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^^ That's a fair remark; Solomon, you're outta line on this one.

Edit: But hold on- what did umairp mean by this?:

There is a third option.
They can be used. (They are already being used, we just have to take place of there current handlers and boom)
 
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Send them into Kashmir as infiltrators? Like that really worked well the last five times Pakistan tried it! Send them to Afghanistan to supervise the Taliban? You'll lose control of them before they leave the frontier areas.

Oooh! I know! Set them to work as crossing guards near Pakistani schools. Give the kids an example of an authority figure they can look up to....

Though that wasn't in my mind but thanks for the Idea.
 
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^^ That's a fair remark; Solomon, you're outta line on this one.

Edit: But hold on- what did umairp mean by this?:

Ok. Here is the plan. Don't get nervous, no one going to come after you. No one from TTP at-least.
By using them, I meant use fractions of them against others fractions. make them fight each other. It sort of win win situation. BUT I understand your concerns. After all, India has invested quite a bit on these people.
 
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There is a third option.
They can be used. (They are already being used, we just have to take place of there current handlers and boom)

Dear umairp,

To me there is not even a second option leave alone the third one you suggest which is extremely dangerous.
We cannot make allies in them, the concept of asking a serpent to guard your house is lost on me.

You see our past ties with Afghan Jihad made it extremely difficult for us to check the rising militancy since many brutes were perceived as holy warriors, the more you have ties with such lot the more you shall confuse the hell out of your youth which becomes cannon fodder.

The leadership of Afghan Taliban was poor and totalitarian. They quickly made the people under their charge suffer through mindless laws and dictates, they could have done some good but their extremely stupid ideas about the role of women in society made them extremely unpopular.

The leadership of Pakistani Taliban is even more extreme and sheds blood at the slightest notion of mistrust and opposition.
They are an alliance of criminals, drug lords, gangs and the more hardcore Lashkars and local Taliban.
Once we break their back the criminals etc. will break ranks but the lashkars etc. will make a last stand, if they are not broken...they will become much stronger...same happened in FATA in this decade.
We cannot dare repeat this mistake again.

The Al Qaeda is the most hardcore and extreme in nature and has a clear agenda to sow the seeds of war in all the Muslim world so that there is a generation born under a bloody sky, which shall fill their ranks in a global conflict against the great Satan.
Their vision is too brutal and bloody.

The great confusion is that these parties have started cooperating with one another in past few years.
Which one of these parties can be talked to or used in any way to benefit us?
Their ideology is what makes them who they are, the leadership cannot be talked into since they consider us for the most part infidels who oppose the righteous warriors.
The lower ranks can be broken but the Al Qaeda leadership and its allied Laskhars will not abandon ship till we sink it.
 
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Dear umairp,

To me there is not even a second option leave alone the third one you suggest which is extremely dangerous.
We cannot make allies in them, the concept of asking a serpent to guard your house is lost on me.

You see our past ties with Afghan Jihad made it extremely difficult for us to check the rising militancy since many brutes were perceived as holy warriors, the more you have ties with such lot the more you shall confuse the hell out of your youth which becomes cannon fodder.

The leadership of Afghan Taliban was poor and totalitarian. They quickly made the people under their charge suffer through mindless laws and dictates, they could have done some good but their extremely stupid ideas about the role of women in society made them extremely unpopular.

The leadership of Pakistani Taliban is even more extreme and sheds blood at the slightest notion of mistrust and opposition.
They are an alliance of criminals, drug lords, gangs and the more hardcore Lashkars and local Taliban.
Once we break their back the criminals etc. will break ranks but the lashkars etc. will make a last stand, if they are not broken...they will become much stronger...same happened in FATA in this decade.
We cannot dare repeat this mistake again.

The Al Qaeda is the most hardcore and extreme in nature and has a clear agenda to sow the seeds of war in all the Muslim world so that there is a generation born under a bloody sky, which shall fill their ranks in a global conflict against the great Satan.
Their vision is too brutal and bloody.

The great confusion is that these parties have started cooperating with one another in past few years.
Which one of these parties can be talked to or used in any way to benefit us?
Their ideology is what makes them who they are, the leadership cannot be talked into since they consider us for the most part infidels who oppose the righteous warriors.
The lower ranks can be broken but the Al Qaeda leadership and its allied Laskhars will not abandon ship till we sink it.

I totally agree with you on most of it. I was merely suggesting the low cost way of dealing with them. Our economy does not permit us to have a full scale operation. I was suggesting to break them on basis of ideologies, let them fight with each other. Once there are weak, we can come in and finish the job.
This way is difficult but not impossible. There are numerous examples from history in this regard. It will take time, but I am confident that it will be the end of them.
 
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Eliminate what?

Having killed in excess of 12,000 people in FATA / Swat, great majority being non combatant civilians and putting more than 4 million to flight from their homes (Swat + Bajaur + South Waziristan + Khyber + Orakzai), the Army has only one option .... Kill More .... genocide proportions. It will never be termed as genocide because the US and the "free world press" is on your side.

The only option left is to move the remaining forces from the Eastern border and establish a permanent 10:1 footprint against the "insurgents". Lets see how long can such posture be sustained.
 
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Eliminate what?

Having killed in excess of 12,000 people in FATA / Swat, great majority being non combatant civilians and putting more than 4 million to flight from their homes (Swat + Bajaur + South Waziristan + Khyber + Orakzai), the Army has only one option .... Kill More .... genocide proportions. It will never be termed as genocide because the US and the "free world press" is on your side.

The only option left is to move the remaining forces from the Eastern border and establish a permanent 10:1 footprint against the "insurgents". Lets see how long can such posture be sustained.

I see the resident taliban sympathizer is back ! the locals themselves chanted pak fauj zindabad when they came in your nothing but a fuckin traitor in my eyes there is a limit to how much we can take why don't u say anything about 3000+ civillians killed in bomb attacks over last 3 years or so ,the dozens of schools blown up,the targetted assassinations,violation of peace deals,kidnappings and beheadings ? why u never say anything bad about what they've done ? are all your posts against the army and sympathetic to the ttp scum remove that pakistani flag your a disgrace to it.Go live under the taliban if u support them so much i'd love to see how that turns out :angry:
 
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Eliminate what?

Having killed in excess of 12,000 people in FATA / Swat, great majority being non combatant civilians and putting more than 4 million to flight from their homes (Swat + Bajaur + South Waziristan + Khyber + Orakzai), the Army has only one option .... Kill More .... genocide proportions. It will never be termed as genocide because the US and the "free world press" is on your side.

The only option left is to move the remaining forces from the Eastern border and establish a permanent 10:1 footprint against the "insurgents". Lets see how long can such posture be sustained.

Majority of the casualties have been occuring due to attacks by the Taliban. While the casulaity which is happening by the Army fire power is totally un-intentional. You have to blame the Taliban, the are the real responsible for those deaths.
 
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Majority of the casualties have been occuring due to attacks by the Taliban. While the casulaity which is happening by the Army fire power is totally un-intentional. You have to blame the Taliban, the are the real responsible for those deaths.
How is this different from blaming the Israel Defense Forces for Arab casualties when Hamas employs civilians to shield its troops and rocket launchers?
 
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How is this different from blaming the Israel Defense Forces for Arab casualties when Hamas employs civilians to shield its troops and rocket launchers?

There is the differences, Hamas is not that powerful compare to TTP, they are only using home made explosives to counter israelis, the power that israeli army used against them was like 1 and a million, while the Taliban have got every modern weaponry to challenge pakistani army. Israeli Army used its all might to attack Gaza, they exactly knew what they were doing, they exactly knew what they were attacking, did they really need to use that much force? not really, they could have damaged hamas without damagain the people, but their agenda is something else, to damage palestinians as a whole, that will make the process of palestine elimination a step easier, but in case of FATA you dont see this. Secondly, israel has the agenda of snatching every inch of palestinian land by force and other means, which is itself a crime that the whole world is silent about. we are sick of the double standard by israelis and their sympathizers, they cry loud about hollocast, but they are committing the same criems against palestinains.
 
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Israeli Army used its all might to attack Gaza, they exactly knew what they were doing, they exactly knew what they were attacking, did they really need to use that much force? not really, they could have damaged hamas without damagain the people, but their agenda is something else, to damage palestinians as a whole -
I don't know if you are writing out of ignorance or consciously spewing misleading propaganda. We have a whole thread on Gaza stuff containing testimony about the great care Israel employed in that operation. If the Israelis wanted the Palestinians gone, why do you think they weren't expelled or massacred ages ago? It's not like there has been anything to stop them other than their own ideas of moral conduct.

we are sick of the double standard by israelis and their sympathizers, they cry loud about hollocast, but they are committing the same criems against palestinains.
Arabs are not being driven into hiding, starved, marched to the gas chambers, etc. There are no massacres, no huge killings of civilians.

Asserting blatant falsehoods in the full light of FACTS leads to delusion. That cannot be healthy for you or your society. So my question is, why are you not confronting your countrymen by acting as Israel's champion in this matter? Isn't that a surer route to curing the ailments of your society?

Would the TTP ever have so much life in it if the hate-Israel-hate-India-hate-the-West thing wasn't broadcast from every street corner, thus encouraging their militancy?
 
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I don't know if you are writing out of ignorance or consciously spewing misleading propaganda. We have a whole thread on Gaza stuff containing testimony about the great care Israel employed in that operation. If the Israelis wanted the Palestinians gone, why do you think they weren't expelled or massacred ages ago? It's not like there has been anything to stop them other than their own ideas of moral conduct.

The great care israel paid in that operation? We all saw that care in our tvs and newspapers. The aim of isreal is not killing the palestinians, their aim is to take their land, but killing them is one of the tools that they put pressure on palestianisn to leave their land and never come back.

Arabs are not being driven into hiding, starved, marched to the gas chambers, etc. There are no massacres, no huge killings of civilians.

Crime took place in 2 different times, one took place in europe in the hands of nazis, victims was the jews. this time it took place in palestine in the hands of brutal israelis. the suffering has been huge in both of them. if the palestinians wasnt taken to gas chambers directly by the israelis it doesnt mean no crime was done by the isrealis, isrealis and nazis committed crimes, but with different methods, different methodes doesnt make them no crime. the palestianis have been suffering for many many decades and that is itself a huge suffering.

Asserting blatant falsehoods in the full light of FACTS leads to delusion. That cannot be healthy for you or your society. So my question is, why are you not confronting your countrymen by acting as Israel's champion in this matter? Isn't that a surer route to curing the ailments of your society?

there isnt any falsehood in what i say. are you denying that the israelis are taking palestinian land by force? hope you dont deny this fact at least, if taking somebody's land is not a crime, forcing them out of their homes is not a crime then god knows what it is.

yes, our socieities have got alot of problems, but we dont put that on the isrealis.

Would the TTP ever have so much life in it if the hate-Israel-hate-India-hate-the-West thing wasn't broadcast from every street corner, thus encouraging their militancy?

hope you are not confusing me with a pakistani national. we are a great friend of india-there hasnt been any problem between my country and india. the taliban is hated in my country, they are killing us in large numbers.
 
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here a list of attacks by taliban and other related militant groups since 2007 only according to javed no action should be taken against these people and the pak army is the bad guy for doing so.

list of attacks since 2007 till present:

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

July 14 At least 23 paramilitary troops died and 27 others injured when a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-packed car into their convoy in Miranshah in one of the deadliest attacks on the security forces in North Waziristan.

July 15 At least 49 are killed and hundreds injured when suicide attack and car bombs explode throughout 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.

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.

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

July 27 A suspected suicide bomber killed at least 13 people at Muzaffar hotel in Aabpara, Islamabad Friday after hundreds of stone-throwing protesters clashed with police as the capital's Red Mosque reopened for the first time since a bloody army raid.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.
Main article: 2007 Bannu checkpost bombing

October 12 Mohmand Taliban publicly behead six "criminals" and lashed three others in the name of Sharia

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.

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.

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.

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.


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.

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.

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

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

December 15 A suicide attacker rammed his explosives-laden bicycle into a military checkpost killing five people and injuring 11 others in the first-ever suicide attack in the city of Nowshera. The attack occurred at a checkpoint near the gate of an army school and was ninth one in the series of attacks against the Army outside conflict zone.

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.

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

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

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.
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.

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.
Main article: 2008 Parachinar bombing

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.

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.
Main article: 2008 Mingora funeral 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.
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.
Main article: 2008 Lahore FIA building attack


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.

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

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

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

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

July 31 - August 4 A total of 136 people were killed in Swat Valley in a week of fighting between the security forces and pro-Taliban militants. The casualties included at least 94 militants, 14 soldiers and around 28 civilians.
August 9 Militants stormed a police post in village Kingargalai of the Buner District on Friday night, killing eight policemen.

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

August 13 Eight people, including two policemen, were killed and over 20, including 12 policemen, were injured after an alleged suicide bomber blew himself up n ear a police station in Lahore on the eve of Independence Day celebrations

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

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

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.
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.
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.

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

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

September 6 At least 30 people were killed and 70 injured when a suicide car bomb struck a paramilitary checkpoint 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.

September 10 At least 25 worshippers were killed and 50 others injured in a grenade-and-gun attack in a mosque in the Maskanai area of Lower Dir District, northern part of NWFP.

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

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.

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.

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

October 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 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.

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.

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

November 22 Six people were killed and 15 others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a mosque in Tandaro area of Tall in Hangu District on Saturday.[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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.While in Peshawar, unidentified miscreants blew up the mausoleum of the most-revered mystic poet of the Pakhtun land Rahman Baba in the wee hours of Thursday by planting four bombs inside the structure of the shrine.

March 7 A bomb-laden car exploded in Peshawar as police tried to pull a body from it killing eight people and injuring five. Seven of the dead were policemen while the other was a passerby. In a separate incident, a roadside bomb killed three civilians and wounded four troops in the town of Darra Adam Khel.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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
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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.
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.

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.

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.

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.
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.

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,two people were killed and 13 including eight policemen injured in a grenade and suicide attack on police in Latifabad, Peshawar

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. 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.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.

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.

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.

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

July 10 Militants attacked a security checkpoint in the tribal Bajaur Agency, killing four policemen.

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.

July 15 A roadside bomb in Bannu killed two policemen.

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.

July 19 Militants attacked a police patrol near the Khyber tribal region, killing four

July 28 A suicide attack at a checkpoint killed two policemen in North Waziristan.militants killed an abducted police official in Sangota.

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

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

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.

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

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.
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.

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. The death toll later reached 40.

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.The next day the death from two suicide bomb attacks rose to 27.

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.
October 9 A suicide attack at Khyber Bazaar in Peshawar on Friday killed 55 people 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.

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.[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.

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.

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.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.

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

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. 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.
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.

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. 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. And 15 people were injured in bombing outside a restaurant in the Hayatabad area of Peshawar.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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. 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.

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.

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.

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.

November 27 A remote controlled bomb near a mosque in Bajaur Agency killed anti-Taliban tribal leader Malik Shah Pur. Three others were injured.

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.
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.

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.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. 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.

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 70 lives and injuring many.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.[ About 150 people were injured.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. In Quetta, 10 people were injured when a bomb went off in a residential area for government employees.In Bajaur Agency, two anti-Taliban tribal elders were assassinated by a remotely controlled bomb near a mosque.

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.

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

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

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.


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.[ 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.

December 27 in the Kurram Valley, a government official Sarfaraz Siddiqi, his wife and four children were killed when militants detonated explosives at his house.

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.


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.

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

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.[357]
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.

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.

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.

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.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.

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

March 8 A suicide bomb attack has killed at least 13 people in Lahore and wounded more than 60 others. The bomber reportedly rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into a building that housed an anti-terrorist wing of the federal investigative agency. The explosion was so large it allegedly brought down the two-storey building, correspondents have said. A nearby religious school was also known to have been damaged in this bombing and passer- by, including children are believed to be among the dead and the injured.

March 10 Unidentified gunmen have attacked the office of a Western aid agency, in the Mansehra district of Pakistan, which is only 40 miles north of the capital Islamabad. It is known that 6 people were killed in this assault and it has been reported that there was also an explosion as well as firing inside the building when the militants stormed into the agency. One aid worker has claimed that the gunmen have now engaged in a battle with police inside the building. The agency has also claimed that seven members of staff had been injured in this attack.

March 11 A suicide bomber's explosive vest detonated prematurely, as he was trying to target a convoy of security forces, along the boundary between Peshawar and the Khyber tribal region. In the explosion it is known that 5 people were killed and that a dozen others were injured. Some of the injured are reportedly in a critical condition, officials have claimed.

March 12 Two suicide bomb attacks in the Pakistani city of Lahore has resulted in the deaths of at least 45 people and has wounded 100 others. Both of these bomb attacks reportedly targeted military vehicles, as they were passing through a crowded area. The blasts occurred within 15–20 seconds of each other. It is known that at least 9 soldiers were killed in these two suicide bombings. These two blasts occurred very close to the RA bazaar, which is in a busy residential and shopping area where the army and security agencies have facilities. Later on however several other smaller blasts occurred across the city. These smaller blasts were reportedly designed to cause confusion and there were no reports of any serious injuries due to their effects. No group has yet said that it had carried out the bombings although the Pakistani Taliban are strong suspects.

March 13 A suicide bomber targeted a rickshaw near to a security checkpoint. The bombing occurred near the city of Mingora, which is the main city in the Swat Valley. In this bombing it is known that at least 10 people were killed and that another 37 were wounded. The bomber was reportedly trying to enter a government facility used by the police and security forces however he blew himself up after being stopped by the police. This attack follows threats by the Taliban militants, as they intend to deploy thousands of suicide bombers in retaliation for an army offensive.

March 28 A bomb planted near a music shop exploded in a bazaar and wounded five people, as well as destroying the shop in the city of Peshawar, Pakistan. It is known that two nearby grocery shops were also damaged in this blast. No group has claimed responsibility although Taliban militants are suspected to be behind this bombing.

March 31 Militants stormed into a Pakistan army camp in the Khyber region after a car bomb explosion blew a hole in one of the walls to the compound. In this attack it has been reported that at least 6 Pakistani soldiers were killed and that another 15 were injured. The Pakistan army reported that 25 militants were also killed in this attack however this claim cannot be independently verified.

April 5 At least 43 people were killed and more than 50 others were wounded after a suicide bomber attacked a political party rally in the Lower Dir district of north-western Pakistan. The bomber had reportedly detonated his explosives near to the stage of this outdoor rally, as hundreds of people were attending the event. The Lower Dir district was the scene of a major offensive against the Taliban by the Pakistani Army only last year. In the city of Peshawar in north-western Pakistan, unknown militants attacked the U.S consulate. It has been reported that at least 7 people were killed in this attack, the number of injuries however has not been specified as of yet

April 8 Militants attacked and bombed three girl's schools, which were located on the outskirts of the Pakistani city, Peshawar. Nobody was killed or injured in these bombings however damage was inflicted upon the schools. The Pakistani Taliban have been blamed for these recent attacks and the education minister has accused them of trying to spread panic across the country. The militants had reportedly planted the explosive materials near to the schools before detonating them later on

April 17 At least 41 people were killed and more than 60 others were injured after two suicide bombers attacked the Kacha Pukha camp, near to the Pakistani city of Kohat. The first suicide bomber had reportedly detonated his explosives after walking into a gathering of people, as they were receiving relief aid from the authorities. The second suicide bomber then struck, in the middle of a gathering crowd only a few minutes after the first blast. It is also known that both of these bombers were wearing burqas, as they were carrying out each of their suicide attacks on this refugee camp.


April 18 A suicide bomber detonated his explosive-laden vehicle near to a police station in the north-western Pakistani city of Kohat. In this attack, it is known that 7 people were killed and that another 21 others were reportedly injured. It is known that the bomber had detonated up to 200 kg of explosives on the back side of the police station, which he was targeting. This latest attack, along with others in the past few days, appears to be a reaction towards the military operations that are being conducted by the Pakistani army, in the tribal areas of the country.

April 19 At least 23 people were killed and more than 40 others were wounded after two bomb attacks hit the Pakistani city of Peshawar. The first attack occurred when a bomb exploded outside a school run by a police welfare foundation, killing 1 person and injuring another 10 others. The second attack involved a suicide bomber who had targeted a political rally near to a crowded market area. In this specific attack it is also known that at least 22 people were killed and more than 30 others were reportedly wounded. It has been reported that police officers and political protesters were among those who had been killed in this blast

April 23 Taliban militants ambushed a Pakistan Army convoy, as they were carrying out a routine movement in the Pakistani tribal region of North Waziristan. In this ambush, it is known that at least 7 soldiers were killed and that at least another 16 had been injured. It has been reported by officials that the militants attacked the convoy in the Dattakhel area of North Waziristan. In a separate incident, Taliban militants killed 4 people within the same region after they accused them of spying for the U.S

April 28 A suicide car bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into a police vehicle at a checkpoint, in the north-western Pakistani city of Peshawar. In this bombing, it is known that 4 people were killed and at least another 10 had been injured. No group has of yet claimed responsibility for this particular attack but the Taliban are strong suspects, considering that they have carried out dozens of recent bombings across the country
 
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The great care israel paid in that operation? We all saw that care in our tvs and newspapers.
The way anti-Israel coverage works is that you only see a bit here and a bit there. (If a reporter attempts pro-Israel coverage he is banned from Arab-controlled territory.) So even if some facts were described correctly, you probably saw nothing to illustrate the context - namely, that Israel launched a military operation only after its own population had suffered bombardment for months, and that over half, probably two-thirds of the casualties were Hamas combatants - this despite Hamas' efforts at employing people as human shields.

The aim of isreal is not killing the palestinians, their aim is to take their land, but killing them is one of the tools that they put pressure on palestianisn to leave their land and never come back.
If that was Israel's aim then why wasn't it accomplished ages ago? Why, instead, did Israel withdraw from Lebanon, Sinai, Gaza, and promote Arafat's return to form the Palestinian Authority?

if the palestinians wasnt taken to gas chambers directly by the israelis it doesnt mean no crime was done by the isrealis -
Should I be condemned to death for a parking ticket because the man who murdered my grandparents was executed? And what if the police simply ticketed the wrong car?

the palestianis have been suffering for many many decades and that is itself a huge suffering.
If Arab rulers wanted to, they could end suffering instantly by accepting "Palestinian" Arabs as immigrants. In sixty-plus years millions of refugees have been re-settled world-wide, including millions of Jews expelled from Muslim countries. The suffering you see is something currently supported by many Arab and Muslim governments, and Israel has discovered it can't change that. (Build decent housing for refugees and Arabs won't move in - they're afraid they'd be killed if they did.) Maybe you could, if you advocated different policies.

there isnt any falsehood in what i say. are you denying that the israelis are taking palestinian land by force?
Such complaints would have more moral weight if you also stood for Jews who lost their homes and property, throughout the Arab world, to those who employed force. Twenty percent or so of the Israeli population is Arab, and many of these own land - more than individual Israelis do. Why haven't these been taken by force? In all twenty-plus Arab countries, Jewish populations remain only in Yemen, Syria, Tunisia, and Morocco.

In practice Arabs draw no distinction between land purchased by Israelis and "settlements" established overnight with a roll of fencing and a flag on barren or abandoned land. It is all labeled "stolen" because the alternative route is considered unthinkable. But why should you be a slave to it? Think of what this false vengeance approach is costing your country!

yes, our socieities have got alot of problems, but we dont put that on the isrealis.
I think the large number of people who blame Israel, India, and the West on this forum disagree with you.

Would the TTP ever have so much life in it if the hate-Israel-hate-India-hate-the-West thing wasn't broadcast from every street corner, thus encouraging their militancy?

hope you are not confusing me with a pakistani national. we are a great friend of india-there hasnt been any problem between my country and india. the taliban is hated in my country, they are killing us in large numbers.
Excuse me, but I thought the TTP also drew its strength from Afghanistan, or at least the Pushtun border areas.
 
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How is this different from blaming the Israel Defense Forces for Arab casualties when Hamas employs civilians to shield its troops and rocket launchers?

You had to bring in Israel?
All you see is Hamas and you try to equate them to TTP and think you have a point to Justify whatever IDF does?
Maybe you have a point as well but in the whole scenario of the Israel-Palestine conflict it is indeed a small dot in the whole canvas.

Who bulldozes the Palestinian homes to construct Israeli homes?
Who has constantly been expanding at the cost of innocent Palestinian civilians?
Who has time and again been condemned by most of the world for besieging the Palestinians and denying even UN open access the afflicted people?
This is all fact and not a figment of my imagination.

The Israeli defense forces are hardly defensive in nature since this land grab and illegal occupation has been carried out by them.
You expect people to remain idle and peaceful when they are driven out of their homes for good and their homes destroyed just to facilitate a new housing colony for Israelis?
The venom which has filled the Palestinian hearts is not something which is just a propaganda...you would do well to realize what slow strangulation of the Palestinian people Israel has been carrying out.

Israel's projection of brute force onto the Palestinian civilians and their homes in order to gain new colonies for Israelis is hardly anything that has to do with any militant faction fighting in the name of Palestinians.

There have been many UN resolutions which only USA has vetoed.
These resolutions reflect what the rest of the world which is in no way an ally of Palestinians, thinks of what Israel does.
Some were just condemnations and others were just investigations but all had to be stopped by USA when the rest of the world agreed that something had to be done.

U.S. Vetoes of UN Resolutions Critical of Israel

Sadly USA has always blindly vetoed in favor of Israel in the past.
Maybe Obama takes a different stance but with all the pro Israel Lobbies i think it a near impossible task for a US President to do.
Had USA played a neutral or even a balanced role in the UN regarding Israel, things would not have turned so ugly.

There is no comparison between what IDF is doing and what PA is doing.
The PA is a highly professional army as well; it has lost thousands of troops in operations against well trained and heavily equipped fighters in huge numbers.
IDF has never faced such a well equipped enemy in the Palestinian ranks.
This is not an emotional comment but based on military knowledge, the militant experience, expertise and weapons in this area (due to Afghan Jihad and aftermath) will hardly be found in such numbers in guerrilla or militant formations elsewhere, this coupled with the terrain makes it a most difficult operation for any army to undertake.

The PA is not an occupation force which is capturing land from the locals to give to others, it is trying to root out the established terrorist horde which is infesting the area.
Its objective is to save the people as best as it can.
Its objective is not to throw out the people.
Maybe the nature of the fight dictates that many people are suffering, however it is not intentional.

The IDF has intentionally been deployed to pressurize and bully the Palestinians, keeping them virtually under siege and has been involved in the destruction of the homes of Palestinians just for land grab purposes.
The anti militant angle is not the whole picture of IDF operations in the past and present.

The intent of deploying both the forces is poles apart in this case and that matters a lot to me.
 
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