http://www.dawn.com/news/365239
http://www.dawn.com/news/364964/
18 July 2004:
Provincial
president of Muttahida Majlis-i-Amal Maulana Mohammad Khan Sherani MNA
and three other JUI leaders escaped an assassination attempt when a
powerful bomb exploded near their vehicle in the Gawal Haiderzai area of
Qila Saifullah district on Sunday evening.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4566206.stm
29 Dec 2005:
A court in Pakistan has sentenced a top Taleban commander to life in prison for trying to kill a member of parliament.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4566206.stm
29 Dec 2005:
A court in Pakistan has sentenced a top Taleban commander to life in prison for trying to kill a member of parliament.
Mullah Dadullah was convicted in absentia by the court in Quetta. He is believed to be hiding in Afghanistan.
He
had been charged with trying to kill conservative Islamic politician
Maulana Mohammad Khan Sherani in 2004. Mr Sherani escaped unhurt.
...
Mr
Sherani, who belongs to the hardline Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI) party,
was travelling along a road in his home constituency in Balochistan
province when a remote-controlled bomb targeted his car on 18 November,
2004.
https://www.thenews.com.pk/archive/print/71861-jui-protests-killing-of-maulana-hassan-jan
http://paktribune.com/news/JUI-leader-Maulana-Hassan-Jan-gunned-down-189578.html
15 Sep 2007: Hasan Jan, JUI leader, killed.
https://www.ctc.usma.edu/posts/militants-turn-against-pakistans-jui-f-islamist-party
After
the JUI-F’s successes in the 2008 general elections, many Taliban
militants appeared to turn against the party. From 2008 forward,
Pakistani Taliban groups began to execute suicide attacks against the
JUI-F’s leadership. Dozens of JUI-F leaders, including former
parliamentarians, have since been killed.[13]
Most
recently, on January 25, 2012, Haji Gul Rahman Afridi, the former local
chief of the JUI-F in the Landi Kotal area of Khyber Agency in FATA,
was shot to death in the Shahi Bagh area of Peshawar by unidentified
assailants.[14] Another JUI-F leader and former mayor, Haji Muhammad
Azeem, was killed on January 3, 2012, in the Naverkhel area of Lakki
Marwat District of KP.[15]
Maulana
Merajuddin, a former member of parliament from South Waziristan Agency
and head of the JUI-F in the FATA region, was shot dead in May 2010 in
Tank District of KP.[16] Merajuddin was a key figure in the government’s
talks with tribal elders and militants, and he helped to broker peace
deals in South Waziristan Agency in 2005 and 2007. Maulana Salimullah, a
leader of the JUI-F, was shot dead by unidentified assailants in Karak
District of KP on May 29, 2010.[17]
Similarly,
another former member of parliament from South Waziristan Agency,
Maulana Noor Muhammad Wazir, was killed along with 30 other people in a
suicide attack at a mosque in Wana in South Waziristan on August 24,
2010.[18] Muhammad was also an influential figure who had several times
acted as a negotiator between the Pakistani Taliban and the government,
but was opposed to the presence of Uzbek militants in the region,
providing support to dislodge them.[19]
Haji
Khan Afzal, the former district mayor of Hangu District in KP and a
central leader of the JUI-F, was killed on September 18, 2009, when a
bomb ripped through a mosque in Kach Bazaar Killay in Hangu. Afzal
played an important role in freeing government employees and others
kidnapped by the TTP during and after clashes with Pakistan’s security
forces in the Doaba area of Kohat District in 2009.
Then,
in 2012, the most egregious attacks on the JUI-F occurred. On March 30,
militants attempted to assassinate JUI-F head Fazlur Rahman near Swabi
District in KP. The following day in Charsadda District, militants again
tried to assassinate Rahman. Both attempts failed.
http://www.outlookindia.com/newswire/story/6-killed-in-suicide-attack-in-pak/655135
2 March 2009:
Six persons were killed and 10 others injured in a suicide attack on a seminary in Pakistan's southwestern Balochistan province today.
Police officials and witnesses said the suicide bomber detonated his explosives inside the madrassa in Pishin city, some 650 km from the provincial capital of Quetta. Witnesses said the bomber was a teenager.
Six persons were killed by the blast. Doctors described the condition of one of the injured persons as serious.
Police cordoned off the area and launched a search for accomplices of the suicide bomber.
Officials said they believed the provincial chief of the Jamaat Ulema-e-Islam, Maulana Mohammad Khan Sherani, was the target of the attack.
http://www.dawn.com/news/848095
19 April 2010:
At least 23 people, including a deputy superintendent of police and leaders and activists of Jamaat-i-Islami, were killed and 42 others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a protest demonstration of the party in the city's historical Qissa Khwani Bazaar on Monday evening.
https://jamestown.org/program/pakistani-taliban-widen-jihad-with-strikes-on-fellow-muslims/#sthash.Q9MQuQ9y.dpuf
2010:
On June 16 the Taliban in Hangu assassinated JI leader Fida Saadi, a provincial executive council member (News, June 17). Soon afterwards they killed JI leader Haji Mohammad Khan and kidnapped his son in Darra Adamkhel on June 23 (Dawn, June 24).
http://tribune.com.pk/story/139869/seven-killed-in-swabi-blast-eyewitnesses/
30 March 2011:
Chief
of his own faction of the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (JUI-F) Maulana Fazlur
Rehman had a narrow escape in a suicide attack which killed 10 people
near here on Wednesday.
Another
20 people were also injured in the attack which took place on the
Motorway near the Swabi interchange in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/140320/blast-in-charsadda-kills-8-injures-25/
http://www.dawn.com/news/617273
31 March 2011:
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Asia-South-Central/2012/0131/New-to-Pakistan-s-Taliban-heavy-tribal-areas-political-campaignshttp://tribune.com.pk/story/140320/blast-in-charsadda-kills-8-injures-25/
http://www.dawn.com/news/617273
31 March 2011:
A
bomb blast targeting the convoy of Maulana Fazlur Rehman, leader of the
Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam – Fazl (JUI-F) party killed at least 12 people and
wounded several others in the northwestern Pakistani town of Charsadda
on Thursday, police said.
Today’s bombing was the second attack against the politician and his supporters in as many days.31 Jan 2012:
Hussain is leading electioneering in the tribal areas for the Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, or JUI. The country's most popular religious party, the JUI is a former ally of the Pakistani Taliban that broke with the group when it launched an insurgency in 2007. The Taliban subsequently started suicide attacks against the party's leadership, killing several prominent cleric-politicians, and only just missing its chief, Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman.
The JUI has held political rallies across the tribal areas over the last two weeks, including one at Mir Ali in North Waziristan, a stronghold of Pakistani Taliban insurgents.
The mountainous Dattakhel area neighboring Mir Ali is also a haven for fugitive Al Qaeda leaders and has been a focal point of US drone strikes since 2009.
Hussain said the Taliban distributed pamphlets in the area warning residents not to attend the rally in Mir Ali and threatened him personally. Photographs of JUI cleric-politicians in the company of women in fancy clothes — taken at a wedding — were also distributed in an attempt to defame them among their conservative base, he added.
Nonetheless, the JUI rally attracted an estimated 15,000 tribesmen, local journalists said.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/468448/mohmand-bombing-qazi-hussain-escapes-suicide-attack/
http://www.dawn.com/news/765248
19 Nov 2012:
Qazi Husain Ahmad, the former JI chief, escaped unhurt from the attack.
Khan, who is a government administrator in Mohmand, says the bomber was wearing a burqa and had explosives strapped to her body.
The suicide bomber detonated her explosives after a vehicle with the former JI chief had passed, a government official said.
http://www.dawnnews.tv/news/50485
http://www.bbc.com/urdu/pakistan/2013/01/130110_swat_blast_tim.shtml
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/11/world/asia/pakistan-blast-quetta-swat-valley-elections.html?ref=world
https://tribune.com.pk/story/492124/5-killed-more-than-50-injured-in-swat-blast/
10 Jan 2013:
At
least 22 people were killed and 47 injured in a blast in the Mingora
city of Swat district on Thursday, confirmed officials at Saidu Sharif
Hospital.
http://www.dawnnews.tv/news/50485
http://www.bbc.com/urdu/pakistan/2013/01/130110_swat_blast_tim.shtml
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/11/world/asia/pakistan-blast-quetta-swat-valley-elections.html?ref=world
https://tribune.com.pk/story/492124/5-killed-more-than-50-injured-in-swat-blast/
10 Jan 2013:
The explosion took place at the main Tableeghi Markaz (preaching centre) located on the Takht Band Road.
The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) spokesperson and police termed the blast as a gas cylinder explosion.
According
to eyewitnesses, people were getting ready for their preaching session
when a gas cylinder in the kitchen of the Markaz exploded. Additional
eyewitness say it may have been a suicide blast.
“After
the explosion, people started running frantically while some ran to the
spot of the explosion to rush the injured to the hospital,” a person
told The Express Tribune.
Police
initially said the blast was caused by an exploding gas cylinder but
later police chief Akhtar Hayat confirmed it was a bomb.
http://www.dawn.com/news/794467
April 27, 2013:
Attacks
on election candidates and their offices continued in Balochistan on
Friday with a bomb-and-rocket attack on the rally of a candidate of
JUI-F and grenade attacks on the election office and house of a
candidate of a nationalist party.
https://www.geo.tv/latest/86642-jui-f-kurram-agency-rally-blast-death-toll-rises-to-24
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22431153
http://www.dawn.com/news/812374
7 May 2013:
A
powerful explosion ripped through an election meeting of the Jamiat
Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) in central Kurram tribal region on Monday, killing
at least 19 people and injuring over 75 others.
But foreign news agencies said 25 people had been killed in the bombing claimed by the Taliban.
http://nation.com.pk/national/18-Aug-2013/jui-f-leader-escapes-attack
18 August 2013:
Former senator and JUI-F leader Dr Ismail Buledi escaped an attack in Kech district of Balochistan on Saturday. However, his nephew was injured in the attack. According to sources, unidentified armed men attacked JUI-F leader’s vehicle in Shapuk area of Kech. Resultantly, his nephew sustained injuries, however, he himself remained unhurt in the attack.
http://www.dawn.com/news/1080731
http://gandhara.rferl.org/a/25240139.html
16 Jan 2014:
The January 16 blast at a mosque in Peshawar, the capital of the insurgency-plagued Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, shocked many as it killed eight members of a pacifist missionary movement that practices a branch of puritanical Sunni Islam also followed by the Taliban. The Deobandi school advocates strict religious observance and attracts a large following across South Asia.
Jamaat-e Tabligh said that the blast at the mosque, which doubles as their preaching center, was caused by a gas cylinder. But Peshawar police investigators said it was a time bomb concealed inside a tin canister usually used to store cooking oil.
The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the country's largest insurgent faction, was quick to distance itself from the bombing and called it a conspiracy of the country's spy agencies. The group, however, has claimed responsibility for most of the attacks in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and adjoining tribal areas recently.
Mushtaq Yousufzai, a Peshawar-based journalist, says that one theory circulating in the region concludes that the bombing in the mosque was accidental. "The plotters were probably carrying the bomb to attack another target," he told RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal. "They were staying at the evangelical mosque because it is considered a safe hideout."
But he says that many credible observers view the bombing as a warning to the pacifist missionary group. "This was a message to the Jamaat-e Tabligh to back the Taliban's violent campaign in the region."
The discovery of a remote controlled bomb in another Jamaat-e Tabligh mosque in Nowshera, a sprawling garrison city 40 kilometers east of Peshawar, lends credence to this theory. The bombs were defused an hour after the January 16 blast in Peshawar.
The group was first targeted last year when a bomb ripped through the group's mosque in Swat. Twenty-two worshippers were killed and more than 50 injured in the Mingora attack. The city is the center of the northwestern Swat Valley, which was a stronghold of current TTP leader Maulana Fazlullah before a large military offensive dislodged him in 2009.
http://nation.com.pk/national/18-Aug-2013/jui-f-leader-escapes-attack
18 August 2013:
Former senator and JUI-F leader Dr Ismail Buledi escaped an attack in Kech district of Balochistan on Saturday. However, his nephew was injured in the attack. According to sources, unidentified armed men attacked JUI-F leader’s vehicle in Shapuk area of Kech. Resultantly, his nephew sustained injuries, however, he himself remained unhurt in the attack.
http://www.dawn.com/news/1080731
http://gandhara.rferl.org/a/25240139.html
16 Jan 2014:
The January 16 blast at a mosque in Peshawar, the capital of the insurgency-plagued Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, shocked many as it killed eight members of a pacifist missionary movement that practices a branch of puritanical Sunni Islam also followed by the Taliban. The Deobandi school advocates strict religious observance and attracts a large following across South Asia.
Jamaat-e Tabligh said that the blast at the mosque, which doubles as their preaching center, was caused by a gas cylinder. But Peshawar police investigators said it was a time bomb concealed inside a tin canister usually used to store cooking oil.
The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), the country's largest insurgent faction, was quick to distance itself from the bombing and called it a conspiracy of the country's spy agencies. The group, however, has claimed responsibility for most of the attacks in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and adjoining tribal areas recently.
Mushtaq Yousufzai, a Peshawar-based journalist, says that one theory circulating in the region concludes that the bombing in the mosque was accidental. "The plotters were probably carrying the bomb to attack another target," he told RFE/RL’s Radio Mashaal. "They were staying at the evangelical mosque because it is considered a safe hideout."
But he says that many credible observers view the bombing as a warning to the pacifist missionary group. "This was a message to the Jamaat-e Tabligh to back the Taliban's violent campaign in the region."
The discovery of a remote controlled bomb in another Jamaat-e Tabligh mosque in Nowshera, a sprawling garrison city 40 kilometers east of Peshawar, lends credence to this theory. The bombs were defused an hour after the January 16 blast in Peshawar.
The group was first targeted last year when a bomb ripped through the group's mosque in Swat. Twenty-two worshippers were killed and more than 50 injured in the Mingora attack. The city is the center of the northwestern Swat Valley, which was a stronghold of current TTP leader Maulana Fazlullah before a large military offensive dislodged him in 2009.
27 Oct 2014:
Maulana
Samiul Haq, leader of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam-Sami (JUI-S), condemned the
assassination attempt on Maulana Fazlur Rehman in Quetta on Thursday.
Jamiat
Ulema-e-Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) chief Maulana Fazlur Rehman escaped an
attempt on his life when a bomb went off near his rally in Quetta.
Initial reports claimed one person died and 22 others were injured in
the attack.
https://afpakwatch.wordpress.com/tag/attacks-on-jui-f-leaders/
http://www.thefridaytimes.com/tft/fallout/
Hafiz Gul Bahadur, Waliur Rehman Meshud and his successor Sajna, and several other militant leaders in the FATA region were affiliated with the JUI-F and its student wing Jamiat Talaba-e-Islam.
But in the last few years, key leaders and activists of JUI-F have been targeted and killed in KP and FATA by Taliban militants, including Maulana Mairajuddin, a former MNA from Mehsud area of South Waziristan, Maulana Noor Muhammad Wazir, a former MNA from Wana area of South Waziristan, Haji Khan Afzal, former district mayor of Hangu, and Maulana Mohsin Shah from Lakki Marwat.
....
Some observers link the recent attack on Fazlur Rehman with sectarianism in Balochistan. “We are against sectarianism and violent means of Jihad, and believe in democratic means,” said a party leader in Quetta. “Our former Balochistan party head Maulana Khan Muhammad Sherani had formed the Ittehad-e-Millat-e-Islamia Mahaz (IMIM), an alliance of six groups belonging to different sects, in Quetta, and openly condemned the banned sectarian group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) for killing hundreds of Shia Hazaras in Quetta.” Sherani, who is considered a strong critic of Taliban and sectarian groups and has resisted them in the Pashtun areas of Balochistan, escaped an assassination attempt in November 2004. He had blamed a group of Afghan Taliban led by Mullah Dadullah (who was later killed by US forces in Afghanistan) for the attack.
.....
Since the formation of IMIM, the LeJ had been threatening JUI-F leaders in Balochistan, calling them ‘Iranian agents’ and ‘secular leaders’. The JUI-F had decided not to join the Difa-e-Pakistan Council – an alliance of religious parties, Jihadi groups and retired military leaders, led by Jamaatud Dawa – which was formed after a NATO airstrike killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in November 2011.A JUI-F leader said that party did not want to be seen by foreign observers as being tied to banned militant organizations.
https://afpakwatch.wordpress.com/tag/attacks-on-jui-f-leaders/
http://www.thefridaytimes.com/tft/fallout/
Hafiz Gul Bahadur, Waliur Rehman Meshud and his successor Sajna, and several other militant leaders in the FATA region were affiliated with the JUI-F and its student wing Jamiat Talaba-e-Islam.
But in the last few years, key leaders and activists of JUI-F have been targeted and killed in KP and FATA by Taliban militants, including Maulana Mairajuddin, a former MNA from Mehsud area of South Waziristan, Maulana Noor Muhammad Wazir, a former MNA from Wana area of South Waziristan, Haji Khan Afzal, former district mayor of Hangu, and Maulana Mohsin Shah from Lakki Marwat.
....
Some observers link the recent attack on Fazlur Rehman with sectarianism in Balochistan. “We are against sectarianism and violent means of Jihad, and believe in democratic means,” said a party leader in Quetta. “Our former Balochistan party head Maulana Khan Muhammad Sherani had formed the Ittehad-e-Millat-e-Islamia Mahaz (IMIM), an alliance of six groups belonging to different sects, in Quetta, and openly condemned the banned sectarian group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) for killing hundreds of Shia Hazaras in Quetta.” Sherani, who is considered a strong critic of Taliban and sectarian groups and has resisted them in the Pashtun areas of Balochistan, escaped an assassination attempt in November 2004. He had blamed a group of Afghan Taliban led by Mullah Dadullah (who was later killed by US forces in Afghanistan) for the attack.
.....
Since the formation of IMIM, the LeJ had been threatening JUI-F leaders in Balochistan, calling them ‘Iranian agents’ and ‘secular leaders’. The JUI-F had decided not to join the Difa-e-Pakistan Council – an alliance of religious parties, Jihadi groups and retired military leaders, led by Jamaatud Dawa – which was formed after a NATO airstrike killed 24 Pakistani soldiers in November 2011.A JUI-F leader said that party did not want to be seen by foreign observers as being tied to banned militant organizations.
http://www.dawn.com/news/1147694
29 Nov 2014:
Senior JUI-F leader Khalid Mehmood Soomro was shot dead in Sukkur on Saturday.
29 Nov 2014:
Senior JUI-F leader Khalid Mehmood Soomro was shot dead in Sukkur on Saturday.
....Apart
from the attacks on Soomro and party chief Fazl, JUI-F leaders have
been attacked, some of them fatally, during the past few years. In
September this year, senior JUI-F activist Maulana Sajidullah was shot dead in Karachi's Pirabad area.
Meanwhile, in 2012, JUI-F leader and former nazim Haji Mohammad Azeem Khan was killed when gunmen attacked his pickup in Lakki Marwat.
In 2010, JUI-F leader Mir Metha Khan Jattak, who was associated with the Nasirabad district branch of his party was killed in an attack in Tambo tehsil.
http://www.dawn.com/news/1147734
30 Nov 2014:
Dr Soomro actively participated in the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy in 1983 which landed him in Sukkur jail and he remained behind bars for nine months.
Dr Soomro was in the forefront of a protest when a military court set up at the Sir Shahnawaz Library was trying his spiritual guide Maulana Abdul Karim of Bair Sharif near Qambar town for a fatwa he had issued against Gen Ziaul Haq.
Dr Soomro came in the limelight when he contested polls against former prime minister Benazir Bhutto for NA-207. He fought for the same seat against Faryal Talpur also.
He remained member of the Senate from 2006 to 2012 where he always spoke for the rights of Sindh. He was very vocal against the division of Sindh.
This was the seventh murderous attack on Dr Soomro which proved fatal. He leaves a widow, six sons and three daughters.
http://www.samaa.tv/pakistan/2015/05/jui-f-leader-wasay-unhurt-in-bomb-attack/
15 May 2015:
QUETTA: Opposition leader in Balochistan Assembly Abdul Wasay escaped unhurt in a bomb attack on his convoy in Pishin late Friday.
According to Levies sources, the bombing caused damage to the vehicles in motorcade of Maulana Abdul Wasay– a leader of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazal (JUI-F).
30 Nov 2014:
Dr Soomro actively participated in the Movement for the Restoration of Democracy in 1983 which landed him in Sukkur jail and he remained behind bars for nine months.
Dr Soomro was in the forefront of a protest when a military court set up at the Sir Shahnawaz Library was trying his spiritual guide Maulana Abdul Karim of Bair Sharif near Qambar town for a fatwa he had issued against Gen Ziaul Haq.
Dr Soomro came in the limelight when he contested polls against former prime minister Benazir Bhutto for NA-207. He fought for the same seat against Faryal Talpur also.
He remained member of the Senate from 2006 to 2012 where he always spoke for the rights of Sindh. He was very vocal against the division of Sindh.
This was the seventh murderous attack on Dr Soomro which proved fatal. He leaves a widow, six sons and three daughters.
http://www.samaa.tv/pakistan/2015/05/jui-f-leader-wasay-unhurt-in-bomb-attack/
15 May 2015:
QUETTA: Opposition leader in Balochistan Assembly Abdul Wasay escaped unhurt in a bomb attack on his convoy in Pishin late Friday.
According to Levies sources, the bombing caused damage to the vehicles in motorcade of Maulana Abdul Wasay– a leader of Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam Fazal (JUI-F).
27 Nov 2015:
SUKKUR:
The Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam-Fazl organised rallies in several towns of the
interior of Sindh on Friday against a bomb attack on its central leader
Akram Khan Durrani, who is the federal minister for housing, in Bannu.
Mr Durrani escaped unhurt in the attack on his convoy but the blast left
two persons dead and another three wounded.
http://www.dawn.com/news/1272905
24 July 2016:
http://www.dawn.com/news/1272905
24 July 2016:
Suspected
militants killed Jamiat-i-Ulema-i-Islam Fazl (JUI-F) leader Mufti
Ehtisham-ul-Haq and his son in Balochistan’s troubled Kech district on
Sunday.
Levies
sources said armed assailants opened fire at the former district chief
of JUI-F and killed him on the spot along with his son. “Assailant drove
away on their motorcycle after the attack,” security sources said.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1408062/maulana-abdul-ghafoor-haideri-injured-convoy-comes-attack-mastung/123/
12 May 2017:
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1408062/maulana-abdul-ghafoor-haideri-injured-convoy-comes-attack-mastung/123/
12 May 2017:
At least 10 people were killed and 35 others injured, including Deputy Senate Chairman Maulana Ghafoor Hyderi, as his convoy came under attack in Mastung district of Balochistan on Friday.
The Jamiat Ulema Islam-Fazl (JUI-F) leader’s convoy was passing by a mosque shortly after Friday prayers when he was targetted.
DPO Mastung Ghazanfar Ali said initial probe suggested it was a suicide attack. “A suspect suicide bomber hit Ghafoor Haideri’s car,” he said.
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