Balochistan: Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2010

Ten persons, including one Frontier Corps (FC) trooper, were injured in a bomb blast at the Imdad Chowk on Jinnah Road in Quetta of Balochistan on February 6, according to Daily Times. Police sources said a time bomb planted on a motorcycle exploded as soon as an FC convoy passed by. The injured were identified as FC personnel Abid, Shah Khalid, Iqbal, Jahangir, Salahuddin, Sajid, Gulbadin, Abdul Raziq, Fakhurddin and Ahmed. According to the bomb disposal squad, the bomb weighed four kilogrammes. Read less...

At least four persons including two children were injured in a bomb explosion in Gahi Khan Chowk area of Quetta, capital of Balochistan, on February 9, according to Dawn. Police said unknown militants hurled a hand-held bomb at a shop which left four people injured. Read less...

A student of Iqra University Karachi was killed, while another was injured in an ambush on the RCD Highway near Mangochar in Kalat of Balochistan on February 13, according to Daily Times. Police sources said the students identified as Muhammad Ali and Muhammad Yousuf, residents of Alamdar Road, Quetta were travelling to Karachi in a car when unidentified armed men fired at their vehicle. Ali died immediately and Yousuf sustained serious injuries. Read less...

Two bomb blasts occurred on a railway track in the Sariab area of Quetta in Balochistan on February 14, according to Daily Times. The blasts damaged the railway track, but no casualties were reported. Read less...

A powerful bomb blast destroyed a house situated along Rehman Kewal Road in Quetta on February 16, according to Daily Times. Police said that the building was being used by militants. However, causalities were reported. Deputy Superintendent of Police Chaman Zia Mandokhail said that Police recovered five suicide jackets, dozens of bomb fuses and wires from the house. Read less...

Ashfaq Mangi, a reporter of a private television channel was shot dead by unidentified militants in front of the Gambat Post Office in Khairpur. Read less...

Daily Times reports that unidentified militants shot dead a journalist, identified as Hameed Marwat, at the Sariab Road in Quetta on February 17. Read less...

Unidentified militants shot dead a journalist, identified as Hameed Marwat, at the Sariab Road in Quetta on February 17, according to Daily Times. Police sources said the militants opened fire at him as he came out of his house. Read less...

A remote-controlled bomb exploded near a tanker in Baghbana area of Khuzdar District in Balochistan on February 18. The vehicle, destined for the NATO forces in Afghanistan, was partially damaged and the driver was injured. Read less...

Four officials of Mercy Corps (MC), an international Non Governmental Organisation (NGO), were abducted by unidentified militants from Shankai area of Qillah Saifullah District in Balochistan on February 19, according to The News. The provincial home department sources said that the NGO officials were on their way to Quetta from Zhob in their official vehicle when they were abducted. Read less...

Daily Times reports that one alleged Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militant, Omer Abdul Rehman alias Sailaab, was arrested in a joint raid by Security Force personnel from the Lasbela District on February 24. According to official sources, Jihadi literature, CDs and two incomplete suicide jackets were recovered from his possession. Read less...

Daily Times reports that President Asif Ali Zardari on February 25 urged the aggrieved Baloch leaders not to resort to violence as the Government acknowledged their rights and was doing all within its means to help them. Addressing a gathering at the Governor’s House, in Quetta, Zardari said all the demands of the people of Balochistan were acceptable to the Government. The President also added that the development funds for Balochistan had not been cut despite severe financial constraints on the Government since it believed in ending their years of deprivation and that the Federal Government was working to introduce a constitutional package in March 2010, which would ensure provision of rights to the provinces. Read less...