Balochistan: Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2018

Eight persons, including three Security Officials, were injured in two separate explosions in Chaman District of Balochistan on January 1, reports Dawn. The first explosion took place near an under-construction building on Chaman’s Mall Road injuring two persons. Second explosion targeted a Police Check Post in the same area and injured six persons, including three Security Officials. However according to a (unnamed) Police Official three security officials, including two Policemen and one Frontier Corps (FC) personal, and four others sustained injuries in the second explosion, adds The Nation. Read less...

Six Frontier Corps (FC) Personnel were injured in a suicide attack involving explosion followed by firing near an FC check post in the Baleli area of Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan, on January 2, reports Dawn. However, two militants were killed and twelve FC Personnel injured in the suicide attack, according to The Express Tribune.  Read less...

Eight militants among fifteen suspects were arrested by Frontier Corps (FC) Balochistan from Districts of Zhob, Sibbi, Nasirabad (Dera Murad Jamali), Bolan (Mach), and Quetta (Killi Ismail); on January 4, reports The Express Tribune. 70 kilograms of explosive, weapons and ammunition and communication equipment were also recovered. Read less...

Armed assailants killed a Policeman belonging to the Rapid Response Group (RRG) and injured another near Sariab Flyover in Quetta on January 6, reports The Nation. The deceased was identified as RRG Constable Muhammad Alam.  Read less...

Frontier Corps (FC) Balochistan recovered improvised explosive devices (IEDs), arms and ammunition during an intelligence based operation (IBO) in Mastung District of Balochistan on January 6, reports The Express Tribune. “Through an IBO [intelligence based operation] in Mastung based on lead from apprehended suspects, [FC] recovered cache of arms, ammunition and explosives including sniper rifles, grenade and IEDs hidden in caves for a major terrorist activity,” the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said in a statement. Read less...

One Policeman was killed and another injured in firing by unidentified militants in Saryab Road in Quetta the provincial capital of Balochistan on January 6, reports The Nation. Militants fired on the Police Check Post and escaped the scene. Read less...

Two militants were killed by Security Forces (SFs) in Nawa Killi near Quetta, provincial capital of Balochistan, on January 6, reports Daily Times. Police said that they were attempting to arrest the accomplices of an arrested suspect who was in the vehicle with the SFs in order to help in identifying the suspects. Security officials (unnamed) said, “However, the suspect’s accomplices opened fire in a bid to help their detained friend escape. In the resulting exchange, one of the attackers, as well as the under-arrest suspect, were killed. Two terrorists, however, escaped from the scene”. Read less...

Three militants were arrested by Frontier Corps (FC) Balochistan during intelligence based operations (IBOs) conducted under ‘Operation Radd-ul-Fassad (Operation Elimination of Discord)’ in Dhadar and Mastung Districts of Balochistan on January 8, states Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR). Cache of arms and ammunition including improvised explosive devices (IEDs), hand grenade, detonators and communication equipment were also recovered. Read less...

Seven people, including five Policemen, were killed and 16 others, including eight Policemen, injured in a suicide blast by a Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militant near GPO Chowk on Zarghoon Road of Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan, on January 9, reports Dawn. The suicide bomber targeted the Police contingent returning from duty at the Provincial Assembly building and rammed into the parked Police truck. Inspector General (IG) of Balochistan Police Moazzam Jah Ansari said that he could "tell in advance" that the suicide bomber must have come from across the Afghanistan border. Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) officials said 10 kilograms of explosives had been used in the attack. The Daily Times, however, put the injured toll at 23. Read less...

Muhammad Bakhsh alias Jaggo a former militant ‘commander’ belonging to Baloch Liberation Front (BLF) was killed by militants in the Nasirabad area of Turbat town in Kech District of Balochistan on January 10, reports Dawn. According to (unnamed) Levies Officials, Jaggo was an important ‘commander ‘of BLF, however, differences cropped up between him and the BLF leadership after the killing of National Party leader Mola Bakhsh Dashti in an attack. Jaggo then left the BLF and formed his own militant group. Three years ago, he abandoned militancy and surrendered to the Government. Read less...

One health worker was killed by unidentified militants Alikhel area of Qila Saifullah District in Balochistan on January 14, reports The Nation. Read less...

Five Frontier Corps (FC) Personnel were killed and six others injured in an ambush by militants in Shapok area of Kech District in Balochistan on January 15, reports The Express Tribune.  According to (unnamed) Officials two FC vehicles, transporting Soldiers from Panjgur to Turban in Balochistan, were attacked with automatic weapons when they were crossing the mountainous area of Shapok. Turbat Assistant Commissioner Dr Jamil Baloch said that “as a result of the firing and overturning of the vehicles, five FC personnel got martyred and six others sustained injured”. The deceased were identified as Hawaldar Zakir, Lance Naik Masood, Sepoy Shahbaz Qasir, Sepoy Farmanullah and Sepoy Masood while the injured included Hawaldar Qambar, Asadullah, Sohail, Muhammad Bilal, Muhammad Hanif and Shafqatullah. Read less...

Meanwhile, unidentified militants shot dead a Police constable, identified as Naseer Ahmed, while was going to report for duty on the Raisani Road area of Quetta on January 16, reports Pakistan Today. However, the attackers managed to escape from the spot after the attack. Read less...

Police foiled a major terror bid as it recovered two bomb planted by the roadside in Quetta on January 17, which were defused by the Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS), reports Daily Times. According to details, a remote control bomb, weighing four to five kilogrammes, was planted by some unidentified miscreants in a cycle in Shafi Colony near Sariab Road, which was defused. Read less...

Separately, two Policemen among three people were injured in a hand grenade attack on a vehicle in Chaman town of Killa Abdullah District on January 17, reports Daily Times. Police said that unidentified assailants hurled hand grenade at a vehicle near Edhipolice picket in Chaman. The attack partially damaged the vehicle, besides injuring three people, including two Policemen. The assailants fled the scene after the attack. Read less...

Two Balochistan Constabulary personnel, identified as Ilyas and Shaukat, were shot dead while another one, identified as Javed, sustain injury when unidentified militants attacked them on Double Road area of Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan, on January 17, reports Pakistan Today. The personnel were reportedly deployed at a flyover in the area for security duty. Read less...

Two female polio vaccination workers were killed when their team comes under the fire of unidentified assailants in the Shalkot area of Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan, on January 18, reports The News. "SakinaBibi and her daughter RizwanaBibi (12) were killed by unknown assailants," spokesman of Emergency Operation Centre for Polio Eradication Balochistan Muhammad Zafar said. Read less...

Security Forces (SFs) apprehended eight terrorists and seized weapons from their possession in different areas of Balochistan,The News reported on January 19 quoting Inter Services Public Relations (ISPR).According to ISPR, Frontier Corps (FC) Balochistan conducted Intelligence Based Operations (IBOs) in Gulistan, Pishin, Kanack, DeraBugti, Uch, SambazaDeraMuradJamali and Sibbi and arrested eight terrorists including an illegal Afghan national.The FC personnel recovered weapons and ammunition including IEDs, rockets, fuses, grenades, mortars and explosives from their possession. Read less...

Former Station House Officer (SHO) of Airport Police Station Fazlur Rehman Kakar was shot dead in a targeted attack in Yat Road area of Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan, on January 21, reports Daily Times. According to Police, Fazlur Rehman Kakar was sitting outside his car showroom on Yat Road when unidentified assailants shot him dead. Kakar was dismissed as the Airport SHO after the May 17, 2011 Kharotabad incident in which four Russians and one Tajik nationals were killed. These five foreigners were shot dead after they allegedly failed to stop at a Police checkpoint. The victims included three women, including a pregnant one. Several high-profile inquiries were conducted into the incident to ascertain the role of the Frontier Corps (FC) and Police. As a result of the judicial inquiry by Justice Hashim Khan Kakar, Quetta Capital City Police Officer (CCPO) Daud Junejo, FC’s Colonel Faisal Shehzad, SHO Fazlur Rehman Kakar and Assistant Sub-inspector (ASI) Raza Khan were held responsible. In August 2013, unidentified assailants shot dead ASI Raza while he was standing outside his house in Quetta. On December 29, 2011, Police surgeon and key witness in the incident, Dr Baqir Shah, was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Quetta. The doctor was previously roughed up by Police as his statement differed from the official version of security agencies.  Read less...

At least two hundred separatists’ militants of the Baloch Republican Party (BRP), including 15 ‘commanders’, laid down their weapons before Chief Minister (CM), Abdul Quddus Bizenjo and Commander Southern Command Lieutenant General Asim Saleem Bajwa at a ceremony held at Frontier Corps (FC) Headquarters in Turbat town in Kech District in Balochistan on January 25, reports Daily Times. The separatists’ militants announced submitting to the writ of the State and becoming part of the national mainstream, according to an official press release. Read less...

Pakistani PM Sahid Khaqan Abaasi on January 29 inaugurated the Gwadar Economic Free Zone as part of the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC), reports Daily Times. Read less...