List of violent incidents in Pakistan (2006–2009)
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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 (including Helmand), lead to incidents on the Pakistani side of the border.
# | Year | Mdth | Day | Type | Site | Killed | Injured | More Information |
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2006 | Jan. | 13 | ![]() |
Bajour | 18 | [1] | 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.|
1 | 25 | Landmine | Dera Bugti District, Balochistan | <6' | 5 | A bus ran over a landmine.[2] | ||
2 | Feb. | 5 | Suicidal | Kolpur, Kachi District, Balochistan | 13 | 18 | A 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.[3] | |
3 | 9 | Sectarian | Pakistan and Afghanistan | 36 | 100 | Sectarian 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.[4] | ||
4 | March | 2 | Suicidal | near the US Consulate in Karachi | 4 | 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.[5] | ||
5 | 10 | Landmine | Dera 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.[6] | |||
6 | April | 11 | Suicidal | Nishtar Park, Karachi | 57 | <80 | Muhammad. Among the dead were Sunni scholars.[7][8] | A bomb explosion at a religious gathering celebrating the birthday of|
7 | June | 12 | Suicidal | Hotel in Quetta | <5 | 17 | [9] | |
8 | 15 | Gun attack | Karachi | 5 | 0 | Unidentified gunmen killed a senior prison official Amanullah Khan Niazi and four others.[10] | ||
9 | 16 | Gun attack | Khoga Chiri village in Orakzai Agency | 4 | Two female teachers and two children were shot dead.[11] | |||
10 | July | 14 | Suicidal | Abbas Town | 2 | Allama Hassan Turabi, a Shiite religious scholar and chief of Tehrik-e-Jafaria Pakistan, and his 12-year-old nephew were killed in a suicide attack near his residence. The suicide bomber was later identified as Abdul Karim, a Bangladeshi-speaking, resident of a shantytown in the central city area of Karachi.[12] | ||
11 | Aug. | 26 | Battle | Balochistan | <36 | Tribal 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.[13] | ||
12 | 26-31 | Riots | Marriott hotel, Islamabad | 6 | Dozens | Akbar Bugti's killing sparked five days of rioting and the arrest of 700 people.[14] | ||
13 | Sept. | 8 | Bomb | Rakhni bazaar area of Barkhan District, Balochistan| | <6 | 17 | [15] | |
14 | Oct. | 6 | Sectarian | Orakzai Agency | 17 | 5 | Fighting between Sunni and Shia Muslims over a dispute over ownership of the shrine to 18th Century figure Syed Amir Anwar Shah shrine.[16] | |
15 | 20 | Bomb | Peshawar | 6 | 21 | The attack happened in a busy shopping district.[17] | ||
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Chenagai, Bajour | 80 | Eid ul-Fitr holiday.[18] | Between 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||
16 | Nov. | 8 | Suicidal | Dargai | 42 | 20 | All 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.[19] | |
17 | 2007 | Jan. | 15 | Bomb | Jalozai refugee camp | 4 | 5 | The powerful blast destroyed a mud-house.[20] |
18 | 26 | Suicidal | Marriott hotel, Islamabad | 2 | 5 | The bomber and a security guard were killed in the blast.[21] | ||
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27 | Suicidal | Shiite mosque in Peshawar | 42 | 60 | Among the victims were Chief of Peshawar City Police Malik Saad. About 2,000 Shiite Muslims were in and around the mosque, police said.[22] | ||
20 | Feb. | 6 | Suicidal | Miranshah, North Waziristan | 5 | A suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a parking area outside Islamabad International Airport.[23] | ||
21 | 17 | Suicidal | Inside a courtroom in Quetta, Balochistan | 15 | 24 | A suicide bomber blew himself up.[24] | ||
22 | 20 | Assassination | Gujranwala | 1 | Punjab 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.[25] | |||
23 | March | 19-22 | Clashes | Waziristan region | 135 | Clashes 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.[26] | ||
24 | April | 10-11 | Sectarian | different areas of the Kurram Agency | 35 | 'Scores' | 'Heavy fighting between rival Shia and Sunni[27] | |
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Saidgi village in North Waziristan | 4 | [28] | |||
25 | 28 | Assassination attempt | Place? | 23 | 27 | Aftab 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.[29] | ||
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May | 12 | Riots | Karachi | 50 | Hundreds | 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. | Party workers of opposing parties;|
27 | 15 | Suicidal | The Marhaba hotel, Peshawar | <24 | 30 | The hotel is popular with Afghans in Peshawar, where militants opposed to government support for the United States, previously have launched attacks.[30] | ||
28 | June | 2 | Roadside bomb | Dara Khwar, Bajaur Agency | 5 | A tribal chief, a political tehsildar and a journalist were killed.[31] | ||
29 | 8 | Bomb | Hub, Balochistan | 3 | 7 | A bomb exploded on a bus. The coach was heading from Lasbela to Karachi.[32] | ||
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Datakhel area of North Waziristan | <22 | 10 | A missile hit a cluster of compounds.[33] | ||
5 | 23 | 18 artillery shells and six missiles | Mangrotai area of the North Waziristan | 11 | 10 | The ordnance, fired from Afghanistan, hit residential compounds and a hotel. The dead included two children and a woman.[34] | ||
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July | 3-11 | Confrontation | Lal Masjid, Islamabad | 95 | 44 | A confrontation between Islamic militants and the government of Pakistan, centered around the Lal Masjid ("Red Mosque") and Jamia Hafsa madrasah complex in Islamabad. | |
30 | 6 | Assassination attempt | Rawalpindi | President General Pervez Musharraf escaped yet another attempt on his life when around 36 rounds fired at his aircraft from a submachine gun.[35] 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.[36] | ||||
31 | 8 | Gun attack | Near Peshawar | 3 | 1 | Unidentified 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.[37] | ||
32 | 12 | Suicidal (2), blast & Rocket attack |
Three tribal regions and Swat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | 7 | 28 | Three police officers among the dead. [38] | ||
33 | 14 | Suicidal | Miranshah, North Waziristan | 23 | 27 | A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-packed car into a convoy carrying paramilitary troops in one of the deadliest attacks on the security forces in North Waziristan.[39] | ||
34 | 15 | Suicidal and bombs | Throughout Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | 49 | Hundreds | 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. It was apparently retaliations for the Lal Masjid operation.[40] | ||
35 | 17 | Suicidal | Outside the venue of the district bar council convention in Islamabad| | 17 | 50 | A suicide bomber blew himself up killing mostly PPP political workers waiting for the arrival of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, who was to address a lawyers convention.[41] | ||
36 | 19 | Suicidal & bombs | Kohat, Hub and Hangu | <40 | 28 | More than 40 people were killed in three separate bomb attacks. 1) 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.[42] | ||
37 | 24 | Rocket attack | Bannu | 9 | 40 | Unidentified militants fired a barrage of rockets on the civilian population.[43] | ||
38 | 27 | Suicidal | Muzaffar hotel in Aabpara, Islamabad | <13 | 28 | The 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.[44] The same day Raziq Bugti, former guerrilla commander turned spokesman for the Balochistan government, was shot dead by assailants in Quetta.[45] | ||
39 | Aug. | 2 | Suicidal | Sargodha | 2 | Police 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.[46] | ||
40 | 4 | Suicidal | Parachinar, Kurram Agency | 9 | 43 | The attack happened at a busy bus station.[47] | ||
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J | 7 -Feb. 28, 2009 | Battle | Bajaur | <2023 | 4000 | 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.[48] including Kunar province.[49] On February 28, 2009, the Pakistan Army finally defeated the Taliban and other Islamist militants in Bajaur.[50] | A military offensive launched by Pakistani troops against|
41 | 26 | Suicidal | Machaar area of Shangla District | 4 | 2 | All victims were police officers.[51] | ||
42 | Sept. | 4 | Suicidal (2) | Rawalpindi cantonment | 25 | 66 | [52] | 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.|
43 | 11 | Suicidal | Bannu Adda, Dera Ismail Khan district | 17 | 16 | A 15-year-old suicide bomber blew himself up in a passenger van.[53] The same day Omar Ayub Khan's protocol officer, Liaquat Hussain, was found shot dead near the Northern Bypass in Karachi.[54] | ||
44 | 13 | Suicidal | army officers' mess in Tarbela Ghazi, Haripur near Tarbela Dam | 20 | 11 | All the victims were off-duty commandos from Pakistan Army's special forces unit SSG's Karar Company.[55] | ||
45 | 15 | Assassination | Peshawar | 2 | Unidentified 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.[56] | |||
46 | Oct. | 1 | Suicidal | Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | <16 | 29 | A suicide bomber disguised in a woman's burqa blew himself up at a busy police checkpost. Four police officers among the dead.[57] | |
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7-10 | Battle | Near Mir Ali, North Waziristan | 257 | 120 | 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.[58][59] | Clashes broke out after militants set off||
47 | 12 | Execution | Mohmand | 25 | 35 | Taliban publicly behead six "criminals" and lashed three others in the name of Sharia.[60] | ||
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18 | Suicidal | Karachi | 139 | 450 | 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. Karachi Bombs in Pictures | Attack on||
49 | 20 | Bomb | Dera Bugti, Balochistan | <8 | 28 | A powerful bomb planted in a pickup vehicle.[61] | ||
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25- Dec.8 | Battle | Swat | 438 | [62] | The 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.|||
50 | 25 | Suicidal | Swat District | <20 | 35 | A blast aimed at a vehicle carrying Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel kills 18 troops.[63] | ||
51 | 30 | Suicidal | A police checkpoint in the high security zone of Rawalpindi | 7 | 31 | Less 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.[64] | ||
52 | Nov. | 1 | Suicidal | Faisalabad Road, near Sargodha | 7 | 28 | 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.[65] | |
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North Waziristan. | 5 | The attack happened in a Madrasah[66] | |||
53 | 9 | Suicidal | Peshawar | 3 | 2 | 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. The minister was unhurt, but a cousin of his was injured. The three dead were policemen guarding the house.[67] | ||
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17-19 | Sectarian | Parachinar, Kurram Agency | 94 | 168 | Three 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.[68] | ||
55 | 24 | Suicidal (2) | Rawalpindi | 30 | 1) 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 (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.[69] | |||
56 | Dec. | 9 | Suicidal | Near Matta, Swat District | 10 | Three policeofficers and seven civilians, including two children, perished in a car bombing.[70] | ||
57 | 10 | Suicidal | Near Minhas Airbase, Kamra | 0 | 7 | Attack 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.[71] | ||
58 | 13 | Suicidal (2) | Quetta | 7 | 35 | Two suicide bombings near an army checkpost Three personnel from the Pakistan Army among the dead.[72] | ||
59 | 15 | Suicidal | Nowshera | 5 | 11 | Explosives-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.[73] | ||
60 | 17 | Suicidal | [restitive city of] Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | 12 | 5 | The victims were members of the army's local football team.[74] | ||
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21 | Suicidal | Jamia Masjid Sherpao, in Charsadda District | 57 | 100 | On 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.[75] | ||
62 | 23 | Suicidal | Near Mingora | 7 | 23 | A suicide bomber targeted an army convoy. One soldier among the dead.[76] | ||
63 | 27 | Assassination | Liaquat Bagh, Rawalpindi | 21 | Many | 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. | Two-time||
64 | 28 | Violence | Nationwide | 33 | Violence 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.[77] | |||
65 | 28 | Roadside bomb | in Swat District. | 9 | Among the dead are former PML-Q minister Miangul Asfandyar Amir zeb, who was the grandson of the former ruler of the Swat (princely state).[78] | |||
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2008 | Jan. | 10 | Suicidal | Lahore High Court, Lahore | 24 | 73 | Policemen 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.[79] |
67 | 14 | Bomb | Karachi | 10 | 50 | The bomb was planted on a bicycle and it went off during wee hours in a vegetable market.[80] | ||
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15-16 | Gun attack | South Waziristan | <30 | Several dozen Islamic militants overran a paramilitary fort in South Waziristan, Pakistan, killing or kidnapping many troops.[81] 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[82] | |||
68 | 17 | Suicidal | Mirza Qasim Baig Imambargah in Mohalla Janghi, Kohati, Peshawar | 12 | 25 | [83] | ||
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North Waziristan | 1 | Abu Laith al-Libi killed. | ||
69 | Febr. | 4 | Suicidal | Army Medical College, near the General Headquarters in Rawalpindi | 10 | 27 | A suicide bomber crashed his bike into an armed forces bus carrying students and officials.[84] | |
70 | 9 | Bomb | Charsadda in the north-western Pakistan. | 25 | 35 | ANP, a secular party, one of whose leaders, Fazal-ur-Rehman Atakhail, was assassinated February 7 in Karachi triggering widespread protests.[85] | A powerful explosion hit an opposition election rally in The attack targeted||
71 | 11 | Suicidal | Miranshah, North Waziristan | 12 | 25 | A 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.[86] | ||
72 | 16 | Suicidal | Parachinar, Kurram Agency in northwestern Pakistan. | 47 | 150 | 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.[87] | An explosive-laden vehicle is rammed into the election meeting of||
73 | 18 | Violence | Nationwide | 24 | 200 | Election-related on the eve of Pakistani general election, Aaj TV reported.[88] | ||
74 | 22 | Roadside bomb | near the town of Matta, Swat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | 13 | ~12 | An army spokesman said the bomb had been detonated by remote control. Women and children were among the casualties.[89] | ||
75 | 25 | Suicidal | Near Army General Headquarters in Rawalpindi. | 8 | 20 | The 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.[90] | ||
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South Waziristan | 13 | ||||
77 | 29 | Suicidal | Mingora, Swat District | 38 | 75 | The 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.[91] | ||
78 | March | 2 | Suicidal | Darra Adam Khel, a few miles south of Peshawar | 42 | 58 | 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.[92] | |
79 | 4 | Suicidal | parking area of the Pakistan Navy War College, Lahore. | 8 | 24 | Two suicide bombers blew themselves up. 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.[93] | ||
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11 | Suicidal | Lahore | 24 | 200 | Two 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.[94] | ||
81 | 15 | Bomb | A restaurant in Islamabad | 1 | 10 | A 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.[95] | ||
9 | 16 | South Waziristan | 9 | 9 | 3 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.[96] | |||
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April | 9 | Riots | Karachi | 9 | Many | Riots 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.[97] | |
83 | 17 | Clashes | Khyber Agency | 20 | dozens | Clashes between two belligerent factions.[98] | ||
84 | May | 6 | Suicidal | Bannu | 4 | [99] | ||
85 | 18 | Bomb | The Army's Punjab Regimental Center market in the city of Mardan | 13 | 20 | This was the second attack in Mardan in a month after a car bomb on April 25 killed three and injured 26 people.[100] | ||
86 | 19 | Remote-controlled bomb | Mamond Tehsil of Bajaur Agency. | 4 | 2 | A blast outside a mosque.[101] | ||
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South Waziristan | 6 | ||||
87 | 26 | Sectarian violence | Dera Ismail Khan | 7 | 5 | [102] | ||
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June | 2 | Suicidal | Islamabad | 6 | 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.[103] | The Danish embassy in||
89 | 9 | Remote-controlled bomb | Dera Ismail Khan | 4 | Sufi Muhammad, leader of the TNSM, survived. Four policemen got injured.[104] | |||
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10 | South Waziristan | 19 | [105] | 10 Pakistani Para Military Soldiers and 1 Regular Army Major killed, 8 Taliban militants killed||||
90 | 26 | Bomb | Dera Ismail Khan | 4 | 2 | A blast inside a Shia mosque.[106] | ||
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July | 6 | Suicidal | Islamabad | 19 | first anniversary of an army raid on the Islamabad's Lal Masjid[107] | Attack targeting policemen deployed at a rally observing the||
92 | 7 | Bombs | Karachi | <37 | A 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.[108] | |||
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South Waziristan | 6 | Midhat Mursi and 5 other Al-Qaeda operatives killed. | |||
93 | Aug. | 2 | Remote-controlled bomb | Mingora, Swat | 8 | At least eight police and security workers were killed when a remote-controlled bomb exploded near their vehicle.[109] | ||
94 | Aug. | 4 | Fighting | Swat Valley | 136 | 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.[110] | ||
95 | 9 | Gun attack | Kingargalai, Buner District | 8 | Militants stormed a police post killing eight policemen.[111] | |||
96 | 12 | Bomb | A major road near the center of Peshawar | 13 | 11 | A 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.[112] | ||
97 | 13 | Suicidal | Lahore | 8 | 20 | Two 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.[113] | ||
98 | 13 | Explosions, handgrenate attacks | Hub, Uthal, Panjgur, Kharan and Turbat towns in Balochistan | 6 | 19 | Four policemen were injured in explosions, there was a hand-grenade attack in Panjgur and shooting incidents in Balochistan,[114] 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.[115] Haji Namdar had earlier escaped a suicide attack on 1 May 2008 in which 17 people were injured.[116] | ||
99 | 7-18 | Sectarian | Kurram Agency | 287 | 372 | Clashes 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.[117] | ||
100 | 19 | Suicidal | District Headquarters Hospital in Dera Ismail Khan | 32 | 55 | Seven policemen and two health officials were among the killed. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack.[118] | ||
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21 | Suicidal | Pakistan Ordnance Factories, Wah Cantt | 70 | 67 | Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack.[119] | 2 suicidebombers blew themselves up outside the gates of the state run factories.||
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21 | Assassination | Ningulai, Tehsil Kabal, Swat District | 5 | 1 | 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.[120][121] | An influential person of||
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South Waziristan | 10 | ||||
102 | 23 | Suicidal | Charbagh Tehsil, Swat valley | 20 | Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack.[122] | An explosive-laden car rams into a police station.|||
103 | 25 | Rocket attack | Swat valley | 10 | Attack targeting the house of a local member of provincial assembly (MPA). As a result of the attack, ANP MPA Waqar Ahmed's brother and other family members were killed. [123] | |||
104 | 26 | Bomb | Model Town area on the outskirts of Islamabad | 8 | 20 | A bomb explosion at a roadside restaurant.[124] | ||
105 | 28 | Bomb | Bannu area, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | 9 | 15 | An attack targeting a police van. [125] | ||
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South Waziristan | 10 | ||||
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North Waziristan | 5 | ||||
106 | 6 | Suicidal | 20 km from Peshawar | 30 | 70 | Asif Ali Zardari as the President of Pakistan and the marking of Defence Day.[126] | Attack against a paramilitary checkpoint. The attack came during the voting to elect||
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North Waziristan | 23 | ||||
107 | 10 | grenade-and-gun attack | Maskanai area of Lower Dir District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | 25 | 50 | In a mosque[127] | ||
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108 | 19 | Bomb | Quetta | 5 | 8 | Islamic religious school run by Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam[128] | ||
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20 | Suicidal | Islamabad | 57 | 266 | |||
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110 | 22 | Suicidal | Swat | 9 | A checkpost [129] | |||
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Tanai region | |||||
111 | 26 | Bomb | Near city of Bahawalpur | 3 | 15 | Bomb on railway track derails passenger train.[130] | ||
24 | Oct. | 1 | ![]() |
"Border-area" | 6 | |||
112 | 2 | Suicidal | Walibagh, Charsadda | 6 | [131] | |||
113 | 6 | Suicidal | Bhakkar, Punjab | 20 | 60 | [132] | ||
25 | 9 | ![]() |
Tappi, North Waziristan | 8 | [133] | |||
114 | 9 | Suicidal | Islamabad | 8 | 8 | Main Police Headquarters List of terrorist incidents in Pakistan since 2001#2008[134] | ||
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10 | Suicidal | Adazai, Orakzai Agency | 110 | 200 | [135][136] | ||
116 | 13 | Suicidal | Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | 5 | [137] | |||
26 | 16 | ![]() |
Taparghai, South Waziristan | 1 | [138] | |||
117 | 16 | Suicidal | Mingora, Swat | 4 | [139] | |||
118 | 19 | Suicidal | Dera Bugti district, Balochistan | 3 | 6 | [140] | ||
27 | 22 | ![]() |
Taparghai, South Waziristan | 4 | [141] | |||
28 | 26 | ![]() |
South Waziristan | 20 | [142] | |||
119 | 26 | Suicidal | Ghalaanai, Mohmand Agency | 11 | 5 | [143] | ||
120 | 27 | Suicidal | Ghalaanai, Quetta | 2 | 12 | Near the District Court Complex[144] | ||
121 | 31 | Suicidal | Mardan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | 8 | 20 | [145] | ||
122 | Nov. | 2 | Suicidal | Wana, South Waziristan | 8 | Security checkpost[146] | ||
123 | 4 | Suicidal | Hangu District | 7 | 6 | Security checkpost[147] | ||
124 | 6 | Suicidal | Bajaur Agency | 22 | 45 | At a Salarzai jirga[148] | ||
125 | 11 | Suicidal | Qayyum 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. [149] | ||
126 | 12 | Suicidal | Charsadda District | 7 | 15 | Explosives-filled bus into the gates of a school[150] | ||
29 | 14 | ![]() |
Miranshah, North Waziristan | 12 | [151] | |||
127 | 17 | Suicidal | Khawazakhela area, Swat | >3 | [152] | |||
128 | 19 | Assassination | Islamabad | 2 | Former head of the army's elite commando force Special Service Group, Maj-Gen (R) Ameer Faisal Alavi, who commanded the SSG during the first major assault on militants in South Waziristan in 2004 and his driver gunned down.[153] | |||
129 | 20 | Suicidal | Mamoond tehsil of Bajaur Agency | >9 | 4 | [154] | ||
130 | 21 | Suicidal | Dera Ismail Khan | 7 | 17 | During the funeral of a cleric near the bus stand.[155] | ||
30 | 22 | ![]() |
North Waziristan | 5 | [156] | |||
131 | 28 | Suicidal | Peshawar-Bannu Road in Domel area of Bannu | 9 | 16 | Explosive-laden rams a police vehicle. 4 police officers among the dead.[157] | ||
132 | Dec. | 1 | Suicidal | 7 kilometers north-east of Mingora | 10 | 49 | Explosive-laden truck near the Sangota security post.[158] | |
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5 | Bombs | Peshwar and Orakzai | 27 | 50 | [159] | Two bombs exploded in crowded markets.||
31 | 22 | ![]() |
South Waziristan | <8 | Two vehicles hit at different locations. Most of those on board killed.[160] | |||
32 | 22 | ![]() |
Kari Khel, 8 km from Wana, South Waziristan | 7 | [161] | |||
134 | 28 | Suicidal | Buner District | 36 | 16 | Near a polling station in a government school, believed to have been carried out to disrupt the by-election for a National Assembly seat.[162] | ||
33 | 2009 | Jan. | 1 | ![]() |
3 | 2 senior Al-Qaeda leaders Usama al-Kini & Sheikh Ahmed Salim Swedan killed [163] | ||
135 | 4 | Suicidal | Government Polytechnic College, Multan Road in Dera Ismail Khan. | 7 | 25 | 3 police officers and 2 journalist among the dead. Most of the injured policemen.[164] | ||
136 | 10 | Gunbattle | Hangu | 27 | Several | Rival sects fight for 2 days[165] | ||
34 | 23 | ![]() |
Waziristan | 14 | [166] | |||
137 | 26 | Bomb | Dera Ismail Khan | 5 | Several | Bomb attached to a bicycle went off on a busy main road.[167] | ||
138 | 26 | Assassination | Quetta | 1 | Several | Hussain Ali Yousafi, chairman of the Hazara Democratic Party, was shot dead by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi[168] | ||
139 | Feb. | 3 | Hand grenade attack | Mohallah Joginwala in Dera Ismail Khan | 1 | 18 | At a Sunni mosque. [169] | |
140 | 5 | Suicidal | Al Hussainia Mosque, Dera Ghazi Khan | 32 | A crowd of Shia worshippers shortly before a religious gathering.[170] | |||
141 | 7 | Gunbattle | Mianwali in Punjab, near Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | 7 | All killed were policeofficers at a checkpoint.[171] | |||
142 | 11 | Remote controlled bomb | Dalazak Road in Peshawar | 1 | 11 | Bomb fitted to motorbike parked near the residence of Awami National Party (ANP) provincial lawmaker Alam Zeb Khan. This was the sixth such attack on ANP in less than a year.[172] | ||
35 | Feb. | 14 | ![]() |
Makeen in South Waziristan | <30 | [173] | ||
36 | 16 | ![]() |
Waziristan | 14 | ||||
143 | 17 | Bomb | Bazidkhel-suburb near Peshawar | 3 | Several | Outside the home of a government official. He survived but several people were hurt.[174] | ||
144 | 20 | Suicidal | Dera Ismail Khan | 30 | 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.[175] | ||
37 | March | 1 | ![]() |
Sararogha village in South Waziristan | 14 | [176] | ||
145 | 2 | Suicidal | Pishin District, Balochistan | 4 | 12 | At a girls' religious school.[177] | ||
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3 | Gunattack | Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. | 8 | 6 | Sri Lankan cricketers and officials in two buses was fired upon by 12 gunmen.[178] | 6 policeofficers killed when a convoy carrying||
147 | 5 | Handgrenade | Ameer Hamza mosque, Dera Ismail Khan | 1 | 19 | [179] | ||
148 | 5 | 4 Bombs | Peshawar | 0 | 0 | The mausoleum of the most-revered mystic poet of the Pakhtun land Rahman Baba blown up.[180] | ||
149 | 7 | Bomb | Peshawar | 8 | 5 | Seven policeoficers killed. In a separate incident, a roadside bomb killed three civilians and wounded four troops in the town of Darra Adam Khel.[181] | ||
150 | 11 | Assassination | Namak Mandi, Peshawar | 6 | 4 | Khyber 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.[182] | ||
38 | 12 | ![]() |
Berju in Kurram Agency | 24 | [183] | |||
39 | 15 | ![]() |
Jani Khel in Bannu district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa | 4 | [184] | |||
151 | 16 | Suicidal | Busiest busstand, (Pirwadhai) of Rawalpindi | 14 | 17 | [185] | ||
152 | 18 | Gun attack | University of Malakand, Chakdara, Lower Dir District | 5 | 4' | 3 police officers among the dead when over 100 unidentified armed men attacked a police vehicle at the entrance.[186] | ||
153 | 23 | Suicidal | Islamabad | 1 | 3 | A security official killed and three others injured outside a police Special Branch office.[187] | ||
40 | 25 | ![]() |
Makin area of South Waziristan | 7 | 2 vehicles by two missiles[188] | |||
41 | 26 | ![]() |
Essokhel area in North Waziristan | 4 | [189] | |||
154 | 26 | Suicidal | Near Jandola, South Waziristan | 10 | 25 | At a restaurant targeting opponents of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Baitullah Mehsud[190] | ||
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27 | Suicidal | Peshawar-Torkham Highway in Jamrud, Khyber Agency | 75 | 100 | [191] | 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.||
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30 | Gun & grenade attack | Manawan Police Training School in Lahore near the border with India | 9 | 93 | [192] | 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.||
42 | April | 1 | ![]() |
Orakzai Agency | 14 | [193] | ||
157 | 4 | Suicidal | Margalla Road, Islamabad | <10 | 12 | [194] | A camp of the Frontier Constabulary (FC) attacked. At least eight FC personnel killed.||
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5 | Suicidal | an Imambargah in Chakwal | 22 | 60 | [195] | At the gates of a Shia mosque where some 1,200 people were attending a religious gathering.||
159 | 6 | Killing | Shinkiari area of Mansehra District | 4 | 3 | Police found bullet-riddled bodies of four local aid workers, including three women, in on Monday.[196] | ||
43 | 8 | ![]() |
Gangi Khel in South Waziristan | 4 | [197] | |||
160 | 15 | Suicidal | Charsadda, near Peshawar. | 9 | 5 | A security attacked killing nine policeofficers and injuring five others. [198] | ||
161 | 18 | Suicidal | Doaba area of Hangu | 22 | 15 | A checkpoint killing five security personnel. [199] | ||
44 | 19 | ![]() |
South Waziristan | <3 | 5 | [200] | ||
162 | 26 | Tragedy | Lower Dir District | 12 | 12 children were killed after playing with a bomb they mistook for a football.[201] | |||
45 | 29 | ![]() |
Kanni Garam village in South Waziristan | 6 | [202] | |||
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29 | Targeted killings | Karachi | 34 | 40 | Unidentified 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.[203] | ||
164 | May | 5 | Suicidal | Peshawar-Bara road 12 km west of Peshawar Cantonment | 7 | 48 | An explosives-laden car rammed into a pick-up near a checkpost[204] | |
46 | 9 | ![]() |
Sararogha, South Waziristan | 6 | strike in kills 6 militants.[205] | |||
165 | May | 11 | Suicidal | Outskirts of Darra Adam Khel | 8 | 27 | Explosives-laden vehicle near an FC checkpost.[206] | |
47 | 12 | ![]() |
Sra Khawra village in South Waziristan | 8 | [207] | |||
48 | 16 | ![]() |
Sarkai Naki village, North Waziristan | 25 | [208] | |||
166 | 16 | Bombs | Peshawar | 13 | 34 | 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.[209] | ||
167 | 21 | Suicidal | Frontier Corps (FC) fort, Jandola area, Tank District | 9 | 25 | Five security personnel were among the dead.[210] | ||
168 | 22 | Car bomb | Cinema Road, Peshawar | 10 | 75 | The attack happened outside a cinema.[211] | ||
Total | 6545 | 9872 | ||||||
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April | 26- | Battle (ongoing) |
Buner, Lower Dir, Swat and Shangla districts | ~800 (Army claim) | 102 | Operation 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 | |
TOTAL | May | 25 | 7364 | 10074 |
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![16.Dargai](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
16.Dargai
![19,133.Pershawar](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
19,133.Pershawar
![42.Rawalpindi](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
42.Rawalpindi
![48,82,163.Karachi bombing](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
48,82,163.Karachi bombing
![54.Parachinar](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
54.Parachinar
![61.Charsadda](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
61.Charsadda
![66,80,146,156.Lahore](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
66,80,146,156.Lahore
![78.Darra Adam Khel](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
78.Darra Adam Khel
![77.Mingora](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
77.Mingora
![88,91,109.Islamabad](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
88,91,109.Islamabad
![94.Swat](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
94.Swat
![100,144.Dera Ismail Khan](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
100,144.Dera Ismail Khan
![99.Kurram Agency](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
99.Kurram Agency
![107. Maskanai](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
107. Maskanai
![113.Bhakkar](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
113.Bhakkar
![158.Chakwal](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
158.Chakwal
![155.Jamrud](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
155.Jamrud
![140.Dera Ghazi Khan](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
140.Dera Ghazi Khan
![124.Bajaur](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
124.Bajaur
![115.Orakzai](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/8px-Red_pog.svg.png)
115.Orakzai
![1.L Masjid](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Green_pog.svg/10px-Green_pog.svg.png)
1.L Masjid
![2.Bajaur](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Green_pog.svg/10px-Green_pog.svg.png)
2.Bajaur
![3.Mir Ali](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Green_pog.svg/10px-Green_pog.svg.png)
3.Mir Ali
![4.Swat](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ab/Green_pog.svg/10px-Green_pog.svg.png)
4.Swat
![1.Damadola](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Blue_pog.svg/10px-Blue_pog.svg.png)
1.Damadola
![2.Chenagai](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Blue_pog.svg/10px-Blue_pog.svg.png)
2.Chenagai
![11.Gora](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Blue_pog.svg/10px-Blue_pog.svg.png)
11.Gora
![15.Angoor Ada](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Blue_pog.svg/10px-Blue_pog.svg.png)
15.Angoor Ada
![15,19.Miranshah](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Blue_pog.svg/10px-Blue_pog.svg.png)
15,19.Miranshah
![21.Cheena](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d7/Blue_pog.svg/10px-Blue_pog.svg.png)
21.Cheena
See also
[edit]- War in North-West Pakistan
- Civilian casualties
- List of terrorist incidents in Pakistan since 2001
- Drone attacks in Pakistan by the United States
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