| Date | Incidents |
| 26th February | A two feet long piece of rail track, linking Quetta with the rest of the country, was blown up by unidentified persons in Sariab area of the provincial capital.
Unidentified men armed with sophisticated weapons attacked and injured two security personnel in Tuba Nokhani area of Dera Bugti district of Balochistan. All the cases filed against the Baloch leaders, Barahamdagh Bugti, Harbiyar Marri and Akhtar Mengal, have been quashed. Mahazullah, another Baloch missing person, reached home in Nushki, Balochistan. Five activists of banned militant organization Lashkar-i-Islam (LI) were killed and their several hideouts were demolished, when gun ship helicopter shelled the area in Tirrah Valley in Khyber Agency (Federally Administered Tribal Areas). The chief of kidnapping squad, Meen Asghar was killed when a mortar shell hit a hideout of militants in Speen Drand area of Tirrah Valley in Khyber Agency. Two children and two women were killed when the house of Saifoor Khan was hit by a mortar shell in Tirrah Valley in Khyber Agency. Political administration under the territorial responsibility clause of Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR) held 21 members of Mangal tribe in Kurram Agency, after militants fired rockets on Piwar area near the Afghan border. According to the officials, the tribesmen would remain in custody till the culprits were not handed over to the local authorities. Another person, Saleem Khan, was added to the list of `missing persons` after he was abducted from Gulshanabad area in Rawalpindi, by what his family alleged personnel of law enforcement agencies, and an FIR was registered. After the multiple blasts on the Pakistan Railways (PR) track in Sindh, allegedly carried out by terrorists, security at stations and inside trains has been beefed up. FIRs have been registered at different railway police stations against unidentified persons in eight districts of Sindh, under the anti terror law, in the wake of more than a dozen low intensity bomb blasts along the railway tracks. Two security men died and another suffered injuries when a vehicle of security forces hit a roadside bomb, reportedly planted by militants, on the Jandula Sararogha road, South Waziristan. Two security personnel were killed when militants fired rockets on a check post in Saro Kalli area of South Waziristan. A drummer, Mirban, was shot dead in Gomal bazaar of Tank district by the Masked gunmen, who opened fire as they entered Mirban house, killing him on the spot while his wife Balgees and son were injured. Three separate incidents of target killings in Karachi claimed three lives including an activist of Awami National Party (ANP). All the three victims of target killing were shot dead, separately, by unidentified assailants. Taking serious notice of the kidnapping of a young Hindu girl, in Mirpur Mathelo district of Ghotki, Sindh, President Asif Ali Zardari sought a report from the provincial government. The girl is allegedly being forced by some influential people of the area to convert to Islam. Gunship helicopters pounded the hideouts of the banned LI, killing six militants, in Nari Baba area of Landikotal. Furthermore, many bases of LI were destroyed and a large quantity of weapons was seized during post-attack search operation. A missile, fired from Tangi area, hit a house in Pewar area of Parachinar and damaged it. However no causalities were reported. Unidentified assailants fired three rockets on Ghouriwala Police Station in Bannu (KP) followed by heavy gunfire. A portion of the police station building was damaged but there was no loss of life. A grand jirga was held by the elders of Utman Zai tribe with the political administration and security officials to discuss the law and order situation in North Waziristan, after a bid to destroy the machinery of the Frontier Works Organization (FWO). A wanted militant, Aliman Shah was arrested near the police training center Hangu. A Kalashnikov rifle and four hand grenades were recovered from him. Two mortar shells, fired from the Khyber Agency, landed in Hayatabad and Katcha Garhi localities of Peshawar, injuring two persons. |
| 27th February | A remote-control motorcycle bomb exploded outside the venue of a public meeting organized by the ANP in Nowshehra district of KP. Five people were killed while 26 others, including 11 police personnel injured.
An explosive device planted by unidentified men near the house of a tribal elder, Abdul Wali Khan, was defused by the personnel of the Kurram Levies in Sadda town of Kurram Agency (FATA). A tented office used as security check post by the Kurram Levies personnel was torched by unidentified persons in Khan Baba Ziarat. Militants fired three mortar shells from Khyber Agency at Riaz Shaheed Security Post in Sarband. Of the three shells, one landed in a house nearby the post wounding three children and partially damaging the house. A raid by the security forces on the hideouts of militants in Seplatoi area of South Waziristan left four soldiers and 10 militants dead. One of the two men accused of involvement in the terrorist attack on Sri Lankan team in march 2009, who was on bail in Afghanistan, died while the other one is still missing. Ashok Kumar, the son of a well known Hindu trader Newnand Ram, was kidnapped at gunpoint by armed men in Gandawa area of Jhal Magsi, Balochistan. |
| 28th February | Sixteen people belonging to Shia community were gunned down in Harban area of Kohistan in the most recent episode of sectarian violence in the country. Gunmen in military uniform hauled the people off the buses and after checking their names on their ID cards killed 16 of them. Banned militant outfit Jundullah claimed the responsibility for the attack.
A Chinese woman and his Pakistani male companion were shot dead, in Jahangirpura, near Qisakhwani Bazaar of Peshawar, by unidentified gunmen on motorbikes. Two separate incidents of target killing claimed two lives including an activist of Muttahida Qaumi Movement (MQM), in Karachi. A bomb weighing 15kg, hidden among piles of narcotics in a jute bag, was defused by Bomb Disposal Squad (BDS) officials in Tatara amusement Park area of Hayatabad, Peshawar. A government primary school was blown up by unidentified miscreants in Swabi district of KP. A policeman was shot dead and another critically injured by unidentified gunmen in Rore village, Dera Ismail Khan. Twenty rockets were fired by militants from an unidentified location in Darra Adam Khel, injuring a man named Khalid Afridi. |
| 29th February | Abdul Waheed Baloch, the younger brother of a Balochistan National Party (BNP) leader, and his companion, fired upon by unknown armed men succumbed to their injuries at the spot, in Khuzdar district of Balochistan.
Three separate incidents of firing left two people dead in Quetta and another injured in Mastung district of Balochistan. A bullet riddled body was found by Levies Force Personnel from Dasht area of Mastung district. Unidentified men kidnapped five officials of governor development programme of KP along with the official car in Pir Tangi area, some 40 kilometers from Tank city. The sub campus of Abdul Wali Khan University (AWKU) was blown up by unidentified militants, at Palosa area, Charsadda (KP), badly damaging the building. A pick-up vehicle, carrying the family of a tribesman identified as Mohammad Wisal, hit an improvised explosive device (IED) near Qamarabad, killing two women on the spot while seven other family members were critically injured including two children. A mortar shell fired by a rival group on the house of local militant commander, Salamat, injured eight persons including women and children in Sturikhel area of Khyber Agency (FATA). Two paramedical staff members, Issac Simson and Indrias Javed ´ both Pakistani national, of a South Korean NGO funded hospital were abducted by unknown gunmen, in Orangi town, Karachi, while they were on their way to hospital. The members of Qaumi Lashkar, an anti-militant body, were attacked in Matani area of Peshawar, by militants from Darra Adamkhel, killing Mohammad Ali ´ identified as a nephew of former nazim of Adezai, at the spot. Militants blew up girls– primary school, by planting explosives at the structure of the school, in Sro Killay area of Charsadda district. An 80 year old man, Chaudhry Akram Arrain, belonging to the minority Ahmadi sect, was shot dead and his 18 old grandson, left injured by some unknown armed men in Camp Two area of Shaheed Benazirabad district. |
| 1st March | NATO forces stationed in Afghanistan fired six mortar shells into Dattakhel area of North Waziristan Agency, which left six tribesmen critically injured.
A rocket fired from an unknown location landed in posh Hayatabad locality, Peshawar, injuring at least five persons. Security forces killed 22 militants and destroyed five hideouts by shelling in the Upper Orakzai Agency. Unidentified men attacked a patrolling party injuring two Frontier Crops (FC) personnel, in Pir Sori area of Dera Bugti. In paramilitary forces– retaliatory action three assailants were killed while their weapons were seized. A Frontier Crops (FC) man was injured in Pir Koh area of Dera Buugti, when he accidently stepped over a landmine. Two bodies, identified as Ajab Khan and Abdul Rehman, were recovered from Pashin and Kech districts respectively. An FC personnel opened fire during a dispute killing one and injuring four others outside the Jamia Darul Quran Madrassa in Muslimabad colony, Quaidabad, Karachi. The railway track, linking Quetta with the rest of the country was blown up with explosives by unknown people, and the train service between the provincial capital and the rest of Pakistan was suspended. A pro-government tribal elder, Malik Nasrullah of Mamad Kor Khwezai, and his nine-year old son, Yasir, were shot dead by Taliban in Ghoshta area of Afghanistan near Pak-Afghan border. A school was badly damaged in Yar Hussain Village when two bombs, planted by the suspected militants, exploded. A member of the peace Lashkar was killed and two others injured when their vehicle got hit by a roadside blast in Sragarhi area of Tirah valley in Khyber Agency. |
| 2nd March | A suicide bomber exploded himself near the gate of a mosque, in an area that is being controlled by warlord Mangal Bagh, in Tirrah Valley of Khyber Agency, killing at least 22 people and wounding more than 20 others.
Different clashes between security forces and the outlawed militant group LI left at least 23 militants ´ including a nephew of LI chief Mangal Bagh ´ and 10 soldiers dead, in the Baazgarah area of lower Tirrah Valley of Khyber Agency. Two volunteers from the Tauheedul Islam (TI) were killed and two other sustained injuries when their vehicle hit a roadside explosive device in Dawa Toi area of Jamrud tehsil of Khyber Agency. In the backdrop of the Harban bus attack, three platoons of the FC have been deployed along with the police on Karakoram Highway (KKH), on the road leading to Gilgit-Baltistan and onward to the border with China. An incident of target killing in Peshawar left an Intelligence Bureau (IB) officer, Bashir Ahmad, dead and his son injured. A ‘moazzin’ (prayer caller) of a local mosque, identified as Gul Sahib Shah, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in Hangu, KP. Five mortar shells, fired from Afghanistan Khost province, landed in the village of Bangedar, some 18 kilometers west of Miramshah, the capital of North Waziristan. A suicide bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint manned by the fighters of Mangal Bagh-led Lashkar-e-Islam (LI) group, killing five militants, including a commander and injuring six others, in Nakai area of Tirah Valley in Khyber Agency. Two terrorist hideouts were bombed by fighter jets in Orakzai Agency killing 17 terrorists and wounding 12 others. Two persons, named Samid and Sajid, belonging to Haleemzai tehsil of Mohmand Agency went missing in the mountains of Prang Ghar area five days ago. Four suspected persons were arrested by police and security forces for their alleged links with militants from Dheri Zardad village of Nowshera district. Bullet-riddled bodies of two security guards, working for the Al-Fateh Security Company, were found inside a marketing firm office, in Gulshan Chowrangi, Karachi. |
| 3rd March | A suicide attack on the motorcade of Pakistan People Party-Sherpao (PPP-S) chief Aftab Sherpao left a policeman and a girl dead and seven others injured, in Kangra village, Charsadda (KP).
Bullet-riddled bodies of three FC personnel, who went missing after militants attacked four FC check-posts in Margat coalmines area of Machh last month, were found near Machh town, some 70km east of Quetta, Balochistan. An attempt to smuggle the ammunition to Quetta was foiled when the truck carrying ammunition, gunpowder and an assortment of weapons, underneath logs of wood, overturned near the city. An employee, identified as Muhammad Ashraf, of a brick-kiln owner was shot dead by unidentified persons under mysterious circumstances in the Manga Mandi police area, Lahore. The exchange of fire between the armed members of two rival groups, LI and TI resulted in killing of four LI members and injuries to two TI volunteers in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency. At least three people were killed and another suffered injuries when armed assailants opened fire on them in Patokh area of Dera Bugti. A hand grenade went off in a scrap shop killing one and injuring three others in Firdousi area of Kulachi tehsil, Tank in KP. A body, identified as Abdul Gahaffar Bangulzai, has been recovered from the Notal area of Naseerabad district, Balochistan. |
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