Violence in Pakistan 2006–2009


This is a list of violent incidents in Pakistan from 2006 to 2009. Violence increased in 2006, in part because the US/NATO strategy from 2005 of attacking the Taliban in their stronghold in South Afghanistan, lead to incidents on the Pakistani side of the border.

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12006Jan.13Bajour18 The official number of dead was 18, including eight men, five women and five children, but other reports indicate that as many as 25 people were killed. Fourteen of the dead were said to be from the same family.
125LandmineDera Bugti District, Balochistan<6'5A bus ran over a landmine.
2Feb.5SuicidalKolpur, Kachi District, Balochistan1318A blast on board a Lahore-bound bus en route from Quetta. Among the dead were three army personnel. No groups claimed of responsibility for the attack.
39SectarianPakistan and Afghanistan36100Sectarian violence marred the holiest day of the Shiite calendar. 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.
4March2Suicidalnear the US Consulate in Karachi4 A powerful car bomb attack in the high security zone. Among the killed was a killed was a US diplomat, a day before President George W. Bush was to reach Pakistan.
510LandmineDera Bugti District, Balochistan<26 Mostly women and children were killed in after their bus hit a landmine. Both tribal rebels and security forces planted land mines in the area.
6April11SuicidalNishtar Park, Karachi57<80 A bomb explosion at a religious gathering celebrating the birthday of Prophet Muhammad. Among the dead were Sunni scholars.
7June12SuicidalHotel in Quetta<517
815Gun attackKarachi50Unidentified gunmen killed a senior prison official Amanullah Khan Niazi and four others.
916Gun attackKhoga Chiri village in Orakzai Agency4Two female teachers and two children were shot dead.
10July14SuicidalAbbas Town2Allama 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 residence. The suicide bomber was later identified as Abdul Karim, a Bangladeshi-speaking, resident of a shantytown in the central city area of Karachi.
11Aug.26BattleBalochistan<36Tribal leader Nawab Akbar Bugti was killed in a battle between tribal militants and government forces. At least five soldiers and at least 30 rebels are thought to have died too.
1226-31RiotsMarriott hotel, Islamabad6Dozens Akbar Bugti's killing sparked five days of rioting and the arrest of 700 people.
13Sept.8Bomb<617
14Oct.6SectarianOrakzai Agency175Fighting between Sunni and Shia Muslims over a dispute over ownership of the shrine to 18th Century figure Syed Amir Anwar Shah shrine.
1520BombPeshawar621The attack happened in a busy shopping district.
2Oct.30Chenagai, Bajour80Between 70 and 80 were killed, when a madrassa school was hit by four to five missiles. The school was filled with local students who had resumed studies after the Eid ul-Fitr holiday.
16Nov.8SuicidalDargai4220All the victims were from the Pakistani Army. The attack was apparently retaliation for the Chenagai airstrike which killed 80 people in the same Bajaur region in the previous month.
172007Jan.15BombJalozai refugee camp45The powerful blast destroyed a mud-house.
1826SuicidalMarriott hotel, Islamabad25The bomber and a security guard were killed in the blast.
1927SuicidalShiite mosque in Peshawar4260Among the victims were Chief of Peshawar City Police Malik Saad. About 2,000 Shiite Muslims were in and around the mosque, police said.
20Feb.6SuicidalMiranshah, North Waziristan5A suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a parking area outside Islamabad International Airport.
2117SuicidalInside a courtroom in Quetta, Balochistan1524 A suicide bomber blew himself up.
2220AssassinationGujranwala1Punjab Minister for social welfare Zil-e-Huma Usman was shot and killed. 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.
23March19-22ClashesWaziristan region135Clashes between pro-government forces under Maulvi Nazir and Al-Qaeda remnants. A ceasefire is declared after four days of fighting enforced by officials from both sides.
24April10-11Sectariandifferent areas of the Kurram Agency35'Scores''Heavy fighting between rival Shia and Sunni
326Saidgi village in North Waziristan4
2528Assassination attemptPlace?2327Aftab Ahmad Sherpao, who is the Interior minister that killed 28 people in Charsadda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was the target. This time again an attempt on a high-ranking officer of Pakistani government was unsuccessful.
26May12RiotsKarachi50HundredsParty workers of opposing parties; MQM, ANP and PPP clash. 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.
2715SuicidalThe Marhaba hotel, Peshawar<2430The hotel is popular with Afghans in Peshawar, where militants opposed to government support for the United States, previously have launched attacks.
28June2Roadside bombDara Khwar, Bajaur Agency5A tribal chief, a political tehsildar and a journalist were killed.
298BombHub, Balochistan37A bomb exploded on a bus. The coach was heading from Lasbela to Karachi.
419Datakhel area of North Waziristan<2210A missile hit a cluster of compounds.
52318 artillery shells and six missilesMangrotai area of the North Waziristan1110The ordnance, fired from Afghanistan, hit residential compounds and a hotel. The dead included two children and a woman.
1July3-11ConfrontationLal Masjid, Islamabad9544A confrontation between Islamic militants and the government of Pakistan, centered around the Lal Masjid and Jamia Hafsa madrasah complex in Islamabad.
306Assassination attemptRawalpindiPresident General Pervez Musharraf escaped yet another attempt on his life when around 36 rounds fired at his aircraft from a submachine gun. 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.
318Gun attackNear Peshawar31Unidentified gunmen killed three Chinese workers and wounded another in what Pakistani officials said was a terrorist attack apparently linked to the bloody siege of militants at an Islamabad mosque.
3212Suicidal A bomb was detonated in a mosque used by military personnel in the north-western town of Kohat, killing at least 11 people. 2) 26 people died and 50 were injured in the southern town of Hub, Lasbela District, Balochistan, in an attack apparently targeting Chinese workers. 3) 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.
3724Rocket attackBannu940Unidentified militants fired a barrage of rockets on the civilian population.
3827SuicidalMuzaffar hotel in Aabpara, Islamabad<1328The attack happened after hundreds of stone-throwing protesters clashed with police as the capital's Red Mosque reopened for the first time since the bloody army raid. The same day Raziq Bugti, former guerrilla commander turned spokesman for the Balochistan government, was shot dead by assailants in Quetta.
39Aug.2SuicidalSargodha2Police 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.
404SuicidalParachinar, Kurram Agency943The attack happened at a busy bus station.
2J7 -Feb. 28, 2009BattleBajaur<20234000A military offensive launched by Pakistani troops against Taliban tribal forces. The Bajaur area had been under Taliban control since early 2007, and was said to be Al-Qaeda's main command and control hub for operations in Northeast Afghanistan. including Kunar province. On February 28, 2009, the Pakistan Army finally defeated the Taliban and other Islamist militants in Bajaur.
4126SuicidalMachaar area of Shangla District42All victims were police officers.
42Sept.4Suicidal Rawalpindi cantonment2566 The attacks happened 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.
4311SuicidalBannu Adda, Dera Ismail Khan district1716A 15-year-old suicide bomber blew himself up in a passenger van. The same day Omar Ayub Khan's protocol officer, Liaquat Hussain, was found shot dead near the Northern Bypass in Karachi.
4413Suicidalarmy officers' mess in Tarbela Ghazi, Haripur near Tarbela Dam2011 All the victims were off-duty commandos from Pakistan Army's special forces unit SSG's Karar Company.
4515AssassinationPeshawar2Unidentified assailants shot dead Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam leader and Wafaqul Madaris Vice Chairman Maulana Hassan Jan. 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.
46Oct.1SuicidalBannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa<1629A suicide bomber disguised in a woman's burqa blew himself up at a busy police checkpost. Four police officers among the dead.
37-10BattleNear Mir Ali, North Waziristan257120Clashes broke out after militants set off improvised explosive devices and conducted ambushes on a Pakistani convoy. The army says the casualties were militants and soldiers but local people reported at least ten civilians were among the dead. Hundreds of people fled Mir Ali after more than 50 houses were damaged in the fighting.
4712ExecutionMohmand2535Taliban publicly behead six "criminals" and lashed three others in the name of Sharia.
4818SuicidalKarachi139450 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.
4920BombDera Bugti, Balochistan<828A powerful bomb planted in a pickup vehicle.
425- Dec.8BattleSwat438The Pakistani Army and Islamic militants fought for control of the Swat District. The battle was won by the Pakistani army, but Taliban militants slowly re-entered Swat over the coming months and started engaging security forces in battles that lasted throughout 2008. By early February 2009, the Taliban had managed to regain control of most of Swat and at least 80 percent of the district was under their control.
5025SuicidalSwat District<2035A blast aimed at a vehicle carrying Frontier Constabulary personnel kills 18 troops.
5130SuicidalA police checkpoint in the high security zone of Rawalpindi731Less than a kilometer from President General Pervez Musharraf's camp office. 3 policeofficers among the dead. The blast splattered check post of General Tariq Majid, current Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff's residence.
52Nov.1SuicidalFaisalabad Road, near Sargodha728 A suicide bomber rammed his motorcycle into a PAF bus. Seven officers of the Pakistan Air Force stationed at Mushaf Airbase among the dead. It is significant that after this event a state of emergency was imposed on the country.
62North Waziristan.5The attack happened in a Madrasah
539SuicidalPeshawar32A 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. The minister was unhurt, but a cousin of his was injured. The three dead were policemen guarding the house.
5417-19SectarianParachinar, Kurram Agency94168Three days of in-fighting between rival Sunni and Shia sects. Only by the fourth day, the army gained control of the area and a ceasefire was maintained in the area.
5524Suicidal A suicide bomber rammed his car into a 72-seater bus parked in front of Ojhri Camp on Murree Road carrying Inter-Services Intelligence officials to work, killing 28 officials and a bystander. 2) A second suicide bomber attempted to enter the General Headquarters. 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.
56Dec.9SuicidalNear Matta, Swat District10Three policeofficers and seven civilians, including two children, perished in a car bombing.
5710SuicidalNear Minhas Airbase, Kamra07Attack on the school bus carrying children during the morning rush injuring seven of them. It was a PAF employees bus. It was a second major attack on the Pakistan Air Force after the Sargodha attack.
5813Suicidal Quetta 735Two suicide bombings near an army checkpost Three personnel from the Pakistan Army among the dead.
5915SuicidalNowshera511Explosives-laden bicycle rammed into a military checkpost. First-ever suicide attack in the city of Nowshera. The attack occurred at a checkpoint near the gate of an army school.
6017Suicidal Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa125The victims were members of the army's local football team.
6121SuicidalJamia Masjid Sherpao, in Charsadda District57100On the eve of Eid ul-Adha, a suicide bomb blast again targeted Aftab Ahmad Sherpao. Aftab Sherpao survived the blast, but his younger son Mustafa Khan Sherpao, was injured.
6223SuicidalNear Mingora723A suicide bomber targeted an army convoy. One soldier among the dead.
6327AssassinationLiaquat Bagh, Rawalpindi21Many Two-time Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated in a shooting and suicide bombing. The site is notorious as the place where former Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan was also assassinated in October 1951.
6428ViolenceNationwide33Violence ensues all over Pakistan following the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. The situation grew so bad that Sindh Rangers were given orders to shoot-at-sight. Four policeofficers among the dead.
6528Roadside bombin Swat District.9Among the dead are former PML-Q minister Miangul Asfandyar Amir zeb, who was the grandson of the former ruler of the Swat.
662008Jan.10SuicidalLahore High Court, Lahore2473Policemen 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.
6714BombKarachi1050The bomb was planted on a bicycle and it went off during wee hours in a vegetable market.
515-16Gun attack South Waziristan<30Several dozen Islamic militants overran a paramilitary fort in South Waziristan, Pakistan, killing or kidnapping many troops. The capture of Sararogha Fort represented the first time the militants managed to isolate and capture a strongly defended government position since October 2007, when they seized several isolated police stations and small military posts in Swat valley
6817SuicidalMirza Qasim Baig Imambargah in Mohalla Janghi, Kohati, Peshawar1225
7Jan.29North Waziristan1Abu Laith al-Libi killed.
69Febr.4SuicidalArmy Medical College, near the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi1027A suicide bomber crashed his bike into an armed forces bus carrying students and officials.
709BombCharsadda in the north-western Pakistan.2535A powerful explosion hit an opposition election rally in The attack targeted ANP, a secular party, one of whose leaders, Fazal-ur-Rehman Atakhail, was assassinated February 7 in Karachi triggering widespread protests.
7111SuicidalMiranshah, North Waziristan1225A suicide attack on a public meeting in 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.
7216SuicidalParachinar, Kurram Agency in northwestern Pakistan.47150 An explosive-laden vehicle is rammed into the election meeting of Pakistan Peoples Party, the party of the slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. It was the fourth such attack on PPP's political workers within a year; two of them targeting the former PPP leader Benazir Bhutto.
7318ViolenceNationwide24200Election-related on the eve of Pakistani general election, Aaj TV reported.
7422Roadside bombnear the town of Matta, Swat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa13~12An army spokesman said the bomb had been detonated by remote control. Women and children were among the casualties.
7525SuicidalNear Army General Headquarters in Rawalpindi.820The 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. Gen Baig was the highest-ranking officer to be killed in Pakistan since the 9/11 attacks.
828South Waziristan13
7729SuicidalMingora, Swat District3875The attack happened during the funeral of a senior police officer who had been killed hours earlier in Lakki Marwat in the southern part of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The police DSP was killed along with three other policemen when their vehicle was hit in a roadside bomb earlier in the day.
78March2SuicidalDarra Adam Khel, a few miles south of Peshawar4258 A bomber struck the meeting of tribal elders and local officials. 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.
794Suicidalparking area of the Pakistan Navy War College, Lahore.824Two suicide bombers blew themselves up. It was the first time a Pakistani naval institution was targeted by the militants since the ongoing War on Terrorism in Pakistan in general and post-Lal Masjid siege in particular.
8011SuicidalLahore24200Two suicide bombings. One of the attacks ripped apart Federal Investigation Agency building killing 21, including 16 policemen. The other one hit the posh locality of Model Town, exploding close to Bilawal House, associated with PPP leaders Benazir Bhutto and her husband Asif Ali Zardari.
8115BombA restaurant in Islamabad110A bomb was hurled over a wall surrounding the 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.
916South Waziristan993 bombs dropped by a United States aircraft killed nine people and wounded nine others in the tribal area. The bombs hit a mud compound in Wana, killing an Arab of Middle Eastern origin, two men from Turkmenistan and six Pakistanis from outside the tribal area. However, the attack missed its target, a senior Al Qaeda official.
82April9RiotsKarachi9ManyRiots 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.
8317ClashesKhyber Agency 20dozensClashes between two belligerent factions.
84May6SuicidalBannu 4
8518BombThe Army's Punjab Regimental Center market in the city of Mardan 1320This was the second attack in Mardan in a month after a car bomb on April 25 killed three and injured 26 people.
8619Remote-controlled bombMamond tehsil of Bajaur Agency.42A blast outside a mosque.
1021South Waziristan6
8726Sectarian violenceDera Ismail Khan 75
88June2SuicidalIslamabad6 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.
899Remote-controlled bombDera Ismail Khan4Sufi Muhammad, leader of the TNSM, survived. Four policemen got injured.
1110South Waziristan1910 Pakistani Para Military Soldiers and 1 Regular Army Major killed, 8 Taliban militants killed
9026BombDera Ismail Khan 42A blast inside a Shia mosque.
91July6SuicidalIslamabad19 Attack targeting policemen deployed at a rally observing the first anniversary of an army raid on the Islamabad's Lal Masjid
927BombsKarachi<37A string of small explosions, apparently from bombs, wounded at least 37 people, rattling Pakistan a day after a deadly suicide attack in capital of Pakistan.
1228South Waziristan6Midhat Mursi and 5 other Al-Qaeda operatives killed.
93Aug.2Remote-controlled bombMingora, Swat8At least eight police and security workers were killed when a remote-controlled bomb exploded near their vehicle.
94Aug.4FightingSwat Valley136 After 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.
959Gun attackKingargalai, Buner District 8Militants stormed a police post killing eight policemen.
9612BombA major road near the center of Peshawar 1311A bomb targeting a Pakistani Air Force bus carrying personnel from a military base killed 13 people and wounded 11 others on Tuesday. 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.
9713SuicidalLahore 820Two policemen were killed and over 20, including 12 policemen, were injured after an alleged suicide bomber blew himself up near a police station in Lahore on the eve of Independence Day celebrations.
9813Explosions, handgrenate attacksHub, Uthal, Panjgur, Kharan and Turbat towns in Balochistan 619Four policemen were injured in explosions, there was a hand-grenade attack in Panjgur and shooting incidents in Balochistan, while leader of the banned outfit Amr Bil Maroof Wa Nahi Anil Munkar Haji Namdar was shot dead when he was delivering sermon in Bara tehsil. Haji Namdar had earlier escaped a suicide attack on 1 May 2008 in which 17 people were injured.
997-18SectarianKurram Agency287372Clashes mainly between the Toori and Bangash tribes, but which involved other local tribes, 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.
10019SuicidalDistrict Headquarters Hospital in Dera Ismail Khan3255
Seven policemen and two health officials were among the killed. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack.
10121SuicidalPakistan Ordnance Factories, Wah Cantt70672 suicidebombers blew themselves up outside the gates of the state run factories. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack.
10221AssassinationNingulai, Tehsil Kabal, Swat District51 An influential person of Ningulai, Haji Musa Khan, was shot dead by unidentified assailants as soon as he stepped out of the mosque after prayers. His guards opened fire but the assailants managed to escape. Haji Musa Khan had escaped a bomb and a gun attack in recent past. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the killing and accused the tribal elder of being an active supporter of security forces.
1323South Waziristan10
10223SuicidalCharbagh Tehsil, Swat valley 20 An explosive-laden car rams into a police station. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack.
10325Rocket attackSwat valley 10Attack targeting the house of a local member of provincial assembly. As a result of the attack, ANP MPA Waqar Ahmed's brother and other family members were killed.
10426BombModel Town area on the outskirts of Islamabad 820A bomb explosion at a roadside restaurant.
10528BombBannu area, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 915An attack targeting a police van.
1431South Waziristan10
15Sept.3South Waziristan23
164North Waziristan4
175North Waziristan5
1066Suicidal20 km from Peshawar3070Attack against a paramilitary checkpoint. The attack came during the voting to elect Asif Ali Zardari as the President of Pakistan and the marking of Defence Day.
188North Waziristan23
10710grenade-and-gun attackMaskanai area of Lower Dir District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa2550In a mosque
1912North Waziristan12
2015South Waziristan
2117South Waziristan 5
10819BombQuetta5 8Islamic religious school run by Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam
10920SuicidalIslamabad57266
2221North Waziristan
11022SuicidalSwat 9 A checkpost
2325Tanai region
11126BombNear city of Bahawalpur 3 15Bomb on railway track derails passenger train.
24Oct.1"Border-area"6
1122SuicidalWalibagh, Charsadda 6
1136SuicidalBhakkar, Punjab2060
259Tappi, North Waziristan8
1149SuicidalIslamabad88 Main Police Headquarters List of terrorist incidents in Pakistan since 2001#2008
11510SuicidalAdazai, Orakzai Agency110200
11613SuicidalKhyber Pakhtunkhwa 5
2616Taparghai, South Waziristan1
11716SuicidalMingora, Swat 4
11819SuicidalDera Bugti district, Balochistan 3 6
2722Taparghai, South Waziristan4
2826South Waziristan20
11926SuicidalGhalaanai, Mohmand Agency115
12027SuicidalGhalaanai, Quetta 212Near the District Court Complex
12131SuicidalMardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 820
122Nov.2SuicidalWana, South Waziristan 8 Security checkpost
1234SuicidalHangu District76 Security checkpost
1246SuicidalBajaur Agency2245 At a Salarzai jirga
12511SuicidalQayyum Stadium in Peshawar 4 13 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani had just left the venue and senior provincial minister Bashir Bilour was on his way out.
12612SuicidalCharsadda District 7 15Explosives-filled bus into the gates of a school
2914Miranshah, North Waziristan12
12717SuicidalKhawazakhela area, Swat >3
12819AssassinationIslamabad 2Former head of the army's elite commando force Special Service Group, Maj-Gen Ameer Faisal Alavi, who commanded the SSG during the first major assault on militants in South Waziristan in 2004 and his driver gunned down.
12920SuicidalMamoond tehsil of Bajaur Agency >94
13021SuicidalDera Ismail Khan 7 17 During the funeral of a cleric near the bus stand.
3022North Waziristan5
13128SuicidalPeshawar-Bannu Road in Domel area of Bannu916Explosive-laden rams a police vehicle. 4 police officers among the dead.
132Dec.1Suicidal7 kilometers north-east of Mingora 10 49 Explosive-laden truck near the Sangota security post.
1335BombsPeshwar and Orakzai2750 Two bombs exploded in crowded markets.
3122South Waziristan<8Two vehicles hit at different locations. Most of those on board killed.
3222Kari Khel, 8 km from Wana, South Waziristan7
13428SuicidalBuner District 3616Near a polling station in a government school, believed to have been carried out to disrupt the by-election for a National Assembly seat.
332009Jan.132 senior Al-Qaeda leaders Usama al-Kini & Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan killed
1354SuicidalGovernment Polytechnic College, Multan Road in Dera Ismail Khan. 7 25 3 police officers and 2 journalist among the dead. Most of the injured policemen.
13610GunbattleHangu 27SeveralRival sects fight for 2 days
3423Waziristan14
13726BombDera Ismail Khan5SeveralBomb attached to a bicycle went off on a busy main road.
13826AssassinationQuetta 1SeveralHussain Ali Yousafi, chairman of the Hazara Democratic Party, was shot dead by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi
139Feb.3Hand grenade attackMohallah Joginwala in Dera Ismail Khan 118At a Sunni mosque.
1405SuicidalAl Hussainia Mosque, Dera Ghazi Khan32A crowd of Shia worshippers shortly before a religious gathering.
1417GunbattleMianwali in Punjab, near Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 7All killed were policeofficers at a checkpoint.
14211Remote controlled bombDalazak Road in Peshawar 111Bomb fitted to motorbike parked near the residence of Awami National Party provincial lawmaker Alam Zeb Khan. This was the sixth such attack on ANP in less than a year.
35Feb.14Makeen in South Waziristan<30
3616Waziristan14
14317BombBazidkhel-suburb near Peshawar 3 SeveralOutside the home of a government official. He survived but several people were hurt.
14420SuicidalDera Ismail Khan30 157 A funeral of Shia leader Sher Zaman – who was gunned down a day earlier. A curfew was imposed in Dera Ismail Khan oand the army called in to quell riots immediately. Witnesses said police 'ran off' when gunfire broke out after the blast.
37March1Sararogha village in South Waziristan14
1452SuicidalPishin District, Balochistan412 At a girls' religious school.
1463GunattackGaddafi Stadium in Lahore. 866 policeofficers killed when a convoy carrying Sri Lankan cricketers and officials in two buses was fired upon by 12 gunmen.
1475HandgrenadeAmeer Hamza mosque, Dera Ismail Khan 1 19
14854 BombsPeshawar00The mausoleum of the most-revered mystic poet of the Pakhtun land Rahman Baba blown up.
1497BombPeshawar 85 Seven policeoficers killed. In a separate incident, a roadside bomb killed three civilians and wounded four troops in the town of Darra Adam Khel.
15011AssassinationNamak Mandi, Peshawar 6 4Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Senior Minister and Awami National Party leader Bashir Bilour survived 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.
3812Berju in Kurram Agency24
3915Jani Khel in Bannu district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa4
15116SuicidalBusiest busstand, of Rawalpindi 1417
15218Gun attackUniversity of Malakand, Chakdara, Lower Dir District 54'3 police officers among the dead when over 100 unidentified armed men attacked a police vehicle at the entrance.
15323SuicidalIslamabad 13 A security official killed and three others injured outside a police Special Branch office.
4025Makin area of South Waziristan72 vehicles by two missiles
4126Essokhel area in North Waziristan4
15426SuicidalNear Jandola, South Waziristan 1025At a restaurant targeting opponents of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Baitullah Mehsud
15527SuicidalPeshawar-Torkham Highway in Jamrud, Khyber Agency75100 At a mosque at during the Friday congregation. Intelligence sources put the number of dead at 86 but officials of the political administration were conservative by putting the death toll at 50.
15630Gun & grenade attackManawan Police Training School in Lahore near the border with India993 At least eight police recruits killed by 10 terrorists. Security forces regained control of the facility in an operation that lasted for more than eight hours.
42April1Orakzai Agency14
1574SuicidalMargalla Road, Islamabad<1012 A camp of the Frontier Constabulary attacked. At least eight FC personnel killed.
1585Suicidalan Imambargah in Chakwal2260At the gates of a Shia mosque where some 1,200 people were attending a religious gathering.
1596KillingShinkiari area of Mansehra District 43Police found bullet-riddled bodies of four local aid workers, including three women, in on Monday.
438Gangi Khel in South Waziristan4
16015SuicidalCharsadda, near Peshawar.95A security attacked killing nine policeofficers and injuring five others.
16118SuicidalDoaba area of Hangu 2215A checkpoint killing five security personnel.
4419South Waziristan<35
16226TragedyLower Dir District 1212 children were killed after playing with a bomb they mistook for a football.
4529Kanni Garam village in South Waziristan6
16329Targeted killingsKarachi3440Unidentified gunmen in a matter of hours 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.
164May5SuicidalPeshawar-Bara road 12 km west of Peshawar Cantonment 748 An explosives-laden car rammed into a pick-up near a checkpost
469Sararogha, South Waziristan6strike in kills 6 militants.
165May11SuicidalOutskirts of Darra Adam Khel 827 Explosives-laden vehicle near an FC checkpost.
4712Sra Khawra village in South Waziristan8
4816Sarkai Naki village, North Waziristan25
16616BombsPeshawar 1334 A powerful car-bomb in the Barisco area killed 12 people and wounded 31 others, including schoolchildren and women, 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.
16721SuicidalFrontier Corps fort, Jandola area, Tank District 925Five security personnel were among the dead.
16822Car bombCinema Road, Peshawar 1075 The attack happened outside a cinema.
Total65459872
6April26-Battle
'		Buner, Lower Dir, Swat and Shangla districts~800 '102Operation Black Thunderstorm is an ongoing operation that commenced on April 26, conducted by the Pakistani Army, with the aim of retaking Buner, Lower Dir, Swat and Shangla districts from the Taliban after the militants took control of them since the start of the year
TOTALMay25736410074