Balochistan: Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2004

A powerful bomb explosion was reported from the Almo Chowk area near the airport in Quetta, capital of Baluchistan, on January 5. Read less...

Separately, a rocket attack was reported from the Killi Khalil area of Quetta on the same day. However, there were no casualties in these incidents. Read less...

A bomb exploded on January 6 outside a bungalow in the Cantonment area of Quetta, capital of Baluchistan. However, no loss of life or injuries was reported in the explosion. Read less...

Two low intensity bombs exploded on January 9 in the Kolpur area of Baluchistan province. However, no loss of life or injuries was reported. The first bomb exploded in a garbage bin and the second, tied to an electricity pole, exploded 15 minutes later, said Riaz Khan, a police officer in Quetta, capital of Baluchistan. Separately, one person was injured in a landmine explosion at Kohlu near Quetta. The Baloch Liberation Army is reported to have claimed responsibility for the landmine explosion. Read less...

On January 17, a bomb exploded at the Takeem Das street near Archer Road in Baluchistan’s capital city, Quetta. No casualties have been reported in the explosion. Another bomb planted near the blast site was reportedly defused by the bomb disposal squad of the police department. Read less...

According to the Daily Times, on January 21, two bombs exploded in the Baluchistan’s capital, Quetta. A bomb in a garbage dump on Muno Jan Road went off at 6:00pm and a second bomb planted near a school exploded a little while later. No casualties have been reported in the incident. Read less...

According to the Dawn, a close aide to the Taliban leader, Mulla Mohammad Omar, was arrested in Chaman, a town near the Afghan border. Pakistan’s Interior Minister Faisal Saleh Hayat said that the man arrested near the border town of Chaman, some 470km southwest of Islamabad, was Abdul Mannan Khawajazai, a former provincial governor during Taliban rule in Afghanistan from 1996 to 2001. Mr Hayat added that the arrested Taliban leader would not be extradited to Afghanistan as it did not have an extradition treaty with Pakistan. Read less...

According to media reports, on January 30, check posts of the Pakistani Rangers and two villages came under rocket attack on Sindh-Balochistan and Sindh-Punjab border areas. The reports stated that a group of armed persons attacked the check posts established to safeguard the Sui gas pipeline and two villages, Ghulam Hussain Mazari and Shah Dost Mazari. Fifteen rockets were reportedly fired out of which eight landed near the Rangers check posts, while seven landed near village Mazari. However, no casualties were reported in the incident. Read less...

According to media reports, hand-written pamphlets urging guerrilla assaults against US troops and their local supporters have been distributed in Chaman, a Pakistani town that borders Afghanistan. "God willing, guerrilla attacks will soon be launched on Americans and their lackeys," said one of the photocopied Pashtu-language pamphlets obtained by the media. Eyewitnesses are reported to have seen men handing out such leaflets in mosques around Chaman on January 29 and 30. Chaman lies across the border from Spin Boldak, where fierce fighting occurred earlier in the week between US Special Forces and a group of 80 Islamist extremists. Read less...

In a similar incident, a rocket was fired by unidentified persons at Killi Nasirabad in Quetta on January 31. Police personnel recovered the fuse and battery, believed to have been used in the firing of the rocket from Arbab Karam Khan Road. Read less...