January 1
|
Anti-terrorism court in Lahore grants bail to
Al Qaeda suspect and medical
practitioner Ahmad Javed Khawaja, and his brother Ahmad Naveed
Khawaja.
|
January 2
|
Afghan border authorities seize 330 rockets being
smuggled into the eastern province of Nangarhar from Pakistan.
|
January 3
|
Al Badr Mujahideen claims formation of suicide
squad to target the police chief of the Indian State of Jammu
and Kashmir.
|
January 6 |
Media report says the authorities have
handed over 443 suspected Al Qaeda operatives to the US till date.
|
January 9 |
Law-enforcement agencies, assisted
by US Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) sleuths, arrest seven
members of a family and two Arab Al Qaeda operatives following a
raid at the house of a woman leader of the Jamaat-e-Islami, in Karachi.
Seven family members are released later. |
January 10 |
An unspecified number of Taliban and
Al Qaeda operatives are scattered across the country, says Naseer
Ahmed Ruhi, former member of the Taliban militia. |
January 12 |
A suspected Al Qaeda operative is arrested
from his residence in Baghgai village, approximately 15km away from
Wana, in Peshawar. |
January 13 |
Authorities in Karachi announce the
arrest of an Australian Al Qaeda operative. He was reportedly arrested
at the international airport in Karachi on January 4. |
January 14 |
Lashkar-e-Jabbar (LJ)
asks all non-Muslim doctors working in the Indian State of Jammu
and Kashmir to leave the State within 10 days. A poster bearing
the signature of the group is discovered at an unnamed hospital
in the State capital Srinagar. |
January 15 |
Two MQM-A
activists, including a unit in-charge, are killed and another injured
by two unidentified assailants within the precincts of Jauharabad
Police Station, in Karachi. |
January 16 |
Authorities accompanied by FBI agents
raid at least three madrassas (seminaries) in the federal capital
Islamabad looking for Al Qaeda and Taliban
suspects. |
January 17 |
FBI agents assisted by local security
agencies arrest four foreign Al Qaeda suspects in Karachi. |
January 22
|
Four members of an outlawed group
arrested in a raid in Daroghawala area of Lahore for suspected
links to the Al Qaeda.
|
January 23
|
Anti-Taliban Afghan writer, Fazal
Wahab, living as a refugee in Swat, North West Frontier Province
shot dead along with two other persons.
US Ambassador in Pakistan, Nancy
Powell, says Pakistan must ensure that its pledges are implemented
to prevent infiltration of terrorists across the Line of Control
(LoC) and end the "use of Pakistan as a platform for terrorism".
|
January 28
|
Medical practitioner Ahmed Khawaja
and his brother, a Canadian national, accused of having links
with the Al Qaeda, are formally charged at a Lahore anti-terrorism
court on charges of harbouring Al Qaeda operatives, attempted
murder and illegal weapons possession.
Police in Dera Ismail Khan arrest
21 activists of Jamiaat-ul-Ansaar, including the district chief,
from its office at Tank Adda.
|
January 29
|
28 Pakistanis are arrested from
an apartment in central Naples in Italy for suspected links to
the Al Qaeda.
|
January 30
|
21 arrested terrorists of Jamiaat-ul-Ansaar
released following North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Chief Minister
Akram Khan Durrani’s expression of displeasure at their detention.
|
January 31
|
Unidentified assailants kill
a prayer leader and a worshipper and injure two others after opening
indiscriminate fire inside a mosque in Faisalabad.
|
February 3
|
One person is killed and three
others injured after an explosive-laden motorcycle blows up in
the Clifton area of Karachi.
|
February 4
|
Russia outlaws three Pakistan-based
terrorist groups, the Lashkar-e-Toiba, Jamaat-e-Islam and Hizbul
Tahri al Islami.
|
February 6
|
A religious preacher is killed
by two unidentified assailants in front of a mosque in the Jauharabad
area of Karachi.
|
February 7
|
Pakistani government lodges a
protest with Indian government by summoning its Acting High Commissioner
Sudhir Vyas to Foreign Office against what it describes as "ridiculous
and baseless" allegations against its Acting High Commissioner
Jalil Abbas Jilani, in New Delhi.
Federal government informs Lahore
High Court that it considers Al Qaeda a terrorist organisation
in accordance with United Nations Security Council resolutions
and anyone who harbours its members is breaking the law.
|
February 8
|
In a retaliatory move linked
to the expulsion in Delhi of its Acting High Commissioner Jalil
Abbas Jilani, Pakistan orders the expulsion of India's Acting
High Commissioner Sudhir Vyas and four non-diplomatic staffers
from the country.
|
February 12
|
An Court in Italy orders the
release of 28 Pakistanis arrested in central Naples on January
29, 2003, for suspected links to the Al Qaeda.
|
February 15
|
Three security force personnel
and a civilian are injured in a landmine blast in Chamlang area
of Quetta.
|
February 16
|
Former Legislator and MQM-A central
leader Khalid bin Waleed is shot dead and his associate and official
gunman injured by an unidentified assailant in North Nazimabad
area, Karachi.
|
February 22
|
Nine persons are shot dead and
seven more wounded in an attack by unidentified armed men outside
a mosque in Rafah- i-Aam Society, Karachi.
|
February 24
|
Three persons, including two
Frontier Corps officers, are injured in a landmine explosion in
Chamalang area, Kohlu district, Baluchistan.
|
February 27
|
Three persons are killed in suspected
sectarian violence in Karachi.
|
February 28
|
Two policemen guarding the United
States (US) Consulate in Karachi, Sindh, are killed and five others
injured by an unidentified gunman.
|
March 1
|
Three Al
Qaeda terrorists, including suspected the mastermind of the
9/11 terrorist attacks, Khalid
Sheikh Mohammad, is arrested in Rawalpindi.
|
March 4
|
Federal Information Minister
Sheikh Rashid Ahmed says that, after concluding interrogations,
Pakistan has handed over to US authorities Khalid Sheikh Mohammad,
top Al Qaeda operative.
|
March 7
|
An SSP activist is killed in
North Karachi area, under Khwaja Ajmer Nagri police station-limits,
in Sindh Province.
|
March 9
|
Three persons, including an Iraqi
and two Afghans, are arrested in Hyderabad, Sindh, for suspected
Al Qaeda links.
|
March 12
|
Sindh Police chief Syed Kamal
Shah says that an LeJ terrorist arrested on March 7 has confessed
to his involvement in the massacre of nine Shias at a mosque in
Karachi on February 22.
|
March 17
|
Two suspected Al
Qaeda operatives of Arab origin are arrested from the campus
of Peshawar's main university.
|
March 18
|
Two Al Qaeda suspects are arrested following a
raid on an Afghan refugee camp in Jalozai Peshawar.
|
March 28
|
Fifteen members of the proscribed Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi
(TNSM), including some leaders, are released from the central
prison in Dera Ismail Khan.
|
April 1
|
Pakistani authorities claim they have arrested
Shabbir Ahmed alias Fauji, acting chief of the proscribed Lashkar-e-Jhangvi,
in Sameejabad locality of Multan. Ahmed, carrying a head money
of Rs one million, is accused of involvement in the killing of
several minority Muslim Shias.
Two terrorists accused of killing 11 French naval
engineers and two Pakistanis in a suicide bomb attack at Sheraton
Hotel, Karachi, on May 8, 2002, plead "not guilty", even as an
the Anti-terrorism Court formally indicts them.
|
April 2
|
Police in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) claim
they have arrested 14 Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM)
terrorists. The arrests were made on April 1 in Muzaffarabad,
a week after some HM cadres blamed their chief, Syed Salahuddin,
for the death of former 'chief commander of operations' Abdul
Majeed Dar, splitting the group into two rival factions.
|
April 3
|
Two suspected Al
Qaeda operatives--identified as Abdullah and Abdul Karim--are
arrested in Peshawar.
|
April 4
|
Two unidentified gunmen in Khawaja Ajmer Nagri
area, Karachi, kill a doctor in a suspected sectarian attack.
|
April 7
|
Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM)
appoints Shoaib Ahmed as the new ‘chief commander’ for the Indian
State of Jammu and Kashmir (J&K) in place of Fayaz Ahmed alias
Shamas Bhai, who was killed in an encounter in Khazanbal, Pulwama
district of J&K on April 6.
|
April 11
|
Anti-Terrorism court in Karachi
awards death sentence to a LeJ activist, Faisal alias Pehlwan,
for assassinating Sunni Tehrik chief Saleem Qadri and four others
in the Baldia Town on May 18, 2001.
Australia proscribes Jaish-e-Mohammed
and Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ).
|
April 12
|
An Anti-terrorism Court in Lahore
trying medical practitioner Ahmad Javed Khwaja and his brother
Ahmad Naveed Khwaja, for their alleged links with the Al Qaeda
refuse a prosecution plea to incorporate charges relating to their
Al Qaeda links.
|
April 13
|
Foreign Office dismisses as baseless
the remarks made by Zalmay Khalilzad, US Special Envoy for Afghanistan,
on the regrouping of Taliban in the country.
|
April 14
|
Two of the five terrorists accused
in the US Consulate bomb attack case are held guilty and sentenced
to death by an Anti-Terrorism Court in Karachi.
|
April 17
|
Richard Haas, a senior US State
Department official says, Washington has been unable to persuade
Pakistan to "stop cross-border terrorism" against India.
|
April 18
|
Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah
Jamali welcomes Indian Premier Vajpayee’s offers of talks on the
Kashmir issue.
|
April 20
|
Maulana Azam Tariq, SSP chief,
says that he and his followers had formed a new party to work
for the "enforcement of Islamic edicts" in Pakistan. He said the
new group is called Millat-e-Islamia (MeI) and said it wanted
to bring about an Islamic revolution.
|
April 22
|
120 rockets, five missiles and
other weapons were recovered from the border town of Miranshah,
280km southwest of Peshawar.
|
April 23
|
United Jehad Council accuses
India of using "chemical weapons" in Jammu and Kashmir.
|
April 24
|
Afghan Foreign Minister Abdullah
Abdullah says front ranking Taliban leaders wanted for crimes
in Afghanistan are believed to be hiding in Pakistan.
|
April 26
|
An Anti-terrorism court in Karachi
sentences to death Akram Lahori, LeJ chief, and his two associates
on three counts of sectarian murders.
|
April 28
|
Prime Minister Zafarullah Khan
Jamali in a telephonic conversation with Indian Premier Atal Behari
Vajpayee offers to visit India for holding a dialogue. He also
extends an invitation to Vajpayee to visit Pakistan at the latter’s
convenience.
|
April 30
|
Eleven Al Qaeda suspects, including three Arabs,
are arrested from different parts of Karachi.
USA designates Al Badr, Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen
and Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan as terrorist organisations.
|
May 2
|
Pakistani authorities hand over three Arab Al
Qaeda suspects, including prime suspect in the October 2000-USS
Cole bombing, Waleed Muhammad Bin Attash alias Khalid Al-Attash,
to US officials.
|
May 3
|
Police in Karachi arrest two Egyptian Al Qaeda
suspects from Surjani Town and seize three AK-47 assault rifles,
two TT pistols, two satellite phones, some transmitters and refined
explosives from their possession.
|
May 6
|
Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah Khan Jamali announces
the restoration of diplomatic ties with India.
A minor bomb explosion is reported from outside a Christian hospital
near Peshawar. However, there were no casualties in the explosion.
|
May 7
|
State Bank of Pakistan informs that it has frozen
the accounts of a Kuwaiti aid organisation, Lajnah al-Dawah al-Islamia,
over suspected links to the Al Qaeda network.
|
May 8
|
Police in Karachi arrest a Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ)
terrorist who is suspected to be involved in the parcel bomb blasts,
which occurred in three government offices on October 16, 2002.
The visiting US Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage said
at a press conference in Islamabad that infiltration into the
Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir had decreased.
|
May 9
|
At least 12 terrorists are injured in an armed
clash between the supporters of Syed Salahuddin and Abdul Majid
Dar factions of the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM)
in Jabbar camp in the Muzaffarabad area of Pakistan occupied Kashmir
(PoK).
|
May 10
|
Approximately 11 persons are injured when an explosive
device went off inside a Kandiaro-bound passenger bus at Pathan
Colony, Hyderabad.
|
May 13
|
A powerful bomb explosion occurs
outside the Christian Memorial School in the Bannu district on
May 13. However, no causalities were reported.
|
May 14
|
Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK)
government announces a ban on the entry of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM)
chief Maulana Masood Azhar into the region.
|
May 15
|
Five persons are injured during
serial bomb blasts at 21 British and US gas stations in Karachi.
Maulana Masood Azhar, chief of
the outlawed Jaish-e-Mohammed, arrives in Kotli in Pakistan occupied
Kashmir (PoK) despite a ban on his entry.
One person is killed and 11 others
injured when members of two religious sects opened fire on each
other in the Jaranwala area of Faisalabad.
|
May 17
|
An activist of the proscribed
Sunni group, Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP), is shot dead by unidentified
assailants when he was returning to his residence at an unnamed
place in Multan.
One person is killed and five
others injured during an explosion at a house in Hajira town,
approximately 145 kilometers south of Muzaffarabad, capital of
Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK).
|
May 19
|
A member of the Muttahida Quomi
Movement – Altaf Hussain (MQM-A)
and his nephew are shot dead by unidentified assailants near the
Gulberg area in Karachi.
|
May 20
|
Interior Minister Faisal Saleh
Hayat denies having any authority to ban terrorist groups not
operating within Pakistan. He clarifies in Islamabad that "The
government has not banned the Hizbul Mujahideen [HM], as it has
no presence in Pakistan."
|
May 21
|
Police said in Islamabad that
they had booked two Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM)
terrorists for carrying arms in public in defiance of a ban.
|
May 23
|
A young boy is killed and eight
others, including Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG) (Operations)
Karachi, Tariq Jamil, are injured when two sectarian groups clashed
near the Godhra Colony area, under the jurisdiction of New Karachi
Industrial Area.
|
May 24
|
A Muttahida Quomi Movement-Haqiqi
(MQM-H) activist is
abducted and later shot dead in the Liaqatabad area of Karachi.
|
May 27
|
Anti-Terrorism court in Lahore
acquitts medical practitioner Dr Ahmad Javed Khawaja and his chartered
accountant brother Ahmad Naveed Khawaja of the charges of firing
on a police party and possessing illegal arms and passports of
four foreign nationals.
|
May 28
|
Crime Investigation Department
of Karachi police arrests three terrorists of the proscribed Sunni
group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and recover an unspecified quantity of
weapons and a motorcycle allegedly used by their leader Asif Ramzi,
who died in a blast on December 19, 2002.
|
May 29
|
Qari Abdul Hayee, acting chief
of LeJ, is arrested during a surprise raid conducted at Basti
Allah Buksh in Sher Sultan, Muzaffargarh district.
|
May 30
|
Local administration in Peshawar stops Maulana
Masood Azhar, JeM chief, from addressing a "Deefa-e-Islam" conference
at the Peshawar Press Club. However, he is allowed to lay the
foundation stone of Hanan bin Salma Centre at Chamkani and address
the people at Speen Jamaat.
|
May 31
|
Five persons are in a bomb explosion in a passenger
bus at Sabzi Mandi Chowk in Hyderabad on May 31.
|
June 1
|
Daily Times reports that Pakistan's security
agencies are hunting for an Afghan national Hamdullah, popularly
known as Mufti Inaam, who was the head of the intelligence agency
under the erstwhile Taliban regime and has close contacts with
Osama bin Laden.
|
June 2
|
North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Provincial
Assembly passes the Shariat Bill that would make the province
the first in Pakistan to be run according to the teachings of
the Holy Quraan.
Senior Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) leader Maulana Samiul Haq
claims in Lahore "Osama Bin Laden and Mullah Omar are alive and
safe, and operating in Afghanistan against American forces."
|
June 4
|
Michael Evanoff, a US Embassy official in Islamabad
terms Pakistan as "the epicenter of terrorism".
|
June 8
|
In a sectarian attack, 13 trainee police personnel
belonging to the local Hazara community of the Shia sect are killed
and eight others injured at Sariab Road in Quetta.
|
June 11
|
Two unidentified assailants kill Abdul Raziq Khan,
a leader of the Pakistan Muslim League (Quaid-e-Azam) and former
Speaker of the Sindh Assembly and his driver at Altaf Hussain
Road in Karachi.
|
June 12
|
An activist of the proscribed Sunni group Sipah-e-Sahaba
Pakistan (SSP) is shot
dead near his residence in Karachi by three unidentified terrorists.
A retired civil engineer from the Shia community is killed in
the Nazimabad area of Karachi.
A former terrorist of the outlawed Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM)
is shot dead by two unidentified assailants in Sector 5-L, New
Karachi police jurisdiction, Karachi.
|
June 14
|
Police in Karachi arrest five terrorists allegedly
involved in planning strikes on US and other foreign establishments
in the city.
|
June 17
|
President Musharraf while rejecting
Indian allegations of cross-border terrorism claims in London
that, "It's simply not true. It's my word against theirs. There
is nothing happening on the Line of Control (LoC). Now let us
not be blackmailed on this issue by the Indian side… Whatever
is happening is indigenous."
Security agencies arrest an Arab
national along with three Afghans suspected of having links with
the Al Qaeda from Peshawar.
|
June 25
|
Visiting Pakistan President Pervez
Musharraf reportedly assures US President George W Bush that he
will make a hundred per cent effort to end cross-border terrorism
against India. "Musharraf has committed to a hundred per cent
effort at trying to end cross-border incidents", a senior Bush
administration official said while briefing reporters on the talks
the two leaders held at Camp David on June 24.
|
June 27
|
Eight alleged LeT cadres, accused
of planning terrorist acts in the Indian State of Jammu and Kashmir,
are arrested during a series of raids around the US Federal Capital
of Washington, the US Justice Department said in a statement.
Three other persons, reportedly living in Saudi Arabia, were also
named in a 42-count Justice Department indictment.
|
June 28
|
A 41-count Federal Grand Jury
indictment is turned against 11 LeT terrorists who have been charged
with conspiracy to "prepare for and engage in violent jehad" against
foreign targets in Kashmir, Philippines and Chechnya. The 11 include
eight persons arrested by agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation
in Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania on June 27 and three others
believed to be in Saudi Arabia.
|
June 30
|
An Anti-Terrorism court in Karachi
sentences three terrorists of the proscribed Harkat-ul-Mujahideen
(HuM)
to death on each of three counts for killing 11 French naval engineers
and two others in a suicide car bomb attack near the Sheraton
Hotel on May 8, 2002.
|
July 1
|
Abdul Jabbar, former ‘supreme
commander’ of the JeM, is reportedly arrested in Midhranjha, a
town near Sargodha, for his alleged involvement in two terrorist
attacks on Christian targets during year 2002.
|
July 4
|
At least 53 persons are killed
and 57 others injured as three armed terrorists, including a suspected
suicide bomber, attack a Shiite Muslim mosque in Quetta, capital
of the Southwestern Baluchistan province, during the Friday prayers.
|
July 5
|
Police in Lahore arrest seven
LeJ terrorists from a house in the Ghaziabad area on suspicion
that they were involved in the July 4-Quetta massacre.
|
July 6
|
Police in Quetta detain 19 suspects
for interrogation in connection with the July 4 massacre at a
mosque in which 53 persons were killed.
|
July 7
|
President of the Baluchistan
Shiite Conference, Syed Ashraf Zaidi, claims that the Al Qaeda
was responsible for the July 4 attack on a mosque in Quetta in
which 53 persons were killed.
|
July 10 |
Two persons are killed
and an unspecified number of them injured in a bomb explosion outside
the Crown Plaza building in the eastern part of Karachi. |
July 15 |
Suspected Al Qaeda terrorist,
Adil Al-Jazeeri, arrested in June 2003, is handed over to American
authorities in Peshawar. |
July 16 |
At least 11 persons are
injured in a bomb blast at the Liaquat University Hospital in Hyderabad.
Proscribed Sunni group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi claims responsibility for
the July 4-Quetta mosque attack in which at least 53 persons were
killed. |
July 17 |
A former Taliban 'commander',
Zainuddin Achakzai, is reportedly shot dead by unidentified assailants
in the Pashtoonabad area on the outskirts of Quetta. |
July 27 |
Nine persons, including
some military police personnel, are injured during a bomb blast
at the main Miranshah bazaar. |
July 28 |
Three persons, including
a woman, are killed and four others sustain injuries during a bomb
explosion in the Saidgai village of North Waziristan Agency along
the Pakistan-Afghanistan border. |
August 3 |
One person is killed and
another injured in a bomb explosion in the Dera Ismail Khan district,
reportedly hours before the arrival of North West Frontier Province
(NWFP) Chief Minister Akram Khan Durrani. |
August 4 |
Sindh High Court sets
aside an order of the State Bank of Pakistan under which accounts
of the Al-Rashid
Trust with the Habib Bank Ltd were frozen on grounds that the
ART was funding Al Qaeda
and other terrorist groups. |
August 6 |
Shabir Choudhury, Jammu
and Kashmir Liberation Front (JKLF)
leader, accuses the Pakistan Government of denying basic human rights
to the people in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK) during his address
at the 55th session of the United Nations sub-commission on the
promotion and protection of human rights. |
August 8 |
US authorities charge
Uzair Paracha, a Pakistani national, with conspiring to provide
financial and other assistance to the Al Qaeda. |
August 12 |
President Pervez Musharraf
offers an immediate cease-fire along the LoC and also indicates
his willingness to 'facilitate' it in the Indian State of Jammu
and Kashmir if India reciprocates by releasing Kashmiri prisoners,
allowing free movement of Kashmiri leaders and reducing security
forces' deployment. |
August 19 |
In a suspected targeted
sectarian killing, Dr. Shoaib Siddiqui, administrator of the Liaquat
National Hospital, is shot dead by two armed assailants near the
hospital premises in Karachi. |
August 27 |
Buner Police arrests at
least ten terrorists affiliated to the proscribed Jaish-e-Mohammed
(JeM)
after a clash between two groups of the outfit over an internal
dispute near Ghaurghushti Town in Peshawar. |
August 30 |
While acknowledging the
killing of its 'operational chief' Gazi Baba alias Shahnawaz Khan
during an encounter on August 30, the Jaish-e-Mohammed appoints
Sahrai Baba in his place. Pakistani Urdu daily Jung quots
Jaish 'deputy supreme commander' Wali Hasan as saying that Abu Dajana
has been appointed as Sahrai's deputy in Jammu and Kashmir. |
August 31 |
Unidentified assailants
shoot at and injure a prominent former Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM)
'commander', Haroon Khan aka Major Mast Gul, near his residence
in the Khwaja Town area of Peshawar. |
September 2 |
Eight persons, including
two activists of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement-Altaf Hussain (MQM-A),
are shot dead by unidentified terrorists in two separate attacks
in the Liaquatabad and Azizabad areas of Karachi. |
September 4 |
In a suspected sectarian
incident, two unidentified assailants kill Javed Hussain Dogar,
a Shia religious leader, at the People's Colony area in Lahore.
|
September 11 |
On the eve of the second
anniversary of 9/11, fugitive Al
Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahri is quoted as saying in media reports
that Pakistanis should revolt against President Pervez Musharraf.
In an audiotape aired by Qatar's Al-Jazeera television, he said,
"We ask our Muslim brethren in Pakistan: until when will you put
up with the traitor Musharraf, who sold the Muslims' blood in Afghanistan
and handed over the Arab mujahideen to crusader America?"
Five Pakistan-based terrorist groups, including the Jaish-e-Mohammed
and Lashkar-e-Toiba, which were proscribed by President Pervez Musharraf
on January 12, 2002, are currently functioning openly under changed
identities, according to the Herald. Four of Pakistan's top sectarian
outfits have effectively regrouped and are operating their respective
networks as openly as before though under different names, it said.
|
September 12 |
President Pervez Musharraf
says in an interview to the BBC that reports of Al Qaeda and Taliban
terrorists finding sympathy in Pakistan and using it as a base for
launching attacks in Afghanistan were "partially true".
Islamist separatists in China's Muslim northwest are securing assistance
from international terrorists, including instruction in "several
training camps in Pakistan," claims Wang Lequan, the region's Communist
Party secretary. |
September 15 |
Declassified US intelligence
documents reportedly reveal that Pakistan helped Al Qaeda terrorists
launch their operations in Afghanistan in the 1990s and also clandestinely
ran a major training camp used by Osama
Bin Laden's network. |
September 17 |
Twelve persons are wounded
in clashes between armed villagers and unidentified terrorists in
the Khoi Rata village, approximately 250 kilometers south of Muzaffarabad
in Pakistan occupied Kashmir (PoK). |
September 20 |
Security agencies reportedly
raid two Madrassas (seminaries) in Karachi on and arrest
16 foreigners for suspected links to various extremist groups. The
raids occurred at the Jamia Abi Bakar and Madrasa Dar-ul-Islam seminaries
in the Gulshan-e-Iqbal area of Karachi. Among those arrested were
13 Malaysian, two Indonesian and a Burmese. |
September 22 |
Media reports indicate
that Gun Gun Rusman Gunawan, younger brother of Hambali, chief of
the Indonesian terrorist group Jemaah Islamiyyah, was arrested from
the Gulshan-e-Iqbal area in Karachi a month back. |
September 24 |
Addressing the United
Nations General Assembly, President Pervez Musharraf invites India
to observe a complete cease-fire along the Line of Control (LoC). |
September 27 |
At least 12 persons are
injured when a bomb of low intensity exploded in a minibus under
the Brigade police station-limits on the MA Jinnah Road in Karachi.
|
September 28 |
An activist of the Muttahida
Qaumi Movement - Altaf Hussain (MQM-A)
is shot dead by two unidentified assailants at Nagan Chowrangi in
Karachi.
Karachi Police arrest Muhammad Aslam Jhangvi, a front ranking LeJ
terrorist. Allegedly involved in the killing of 12 persons in Mailsi
in year 2000, the Government had announced a reward of Rupees 3
million for his arrest. |
October 2 |
At least 12 Al
Qaeda terrorists are killed and 18 others arrested during an
operation launched by the Pakistan Army in the remote South Waziristan
Agency (SWA), close to the Afghanistan border. Two Pakistani soldiers
were also reportedly killed and two others injured during the encounter.
Police in Hyderabad said that they had arrested five suspected Harkat-ul-Mujahideen
Al-alami (HuMA) terrorists
who had plotted to kill foreigners and leaders of minority communities
in Pakistan. |
October 3 |
At least six persons,
including four employees of the Space and Upper Atmospheric Research
Commission (SUPARCO) and one army personnel, are killed and eight
persons injured in an ambush while they were going to a mosque for
offering Friday prayers in the Mauripur area of Karachi. |
October 4 |
Security agencies
are reported to have dismantled a terrorist training camp in the
Diamir district of the Northern Areas. |
October 6 |
Maulana Azam Tariq, leader
of the outlawed Sunni group Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP)
and Member of National Assembly, is assassinated along with four
others in Islamabad. |
October 8 |
The political administration
of South Waziristan Agency arrests at least 24 tribesmen for sheltering
Al Qaeda and Taliban operatives.US Federal
prosecutors formally charge a Pakistani national with providing
material support to the Al Qaeda, more than six months after his
arrest in New York City. |
October 11 |
60 persons are arrested
in South Waziristan for sheltering Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives. |
October 13 |
An MQM-A activist is
shot dead by two unidentified assailants in the Sakhi Hasan chowrangi
area of Karachi. |
October 14 |
Karachi-based Al Akhtar
Trust is designated as a Global Terrorist entity by the US Treasury.
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October 16 |
The United States designates
Pakistan-based Indian Mafia don Dawood Ibrahim as a global terrorist
having links with the Al Qaeda
and financing activities of the Lashkar-e-Toiba and other terrorist
groups. |
October 17 |
The Mujahideen have
a right to cross the Line of Control (LoC) in Kashmir to "fight
a jihad against Indian forces", claims Hafiz Saeed, chief of the
Lashkar-e-Toiba, at the close of a three-day Jamaat-ud-Dawa (the
new name of LeT) congregation at Pattoki in the Punjab province. |
October 18 |
An anti-terrorism court
in Karachi awards 10-year jail terms to three terrorists affiliated
to the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen Al-alami (HuMA) for an attempt on the
life of President Pervez Musharraf, while acquitting two co-accused
in the case. |
October 20 |
Security agencies arrest
two Yemenis and a Pakistani from Faisalabad for suspected links
to the Al Qaeda network. |
October 21 |
An absconding LeJ terrorist
is reported to have died after he jumped from his fifth floor flat
to escape arrest in Karachi. Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT),
Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM)
and Al
Badr Mujahideen, are reported to have joined the United Jehad
Council (UJC),
a 13-member alliance of terrorist groups active in Jammu and Kashmir. |
October 22 |
Karachi Police arrests
four Lashkar-e-Jhangvi terrorists for their alleged involvement
in an attack on a bus carrying employees of the Space and Upper
Atmosphere Research Committee (SUPARCO) that claimed six lives on
October 3 in Maripur. |
October 29 |
Pakistan responds to the
Indian confidence-building measures (CBMs) and hopes that discussions
on the CBMs would lead New Delhi to resume a sustained and composite
dialogue with Islamabad on all contentious issues, notably the Kashmir
dispute. Foreign Secretary Riaz Khokhar told a press conference
that Pakistan had decided to respond positively to the Indian proposals
along with some of its own steps.
Two police personnel are killed and five others wounded in a bomb
explosion near the Bhitai Colony Police Station in Kandhkot of Jacobabad
district. |
November 3 |
Two suspected Uzbek terrorists
are killed during an encounter with Pakistani troops in the Angoor
Adda area of South Waziristan Agency. |
November 7 |
Australian Parliament
passes a bill to outlaw the Pakistan-based Lashkar-e-Toiba. The
move to designate LeT as a terrorist outfit came after allegations
that a French terror suspect deported to Paris in October 2003 had
trained with the group. |
November 10 |
Two journalists and seven
police personnel are injured in three bomb blasts in the Satellite
Town area of Quetta. |
November 14 |
Abdul Qadir, a close associate
of the Taliban chief Mullah Omar, is arrested from his residence
at the University Town area in Peshawar.
US Ambassador Nancy Powell expresses concern over the resurfacing
of banned terrorist groups Jaish-e-Mohammed and Lashkar-e-Toiba
under new names. |
November 15 |
Federal Government proscribes
three religio-political outfits under the Anti-Terrorist Act 1997.
The proscribed parties/groups have been identified as Islami Tehreek-e-Pakistan
(ITP - formerly known as Tehreek-e-Jaferia Pakistan [TJP]),
Millat-e-Islamia Pakistan (MIP - formerly known as Sipah-e-Sahaba
Pakistan [SSP]) and Khudamul
Islam (KI - formerly known as Jaish-e-Mohammed [JeM]).
An Anti-Terrorism Court in Karachi awards death sentence to Muhammad
Ajmal alias Akram Lahori, 'commander-in-chief' of the proscribed
Sunni group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, and three of his associates. |
November 18 |
MMA chief Shah Ahmad Noorani
says the alliance would defy the new ban on renamed 'Jehadi' outfits
and will support an outlawed Shiite group in its ranks. |
November 19 |
The defunct Tehreek-e-Islami
Pakistan (formerly known as Tehreek-e-Jaferia Pakistan [TJP])
decides to legally challenge the ban imposed on it. |
November 20 |
The Federal Government
proscribes Jamiat-ul-Ansar, Hizb-ul-Tehreer and Jamaat-ul-Furqan.
Chief of Jamaat-e-Islami in Dera Bugti, Amanullah Bugti, and his
two associates are killed near Dera Bugti, approximately 340 kilometers
from Quetta. |
November 23 |
Prime Minister Mir Zafarullah
Khan Jamali announces a complete cease-fire on the Line of Control
(LoC) to be effective from the last day of the holy month of Ramzan.
"Our armed forces deployed on the Line of Control have been ordered
to observe a complete ceasefire with effect from Eid day," said
Jamali during a televised address to the nation to mark the completion
of one year of his Government. |
November 25 |
The formal cease-fire
between India and Pakistan along the International Border (IB),
Line of Control (LoC) and the Actual Ground Position Line (AGPL)
in Jammu and Kashmir began on the midnight of November 25. |
November 29 |
Afghan President Hamid
Karzai claims that Taliban chief Mullah
Mohammed Omar was seen at Quetta in Pakistan last week. |
December 3 |
The State Bank of Pakistan
orders local banks to freeze accounts of three proscribed terrorist
groups: Tehrik-e-Islami Pakistan (formerly known as Tehreek-e-Jaferia
Pakistan [TJP]), Millat-e-Islamia
Pakistan (formerly known as Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan [SSP])
and Khuddamul Islam (formerly known as Jaish-e-Mohammed [JeM]). |
December 4 |
Police shut down nine
offices of Khuddam-ul-Islam (formerly Jaish-e-Mohammed [JeM])
and one office of the Jamaat-ul-Ansaar (formerly Harkat-ul-Mujahideen
[HuM])
in Pakistan occupied AKshmir (PoK). |
December 11 |
A terrorist of the outlawed
Shia outfit, Sipah-e-Mohammed Pakistan (SMP),
is hanged in the Bahawalpur New Central Jail. Shehzad Ali Khan had
been given the death sentence by an Anti-Terrorist Court in 1998
for murdering a leader of a rival sectarian group in Hasilpur, Bahawalnagar,
in 1997. |
December 14 |
President Pervez Musharraf
escapes an assassination attempt when an explosive device went off
at the Chaklala Bridge near Jhanda Chichi in Rawalpindi approximately
two minutes after the departure of his convoy. |
December 21 |
In a suspected sectarian
incident, a Superintendent of Police and his son are shot dead by
unidentified assailants near the Darya Khan Bridge in Dera Ismail
Khan district. |
December 23 |
The US Secretary of State
redesignates the Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT)
and Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM)
as Foreign Terrorist Organizations. The initial designations of
these groups in 2001 are to expire on December 26, 2003. |
December 25 |
At least 18 persons are
killed and 40 others sustain injuries during a second assassination
attempt in less than two weeks on President Pervez Musharraf in
the Jhanda Chichi area of Rawalpindi. |