intelligence report, a target has been assigned to a man named Muhammad Ayub, a resident of Quetta.
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June - 28 
Chief of the Hindu community in the Battagram city of Battagram District said on June 28 that the Taliban had threatened them to pay Jazia (tax) or accept Islam, Dawn reported. “It depends on you to choose between Jazia and Islam otherwise you would face abduction and suicide attacks,” Dr Oam Parkas
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Chief of the Hindu community in the Battagram city of Battagram District said on June 28 that the Taliban had threatened them to pay Jazia (tax) or accept Islam, Dawn reported. “It depends on you to choose between Jazia and Islam otherwise you would face abduction and suicide attacks,” Dr Oam Parkash quoted the Taliban as saying. He said that so far he had received two calls during the last two days: first by a Taliban commander and then by a militant. “They demanded Rs6 million from me,” the Hindu leader added. The Taliban is reported to have threatened that “if you or any other member of your community were kidnapped then we will not release the kidnapped person even after payment of Rs10 million as ransom”. Parkash said that he had made clear to both callers that the Hindus in the region were not in a position to pay such a huge amount. Parkash said that 15 Hindu families were living in Battagram but none of them had enmity with anyone in the District. “The government should take precautionary measures to protect the Hindu community as the Taliban have threatened even to target our place of worship in Battagram,” he added.
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June - 30 
Taliban, who had scrapped a peace agreement with the Government on June 29, have imposed a ban on the assembly of five or more people and formation of peace committees in the region. They also warned tribesmen to refrain from going to offices of the political administration and seeking jobs in Gover
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Taliban, who had scrapped a peace agreement with the Government on June 29, have imposed a ban on the assembly of five or more people and formation of peace committees in the region. They also warned tribesmen to refrain from going to offices of the political administration and seeking jobs in Government departments or the Khasadar force. The Taliban reportedly distributed pamphlets in different parts of North Waziristan on June 30, asking people to abide by the directives or face action. “Nobody is allowed to visit offices of the political administration for seeking job or for any other purpose. If anyone is found violating the order he will face consequences,” read a pamphlet distributed in Mirali town. Khasadars have also been asked to abandon their jobs.
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July - 2 
About 68 troopers of the Levies Force quit their job on July 2 following threats by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Orakzai Agency unit, according to The News. Sources said the TTP Orakzai unit had threatened the Levies Force soldiers to quit their jobs within 15 days or face consequences. It wa
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About 68 troopers of the Levies Force quit their job on July 2 following threats by the Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) Orakzai Agency unit, according to The News. Sources said the TTP Orakzai unit had threatened the Levies Force soldiers to quit their jobs within 15 days or face consequences. It was reported that 25 troopers belonging to Mamozai tribe and 43 hailing from Aakhel tribe quit their services and handed over their official arms and belts to the political authorities.
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July - 2 
The Norwegian embassy in Islamabad on July 2 suspended its operations for two days after receiving a threat, sources told Dawn. According to the sources, a letter written in Urdu language was received by the embassy located in Sector F-6/2 two to three days ago in which the sender(s) threatened to c
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The Norwegian embassy in Islamabad on July 2 suspended its operations for two days after receiving a threat, sources told Dawn. According to the sources, a letter written in Urdu language was received by the embassy located in Sector F-6/2 two to three days ago in which the sender(s) threatened to carry out a terrorist activity at the foreign mission. The letter, which was mailed locally, asked the embassy to close its operations in Islamabad as Norway was an ally of the United States.
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July - 8 
Intelligence agencies have warned the Government that the Taliban may attempt to hijack commercial airliners, a private TV channel quoted an intelligence report as saying on July 8, according to Daily Times. According to the channel, the agencies suggested fundamental changes in the security procedu
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Intelligence agencies have warned the Government that the Taliban may attempt to hijack commercial airliners, a private TV channel quoted an intelligence report as saying on July 8, according to Daily Times. According to the channel, the agencies suggested fundamental changes in the security procedures for commercial airliners to avert the risk of hijacking. According to the report, detained Taliban militants have disclosed that the Taliban frequently use commercial airlines to travel.
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July - 17 
Intelligence agencies have cautioned that the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud has directed his suicide bombers to attack oil refineries and depots across the country, Daily Times reported. Following the revelation, the Interior Ministry has directed all home departments, insp
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Intelligence agencies have cautioned that the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) chief Baitullah Mehsud has directed his suicide bombers to attack oil refineries and depots across the country, Daily Times reported. Following the revelation, the Interior Ministry has directed all home departments, inspectors general of police and authorities concerned in all four provinces through a memo to augment security across the country. According to the memo, Baitullah Mehsud had tasked his suicide bombers with blowing up an oil refinery in Attock, an oil depot in Sahiwal and other oil refineries and depots in Punjab.
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August - 3 
The Baloch Republican Army (BRA) killed five abducted officials, including a Station House Officer (SHO), on August 3, and threatened to kill the remaining abducted persons if their demands were not met within 24 hours, Daily Times reported. The BRA is reported to have thrown the bodies on Jathhar K
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The Baloch Republican Army (BRA) killed five abducted officials, including a Station House Officer (SHO), on August 3, and threatened to kill the remaining abducted persons if their demands were not met within 24 hours, Daily Times reported. The BRA is reported to have thrown the bodies on Jathhar Kelji Road. Speaking to a private TV channel by satellite telephone, a spokesman for the BRA, Sarfraz Baloch, claimed responsibility for killing the officials, including the Dera Murad Jamali SHO Ahsanullah Khosa. The spokesman threatened that if the Government did not release arrested Baloch leaders within 24 hours, the BRA would kill the remaining officials and labourers in their custody. The officials and labourers were working on Government projects in different areas of Dera Murad Jamali, headquarter of Nasirabad District, when they were abducted.
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August - 8 
Senior Taliban commander Qari Hussain, maintaining that Baitullah is alive, has threatened to unleash a wave of suicide attacks to "avenge the Government-sponsored propaganda against our leader".
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Senior Taliban commander Qari Hussain, maintaining that Baitullah is alive, has threatened to unleash a wave of suicide attacks to "avenge the Government-sponsored propaganda against our leader".
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August - 9 
Insurgents shot dead four more Policemen and threatened to execute other hostages unless the Government withdraws troops and releases detainees in Balochistan, Police said on August 9, The News reported. “The bodies of four more policemen were found early on Sunday. They had been shot dead overnight
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Insurgents shot dead four more Policemen and threatened to execute other hostages unless the Government withdraws troops and releases detainees in Balochistan, Police said on August 9, The News reported. “The bodies of four more policemen were found early on Sunday. They had been shot dead overnight,” senior Police official Kalim Ullah told reporters. The insurgents had set August 9 as a deadline for meeting their demands. The Baloch Republican Army (BRA) claimed on August 9 that it had killed four more kidnapped Policemen after the Government failed to meet its demands and thrown their bodies in lands. “We have killed four more policemen and released seven labourers on humanitarian grounds,” said spokesman Sarbaz Baloch, in a telephone call to reporters in the provincial capital Quetta. “In a day or two, we will decide about the fate of other policemen, if our demands are not accepted by the government,” he added. The Policemen and the labourers were taken hostages late in July 2009 in the Naseerabad District, Police officials said. Four policemen were killed in July, while another six Policemen and four labourers were still being held, the Police officials said. “If the government does not withdraw the FC (Frontier Corps) from Quetta and release our men, we will kill the rest of the hostages in a couple of days,” Sarbaz Baloch said.
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August - 10 
On August 8, the BRA had issued another deadline of 48 hours to the Government to release detained Baloch leaders and workers and threatened to kill more Policemen if the demand was not met. The BRA spokesman Sarbaz Baloch told journalists on August 10 that the group had killed 10 more Policemen in
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On August 8, the BRA had issued another deadline of 48 hours to the Government to release detained Baloch leaders and workers and threatened to kill more Policemen if the demand was not met. The BRA spokesman Sarbaz Baloch told journalists on August 10 that the group had killed 10 more Policemen in retaliation for the military operation in Dera Bugti. He claimed the BRA had also attacked Security Forces (SFs) in Dera Bugti and damaged a helicopter. Officials, however, denied that the SFs had launched any operation in Dera Bugti, clarifying that troops had been sent to Chattar area for the recovery of the kidnapped Policemen.
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August - 16 
The Christian community on August 16 asked the Punjab Government to provide security for an annual Christian congregation at Maryamabad in the Sheikhupura District, following threats of terrorist attacks from unidentified persons, Daily Times reported. The Christian community has informed the Govern
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The Christian community on August 16 asked the Punjab Government to provide security for an annual Christian congregation at Maryamabad in the Sheikhupura District, following threats of terrorist attacks from unidentified persons, Daily Times reported. The Christian community has informed the Government that residents of Chak No 3 RB, Maryamabad, had received threatening phone calls from unidentified persons, who warned of attacking the congregation and “reducing it to a pile of ashes in a manner similar to the Gojra attacks” on Christians earlier in August. Organisers of three-day religious conference – from September 4 to 6 – said they had informed the local Police about the threats, which had expressed its inability to secure such a large gathering of people due to limited resources. The community has, consequently, appealed to the prime minister, the Punjab chief minister and the Punjab inspector general of police to take notice of the security threat and demanded the Government deal with extremist threats to the community sternly.
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September - 2 
The State Minister for Religious Affairs Shagufta Jumani revealed that Kazmi had written a letter to the Interior Ministry around six months ago asking them to provide a security escort for him but the ministry had taken no step in this regard. She said the minister had received threats to his life
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The State Minister for Religious Affairs Shagufta Jumani revealed that Kazmi had written a letter to the Interior Ministry around six months ago asking them to provide a security escort for him but the ministry had taken no step in this regard. She said the minister had received threats to his life a few months ago and had informed the Interior Ministry
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September - 26 
Two suicide attackers separately rammed their explosives-laden vehicles into a Police station in Bannu and a military-owned commercial bank in Peshawar cantonment area of the NWFP on September 26, killing at least 23 people and injuring around another 200, officials said, according to Daily Times. A
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Two suicide attackers separately rammed their explosives-laden vehicles into a Police station in Bannu and a military-owned commercial bank in Peshawar cantonment area of the NWFP on September 26, killing at least 23 people and injuring around another 200, officials said, according to Daily Times. At least 10 people were killed in the attack in Peshawar, while seven, including two Policemen, were killed in the assault on the Bannu Police station. But a Police official in Bannu said 13 people had been killed. Authorities said the death toll could rise as many among the injured were in critical condition. Around 94 people were injured in Peshawar and 64, including 31 Policemen, in Bannu. "It was a car suicide blast and according to our calculations 100 kilogram’s of explosives were used," Shafqat Malik, bomb disposal squad chief, told reporters at the incident site of the Peshawar attack. "The suicide bomber sitting inside the car hurled a grenade and then he detonated himself and the car," Malik said, describing the target as a branch of a bank run by an Army welfare trust. Eyewitnesses said Police arrested two suspicious persons from the site of Peshawar blast, which occurred some 300 metres away from the headquarters of the 11 Corps and the US Consulate in the high-security zone. Meanwhile, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility for the Bannu attack and threatened to unleash bigger attacks on the Government to avenge the killing of their leader Baitullah Mehsud in a US drone attack in August, AFP reported.
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October - 6 
The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed on October 6 it had carried out the suicide attack on the main office of UN’s World Food Programme in Islamabad on October 5 and vowed further attacks on Governments and foreign targets, Dawn reported. Five UN officials - four Pakistanis and an Iraqi among
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The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed on October 6 it had carried out the suicide attack on the main office of UN’s World Food Programme in Islamabad on October 5 and vowed further attacks on Governments and foreign targets, Dawn reported. Five UN officials - four Pakistanis and an Iraqi among them - were killed when a suicide bomber dressed as a paramilitary soldier dodged security measures and detonated explosives in the fortified office. TTP spokesman Azam Tariq claimed responsibility and said his organisation would not leave the people of Pakistan at the mercy of the Blackwater security agency. He also said the Taliban were ready to face a military operation in the tribal region. Further, Azam Tariq said Interior Minister Rehman Malik had refuted the fact that new TTP chief Hakeemullah Mehsud was alive. “He (interior minister) should visit South Waziristan and he would have a chance to meet Hakeemullah there,” he added.
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October - 20 
The Taliban warned Mehsud elders against support to the military. “We call on Mehsud leaders not to support or speak in favour of the government. If any Mehsud tribesman collaborates with the government or speaks in their favour, stern action will be taken against them,” Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq
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The Taliban warned Mehsud elders against support to the military. “We call on Mehsud leaders not to support or speak in favour of the government. If any Mehsud tribesman collaborates with the government or speaks in their favour, stern action will be taken against them,” Taliban spokesman Azam Tariq told BBC.
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November - 17 
The outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have threatened the Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) and Chaklala Cantonment Board (CCB) of contaminating water sources and reservoirs with poisonous material with the aim of pressurizing the Army to stop the military operation in South Waziristan. Offic
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The outlawed Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have threatened the Rawalpindi Cantonment Board (RCB) and Chaklala Cantonment Board (CCB) of contaminating water sources and reservoirs with poisonous material with the aim of pressurizing the Army to stop the military operation in South Waziristan. Official sources told The News that a letter threatening to contaminate water was faxed to the Directorate of Military Lands and Cantonments in Rawalpindi on November 17. The letter states that the TTP has procured 200 litres of poisonous material that would be used to contaminate water sources and reservoirs in the wards falling under RCB and CCB limits. However, the TTP in its letter has not intimated the time and date of implementing the threat. Through the letter, the RCB and CCB officials have been threatened to stop the military operation in South Waziristan, sources claimed.
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December - 14 
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on December 14 urged clerics to refrain from issuing edicts against suicide bombing without lending an ear to the “jihadi point of view”, according to Daily Times. TTP spokesman Azam Tariq said, “We expect that the clerics will not issue fatwas against suicide bo
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The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on December 14 urged clerics to refrain from issuing edicts against suicide bombing without lending an ear to the “jihadi point of view”, according to Daily Times. TTP spokesman Azam Tariq said, “We expect that the clerics will not issue fatwas against suicide bombing without listening to the point of view of the jihadi forces.” “These clerics, if they are forced by the Government to issue decrees against us, should visit areas where Security Forces’ operation is going on to know who is doing what.” The TTP appeal came after the Government sought edicts from renowned religious scholars and clerics against suicide attacks. “Issuing fatwas against suicide bombing on the basis of the Government’s propaganda is unjust,” the spokesman added.
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December - 27 
Three militants were killed and six injured in a clash between militants and members of the Sturikhel tribe. Sources said the militants had been threatening members of the Sturikhel tribe in a bid to stop them from enrolling in the Frontier Corps. They said the situation had escalated to such an ext
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Three militants were killed and six injured in a clash between militants and members of the Sturikhel tribe. Sources said the militants had been threatening members of the Sturikhel tribe in a bid to stop them from enrolling in the Frontier Corps. They said the situation had escalated to such an extent that a clash erupted between the militants and members of the tribe firing at each other. Resultantly, three militants were killed and six others injured.
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December - 29 
In the same locality, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have warned khasadars a (local tribal force) and construction contractors against carrying out their duties by distributing pamphlet in Miranshah in North Waziristan on December 29, reports Daily Times. The TTP said the decision had been mad
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In the same locality, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) have warned khasadars a (local tribal force) and construction contractors against carrying out their duties by distributing pamphlet in Miranshah in North Waziristan on December 29, reports Daily Times. The TTP said the decision had been made to protect the life and property of the tribal people belonging to the Mehsud tribe.
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December - 30 
The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on December 30 claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed 43 people in Karachi, and threatened more attacks on “the US ally”, according to Daily Times. “My group claims responsibility for the Karachi attack and we will carry out more such attacks wi
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The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on December 30 claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing that killed 43 people in Karachi, and threatened more attacks on “the US ally”, according to Daily Times. “My group claims responsibility for the Karachi attack and we will carry out more such attacks within 10 days,” said Asmatullah Shaheen, one of the TTP ‘commanders’, who spoke by telephone to a Reuters reporter.
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