Women mourn their relative Mohammed Ali Khan, 15, a student who was killed during an attack by Taliban gunmen on the Army Public School, at his house in Peshawar December 16, 2014. At least 132 students and nine staff members were killed on Tuesday after Taliban gunmen broke into a school in the Pakistani city of Peshawar and opened fire, witnesses said, in the bloodiest massacre the country has seen for years. REUTERS
Here is a list of major attacks by militant groups in the country since 2007:
2007October 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.
2009October 28: A car bomb rips apart a market in the northwestern city of Peshawar, killing 125 people.
December 7-9: At least 66 people die in four attacks at a market in Lahore, Pakistan's second biggest city.
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 the northwestern tribal district of Mohmand.
September 3: A suicide attack kills 59 at a Shiite Muslim rally in Quetta.
November 5: A suicide bomber kills 68 people during Friday prayers in the northwest's Darra Adam Khel area.
2011April 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 Shiite Hazaras.
February 16: A bomb at a market at Hazara Town, a Shiite neighbourhood near Quetta, kills 89.
March 3: A car bomb explodes in a Shiite neighbourhood in Karachi, killing 45.
September 22: Eighty-two people die when two suicide bombers attack a church in Peshawar after a Sunday service.
2014November 2: Fifty-five people are killed by a suicide bomber at the main Pakistan-India border crossing.
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 Shiite mosque in Shikarpur in southern Pakistan.
May 13: The first attack officially claimed by the Islamic State group in Pakistan kills 45 Shiite Muslims in Karachi.
2016March 27: Seventy-five people are killed and hundreds injured in an explosion that targets Christians near a park in Lahore.
August 8: At least 73 people die and dozens are wounded when a blast tears through mourners at a hospital in Quetta.
September 17: A Taliban suicide bomber kills at least 36 people as they attend Friday prayers at a mosque in a northwestern Pakistani tribal area.
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