Timeline of deadliest insurgent attacks in Pakistan

At least 45 people were killed Monday in a bomb attack on mourners outside a hospital in Quetta


Afp August 08, 2016
Volunteers use a stretcher to move an injured lawyer after a bomb explosion at Civil Hospital premises in Quetta on August 8, 2016. PHOTO: AFP

ISLAMABAD: At least 63 people were killed Monday in a bomb attack on mourners outside a Civil Hospital in Quetta.

Here is a list of major attacks against civilians by militant groups in the country since 2007:

-- 2007 --

October 18: Bomb attacks targeting former premier Benazir Bhutto kill 139 people in Karachi as she returns to Pakistan for the first time in eight years. Bhutto herself dies in a gun and suicide attack on December 27.



-- 2008 --

August 21: Twin suicide attacks kill 64 people outside Pakistan's main arms factory at Wah near Islamabad.

September 20: Sixty people are killed when a suicide truck bomb destroys part of the five-star Marriott hotel in Islamabad.



-- 2009 --

October 28: A car bomb rips apart a market in the northwestern city of Peshawar, killing 125 people.

63 killed in blast at Quetta's civil hospital after lawyer's killing

December 7-9: At least 66 people die in four attacks at a market in Lahore.

-- 2010 --

January 1: A suicide car bomb kills 101 people at a village volleyball game in the northwestern district of Bannu.

May 28: Gunmen and suicide bombers storm mosques belonging to the Ahmadi religious minority in Lahore, killing 82 people.



July 9: A suicide bomber kills 105 people in a busy market in Mohmand district, Fata.

September 3: A suicide attack kills 59 at a Shia Muslim rally in Quetta.

November 5: A suicide bomber kills 68 people during Friday prayers in the northwest's Darra Adam Khel, Fata.



-- 2011 --

April 3: Fifty die after two suicide bombers attack a Sufi shrine in the central town of Dera Ghazi Khan.

May 13: Two suicide bombers kill at least 98 people outside a police training centre in Charsadda.

-- 2013 --

January 10: A double suicide attack on a snooker club kills 92 in a district of Quetta populated by Shia Hazaras.



February 16: A bomb at a market at Hazara Town, a Shia neighbourhood near Quetta, kills 89.

March 3: A car bomb explodes in a Shia neighbourhood in Karachi, killing 45.



September 22: Eighty-two people die when two suicide bombers attack a church in Peshawar after a Sunday service.

-- 2014 --

November 2: Fifty-five people are killed by a suicide bomber at the main Pakistan-India border crossing.

At least five injured in Quetta bomb attack



December 16: Taliban insurgents storm an army-run school in Peshawar, killing 154 people, most of them children.

-- 2015 --

January 30: Sixty-one people are killed as a suicide bomber hits a Shia mosque in Shikarpur in southern Pakistan.

May 13: The first attack officially claimed by the Islamic State group in Pakistan kills 45 Shia Muslims in Karachi.



-- 2016 --

March 27: Seventy-five people are killed and hundreds injured in an explosion that targets Christians near a park in Lahore.



August 8: At least 45 people die and dozens are wounded when a blast tears through mourners at a hospital in Quetta.

COMMENTS (1)

bigsaf | 7 years ago | Reply So many lost souls, so many victims over the years. Its madness. The war is far from over against these so called religious militants.
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