Khyber Pakhtunkhwa: Timeline (Terrorist Activities) -2011

Two militants were killed in an encounter after a roadside bomb went off near a Police mobile van at Samar Bagh Police Station in Timergara town in Lower Dir District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on January 2, reports Dawn. Sources said that the Police were on routine patrol when a roadside bomb exploded hitting the rear part of the van. Additional Station House Officer Shah Khalid, Assistant Sub-Inspector Razimand Khan and Constable Qismat Ali were injured in the blast. District Police Officer Dir Lower Mumtaz Zarin said that two militants, behind the bomb explosion, were chased and killed in an encounter with Police and local lashkar (tribal militia). A bomb, two suicide jackets, two uniforms, a battery cell and 10-yard wire were recovered from the possession of the slain militants. However, the identities of the slain militants were yet to be conformed. Read less...

An anti-terrorism court judge on January 3 started the trial of Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM) ‘chief’ Maulana Sufi Muhammad amid tight security in the Central Prison of Peshawar, the Provincial Capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Sufi Muhammad is facing charges of sedition, conspiring against the State and encouraging terrorism. Public Prosecutor Khurshid said that there were also a host of other charges against him, including those under Section 302 and 324 of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC). He said Swat Anti-Terrorism Court Judge Asim Imam started the trial of TNSM ‘chief’ Maulana Sufi Muhammad by establishing a camp court in the prison. The proceedings lasted for five hours. Read less...

The Mardan District Awami National Party (ANP) Information Secretary Jehar Khan Hoti was killed in an ambush in Mardan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on January 6, reports Daily Times. According to Police, unidentified assailants on motorcyclists opened indiscriminate fire on the car of Jehar Khan Hoti. Read less...

A minor child received injures in a bomb blast occurred in Hassan Garhi ground on the outskirts of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the morning of January 6 (today), reports The News. According to details, the explosion took place in a house located in Government officials’ colony in Hassan Garhi ground. Read less...

At least four persons, including two Police personnel, sustained injuries when a low-intensity bomb exploded in CD market, known as Doozakh Market in Umerzai Bazaar (Market place), in Charsadda District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in the evening of on January 7, reports Daily Times. Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Samiullah, Constable Khalil Ullah and two locals identified as Arif and Syed Akhtar Bacha sustained injuries in the blast. Read less...

A watchman, identified as Gul Habib, was injured when militants blew up the basic health unit in Khan Banda of Mian Issa area of Charsadda District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on January 8, reports Dawn. Five rooms of the health centre were completely destroyed. Read less...

Three persons, including two minor girls, were injured in a bomb blast under the Pishtakhara Police Station of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on January 10, reports Daily Times. Muhammad Imran, an official of the Pishtakhara Police, said that the bomb was planted in a garbage dump and went off when the girls, Shazia and Maryam, were passing by it. Another person was also injured besides the girls. Read less...

A tribal elder along with his driver and security man were shot dead by unidentified militants in Gulshan Abad area of Hangu District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on January 11, reports Dawn. Read less...

At least 20 persons were killed and another 16 injured when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into Miryan Police Station in the Bannu town of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on January 12, reports Daily Times. The intensity of the blast was so high that it also badly damaged a nearby mosque. “The target was the Police Station and the nearby mosque. Police and paramilitary personnel were praying inside the mosque,” when the bombing took place, Bannu District Police Chief Mohammad Iftikhar said. “There are some civilians also but most of the victims are security personnel,” he added. Claiming the responsibility, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Azam Tariq said it was to avenge US drone strikes in Pakistan’s tribal belt, which borders Afghanistan. “We claim responsibility for this attack. We will continue such attacks unless the drone attacks are stopped,” Azam Tariq added. Read less...

Two women were killed and seven others were injured, including four other women and three children, in two roadside bomb blasts in the suburbs of Peshawar. “Two women were killed when two bombs exploded close to a school van travelling along the road,” Police Official Iftikhar Shah said. Read less...

chief of a peace committee of Mohmand Agency, Malik (head) Mohammad Salam Khan (60), was killed and another elder received bullet injuries in an attack outside a mosque in Tablighee Markaz area of Peshawar. Sources said that Malik Mohammad Salam Khan, the chief of anti-Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (anti-TTP) volunteers of Tarkzo area in Mohmand Agency of Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), had come to Tablighee Markaz in Peshawar along with Shah Wali Khan, a tribal elder of Khyber Agency. Malik Salam Khan was a known pro-government elder of Tarkzo village in Yaka Ghund area of Mohmand Agency. He had raised an armed lashkar (tribal militia) against militants. It is to be mentioned here that Malik Salam is the sixth elder and head of a peace body falling prey to militants` attack in Peshawar. Meanwhile, TTP Mohmand chapter ‘spokesman’ Sajjad Mohmand claimed responsibility for killing of Salam Khan. Read less...

Unidentified militants ambushed a Police mobile van with a remote control bomb, killing four Policemen and injuring five others in Sardikhel town in Bannu District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa . Read less...

A would-be suicide bomber was shot dead in Kohat after Security Forces (SFs) opened fire at him near a passport office on January 14. Read less...

Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) militants armed with rockets and rifles attacked the house of a woman Police constable, Shamshad Begum (50), early in the morning on January 14, killing her and five of her relatives in Tootkas town of the Hangu District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, reports Daily Times. Shamshad Begum had been receiving death threats from TTP for sometime, a senior official Khalid Khan said. Shamshad was killed along with her two sons, one daughter and two of her husband’s sisters. The TTP engaged in a campaign of violence against Security Forces (SFs), had recently sent her letters warning her to quit the Police job. Read less...

At least 10 persons were killed and several others injured in an explosion in a passenger bus at Hangu road in Kohat town of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on January 16, reports Express Tribune. The passenger bus was en route to Kohat from Hangu when the explosion took place. Read less...

An anti-terrorism court of Peshawar framed charges against Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM) ‘chief’ Maulana Sufi Muhammad in various cases and fixed January 31 for recording evidences against him. The anti-terrorism court judge, Asim Imam, conducted the proceedings inside the Peshawar Central Prison in about nine cases against Sufi Muhammad and 68 others charged in the same cases. Read less...

The death toll in the bomb explosion inside a minibus at Jawarza in Hangu District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on January 17 reached to 18, reports Daily Times on January 18. Sources said the explosion went off moments after the minibus crossed a Police check post on the main Hangu-Kohat Road. “No-one survived the explosion in the minibus, which left Hangu with 17 passengers for Peshawar,” Hangu District Police Officer Abdul Rashid said. Bomb Disposal Squad chief Asadullah Khan said that high-grade explosives were detonated using a time device. 11 other persons in another minibus also received injuries. Read less...

Police arrested a suspect and recovered huge quantity of dynamite sticks and fuse wires from his possession in Swabi town, reports Dawn. The suspect, identified as Salim, belonged to Sheikh Jana village of the Swabi District. Read less...

The Bomb Disposal Squad neutralised three mortar shells in the Qazi Talab area of Hangu District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on January 19, reports Daily Times. Police sources said the shells were old and fired from an unknown place but missed the target. Security Forces have established check posts in Qazi Talab and Shahu Khel areas, which are close to mountainous areas of the Orakzai Agency (FATA). Read less...

The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on January 18 killed four members of an alleged ‘dacoit group’ in Sarkadana area of Hangu District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, reports Daily Times. The slain persons were identified as Anwar, Ghazi, Farooq and Sharabi. The official sources that the TTP had left a letter with the four dead bodies, claiming the responsibility of the killings and warned the local prayer leaders and people against attending the funeral prayers of the deceased. Read less...

A boy, Shah Zeb (6), who was one of the five schoolchildren, injured in a bomb blast outside Shah Faisal Public School in Nauthia area of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on January 19, succumbed to injuries at the Lady Reading Hospital, reports Dawn. Read less...

AA bomb planted in a horse cart exploded near a school in Peshawar, killing two persons and injuring 11 others on January 19 (today), reports The News. "The bomb was planted in a horse cart, which went off near a school building," Senior Police Official Mohammad Ijaz said, adding that the blast took place in Peshawar city's central Saddar neighbourhood”. Read less...

An anti-terrorism court handed over four sons of Sufi Muhammad, ‘chief’ of the Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi (TNSM), to Police on a five-day physical remand. Matiul Haq, Rizwanullah, Hayatullah and Abdullah were produced before the court of Asim Imam for their involvement in various cases, including treason, lodged against them in the Lal Qilla Police Station of Lower Dir. Read less...

Five Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel, one foreign oil and gas exploration company’s driver and a security guard were killed in an attack by unidentified militants in a bid to abduct two engineers of the foreign company in Kohat District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on January 20, reports Daily Times. Two FC soldiers were reported injured in the crossfire. The militants took away two MOL Company’s engineers after the attack on the vehicle that was coming back from exploration in the Karak District. Read less...

At least three people were killed and four others injured on January 23 in an ambush on the vehicle of former Nazim, Pir Ameer Faisal, in Hangu town of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, reports Daily Times. Two motorcyclists opened indiscriminate fire on the vehicle of Ameer Faisal as a result of which three people died, while four others suffered injuries. Later, the Police arrested a militant, identified as Ghani, wanted by the District Police in connection with several terrorist activities. Read less...

A security guard of Awami National Party (ANP) leader Senator Zahid Khan was killed and his brother injured when some people attacked the leader’s hujra (guest house) in Odigram area of Lower Dir District, on January 25 states Dawn. Police said gunmen stormed the hujra and opened fire on people sitting there. However, the assailants escaped after the attack. Read less...

Militants planted explosive device at a Government primary school in Zahir Shah Koroona, a disputed area of Chrasadda District, destroying the school building completely. However, no casualty was reported. Read less...

The house of former Adezai Qaumi Lashkar chief, Noor Malik, who died on January 25, and an Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC), were damaged in a rocket attack by suspected militants in the outskirts of Peshawar on January 27, stated Dawn. The new Lashkar chief, Dilawar Khan, reported that militants fired several rockets which hit the house. However, no loss of life was reported. Read less...

At least four people including two women were killed and 19 others wounded in twin truck bombings that targeted a key Kohat tunnel in Kohat town in Kohat District on January 28, reported The News. An explosive-laden truck entered the tunnel and blew up, damaging another truck behind it, wounding five people. Security officials said the attack aimed to damage the Japanese-built tunnel, which had been recently reopened to 24-hour vehicle traffic after being open during the day only because of the risk of militant attacks. Read less...

In the District, an oil tanker packed with explosives hit a joint paramilitary Frontier Corps and army checkpoint outside the tunnel in Darra Adam Khel. The checkpoint was empty but four civilians, including two women who were travelling in a passenger van behind the tanker, were killed and 14 others wounded in the attack. Read less...

Militants also blew up the house of Malik Rafiq, a tribal elder, in the same night. Read less...

Militants blew up a tower of a cellular company in Shni Kallay area of Darra Adamkhel town in Kohat District on the night of January 29, reported Dawn. Militants planted separate bombs at the four pillars of tower and destroyed it completely. Read less...

Two civilians were killed and six were injured as a Security Forces’ (SFs) convoy was ambushed by militants in Khyber tribal region’s Bara tehsil (revenue unit) in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on January 29, reports Dawn. According to official sources a gun-battle ensued the mortar attack on the SFs’ convoy and left two people dead and six injured. Read less...

Indian Express reported six people, including a Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP), Rasheed Khan, were killed and his two guards along with 19 others injured in a suicide attack on Kohat road in Kohat District. Later, the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Azam Tariq claiming responsibility for the suicide attack said, “We have already announced that we will target Police and Security Forces,” adds Express Tribune. Read less...

Separately, a Police van was targeted by a remote-controlled bomb in the jurisdiction of Peshtakhara Police Station near Peshawar leaving one Policeman dead and three others injured, according to Indian Express. Read less...