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KRC leader among three shot dead in Karachi

KARACHI - At least three persons including Kachhi Rabta Committee (KRC) leader, his security guard and a policeman, were killed in a fresh spate of target killing in the city.
According to police, unidentified armed motorcyclists attacked the office of KRC leader Abdul Rashid Kachhi located in Aagra Taj Colony area of the city.
Abdul Rashid Kachhi, his private security guard Zubair Kachhi and a police cop Khalil were killed in the attack.
Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader Nabeel Gabol while expressing grave concern over the killings contacted Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani and threatened to tender his resignation from the National Assembly membership if the assassins were not arrested within three days.
Nabeel Gabol said that Kachhi leaders were targeted for supporting the PPP.
Sindh Chief Minister Syed Qaim Ali Shah has sought report from the Inspector General of Sindh Police into the incident.
On the other hand the KRC observed mourning day on Monday over killing of their senior leader.

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2 troops among 5 killed in Balochistan unrest
By: Bari Baloch | March 18, 2012 | 0

QUETTA – Five people including two security personnel were killed in gun attacks and landmine blast in different parts of Balochistan on Saturday while unknown armed men kidnapped Executive District Officer (EDO) Education Mastung along with his driver near Sibi.

Two security personnel were killed when their convoy was attacked by militants in Sangsila area of Bugti district. According to an official in Dera Bugti, a convoy of security forces was passing through the Sangsila area when a group of armed men opened fire on it, killing two security men on the spot. The security forces returned fire but they escaped.

Security forces cordoned off the area for a manhunt. No group has claimed the responsibility for the attack.

In another incident, unidentified armed men shot dead one Abdullah in Kharan.

Police say the assailants were riding a motorbike and fled from the scene after committing the crime. However, motive behind the killing is yet to be ascertained.

Armed men shot dead Herjan Marri at cattle market in Sibi. Police moved the body to a state-run hospital for autopsy and later handed it over to heirs for burial. A person was killed and two children were wounded in Pirkoh area of Dera Bugti when they suddenly stepped on a landmine laid by unidentified people.

Local administration moved the body to a hospital for autopsy, however name of the victims could not be ascertained.

Unknown gunmen kidnapped EDO Education Mastung along with his driver near Sibi. EDO Haji Fateh was heading towards Quetta from Dera Murad Jamali along with his driver. As they reached Bakhtiarabad area, some 25 KM away from Sibi unidentified armed men intercepted their vehicle on National Highway and drove them towards undisclosed location.

Following the incident, Levies Force personnel rushed to the site and started a search operation in the area to arrest the culprits.

Meanwhile, security forces arrested two accused persons from Muslim Bagh and recovered 1 SMG, 2 walkie-talkie sets and cash. The accused were identified as Abdul Bari and Abdul Manan.

2 troops among 5 killed in Balochistan unrest | The Nation
 
Woman among two killed in Balochistan
By: Bari Baloch | March 20, 2012 | 0

QUETTA - A man was killed and two others wounded, including a police constable in separate acts of violence in different towns of Balochistan while a tortured body of a woman was found in Pishin.

Unidentified armed men opened fire in Usta Muhammad Chowk within the limits of Dera Allahyar police station Jaffarabad, seriously wounding Shahzad Solangi. He was being shifted to Civil Hospital where he died. The deceased was resident of Rohjan Jamali, however, motive behind the killing is yet to be ascertained.

Police handed over the body to heirs after completing medico-legal formalities and registered a case against unidentified people. In another incident in the same town of Usta Muhammad, a police constable was wounded when armed men attacked a police post in Kanki area.

The injured police constable was identified as Habibullah who was rushed to the nearby state-run hospital for medical aid in a serious condition.

In Pishin, Levies Force recovered a body of a woman near Killi Manzari cross, some 40 km away from Pishin town and moved it to district headquarters hospital for autopsy. Hospital sources said that victim was about 30-year-old woman and was tortured to death.

The body was later shifted to hospital’s morgue for identification.

Woman among two killed in Balochistan | The Nation

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Injured Special Branch official dies in Peshawar

SWABI: A hawaldar of the Special Branch, Ali Zar Khan, succumbed to his injuries at Peshawar’s Lady Reading Hospital on Sunday, police said. Sources said Khan was seriously injured when two unidentified motorcyclists opened fire on him at Yar Hussain Bazaar on Saturday evening. After the attack, the assailants fled from the scene. Khan was taken to the Mardan District Headquarters Hospital and from there he was shifted to the Lady Reading Hospital where he succumbed to his injuries. He hailed from the Yar Hussain village. Ziaullah, the son of the deceased, has registered an FIR against the unidentified attackers. staff report

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Saudi embassy’s employee murdered.
Munawer Azeem | Metropolitan > Islamabad | From the Newspaper
18th March, 2012

ISLAMABAD, March 17: A local official of Saudi Embassy’s sub-office in the capital was killed at his private residence while the killers took away his car here on Saturday, police said.

The incident took place at the house located in street 90 of sector I-10/1 where Dr Hafiz Abdul Rasheed Azhar was strangulated to death allegedly by his two visitors. Dr Azhar belonged to Ahle Hadith sect and was a religious scholar.

He was also a director at Dawa Academy and an official of Maktab-i-Dawa (religious office) of Saudi Embassy’s sub-office.

The incident came to light when the victim’s son reached home and inquired about him from his mother.

In response, she told him that Dr Azhar had been busy with some guests for the last couple of hours and also took meal with them.

However, the son told her that the car of his father was not parked in the house and on suspicion he went to the drawing room where he found the dead body.

According to police the visitors tied him with ropes and strangulated him to death.

Later the visitors, who had come over to meet the victim on pretext of being his students, took away cash, ATM card and his car.

Shortly after getting the information, police reached the spot and shifted the body to hospital.

Police claimed the circumstantial evidence suggested that he had acquaintance with the killers as he took meal with them.

Although, the killers tried to give an impression of robbery by taking away the cash and car of the victim yet the motive behind the murder seemed something else, police suspected.

Over the killing, dozens of people gathered at I.J. Principal Road in front of I-10/1 and blocked it for traffic.

They staged demonstration against the killing which continued till the filling of this report.

http://www.dawn.com/2012/03/18/saudi-embassys-employee-murdered-2.html
 
Two police killed in Peshawar bomb blast: officials

PESHAWAR: A bomb planted in a rickshaw killed two policemen and wounded four other people in Peshawar on Tuesday, police and hospital officials said.

The blast targeted a police patrol vehicle at the Kohat Road area of Peshawar and also damaged two other vehicles.

“At least two policemen were killed and two others were wounded,” doctor Rahim Jan of state-run Lady Reading hospital told AFP.

Two civilians were also wounded and brought to hospital, he said.

Senior police official Tahir Ayub confirmed the attack and the death toll.

Bomb disposal officials said the bomb weighed up to 12 kilograms (26 pounds) and was rigged in a rickshaw which was detonated remotely when police patrol passed by.

“The bomb was planted in a rickshaw parked on a roadside and was detonated remotely when police patrol vehicle arrived,” bomb disposal squad chief Shafqat Malik told AFP.

Last week a suicide bomber assassinated a prominent Pakistani police commander in Peshawar who took a leading role in anti-Taliban operations in the country’s troubled northwest.

Peshawar has a population of 2.5 million people and has long been on the frontline of violence blamed on an insurgency led by Taliban militants opposed to Islamabad’s alliance with the United States.

Religious militants have killed more than 4,900 people across Pakistan since government troops raided an extremist mosque in Islamabad in July 2007.

Two police killed in Peshawar bomb blast: officials | Metropolitan | DAWN.COM
 
Two police personnel killed in Quetta

QUETTA: Two police personnel were shot dead by unknown assailants in the Jinnah Town area of Quetta on Tuesday.

The assailants, who were on a motorbike, targeted the two men when they were deputed at a police picket on Smugli Road. The attackers managed to escape the scene immediately after the incident.

“Two personnel were killed on the spot,” Capital City Police Officer Quetta Ehsan Mehboob told The Express Tribune.

The bodies were shifted to Sandeman Provincial Hospital for autopsy.

The deceased personnel were identified as Liaquat and Niamatullah. They were among personnel called from the Police Training Centre.

The motive behind the killing could not be ascertained as no group has claimed responsibility of the attack. An investigation has been launched by the police.

Police and other law enforcement agencies have already put security on high alert in the city to thwart any untoward incident during functions in connection with March 23.

Two police personnel killed in Quetta – The Express Tribune
 
Four bodies found in Mardan fields

MARDAN – Bodies of four bearded people were recovered from fields here in Ibrahim Khan Kally area on Tuesday morning in limits of Saddr Police Station, police and local sources said.

People of Ibrahim Khan Kally informed police that bodies of four unidentified people were lying in the agricultural fields. The police reached the spot and shifted the bodies to the District Headquarters Hospital Mardan for autopsy.

Sources said that one victim was identified as Arif Khan a resident of Par Hoti area. Later, the body was handed over to his family for burial after autopsy. Identity of the other three bodies could not be ascertained till filing of this report. Sources said Arif Khan was disappeared few years ago. They further said there was no sign of torture or bullets on the dead bodies. They said ages of the dead persons were from 30-35 years and they had beard. Police have registered a first information report (FIR) of the incident and started investigation. Earlier on Sunday, 14 bullet-riddled bodies of unknown civilians were recovered from Sepah tehsil Bara, sub-division of Khyber Agency.

The Khasadar sources said on Sunday 14 bodies having numerous bullet wounds and signs of torture were found in Speen Kabr area. One Malik Mehmood was identified as a local tribesman while the rest of the bodies were collected by a local welfare organisation, Khidmat-e-Khalq for identification and burial, locals said. The cause of the massacre could not be ascertained. The locals accused the security forces of this crime. However, the spokesperson for the security forces denied it saying not a single civilian had been targeted so far in the ongoing operation in Bara.

Sunday’s discovery was made two days after 12 more bodies, also bearing signs of torture and numerous bullet-wounds were discovered in the same area, 15 km south of Peshawar.

A government official in Khyber Agency said that 14 bullet-riddled bodies were found from a roadside in Sheikhabad. Among them was the body of Mehmood Malik, the cousin of Peshawar’s ex-nazim Azam Khan Afridi.

“They were taken into custody by the paramilitary Frontier Corps a few days back from Sepah area after unknown people attacked the FC post and killed four soldiers,” a tribesman told Reuters, requesting anonymity because he feared for his safety.

The official said that it was not known who had abducted the slain persons, whom the tribesmen say were locals. However, he said the administration suspected that militants were involved in the incident.

A tribesman, Torab Ali, said all the bodies had acid thrown on their faces, making identification difficult. “We don’t have any medical expertise but we think they were killed two or three days ago,” he added.

No one has acknowledged any connection with the deaths

Four bodies found in Mardan fields | The Nation

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Taliban kill BRSP employee in Pishin

QUETTA - Taliban have killed a kidnapped employee of Balochistan Rural Support Programme (BRSP) after not being paid ransom money, an official confirmed.

Six employees of BRSP were kidnapped by a group of armed men from Barshore area of Pishin district, about 70-kilometer away from Quetta, on December 13th, 2011.

They had kidnapped BRSP employees including Bashir Ahmed, Altaf, Mujeeb-ur-Rehman, Naimatullah, Dawood Shah and Maqbool Ahmed.

According to an official of BRSP, the kidnapped employees were shifted to Waziristan and one person Maqbool Ahmed, resident of Kuchlak was killed.

Sources said the kidnappers sent a video showing the killing of Maqbool. However, the body of Maqbool is yet to be handed over to the heirs. When contacted Home Secretary Nasebullah Bazai, said the kidnappers were demanding Rs 250m as ransom money for the release of kidnapped employees. He said there was a group in Waziristan who allegedly kidnapped the BRSP employees. Law-enforcing agencies were making their utmost efforts to trace the kidnappers, he said ,adding, that a team by provincial government had been dispatched to receive the body.

BRSP in a statement has strongly condemned the killing of Maqbool Ahmed and announced a three-day-mourning besides demanding for arrest of culprits and safe recovery of other five hostages. BRSP is working in different parts of Balochistan on different projects including provision of clean drinking water, education and health so that the standard of people in remote areas of the province could be improved.

It is pertinent to mention here that Health Programme Manager Khalil Rasjed Dale, a British national, was kidnapped some 200 metres away from his ICRC residence in Chaman Housing Scheme Quetta, a high security zone where offices of most of the international humanitarian organisations are situated on January 5th, 2012.

The whereabouts of Dale is yet to be traced because despite the lapse of over two months, police failed to find any clue.

He is believed to be taken to tribal region in neighbouring Waziristan

Taliban kill BRSP employee in Pishin | The Nation
 
Khyber Agency: Three bodies found – killed by tribal militia

LANDIKOTAL: Villagers found three bodies on Wednesday in an area in the Khyber tribal region where a tribal militia had publicly executed three men earlier this week after accusing them of being cohorts of a powerful militant commander.
The bodies, bearing gunshot wounds, were discovered in the Zakhakhel bazaar area of Landi Kotal subdivision. An official of the Khasadar force (tribal police) identified the dead as Khanay, Jumma Khan and Aryana.
The official blamed a local militia, Tauheed-e-Islam. “These men were shot dead for allegedly spying for the banned extremist group Lashkar-e-Islam (LeI) and planting improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the area,” the official said on condition of anonymity. He added that the militia has claimed responsibility for the grisly murders. An official of the political administration confirmed the deaths but said the dead men ‘could not be identified’ and refused to say how they were killed.
On March 17, the Tauheed-e-Islam militia had publicly executed three suspected LeI members in the same area, though security forces and political authorities denied any such executions in the region.
Search operation
Security forces have rounded up eight suspected militants during a search operation in Kandaokhel area since Tuesday night. They also defused two bombs planted at the Landikotal helipad, according to official sources.
On March 18, 14 bodies, bearing torture marks, were discovered by villagers in the Bara subdivision of Khyber Agency.
Local residents blamed the paramilitary Frontier Corps, which is conducting operations in the area, for the killing – an allegation that the force denied.
4 killed in N Waziristan
At least four people were killed and eight injured in separate incidents of violence in North Waziristan agency.
“Clashes between the Hurmaz and Muski sub-tribes in Mir Ali sub-division left one person killed and five other injured,” said an official of the political administration.
Eyewitnesses told The Express Tribune that the sub-tribes exchanged heavy gunfire over a land dispute. Tribal elders inter**vened late evening and proposed a jirga.
In another tribal feud, three people were killed and three others were injured when two families clashed over the ownership of the Datta Khel bus stand. The culprits involved in the killings managed to escape. Later, a routine patrol by security forces resulted in their vehicle being hit by a roadside bomb, in the Khathonry area, North Waziristan.
(With additional input by our correspondent in MiraMshah)
Published in The Express Tribune, March 22nd, 2012.

Khyber Agency: Three bodies found
 
Khyber Agency: Three bodies found – killed by tribal militia

LANDIKOTAL: Villagers found three bodies on Wednesday in an area in the Khyber tribal region where a tribal militia had publicly executed three men earlier this week after accusing them of being cohorts of a powerful militant commander.
The bodies, bearing gunshot wounds, were discovered in the Zakhakhel bazaar area of Landi Kotal subdivision. An official of the Khasadar force (tribal police) identified the dead as Khanay, Jumma Khan and Aryana.
The official blamed a local militia, Tauheed-e-Islam. “These men were shot dead for allegedly spying for the banned extremist group Lashkar-e-Islam (LeI) and planting improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the area,” the official said on condition of anonymity. He added that the militia has claimed responsibility for the grisly murders. An official of the political administration confirmed the deaths but said the dead men ‘could not be identified’ and refused to say how they were killed.
On March 17, the Tauheed-e-Islam militia had publicly executed three suspected LeI members in the same area, though security forces and political authorities denied any such executions in the region.
Search operation
Security forces have rounded up eight suspected militants during a search operation in Kandaokhel area since Tuesday night. They also defused two bombs planted at the Landikotal helipad, according to official sources.
On March 18, 14 bodies, bearing torture marks, were discovered by villagers in the Bara subdivision of Khyber Agency.
Local residents blamed the paramilitary Frontier Corps, which is conducting operations in the area, for the killing – an allegation that the force denied.
4 killed in N Waziristan
At least four people were killed and eight injured in separate incidents of violence in North Waziristan agency.
“Clashes between the Hurmaz and Muski sub-tribes in Mir Ali sub-division left one person killed and five other injured,” said an official of the political administration.
Eyewitnesses told The Express Tribune that the sub-tribes exchanged heavy gunfire over a land dispute. Tribal elders inter**vened late evening and proposed a jirga.
In another tribal feud, three people were killed and three others were injured when two families clashed over the ownership of the Datta Khel bus stand. The culprits involved in the killings managed to escape. Later, a routine patrol by security forces resulted in their vehicle being hit by a roadside bomb, in the Khathonry area, North Waziristan.
(With additional input by our correspondent in MiraMshah)
Published in The Express Tribune, March 22nd, 2012.

Khyber Agency: Three bodies found

Good riddance.

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Terrorists target electricity pylons in Hyderabad, Larkana

Terrorists strike high tension wires in Sindh - YouTube

HYDERABAD: As many as five improvised devices went off damaging Hub-Jamshoro Circuit of the National Transmission and Dispatch Company (NTDC) near Liaquat University of Medical and Health Science (LUMHS) in Jamshoro district on Thursday.
According to deputy director of the NTDC, the blasts damaged one of the two lines of Hub-Jamshoro Circuit but they did not trip.
However, one of the two lines of Daddu-Guddu Circuit tripped after the early morning blasts in Naseerabad near Larkana district.
The in-charge of Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) Saleem Vistro said that they defused two improvised devices. Each weighed about 1.5 pounds, according to him.

Terrorists target electricity pylons in Hyderabad, Larkana – The Express Tribune
 
FIA official gunned down

PESHAWAR: An official of Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) was gunned down by unknown assailants in Dir Town on Thursday evening.

Officals said that Iftikhar, a cleric within the Immigration section of the FIA at Peshawar Airport, he was gunned down outside Masjid-e-Hamza, within the jurisdiction of Pahri Pura Police Station.

The attackers made good their escape after committing the crime.

“Ifthikar was standing in front of a mosque near his house in Dir Town when unknown people opened fire at him, killing him on the spot,” SHO Hameed Khan told The Express Tribune, adding that he was rushed to the hospital but he was pronounced dead.

Police said that the matter was under investigation and it was premature to say whether this was a case of target killing or not.

There have been a number of instances in the recent past where FIA and intelligence officials have been targeted by gunmen in Peshawar.

FIA official gunned down – The Express Tribune
 
Khyber Agency: Three bodies found – killed by tribal militia

LANDIKOTAL: Villagers found three bodies on Wednesday in an area in the Khyber tribal region where a tribal militia had publicly executed three men earlier this week after accusing them of being cohorts of a powerful militant commander.
The bodies, bearing gunshot wounds, were discovered in the Zakhakhel bazaar area of Landi Kotal subdivision. An official of the Khasadar force (tribal police) identified the dead as Khanay, Jumma Khan and Aryana.
The official blamed a local militia, Tauheed-e-Islam. “These men were shot dead for allegedly spying for the banned extremist group Lashkar-e-Islam (LeI) and planting improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the area,” the official said on condition of anonymity. He added that the militia has claimed responsibility for the grisly murders. An official of the political administration confirmed the deaths but said the dead men ‘could not be identified’ and refused to say how they were killed.
On March 17, the Tauheed-e-Islam militia had publicly executed three suspected LeI members in the same area, though security forces and political authorities denied any such executions in the region.
Search operation
Security forces have rounded up eight suspected militants during a search operation in Kandaokhel area since Tuesday night. They also defused two bombs planted at the Landikotal helipad, according to official sources.
On March 18, 14 bodies, bearing torture marks, were discovered by villagers in the Bara subdivision of Khyber Agency.
Local residents blamed the paramilitary Frontier Corps, which is conducting operations in the area, for the killing – an allegation that the force denied.
4 killed in N Waziristan
At least four people were killed and eight injured in separate incidents of violence in North Waziristan agency.
“Clashes between the Hurmaz and Muski sub-tribes in Mir Ali sub-division left one person killed and five other injured,” said an official of the political administration.
Eyewitnesses told The Express Tribune that the sub-tribes exchanged heavy gunfire over a land dispute. Tribal elders inter**vened late evening and proposed a jirga.
In another tribal feud, three people were killed and three others were injured when two families clashed over the ownership of the Datta Khel bus stand. The culprits involved in the killings managed to escape. Later, a routine patrol by security forces resulted in their vehicle being hit by a roadside bomb, in the Khathonry area, North Waziristan.
(With additional input by our correspondent in MiraMshah)
Published in The Express Tribune, March 22nd, 2012.

Khyber Agency: Three bodies found

This is not an act of terrorism, the 3 killed by the militia in Zakhakhel were bombers:

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Blast in South Waziristan army camp kills one soldier
By Web Desk
Published: March 23, 2012

Local government sources said that the bomb was planted inside a radio set. PHOTO: FILE

A blast in an army camp located in South Waziristan, killed one soldier and injured two children on Friday.

Local government sources said that the bomb was fixed inside a radio set.

Earlier, at least four militants were killed in an attack on a security check post in Laddha district of South Waziristan.

The area is close to North Waziristan agency and a highly-rugged terrain influenced by the Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP).

Blast in South Waziristan army camp kills one soldier – The Express Tribune
 
Three paramilitary soldiers killed in Balochistan ambush

By Essa Tareen - Mar 23rd, 2012 (No Comment)

Quetta: At least three paramilitary soldiers were killed and five others injured in an attack on FC checkpost in Zohb area of Balochistan, sources said on Friday.

According to the sources, unknown militants, whose exact number was yet to ascertained, ambushed a Frontier Constabulary (FC) checkpost in Pusthwara area.

The sources said that there were also reports of five security personnel missing. They said the soldiers might have been abducted by the terrorists.

However, the reports could not be confirmed. Heavy contingent of forces rushed to the spot and launched a search operation in the area following the attack.

However, no arrest was made. The dead and injured were shifted to a government-run hospital. Balochistan, southwestern province of the nuclear armed nation, has been witnessing a low-level insurgency by nationalists, demanding more provincial autonomy while some of them seeking separation from Pakistan, a sole nuclear power of the Muslim world, having 60,0000 strong army.

http://www.thenewstribe.com/2012/03/23/three-paramilitary-soldiers-killed-in-balochistan-ambush/
 
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