March 31, 2011: At least 13 people were
killed in a suicide bomb attack on the leader of one of Pakistan's most
influential Islamic parties and a long–standing ally of the Afghan Taliban
movement. It was the second suicide bomb attack on the leader of Jamiat
Ulema–i–Islam in two days. Twelve people were killed when a suicide bomber on a
motorbike attacked a crowd in Swabi waiting for Mr Rehman to address them.
November 5, 2010: A suicide bomber killed 68 people at a
mosque in the northwest area of Darra Adam Khel. Hours later, grenades thrown
into a second mosque, near Peshawar, killed at least two
people.
October 2010: 25 people were killed in a
blast at a shrine in Punjab province. Another attack at a Karachi shrine two
weeks earlier killed nine and was claimed by the Taliban.
July 10, 2010: Double suicide bombing kills
102 people in village of Kakaghund in northwestern Pakistan.
April 5, 2010: Taliban fighters using rocket-propelled
grenades, car bombs and suicide vests tried to storm the United States consulate
in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province. Five security guards were among
seven people killed during the raid in Peshawar. Several
explosions in the area caused buildings to collapse.
February 3, 2010: A bomb blast near a girls' school in
northwestern Pakistan killed three American soldiers apparently
involved in a US-British programme to train the country's paramilitary Frontier
Corps. Two US military personnel were wounded in the roadside bomb attack on a
convoy in Lower Dir, which also killed a Pakistani paramilitary and at least
three children.
January 1, 2010: At least 88 people were
killed when a suicide car bomber blew up himself and his vehicle as people
gathered to watch a volleyball game in the village of Shah Hasan Khan, in Bannu
district of north-west Pakistan.
December 28,2009: A suicide bomber kills 43
people at a Shia procession in Karachi. The Taliban have claimed the attack and
threatened more violence.
October 24, 2009: The Pakistani Taliban targeted an airbase
believed to be one of the country's secret nuclear weapons facilities among a
wave of suicide bombings that killed at least 25 people.
October 15, 2009: The Taliban launched pre-emptive strikes
against targets across Pakistan, killing 39 people in five
separate attacks as it sought to deter a planned assault on its stronghold near
the Afghan frontier.
October 12,2009: A suicide bomber thought to be about 12
years old blew himself up in a busy market in north-west Pakistan, killing at
least 41 people and injuring dozens more.
October 9, 2009: A car bomb destroyed a market in the
northwestern city of Peshawar, killing at least 125 people. The
attack was thought to be part of a Taliban campaign.
September 18, 2009: At least 33 people were
killed when a suicide car bomber rammed into a Shia-owned hotel in north-west
Pakistan. A further 70 were injured by the bomb, which flattened the market
place surrounding the hotel in the town of Kohat, in North West Frontier
Province, on the edge of Pakistan's Taliban-controlled tribal area.
June 9, 2009: At least 11 people were
killed and 70 injured when suspected Islamic militants attacked a five-star
hotel in Peshawar. The militants drove through the main gate of the Pearl
Continental Hotel in a pickup truck, spraying security guards with bullets
before ramming their vehicle into the building and detonating it.
June 5, 2009: A suicide bomber killed 40
people attended Friday prayers at a mosque in north-west Pakistan. The attack
took place in the Upper Dir district, close to Swat valley, where the army has
been conducting a major offensive against the Taliban.
March 27, 2009: A suicide attack on a mosque on the
Peshawar-Torkham highway kills 83 people and leaves more than
100 injured.
October 10, 2008: At least 85 people are
killed and about 200 wounded in an attack at an anti-Taliban meeting in a tribal
area.
September 20, 2008: A suicide attack at the Marriott Hotel
in Islamabad kills at least 60 people. CCTV footage showed the
truck carrying the biggest ever bomb used by terrorists in Pakistan being driven
into the gates of the Marriott hotel in Islamabad
February 16, 2008: A suicide bomber rams his car into the
election office of an independent candidate in the city of Parachinar, killing
at least 47.
January 10, 2008: A suicide bomber walks up to policemen
stationed outside the High Court in Lahore and sets off his explosives, killing
22 people, most of them police.
January 7, 2008: Al-Qaeda-linked militants in northwest
Pakistan attack two offices of a government-sponsored peace movement and kill
eight people.
December 21, 2007: A suicide bomber kills at least
41 people in a mosque in northwest Pakistan during Eid festival
prayers.
December 17, 2007: A suicide bomber kills
10 military recruits in the northwestern town of Kohat.
November 24, 2007: Twin suicide car bomb attacks kill
15 people in Rawalpindi, on the eve of the return of former
Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from exile in Saudi Arabia.
October 25, 2007: Suspected suicide bomber kills 21
people, including 17 soldiers, in an attack on an army convoy in the
northwestern Swat valley.
October 19, 2007: At least 139 people
killed in suicide bomb attack on Benazir Bhutto's motorcade as she is driven
through Karachi after arriving home from eight years in self-exile. The attack
is one of the deadliest in Pakistan's history.
Sept 13, 2007: At least 15 soldiers killed
in suicide bombing in an army canteen near Islamabad.
September 11, 2007: Suicide bomber kills 16
people in northwest Dera Ismail Khan.
September 4, 2007: Two suicide bombers kill
25 in Rawalpindi.
July 27, 2007: Suicide bomb attack in restaurant near
Islamabad's Red Mosque kills 13 people, most of them policemen.
July 19, 2007: Three suicide attacks in a single day in
three towns kill at least 52 people.
July 17, 2007: Suicide bomber kills 16
people outside court in Islamabad, where country's suspended Chief
Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was due to speak.
July 15, 2007: 16 people, most of them
paramilitary soldiers, are killed in ambush on patrol in Swat valley in North
West Frontier Province (NWFP). Separately, suicide bomber targets police
recruiting centre in Dera Ismail Khan in NWFP, killing 29.
July 14, 2007: Suicide car-bomber kills 24
paramilitary soldiers and wounds 29 in North Waziristan.
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