Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2007

In a suspected sectarian incident, unidentified gunmen shot dead Shia leader, Syed Ali Imam Jaffari, in the Kotwali police precincts of Peshawar in North West Frontier Province (NWFP) on January 4, according to Daily Times. Syed Ali Imam Jafari, president of the local unit of the Shia outfit Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Fiqh-e-Jafria (TNFJ) and caretaker of Imam Bargah Ali Imam in Kotwali, was on his way home in Mohallah Telian after Fajr prayers when three assailants shot him dead, The News reported. Read less...

Ten persons are reported to have been wounded in three minor explosions at a rally of the Jamaat-e-Islami at Nowshera in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) on January 9. The Jamaat-e-Islami chief Qazi Hussain Ahmad was addressing the rally which was organised in protest against the Bajaur Agency's by-elections at the Shobra Chowk when the blasts occurred in quick succession, according to Dawn. Eyewitnesses said three people were injured in the first blast and seven in the subsequent stampede. Gas leaking from the manhole caused the explosions, said police while ruling out any terrorist activity. However, the Jamaat-e-Islami has put the blame on the government and intelligent agencies. Read less...

Unidentified assailants beheaded an Afghan journalist in the Hangu town of North West Frontier Province (NWFP) on January 9, according to Daily Times. Anwar Saleh, a resident of Khost in Afghanistan, was in Pakistan for personal work, said an official from Khost’s Yaqqubi district. Read less...

A bomb exploded at an Afghan refugee camp in the Nowshera district of North West Frontier Province (NWFP) on January 14-night, killing four people and injuring five others, according to Dawn. Eyewitnesses and officials said that the explosion at around 11 p.m. blew up the house of a prayer leader, Maulvi Masoodullah, killing his brother Ismail and three guests. However, officials put the death toll at two. Masoodullah was reportedly arrested later. Read less...

According to Dawn, two girls and a woman belonging to the same family died when they stepped on an explosive device in the Matta area of Swat district in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) on January 14. Eye-witnesses said that the victims - Nimro, 16, her sister Jan Bibi, 5, and Fahmeeda, wife of Gul Hameed - were cutting grass in the fields when the explosive device went off, killing them on the spot. Read less...

Pro-Taliban militants on January 14 shot dead a suspected Uzbek militant and captured another in the Butkhela village of North Waziristan, according to AFP. The duo were reportedly traveling in a car and did not stop at a barrier set up by “local Taliban”, after which they were chased and shot at, said an unnamed Pakistan intelligence official. Read less...

Security agencies foiled a sabotage bid by defusing a time bomb connected with a grenade, which had been placed close to the Meteorological Department building in front of the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) Assembly in Peshawar on January 14-morning, according to The News. The explosive device had been placed in a shopping bag and the timer had started the countdown when a police constable on duty, Murad Khan, discovered it at around 10:40am. “The explosive device was taken to Ring Road to avoid any untoward incident and were defused in the deserted area,” said Capital City Police Officer Malik Mohammad Saad. Read less...

As reported earlier, at least 20 militants were killed when helicopter gun-ships targeted a cluster of compounds at Salamt village in the Zamzola area, 30km to the east of Razmak in South Waziristan. Read less...

Hundreds of angry demonstrators burnt tyres and blocked the road in the neighbouring Tank district in North West Frontier Province (NWFP). Chanting slogans against President Musharraf and the US, the demonstrators accused the government of killing innocent people, some of whom had gone there to work as daily wagers. Read less...

Top militant commander Baitullah Mehsud on January 17 vowed to avenge the air strikes at Zamzola on January 16 in the next two weeks in his native South Waziristan which, in his words, would cause pain to Pakistan, according to Dawn. However, he did not renounce his February 2005-peace agreement with the Government, but said that the military action in Zamzola had forced him to take action. "We will definitely avenge this action in 10 to 15 days," he told a foreign media organisation. He added: "And it (the action) would be such that it would pain their heart." Read less...

Six mortars were fired from Afghanistan’s Khost province at a Frontier Corps check post in the Naridag area of North Waziristan, according to Daily Times, However, no casualties were reported. Read less...

Dozens of militants attacked a tribal police post in Bajaur with rockets and machine-gun fire on January 25-night, wounding one police personnel. Read less...

One person was killed and six others sustained injuries in a car bomb attack at Hangu in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) on January 25, according to Daily Times. However, AFP reported that two men were killed in the attack and as many were injured. “At the moment, it appears to be a suicide attack,” Station House Officer of Hangu Police Saeed Khan told reporters. Saeed said the dead man was identified as Hayat, an Afghan refugee who was living in the Katakarni camp in Hangu. Deputy Inspector General of Kohat Police Salahuddin told reporters that police had arrested three men in connection with the attack– one in Kohat and the others in Peshawar. Read less...

Suspected militants ambushed a police vehicle and killed one police personnel and injured another in the Tank town of North West Frontier Province (NWFP), adjoining South Waziristan, on January 25, according to Daily Times. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack so far. Read less...

Suspected militants ambushed a police vehicle and killed one police personnel and injured another in the Tank town of NWFP, adjoining South Waziristan, on January 25, according to Daily Times. No one has claimed responsibility for the attack so far. Read less...

On January 27, 15 people including six police officials were killed and 60 others injured in a suicide attack targeting a Muharram procession near Qasim Ali Khan Mosque in the Dilgaran area of Qissa Khawani Bazaar in Peshawar, capital of Pakistan's North Western Frontier Province (NWFP). Peshawar police commissioner Mallik Muhammad Saad, a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), three other police personnel and a Nazim (local official) were among those killed in the blast. Superintendent of Peshawar Police Zaibullah said that an unidentified bomber detonated explosives strapped to his body when police stopped him from entering the procession, which was to be taken out from Qasim Ali Khan Mosque. A senior security official said the two severed legs of the suspected bomber had been recovered from the site. The blast also caused a power outage that left the city centre in darkness, complicating rescue efforts. NWFP law minister told Daily Times that the attack is “an act of terrorism” and there was no evidence to suggest that the incident was part of Shia-Sunni sectarian violence. Read less...

Dawn reports that a police post came under rocket attack on the Tank-Dera Ismail Khan road on January 28-night. Police said an unknown number of rockets were fired on Manjani check-post in the area, partially damaging it. Read less...

Police sources told Daily Times that they foiled a suicide attack on a Muharram procession in Dera Ismail Khan on January 28 and arrested a person wearing a suicide belt. Read less...

A suicide bomber killed two people, including a policeman, at Dera Ismail Khan in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) on January 29, reports Daily Times. Assistant Superintendent of Police, Captain Hamad, told Daily Times that the suicide bomber, wearing a black shawl, blew himself up as policeman Abdul Halim was searching him. He said that Naseer, a civilian working at a nearby petrol pump, was also killed, and seven other people, including two policemen, were injured. “The suicide bomber was a young boy. He initially refused to be searched, and when police began searching him, he blew himself up, killing a policeman, a civilian and himself,” said another police officer Aslam Khattak. Read less...

At least 12 people were injured when unidentified assailants fired a rocket at an Imambargah in Bannu. “The rocket, which fell in front of Hussainia Imambargah in Hussainabad Colony, injured 12 people,” Bannu District Police Officer Mazharul Haq told Daily Times. However, Associated Press reported that two rockets were fired. Read less...

On January 29, Police foiled an attempt to blow up a women’s mourning place in Mohallah Sikandar Khan Shaheed. An explosive device was planted under the stairs of a house where women mourners were to congregate. Read less...

Security Forces on January 29 arrested six persons from Nawab Zafar Colony on suspicion of planning suicide attacks in Dera Ismail Khan during Muharram, reports Daily Times. Six suicide belts and some videos were also recovered. Read less...

Two people died in a town in North West Frontier Province (NWFP) on January 30 where a pre-dawn rocket attack on a Shiite Muslim procession sparked a burst of sectarian violence, according to The Hindu. Army personnel were sent into Hangu, 100 kilometres south of Peshawar, capital of NWFP, to restore order after the rocket landed near police protecting the procession to mark the holy festival of Muharram. The two fatalities were from the Sunni community, said Mayor Ghani ur-Rahman. However, it was not immediately clear if the men were killed by the rocket or during the brief clashes between Sunnis and Shiites that followed. Nineteen people were reported injured. Read less...

Meanwhile, a police personnel who was injured in a suicide blast in Peshawar, capital of the NWFP, succumbed to his injuries, bringing the total number of police personnel killed in the incident to seven. Read less...

Two people were killed in a shooting incident at an unauthorised procession of Muharram in the under-curfew town of Hangu in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) on January 31, adding to two deaths in a mortar attack on a Shia procession the day before, according to Daily Times. A curfew was imposed in Hangu on January 30 after a mortar was fired at a Shia procession and shooting broke out. The two people killed on January 30 were reportedly Afghan refugees who were not taking part in the procession. Defying the curfew, Shias staged a procession on January 31, which was attacked by two gunmen, an official said. Allama Khurshid Anwar told Daily Times that two people were killed and an equal number injured in the attack near Shahu Chowk. Read less...