Balochistan: Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2006

Four persons were killed and three children sustained injuries when a bomb exploded inside a house in the Mashkal area of Kharan district in Balochistan province on January 1, according to Dawn. Read less...

In Balochistan, six bomb blasts were reported from the Spin-Tangai area, with one of them damaging a portion of the railway track. Separately, one device exploded near a gas pipeline in Kalat without causing any loss of life or injuries. Read less...

On the directions of the Interior Ministry, the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) has sought details of a huge amount of donations two Muslim charities, Al-Rashid Trust (ART) and Al-Akhtar Trust, are receiving from a UK-based NGO Human Aid, according to Daily Times. Sources said that recently the two charities received $10 million each from Human Aid. They also said the NGO recently transferred $20 million from the UK to its account at a Quetta branch of the Metropolitan Bank. The amount was further credited to different accounts of Al-Rashid Trust and Al-Akhtar Trust, each getting $10 million for sacrificing animals on Eid-ul-Azha on behalf of thousands of British Muslims. According to sources, the FIA has also sent a questionnaire to both charities, seeking details on when they started functioning, their areas of work, their trustees, sources of funding, expenditures and auditors. Read less...

According to The News, sporadic incidents of violence were reported from different parts of the Dera Bugti district on January 2. District officials said unidentified armed men attacked a FC check-post in the Loti area firing several rockets. However, no loss of life was reported. In another incident, the FC personnel fired a number of rockets at three vehicles loaded with arms and ammunition that were being supplied to the insurgents. Read less...

At least three people were killed and eight others sustained injuries in clashes between paramilitary forces and Bugti tribesmen on January 2, Shahid Bugti, General Secretary of the Jamhoori Watan Party was quoted as saying in Daily Times. However, Dera Bugit District Coordination Officer, Abdul Samad Lasi, said that he knew of no casualty on either side. He stated that the Frontier Corps (FC) had neutralised a training camp known as Mauranj in the Bekar area situated at the border of Dera Bugti and Punjab province. Read less...

Reports from district Bolan indicated that insurgents attempted to blow up power pylons with explosives in the Bibi Nani area. However, the poles were not damaged and power supply remained undisturbed. Read less...

Security forces (SFs) killed two tribesmen and injured seven others in a shoot-out in the Dera Bugti district of Balochistan province on January 3, according to The News. No SF personnel were injured in the fighting, said Abdul Samad Lasi, the region’s police chief. The two sides were involved in an exchange of fire after the "terrorists" attacked the security forces, he said. Read less...

The gas pipeline to the Uch power plant in Balochistan province was blown up in an attack on January 3-night suspending supply to the plant while sporadic rocket and artillery duels between security forces and tribesmen continued in different parts of the Dera Bugti district, according to Dawn. The district coordination officer said the rocket fire had damaged a water plant of the Loti gas field and added that if repair work were not undertaken within 72 hours, gas supply would be suspended. Read less...

The Jamhoori Watan Party Secretary General, Agha Shahid Hasan Bugti, said rocket duels were fought amidst a heavy exchange of fire, which continued for three hours in the Bekar area. He also claimed that Bekar was in the control of those resisting the state’s assault. He added that troops had been deployed in the Loti gas field on January 3. "No loss of life was reported on our side in today’s fighting," he informed. Read less...

According to Dawn, three people were killed and four others sustained injuries during a clash between security forces (SFs) and tribesmen around the Sui area of Balochistan province on January 4. According to the District Co-ordination Officer (DCO) of Dera Bugti, Abdul Samad Lasi, a group of miscreants led by Bakhshoo Mandrani was coming towards Sui to attack the gas installations there. In the consequent exchange of fire with the SFs, three attackers were killed and four others wounded. The rest of the attackers escaped, he claimed. Read less...

Baloch insurgents blew up the railway track near Basti Darvesh Lashari, 20km from Dera Ghazi Khan, on January 4. No loss of life has yet been reported. Read less...

DCO Lasi informed that in a landmine explosion, four SF personnel were injured. He said a SF team was going to the Loto gas field to repair the water plant that was damaged earlier in a rocket attack but had to break the journey due to the mine blast. Lasi told Dawn that Nawab Akbar Bugti’s men fired rockets at the Frontier Corps (FC) checkpoint near the Sui gas installations. "The situation has become serious after today’s landmine incident as miscreants may have laid mines in other areas also," he added. FC sources were quoted as saying in Dawn that in the rocket attack in the Kahan area of Kohlu district, a driver of the security forces was wounded. Read less...

Fighting between the SFs and insurgents continued for the fourth day, with the JWP claiming that helicopter shelling injured three women and 11 children. Read less...

Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) spokesperson, Agha Shahid, claimed that one tribesman was killed by the troops in the Dera Bugti town. Read less...

One insurgent was killed and nine others were arrested in an encounter between Frontier Corps (FC) personnel and armed men in the Dera Bugti district of Balochistan province, while saboteurs blew up two electricity pylons in the Barkhan district on January 5. Dera Bugti District Co-ordination Officer, Abdul Samad Lasi, was quoted as saying in The News that seven suspects were arrested from Pir Koh and two others from the Loti area. During investigations, they confessed that they had laid four landmines near Pir Koh. "The FC personnel have recovered the landmines and defused them," Lasi said. Read less...

The Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) claimed that another woman was killed in shelling by the troops on January 5-night. JWP Secretary-General, Agha Shahid Hasan Bugti, said the woman was killed in the suburb of Dear Bugti town as a result of the troops’ firing. Read less...

Two electricity pylons were blown up in the Barkhan district, suspending electric supply to the Kohlu district. Read less...

According to Dawn, Pakistan Television (PTV) transmission was suspended in the Dera Bugti district of Balochistan province after an exchange of fire between security forces (SFs) and Bugti tribesmen damaged the TV booster in the township. "There has been no PTV transmission in Dera Bugti since this evening," a senior official of the Dera Bugti administration said. Firing between the SFs and Bugti tribesmen stopped late in the evening after erupting at around 5.30pm. They used heavy weapons and fired rockets at each other’s positions. However, no casualty was reported. Read less...

Police foiled an attempt to destroy the Cadet College Mastung by defusing four rockets planted atop a hill near the college. Police also defused explosive devices planted under six huge towers of high-tension transmission line in the Chater area of Nasirabad district. Read less...

President Pervez Musharraf is reported to have accused India of arming and financing militants in Balochistan. When asked whether India was backing armed Baloch militants, Gen. Musharraf told the CNN-IBN channel in an interview aired on January 7: "There are lot of indications, yes indeed." There is a "lot of financial support, support in kind being given to those who are anti-government, anti-me and to those feudal people who are anti-national", the president said. Musharraf also said that he was "annoyed" and "disappointed" by India’s statements and alleged actions in Balochistan. "It’s a direct interference in our internal affairs," he told the television channel. Read less...

Suspected insurgents fired more than 20 rockets at paramilitary camps in the Machh area of Bolan and Mand area of Makran division in the Balochistan province on January 7, killing at least one person, according to Daily Times. The Machh district administrator said at least one boy was killed and two people were injured in the attack. A man on behalf of the Balochistan Liberation Army claimed responsibility. Read less...

A caravan of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) was attacked by unidentified armed men in the Sui area of Dera Bugti district on January 8, according to The News. Reports said that a fact-finding mission of the HRCP, led by its chairperson Asma Jehangir, was on its way to meet the Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) chief Nawab Akbar Bugti, when armed men opened fire on its vehicles. The HRCP mission reportedly returned to Kashmore after the firing incident. Read less...

According to Dawn, paramilitary forces launched a crackdown on armed men in the coalmine area of Margat in the Bolan district of Balochistan province on January 8 after the rocket attack on Mach town a day earlier. Reports of heavy gunfire have been received from the area. Security forces have reportedly cordoned off the Margat area, deploying more personnel of the Frontier Corps (FC), and conducted a search operation against elements believed to be involved in lobbing rockets on FC base camps in Bolan district. Reports added that armed men have taken positions on the mountains and engaged security forces in a battle, using rockets and other heavy weapons. Read less...

Meerak Baloch, a spokesman for the Baloch Liberation Army, claimed that five women and children had been injured in the firing by troops. However, official sources did not confirm any causality so far. Read less...

Two bomb explosions were reported in the Sibi and Wadh areas of Khuzdar district. Official sources said a bomb exploded under a pushcart parked along Chakar Khan Road in Sibi. Another bomb exploded in Wadh, the native town of Baloch nationalist leader Sardar Attaullah Mengal. Police said that one more bomb was recovered in the area and subsequently defused. Separately, the FC personnel recovered and defused an anti-personnel mine in the Nushki area. Read less...

Five explosions occurred in the Kalat and Hub areas of Balochistan province on January 9 while security forces (SFs) and insurgents clashed with each other in the Margat coalmine area of Bolan district, according to Dawn. Read less...

There was a heavy exchange of fire between SFs and insurgents in the Margat coalmine area. Rockets and mortars were used in the battle. The insurgents reported some casualties in the fighting when paramilitary forces began lobbing rockets and missiles from their positions. However, official sources did not confirm any casualty so far and added that action against outlaws was continuing in the Margat and Narwar areas of Bolan district. Read less...

Three powerful blasts were reported from the Kalat township at brief intervals. The blasts were triggered by home-made bombs which were planted in a football stadium close to the Frontier Corps Mess and the District Co-ordinator’s office. Two more blasts were reported from the industrial town of Hub. While the first blast damaged a part of the wall of a police station, another occurred near the coast guard office. However, no casualty was reported in any of these explosions. Read less...

According to Dawn, a Frontier Corps personnel was killed and two others sustained injuries in a gun-battle between tribesmen and security forces (SFs) in the Loti gas field area of Balochistan province on January 10 while a heavy exchange of fire was reported from the Dera Bugti township. The fighting reportedly erupted in the afternoon when an attack was launched on the gas field. Sources claimed that both sides were using rockets and missiles against each other. The tribesmen also suffered casualties but no details were available. Read less...

In another incident, three rockets exploded in village Ghulam Bolak, close to the Sibi airfield. However, the airfield remained safe, official sources said. Meanwhile, reports from Mach indicated that SFs continued operations against Baloch insurgents in the coalmine area of Margat and Narwar. Meraach Baloch, who claimed to be a spokesman for the Baloch Liberation Army, said that SFs suffered heavy losses in the Margat area during the last three days. Read less...

In the province, security agencies have occupied Bugti House, headquarters of the Baloch nationalist leader Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, in Sui and arrested 20 people amidst new shelling in the area, according to Daily Times. Locals said that the firing was initiated by the Frontier Corps and several shells landed at the Bugti House and in the Sui city. "Yes, the Bugti House in Sui was taken over by security forces," Abdul Samad Lasi, District Coordination Officer in Dera Bugti, confirmed to the media and claimed that criminals had been taking shelter in the house. Read less...

Suspected insurgents fired three rockets in Sibi while an explosion in Harnai damaged a power transmission tower. However, no loss of life was reported. Separately, an army officer was injured when a Frontier Corps vehicle hit a landmine in the Tale Karam Wodeh area. Read less...

The Federal Information Minister, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, has reportedly said that military operations in Balochistan have ceased, but the troops would remain in the region for an indefinite period. Talking to a TV channel, he ruled out any compromise on the development projects of Balochistan, which would be completed at all costs. Read less...

FC personnel came under attack in another incident in the Kohlu district when suspected Baloch insurgents reportedly fired rockets on their check-post. However, no fatality was reported. According to police, the rockets which were fired from mountains of Jindharan in Kohlu hit an area, 20 yards from the FC check-post. The attackers managed to escape from the incident site when FC troops opened retaliatory firing. Read less...

In the province, a bomb blast was reported from the Naushki area in the early hours of January 11. However, details of fatalities, if any, were still awaited. Read less...

Six personnel of the Frontier Corps (FC) were injured in a landmine explosion at Pathernala in the Dera Bugti district of Balochistan province on January 11, according to The News. District Coordination Officer, Abdul Samad Lasi, confirmed the incident and informed that the landmine placed underground was remote-controlled. Read less...

At least 15 people, including three personnel of the Frontier Corps (FC), were killed and three others injured in an armed clash between the paramilitary force and armed tribesmen in the Pirkoh area of Dera Bugti district in Balochistan on January 12. Officials told The News that an FC convoy was carrying ration to the Pirkoh check-post when their vehicle hit a remote-controlled landmine in the Puthar Nullah area, killing three FC personnel and wounding three others. Abdul Samad Lasi, District Coordination Officer, informed that soon after the explosion, paramilitary forces cordoned off the area and fierce clashes erupted between the FC personnel and suspected miscreants. 12 miscreants were killed in the encounter, in which the two sides used sophisticated weapons, Lasi added. Read less...

In the provincial capital Quetta, suspected Baloch insurgents blew up the railway track near the Airport road suspending train services between Quetta and the border town of Chaman. Further, suspected assailants fired two rockets from atop Jindran mountain on January 12. However, no fatalities were reported. Separately, the FC personnel arrested a wanted outlaw, Naimatullah, alias Nimko, in a raid conducted in the Mand area of Turbat district. He was wanted in a case of bomb attack on officials of the paramilitary force. Read less...

Three more security force personnel were killed in the Margat coalmine area of Bolan district in a rocket attack at a base camp of security forces (SFs) on January 12-night. According to Dawn, armed men fired eight rockets one of which hit the SF post, killing three soldiers on the spot and injuring two others. Read less...

In the province, paramilitary forces started an operation in the different areas of Kohlu district, including Tartani, Peshi, Nisao, Jhabbar, Karimo Wadh, Tali and Kanhan, after a gap of a few days. Helicopter gun-ships were participating in the operation against suspected insurgents, during which some casualties were also reported. A tribesman, Allah Bakhsh Marri, told Dawn that two people, including a woman, were killed and three others injured in the operation. However, official sources denied that any operation was taking place in Kohlu. Read less...

JWP Secretary-General, Agha Shahid Bugti, said over 43 people, mostly women and children, had been killed since December 30, 2005 when the paramilitary forces launched a crackdown in Dera Bugti. Read less...

Nawab Akbar Khan Bugti, Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) chairman and Bugti chief, has blamed the Government for pushing Balochistan towards trouble and for not encouraging conducive and peaceful dialogue. He told reporters in Dera Bugti that the Government had started military operations in the area to ‘snatch’ Baloch land and that the Baloch would defend their rights to "total sovereignty" to death. Read less...

Paramilitary forces on January 13 launched another operation in the Marri area of Balochistan province using helicopter gun-ships and heavy weapons while unidentified people fired rockets at a Frontier Corps (FC) camp in Kohlu, according to Dawn. Mir Balach Khan Marri, a member of the Balochistan Assembly, informed that security forces (SFs) had been lobbing mortars and rockets at the small township of Kahan for the last two days in which 25 people, mostly women and children, had been killed and several others injured. “Kahan town witnessed heavy shelling and mortar attacks the whole day on Saturday. My house was also targeted and has been badly damaged,” he told Dawn. Official sources, however, claimed that SFs were taking action against outlaws’ hideouts and camps in different parts of the Kohlu and Dera Bugti districts. Read less...

Two bomb blasts targeting Pakistan Telecommunication Company buildings in Khuzdar town were reported on January 13-night. However, no casualty or serious damage was reported in both the explosions. Read less...

A pipeline supplying gas to the Uch power plant was blown up near Dera Murad Jamali, shutting supplies to a US and British-owned power plant for the second time this month. Read less...

At least eight people were killed in clashes between armed men and security forces (SFs) in the Kahan area of Kohlu district in Balochistan province on January 15, according to Dawn. Marri tribesmen alleged that paramilitary forces had taken over control of the Kahan town which had been under heavy attack for two days. Most of the people of Kahan are reported to have left the town. According to official sources, armed men fired at least 48 rockets from mountains targeting the Frontier Corps fort in Kahan. Most of the rockets exploded close to the fort and a few of them in the residential areas of the town. There might have been causalities as some rockets had hit residential areas, officials said. Read less...

The Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM) and the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) held a joint demonstration in Karachi on January 15 against the alleged military operation in Balochistan and the killing of 18 people in Bajaur Agency by US jets, according to The News. The call for countrywide protest demonstrations was given by MMA chief Qazi Hussain Ahmed and supported by the MQM. Protests were reportedly held in many big and small cities across the Sindh province. In Karachi, a big demonstration was held at Gurumandir against the US attack and the Balochistan operation. Read less...

Traffic between Khuzdar and Karachi remained suspended for several hours after a bridge on the RCD highway was blown up near Wadh. Read less...

Two explosions were reported from the Wadh town and a house was attacked with a hand-grenade in the Shahbaz town of Quetta, capital of Balochistan. Read less...

Bomb blasts and rocket fire were reported in the Noshki, Wadh, and Nasirabad areas of the province. Read less...

Bugti tribesmen said that the Frontier Corps had started "indiscriminate shelling" in the Lope area, "creating terror among the local people". Dera Bugti District Coordination Officer Abdul Samad Lasi denied there had been any violence in Dera Bugti. Read less...

Security forces (SFs) killed three children in an attack at Kahan and other adjacent areas of Balochistan province on January 16, local tribesmen were quoted as saying in Daily Times. A representative of the Marri Qaumi Ittehad said that aerial attacks were carried out in the Kahan area and continued for over three hours. Raziq Bugti, the Government spokesperson, however, said that unidentified assailants had attacked a SF convoy and the latter had probably responded to it. He denied any aerial attacks, adding that no casualty was reported from Kahan and Kohlu. Read less...

A bomb explosion was reported from a Government employees’ colony on the White Road in the provincial capital Quetta. However, no loss of life or injuries was reported. In another incident, suspected Baloch insurgents blew up a tower of 32kV transmission line in the Rakhni area of Barkhan district. Read less...

Offices of the United Nations (UN) and some other international organisations were temporarily shut in Quetta on January 17 after a UNHCR office received a telephone threat. Sources in the UN offices told The News that the unknown caller, who called himself an Al Qaeda operative, threatened to attack the offices of the world body and other international organisations. Subsequently, all the offices of the UN and other organisations were closed temporarily. Read less...

One Frontier Corps personnel was killed in a mine blast near Kahan in the Balochistan province on January 17, according to Dawn. In the same area, security forces (SFs) arrested a man and found six bombs, six Kalashnikovs and two light machine-guns in his possession. Read less...

A powerful explosion was reported from Quetta. However, no casualties were reported in this blast. Read less...

Dawn reports that a Frontier Corps (FC) soldier was killed and another injured in a landmine explosion in Pirkoh area on January 18. Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) secretary-general Agha Shahid Hasan Bugti stated that after the landmine blast, security forces cordoned off the area and set around 30 houses on fire in a nearby village. Read less...

Rockets were also fired at FC posts in different parts of Kohlu district. At least 17 rockets exploded near checkposts in the areas of Jandran, Nal and Kahan. The FC personnel returned fire, targeting positions of the attackers. Read less...

At least one person was killed when unidentified men fired more than 20 rockets at security forces’ (SF) camps on January 19 in the Machh area of Bolan and Mand area of Makran division in the Balochistan province, according to Daily Times. The Machh district administrative officer said that at least one boy was killed and two were injured. He informed that approximately 15 rockets were fired at a post where Frontier Corps (FC), Levies and police personnel were present. An FC commander said that three people were killed while Levies personnel put the death toll at two, saying that five children were injured. Unidentified men also fired seven rockets at an FC check post in the Mand area, but no causalities were reported. A man identifying himself as Azad Baloch claimed responsibility for the attacks on behalf of the Baloch Liberation Army. Read less...

Eight rockets were fired at an FC camp in the Kohlu district, but no loss of life or injuries was reported. An unidentified number of rockets were also fired at the Sui Peerkoh gas field and Pathar Nalah. Read less...

According to Dawn, reports of exchanges of heavy fire between security forces (SFs) and tribesmen around Dera Bugti in the Balochistan province were received on January 20. Jamhoori Watan Party spokesperson Agha Shahid Hasan Bugti claimed that nine people were killed and 31 others injured in shelling on the town by SFs. He said paramilitary forces started massive shelling on the town at 11.30am, in which six children, two women and a man were killed and 23 others wounded. He said shelling was continuing till evening and two jets had carried out an attack near the town. Dera Bugti District Coordination Officer Abdul Samad Lasi said Government buildings, a television booster and a telephone exchange were badly damaged in the exchange of fire in the area. "Miscreants fired four rockets on my house in Sui. One of them fell 15 yards away from my house but did not explode," he told Dawn. Read less...

Four bombs exploded in other areas of the province. A three-foot portion of the Quetta-Zahidan railway tracks was damaged in an explosion near the Ahmedwal railway station after a train from Zahidan had passed. Railway tracks near Mach were also damaged in an explosion. Separately, two rockets landed a few yards away from a FC checkpoint near Wadh. Further, a bomb exploded in a sweetmeat shop in Nushki bazaar. Read less...

In another incident, official sources said suspected miscreants fired four rockets at the Frontier Corps (FC) check-post of Muhammad Khan in the Kohlu district. The rockets landed near the check-post, but didn’t cause any casualties, the sources added. Read less...

Reports from Dera Bugti district said that FC personnel and armed tribesmen were engaged in a heavy exchange of gunfire. The two sides were using sophisticated weapons against each other, said official sources. Confirming the firing, the district coordination officer of Dera Bugti, Abdul Samad Lasi, said armed tribesmen fired at least 500 rockets at the FC fort in Dera Bugti. Three hundred rockets hit the fort, damaging it badly, he added. Two FC personnel were also injured in incident. Read less...

Three bomb explosions were reported from the Sunari area of Sibi district in Balochistan province on January 21. However no fatalities were reported, according to The News. Read less...

A bomb exploded in Quetta, capital of the Balochistan province, on January 22, according to Dawn. However, it did not cause any loss of life or damage to property. The device which had been planted near a hotel in the cantonment area exploded at 10.15pm. Read less...

A girl, Fareeda, was injured when a bomb exploded in the Mand area of Turbat district. Suspected Baloch insurgents also fired some 24 rockets at the Frontier Corps (FC) fort in Dera Bugti and four at the PPL gas plant in Sui, but without causing damage to the targets. Read less...

Former Chief Minister of Balochistan, Sardar Attaullah Mengal, has claimed that Pakistani security forces are using chemical weapons in the province, according to Hindustan Times. Mengal, who addressed the media at the Karachi Press Club, supported his claim by showing pictures of Baloch civilians who he said had been hit by chemical weapons. Further backing his claim of use of chemical weapons, Mengal pointed to the pictures and said that "you will note the blood coming out of people's mouth without any injury to their bodies... what does this show... it shows that poisonous gases have been used in the military operation." "Chemical weapons are being used (to resolve the crisis), and a large number of women and children have died as a result," Mengal claimed in an interaction with the media. Demanding the presence of international mediators to ensure a fair resolution of the dispute between the tribal-dominated province and Islamabad, Mengal, who is presently the President of the Balochistan National Party, said that the Balochis are not ready to negotiate with either President Pervez Musharraf or his hand-picked Government. Read less...

Security forces and tribesmen exchanged fire in the Kahan Town of Kohlu district in Balochistan province while the Jamhoori Watan Party (JWP) claimed that two of the rockets fired by paramilitary forces hit Nawab Akbar Bugti’s fort, according to Dawn. District officials, however, denied the JWP claim and said no such incident had occurred. JWP spokesperson Agha Shahid Hasan Bugti said a tribesman, Pardin Bugti, was injured after security forces opened fire in Kahan. He added that Frontier Corps personnel fired 15 rockets in the same area and that two of them landed inside the fort of Nawab Akbar Bugti but caused no damage. Read less...

A Jamhoori Watan Party spokesman said that the situation was calm in Dera Bugti with the exception of one incident in which security forces had fired 12 shells on the northern side of the town without causing any damage. Read less...

In continuing violence in Balochistan, two water pipelines to the Pirkoh gas plant that was repaired after 10 days was blown up again and a minor incident of firing near Dera Bugti occurred without causing any loss of life on January 24, according to Dawn. Official sources in Sui confirmed that two separate water pipelines, to the Pirkoh gas plant and town, were damaged on January 24- morning by explosives. Sources added that without de-mining the entire region it would be extremely difficult to ensure a normal supply of water to the Pirkoh and Loti gas plants through pipelines. Read less...

In the province, a bomb explosion damaged an under-construction residential quarters of a school in the Wadh town and rockets were fired on the Frontier Corps check post in Barkhan. Read less...

A rocket landed near the Circuit House in Nushki and a bomb exploded near the railway tracks on the Quetta-Taftan section, near Nushki, without causing any damage. Official sources said that seven rockets were fired on Frontier Corps check-posts at Fazalchal, Naal and Taramen in the Kahan area of Kohlu district. Read less...

According to Dawn, six passengers were killed and five others sustained injuries when a minibus hit a landmine at Kharcha in the Dera Bugti district of Balochistan province on January 25. Two women, three children and the driver were reportedly killed on the spot. The district coordination officer in Dera Bugti, Abdul Samad Lasi, told Dawn that after the dismantling of the Bekal camps outlaws had taken shelter in mountains and they had laid the mine on the Bekar Road. Read less...

The Jamhoori Watan Party spokesperson Agha Shahid Hasan Bugti accused paramilitary forces of firing 14 shells on the Dera Bugti town on January 25, and said that tribesmen did not retaliate. Read less...

A bomb exploded at the Join Road in the provincial capital Quetta on January 26-night, police said. However, no loss of life or injuries was reported. Read less...

A railway track was blown up minutes after a railway engine passed through the area in the Mach city of Balochistan province on January 26, according to Daily Times. Railway Engineer Miftah-ul-Haq said the railway engine passed from the spot at 6:10 am and the bomb exploded at 6:12 am. Railway officials said a five feet three inches portion of the track was damaged and the explosion also caused minor damages to the pilot engine. However, no loss of life was reported. Read less...

Railway traffic on the Multan-Jacobabad section was suspended after a portion of the track was blown in a bomb blast at Pul Kambar in the Balochistan province on January 27, according to Dawn. Sources said the blast damaged the track and created a four- foot deep crater. However, no loss of life or injuries was reported. Read less...

Suspected Baloch insurgents destroyed the main power transmission line near the town of Rakhni in a bomb attack and fired a missile at yet another section of a water pipeline of Pirkoh gas plant in the Balochistan province on January 28. The bomb attack disrupted electricity supply to thousands of people in the Barkhan and Kohlu districts, according to Dawn. A spokesman for the Jamhoori Watan Party, however, denied the Government’s claim that a missile attack had been launched on the water pipeline. He said the pipeline was a “money-minting racket for the district coordination officer and Frontier Corps officials”. Read less...

A rocket exploded in the house of a senior official of the Balochistan Government in the cantonment area of provincial capital Quetta. Police said the rocket fired from an unknown place hit the rooftop of the house of Captain (retd) Niaz Mohammad Jaffar. However, no loss of life or injuries was reported. Read less...

Heavy fighting erupted between security forces and tribesmen in the Pirkoh gas field area. Dera Bugti District Coordination Officer Samad Lasi said "Armed tribesmen attacked the officers Mess and the Pirkoh gas field with heavy weapons late night… Casualties cannot be ruled out in the fighting, but we have no details." Read less...

The Uch power plant was shut down while operations of the Loti gas purification plant was affected when significant portions of the pipelines supplying gas to the two units were blown up in separate incidents in the Balochistan province on January 29, according to Dawn. It is the third time in a month that the pipeline to the Uch plant has been blown up in the Nasirabad district. Read less...

At least one Frontier Corps (FC) personnel was killed and four others sustained injuries in a landmine explosion near Pirkoh gas plant in the Dera Bugti district of Balochistan province on January 31, according to Daily Times. The paramilitary personnel were in the area to clear landmines and repair a water pipeline blown up by suspected rebel tribesmen a few days ago, Dera Bugti District Coordination Officer Abdul Samad Lasi said. Bugti tribe spokesperson Agha Shahid Bugti claimed that three soldiers were killed and one injured. Read less...