Is it time to recognize Israel

[Imran Khan]

Terrorist Groups in pakistan
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Extremist Groups
Domestic Organisations

Lashkar-e-Omar (LeO)

Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan (SSP)

Tehreek-e-Jaferia Pakistan (TJP)

Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi

Lashkar-eJhangvi (LeJ)

Sipah-e-Muhammad Pakistan (SMP)

Jamaat-ul-Fuqra

Nadeem Commando

Popular Front for Armed Resistance

Muslim United Army

Harkat-ul-Mujahideen Al-alami
Trans-national Organisations

Hizb-ul-Mujahideen (HM)

Harkat-ul-Ansar (HuA, presently known as Harkat-ul Mujahideen)

Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT)

Jaish-e-Mohammad Mujahideen E-Tanzeem (JeM)

Harkat-ul Mujahideen (HuM, previously known as Harkat-ul-Ansar)

Al Badr

Jamait-ul-Mujahideen (JuM)

Lashkar-e-Jabbar (LeJ)

Harkat-ul-Jehad-al-Islami

Muttahida Jehad Council (MJC)

Al Barq

Tehrik-ul-Mujahideen

Al Jehad

Jammu & Kashir National Liberation Army

People’s League

Muslim Janbaz Force

Kashmir Jehad Force

Al Jehad Force (combines Muslim Janbaz Force and Kashmir Jehad Force)

Al Umar Mujahideen

Mahaz-e-Azadi

Islami Jamaat-e-Tulba

Jammu & Kashmir Students Liberation Front

Ikhwan-ul-Mujahideen

Islamic Students League

Tehrik-e-Hurriat-e-Kashmir

Tehrik-e-Nifaz-e-Fiqar Jafaria

Al Mustafa Liberation Fighters

Tehrik-e-Jehad-e-Islami

Muslim Mujahideen

Al Mujahid Force

Tehrik-e-Jehad

Islami Inquilabi Mahaz




Al-Rashid Trust

Al-Akhtar Trust

Rabita Trust

Ummah Tamir-e-Nau







this we earn from religus state????????




[edit] 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.[8]
Main article: 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.[9]
[edit] 2002
February 22 The American journalist Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered in Karachi.[10]
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.[11]
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.[12]
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.[13]
May 8 Bus bombing in Karachi kills 11 Frenchmen and 3 Pakistanis near the Sheraton hotel.[14]
Main article: 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.[15]
Main article: 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.[16]
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.[17]
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.[18]
October 16 More than eight people were injured in a series of parcel bomb explosions in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi.[19]
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.[20]
November 15 An explosion on a bus in Hyderabad, Sindh killed two people and injured at least nine others.[21]
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.[22]
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.[23]
[edit] 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.[24]
March 10 Two people were injured when a masked terrorist opened indiscriminate fire on a mosque in Gulistan Colony, Faisalabad.[25]
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.[26]
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.[27]
Main article: 2003 Quetta mosque bombing
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.[28]
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.[29]
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.[30]
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.[31]
[edit] 2004
February 28 An apparent suicide bomber was killed and three worshipers were injured in an attack on Imambargah in Satellite Town, Rawalpindi.[32]
March 2 At least 42 persons were killed and more than 100 wounded when a procession of the Shia Muslims was attacked by Deobandi extremists at Liaquat Bazaar in Quetta.[33]
Main article: 2004 Quetta market bombing
May 3 A car bomb in south-western city of Gwadar killed three Chinese engineers and injured 10 other people.[34]
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.[35]
May 14 Six members of Shia family was shot dead in Mughalpura locality of Lahore.[36]
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.[37]
May 30 A senior Deobandi 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.[38]
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.[39]
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. This was the first such attack on the Pakistan Army, not counting the earlier assassination attempts on General Pervez Musharraf who was also the President of the country, since the military began operations in Waziristan in 2004.[40]
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.[41]
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.[42]
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.[43]
August 31 Three persons were killed and three others injured in a bomb blast at a shop in the Balochi town of Kalat.[44]
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.[45]
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.[46]
Main article: 2004 Sialkot mosque bombing
October 7 A powerful car bomb left 40 people dead and wounded over 100 during a Sunni(Deobandi) 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.[47]
Main article: 2004 Multan bombing
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.[48]
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[48]
[edit] 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 Deobandis.[49]
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 Deobandi devotees at the shrine of Pir Rakhel Shah in remote village of Fatehpur in Jhal Magsi District, Balochistan.[50]
Main article: 2005 Jhal Magsi shrine bombing
May 25 As many as six members of a family were killed in an explosion at village Bandkhel in Makeen Tehsil, South Waziristan.[51]
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.[52]
Main article: 2005 Islamabad Bari Imam bombing
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.[53]
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.[54]
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.[55]
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.[56]
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.[57]
December 8 At least 12 people were killed and 30 injured in a bomb explosion in the Jandola town of South Waziristan.[58]
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.[59]
[edit] 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.[60]
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.[61]
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.[62]
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.[63]
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.[64]
April 11 Over 50 people, including Sunni(Barelvi) scholars, were killed in a bomb explosion at a religious gathering celebrating the birthday of Prophet Muhammad in Nishtar Park, Karachi.[65]
Main article: 2006 Karachi Nishtar Park bombing
June 12 At least five people were killed and 17 wounded in a bomb attack in Quetta hotel.[66]
June 15 Unidentified gunmen killed a senior prison official Amanullah Khan Niazi and four others in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi.[67]
June 16 Two female teachers and two children were shot dead in Khoga Chiri village in Orakzai Agency.[68]
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.[69]
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.[70]
August 26–31 Akbar Bugti's killing sparked five days of rioting that left six people dead, dozens wounded and 700 under arrest.[71]
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.[72]
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.[73]
October 20 A bomb blast killed at least six people and left 21 injured in a busy shopping district of Peshawar.[74]
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. This was the second such attack on the Army since the 2004 assassination attempt on Karachi Corps commander.[75]
Main article: 2006 Dargai bombing
[edit] 2007
[edit] January - March 2007
January 15 A powerful blast in the Jalozai refugee camp destroyed a mud-house, killing four people and injuring five others.[76]
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.[77]
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.[78]
Main article: January 2007 Peshawar bombing
February 6 A suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a parking area outside Islamabad International Airport injuring 5 people.[79]
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.[80]
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.[81]
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.[82]
[edit] 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(Deobandi) groups in different areas of the Kurram Agency on Tuesday night and Wednesday.[83]
April 28 Assassination attempt on Aftab Ahmad Sherpao, who is the Interior minister that killed 28 people in Charsadda, North-West Frontier Province. This time again an attempt on a high ranking officer of Pakistani government was unsuccessful.[84]
Main article: 2007 Charsadda political rally bombing
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.
Main article: 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.[85]
Main article: 2007 Peshawar hotel bombing
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.[86]
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.[87]
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.[88]
[edit] 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.[89] 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.[90]
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.[91]
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.[92]
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.[93]
July 15 At least 49 are killed and hundreds injured when suicide attack and car bombs explode throughout North-West Frontier Province 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. The attack in Swat was the third attack on Army outside the conflict zones of FATA.[94]
Main article: 15 July 2007 NWFP bombings
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.[95]
Main article: 2007 Islamabad lawyers convention bombing
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. This marked the fourth time the Army was attacked outside conflict zone since 2004. 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.[96]
Main article: 19 July 2007 Pakistan bombings
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.[97]
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.[98] The same day Raziq Bugti, former guerrilla commander turned spokesman for the Balochistan government, was shot dead by assailants in Quetta.[99]
Main article: 2007 Islamabad hotel bombing
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.[100]
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.[101]
August 26 Four policemen were killed and two others wounded in a suicide attack in the Machaar area of Shangla District.[102]
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. This was the fifth time the Army was attacked outside war zone since the start of military operations, and the first time in Rawalpindi, the site of General Headquarters.[103]
Main article: 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.[104] The same day Omar Ayub Khan's protocol officer, Liaquat Hussain, was found shot dead near the Northern Bypass in Karachi.[105]
Main article: 2007 Dera Ismail Khan passenger van bombing
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, and this marked the sixth time the Army was attacked outside conflict zone.[106]
Main article: 2007 Tarbela Ghazi attack
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.[107]
[edit] 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.[108]
Main article: 2007 Bannu checkpost bombing
October 12 Mohmand Taliban publicly behead six "criminals" and lashed three others in the name of Sharia.[109]
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
Main article: 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.[110]
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.[111]
Main article: 2007 Swat military truck bombing
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. This blast was the seventh one in the series of attacks against the symbols of Pakistan Army, and the second one in Rawalpindi, the site of General Headquarters.[112]
Main article: 2007 Chaklala Garrison post attack
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.[113]
Main article: 2007 Sargodha bus bombing
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.[114]
November 17–19 As many as 94 people were killed and 168 injured in three days of in-fighting between the rival Sunni(Deobandi) 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.[115]
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 (ISI) 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. This was the first time the ISI was attacked and the eighth time the Army was attacked since the start of military operations in Waziristan.[116]
Main article: 2007 Rawalpindi ISI bus bombing
December 9 At least 10 people including three policemen and seven civilians, including two children, perished in a car bombing near Matta, Swat District.[117]
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.[118]
December 13 Two suicide bombings near an army checkpost in Quetta killed seven people, including three personnel of the Pakistan Army.[119]
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 and was ninth one in the series of attacks against the Army outside conflict zone.[120]
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. This attack was tenth one of its kind on the army and first one against a sports team.[121]
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.[122]
Main article: 2007 Charsadda Eid day bombing
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.[123]
December 27 Two-time Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was 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.
Main article: Assassination of Benazir Bhutto
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.[124]
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.[125]
[edit] 2008
[edit] 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.[126]
Main article: 2008 Lahore High Court bombing
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.[127]
Main article: 2008 Karachi market bombing
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.[128]
Main article: 2008 Peshawar Imambargah bombing
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. This became the eleventh attack on Pakistan Army, fourth in Rawalpindi near GHQ, and first of its kind on medical students.[129]
Main article: 2008 Rawalpindi medical students bus bombing
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.[130]
Main article: 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.[131]
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.[132]
Main article: 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.[133]
February 22 A roadside bomb near the town of Matta, Swat District, North-West Frontier Province 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.[134]
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. This attack was the twelfth such incidence against the Army and fifth one near GHQ.[135]
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 8 pm.[136]
Main article: 2008 Mingora funeral bombing
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.[137]
Main article: 2008 Darra Adam Khel jirga bombing
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.[138]
Main article: 2008 Lahore Navy War College bombing
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 (FIA) 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.[139]
Main article: 2008 Lahore FIA building attack
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.[140]
[edit] 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.[141]
April 17 At least 20 people were killed and dozens others injured in the clashes between two belligerent factions in Khyber Agency.[142]
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.[143]
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. This attack was the thirteenth one on the army since the start of military operations.[144]
Main article: 2008 Mardan market bombing
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.[145]
May 26 Seven people were killed and five others injured in what appeared to be incidents of sectarian violence in Dera Ismail Khan.[146]
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.[147]
Main article: 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.[148]
June 16 A bomb blast inside a Shia mosque killed at least four people and wounded two others in Dera Ismail Khan.[149]
[edit] 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.[150]
Main article: 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.[151]
August 2 At least eight police and security workers were killed when a remote-controlled bomb exploded near their vehicle in Mingora, Swat.[152]
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.[154]
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.[155]
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.[156] 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,[157] 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.[159]
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.[160]
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.[161]
Main article: 2008 Dera Ismail Khan hospital bombing
August 21 At least 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 Cantonment. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack. This attack was the fourteenth such attack on the symbol of Pakistan Army since the start of military operations in 2004.[162]
Main article: 2008 Wah bombing
August 23 20 people were killed when a suicide bomber rammed an 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.[163]
Main article: 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.[164]
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.[165]
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.[166]
September 6 At least 30 people were killed and 70 injured when a suicide car bomb struck a paramilitary checkpoint 20 km from Peshawar. The attack came during the voting to elect Asif Ali Zardari as the President of Pakistan and the marking of Defence Day.[167]
Main article: September 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.[168]
Main article: 2008 Lower Dir mosque attack
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.[169]
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.
Main article: 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.[170]
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.[171]
[edit] October - December 2008
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.[172]
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.[173] 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.[174]
Main article: 2008 Bhakkar bombing
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.[175] 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.[176]
Main article: 2008 Islamabad police academy bombing
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.[177][178]
Main article: 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.[179]
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.[180]
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.[181]
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.[182]
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.[183]
October 31 At least eight people were killed and 20 injured in a suspected suicide bombing targeting the policeman in the north-western city of Mardan.[184]
November 2 Eight Pakistani soldiers were killed in a suicide bomb attack on a security checkpoint near Wana, the main town in South Waziristan.[185]
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.[186]
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.[187]
Main article: 2008 Bajaur bombing
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.[188]
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.[189]
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.[190]
November 19 A former head of the army’s elite commando force Special Service Group, Maj-Gen (R) Ameer Faisal Alavi, and his driver were gunned down near Islamabad on Wednesday morning. Alvi, who commanded the SSG during the first major assault on militants in Angoor Ada in South Waziristan in 2004, was killed near his home while driving to work on Islamabad Highway near the PWD Housing Society in the Koral police precints. This attack was the fifteenth such attack on the army outside war zone, and the sixth one in the vicinity of Rawalpindi, the site of Army GHQ.[191]
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.[193]
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.[194] 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.[195]
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.[196]
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.[197]
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.[198]
Main article: 5 December 2008 Peshawar bombing
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.[199]
Main article: 2008 Buner polling station bombing
[edit] 2009
[edit] 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.[200]
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.[201]
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.[202] While in another incident, Hussain Ali Yousafi, chairman of the Hazara Democratic Party, was shot dead by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi in the southwestern city of Quetta.[203]
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.[204]
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.[205]
Main article: 2009 Dera Ghazi Khan mosque bombing
February 7 At least seven officers were killed in an attack on a checkpoint in Mianwali in Punjab near restive North-West Frontier province.[206]
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.[207]
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.[208]
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.[209]
Main article: 2009 Dera Ismail Khan funeral bombing
March 2 A suicide bomber killed five and injured 12 people at a girls’ religious school in Pishin District of Balochistan on Monday.[210]
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.[211]
Main article: 2009 attack on the Sri Lanka national 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.[212] 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.[213]
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.[214]
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.[215]
March 16 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.[216]
Main article: 2009 Rawalpindi bus terminal bombing
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.[217]
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.[218]
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.[219]
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.[220]
Main article: 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.[221]
Main article: 2009 Lahore police academy attacks
[edit] 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.[222]
Main article: 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.[223]
Main article: 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.[224]
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.[225]
Main article: 2009 Charsadda checkpost bombing
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.[226]
Main article: 2009 Hangu checkpost bombing
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.[227]
April 29 Targeted killings in Karachi claimed the lives of 34 people and wounded 40 in a matter of hours by unidentified gunmen in different parts of the city. In the month-long incidents of violence until April 28, the police record showed that 16 people had been shot dead and 54 wounded in different incidents of targeted killings. The statistics further showed that of the total number of people, 43 people belonged to the Pakhtun community while seven happened to be Urdu-speaking people.[228]
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.[229]
May 11 10 people died as a suicide bomber blew up his explosives-laden vehicle near an FC checkpost in the outskirts of Darra Adam Khel on Monday, killing eight civilians and two security personnel and injuring 27 other people.[230]
May 16 Two successive bomb blasts rocked Peshawar on Saturday, leaving 13 people dead and 34 others injured. A powerful car-bomb killed 12 people and wounded 31 others, including schoolchildren and women, in the Barisco area, while a low intensity device ripped through a garments store in the packed Gora Bazaar in Peshawar Saddar, killing a minor girl and injuring three others.[231]
May 21 At least nine people – four civilians and five security personnel – were killed and 25 injured in a suicide attack near an Frontier Corps (FC) fort in Jandola area of Tank on Thursday evening.[232]
May 22 At least 10 people were killed and 75 injured when a powerful car bomb went off outside a cinema in Peshawar’s Cinema Road area on Friday evening.[233]
May 27 Suicide bombers detonated a vehicle loaded with 100 kilograms of explosives near offices of the capital city police officer (CCPO) and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in Lahore on Wednesday – killing at least 27 people and wounding 326, in addition to destroying a two-story building of the Rescue 15 police service. This was the second attack on ISI since the start of War on Terrorism.[234]
Main article: 2009 Lahore bombing
May 28 A succession of blasts rocked the NWFP on Thursday, killing 13 people, including five policemen, and injuring over 90 others. Three blasts, one of them a suicide attack targeting a police post, took place in Peshawar and one suicide bombing at a security checkpost in Dera Ismail Khan.[235]
Main article: 28 May 2009 NWFP bombings
June 5 At least 40 people were killed and another 70 injured during Friday prayers when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a mosque in Hayagai Sharqai village in Upper Dir District.[236]
Main article: 2009 Upper Dir mosque bombing
June 6 Two policemen were killed after a young man carried out a suicide attack against Rescue 15, a police helpline unit, in Islamabad on Saturday. At least four other policemen were injured.[237]
June 8 A wave of violence emanating from rivalries between political factions in Karachi continued to spread as 12 more people fell victim to target killings on Monday. Thus, the number of political activists to have fallen victim to target killings during the first week of June reached 35.[238] Most of the victims had fallen prey to the bloody rivalry of MQM (Altaf) and MQM (Haqiqi) factions; the latest incidence seeming to be sparked from the efforts of reunification of Amir and Afaq groups, that constitute the MQM (Haqiqi) group, at the behest of Imran Khan.[239]
June 9 A massive truck bomb ripped through the five-star Pearl Continental hotel in Peshawar on Tuesday killing 11 people and more than wounding 60. The attackers entered the compound on two vehicles at about 10:30pm, spraying the security guards at the hotel gate with bullets from one and blowing up the other in the hotel parking.[240] The death toll later rose to 17.[241]
Main article: Pearl Continental hotel bombing
June 11 In a day of multiple terrorist attacks throughout Pakistan, an NWFP Minister for Prisons, Mian Nisar Gul Kakakhel, was seriously injured and his two guards were killed when his convoy was ambushed by suspected militants in Darra Adam Khel.[242] In Balochistan, one person was killed and 35 injured when a bomb hidden in a toilet exploded in a Quetta-bound train. The Baloch Republican Army (BRA) claimed responsibility for the attack.[243] While in the country's northwest, two people were killed and 13 including eight policemen injured in a grenade and suicide attack on police in Latifabad, Peshawar.[244]
June 12 A leading Sunni Barelwi cleric, Sarfraz Ahmed Naeemi with anti-Taliban views, was assassinated, with six other people killed and five injured when a suicide attacker detonated himself at the Jamia Naeemia madrassa on the Allama Iqbal Road in Garhi Shahu area of Lahore shortly after Friday prayers.[245] While in Nowshera, five worshippers were killed and 105 others sustained injuries when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden van into a mosque during the Friday prayers in the Cantonment area at the Grand Trunk Road. The Nowshera attack was the sixteenth such attack on Army outside the conflict zone and second one in Nowshera.[246] Later the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Friday claimed responsibility for three suicide attacks in Peshawar, Nowshera and Lahore, saying similar attacks would soon follow.[247]
June 14 Nine people were killed and over 40 injured when a powerful explosion ripped through a busy market in Dera Ismail Khan on Sunday.[248]
June 26 A Taliban suicide bomber killed two soldiers on Friday when he blew himself up near an army vehicle in Muzaffarabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), in the first such attack in AJK.[249]
[edit] July - September 2009
July 1 Gunmen killed a tribal elder, his driver and a guard, in an ambush at Khyber Pass. Also, a bomb exploded near a police vehicle in the northwestern town of Dera Ismail Khan, killing one civilian and wounding three[250]
July 2 36 persons were injured, some critically, when a lone suicide bomber rammed his motorcycle into a bus carrying employees of the Army-run Heavy Mechanical Complex (HMC) at the Peshawar Road near Chur Chowk in Rawalpindi on Thursday at around 4.15 pm. The suicide bomber was the only reported fatality.[251] While in Balochistan, four people were killed in a suicide attack in Sohrab outside Quetta.[252]
July 10 Militants attacked a security checkpoint in the tribal Bajaur Agency, killing four policemen.[253]
July 13 At least 12 people, seven children among them, were killed and over 50 injured when a large quantity of explosives stored in a house which also had a seminary exploded in a village near Mian Channu, about 45 km from Khanewal, on Monday morning.[254]
Main article: 2009 Mian Channu bombing
July 15 A roadside bomb in Bannu killed two policemen.[255]
July 16 An official of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and a guard were shot dead and another official and Afghan Commissionarte were injured in Peshawar.[256]
July 19 Militants attacked a police patrol near the Khyber tribal region, killing four[257]
July 28 A suicide attack at a checkpoint killed two policemen in North Waziristan.[258] militants killed an abducted police official in Sangota[259] four policemen were killed by the Baluch rebels[260]
July 29 A remote controlled car bomb killed two men guarding a Shia lawyer in Dera Ismail Khan. In Shangla, more than 50 Taliban militants raided the residence of militia leader Khalilur Rehman and shot him dead.[261]
August 4 Separatist rebels on Tuesday shot dead four policemen and threatened to execute 21 hostages (11 of them laborers) unless Pakistan withdraws paramilitary troops and releases detainees in Balochistan.[262]
August 9 Baloch militants killed four policemen and threatened to kill more than 12 hostages if their demand that their comrades in police custody be released is not met.[263]
August 13 Baloch militants fired rockets at a police vehicle outside Quetta, killing two policemen and wounding three.[264]
August 15 Five people including three soldiers and two civilians were killed and four others injured when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a security check-post in Khwazakhela area of Swat District on Saturday.[265]
August 17 Seven people were killed and eight others injured when a bomb placed in a vehicle exploded at a filling station in the Shabqadar area in Charsadda on Monday.[266]
August 20 Eight people, including four policemen, were injured when a bomb exploded close to a police patrol car on the Misryal road in Rawalpindi on Thursday.[267]
August 23 Three passers-by were killed and 15 injured Sunday in a suicide bombing in Peshawar triggered by an apparent feud between rival militant groups, Ansar-ul-Islam and Lashkar-e-Islam.[268]
August 27 22 Khasadars were killed when a suicide bomber struck a security post near Torkham, Khyber Agency along the Afghan border on Thursday evening. According to witnesses, the bomber blew himself up when the tribal policemen gathered at the checkpost and were about to break their fast.[269]
Main article: 2009 Torkham bombing
August 30 A suicide bomber managed to sneak into the main police station in Mingora, Swat District on Sunday, causing a huge explosion that killed 16 members of the recently-recruited Special Police Force and injured another five.[270]
September 2 Religious Affairs Minister Hamid Saeed Kazmi was injured in a brazen attack in Islamabad on Wednesday. His driver was killed and a police guard injured (who later succumbed to his injuries). The assailants attacked the minister’s car when he was leaving his ministry at G-6/3, some yards away from the Aabpara police station, along with his driver Mohammad Younus and guard Mohammad Ashraf.[271]
September 6 Three policemen were shot dead in Hasan Abdal in apparent act of targeted killing, a senior police officer said on Sunday.[272]
September 8 Taliban militants on Tuesday shot dead four schoolchildren and wounded six others in an apparent sectarian attack in the remote Atmankhel town of Orakzai Agency.[273]
September 13 Three Frontier Corps (FC) personnel were killed and as many injured as their routine patrol hit a landmine in the Bara Tehsil of Khyber Agency on Sunday.[274]
September 18 At least 33 people were killed and 80 others injured when a bomber blew up an explosive-laden vehicle in a market on the Kohat-Hangu road on Friday. The blast was powerful enough to cause damage to all shops within a radius of 100 yards.[275] The death toll later reached 40.[276]
Main article: 2009 Kohat market bombing
September 26 Two suicide attackers on Saturday separately rammed their explosives-laden vehicles into a police station in Bannu and a military-owned commercial bank in Peshawar cantonment, killing at least 23 people and injuring around another 200. At least 10 people were killed in the attack in Peshawar, while seven, including two policemen, were killed in the assault on the Bannu police station. Around 94 people were injured in Peshawar and 64, including 31 policemen, Bannu.[277] The next day the death from two suicide bomb attacks rose to 27.[278]
Main article: 26 September 2009 NWFP bombings
[edit] October - December 2009
October 5 A suicide bomber dressed in military uniform attacked the highly-fortified United Nations World Food Programme offices in Islamabad, killing five people including one Iraqi citizen and injuring six others.[279] The Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack through spokesperson Azam Tariq.[280]
October 9 A suicide attack at Khyber Bazaar in Peshawar on Friday killed 55 people[281] and injured more than 148. An official at the Lady Reading Hospital said four people had succumbed to their injuries at hospital. The blast occurred at 12:15pm after a white car rammed into a public transport bus, Cantt Superintendent of Police Nisar Marwat told reporters. He said the car was packed with 100 kg of explosives.[282][283]
Main article: 9 October 2009 Peshawar bombing
October 10–11 A total of 22 people including six soldiers, five SSG commandos, three hostages and eight gunmen were killed in an attack on Pakistan Army General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi.[284] This attack followed a series of bombings in the North-Western Pakistan, amid speculation that the army is to prepare another major operation in Waziristan against the Taliban. At least nine militants in military uniforms had stormed the GHQ, killed a total of six soldiers including a brigadier and a lieutenant-colonel, and took a total 56 people hostage. They were demanding the release of some of their fellow fighters in exchange for the hostages. Nine of the hostages later escaped. Later a successful operation was conducted early next day by the SSG to free all the hostages, in the process of which four terrorists were killed, with the ring leader Mohammed Aqeel arrested, and five commandos and three hostages also losing their lives. A total of 44 hostages were rescued, which included officers, soldiers and civilian employees. The attack on the GHQ was the seventeenth attack on the army outside conflict zone and the seventh in Rawalpindi since the military operations began in Waziristan in 2004.[285][286]
Main article: 2009 Pakistan Army General Headquarters attack
October 12 At least 41 people including six soldiers were killed on Monday in a suicide attack on a military convoy in Alpuri area of Shangla District, an area thought to be under the control of Pakistan Army.[287]
Main article: 2009 Shangla military convoy bombing
October 15 At least 19 people, including 14 security officials, were killed and 41 others sustained injuries in three separate terror attacks in Lahore. All nine attackers were also shot dead by security personnel. The attacks were carried out at the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) building on the Temple Road, the Manawan Police Training School and the Elite Police Academy on the Bedian.[288] Meanwhile, in the north-western town of Kohat, at least 11 people, three policemen among them, were killed and 22 others injured when a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-packed pick-up into a police station in the Cantonment area for which the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility.[289]
October 16 15 people, including three policemen and a minor, were killed and 21 others wounded in a suicide attack on the offices of the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of the police, located a few meters away from the recently-established Swati Phatak military post, in the Peshawar Cantonment area.[290]
Main article: 16 October 2009 Peshawar bombing
October 20 Two suicide blasts on Tuesday rocked the new campus of the International Islamic University, Islamabad (IIUI) in H-10 sector of Islamabad, killing at least six students and staffers, including three women, and injuring more than 29 others, 25 of them females, with some of them in critical condition.[291] The first blast targeted the cafeteria adjacent to a girls’ hostel around 2:10pm, while the second one targeted the Sharia and Law Department building in the male section of the university. This was the first-ever attack on students in the country since the start of terrorism in 2001.[292]
Main article: 2009 International Islamic University bombing
October 22 A serving Army brigadier, Moinuddin Ahmad, and his driver were gunned down in Islamabad early on Thursday morning while his gunman was critically wounded. Two motorcyclists intercepted his official jeep in Sector G-11/1 and sprayed it with automatic fire. The brigadier's assassination and the subsequent attempts on two brigadiers are the eighteenth such attacks on the army outside the conflict zone.[293]
October 23 Eight persons, including two PAF security personnel, were killed and 17 others sustained injuries when a suicide bomber exploded himself at a police check-post on the GT Road near the Pakistan Aeronautical Complex (PAC), Kamra. This was the fourth major attack on Pakistan Air Force and the second one in Kamra.[294] On the same day, an anti-tank mine planted on the side of a road killed 18 people of a wedding party and injured six others in the Baizai tehsil of Mohmand Agency.[295] And 15 people were injured in bombing outside a restaurant in the Hayatabad area of Peshawar.[296]
Main article: 2009 Kamra bombing
October 24 A suicide bomber exploded his car near the Islamabad-Lahore Motorway Interchange (ILMI), killing a Sub-Inspector of motorway police.[297]
October 25 Punjabi-born Balochistan Education Minister Shafiq Ahmed Khan, a member of the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), was shot dead outside his residence in Quetta. The Baloch Liberation United Front (BLUF) claimed responsibility.[298]
October 27 Targeting another military officer, Brigadier Waqar Ahmad, two gunmen riding a motorbike attacked him, who was traveling with his mother and driver, as he came out of his house in Sector I-9/1 of Islamabad, riddling his car with bullets.[299] Taliban militants shot dead the head of a pro-government tribal leader in Khar, the main town in Bajaur.[300]
October 28 At least 118 people have been killed and over 200 injured by a car bomb in a market in Peshawar. The market mostly sold products for women and a large percentage of the dead, were confirmed to be women, reports say. The number of casualties are expected to rise in the local area.[301]
Main article: 28 October 2009 Peshawar bombing
October 31 A roadside bomb killed seven Pakistani soldiers in the Khyber Agency, close to the Afghan border. The vehicle hit the bomb whilst carrying paramilitary troops on a routine patrol in Sur Khar.[302]
November 2 At least 35 people were killed and 65 others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a branch of the National Bank of Pakistan in Rawalpindi on Monday. Most of those who died in the attack were serving or retired civil and military employees, pensioners and elderly citizens who had queued for drawing salary and paying utility bills. The powerful explosion took place at 10.45am at the branch’s parking zone located outside a four-star Shalimar Hotel off The Mall road and near the State Bank of Pakistan.[303][304]
Main article: November 2009 Rawalpindi bombing
November 6 In a third incident of its kind in Islamabad, gunmen injured an army brigadier and his driver in Islamabad on Friday, as they opened fire on their vehicle. Brigadier Sohail and his driver came under attack by unknown assailants in the I-8/4 sector of the capital.[305]
November 8 15 people, including the Nazim of the Adezai Union Council, were killed and 42 others sustained injuries in a suicide attack near the Matani cattle market, some 25 km from Peshawar, on Sunday. Nazim Abdul Malik had survived over 20 attacks on his vehicle, house and Hujra since he had parted ways with the militants in October last year.[306]
Main article: 2009 Adezai market bombing
November 9 A bomb went off near a police post in the city of Peshawar, killing at least 3 and injuring around five. This bombing was believed to be a suicide attack. No group claimed responsibility for the attack.[307]
November 10 At least 34 people were killed and nearly 100 others injured when a powerful car bomb ripped through a crowded intersection in Charsadda bazaar on Tuesday afternoon. Scores of women and children died and dozens of shops and vehicles were damaged in the suspected suicide attack.[308]
Main article: 2009 Charsadda market bombing
November 13 At least 17 people – 10 military personnel and three civilians – were killed and 60 injured when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into a military checkpost in front of the regional headquarters of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in Peshawar on Artillery Road. This was the third attack on ISI, with the first being November 2007 bombing of ISI bus in Rawalpindi and the second being the May 2009 bombing of the ISI regional headquarters in Lahore.[309][310] While in Bannu, at least eight people – including seven security officials – were killed and 22 injured in a suicide attack at a local police station struck 25 minutes after the attack on the ISI building in Peshawar.[311]
Main article: 2009 Peshawar ISI headquarters bombing
November 14 At least 12 people, including a policeman and a three-year-old child, were killed and another 35 injured when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden vehicle at a police checkpost in provincial capital. The bomber struck the checkpost just outside the entrance to the Peshawar Cantonment at Pishtakhara Chowk, which is situated on the junction of the Bara and Ring roads and is close to the city’s border with Khyber Agency.[312]
Main article: 14 November 2009 Peshawar bombing
November 16 At least four people were killed and 20 others injured when a suicide car bomber struck a police station in Badaber near Peshawar. Police reportedly fired on the vehicle, which witnesses claimed was a pick-up truck but were unable to stop it.[313]
November 17 At least one person was killed and five others injured, including Deputy Inspector General (DIG), Nizam Shahid Durrani in a blast in Quetta. The bomb blast occurred outside the police inspector's office on Spini Road.[314]
November 19 Peshawar went through yet another day of bloodbath when two strikes, within a space of 14 hours, left 22 people dead. The first target was the city’s judicial complex, where a suicide bomber blew himself up outside a court building early in the morning, and the other came late in the night when a roadside bomb destroyed a police van. The first attack killed 20 and injured 50. It was the sixth attack on the city and it devastated a mosque, damaged a college and a police station. While the bomb attack on the police van ripped through the vehicle, killing two policemen on the spot and wounding five civilians on the outskirts of Peshawar.[315][316]
Main article: 2009 Peshawar judicial complex bombing
November 27 A remote controlled bomb near a mosque in Bajaur Agency killed anti-Taliban tribal leader Malik Shah Pur. Three others were injured.[317]
December 1 An ANP politician, Shamsher Ali Khan, was killed and eight others injured, including his brother, in the Swat valley when a bomber targeted a guest house, at which they were present.[318]
December 2 Three naval personnel were killed and nine other people injured in an abortive suicide attack on the Pakistan Naval Complex in Sector E-8 in Islamabad on Wednesday afternoon. The teenaged suicide bomber blew himself up when he was intercepted by a naval intelligence official.[319]
December 4 At least 40 people were killed and over 86 injured when terrorists attacked a Friday congregation at the Parade Lane Askari mosque in Rawalpindi Cantonment. The high number of casualties was caused by hurling of grenades and indiscriminate targeted firing by the terrorists, reportedly numbering between six to eight individuals. Two of the terrorists blew themselves up while two others were gunned down by the security forces. The remaining terrorists escaped and took refuge in the vicinity.[320] Besides 17 children, an army major general, a brigadier, two lieutenant colonels, a major and a number of soldiers were among those killed in the multi-pronged attack. This was the nineteenth such attack on Pakistan Army outside war zone and eighth in near GHQ Rawalpindi since the start of military campaign against the militants in the tribal areas in 2004.[321] Meanwhile in Chinari, Mohmand, a minibus carrying members of a wedding party struck an anti-tank mine, killing three people and wounding 15. This is the second such attack on a wedding party in the region after the attack on October 23.[322]
Main article: December 2009 Rawalpindi attack
December 7 Terrorists struck three provincial headquarters on Monday. The highest casualty rate was in Lahore when two powerful bomb blasts, 30 seconds apart, ripped through the busy Moon Market in Lahore’s Allama Iqbal Town at 8:45pm in the night, claiming at least 61 lives and injuring many.[323] The blasts, which took place within a radius of 30 metre, also caused a massive fire in a crowded shopping mall. It also knocked out electricity supply.[324] The toll later rose to 54 dead and 150 injured.[325] While in Peshawar, 11 people, including two policemen, were killed and 45 others sustained injuries when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance of the sessions courts. Both of these attacks were second of their kinds this year: Moon Market was attacked on 13 August and Peshawar judicial complex was attacked on 19 November.[326] In Quetta, 10 people were injured when a bomb went off in a residential area for government employees.[327] In Bajaur Agency, two anti-Taliban tribal elders were assassinated by a remotely controlled bomb near a mosque.[328]
Main article: December 2009 Lahore attacks
December 8 A pick-up truck packed with explosives blew up near an office of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in the Cantonment area of Multan on Tuesday, killing 12 people and injuring 47 in the third bloody militant strike in 24 hours. The commando-style gun and bomb attack was carried out by the terrorists in the Qasim Bela area of the city. At least two militants armed with guns and rocket-launchers tried to attack the ISI offices. This was the fourth time the ISI was attacked since the start of military operations in Waziristan.[329]
Main article: 2009 Multan bombing
December 15 A bomb attack in a market in the town of Dera Ghazi Khan, in central Pakistan, has resulted in the deaths of at least 27 people. Another 50 were reported to have been injured from this bombing, which is now suspected by police to have been a car bomb. Many buildings are reported to have been badly damaged from this blast. Officials claim that a provincial official could have been the main target for this bombing, however he was not injured by this blast.[330]
Main article: December 2009 Dera Ghazi Khan bombing
December 18 A suicide bombing occurred just outside a mosque in town of Timergara in Lower Dir District. At least 12 people were killed and 28 wounded in the attack. Most of the dead were policemen who were leaving the mosque after Friday prayers.[331]
Main article: December 2009 Lower Dir mosque bombing
December 19 Separatist rebels killed three policemen in an attack on a patrol in the southwestern province of Baluchistan.[332]
December 22 A suicide bomber blew himself up in Peshawar, outside a club for journalists, killing at least three people and injuring another 24 more. Peshawar Press Club is reportedly a well-known landmark within the city and is often visited by many journalists.[333]
December 24 A suicide bombing in Peshawar killed at least four people and injured a dozen more. The blast occurred on a busy road, near a police and army checkpoint.[334] While in Rawalpindi, a suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance to an imambargah on Thursday night, leaving a little girl dead and two other people injured, including a policeman.[335]
December 26 A roadside bomb wounded at least 26 people soon after a procession of mourners passed the Khalifat Chowk in Paposh Nagar police precincts in Karachi’s North Nazimabad Town on Saturday.[336]
December 27 At least 15 people, including mourners and policemen, were killed and over 100 injured when a suicide bomber ripped through a Muharram procession near an imambargah in Muzaffarabad, Azad Kashmir on Sunday as another explosion near a Muharram procession near Orangi Town in Karachi injured 35 people. In Muzaffarabad, a suicide bomber blew himself up when intercepted by security personnel.[337] While in the Kurram Valley, a government official Sarfaraz Siddiqi, his wife and four children were killed when militants detonated explosives at his house.[338]
Main article: 2009 Muzaffarabad bombing
December 28 At least 42 people were killed and 120 others injured when a bomber struck the Shiite procession on the M.A. Jinnah Road in Karachi near the Light House area.[339] The blast took place inside a Shiite procession commemorating Ashura. Later enraged mourners went on a rampage following the attack, gutting shops and pelting stones at vehicles resulting in an estimated loss of Rs 30-35 billion, with more than 3,000 shops gutted in flames that were brought under control 24 hours after the rampage and 50 vehicles were burnt.[340] The next day, the city was at a standstill with shops and markets, government offices and educational institutions closed and public and private transport off the road.[341]
Main article: 2009 Karachi bombing
[edit] 2010
[edit] January - March 2010
January 1 At least 105 people were killed when a suicide bomber blew up his vehicle in a crowd watching a volleyball game in Lakki Marwat, North-West Frontier Province.[342]
Main article: 2010 Lakki Marwat suicide bombing
January 3 In the north-western Pakistani town of Hangu, a former provincial minister and two other people were killed in a roadside bomb attack, police have said. The blast reportedly killed Ghani-ur Rehman, his driver and his bodyguard. The minister was reported as being a former North-West Frontier Province education minister, for the area.[343]
January 6 In Pakistani-administered Kashmir, at least three soldiers were killed and another 11 injured after a bomb attack occurred outside an army barracks, police say. No group has claimed responsibility as of yet.[344]
January 8 In Karachi unknown gunmen went on the rampage killing at least 7 people within the area, police say. The gunmen were apparently targeting ethnic Balochis in parts of the city. The armed men were reportedly riding motorcycles as they were carrying out their attack on the civilians.[345]
January 9 A suicide bomber detonated himself and wounded seven policemen in the village of Adezai, Peshawar, North-West Frontier Province.[346]
January 11 Five bullet-riddled bodies were found in the Pakistani city of Karachi, police say. This latest attack appears to be part of a renewed war among rival political factions, officials claim. Since the start of this year, when a dead political activist was discovered, at least 31 people are known to have been murdered in targeted killings. Political violence has reportedly intensified in the city of Karachi.[347]
January 16 At least two soldiers have been injured after a suicide bomber attacked a military convoy in Pakistani-controlled Kashmir, police say.[348]
January 20 A politician and member, for the Awami National Party, Aurangzeb Khan, was seriously injured after a bomb blast occurred in Peshawar. Three others are also known to have been injured, police say.[349]
January 23 A suicide bomber killed five people including children outside a police station in Gomal, Tank District.
January 30 A suspected suicide bomber killed at least 16 people and wounded 20 others, when he attacked a checkpoint, in the North-Western Pakistani town of Khar.[350]
Main article: January 2010 Bajaur bombing
February 1 In Karachi, ethnic and political clashes resulted in the target killings of least 26 people. These latest clashes come as dozens more have been killed in similar attacks over the past few weeks, across the city.[351][352]
February 3 At least 10 people were killed, including three US soldiers, when a bomb blast hit a convoy near a school in the north-west region of Pakistan. Three schoolgirls were also among the dead and it is believed that this blast injured up to another 70 people, within the area.[353]
Main article: February 2010 Lower Dir bombing
February 5 KARACHI: At least 13 dead and 50 injured from 10 kg blast in mini bus near Nursery Road. The injured taken to government Jinnah hospital.[354] After 2 hours the second planted bomb blasted at motorcycle stand emergency gate of government Jinnah hospital killing 10 injuring dozens and rescuers also. Relatives of the first blast victims were present in the Emergency Ward. Later a 3rd bomb was found in a TV set in the hospital.[355]
Main article: February 2010 Karachi bombings
February 9 A senior Pakistani politician was attacked by militants in the city of Rawalpindi, in the Punjab province. The politician, Sheikh Rashid Ahmed, survived this attack however 3 of his security guards were killed, police have said.[356]
February 10 At least 15 security personnel, a brigadier and a pilot among them, and seven civilians lost their lives in a gun attack, a suicide bombing and a helicopter crash in Khyber Agency in the northwestern province. The brigadier was killed and two other officers, a major and a lieutenant, were injured when Taliban insurgents ambushed an army rescue party searching for bodies of the pilot and a gunner of a helicopter gunship which had crashed in the Tirah valley.[357]
Main article: February 2010 Khyber bombing
February 11 Two bomb explosions occurred in north-western Pakistan, near a police compound. In these bombings it is has been reported that at least 12 people were killed and another 20 were injured. Unconfirmed reports have claimed that these bombings were caused by suicide bombers.[358]
February 18 A bomb attack in a crowded market selling hashish, in north western Pakistan, has resulted in the deaths of at least 15 people and has wounded more than 100 others. The blast had occurred in the Kyber tribal region of Pakistan, in an area where the taliban are know to have a strong presence. The bomb had reportedly detonated near a mosque in the Tirah valley of the Kyber region, officials have said.[359]
Main article: February 2010 Khyber Mosque bombing
February 22 Two Sikh men were kidnapped by unknown gunmen in the tribal regions of north-west Pakistan. They were later beheaded by their kidnappers, their bodies were then found in the Khyber and Orakzai areas, officials claim.[360] At least 5 people were killed and many others injured, after a bomb attack occurred in Mingora, the main city in the Swat region of north-west Pakistan. The target for this attack appears to have been an army convoy and it has been confirmed that two of those killed were soldiers.[361]
February 24 Four civilians were killed in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar, after taliban militants fired a rocket into a residential area. Witnesses claim that a two-storey house was also destroyed in this attack. Officials are now claiming that this explosion was caused by a gas leak however local residents still insist that rockets were used against them and that these devices caused the explosion.[362]
February 27 A suicide bomber targeted a police station in the North West Frontier Province of Pakistan. The attack killed at least three police officers and 13 other people were wounded as a result of this explosion, some are said to be in a critical condition. The blast also damaged a nearby mosque, as well as part of the police station. It has been reported that many more people could be trapped under the debris caused by this blast. No group as of yet has claimed responsibilty for the bombing.[363]

 

[Imran Khan]

beleve me we lost the way of power way os sucsess way of islam way of democrasi from first day of ZIA UL HAQ.today we are in darkness we are no were.see US make turkey partner in JSF .egept receve 250 f-16 saudi uae can got any systems for defend them.see east asian muslims patronas towrs groth unlimited.see even our nighbers india china.don't you think why? because of money yes because of money.you know they never got rain of dollers they work educate there kids there country has peace there is no mess of terarrsim like us.or not like our scale.we last 30 years become more poor today we begg for waipons to everywere.our papulation need education but we send them madrasass were they abuse sexuly mentaly and after 20 years of madrasa life they will become mullah radieo mullah baitullah mullah ghazi rasheed.they don't learn peace homony love faimly life they must be extreame.you know what extreame thinks give us gifts burn cd shops blow schools from were they got this idea????? extream religun think.other side of coin we got tons of street crimnals and theafs and useless youth.we need change our whole system sucks we have to bring back our sovrent pakistan.first of all we have to earn 50bn$ for finish this loan which beat us badlly .if i am in power in will try my whole best to finish my loans.if world offer me to keep nukes and sign NPT CTBT and got 50 or even 25bn or finish whole loans i never wait 5 mints.you know why we begging loan no investment no education no industry.its all because of extreame thinks and terarrsiom.i have vision to make pakistan a rich sovrent and strong country and israel should be recognise for remove o big stone which we face to go develped country.

 

[Doctor09]

these are nt all terrorist group........
dont mix jihadi and terrorist groups

 

[Imran Khan]

these are nt all terrorist group........
dont mix jihadi and terrorist groups

haaaaaaaaaaaaa jihad whats this bird? there is no jihad in world this time only some mullahs use some brainwashed guys to kill some innocent citizens or some countries use these jobless guys to destable there hostiles.what jihad man give jihadi job in one company food good home and happy marred life i will see 95% of so called jobless jihadis will go to job not jihad.all is problim of powerty.remember i am from heaven of jihad in my life i see who jidadi been made and what they are.

 

[Imran Khan]

all these waipons made by jihadis??????? jf-17 to nukes babur raad ghuri shaheen alkhalid alzarar super mashaq agusta90b .none of them because jihadi madrassas can't make a teen humen who can they make these.its whole done by some patriotic pakistanis like me.

 

[Relucent]

Its not like i dont respect your country as it is,but i feel Pakistan needs more people with mindset as Positive ,Broad ,Foreward looking as yours.Only then will u as a country prosper.
lol heavy words from an 17 year old But this is what i feel

 

[mjnaushad]

Its not like i dont respect your country as it is,but i feel Pakistan needs more people with mindset as Positive ,Broad ,Foreward looking as yours.Only then will u as a country prosper.
lol heavy words from an 17 year old But this is what i feel

If someone's comment dont match your ideology he becomes Narrow minded. People have right to think. If you like imran khan's comment just say i like your comment. Dont call all others NARROW MINDED.

Its a neutral advise. I am not participating in debate that weather we should or we should not accept israel.

 

[Relucent]

If someone's comment dont match your ideology he becomes Narrow minded. People have right to think. If you like imran khan's comment just say i like your comment. Dont call all others NARROW MINDED.

Its a neutral advise. I am not participating in debate that weather we should or we should not accept israel.

Actually i dint call People with other ideology narrow minded.I just said
Imrans Khans idelogy is Broad. .I was careful to mention "this is what i feel".
No offence intended.........

 

[Wounded Healer]

Dear friends,
Let us, for once, look at this matter rationally, rather than emotionally.

First, we should know what Recognizing a State really means……..According to International Law, a State being recognized must fulfill the following four conditions:

1. The community must be politically organized

2. It should have control over a definite territory

3. The definite control should tend towards permanency

4. The community thus constituted should be independent.

Thus, the conditions of Statehood are People, Territory, a Government, and Sovereignty.

Therefore, in my personal opinion, Israel fulfills all these requirements for Recognition……….

But,

Recognizing a state also implies that once you have recognized a state, you are implying that all the actions taken by the said state, are lawful and justified, and therein, my friends, lies Pakistan’s Dilemma!

If we recognize Israel then we are, in effect, saying that what was done to the Palestinians was justified and in accordance with International Law, which the people of Pakistan are not yet ready to digest.

Hence, as I have said earlier, this matter should be left untouched, for now………and we should wait for the right moment to discuss it in the parliament.

Thanx,

regards,

 

[Al-zakir]

in these recent days when indian PM visiting KSA and other arab states enjoy v good relations with india.and also enjoying israel arab both .why we pakistani just sitting in one cage? we have also right to move forward and recognise israel relese some presure from us.i have long debate with arabs on this issue and they have no busness even we recognise evil as there words.so what you people think if there is no velue of our interst there we also ignore palistine issue and move forward to israel.

Great!!!

So I guess for the sake of pakistan interest than you should abondon kashmiri also and move forward because it is also reality that bharat has been controlling kashmir for last 60+ years and most likely will in future as well.

If I respect anything about yahudi is that they stick together like magnet under all cirmcumstances whereas musims ummah are only confined in selfish interst. Shame really!!!

 

[pak-yes]

Ok.In my Opinion Pakistan would gain and lose following.

Gain

1.Asking Jewish Lobbies to Stop Lobbying Against Pakistan.(But then Pakistan is a country with no influence and those Powerful lobbies won't change for the likes of Pakistan.so it would have no effect)

2.Asking Israel to Stop Selling Advanced Weapons to India.(I don't think Israel would abandon their Multi-Billion Dollar Trade just because Pakistan said that)

3.Asking Israel to Stop Mossad Activities in Pakistan.(Israel is a double face country so they would say that there are no activities of Mossad in Pakistan but they would Continue their Activities).

4.Maybe get Some Drones(Well what is the guarantee that Israel won't put spying or remote Disabling device in military equipment given to Pakistan.To be Frank i really doubt that by accepting Israel Pakistan would get any weapons at all because of Indian Pressure).

Loss

1.First of all accepting Israel would mean Closing eyes on Palestinian Issue effectively ending what's left of humanity in Pakistan.Not to forget Islam's third most Holiest site in Jewish Hands.

2.Accepting Israel would be against our very Core Ideology and the sayings of our founder.

3.On the Day of Judgment what would we tell ALLAH that We were doing business with those who not for a single moment left Palestinians in Peace.

4.Isolation in Islamic World.

5.Cooling Down of Relation with Arabs.

6.No Matter how bad Arabs are they still help us sometimes.

7.Don't Forget that our relations with Saudi Arabia would be damaged beyond repair.In the whole World Pakistan only has few Allies and Loss of Such an ally would be a strategic Blunder.

8.Millions of Pakistan live and work in gulf.Accepting Israel would mean not only they would be discriminated while Indians Preferred.But that would also put at risk not only their future but also the future of Pakistan in Extreme Danger.Remember if not for the remittances sent by those People working in Gulf ,Pakistan would have Bankrupted decades ago.

9.Can you forget Raw-Mossad Activities in Pakistan.

10.Can you forget that Mossad has multiple times tried to sabotage our nuclear Program.

11.Can you forget that Israel has twice tried surgical Strikes against Pakistani Nuclear Facilities.And Especially in 1998 if India wouldn't had backed Down on the last moment Pakistan would had been deprived of Nuclear Status.

12.Can you forget the Baloch Insurgency in Pakistan and Iran is supported by Israel Openly.And there is even a so called Greater Baluchistan Consulate in Haifa or Jerusalem(Source:Multiple Pakistani Newspapers).

13.Not to forget the Civil unrest and Protests in Pakistan carrying for weeks even months.

14.Any Party Daring to accept Israel would effectively be put out of Commission forever.In elections they wouldn't be able to even secure a single seat.

15.Giving one more Reason to Terrorists and Extremists to Brain Wash Kids and use them to cause more terrorism,attacks and civilian losses in Pakistan.

I know that the Losses i have written are minimum and could be more.

So Now People Can decide for themselves what will they gain and lose.

 

[Imran Khan]

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Great!!!

So I guess for the sake of pakistan interest than you should abondon kashmiri also and move forward because it is also reality that bharat has been controlling kashmir for last 60+ years and most likely will in future as well.

If I respect anything about yahudi is that they stick together like magnet under all cirmcumstances whereas musims ummah are only confined in selfish interst. Shame really!!!

WHAT UMMAH??????????? we was muslims on 16 dec 1971 are not we. you kick ummah that day we kick today.

 

[Imran Khan]

Ok.In my Opinion Pakistan would gain and lose following.

Gain

1.Asking Jewish Lobbies to Stop Lobbying Against Pakistan.(But then Pakistan is a country with no influence and those Powerful lobbies won't change for the likes of Pakistan.so it would have no effect)

as per you but there is much garranty by big powers can.

2.Asking Israel to Stop Selling Advanced Weapons to India.(I don't think Israel would abandon their Multi-Billion Dollar Trade just because Pakistan said that)

at least then they sale us also some .

3.Asking Israel to Stop Mossad Activities in Pakistan.(Israel is a double face country so they would say that there are no activities of Mossad in Pakistan but they would Continue their Activities).

were you got it?.

4.Maybe get Some Drones(Well what is the guarantee that Israel won't put spying or remote Disabling device in military equipment given to Pakistan.To be Frank i really doubt that by accepting Israel Pakistan would get any weapons at all because of Indian Pressure).

Loss

pressore on israel not work remember.

1.First of all accepting Israel would mean Closing eyes on Palestinian Issue effectively ending what's left of humanity in Pakistan.Not to forget Islam's third most Holiest site in Jewish Hands.

hum ne 57 mulkoon ka theka nhi le rakha .those who know in lebnon even palistines fight with locals arab not own there them are we NANI AMAAN?.

2.Accepting Israel would be against our very Core Ideology and the sayings of our founder.

our founder if see today us he will merge pakistan with india.

3.On the Day of Judgment what would we tell ALLAH that We were doing business with those who not for a single moment left Palestinians in Peace.

and ALLAH will forgive to killing of thusends of pakistanis? our whole system is wrong base these days ALLAH is punishing us are not?

4.Isolation in Islamic World.

egypt jorden turkey Maldives Azerbaijan Israel has diplomatic relations with 9 non-Arab Muslim states are they islolated i am looking these days we are isolated

5.Cooling Down of Relation with Arabs.

agypt jorden are not cool by there brothers .even we recognise divil we have to make sovrent policy thats my dream and you wanna take me back in arab feets.

6.No Matter how bad Arabs are they still help us sometimes.

its give and take

7.Don't Forget that our relations with Saudi Arabia would be damaged beyond repair.In the whole World Pakistan only has few Allies and Loss of Such an ally would be a strategic Blunder.

king abdullah him self ready to recognise on some terms. and don't forget when they recognise they never ask us same like past.so why we?.

8.Millions of Pakistan live and work in gulf.Accepting Israel would mean not only they would be discriminated while Indians Preferred.But that would also put at risk not only their future but also the future of Pakistan in Extreme Danger.Remember if not for the remittances sent by those People working in Gulf ,Pakistan would have Bankrupted decades ago.

they work and got money not for free or they are not beggers remember. when we will sovrent we no need to send our citizens to any were i am thinking to free them from golf.

9.Can you forget Raw-
Mossad Activities in Pakistan.

10.Can you forget that Mossad has multiple times tried to sabotage our nuclear Program.

11.Can you forget that Israel has twice tried surgical Strikes against Pakistani Nuclear Facilities.And Especially in 1998 if India wouldn't had backed Down on the last moment Pakistan would had been deprived of Nuclear Status.

12.Can you forget the Baloch Insurgency in Pakistan and Iran is supported by Israel Openly.And there is even a so called Greater Baluchistan Consulate in Haifa or Jerusalem(Source:Multiple Pakistani Newspapers).

13.Not to forget the Civil unrest and Protests in Pakistan carrying for weeks even months.

thats what i don't wanna in future

14.Any Party Daring to accept Israel would effectively be put out of Commission forever.In elections they wouldn't be able to even secure a single seat.

alll leaders here currept baseless and chor they can't stand one day i even don't think they are leaders they are jokers of stage. we need to re partyes all pakistan and bring some LEADERS first.

15.Giving one more Reason to Terrorists and Extremists to Brain Wash Kids and use them to cause more terrorism,attacks and civilian losses in Pakistan.

i never give them chance have to kill every extreamst no mercy or them is my basic policy we suffer becuase of them.

I know that the Losses i have written are minimum and could be more

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or asmaan tot pary ga?

So Now People Can decide for themselves what will they gain and lose

be ready for worst always

 

[Al-zakir]

WHAT UMMAH??????????? we was muslims on 16 dec 1971 are not we. you kick ummah that day we kick today.

My point exactly. Doesn't matter who kicked who but we kicked each other while enemy got stronger.

So now you want to repeat same mistake?

 

[asq]

As Muslims it is wrong to recognise a country which is bent on destroying us.

yes some Muslim countries have dip. realtions with israel, but at what expense, their people hate their leaders and there is no love lost by the people of those countries.

We Must work to improve our lot by our own genius and by our own resources and that is the only thing we have to help ourselves.

ever since we have started working on Nuclear weapons,Tanks, planes and other weapons, israel has had night mares, their presidant only talk about Pakistan, not even turkey, but Pakistan,think about it.

So bros. keep up the good work worse is over, good thing come to those who persevere and stay focused and true to the cause.

We have come through a situation, no one else would have come out the way we have.

Now the work is underway by our media to fix all those who have caused harm to Pakistan and good things are arround the corner, all we need to do is to realise the fact and not listen to doom and gloom sayers, as they do not talk posative for pakistan.

Watch and see our ingenuity.

Israeli corner gun.

Pakistasni coner gun.