2001

• October 28 Attack on a Protestant church in southern Punjab city of Bahawalpur resulted in 16 deaths and 5
injuries. The causalities were all Christian worshipers except one police officer.

2001 Bahawalpur church attack

• December 21 Pakistani interior minister Lt. Gen. (retd) Moinuddin Haider's elder brother Ehteshamuddin Haider
was shot dead by assailants near Soldier Bazaar in Karachi.

2002

• February 22 The American journalist Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered in Karachi.

• February 26 At least 11 Shi'a worshipers were killed by indiscriminate firing by a group of masked gunmen at the
Shah-i-Najaf Mosque in Rawalpindi.

• March 17 A grenade attack on a Protestant church in the heavily guarded diplomatic enclave in Islamabad killed
five persons, including a US diplomat's wife and daughter, and left more than 40 others injured.

• May 7 Noted religious scholar Prof Dr Ghulam Murtaza Malik, his driver and a policeman were shot dead by two
gunmen in Iqbal Town, Lahore.

• May 8 Bus bombing in Karachi kills 11 Frenchmen and 3 Pakistanis near the Sheraton hotel.[10]

2002 Karachi bus bombing

• June 14 A powerful car bomb exploded near the heavily-guarded US Consulate in Karachi, killing 12 people and
wounding over 50 others. A portion of the outer wall of the consulate was blown apart.

2002 US consulate bombing in Karachi

• July 13 Nine foreign tourists and three Pakistani nationals were injured in an attack near an archaeological site in
the district of Mansehra.

• August 5 At least six people were killed and four injured in a gun attack on a missionary school for foreign
students in mountain resort of Murree. The attack was carried by four gunmen, when they started firing
indiscriminately, however no pupils were among those killed, all of whom were Pakistani guards and employees at
the school.

• August 9 Three nurses — and an attacker — were killed while 25 others injured in a terrorist attack on a church in
the Taxila Christian Hospital, in Taxila, northern Punjab.

• October 16 More than eight people were injured in a series of parcel bomb explosions in Pakistan's largest city,
Karachi.

• September 25 Gunmen stormed the offices of a Christian welfare organization in Karachi, tied seven office
workers to their chairs before shooting each in the head at close range.

• November 15 An explosion on a bus in Hyderabad, Sindh killed two people and injured at least nine others.

• December 5 Three people were killed in an attack at the Macedonian Honorary consulate in the city of Karachi.
The dead - all Pakistani - were tied up, gagged and killed before the explosion at the office.

• December 25 Unidentified assailants threw a grenade at a Presbyterian church in Pakistan's central Punjab
province, killing three young girls. At least 12 others were injured in the attack at Daska, near Sialkot.

2003

• February 28 Two policemen were shot dead outside the United States consulate in Karachi, the same place where
12 people were killed by a car bomb nine months ago.

• March 10 Two people were injured when a masked terrorist opened indiscriminate fire on a mosque in Gulistan
Colony, Faisalabad.
• June 8 11 Pakistani police trainees were shot dead in what is believed to have been a sectarian attack on Sariab
Road, Quetta, as they all belonged to Hazara Shi'a branch of Islam. Another nine were reported wounded.

• July 4 At least 47 people were killed and 150 injured in an attack on a Shia mosque in the south-western Pakistani
city of Quetta.

• October 3 Six employees of Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) were killed and
several others injured when their official van was fired upon on Hub River Road in Mauripur, Karachi. A Lashkar-
e-Jhangvi cadre was officially charged.

• October 6 Maulana Azam Tariq, chief of the Millat-i-Islamia (formerly Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan) and MNA, was
assassinated by unidentified gunmen along with four others as his car drove into the capital, Islamabad.

• December 14 President Pervez Musharraf survived an assassination attempt when a powerful bomb went off
minutes after his highly-guarded convoy crossed a bridge in Rawalpindi. Musharraf was apparently saved by a
jamming device in his limousine that prevented the remote controlled explosives from blowing up the bridge as his
convoy passed over it.

• December 25 Another attempt was carried on the president 11 days later when two suicide bombers tried to
assassinate Musharraf, but their car bombs failed to kill the president; 16 others nearby died instead. Musharraf
escaped with only a cracked windscreen on his car. Militant Amjad Farooqi was apparently suspected as being the
mastermind behind these attempts, and was killed by Pakistani forces in 2004 after an extensive manhunt.

2004

• February 28 An apparent suicide bomber was killed and three worshipers were injured in an attack on Imambargah
in Satellite Town, Rawalpindi.

• March 2 At least 42 persons were killed and more than 100 wounded when a procession of the Shia Muslims was
attacked by rival Sunni extremists at Liaquat Bazaar in Quetta.

• May 3 A car bomb in south-western city of Gwadar killed three Chinese engineers and injured 10 other people.

• May 7 A suicide bomber attacked a crowded Shia mosque in Sindh Madrassatul Islam in Karachi, killing at least 15
worshipers. More than 100 people were also injured, 25 of them critically in the attack. One person was killed in
the riots that followed the attack.

• May 14 Six members of Shia family was shot dead in Mughalpura locality of Lahore.

• May 26 Two car bombs explode within 20 minutes of each other outside the Pakistan-American Cultural Center
and near the US consul general's residence in Karachi, killing two men and injuring more than 27 people, mainly
policemen and journalists.

• May 30 A senior Sunni religious scholar and head of Islamic religious school Jamia Binoria, Mufti Nizamuddin
Shamzai, was gunned down in his car while leaving his home in Karachi.

• May 31 A suicide bomber blew up the Imambarghah Ali Raza mosque in Karachi in the middle of evening prayers,
killing 16 worshipers and injuring 35. Two people were killed in riots over the mosque attack and Shamzai's
assassination.

• June 10 Gunmen opened fire on a convoy carrying the then corps commander Lt Gen Ahsan Saleem Hyat leaving
11 people dead in Karachi. The corps commander who escaped unhurt later became the vice chief of army staff
under General Pervez Musharraf.[36]

• July 30 Assassination attempt on the Prime Minister-elect Shaukat Aziz, while he was campaigning for by-election
in Fateh Jang, Attock District, Punjab. Even though he survived the attempt, nine people were killed due to the
suicide bombing.

• August 2 Chief Minister of Balochistan province Jam Mohammad Yousaf escaped an assassination bid when
unidentified persons fired at his convoy killing one of his bodyguards and injuring two others.
 • August 8 At least eight people were killed and over 40 others injured when two bombs exploded in quick
succession near the Jamia Binoria Madressah, Karachi.

• August 31 Three persons were killed and three others injured in a bomb blast at a shop in the Balochi town of
Kalat.

• September 21 Suspected Sipah-e-Sahaba members gunned down at least three members of a Shi'a family in a
sectarian attack in Dera Ismail Khan.

• October 1 A suicide bombing left 25 people dead and dozen injured at a Shia mosque after Friday prayers in the
eastern city of Sialkot.

• October 7 A powerful car bomb left 40 people dead and wounded over 100 during a Sunni rally to commemorate
Maulana Azam Tariq, assassinated leader of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, in the central city of Multan. This was most
probably the retaliation of Sialkot suicide attacks exactly a week ago.

• October 10 An explosion by a suicide bomber at a mosque used by Shia Muslims in Lahore killed at least four
people and left eight people injured.

• December 10 At least 10 people were killed and 30 injured in a bomb explosion at a market in city of Quetta. The
bomb exploded near an Army truck, as Balochistan Liberation Army claimed responsibility

2005

• January 8 At least 10 people have been killed in sectarian violence in the northern Pakistani city of Gilgit. The
shooting of a Shia Muslim cleric earlier sparked clashes between his supporters and Sunni Muslims.

• March 19 At least 35 people were killed and many injured when a Sipah-e-Sahaba terrorist exploded himself in a
mixed crowd of Shia and Sunni devotees at the shrine of Pir Rakhel Shah in remote village of Fatehpur in Jhal
Magsi District, Balochistan.

• May 25 As many as six members of a family were killed in an explosion at village Bandkhel in Makeen Tehsil,
South Waziristan.

• May 27 At least 20 people were slaughtered and 82 wounded due to a suicide bombing at the annual Shia Muslims
congregation at the shrine of Bari Imam in Islamabad.

• May 31 Six bodies were recovered from a fast food outlet set ablaze by an angry mob after an attack on a Shia
mosque in Karachi. It was retaliation to the suicide attack on the Shia mosque in central Karachi where five people
were killed and about 20 others wounded.

• September 22 At least six people, including a woman, were killed and 27 injured in two bomb blasts in Lahore.
Police said the bombs went off within an interval of one and a half hour.

• October 7 Eight members of the Ahmadiyya faith were killed inside a mosque as worshipers were performing
Salah. The incident occurred in Mandi Bahauddin, Punjab, Pakistan.

• October 13 Around 12 people including students were killed in the curfew and clashes between the Rangers and
civilians in Gilgit. The clashes came after the death of a student in Rangers custody.

• November 15 A car bomb exploded outside a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet in Karachi, Pakistan. At least three
people were killed and eight others wounded.

• December 8 At least 12 people were killed and 30 injured in a bomb explosion in the Jandola town of South
Waziristan.

• December 22 At least seven people have been killed in what officials say was a battle between Islamic students and
bandits in the Jandola town of South Waziristan.

2006
• January 25 At least six people were killed and five others hurt after a bus ran over a landmine in Dera Bugti
District, Balochistan.

• February 5 A bomb explosion killed 13 people including three army personnel and injured 18 on a Lahore-bound
bus en-route from Quetta in Kolpur, Bolan District, Balochistan. No groups claimed of responsibility for the attack.

• February 9 Sectarian violence marred the holiest day of the Shiite calendar, with at least 36 people killed and more
than 100 wounded in attacks and clashes in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The violence erupted with a suspected
suicide attack on Shiites in Hangu, in the northwestern part of the country, as they celebrated Day of Ashura.

• March 2 A power suicide car bomb attack in the high security zone near the US Consulate, Karachi, killed four
people including a US diplomat, a day before President George W. Bush was to reach Pakistan.

• March 10 At least 26 people, mostly women and children, were killed in Dera Bugti District, Balochistan after
their bus hit a landmine. Both tribal rebels and security forces planted land mines in the area.

• April 11 Over 50 people, including Sunni scholars, were killed in a bomb explosion at a religious gathering
celebrating the birthday of Prophet Muhammad in Nishtar Park, Karachi.

• June 12 At least five people were killed and 17 wounded in a bomb attack in Quetta hotel.

• June 15 Unidentified gunmen killed a senior prison official Amanullah Khan Niazi and four others in the southern
Pakistani city of Karachi.

• June 16 Two female teachers and two children were shot dead in Khoga Chiri village in Orakzai Agency.

• July 14 Allama Hassan Turabi, a Shiite religious scholar and chief of Tehrik-e-Jafaria Pakistan, and his 12-year-old
nephew were killed in a suicide attack near his Abbas Town residence. The suicide bomber was later identified as
Abdul Karim, a Bangladeshi-speaking, resident of a shantytown in the central city area of Karachi.

• August 26 Tribal leader Nawab Akbar Bugti was killed in a battle between tribal militants and government forces
in Balochistan. At least five soldiers and at least 30 rebels are thought to have died too.

• August 26-31 Akbar Bugti's killing sparked five days of rioting that left six people dead, dozens wounded and 700
under arrest.

• September 8 At least six people were killed and 17 injured, four of them seriously, when a powerful bomb blast hit
the Rakhni bazaar area of Barkhan District, Balochistan.

• October 6 17 people were killed in fighting between Sunni and Shia Muslims over a dispute over ownership of the
shrine to 18th Century figure Syed Amir Anwar Shah shrine in Pakistan's Orakzai tribal region.

• October 20 A bomb blast killed at least six people and left 21 injured in a busy shopping district of Peshawar.

• November 8 A suicide bomber killed 42 Pakistani Army soldiers and injured 20 in the northwestern town of
Dargai, apparently in retaliation to the Chenagai airstrike which killed 80 people in the same Bajaur region in the
previous month.

2007

January - March 2007

• January 15 A powerful blast in the Jalozai refugee camp destroyed a mud-house, killing four people and injuring
five others.

• January 26 Two people were killed and five injured in a suspected suicide attack in Pakistan. The bomber and a
security guard were killed in the blast at the Marriott hotel in the capital Islamabad.

• January 27 At least 13 people, including the Chief of Peshawar City Police Malik Saad, were killed Saturday
evening in a suicide bombing near a crowded Shiite mosque in Peshawar. About 60 people were wounded, 17
critically, in the 9:20 p.m. blast. About 2,000 Shiite Muslims were in and around the mosque, police said.
• February 6 A suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a parking area outside Islamabad International Airport
injuring 5 people.

• February 17 A suicide bomber killed 15 people — including a judge — after blowing himself up inside a
courtroom in Quetta, Balochistan. At least 24 people were wounded in the suicide attack.

• February 20 Punjab Minister for social welfare Zil-e-Huma Usman was shot and killed in Gujranwala. Her
assassin, Mohammed Sarwar, was reported to have been motivated by her refusal to abide by the Islamic code of
dress and a dislike for the involvement of women in political affairs.

• March 19-22 Clashes between pro-government forces under Maulvi Nazir and Al-Qaeda remnants in the
Waziristan region kill at least 135 people on both sides. A ceasefire is declared after four days of fighting enforced
by officials from both sides.

April - June 2007

• April 10-11 Up to 35 people were killed and scores of others wounded in heavy fighting between rival Shia and
Sunni groups in different areas of the Kurram Agency on Tuesday night and Wednesday.

• April 28 Assassination attempt on Aftab Ahmad Sherpao, who is the Interior minister that killed 28 people in
Charsadda, NWFP. This time again an attempt on a high ranking officer of Pakistani government was unsuccessful.

• May 12 As many as 50 people were killed and hundreds injured when party workers of opposing parties; MQM,
ANP and PPP clash in Karachi. The riots started when rival political rallies take the same route amid lawyers
protests for restoration of Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry as the Chief Justice of Supreme Court.

2007 Karachi riots

• May 15 A bomb blast at the local Marhaba hotel in Peshawar killed at least 24 people and injured 30. No one
claimed responsibility for the suspected suicide blast in the lobby of the hotel popular with Afghans in Peshawar
where militants opposed to government support for the United States have launched attacks.

• June 2 Five people, including a tribal chief, a political tehsildar and a journalist were killed, when their vehicle hit
a roadside bomb in the Dara Khwar, Bajaur Agency.

• June 8 Three people were killed and seven others injured when a bomb exploded on a bus in Hub, Balochistan. The
coach was heading from Lasbela to Karachi.

• June 19 At least 22 people were killed and 10 others wounded when a missile hit a cluster of compounds in
Datakhel area of North Waziristan.[85]

• June 23 A barrage of artillery and missiles fired from Afghanistan hit residential compounds and a hotel in
Mangrotai area of the North Waziristan tribal region, killing 11 people and wounding 10 others, eyewitnesses and
officials said. The dead included two children and a woman.

July - September 2007

• July 6 President General Pervez Musharraf escaped yet another attempt on his life on Friday morning when around
36 rounds fired at his aircraft from a submachine gun in Rawalpindi missed their target. In another incident, four
Pakistan Army troops, including a major and a lieutenant, were killed in an improvised explosive device attack on a
military convoy in Dir District – a stronghold of the Jamaat-e-Islami and the banned Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-
Mohammadi.[88]

• July 8 Unidentified gunmen killed three Chinese workers and wounded another near Peshawar in what Pakistani
officials said was a terrorist attack apparently linked to the bloody siege of militants at an Islamabad mosque.

• July 12 Seven people including three policemen were killed and several others injured in two suicide attacks, two
blasts and a rocket attack in three tribal regions and Swat district in the NWFP.

• July 14 At least 23 paramilitary troops died and 27 others injured when a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-
packed car into their convoy in Miranshah in one of the deadliest attacks on the security forces in North Waziristan.
• July 15 At least 49 are killed and hundreds injured when suicide attack and car bombs explode throughout NWFP
in an apparent retaliation for Lal Masjid operation. 11 security personnel and six civilians were killed and 47 others
injured in Matta, Swat District, when suicide bombers smashed two cars packed with explosives into an army
convoy, and 25 people were killed and 61 injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the Dera Ismail Khan
police recruitment center.

• July 17 At least 17 people were killed and 50 injured as a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the venue of the
district bar council convention in Islamabad killing mostly PPP political workers waiting for the arrival of Chief
Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, who was to address a lawyers convention.

• July 19 More than 40 people were killed in three separate bomb attacks. In the first incident, bomb was detonated
in a mosque used by military personnel in the north-western town of Kohat, killing at least 11 people. In the second
one, 26 people died and 50 were injured in the southern town of Hub, Lasbela District, Balochistan, in an attack
apparently targeting Chinese workers. And in the last one, at least seven people were killed and more than 20
injured in a suicide car bombing at a police academy in the north-western town of Hangu.

• July 24 At least nine people including a woman were killed and 40 others injured when unidentified militants fired
a barrage of rockets on the civilian population in the northwestern city of Bannu.

• July 27 A suspected suicide bomber killed at least 13 people at Muzaffar hotel in Aabpara, Islamabad Friday after
hundreds of stone-throwing protesters clashed with police as the capital's Red Mosque reopened for the first time
since a bloody army raid.[96] The same day Raziq Bugti, former guerrilla commander turned spokesman for the
Balochistan government, was shot dead by assailants in Quetta.

• August 2 The police in Sargodha shot dead a suspected suicide bomber after the man failed to detonate the
explosives he was wearing. The man, who entered a police training center, killed a policeman before he was gunned
down.

• August 4 Nine people were killed and 43 injured when a suicide car bomber triggered an explosion at a busy bus
station in Parachinar, Kurram Agency.

• August 26 Four policemen were killed and two others wounded in a suicide attack in the Machaar area of Shangla
District.

• September 4 At least 25 people were killed and 66 injured in two suicide bomb blasts in Rawalpindi cantonment’s
high security areas during morning rush hour. The first blast took place near Qasim Market where a Defence
Ministry bus carrying around 38 civilians and uniformed officials was hit, killing 18 people. Five minutes later, a
second blast took place near RA Bazaar, behind General Headquarters. The blast was caused by explosives fixed to
a motorcycle, which blew up killing seven people on the spot.

September 2007 bombings in Rawalpindi

• September 11 At least 17 people, including three security personnel and a woman, were killed and 16 others
injured when a 15-year-old suicide bomber blew himself up in a passenger van at Bannu Adda in Dera Ismail Khan
district. The same day Omar Ayub Khan's protocol officer, Liaquat Hussain, was found shot dead near the Northern
Bypass in Karachi.

• September 13 At least 20 off-duty commandos were killed and 11 injured in an apparent suicide blast at an army
officers’ mess in Tarbela Ghazi, Haripur near Tarbela Dam. The targeted were the Pakistan Army's special forces
unit SSG's Karar Company.

• September 15 Unidentified assailants shot dead Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam leader and Wafaqul Madaris Vice Chairman
Maulana Hassan Jan in the jurisdiction of Yakatoot police station in Peshawar. Hassan, a former MNA, also issued
a fatwa against suicide attacks, and he along with a group of Pakistani clerics traveled to Afghanistan in 2001 to
convince Mullah Omar that he should expel Osama Bin Laden from Afghanistan to avoid American attacks.[105]

October - December 2007

• October 1 A suicide bomber disguised in a woman’s burqa blew himself up at a busy police checkpost in Bannu,
NWFP killing at least 16 people including four policemen and injuring 29.

• October 12 Mohmand Taliban publicly behead six "criminals" and lashed three others in the name of Sharia.
• October 18 Attack on Benazir Bhutto convoy killed over 139 in Karachi and left more than 450 injured in one of
the most deadliest terrorist attacks in Pakistan. Former PM Benazir Bhutto was returning after 8 years of self
imposed exile when the bomber struck the convoy killing dozens. Karachi Bombs in Pictures

2007 Karachi bombing

• October 20 At least eight people were killed and 28 injured when a powerful bomb planted in a pickup vehicle
exploded in Dera Bugti, Balochistan.

• October 25 At least 20 people including 18 troops died and 35 others were injured in a blast aimed at a vehicle
carrying Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel in the troubled Swat district. It was suspected to be a suicide attack.

• October 30 A suicide bomber struck a police checkpoint in the high security zone of Rawalpindi, less than a
kilometer from President General Pervez Musharraf’s camp office, killing seven people, three of them policemen,
and injuring 31 others. The blast splattered check post of General Tariq Majid, current Chairman of Joint Chiefs of
Staff's residence.

• November 1 A suicide bomber rammed his motorcycle into a PAF bus near Sargodha, killing seven officers of the
Pakistan Air Force stationed at Mushaf Airbase and three civilians on the Faisalabad Road on Thursday morning.
28 people suffered injuries. It is significant that after this event a state of emergency was imposed on the country.

• November 9 A suicide bomber killed at least three people and injured two others when he detonated explosives at
the house of Federal Political Affairs Minister and PML-Q provincial president Amir Muqam in Peshawar. The
minister was unhurt, but a cousin of his was injured. The three dead were policemen guarding the house.

• November 17-19 As many as 94 people were killed and 168 injured in three days of in-fighting between the rival
Sunni and Shia sects in Parachinar, Kurram Agency in Pakistani tribal areas, bordering Afghanistan. Only by the
fourth day, the army gained control of the area and a ceasefire was maintained in the area.[113]

• November 24 30 people were killed in two suicide attacks in Rawalpindi. In the first incident, a suicide bomber
rammed his car into a 72-seater bus parked in front of Ojhri Camp on Murree Road carrying Inter-Services
Intelligence officials to work, killing 28 officials and a bystander. The second incident occurred as a second suicide
bomber attempted to enter the General Headquarters (GHQ). Upon being asked for identification at the GHQ’s
check post, he blew himself up, resulting in the deaths of one security official and a bystander.

• December 9 At least 10 people including three policemen and seven civilians, including two children, perished in a
car bombing near Matta, Swat District.[115]

• December 10 A suicide attack on the school bus carrying children during the morning rush injuring seven of them.
It was a PAF employees bus and the attack took place near Minhas Airbase, Kamra. It was a second major attack on
the Pakistan Air Force after the Sargodha attack.

• December 13 Two suicide bombings near an army checkpost in Quetta killed seven people, including three
personnel of the Pakistan Army.

• December 15 A suicide attacker rammed his explosives-laden bicycle into a military checkpost killing five people
and injuring 11 others in the first-ever suicide attack in the city of Nowshera. The attack occurred at a checkpoint
near the gate of an army school.

• December 17 12 security personnel were killed and five wounded in a suicide attack in the country’s restive
northwestern city of Kohat. Victims were members of army’s local football team.

• December 21 On the eve of Eid ul-Adha, a suicide bomb blast again targeted Aftab Ahmad Sherpao killing at least
57 and injuring over 100 at Jamia Masjid Sherpao, in Charsadda District. Aftab Sherpao survived the blast, but his
younger son Mustafa Khan Sherpao, was injured.

• December 23 At least seven people, including a soldier and six civilians, were killed and another 23 wounded as a
suicide bomber targeted an army convoy near Mingora.

• December 27: Two-time Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated in a shooting and suicide bombing in
Rawalpindi's Liaquat Bagh, killing up to 20 others and injuring many. The site is notorious as the place where
former Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan was also assassinated in October 1951.
• December 28 At least 33 people, including four policemen, were killed all over Pakistan in the violence that
ensued after the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. The situation grew so worse that Sindh
Rangers were given orders to shoot-at-sight.

• December 28 A roadside bomb killed nine people, including former PML-Q minister Asfandyar Amirzaib, who is
a grandson of Wali-e-Swat, in Swat District.

2008

January - March 2008

• January 10 24 people were killed and 73 injured in a suicide attack when the policemen were deliberately targeted
outside Lahore High Court before the scheduled lawyer's protest against the government in provincial capital of
Lahore. This attack was first of its kind in Lahore since the start of War on Terrorism.

• January 14 At least 10 people were killed and over 50 wounded when a bomb exploded in Quaidabad. The bomb
was planted on a bicycle and it went off during wee hours in a vegetable market in Karachi.

• January 17 At least 12 people were killed and 25 others injured, three of them critically, when a suicide bomber
blew himself up at the crowded Mirza Qasim Baig Imambargah in Mohalla Janghi, Kohati in the NWFP capital city
of Peshawar.[126]

• February 4 At least 10 people were killed and 27 others injured, when a suicide bomber crashed his bike into an
armed forces bus carrying students and officials of Army Medical College, near the General Headquarters in
Rawalpindi.

• February 9 At least 25 people died and 35 were injured after a powerful explosion hit an opposition election rally
in Charsadda in the north-western Pakistan. The attack targeted ANP, a secular party, one of whose leaders, Fazal-
ur-Rehman Atakhail, was assassinated February 7 in Karachi triggering widespread protests. Possible conspirators
of the latest attack could be the Islamist Taliban-al-Qaeda nexus operating in the northwestern Pakistan.

2008 Charsadda bombing

• February 11 A suicide attack on a public meeting in Miranshah, North Waziristan left at least eight people dead
and a dozen wounded, including a candidate for the National Assembly. It was the second attack on ANP's election
gathering in two days.

• February 16 A suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle on the election meeting of Pakistan Peoples
Party, the party of the slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in Parachinar, Kurram Agency in northwestern
Pakistan. The attack left at least 47 people dead and 150 injured according to Interior Ministry of Pakistan. It was
the fourth such attack on PPP's political workers within a year; two of them targeting the former PPP leader Benazir
Bhutto.

2008 Parachinar bombing

• February 18 At least 24 people were killed and nearly 200 were injured in election-related violence across the
country on the eve of Pakistani general election, Aaj TV reported.

• February 22 A roadside bomb near the town of Matta, Swat District, NWFP killed at least 13 members of a
wedding party and left about a dozen injured. An army spokesman said the bomb had been detonated by remote
control. Women and children were among the casualties.

• February 25 Pakistan Army's top medic Lt Gen Mushtaq Baig was killed, along with the driver and security guard,
when a suicide attack ripped apart the vehicle he was traveling in at 2:45pm local time near Army General
Headquarters in Rawalpindi. At least 5 other passersby were also killed and 20 injured in the incident. Gen Baig
was the highest ranking officer to be killed in Pakistan since the 9/11 attacks.

• February 29 As many as 38 people were killed and 75 injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up in Mingora,
Swat District on Friday during the funeral of a senior police officer who had been killed hours earlier in Lakki
Marwat in southern part of NWFP. The police DSP was killed along with three other policemen when their vehicle
was hit in a roadside bomb earlier in the day. Witnesses said the suicide attack took place when a police party was
presenting a gun salute in honor of the slain police officer in a school ground in Mingora town at about 8pm.

• March 2 At least 42 people were killed and 58 injured in a suicide attack, when the bomber struck the meeting of
tribal elders and local officials in the town of Darra Adam Khel, a few miles south of Peshawar. The town of Darra
was the center of violent clashes earlier in January when the militants took over the Kohat Tunnel that connected
 Peshawar with Kohat. After the onslaught of security forces to take back the tunnel, the fighting resulted in the
deaths of 13 troops and 70 militants.

• March 4 Eight persons were killed and 24 others injured when two suicide bombers blew themselves up in the
parking area of the Pakistan Navy War College located in the city of Lahore. It was the first time a Pakistani naval
institution was targeted by the militants (Army has been targeted at least eight times outside the war zone and Air
Force twice) since the ongoing War on Terrorism in Pakistan in general and post-Lal Masjid siege in particular.
This attack on War College was carried out by two suicide attackers, the first one to clear the way for the second
one; and the second one to do the damage.

• March 11 At least 24 people were killed and more than 200 wounded in twin suicide bombings in the eastern
Pakistani city of Lahore. One of the attacks ripped apart Federal Investigation Agency building killing 21, including
16 policemen. The other one hit the posh locality of Model Town, exploding close to Bilawal House, associated
with PPP leaders Benazir Bhutto and her husband Asif Ali Zardari.

• March 15 An attack occurred when a bomb was hurled over a wall surrounding an Islamabad restaurant. Four of
the 12 people wounded in the bombing were U.S. FBI agents. In addition to wounding the agents, the explosion
killed a Turkish woman and wounded a fifth American, three Pakistanis, a person from the United Kingdom and
someone from Japan.

• March 16 Three bombs dropped by a United States aircraft killed nine people and wounded nine others in the tribal
area of South Waziristan. The bombs hit a mud compound in Wana, killing an Arab of Middle Eastern origin, two
men from Turkmenistan and six Pakistanis from outside the tribal area. However, the attack missed its target, a
senior Al Qaeda official.

April - June 2008

• April 9 Riots in Karachi kill 9 people and wound many others with 40 vehicles getting torched after two groups of
lawyers scuffle that begin after PML-Q leaders, former CM Sindh Arbab Ghulam Rahim and former federal
minister Sher Afgan Niazi are maltreated ahead of government formation in the provinces of Sindh and Punjab.

• April 17 At least 20 people were killed and dozens others injured in the clashes between two belligerent factions in
Khyber Agency.

• May 6 At least four people have been killed in a suspected suicide attack in Bannu, amid signs a truce with
militants may be breaking down, negotiations for which was started in March.

• May 18 A bomb attack targeting the Army's Punjab Regimental Center market in the city of Mardan killed at least
13 people, including four soldiers and injured more than 20. This was the second attack in Mardan in a month after
a car bomb on April 25 killed three and injured 26 people.

• May 19 At least four people were killed and another two injured in a remote-controlled bomb blast outside a
mosque in the Mamond tehsil of Bajaur Agency.

• May 26 Seven people were killed and five others injured in what appeared to be incidents of sectarian violence in
Dera Ismail Khan.

• June 2 The Danish embassy in Islamabad is attacked with a car bomb killing six people. A post purportedly from
Al-Qaeda's Mustafa Abu al-Yazid appears on the Internet a day after the attack claiming responsibility. The
statement mentions the publication of "insulting drawings" and the refusal to "apologize for publishing them"
referring to the Jyllands-Posten Muhammad cartoons controversy.[146]

2008 Danish embassy bombing

• June 9 Sufi Muhammad, leader of the TNSM, on Monday survived a remote-controlled bombing initiated by local
Taliban in Peshawar, in which four policemen got injured.

• June 11 United States airplanes bomb a Pakistani border checkpoint killing 11 soldiers.

• June 16 A bomb blast inside a Shia mosque killed at least four people and wounded two others in Dera Ismail
Khan.

July - September 2008

• July 6 A suicide bomber killed 19 people in an attack targeting policemen deployed at a rally observing the first
year anniversary of an army raid on the Islamabad’s Lal Masjid.

2008 Lal Masjid bombing

• July 7 A string of small explosions, apparently from bombs, wounded at least 37 people in Karachi, rattling
Pakistan a day after a deadly suicide attack in capital of Pakistan.

• August 2 At least eight police and security workers were killed when a remote-controlled bomb exploded near their
vehicle in Mingora, Swat.

• July 31 - August 4 A total of 136 people were killed in Swat Valley in a week of fighting between the security
forces and pro-Taliban militants. The casualties included at least 94 militants, 14 soldiers and around 28
civilians.[153]

• August 9 Militants stormed a police post in village Kingargalai of the Buner District on Friday night, killing eight
policemen.

• August 12 A bomb targeting a Pakistani Air Force bus carrying personnel from a military base killed 13 people and
wounded 11 others on Tuesday on a major road near the center of Peshawar. Taliban forces reportedly took
responsibility. The attack was seen as retaliation for Pakistani airstrikes in Bajaur Agency, a militant stronghold
near the border with Afghanistan. Five of the dead were air force personnel and the eight others were bystanders.

• August 13 Eight people, including two policemen, were killed and over 20, including 12 policemen, were injured
after an alleged suicide bomber blew himself up n ear a police station in Lahore on the eve of Independence Day
celebrations. On the same day, six people were killed and 19 others, four of them policemen, were injured in
explosions in Hub and Uthal, a hand-grenade attack in Panjgur and shooting incidents in Kharan and Turbat towns
in Balochistan, while leader of the banned outfit Amr Bil Maroof Wa Nahi Anil Munkar Haji Namdar was shot
dead when he was delivering sermon in Bara tehsil.[158] Haji Namdar had earlier escaped a suicide attack on 1 May,
2008 in which 17 people were injured.

• August 7 - August 18 Clashes mainly between the Toori and Bangash tribes, but which involved other local tribes,
in the Kurram Agency left at least 287 people dead and 373 injured in 12 consecutive days of fighting. In the later
incidents, pro-Taliban militants were involved too, after which the local tribesmen asked the government to flush
out the militants.

• August 19 32 people, seven policemen and two health officials among them, were killed and 55 others injured
when a suicide bomber blew himself up near the emergency ward of the District Headquarters Hospital in Dera
Ismail Khan. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack.

• August 21 70 people were killed and 67 others injured when two suicide bombers blew themselves up outside the
gates of the state run Pakistan Ordnance Factories, Wah Cantt. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for
the attack.

2008 Wah bombing

• August 23 20 people were killed when a suicide bomber rammed a explosive-laden car into a police station in
Charbagh Tehsil of Swat valley of North West Frontier Province. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility
for the attack.

23 August 2008 Swat Valley bombing

• August 25 10 people were killed in a rocket attack targeting the house of a local member of provincial assembly
(MPA) in Swat valley in North West Frontier Province. As a result of the attack, ANP MPA Waqar Ahmed's brother
and other family members were killed.

• August 26 Eight people were killed and more than 20 hurt in a bomb explosion at a roadside restaurant in the
Model Town area on the outskirts of Islamabad on Tuesday.

• August 28 9 people were killed and 15 others were injured in a bomb attack targeting a polive van in the Bannu
area of North West Frontier Province.

• September 6 At least 30 people were killed and 70 injured when a suicide car bomb struck a paramilitary
checkpoint 20km from Peshawar. The attack came during the voting to elect Asif Ali Zardari as the President of
Pakistan and the marking of Defence Day.
 2008 Peshawar bombing
• September 10 At least 25 worshippers were killed and 50 others injured in a grenade-and-gun attack in a mosque
in the Maskanai area of Lower Dir District, northern part of NWFP.

• September 19 A bomb exploded at an Islamic religious school in Quetta killing five people and wounding at least
eight. The school was run by Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, the religious party headed by Maulana Fazal-ur-Rehman.

• September 20 A massive truck bomb exploded outside the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, killing at 57 people and
wounding 266 others. The suicide attack believed to be carried by a single individual left a 20 feet deep and 50 feet
wide crater, and was later owned by a little known group called Fidayeen-e-Islam. It was carried at local Iftar time,
when the local and foreign residents had assembled together to have the Ramadan feast. The attack was significant
as all the top political, diplomatic and military top brass was also dining in the nearby Prime Ministers Secretariat
after the President's first parliamentary address.

Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing

• September 22 At least nine security personnel were killed in a suicide car-bomb attack on a checkpost in Swat
District.

• September 26 A bomb attack on a train killed at least three people and fifteen others near the city of Bahawalpur.
The bomb, which was kept on the railway track, blew up and derailed the passenger train. No one claimed
responsibility for the attack.

October - December 2008

• October 1 Missiles launched by the US military struck a village in Pakistan's border region killing at least six
people, reportedly striking the home of a member of the Taliban.

• October 2 A suicide attack targeted the house of ANP leader Asfandyar Wali Khan in Walibagh, Charsadda killing
four people. Wali Khan survived the attack, as his bodyguard shot the suicide attacker in the head before he could
reach Wali Khan. The guard was later killed as the attacker managed to detonate the bomb while on the ground.
This was the fourth such attack on ANP, with the first two targeting ANP political rallies in Charsadda and
Miranshah before February elections and one of them targeting ANP MPA in Swat.

• October 6 A suicide attacker managed to kill 20 people and injured 60 in the Punjabi town of Bhakkar, when he
targeted the political gathering of Rashid Akbar Nawani, an MNA of PML-N. Nawani, though survived the attack,
was hurt. This was the first such attack on PML-N, since the start of war on terrorism. This was a sectarian attack
as Mr Nawani was Shia, and most of the party workers in the gathering were from the minority Shia sect.

• October 9 A suicide bomb attack on a main police headquarters in Islamabad killed at least eight and wounded at
least another 8. The targeted area was the main police complex in the capital, containing training and residential
facilities for police officers. Thousands of police are based at the centre. Another bomb occurred as the country's
spy chief briefed politicians on the security situation. Eleven people were killed in the Upper Dir District of North-
West Frontier Province when a roadside bomb exploded near a police van carrying prisoners. Four schoolchildren
in a passing bus were also among the dead.

• October 10 A suicide bomber drove his car into a meeting of 600 people in Orakzai Agency, which was being held
in open ground and blew himself up. The meeting was a council of local leaders discussing to raise a militia to evict
Taliban from the region. The attack claimed at least 110 lives and injured more than 200.

10 October 2008 Orakzai bombing

• October 13 A remote-controlled bomb detonated near the vehicle of a secular political leader, who was injured
along with four others. This follows a string of attacks against lawmakers and government officials; and was also
the second this month aimed at the Awami National Party. The attack apparently targeted Shamin Khan, a member
of the Pashtun secularist ANP, at 18:30 in NWFP.

• October 16 A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a police station in the restive Swat Valley
region, killing four people and destroying the building in Mingora.

• October 19 A separatist group, Baloch Republic Army, claimed responsibility for the bomb blast in northwestern
Balochistan province, which killed at least three people and injured six. The blast occurred in a bazar of the Dera
Bugti district, and the remote-controlled bomb was planted in a motorcycle.

• October 26 At least 11 people, seven of them Frontier Corps personnel and three Khasadars, were killed and five
injured on Sunday in a suicide attack near Ghalaanai in Mohmand Agency.
 • October 27 Two persons were killed and 12 others injured, some of them seriously, in a bomb blast near the
District Court Complex in Quetta.

• October 31 At least eight people were killed and 20 injured in a suspected suicide bombing targeting the policeman
in in the north-western city of Mardan.

• November 2 Eight Pakistani soldiers were killed in a suicide bomb attack on a security checkpoint near Wana, the
main town in South Waziristan.

• November 4 At least seven persons, including three security officials, were killed and six injured in a suicide attack
on a security force checkpost in Hangu District on Tuesday morning.

• November 6 22 tribesmen were killed and 45 injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a Salarzai jirga in
Bajaur Agency on Thursday. The blast targeted a lashkar (volunteer militia) in Batmalani, about 40 kilometers
northeast of agency headquarters Khar.

• November 11 A suicide bomber blew himself up at a packed Qayyum Stadium in Peshawar on Tuesday, killing
four people and wounding 13. NWFP Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani had just left the venue and senior provincial
minister Bashir Bilour was on his way out. Bashir Bilour, the apparent target, said that two of his guards were
among the dead and three had been injured.

• November 12 Five people were killed as a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-filled bus into the gates of a
school in Charsadda district on Wednesday. Two others died as troops fired in retaliation. Fifteen people including
soldiers and civilians were injured.

• November 17 At least three troops were killed when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into a
security checkpost in Swat’s Khawazakhela area.

• November 19 A former head of the army’s elite commando force Special Service Group, Maj-Gen (retd) Ameer
Faisal Alvi, and his driver were gunned down in Islamabad on Wednesday morning. Alvi, who commanded the
SSG during the first major assault on militants in South Waziristan in 2004, was killed near his home on the
outskirts of the city.

• November 20 A suicide bomber killed at least nine people and injured four others on Thursday at a mosque in
Mamoond tehsil of Bajaur Agency.[192]

• November 21 Seven people were killed and 17 others injured in a blast during the funeral of a cleric near the bus
stand here on Friday morning in Dera Ismail Khan.

• November 22 Six people were killed and 15 others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a mosque in
Tandaro area of Tall in Hangu District on Saturday While at least three people including a teenager were injured in
a series of three explosions near the Alhamra Cultural Complex in Lahore late on Saturday, where the international
World Performing Arts Festival was in progress.

• November 22 A United States drone aircraft launched missiles killing at least four people. The attack, on a house
near the town of Mir Ali, came within days of a Pakistani protest to the United States ambassador over missile
attacks on its territory. This marked the 20th time in the past three months that U.S planes had attacked Pakistani
tribal lands.

• November 28 Nine people, including four cops, were killed and 16 others injured when a suicide bomber rammed
his explosive-laden coach into a police vehicle on the Peshawar-Bannu Road in Domel area of Bannu on Friday.

• December 1 Ten people were killed and 49 others injured when a suicide bomber blew up an explosive-laden truck
near the Sangota security post, some seven kilometers north-east of Mingora on Monday.

• December 5 At least 27 people were killed and dozens more wounded when two bombs exploded in crowded
markets in northwest Pakistan. A blast in the heart of Peshwar killed 21 and created a five-foot deep crater. Just
hours earlier six people died in a car bomb explosion at a market in the semi-autonomous Orakzai tribal district. No
one immediately claimed responsibility for the two attacks.

5 December 2008 Peshawar bombing

• December 23 A suspected U.S drone killed eight people in the Pakistani village of Kari Khel in Northwest
Pakistan.

• December 28 At least 36 people were killed in a suspected car bomb attack near a polling station in a government
school in Buner District on Sunday. 16 people were injured in the blast believed to have been carried out to disrupt
the by-election for a National Assembly seat.

2009

January - March 2009

• January 4 At least seven people, three of them policemen and two journalists, were killed when a suicide bomber
blew himself up in front of the Government Polytechnic College near an imambargah on Multan Road in Dera
Ismail Khan. About 25 people were injured, most of them policemen.

• January 10 A fierce gunbattle between rival sects in Hangu continued on Saturday amid efforts to broker an early
truce to stop bloodshed. Official sources said that 26 people, including the deputy chairman of the local chapter of
the Ahli Sunnat Wal Jamaat, Mufti Rustam, had been killed and several others injured in the two-day fighting.

• January 26 At least five people have been killed and many more wounded in a bomb blast in north-west Pakistan,
police say. The bomb, attached to a bicycle, went off on a busy main road in the town of Dera Ismail Khan. While
in an another incident, Hussain Ali Yousafi, chairman of the Hazara Democratic Party, was shot dead by Lashkar-e-
Jhangvi in the southwestern city of Quetta.

• February 3 One man was killed and 18 others injured in a hand grenade attack on a Sunni mosque at Mohallah
Joginwala in Dera Ismail Khan district on Tuesday evening.

• February 5 Up to 32 people were killed when a suspected suicide bombing ripped through a crowd of Shia
worshippers outside a Dera Ghazi Khan mosque on Thursday. Police said the blast targeted dozens of people
converging on the Al Hussainia Mosque after dark, shortly before a religious gathering.

• February 7 At least seven officers were killed in an attack on a checkpoint in Mianwali in Punjab near restive
North-West Frontier province.

• February 11 Awami National Party (ANP) provincial lawmaker Alam Zeb Khan was killed and eight people
injured in a remote-controlled blast on Wednesday. The bomb had been fitted to a motorbike parked near the
residence of the slain MPA on Dalazak Road in Peshawar. This was the sixth such attack on ANP in less than a year.

• February 17 At least three people were killed by a car bomb which exploded outside the home of a government
official in north-western Pakistan. The bomb targeted a local anti-Taleban mayor in the suburb of Bazidkhel near
the city of Peshawar. He survived but several people were hurt.

• February 20 A curfew was imposed in Dera Ismail Khan on Friday and the army called in to quell riots
immediately after a suicide bomber killed at least 30 Shia's and injured another 157 who were attending a funeral in
southern Dera Ismail Khan district. Witnesses said police ‘ran off’ when gunfire broke out after the blast at the
funeral of Shia leader Sher Zaman – who was gunned down a day earlier.

• March 2 A suicide bomber killed five and injured 12 people at a girls’ religious school in Pishin District of
Balochistan on Monday.

• March 3 A convoy carrying Sri Lankan cricketers and officials in two buses was fired upon by 12 gunmen, near the
Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. The cricketers were on their way to play the third day of the second Test against the
Pakistani cricket team. Six members of the Sri Lankan cricket team were injured. Six Pakistani policemen and two
civilians were killed.

2009 Lahore attack on Sri Lankan cricket team

• March 5 One person was killed and 19 others sustained injuries when a hand-grenade hurled by unidentified
miscreants at the worshippers exploded in Ameer Hamza mosque in Dera Ismail Khan.[214] While in Peshawar,
unidentified miscreants blew up the mausoleum of the most-revered mystic poet of the Pakhtun land Rahman Baba
in the wee hours of Thursday by planting four bombs inside the structure of the shrine.
• March 7 A bomb-laden car exploded in Peshawar as police tried to pull a body from it killing eight people and
injuring five. Seven of the dead were policemen while the other was a passerby. In a separate incident, a roadside
bomb killed three civilians and wounded four troops in the town of Darra Adam Khel.

• March 11 NWFP Senior Minister and Awami National Party leader Bashir Bilour survived an assassination attempt
that left six people, including two suspected suicide attackers, dead in Namak Mandi in Peshawar on Wednesday.
Four persons, including a young girl, who was married on Sunday last, were critically wounded in the firing,
grenade attack and suicide blast. This was the second assassination attempt on Bilour in less than six months and
seventh suicide attack on ANP in little over a year.

• At least 14 people were killed and 17 injured on Monday when a suicide bomber blew himself up near the busiest
bus stand of Rawalpindi at Pirwadhai.

• March 18 Five people including three policemen were killed and four injured when over 100 unidentified armed
men attacked a police vehicle at the entrance of the University of Malakand at Chakdara in Lower Dir District on
Tuesday night.

• March 23 A security official was killed and three others injured in a suicide bombing outside a police Special
Branch office in Islamabad on Monday.

• March 26 At least 10 people were killed and 25 others injured in suicide attack at a restaurant targeting opponents
of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Baitullah Mehsud near Jandola, South Waziristan on Thursday.

• March 27 76 persons were killed and over 100 injured in an apparent suicide attack on a mosque at Peshawar-
Torkham Highway in Jamrud, Khyber Agency during the Friday congregation. Intelligence sources, however, put
the number of dead at 86 but officials of the political administration were conservative by putting the death toll at
50.

2009 Jamrud mosque bombing

• March 30 At least eight police recruits and a civilian were killed when about 10 terrorists attacked the Manawan
Police Training School in Lahore near the border with India with guns and grenades on Monday. Security forces
regained control of the facility in an operation that lasted for more than eight hours. About 93 cadets and civilians
were injured.

2009 Lahore police academy attacks

April - June 2009

• April 4 A suicide bomber struck a camp of the Frontier Constabulary (FC) at Margalla Road in Islamabad on
Saturday, killing at least eight FC personnel and a civilian, besides the attacker himself, and injuring 12 others.

2009 Islamabad Frontier Corps post attack

• April 5 A suicide bomber blew himself up at a Shia religious gathering in an Imambargah in Chakwal on Sunday,
killing at least 22 people and wounding 60. The attacker struck at the gates of a Shia mosque where some 1,200
people were attending a religious gathering.

2009 Chakwal mosque bombing

• April 6 Police found bullet-riddled bodies of four local aid workers, including three women, in Shinkiari area of
Mansehra District on Monday.

• April 15 A suicide car bomber attacked a security post in north-western Pakistan, killing at least 18 people, nine of
them police and injuring five others. The bomber set off his explosives as he pulled up at a checkpoint in
Charsadda, a town near the city of Peshawar.

• April 18 A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb at a checkpoint in the northwestern Pakistani town of Hangu’s
Doaba area Saturday, killing at least 22 people, including five security personnel, and injuring another 15.

• April 26 12 children were killed in north-western Pakistan after playing with a bomb they mistook for a toy. The
children died after the bomb, which resembled a football, exploded on Saturday in Lower Dir District.

• May 5 Seven people, two children and a Frontier Corps soldier among them, were killed and 48 others injured
when an explosives-laden car rammed into a pick-up near a checkpost on the Peshawar-Bara road 12 km west of
Peshawar Cantonment on Tuesday morning