Final Project

TERRORISM IN WORLD AND IN OUR COUNTRY

Session: MSc. IT FALL 2009-2011

Section: AFTERNOON

Submitted to:
Rana Muhammad Bilal Anwar

Submitted By

JAN SHAIR MITF09A048

MUHAMMAD FAHAD KHALID MITF09A051

Punjab University College of Information Technology

University of the Punjab, Lahore.

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 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We have gone through many topics for our final project of writing skills but prefer to work on
terrorism. It is a very sad aspect that we being a nation are greatly affected by this evil. No-
doubt, on the other hand, it’s a hot cake for media. Whenever we switch on our TV, and tune to
local news channel, suicide attacks are the spot lights of the channel. Thousands of mothers are
crying for their sons, thousands of children are crying for their parents but these attacks are going
on and on and on and our government is doing NOTHING.

This project is not only a requirement for session marks but our aim is to highlight the point that
why we are still sleeping? Why we are the only victim of Terrorism. Not only our government
but we are also responsible for this thing.

We try our level best to fulfill all the requirements according to the project starting from the
main meaning till the measures to remove terrorism not only from our country but from the
whole world

At the end, we would like to thank our respected teacher Sir Bilal annwar who gives us an
opportunity to present our ideas

Jan Shair Khan(Group Leader)

MITF09A048
Muhammad Fahad Khalid
MITF09A051

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 ABSTRACT

No-doubt, terrorism is one of the toughest and difficult challenge ever faced by the Government.
According to legal dictionary “the unlawful use or threat of violence esp. against the state or the
public as a politically motivated means of attack or coercion is called terrorism. Unfortunately,
there are many different types of terrorism. There is state terrorism, bioterrorism, and cyber
terrorism. There is also ecoterrorism, nuclear terrorism, and narco-terrorism. Whenever
repressive measures are taken by governments against their own countrymen to still the voice of
disagreement, those measures too should be included within the term 'terrorism' and be as
strongly and roundly condemned as any other form of terrorism. Humanity has suffered far more
through such acts of State terrorism. In Holy Quran this word is covered by Fitnah and Ikrâh.

Our Project covers the following contents

Ø Terrorism
Ø History
Ø Types
Ø Causes
Ø Effects
Ø Terrorism in our country Pakistan
Ø Measures to decrease Terrorism

We try our level best to fulfill all the requirements according to the project starting from the
main meaning till the measures to remove terrorism not only from our country but from the
whole world

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 TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. TERRORISM……………………………………………………………………5

1.1. Origin of term…………………………………………………………..…….6

1.2. Recognition of term……………………………………………………..……7

1.3. Pejorative use……………………………………………………………..…..8

2. HISTORY………………………………………………………………………...9

2.1. Ancient and medieval roots………………………………………………………...9

2.2. Modern Events and Groups…………………………………………………...9

2.3. Reign of Terror……………………………………………………………….10

2.4. 19th Century Events and groups……………………………………………...10

2.5. World War II…………………………………………………………………10

3. CAUSES……….…………………………………………………………………11

4. EFFECTS OF TERRORISM………………………………………….………..12

5. TERRORISM IN PAKISTAN…………………………………………………..13

5.1. HISTORY OF TERRORISM IN PAKISTAN……………………………….13

5.1.1. 2001…………………………………………………………………….13

5.1.2. 2002……………………………………………………………………13

5.1.3. 2003……………………………………………………………………14

5.1.4. 2004…………………………………………………………………….15

5.1.5. 2005…………………………………………………………………….16

5.1.6. 2006…………………………………………………………………….16

5.1.7. 2007…………………………………………………………………….17

5.1.8. 2008…………………………………………………………………….20

5.1.9. 2009…………………………………………………………………….24

6. HOW TERRORISM CAN BE REMOVED……………………………………….30

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 TERRORISM

Terrorism is the systematic use of terror especially as a means of coercion. At present, there is
no internationally agreed definition of terrorism. Common definitions of terrorism refer only to
those violent acts which are intended to create fear (terror), are perpetrated for an ideological
goal (as opposed to a lone attack), and deliberately target or disregard the safety of non-
combatants.

Some definitions also include acts of unlawful violence and war. The history of terrorist
organizations suggests that they do not select terrorism for its political effectiveness. Individual
terrorists tend to be motivated more by a desire for social solidarity with other members of their
organization than by political platforms or strategic objectives, which are often murky and
undefined.

The word "terrorism" is politically and emotionally charged, and this greatly compounds the
difficulty of providing a precise definition. Studies have found over 100 definitions of
“terrorism”. The concept of terrorism is itself controversial because it is often used by states to
delegitimize political or foreign opponents, and potentially legitimize the state's own use of
terror against them. A less politically and emotionally charged, and better defined, term (used not
only for terrorists, and not including all those who have been described as terrorists) is violent
non-state actor.

Terrorism has been practiced by a broad array of political organizations for furthering their
objectives. It has been practiced by right-wing and left-wing political parties, nationalistic
groups, religious groups, revolutionaries, and ruling governments. One form is the use of
violence against noncombatants for the purpose of gaining publicity for a group, cause, or
individual.

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 ORIGIN OF TERM

"Terror" comes from a Latin word meaning "to frighten". The terror cimbricus was a panic and
state of emergency in Rome in response to the approach of warriors of the Cimbri tribe in
105BC. The Jacobins cited this precedent when imposing a Reign of Terror during the French
Revolution.[ After the Jacobins lost power, the word "terrorist" became a term of abuse.
Although the Reign of Terror was imposed by a government, in modern times "terrorism"
usually refers to the killing of innocent people by a private group in such a way as to create a
media spectacle.[citation needed] This meaning can be traced back to Sergey Nechayev, who
described himself as a "terrorist". Nechayev founded the Russian terrorist group "People's
Retribution" in 1869.

In November 2004, a United Nations Security Council report described terrorism as any act
"intended to cause death or serious bodily harm to civilians or non-combatants with the purpose
of intimidating a population or compelling a government or an international organization to do or
abstain from doing any act".

In many countries, acts of terrorism are legally distinguished from criminal acts done for other
purposes, and "terrorism" is defined by statute; see definition of terrorism for particular
definitions. Common principles among legal definitions of terrorism provide an emerging
consensus as to meaning and also foster cooperation between law enforcement personnel in
different countries. Among these definitions there are several that do not recognize the
possibility of legitimate use of violence by civilians against an invader in an occupied country.
Other definitions would label as terrorist groups only the resistance movements that oppose an
invader with violent acts that undiscriminately kill or harm civilians and non-combatants, thus
making a distinction between lawful and unlawful use of violence. Ultimately, the distinction is a
political judgment.

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 RECOGNITION OF TERRORISM

Terrorism is also often recognizable by a following statement from the perpetrators.

Violence – According to Walter Laqueur of the Center for Strategic and International

Studies, "the only general characteristic of terrorism generally agreed upon is that terrorism
involves violence and the threat of violence". However, the criterion of violence alone does not
produce a useful definition, as it includes many acts not usually considered terrorism: war, riot,
organized crime, or even a simple assault. Property destruction that does not endanger life is not
usually considered a violent crime, but some have described property destruction by the Earth
Liberation Front and Animal Liberation Front as violence and terrorism; see eco-terrorism.

Psychological impact and fear – The attack was carried out in such a way as to maximize the
severity and length of the psychological impact. Each act of terrorism is a “performance” devised
to have an impact on many large audiences. Terrorists also attack national symbols, to show
power and to attempt to shake the foundation of the country or society they are opposed to. This
may negatively affect a government, while increasing the prestige of the given terrorist
organization and/or ideology behind a terrorist act.

Perpetrated for a political goal – Something that many acts of terrorism have in common is a
political purpose. Terrorism is a political tactic, like letter-writing or protesting, which is used by
activists when they believe that no other means will effect the kind of change they desire. The
change is desired so badly that failure to achieve change is seen as a worse outcome than the
deaths of civilians. This is often where the inter-relationship between terrorism and religion
occurs. When a political struggle is integrated into the framework of a religious or "cosmic"
struggle, such as over the control of an ancestral homeland or holy site such as Israel and
Jerusalem, failing in the political goal (nationalism) becomes equated with spiritual failure,
which, for the highly committed, is worse than their own death or the deaths of innocent
civilians. One definition that combines the key elements was developed at the George C.
Marshall Center for European Security Studies by Carsten Bockstette: "Terrorism is defined as
political violence in an asymmetrical conflict that is designed to induce terror and psychic fear
(sometimes indiscriminate) through the violent victimization and destruction of noncombatant

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targets (sometimes iconic symbols). Such acts are meant to send a message from an illicit
clandestine organization. The purpose of terrorism is to exploit the media in order to achieve
maximum attainable publicity as an amplifying force multiplier in order to influence the targeted
audience(s) in order to reach short- and midterm political goals and/or desired long-term end
states."

Deliberate targeting of non-combatants – The distinctive nature of terrorism lies in its

intentional and specific selection of civilians as direct targets. Specifically, the criminal intent is
shown when babies, children, mothers and the elderly are murdered, or injured and put in harm's
way. Much of the time, the victims of terrorism are targeted not because they are threats, but
because they are specific "symbols, tools, animals or corrupt beings" that tie into a specific view
of the world that the terrorists possess. Their suffering accomplishes the terrorists' goals of
instilling fear, getting their message out to an audience or otherwise satisfying the demands of
their often radical religious and political agendas. Unlawfulness or illegitimacy – Some official
(notably government) definitions of terrorism add a criterion of illegitimacy or unlawfulness to
distinguish between actions authorized by a government (and thus "lawful") and those of other
actors, including individuals and small groups. Using this criterion, actions that would otherwise
qualify as terrorism would not be considered terrorism if they were government sanctioned. For
example, firebombing a city, which is designed to affect civilian support for a cause, would not
be considered terrorism if it were authorized by a government. This criterion is inherently
problematic and is not universally accepted, because: it denies the existence of state terrorism;
the same act may or may not be classed as terrorism depending on whether its sponsorship is
traced to a "legitimate" government; "legitimacy" and "lawfulness" are subjective, depending on
the perspective of one government or another; and it diverges from the historically accepted
meaning and origin of the term. For these reasons, this criterion is not universally accepted; most
dictionary definitions of the term do not include this criterion.

Pejorative use
The terms "terrorism" and "terrorist" (someone who engages in terrorism) carry strong negative
connotations

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 HISTORY

The history of terrorism is a history of well-known and historically significant individuals,

groups, and incidents associated, whether rightly or wrongly, with terrorism. Scholars agree that
terrorism is a disputed term, and very few of those labelled terrorists describe themselves as
such. The article covers a diverse array of groups, whose political roots range from religion to
nationalism to anarchism.

Ancient and medieval roots

Scholars dispute whether the roots of terrorism date back to the the first century and the Sicarii
Zealots, to the eleventh century and the Al-Hashshashin, to the 19th century and Narodnaya
Volya, or to other eras. The Sicarii and Hashshashin are described below, while the Narodnaya
Volya is discussed in the 19th Century sub-section.

In the 1st century CE, the Jewish Zealots used "propaganda of the deed" by publicly murdering
Jews who collaborated with Roman rule. They were a primarily political group which rebelled
against Roman rule in the Iudaea Province. According to the contemporary historian Josephus, in
6 C.E. Judas of Galilee led a small, more extreme group of Zealots to found an offshoot which
would later be known as the Sicarii, meaning "dagger men." Their efforts were mainly directed
not against the Romans, but against Jewish “collaborators” such as priests of the temple,
Sadducees, Herodians, and other wealthy elites who profited from working with the Romans.[12]
According to Josephus, the Sicarii would hide short daggers under their cloaks, mingle with
crowds at large festivals, murder their victims, and then disappear into the crowd during the
ensuing panic. Their most successful assassination was of the high priest Jonathan.

Modern events and groups

The Gunpowder Plot and the Sons of Liberty

In 1605 on the 5th of November, a group of conspirators led by Guy Fawkes attempted to
destroy the English Parliament on the State Opening, by detonating a large quantity of

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gunpowder placed beneath the building. The group brings about a coup by killing King James I
and the members of both houses of Parliament. The conspirators planned to make one of the
king's children a puppet crown and then restore the Catholic faith to England. The plan was
betrayed and thwarted. The violent attempted coup, which may not be an act of terrorism, has
become known as the Gunpowder Plot and is commemorated in Britain every November 5th
with fireworks displays and large bonfires.

REIGN OF TERROR
The Reign of Terror (September 5, 1793 – July 28, 1794) or simply The Terror was a period of eleven
months during the French Revolution when the ruling Jacobins employed violence, including mass
executions by guillotine, in order to intimidate the regime's enemies and compel obedience to the state.
The number killed totaled approximately 40,000. The Jacobins sometimes referred to themselves as
“terrorists,” and the word originated at that time.. Some modern scholars, however, do not consider the
Reign of Terror a form of terrorism, in part because it was carried out by the French state

19th century events and groups

During the 19th century a new meaning came into use, and terrorism came to be associated with
non-governmental groups. Anarchists were the most prominent group to be associated with
terrorism during the 19th century, with the emergence of militancy within nationalist groups,
developing over the course of the century. Dynamite, in particular, inspired American and
French anarchists, and it was central to their strategic thinking. Inspired by Bakunin and others,
Narodnaya Volya was founded in 1878, and used dynamite-packed bombs to kill state officials

Alleged state terror in 1930s Germany and Soviet Union

The 1930s saw the rise of the totalitarian regimes in the Soviet Union and Germany of Stalin and
Hitler, both of which employed terror on an enormous scale.However, and unlike some of the
Jacobins who ruled France during its Reign of Terror, the regimes never applied the words
‘terror’ or 'terrorist' to the police and NKVD (in the Communist Soviet Union) and Gestapo (in
Nazi Germany) agents who enforced state repression, but only to those who opposed the two
dictatorships. Historian R. J. Overy writes, “What is now defined as ruthless state terror was
viewed by Hitler and Stalin as state protection against the enemies of the people.” Effectively
establishing and reinforcing obedience to regime and national ideology, both regimes used
surveillance, imprisonment (often in Soviet gulags or German labor or concentration camps),
torture, and executions against enemies of the state real and imagined.

World War II

One of the most ruthless and barbaric killings of non-combatants in all history. A war where
atomic bomb was used for the fast time and took thousand lives.

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 The Effects of Terrorism
Research literature on causational factors and diverse goals that drives people to resort to carry out terrorist acts is
inconclusive. How these two are connected can be a matter of debate: are researched causes derived from terrorists'
manifestos, implicitly or explicitly worded goals, or are living conditions perceived as unjust and not decent and
therefore its goals may be inferred, or a mere conjecture? Multiple reasons are listed here, of which some seem to be
more appliccable than others, and some others tend to go together for identification of more or less convincing
causational factors

Fundamentalism
It is a strict and literal adherence to a set of beliefs or principles. Fundamentalism can be
religious, political, or personal. Today, religious fundamentalism is on the rise, and it is one of
the most important root causes of terrorism

Poverty and economic disadvantage

A more important factor may be the social stratification. When a group is absolutely or relatively deprived they
rebel.

INEQUALITY
The factor of democracy as an instigator or facilitator for terrorism deserves further exploration. A democratic
government is supposed to represent the people and provide political means to voice grievances, hence essentially
providing a sphere where terrorism has no place. For this reason, in theory, there 'cannot' be an aggrieved group that
is not adequately represented; otherwise, it is a "violation of the doctrines of democracy and constitutionalism"
(Wilkinson, 1977:232).

INJUSTICE
When a group is absolutely or relatively deprived they rebel.

Summarizing,
Among the multitude of causes that may lead a person to resort to terrorism, there is none that conclusively links a
sole cause to the act. Ethnicity, nationalism/separatism, poverty and economic disadvantage, globalisation,
(non)democracy, Western society, disaffected intelligentsia, dehumanisation, and religion all have arguments
confirming a possible existing link, as well reservations against a causal relation.
Ref[http://www.meteck.org/causesTerrorism.html]

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 The Effects of Terrorism

Terrorism has occurred throughout history, but today the world is experiencing a global rebirth of
attacks. Today it no longer affects only small societies, such as isolated third world countries who
fell victim to regular terrorist attacks, but the whole world is becoming more familiar with Arab and
Muslim names. The terrorist violence that is on the rise today has informed citizen all over the world
about different types of terrorism. Also with the resurgence the world is experiencing of terrorism,
the Nation's have been to do what they can to eliminate terrorism.
What has caused terrorism can be a mystery for many reactionary groups, but for other groups the
main causes can be historical, cultural, religious, economic, social, and psychological. Generally
democratic countries have been proven to be grounds for terrorism because of the open nature of
their societies. In such societies people have fundamental rights, civil liberties are protected, and
government control and constant surveillance of the people and their activities are absent. Also by
through the same reasons repressive societies, where the government closely monitors citizens and
restricts their speech and movement, have often provided more difficult environments for terrorists.
But even countries with strict police-enforced laws have not been immune to terrorism, even though
they limit civil liberties and are against free speech and rights of assembly.
One the most commonly seen forms of terrorism have been Suicide terrorism, otherwise known as
psychological warfare. "While suicide bombers are often portrayed as lone mad zealots, they are in
fact pawns in large terrorist networks that wage calculated psychological warfare. (National Center
for Policy Analysis) The suicide bombers often do die while attempting their terrorist acts, hence the
name, but the bombers do wish to live to see how the tragedy has affected their victims. The wide
range use of suicide terrorism is because it is simple and low-cost, guarantees mass casualties,
guarantees the act will succeed, suicide bombers have no fear to surrender information, and the
intense impact on the media. "The relatively high number of casualties guaranteed in such attacks,
which are usually carried out in crowded areas, ensures full media coverage. Thus, suicide terrorism
ranks with other spectacular modus operandi such as blowing up airplanes in mid air or the use of
Weapons of Mass Destruction as a sure means to win maximum effect." (National Center for Policy
Analysis) Some of the most recent act of suicide terrorism in the U.S. was the September 11th attacks
on the World Trade Center in New York. Suicide Bombers hijacked two planes full of fuel and used
them as missiles into the Twin Towers, Killing everyone aboard the two planes and collapsing the
towers. This suicide attack is the worst act of terrorism ever committed on US soil. This type of
terrorism has been around for many years and dates back to the 18th century.
"Suicide terrorism is defined as a politically motivated violent attack perpetrated by a self-aware
individual who actively and purposely causes his own death through blowing himself up along with
his chosen target. The perpetrator's ensured death is a precondition for the success of his
mission."(Schweitzer) Today's suicide terrorist attacks are obviously different from ones of ancient
times, but also the mode of warfare has changed. Modern suicide attacks are often for the purpose to

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inflict both physical and psychological damage to the population. Another popular form of terrorism
is Bio-chemical terrorism, which is one of the most deadly types. Bio-chemical terrorism can be
defined as a group that threatens or attacks their target with the usage of a chemical that is very
harmful and can be fatal.

TERRORISM IN PAKISTAN

Pakistan has suffered from the killing of noncombatants by both state and non-state actors.

Currently however, the biggest threat to the state and citizens of Pakistan emanates killing
civilians and policemen to achieve their political ends.

From the summer of 2007 to late 2008, more than 1,500 people were killed in suicide and other
attacks on civilians. The attacks have been attributed to a number of sources: sectarian violence -
mainly between Sunni and Shia Muslims - the origin of which is blamed by some on initiated
from 1977 to 1988; the easy availability of guns and explosives of a "kalishnikov culture" and
influx of ideologically driven "Afghan Arabs" based in or near Pakistan, originating from and the
subsequent war against the Afghan communists in the 1980s which blew back into Pakistan;
Islamist insurgent groups and forces such as the Taliban and Lashkar-e-Taiba; Pakistan's
thousands of fundamentalist madrassas which are thought by some to provide training for little
except jihad; secessionists movements - the most significant of which is the Balochistan
liberation movement - blamed on regionalism problematic in a country with Pakistan's diverse
cultures, languages, traditions and customs.

HISTORY OF TERRORRISM IN PAKISTAN Total Attacks:2

DEATHS:17
2001
INJURIES:5
1. October 28 Attack on a Protestant church in southern Punjab city of Bahawalpur resulted in 16 deaths and
5 injuries.
2. December 21 Pakistani interior minister Lt. Gen. (retd) Moinuddin Haider's elder brother Ehteshamuddin
Haider was shot dead by assailants near Soldier Bazaar in Karachi.

Attacks:14

Deaths:104
2002 Injuries:123

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 February 22 The American journalist Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered in Karachi.[8]

February 26 At least 11 Shi'a worshipers were killed by indiscriminate firing by a group of masked
gunmen at the Shah-i-Najaf Mosque in Rawalpindi.[9]

March 17 A grenade attack on a Protestant church in the heavily guarded diplomatic enclave in Islamabad
killed five persons, including a US diplomat's wife and daughter, and left more than 40 others injured

May 7 Noted religious scholar Prof Dr Ghulam Murtaza Malik, his driver and a policeman were shot dead
by two gunmen in Iqbal Town, Lahore

May 8 Bus bombing in Karachi kills 11 Frenchmen and 3 Pakistanis near the Sheraton hotel

June 14 A powerful car bomb exploded near the heavily-guarded US Consulate in Karachi, killing 12
people and wounding over 50 others. July 13 Nine foreign tourists and three Pakistani nationals were
injured in an attack in the district of Mansehra

August 5 At least six people were killed and four injured in a gun attack on a missionary school for foreign
students in mountain resort of Murree

August 9 Three nurses — and an attacker — were killed while 25 others injured in a terrorist attack on a
church in the Taxila Christian Hospital, in Taxila, northern Punjab

October 16 More than eight people were injured in a series of parcel bomb explosions in Pakistan's largest
city, Karachi

September 25 Gunmen stormed the offices of a Christian welfare organization in Karachi, tied seven
office workers to their chairs before shooting each in the head at close range

November 15 An explosion on a bus in Hyderabad, Sindh killed two people and injured at least nine
others.

December 5 Three people were killed in an attack at the Macedonian Honorary consulate in the city of
Karachi. Unidentified assailants threw a grenade at a Presbyterian church in Pakistan's central Punjab
province, killing three young girls. At least 12 others were injured in the attack at Daska, near Sialkot.

Attacks:8

Killed:54
2003
Injured:58

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 1. February 28 Two policemen were shot dead outside the United States consulate in Karachi
2. March 10 Two people were injured in Gulistan Colony, Faisalabad.
3. June 8 11 Pakistani police trainees were shot dead in what is believed to have been a sectarian attack
on Sariab Road, Quetta, as they all belonged to Hazara Shi'a branch of Islam. Another nine were
reported wounded.
4. July 4 At least 47 people were killed and 150 injured in an attack on a Shia mosque in Quetta.
October 3 Six employees of (SUPARCO) were killed and several others injured when their official
van was fired upon on Hub River Road in Mauripur, Karachi.
5. October 6 Maulana Azam Tariq, chief of the Millat-i-Islamia (formerly Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan)
and MNA, was assassinated by unidentified gunmen along with four others as his car drove into the
capital, Islamabad.
6. December 14 President Pervez Musharraf survived an assassination attempt when a powerful bomb
7. December 25 Another attempt was carried on the president 11 days later

Total Attacks:18 Deaths:400+ Injured: 700+

2004
1. February 28 suicide bomber was killed and three worshipers were injured in Rawalpindi
2. March 2 At least 42 persons were killed and more than 100 wounded when a procession of the Shia
Muslims
3. May 3 A car bomb in south-western city of Gwadar killed three Chinese engineers and injured 10
other people. 46+113
4. May 7 A suicide bomber attacked a crowded Shia mosque in Sindh Madrassatul Islam in Karachi,
killing at least 15 worshipers and injured 100 people
5. May 14 Six members of Shia family was shot dead in Mughalpura locality of Lahore.
6. May 26 Two car bombs explode within 20 minutes of each other outside the Pakistan-American
Cultural Center and near the US consul general's residence in Karachi, killing two men and injuring
more than 27 people, mainly policemen and journalists.
7. May 30 A senior Sunni(Deobandi) religious scholar and head of Islamic religious school Jamia
Binoria, Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, was gunned down in his car while leaving his home in
Karachi.
8. May 31 A suicide bomber blew up the Imambarghah Ali Raza mosque in Karachi in the middle of
evening prayers, killing 16 worshipers and injuring 35. Two people were killed in riots over the
mosque attack and Shamzai's assassination.
9. June 10 Gunmen opened fire on a convoy carrying the then corps commander Lt Gen Ahsan Saleem
Hyat leaving 11 people dead in Karachi. The corps commander who escaped unhurt later became the
vice chief of army staff under General Pervez Musharraf.
10. July 30 Assassination attempt on the Prime Minister-elect Shaukat Aziz, while he was campaigning
for by-election in Fateh Jang, Attock District, Punjab. Even though he survived the attempt, nine
people were killed due to the suicide bombing.
11. August 2 Chief Minister of Balochistan province Jam Mohammad Yousaf escaped an assassination
bid when unidentified persons fired at his convoy killing one of his bodyguards and injuring two
others.
12. August 8 At least eight people were killed and over 40 others injured when two bombs exploded in
quick succession near the Jamia Binoria Madressah, Karachi.
13. August 31 Three persons were killed and three others injured in a bomb blast
14. September 21 Suspected Sipah-e-Sahaba members gunned down at least three members of a Shi'a
family
15. October 1 A suicide bombing left 25 people dead and dozen injured at a Shia mosque after Friday
prayers in the eastern city of Sialkot.
16. October 7 A powerful car bomb left 40 people dead and wounded over 100 during a
Sunni(Deobandi) rally to commemorate Maulana Azam Tariq, assassinated leader of Sipah-e-Sahaba
Pakistan, in the central city of Multan. This was most probably the retaliation of Sialkot suicide
attacks exactly a week ago.[45]
17. October 10 An explosion by a suicide bomber at a mosque used by Shia Muslims in Lahore killed at
least four people and left eight people injured.[46]

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 18. December 10 At least 10 people were killed and 30 injured in a bomb explosion at a market in city
of Quetta. The bomb exploded near an Army truck, as Balochistan Liberation Army claimed
responsibility

2005 Total Attacks:11 Deaths:286 Injured:456

1. January 8 At least 10 people have been killed in sectarian violence in the northern Pakistani city of Gilgit.
The shooting of a Shia Muslim cleric earlier sparked clashes between his supporters and Sunni(Deobandi)
Muslims.
2. March 19 At least 35 people were killed and many injured when a Sipah-e-Sahaba terrorist exploded
himself in a mixed crowd of Shia and Sunni(Deobandi) devotees at the shrine of Pir Rakhel Shah in remote
village of Fatehpur in Jhal Magsi District, Balochistan.[
3. May 25 As many as six members of a family were killed in an explosion at village Bandkhel in Makeen
Tehsil, South Waziristan.[
4. May 27 At least 20 people were slaughtered and 82 wounded due to a suicide bombing at the annual Shia
Muslims congregation at the shrine of Bari Imam in Islamabad.
5. May 31 Six bodies were recovered from a fast food outlet set ablaze by an angry mob after an attack on a
Shia mosque in Karachi. It was retaliation to the suicide attack on the Shia mosque in central Karachi
where five people were killed and about 20 others wounded.
6. September 22 At least six people, including a woman, were killed and 27 injured in two bomb blasts in
Lahore. Police said the bombs went off within an interval of one and a half hour..
7. October 7 Eight members of the Ahmadiyya faith were killed inside a mosque as worshipers were
performing Salah. The incident occurred in Mandi Bahauddin, Punjab, Pakistan.
8. October 13 Around 12 people including students were killed in the curfew and clashes between the
Rangers and civilians in Gilgit. The clashes came after the death of a student in Rangers custody.
9. November 15 A car bomb exploded outside a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet in Karachi, Pakistan. At least
three people were killed and eight others wounded.
10. December 8 At least 12 people were killed and 30 injured in a bomb explosion in the Jandola town of
South Waziristan.
11. December 22 At least seven people have been killed in what officials say was a battle between Islamic
students and bandits in the Jandola town of South Waziristan

2006 Total Attacks:16 Death:586 Injured:756

1. January 25 At least six people were killed and five others hurt after a bus ran over a landmine in Dera
Bugti District, Balochistan.
2. February 5 A bomb explosion killed 13 people including three army personnel and injured 18 on a
Lahore-bound bus en-route from Quetta in Kolpur, Bolan District, Balochistan. No groups claimed of
responsibility for the attack.
3. February 9 Sectarian violence marred the holiest day of the Shiite calendar, with at least 36 people killed
and more than 100 wounded in attacks and clashes in Pakistan and Afghanistan. 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.[60]
4. March 2 A power suicide car bomb attack in the high security zone near the US Consulate, Karachi, killed
four people including a US diplomat, a day before President George W. Bush was to reach Pakistan.[61]
5. March 10 At least 26 people, mostly women and children, were killed in Dera Bugti District, Balochistan
after their bus hit a landmine. Both tribal rebels and security forces planted land mines in the area.[62]
6. April 11 Over 50 people, including Sunni(Barelvi) scholars, were killed in a bomb explosion at a religious
gathering celebrating the birthday of Prophet Muhammad in Nishtar Park, Karachi.[63]
7. June 12 At least five people were killed and 17 wounded in a bomb attack in Quetta hotel.[64]
8. June 15 Unidentified gunmen killed a senior prison official Amanullah Khan Niazi and four others in the
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 9. June 16 Two female teachers and two children were shot dead in Khoga Chiri village in Orakzai
Agency.[66]
10. July 14 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 Abbas Town residence. The suicide bomber was
later identified as Abdul Karim, a Bangladeshi-speaking, resident of a shantytown in the central city area of
Karachi.[67]
11. August 26 Tribal leader Nawab Akbar Bugti was killed in a battle between tribal militants and government
forces in Balochistan. At least five soldiers and at least 30 rebels are thought to have died too.[68]
12. August 26-31 Akbar Bugti's killing sparked five days of rioting that left six people dead, dozens wounded
and 700 under arrest.[69]
13. September 8 At least six people were killed and 17 injured, four of them seriously, when a powerful bomb
blast hit the Rakhni bazaar area of Barkhan District, Balochistan.[70]
14. October 6 17 people were killed in fighting between Sunni and Shia Muslims over a dispute over
ownership of the shrine to 18th Century figure Syed Amir Anwar Shah shrine in Pakistan's Orakzai tribal
region.[71]
15. October 20 A bomb blast killed at least six people and left 21 injured in a busy shopping district of
Peshawar.[72]
16. November 8 A suicide bomber killed 42 Pakistani Army soldiers and injured 20 in the northwestern town
of Dargai, apparently in retaliation to the Chenagai airstrike which killed 80 people in the same Bajaur
[73]
region in the previous month.

2007 Total Attacks:50 Total Deaths: 1000+ Total Injured:1300+

1. January 15 A powerful blast in the Jalozai refugee camp destroyed a mud-house, killing four people and
injuring five others.[74]
2. January 26 Two people were killed and five injured in a suspected suicide attack in Pakistan. The bomber
and a security guard were killed in the blast at the Marriott hotel in the capital Islamabad.[75]
3. January 27 At least 13 people, including the Chief of Peshawar City Police Malik Saad, were killed
Saturday evening in a suicide bombing near a crowded Shiite mosque in Peshawar. About 60 people were
wounded, 17 critically, in the 9:20 p.m. blast. About 2,000 Shiite Muslims were in and around the mosque,
police said.[76]
4. February 6 A suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a parking area outside Islamabad International
Airport injuring 5 people.[77]
5. February 17 A suicide bomber killed 15 people — including a judge — after blowing himself up inside a
courtroom in Quetta, Balochistan. At least 24 people were wounded in the suicide attack.[78]
6. February 20 Punjab Minister for social welfare Zil-e-Huma Usman was shot and killed in Gujranwala. 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.[79]
7. March 19-22 Clashes between pro-government forces under Maulvi Nazir and Al-Qaeda remnants in the
Waziristan region kill at least 135 people on both sides. A ceasefire is declared after four days of fighting
enforced by officials from both sides.[80]
8. April 10-11 Up to 35 people were killed and scores of others wounded in heavy fighting between rival Shia
and Sunni(Deobandi) groups in different areas of the Kurram Agency on Tuesday night and Wednesday.[81]
9. April 28 Assassination attempt on Aftab Ahmad Sherpao, who is the Interior minister that killed 28 people
in Charsadda, NWFP. This time again an attempt on a high ranking officer of Pakistani government was
unsuccessful.[82]
10. May 12 As many as 50 people were killed and hundreds injured when party workers of opposing parties;
MQM, ANP and PPP clash in Karachi. 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.
11. May 15 A bomb blast at the local Marhaba hotel in Peshawar killed at least 24 people and injured 30. No
one claimed responsibility for the suspected suicide blast in the lobby of the hotel popular with Afghans in
Peshawar where militants opposed to government support for the United States have launched attacks.[83]

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12. June 2 Five people, including a tribal chief, a political tehsildar and a journalist were killed, when their
vehicle hit a roadside bomb in the Dara Khwar, Bajaur Agency.[84]
13. June 8 Three people were killed and seven others injured when a bomb exploded on a bus in Hub,
Balochistan. The coach was heading from Lasbela to Karachi.[85]
14. June 23 A barrage of artillery and missiles fired from Afghanistan hit residential compounds and a hotel in
Mangrotai area of the North Waziristan tribal region, killing 11 people and wounding 10 others,
eyewitnesses and officials said. The dead included two children and a woman.[86]
15. July 6 President General Pervez Musharraf escaped yet another attempt on his life on Friday morning when
around 36 rounds fired at his aircraft from a submachine gun in Rawalpindi missed their target.[87] 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.[88]
16. July 8 Unidentified gunmen killed three Chinese workers and wounded another near Peshawar in what
Pakistani officials said was a terrorist attack apparently linked to the bloody siege of militants at an
Islamabad mosque.[89]
17. July 12 Seven people including three policemen were killed and several others injured in two suicide
attacks, two blasts and a rocket attack in three tribal regions and Swat district in the NWFP.[90]
18. July 14 At least 23 paramilitary troops died and 27 others injured when a suicide bomber rammed an
explosives-packed car into their convoy in Miranshah in one of the deadliest attacks on the security forces
in North Waziristan.[91]
19. July 15 At least 49 are killed and hundreds injured when suicide attack and car bombs explode throughout
NWFP in an apparent retaliation for Lal Masjid operation. 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.[92]
20. July 17 At least 17 people were killed and 50 injured as a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the
venue of the district bar council convention in Islamabad killing mostly PPP political workers waiting for
the arrival of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, who was to address a lawyers convention.[93]
21. July 19 More than 40 people were killed in three separate bomb attacks. In the first incident, bomb was
detonated in a mosque used by military personnel in the north-western town of Kohat, killing at least 11
people. In the second one, 26 people died and 50 were injured in the southern town of Hub, Lasbela
District, Balochistan, in an attack apparently targeting Chinese workers. And in the last one, 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.[94]
22. July 24 At least nine people including a woman were killed and 40 others injured when unidentified
militants fired a barrage of rockets on the civilian population in the northwestern city of Bannu.[95]
23. July 27 A suspected suicide bomber killed at least 13 people at Muzaffar hotel in Aabpara, Islamabad
Friday after hundreds of stone-throwing protesters clashed with police as the capital's Red Mosque
reopened for the first time since a bloody army raid.[96] The same day Raziq Bugti, former guerrilla
commander turned spokesman for the Balochistan government, was shot dead by assailants in Quetta.
24. August 2 The police in Sargodha 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.[98]
25. August 4 Nine people were killed and 43 injured when a suicide car bomber triggered an explosion at a
busy bus station in Parachinar, Kurram Agency.[99]
26. August 26 Four policemen were killed and two others wounded in a suicide attack in the Machaar area of
Shangla District.[100]
27. September 4 At least 25 people were killed and 66 injured in two suicide bomb blasts in Rawalpindi
cantonment’s high security areas 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.[101]
28. September 11 At least 17 people, including three security personnel and a woman, were killed and 16
others injured when a 15-year-old suicide bomber blew himself up in a passenger van at Bannu Adda in
Dera Ismail Khan district.[102] The same day Omar Ayub Khan's protocol officer, Liaquat Hussain, was
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29. September 13 At least 20 off-duty commandos were killed and 11 injured in an apparent suicide blast at an
army officers’ mess in Tarbela Ghazi, Haripur near Tarbela Dam. The targeted were the Pakistan Army's
special forces unit SSG's Karar Company.[104]
30. September 15 Unidentified assailants shot dead Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam leader and Wafaqul Madaris Vice
Chairman Maulana Hassan Jan in the jurisdiction of Yakatoot police station in Peshawar. 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.[105]
31. October 1 A suicide bomber disguised in a woman’s burqa blew himself up at a busy police checkpost in
Bannu, NWFP killing at least 16 people including four policemen and injuring 29.[106]
32. October 12 Mohmand Taliban publicly behead six "criminals" and lashed three others in the name of
Sharia.[107]
33. October 18 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 killing dozens. Karachi Bombs in Pictures
34. October 20 At least eight people were killed and 28 injured when a powerful bomb planted in a pickup
vehicle exploded in Dera Bugti, Balochistan.[108]
35. October 25 At least 20 people including 18 troops died and 35 others were injured in a blast aimed at a
vehicle carrying Frontier Constabulary (FC) personnel in the troubled Swat district.
36. October 30 A suicide bomber struck a police checkpoint in the high security zone of Rawalpindi, less than
a kilometer from President General Pervez Musharraf’s camp office, killing seven people, three of them
policemen, and injuring 31 others. The blast splattered check post of General Tariq Majid, current
Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff's residence.
37. November 1 A suicide bomber rammed his motorcycle into a PAF bus near Sargodha, killing seven
officers of the Pakistan Air Force stationed at Mushaf Airbase and three civilians on the Faisalabad Road
on Thursday morning. 28 people suffered injuries. It is significant that after this event a state of emergency
was imposed on the country.
38. November 9 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
in Peshawar. The minister was unhurt, but a cousin of his was injured. The three dead were policemen
guarding the house.
39. November 17-19 As many as 94 people were killed and 168 injured in three days of in-fighting between
the rival Sunni(Deobandi) and Shia sects in Parachinar, Kurram Agency in Pakistani tribal areas, bordering
Afghanistan. Only by the fourth day, the army gained control of the area and a ceasefire was maintained in
the area.
40. November 24 30 people were killed in two suicide attacks in Rawalpindi. In the first incident, a suicide
bomber rammed his car into a 72-seater bus parked in front of Ojhri Camp on Murree Road carrying Inter-
Services Intelligence (ISI) officials to work, killing 28 officials and a bystander. The second incident
occurred as 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.
41. December 9 At least 10 people including three policemen and seven civilians, including two children,
perished in a car bombing near Matta, Swat District.
42. December 10 A suicide attack on the school bus carrying children during the morning rush injuring seven
of them. It was a PAF employees bus and the attack took place near Minhas Airbase, Kamra. It was a
second major attack on the Pakistan Air Force after the Sargodha attack.[116]
43. December 13 Two suicide bombings near an army checkpost in Quetta killed seven people, including three
personnel of the Pakistan Army.
44. December 15 A suicide attacker rammed his explosives-laden bicycle into a military checkpost killing five
people and injuring 11 others in the first-ever suicide attack in the city of Nowshera. The attack occurred at
a checkpoint near the gate of an army school.
45. December 17 12 security personnel were killed and five wounded in a suicide attack in the country’s
restive northwestern city of Kohat. Victims were members of army’s local football team.
46. December 21 On the eve of Eid ul-Adha, a suicide bomb blast again targeted Aftab Ahmad Sherpao killing
at least 57 and injuring over 100 at Jamia Masjid Sherpao, in Charsadda District. Aftab Sherpao survived
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 47. December 23 At least seven people, including a soldier and six civilians, were killed and another 23
wounded as a suicide bomber targeted an army convoy near Mingora.
48. December 27 Two-time Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated in a shooting and suicide
bombing in Rawalpindi's Liaquat Bagh, killing up to 20 others and injuring many. The site is notorious as
the place where former Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan was also assassinated in October 1951.
49. December 28 At least 33 people, including four policemen, were killed all over Pakistan in the violence
that ensued after the assassination of former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. The situation grew so worse
that Sindh Rangers were given orders to shoot-at-sight.
50. December 28 A roadside bomb killed nine people, including former PML-Q minister Asfandyar Amirzaib,
who is a grandson of Wali-e-Swat, in Swat District.

Total Attacks:70 Total Killed:1500+ Total injured:2200+

2008
1. January 10 24 people were killed and 73 injured in a suicide attack when the policemen were 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.[124]
2. January 14 At least 10 people were killed and over 50 wounded when a bomb exploded in Quaidabad. The
bomb was planted on a bicycle and it went off during wee hours in a vegetable market in Karachi.[125]
3. January 17 At least 12 people were killed and 25 others injured, three of them critically, when a suicide
bomber blew himself up at the crowded Mirza Qasim Baig Imambargah in Mohalla Janghi, Kohati in the
NWFP capital city of Peshawar.[126]
4. February 4 At least 10 people were killed and 27 others injured, when a suicide bomber crashed his bike
into an armed forces bus carrying students and officials of Army Medical College, near the General
Headquarters in Rawalpindi.[127]
5. February 9 At least 25 people died and 35 were injured after a powerful explosion hit an opposition
election rally in Charsadda in the north-western Pakistan. The attack targeted ANP, a secular party, one of
whose leaders, Fazal-ur-Rehman Atakhail, was assassinated February 7 in Karachi triggering widespread
protests. Possible conspirators of the latest attack could be the Islamist Taliban-al-Qaeda nexus operating in
the northwestern Pakistan.[128]
6. February 11 A suicide attack on a public meeting in Miranshah, North Waziristan 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.[129]
7. February 16 A suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle on the election meeting of Pakistan
Peoples Party, the party of the slain former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in Parachinar, Kurram Agency
in northwestern Pakistan. The attack left at least 47 people dead and 150 injured according to Interior
Ministry of Pakistan. It was the fourth such attack on PPP's political workers within a year; two of them
targeting the former PPP leader Benazir Bhutto.[130]
8. February 18 At least 24 people were killed and nearly 200 were injured in election-related violence across
the country on the eve of Pakistani general election, Aaj TV reported.[131]
9. February 22 A roadside bomb near the town of Matta, Swat District, NWFP killed at least 13 members of
a wedding party and left about a dozen injured. An army spokesman said the bomb had been detonated by
remote control. Women and children were among the casualties.[132]
10. February 25 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 near
Army General Headquarters in Rawalpindi. At least 5 other passersby were also killed and 20 injured in the
incident. Gen Baig was the highest ranking officer to be killed in Pakistan since the 9/11 attacks.[133]
11. February 29 As many as 38 people were killed and 75 injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up in
Mingora, Swat District on Friday during the funeral of a senior police officer who had been killed hours
earlier in Lakki Marwat in southern part of NWFP. The police DSP was killed along with three other
policemen when their vehicle was hit in a roadside bomb earlier in the day. Witnesses said the suicide
attack took place when a police party was presenting a gun salute in honor of the slain police officer in a
school ground in Mingora town at about 8pm.[134]
12. March 2 At least 42 people were killed and 58 injured in a suicide attack, when the bomber struck the
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 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.[135]
13. March 4 Eight persons were killed and 24 others injured when two suicide bombers blew themselves up in
the parking area of the Pakistan Navy War College located in the city of Lahore. 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. This attack on War College was carried out by two suicide attackers, the first
one to clear the way for the second one; and the second one to do the damage.[136]
14. March 11 At least 24 people were killed and more than 200 wounded in twin suicide bombings in the
eastern Pakistani city of Lahore. One of the attacks ripped apart Federal Investigation Agency (FIA)
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.[137]
15. March 15 An attack occurred when a bomb was hurled over a wall surrounding an Islamabad 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.[138]
16. April 9 Riots in Karachi kill 9 people and wound many others with 40 vehicles getting torched 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.[139]
17. April 17 At least 20 people were killed and dozens others injured in the clashes between two belligerent
factions in Khyber Agency.[140]
18. May 6 At least four people have been killed in a suspected suicide attack in Bannu, amid signs a truce with
militants may be breaking down, negotiations for which was started in March.[141]
19. May 18 A bomb attack targeting the Army's Punjab Regimental Center market in the city of Mardan killed
at least 13 people, including four soldiers and injured more than 20. This was the second attack in Mardan
in a month after a car bomb on April 25 killed three and injured 26 people.[142]
20. May 19 At least four people were killed and another two injured in a remote-controlled bomb blast outside
a mosque in the Mamond tehsil of Bajaur Agency.[143]
21. May 26 Seven people were killed and five others injured in what appeared to be incidents of sectarian
violence in Dera Ismail Khan.[144]
22. June 2 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.[145]
23. June 9 Sufi Muhammad, leader of the TNSM, on Monday survived a remote-controlled bombing initiated
by local Taliban in Peshawar, in which four policemen got injured.[146]
24. June 11 United States airplanes bomb a Pakistani border checkpoint killing 11 soldiers.[147]
25. June 16 A bomb blast inside a Shia mosque killed at least four people and wounded two others in Dera
Ismail Khan.[148]
26. July 6 A suicide bomber killed 19 people in an attack targeting policemen deployed at a rally observing the
first year anniversary of an army raid on the Islamabad’s Lal Masjid.[149]
27. July 7 A string of small explosions, apparently from bombs, wounded at least 37 people in Karachi, rattling
Pakistan a day after a deadly suicide attack in capital of Pakistan.[150]
28. August 2 At least eight police and security workers were killed when a remote-controlled bomb exploded
near their vehicle in Mingora, Swat.[151]
29. July 31 - August 4 A total of 136 people were killed in Swat Valley in 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.[152]
30. August 9 Militants stormed a police post in village Kingargalai of the Buner District on Friday night,
killing eight policemen.[153]
31. August 12 A bomb targeting a Pakistani Air Force bus carrying personnel from a military base killed 13
people and wounded 11 others on Tuesday on a major road near the center of Peshawar. Taliban forces
reportedly took responsibility. The attack was seen as retaliation for Pakistani airstrikes in Bajaur Agency,

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 a militant stronghold near the border with Afghanistan. Five of the dead were air force personnel and the
eight others were bystanders.[154]
32. August 13 Eight people, including two policemen, were killed and over 20, including 12 policemen, were
injured after an alleged suicide bomber blew himself up n ear a police station in Lahore on the eve of
Independence Day celebrations.[155] On the same day, six people were killed and 19 others, four of them
policemen, were injured in explosions in Hub and Uthal, a hand-grenade attack in Panjgur and shooting
incidents in Kharan and Turbat towns in Balochistan,[156] 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.[157] Haji
Namdar had earlier escaped a suicide attack on 1 May, 2008 in which 17 people were injured.[158]
33. August 7 - August 18 Clashes mainly between the Toori and Bangash tribes, but which involved other
local tribes, in the Kurram Agency left at least 287 people dead and 373 injured 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.[159]
34. August 19 32 people, seven policemen and two health officials among them, were killed and 55 others
injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up near the emergency ward of the District Headquarters
Hospital in Dera Ismail Khan. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the attack.[160]
35. August 21 70 people were killed and 67 others injured when two suicide bombers blew themselves up
outside the gates of the state run Pakistan Ordnance Factories, Wah Cantonment. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan
claimed responsibility for the attack.[161]
36. August 23 20 people were killed when a suicide bomber rammed a explosive-laden car into a police station
in Charbagh Tehsil of Swat valley of North West Frontier Province. Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan claimed
responsibility for the attack.[162]
37. August 25 10 people were killed in a rocket attack targeting the house of a local member of provincial
assembly (MPA) in Swat valley in North West Frontier Province. As a result of the attack, ANP MPA
Waqar Ahmed's brother and other family members were killed.[163]
38. August 26 Eight people were killed and more than 20 hurt in a bomb explosion at a roadside restaurant in
the Model Town area on the outskirts of Islamabad on Tuesday.[164]
39. August 28 9 people were killed and 15 others were injured in a bomb attack targeting a polive van in the
Bannu area of North West Frontier Province.[165]
40. September 6 At least 30 people were killed and 70 injured when a suicide car bomb struck a paramilitary
checkpoint 20 km from Peshawar. The attack came during the voting to elect Asif Ali Zardari as the
President of Pakistan and the marking of Defence Day.[166]
41. September 10 At least 25 worshippers were killed and 50 others injured in a grenade-and-gun attack in a
mosque in the Maskanai area of Lower Dir District, northern part of NWFP.[167]
42. September 19 A bomb exploded at an Islamic religious school in Quetta killing five people and wounding
at least eight. The school was run by Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam, the religious party headed by Maulana Fazal-
ur-Rehman.[168]
43. September 20 A massive truck bomb exploded outside the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, killing at 57
people and wounding 266 others. The suicide attack believed to be carried by a single individual left a 20
feet deep and 50 feet wide crater, and was later owned by a little known group called Fidayeen-e-Islam. It
was carried at local Iftar time, when the local and foreign residents had assembled together to have the
Ramadan feast. The attack was significant as all the top political, diplomatic and military top brass was also
dining in the nearby Prime Ministers Secretariat after the President's first parliamentary address.
44. September 22 At least nine security personnel were killed in a suicide car-bomb attack on a checkpost in
Swat District.[169]
45. September 26 A bomb attack on a train killed at least three people and fifteen others near the city of
Bahawalpur. The bomb, which was kept on the railway track, blew up and derailed the passenger train. No
one claimed responsibility for the attack.[170]
46. October 1 Missiles launched by the US military struck a village in Pakistan's border region killing at least
six people, reportedly striking the home of a member of the Taliban.
47. October 2 A suicide attack targeted the house of ANP leader Asfandyar Wali Khan in Walibagh,
Charsadda killing four people. Wali Khan survived the attack, as his bodyguard shot the suicide attacker in
the head before he could reach Wali Khan. The guard was later killed as the attacker managed to detonate
the bomb while on the ground. This was the fourth such attack on ANP, with the first two targeting ANP
political rallies in Charsadda and Miranshah before February elections and one of them targeting ANP
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48. October 6 A suicide attacker managed to kill 20 people and injured 60 in the Punjabi town of Bhakkar,
when he targeted the political gathering of Rashid Akbar Nawani, an MNA of PML-N. Nawani, though
survived the attack, was hurt. This was the first such attack on PML-N, since the start of war on
terrorism.[172] This was a sectarian attack as Mr Nawani was Shia, and most of the party workers in the
gathering were from the minority Shia sect.[173]
49. October 9 A suicide bomb attack on a main police headquarters in Islamabad killed at least eight and
wounded at least another 8. The targeted area was the main police complex in the capital, containing
training and residential facilities for police officers. Thousands of police are based at the centre.[174]
Another bomb occurred as the country's spy chief briefed politicians on the security situation. Eleven
people were killed in the Upper Dir District of North-West Frontier Province when a roadside bomb
exploded near a police van carrying prisoners. Four schoolchildren in a passing bus were also among the
dead.[175]
50. October 10 A suicide bomber drove his car into a meeting of 600 people in Orakzai Agency, which was
being held in open ground and blew himself up. The meeting was a council of local leaders discussing to
raise a militia to evict Taliban from the region. The attack claimed at least 110 lives and injured more than
200.[176][177]
51. October 13 A remote-controlled bomb detonated near the vehicle of a secular political leader, who was
injured along with four others. This follows a string of attacks against lawmakers and government officials;
and was also the second this month aimed at the Awami National Party. The attack apparently targeted
Shamin Khan, a member of the Pashtun secularist ANP, at 18:30 in NWFP.[178]
52. October 16 A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden vehicle into a police station in the restive Swat
Valley region, killing four people and destroying the building in Mingora.[179]
53. October 19 A separatist group, Baloch Republic Army, claimed responsibility for the bomb blast in
northwestern Balochistan province, which killed at least three people and injured six. The blast occurred in
a bazar of the Dera Bugti district, and the remote-controlled bomb was planted in a motorcycle.[180]
54. October 26 At least 11 people, seven of them Frontier Corps personnel and three Khasadars, were killed
and five injured on Sunday in a suicide attack near Ghalaanai in Mohmand Agency.[181]
55. October 27 Two persons were killed and 12 others injured, some of them seriously, in a bomb blast near
the District Court Complex in Quetta.[182]
56. October 31 At least eight people were killed and 20 injured in a suspected suicide bombing targeting the
policeman in in the north-western city of Mardan.[183]
57. November 2 Eight Pakistani soldiers were killed in a suicide bomb attack on a security checkpoint near
Wana, the main town in South Waziristan.[184]
58. November 4 At least seven persons, including three security officials, were killed and six injured in a
suicide attack on a security force checkpost in Hangu District on Tuesday morning.[185]
59. November 6 22 tribesmen were killed and 45 injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at a Salarzai
jirga in Bajaur Agency on Thursday. The blast targeted a lashkar (volunteer militia) in Batmalani, about 40
kilometers northeast of agency headquarters Khar.[186]
60. November 11 A suicide bomber blew himself up at a packed Qayyum Stadium in Peshawar on Tuesday,
killing four people and wounding 13. NWFP Governor Owais Ahmed Ghani had just left the venue and
senior provincial minister Bashir Bilour was on his way out. Bashir Bilour, the apparent target, said that
two of his guards were among the dead and three had been injured.[187]
61. November 12 Five people were killed as a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-filled bus into the gates
of a school in Charsadda district on Wednesday. Two others died as troops fired in retaliation. Fifteen
people including soldiers and civilians were injured.[188]
62. November 17 At least three troops were killed when a suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden
vehicle into a security checkpost in Swat’s Khawazakhela area.[189]
63. November 19 A former head of the army’s elite commando force Special Service Group, Maj-Gen (R)
Ameer Faisal Alavi, and his driver were gunned down near Islamabad on Wednesday morning. Alvi, who
commanded the SSG during the first major assault on militants in Angoor Ada in South Waziristan in 2004,
was killed near his home while driving to work on Islamabad Highway near the PWD Housing Society in
the Koral police precints.[190]
64. November 20 A suicide bomber killed at least nine people and injured four others on Thursday at a
mosque in Mamoond tehsil of Bajaur Agency.[191]
65. November 21 Seven people were killed and 17 others injured in a blast during the funeral of a cleric near
the bus stand here on Friday morning in Dera Ismail Khan.[192]

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 66. November 22 Six people were killed and 15 others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a
mosque in Tandaro area of Tall in Hangu District on Saturday.[193] While at least three people including a
teenager were injured in a series of three explosions near the Alhamra Cultural Complex in Lahore late on
Saturday, where the international World Performing Arts Festival was in progress.[194]
67. November 28 Nine people, including four cops, were killed and 16 others injured when a suicide bomber
rammed his explosive-laden coach into a police vehicle on the Peshawar-Bannu Road in Domel area of
Bannu on Friday.[195]
68. December 1 Ten people were killed and 49 others injured when a suicide bomber blew up an explosive-
laden truck near the Sangota security post, some seven kilometers north-east of Mingora on Monday.[196]
69. December 5 At least 27 people were killed and dozens more wounded when two bombs exploded in
crowded markets in northwest Pakistan. A blast in the heart of Peshwar killed 21 and created a five-foot
deep crater. Just hours earlier six people died in a car bomb explosion at a market in the semi-autonomous
Orakzai tribal district. No one immediately claimed responsibility for the two attacks.
70. December 28 At least 36 people were killed in a suspected car bomb attack near a polling station in a
government school in Buner District on Sunday. 16 people were injured in the blast believed to have been
carried out to disrupt the by-election for a National Assembly seat

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1. January 4 At least seven people, three of them policemen and two journalists, were killed when a suicide
bomber blew himself up in front of the Government Polytechnic College near an imambargah on Multan
Road in Dera Ismail Khan. About 25 people were injured, most of them policemen.[199]
2. January 10 A fierce gun battle between rival sects in Hangu continued on Saturday amid efforts to broker
an early truce to stop bloodshed. Official sources said that 26 people, including the deputy chairman of the
local chapter of the Ahli Sunnat Wal Jamaat, Mufti Rustam, had been killed and several others injured in
the two-day fighting.[200]
3. January 26 At least five people have been killed and many more wounded in a bomb blast in north-west
Pakistan, police say. The bomb, attached to a bicycle, went off on a busy main road in the town of Dera
Ismail Khan.[201] While in an another incident, Hussain Ali Yousafi, chairman of the Hazara Democratic
Party, was shot dead by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi in the southwestern city of Quetta.[202]
4. February 3 One man was killed and 18 others injured in a hand grenade attack on a Sunni mosque at
Mohallah Joginwala in Dera Ismail Khan district on Tuesday evening.[203]
5. February 5 Up to 32 people were killed when a suspected suicide bombing ripped through a crowd of Shia
worshippers outside a Dera Ghazi Khan mosque on Thursday. Police said the blast targeted dozens of
people converging on the Al Hussainia Mosque after dark, shortly before a religious gathering.[204]
6. February 7 At least seven officers were killed in an attack on a checkpoint in Mianwali in Punjab near
restive North-West Frontier province.[205]
7. February 11 Awami National Party (ANP) provincial lawmaker Alam Zeb Khan was killed and eight
people injured in a remote-controlled blast
8. February 17 At least three people were killed by a car bomb which exploded outside the home of a
government official in north-western Pakistan.
9. February 20 A curfew was imposed in Dera Ismail Khan on Friday and the army called in to quell riots
immediately after a suicide bomber killed at least 30 Shia's and injured another 157 who were attending a
funeral in southern Dera Ismail Khan district. Witnesses said police ‘ran off’ when gunfire broke out after
the blast at the funeral of Shia leader Sher Zaman – who was gunned down a day earlier.[208]
10. March 2 A suicide bomber killed five and injured 12 people at a girls’ religious school in Pishin District of
Balochistan on Monday.[209]
11. March 3 A convoy carrying Sri Lankan cricketers and officials in two buses was fired upon by 12 gunmen,
near the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. The cricketers were on their way to play the third day of the second
Test against the Pakistani cricket team. Six members of the Sri Lankan cricket team were injured. Six
Pakistani policemen and two civilians were killed.[210]
12. March 5 One person was killed and 19 others sustained injuries when a hand-grenade hurled by
unidentified miscreants at the worshippers exploded in Ameer Hamza mosque in Dera Ismail Khan.[211]
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 Pakhtun land Rahman Baba in the wee hours of Thursday by planting four bombs inside the structure of the
shrine.[212]
13. March 7 A bomb-laden car exploded in Peshawar as police tried to pull a body from it killing eight people
and injuring five. Seven of the dead were policemen while the other was a passerby. In a separate incident,
a roadside bomb killed three civilians and wounded four troops in the town of Darra Adam Khel.[213]
14. March 11 NWFP Senior Minister and Awami National Party leader Bashir Bilour survived an
assassination attempt that left six people, including two suspected suicide attackers, dead in Namak Mandi
in Peshawar on Wednesday. Four persons, including a young girl, who was married on Sunday last, were
critically wounded in 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.[214]
15. March 16 At least 14 people were killed and 17 injured on Monday when a suicide bomber blew himself
up near the busiest bus stand of Rawalpindi at Pirwadhai.[215]
16. March 18 Five people including three policemen were killed and four injured when over 100 unidentified
armed men attacked a police vehicle at the entrance of the University of Malakand at Chakdara in Lower
Dir District on Tuesday night.[216]
17. March 23 A security official was killed and three others injured in a suicide bombing outside a police
Special Branch office in Islamabad on Monday.[217]
18. March 26 At least 10 people were killed and 25 others injured in suicide attack at a restaurant targeting
opponents of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Baitullah Mehsud near Jandola, South Waziristan on
Thursday.[218]
19. March 27 76 persons were killed and over 100 injured in an apparent suicide attack on a mosque at
Peshawar-Torkham Highway in Jamrud, Khyber Agency during the Friday congregation. Intelligence
sources, however, put the number of dead at 86 but officials of the political administration were
conservative by putting the death toll at 50.[219]
20. March 30 At least eight police recruits and a civilian were killed when about 10 terrorists attacked the
Manawan Police Training School in Lahore near the border with India with guns and grenades on Monday.
Security forces regained control of the facility in an operation that lasted for more than eight hours. About
93 cadets and civilians were injured.[220]
21. April 4 A suicide bomber struck a camp of the Frontier Constabulary (FC) at Margalla Road in Islamabad
on Saturday, killing at least eight FC personnel and a civilian, besides the attacker himself, and injuring 12
others.[221]
22. April 5 A suicide bomber blew himself up at a Shia religious gathering in an Imambargah in Chakwal on
Sunday, killing at least 22 people and wounding 60. The attacker struck at the gates of a Shia mosque
where some 1,200 people were attending a religious gathering.[222]
23. April 6 Police found bullet-riddled bodies of four local aid workers, including three women, in Shinkiari
area of Mansehra District on Monday.[223]
24. April 15 A suicide car bomber attacked a security post in north-western Pakistan, killing at least 18 people,
nine of them police and injuring five others. The bomber set off his explosives as he pulled up at a
checkpoint in Charsadda, a town near the city of Peshawar.[224]
25. April 18 A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb at a checkpoint in the northwestern Pakistani town of
Hangu’s Doaba area Saturday, killing at least 22 people, including five security personnel, and injuring
another 15.[225]
26. April 26 12 children were killed in north-western Pakistan after playing with a bomb they mistook for a
toy. The children died after the bomb, which resembled a football, exploded on Saturday in Lower Dir
District.[226]
27. April 29 Targeted killings in Karachi claimed the lives of 34 people and wounded 40 in a matter of hours
by unidentified gunmen 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.[227]
28. May 5 Seven people, two children and a Frontier Corps soldier among them, were killed and 48 others
injured when an explosives-laden car rammed into a pick-up near a checkpost on the Peshawar-Bara road
12 km west of Peshawar Cantonment on Tuesday morning.[228]
29. May 11 10 people died as a suicide bomber blew up his explosives-laden vehicle near an FC checkpost in
the outskirts of Darra Adam Khel on Monday, killing eight civilians and two security personnel and
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30. May 16 Two successive bomb blasts rocked Peshawar on Saturday, leaving 13 people dead and 34 others
injured. A powerful car-bomb killed 12 people and wounded 31 others, including schoolchildren and
women, in the Barisco area, 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.[230]
31. May 21 At least nine people – four civilians and five security personnel – were killed and 25 injured in a
suicide attack near an Frontier Corps (FC) fort in Jandola area of Tank on Thursday evening.[231]
32. May 22 At least 10 people were killed and 75 injured when a powerful car bomb went off outside a cinema
in Peshawar’s Cinema Road area on Friday evening.[232]
33. May 27 Suicide bombers detonated a vehicle loaded with 100 kilograms of explosives near offices of the
capital city police officer (CCPO) and the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in Lahore on Wednesday –
killing at least 27 people and wounding 326, in addition to destroying a two-story building of the Rescue 15
police service. This was the second attack on ISI since the start of War on Terrorism.[233]
34. May 28 A succession of blasts rocked the NWFP on Thursday, killing 13 people, including five policemen,
and injuring over 90 others. Three blasts, one of them a suicide attack targeting a police post, took place in
Peshawar and one suicide bombing at a security checkpost in Dera Ismail Khan.[234]
35. June 5 At least 40 people were killed and another 70 injured during Friday prayers when a suicide bomber
blew himself up outside a mosque in Hayagai Sharqai village in Upper Dir District.[235]
36. June 6 Two policemen were killed after a young man carried out a suicide attack against Rescue 15, a
police helpline unit, in Islamabad on Saturday. At least four other policemen were injured.[236]
37. June 8 A wave of violence emanating from rivalries between political factions in Karachi continued to
spread as 12 more people fell victim to target killings on Monday. Thus, the number of political activists to
have fallen victim to target killings during the first week of June reached 35.[237] Most of the victims had
fallen prey to the bloody rivalry of MQM (Altaf) and MQM (Haqiqi) factions; the latest incidence seeming
to be sparked from the efforts of reunification of Amir and Afaq groups, that constitute the MQM (Haqiqi)
group, at the behest of Imran Khan.[238]
38. June 9 A massive truck bomb ripped through the five-star Pearl Continental hotel in Peshawar on Tuesday
killing 11 people and more than wounding 60. The attackers entered the compound on two vehicles at
about 10:30pm, spraying the security guards at the hotel gate with bullets from one and blowing up the
other in the hotel parking.[239] The death toll later rose to 17.[240]
39. June 11 In a day of multiple terrorist attacks throughout Pakistan, an NWFP Minister for Prisons, Mian
Nisar Gul Kakakhel, was seriously injured and his two guards were killed when his convoy was ambushed
by suspected militants in Darra Adam Khel.[241] In Balochistan, one person was killed and 35 injured when
a bomb hidden in a toilet exploded in a Quetta-bound train. The Baloch Republican Army (BRA) claimed
responsibility for the attack.[242] While in the country's northwest, two people were killed and 13 including
eight policemen injured in a grenade and suicide attack on police in Latifabad, Peshawar.[243]
40. June 12 A leading Sunni Barelwi cleric, Sarfraz Ahmed Naeemi with anti-Taliban views, was assassinated,
with six other people killed and five injured when a suicide attacker detonated himself at the Jamia
Naeemia madrassa on the Allama Iqbal Road in Garhi Shahu area of Lahore shortly after Friday
prayers.[244] While in Nowshera, five worshippers were killed and 105 others sustained injuries when a
suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden van into a mosque during the Friday prayers in the
Cantonment area at the Grand Trunk Road.[245] Later the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) on Friday
claimed responsibility for three suicide attacks in Peshawar, Nowshera and Lahore, saying similar attacks
would soon follow.[246]
41. June 14 Nine people were killed and over 40 injured when a powerful explosion ripped through a busy
market in Dera Ismail Khan on Sunday.[247]
42. June 26 A Taliban suicide bomber killed two soldiers on Friday when he blew himself up near an army
vehicle in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK), in the first such attack in AJK.[248]
43. July 2 36 persons were injured, some critically, when a lone suicide bomber rammed his motorcycle into a
bus carrying employees of the Army-run Heavy Mechanical Complex (HMC) at the Peshawar Road near
Chur Chowk in Rawalpindi on Thursday at around 4.15 pm. The suicide bomber was the only reported
fatality.[249]
44. July 13 At least 12 people, seven children among them, were killed and over 50 injured when a large
quantity of explosives stored in a house which also had a seminary exploded in a village near Mian
Channu, about 45 km from Khanewal, on Monday morning.[250]
45. July 16 An official of the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and a guard were shot
dead, another official and Afghan Commissionarte injured in Peshawar.[251]

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46. August 4 Separatist rebels on Tuesday shot dead four policemen and threatened to execute 21 hostages (11
of them laborers) unless Pakistan withdraws paramilitary troops and releases detainees in Balochistan.[252]
47. August 15 Five people including three soldiers and two civilians were killed and four others injured when a
suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a security check-post in Khwazakhela area of Swat
District on Saturday.[253]
48. August 17 Seven people were killed and eight others injured when a bomb placed in a vehicle exploded at
a filling station in the Shabqadar area in Charsadda on Monday.[254]
49. August 20 Eight people, including four policemen, were injured when a bomb exploded close to a police
patrol car on the Misryal road in Rawalpindi on Thursday.[255]
50. August 23 Three passers-by were killed and 15 injured Sunday in a suicide bombing in Peshawar triggered
by an apparent feud between rival militant groups, Ansar-ul-Islam and Lashkar-e-Islam.[256]
51. August 27 22 Khasadars were killed when a suicide bomber struck a security post near Torkham, Khyber
Agency along the Afghan border on Thursday evening. According to witnesses, the bomber blew himself
up when the tribal policemen gathered at the checkpost and were about to break their fast.[257]
52. August 30 A suicide bomber managed to sneak into the main police station in Mingora, Swat District on
Sunday, causing a huge explosion that killed 16 members of the recently-recruited Special Police Force and
injured another five.[258]
53. September 2 Religious Affairs Minister Hamid Saeed Kazmi was injured in a brazen attack in Islamabad
on Wednesday. His driver was killed and a police guard injured (who later succumbed to his injuries). The
assailants attacked the minister’s car when he was leaving his ministry at G-6/3, some yards away from the
Aabpara police station, along with his driver Mohammad Younus and guard Mohammad Ashraf.[259]
54. September 6 Three policemen were shot dead in Hasan Abdal in apparent act of targeted killing, a senior
police officer said on Sunday.[260]
55. September 8 Taliban militants on Tuesday shot dead four schoolchildren and wounded six others in an
apparent sectarian attack in the remote Atmankhel town of Orakzai Agency.[261]
56. September 13 Three Frontier Corps (FC) personnel were killed and as many injured as their routine patrol
hit a landmine in the Bara Tehsil of Khyber Agency on Sunday.[262]
57. September 18 At least 33 people were killed and 80 others injured when a bomber blew up an explosive-
laden vehicle in a market on the Kohat-Hangu road on Friday. The blast was powerful enough to cause
damage to all shops within a radius of 100 yards.[263] The death toll later reached 40.[264]
58. September 26 Two suicide attackers on Saturday separately rammed their explosives-laden vehicles into a
police station in Bannu and a military-owned commercial bank in Peshawar cantonment, killing at least 23
people and injuring around another 200. At least 10 people were killed in the attack in Peshawar, while
seven, including two policemen, were killed in the assault on the Bannu police station. Around 94 people
were injured in Peshawar and 64, including 31 policemen, Bannu.[265] The next day the death from two
suicide bomb attacks rose to 27.[266]
59. October 5 A suicide bomber dressed in military uniform attacked the highly-fortified United Nations
World Food Programme offices in Islamabad, killing five people including one Iraqi citizen and injuring
six others.
60. October 9 A suicide attack at Khyber Bazaar in Peshawar on Friday killed 48 people and injured more than
148
61. October 10-11 A total of 22 people including six soldiers, five SSG commandos, three hostages and eight
gunmen were killed in an attack on Pakistan Army General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi.[271] This
attack followed a series of bombings in the North-Western Pakistan, amid speculation that the army is to
prepare another major operation in Waziristan against the Taliban. At least nine militants in military
uniforms had stormed the GHQ, killed a total of six soldiers including a brigadier and a lieutenant-colonel,
and took a total 56 people hostage. They were demanding the release of some of their fellow fighters in
exchange for the hostages. Nine of the hostages later escaped. Later a successful operation was conducted
early next day by the SSG to free all the hostages, in the process of which four terrorists were killed, with
the ring leader Mohammed Aqeel arrested, and five commandos and three hostages also losing their lives.
A total of 44 hostages were rescued, which included officers, soldiers and civilian employees.[272][273]
62. October 12 At least 41 people – including six soldiers – were killed on Monday in an apparent suicide
attack on a military convoy in Alpuri area of Shangla District, an area thought to be under the control of
Pakistan Army.[274]
63. October 15 At least 19 people, including 14 security officials, were killed and 41 others sustained injuries
in three separate terror attacks in Lahore on Thursday. All nine attackers were also shot dead by security

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 personnel. The attacks were carried out at the Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) building on the Temple
Road, the Manawan Police Training School and the Elite Police Academy on the Bedian Road. The brazen
attacks on the tightly-guarded security sites came just six days after a highly organised attack on the
General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi.[275] Meanwhile, in the north-western town of Kohat, at least
11 people, three policemen among them, were killed and 22 others injured when a suicide bomber rammed
his explosive-packed pick-up into a police station in the Cantonment area for which the Tehrik-i-Taliban
Pakistan (TTP) claimed responsibility.[276]
64. October 16 15 people, including three policemen and a minor, were killed and 21 others wounded in a
suicide attack on the offices of the Special Investigation Unit (SIU) of the police, located a few meters
away from the recently-established Swati Phatak military post, in the Peshawar Cantonment area on
Friday.[277]
65. October 20 Two suicide blasts on Tuesday rocked the new campus of the International Islamic University,
Islamabad (IIUI) in H-10 sector of Islamabad, killing at least six students and staffers, including three
women, and injuring more than 29 others, 25 of them females, with some of them in critical condition.[278]
The first blast targeted the cafeteria adjacent to a girls’ hostel around 2:10pm, while the second one
targeted the Sharia and Law Department building in the male section of the university. This was the first-
ever attack on students in the country since the start of terrorism in 2001.[279]
66. October 22 A serving Army brigadier, Moinuddin Ahmad, and his driver were gunned down in Islamabad
early on Thursday morning while his gunman was critically wounded. Two motorcyclists intercepted his
official jeep in Sector G-11/1 and sprayed it with automatic fire. The broad daylight assassination comes on
the heels of the Islamic University bombing barely 48 hours earlier.[280]
67. October 23 Eight persons, including two PAF security personnel, were killed and 17 others sustained
injuries when a suicide bomber exploded himself at a police check-post on the GT Road near the Pakistan
Aeronautical Complex (PAC), Kamra, on Friday morning. This was the fourth major attack on Pakistan Air
Force and the second one in Kamra.[281] While on the same day, an anti-tank mine planted on the side of a
road killed 18 people of a wedding party and injured six others in the Baizai tehsil of Mohmand
Agency.[282] And 15 people were injured in bombing outside a restaurant in the Hayatabad area of
Peshawar.[283]
68. October 27 Targeting another military officer, Brigadier Waqar Ahmad, two gunmen riding a motorbike
on Tuesday morning attacked him, who was traveling with his mother and driver, as he came out of his
house in Sector I-9/1 of Islamabad, riddling his car with bullets.[284]
69. October 28 At least 118 people have been killed and over 200 injured by a large blast in a market, in the
city of Peshawar, Pakistan. Pakistani police in the area claim that the explosion was caused by a car bomb.
The market mostly sold products for women and a large percentage of the dead, were confirmed to be
women, reports say. The number of casualties are expected to rise in the local area. Similar attacks in
Pakistan, have killed more than 200 people in recent weeks as the army continues its offensive in South
Waziristan.[285]
70. October 31 A roadside bomb killed seven Pakistani soldiers in the Khyber Agency, close to the Afghan
border. The vehicle hit the bomb whilst carrying paramilitary troops on a routine patrol in Sur Khar.[286]
71. November 2 At least 35 people were killed and 65 others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up
outside a branch of the National Bank of Pakistan in Rawalpindi on Monday. Most of those who died in the
attack were serving or retired civil and military employees, pensioners and elderly citizens who had queued
for drawing salary and paying utility bills. The powerful explosion took place at 10.45am at the branch’s
parking zone located outside a four-star Shalimar Hotel off The Mall road and near the State Bank of
Pakistan.[287][288]
72. November 6 In a third incident of its kind in Islamabad, gunmen injured an army brigadier and his driver
in Islamabad on Friday, as they opened fire on their vehicle. Brigadier Sohail and his driver came under
attack by unknown assailants in the I-8/4 sector of the capital.[289]
73. November 8 15 people, including the Nazim of the Adezai Union Council, were killed and 42 others
sustained injuries in a suicide attack near the Matani cattle market, some 25km from Peshawar, on Sunday.
Nazim Abdul Malik had survived over 20 attacks on his vehicle, house and Hujra since he had parted ways
with the militants in October last year.[290]
74. November 9 A bomb went off near a police post in the city of Peshawar, killing at least 3 and injuring
around five. This bombing was believed to be a suicide attack. No group claimed responsibility for the
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75. November 10 At least 34 people were killed and nearly 100 others injured when a powerful car bomb
ripped through a crowded intersection in Charsadda bazaar on Tuesday afternoon. Scores of women and
children died and dozens of shops and vehicles were damaged in the suspected suicide attack.[292]
76. November 13 A total of 21 people died in multiple car bombings in the Frontier province. At least 13
people – 10 military personnel and three civilians – were killed and 60 injured when a suicide bomber
ripped through a military checkpost in front of the regional headquarters of the Inter-Services Intelligence
(ISI) in Peshawar on Friday. The bomber rammed his explosives-laden vehicle into a military checkpost on
Artillery Road at 6:45am. This was the third attack on ISI, with the first being November 2007 bombing of
ISI bus in Rawalpindi and the second being the May 2009 bombing of the ISI regional headquarters in
Lahore.[293] The death toll for the ISI attack later rose to 17.[294] While in Bannu, at least eight people –
including seven security officials – were killed and 22 injured in a suicide attack at a local police station
struck 25 minutes after the attack on the ISI building in Peshawar.[295]
77. November 14 At least 12 people, including a policeman and a three-year-old child, were killed and another
35 injured when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden vehicle at a police checkpost in provincial
capital on Saturday. The bomber struck the checkpost just outside the entrance to the Peshawar Cantonment
at Pishtakhara Chowk, which is situated on the junction of the Bara and Ring roads and is close to the city’s
border with Khyber Agency.[296]
78. November 16 At least four people were killed and 20 others injured when a suicide car bomber struck a
police station in Badaber near Peshawar. Police reportedly fired on the vehicle, which witnesses claimed
was a pick-up truck but were unable to stop it, until it eventually detonated.[297]
79. November 17 At least one person was killed and five others injured, including Deputy Inspector General
(DIG), Nizam Shahid Durrani in a blast in Quetta. The bomb blast occurred outside the police inspector's
office on Spini Road.[298]
80. November 19 Peshawar went through yet another day of bloodbath on Thursday when two strikes, within a
space of 14 hours, left 22 people dead. The first target was the city’s judicial complex, where a suicide
bomber blew himself up outside a court building early in the morning, and the other came late in the night
when a roadside bomb destroyed a police van. The first attack claimed the better part of the casualties —
20 dead and 50 injured. It was the sixth attack on the city and it devastated a mosque, damaged a college
and a police station. While the bomb attack on the police van ripped through the vehicle, killing two
policemen on the spot and wounding five civilians on the outskirts of Peshawar.
81. November 24 In the Khyber tribal region of North-West Pakistan, at least 6 civilians were killed in clashes
between the army and militants in the area, officials claim. These deaths occurred around the town of
Landi-Kotal close to the Afghan border. The military however claim they have killed 18 militants in this
new Khyber region offensive, although there is no independent confirmation of this.
82. November 26 A roadside bomb has injured two policemen and a young girl in the city of Peshawar, North-
Western Pakistan. The remote-controlled device, apparently targeted a local police chief who was travelling
through the Rashidabad area, a police official claimed to the AFP news agency. The police chief survived
the ordeal, although his car was damaged from this incident.
83. November 27 The dead body of a tribal elder who opposed the Taliban has been found in the Mohmand
area of North-Western Pakistan. The elder, Ameer Saiyed was reported to have been abducted by Taliban
militants from his home on Thursday. The body was supposedly found near his home in Wali Kor village.
In another separate incident, another anti-Taliban tribal elder was killed by a roadside bomb in the Bajaur
area, officials claim.
84. December 1 A leading Politician has been killed in the Swat valley of North-West Pakistan by a suicide
blast. The politician, Shamsher Ali Khan, was reportedly killed when a bomber targeted a guest house, at
which he was present. At least another 8 people, including his brother, are known to have been injured in
this attack.
85. December 2 An attack by a suicide bomber, on the entrance to Pakistan's navy headquarters in Islamabad,
has resulted in the death of one security officer. Two other security officers have been wounded and are
said to be in a critical condition. As were two civilians, including a six-year old boy who is known to be in
a critical state.
86. December 4 At least four attackers opened fire in a mosque, near the Pakistani army's headquarters in
Rawalpindi, killing at least 35 people and injuring many more civilians in their assault.
87. December 7 2 suicide attacks on Allama iqbal Town. 40 people killed and 50 injured

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 HOW TERRORISM CAN BE REMOVED

To remove terrorism, one must consider the basic psychological nature of human beings. It is a human
nature that humans can be excited, made angry, made filled with emotions and made joyous or made
unhappy. We all know how these things happen in human. The patience to resist these fillings is varying
with person to person. Now in a particular community, some possess high resisting power and some can
be easily exploited. So, by considering this psychological perspective of human nature, the terrorism can
be curbed more easily than to use force, power or strict laws.

(1) It is human nature that under the extreme pressurized situation the person even decides to commit
suicide. Exactly, considering this psychology of human nature, the more exciting young blood of the
person can be excited by showing the video or film of crimes/terror activities of opposite community on a
particular community. The Hindu fundamentalists are using this tactics in their election campaign
speeches. The Muslims listens these hate and provocative speeches used against them. The Hindu rulers
and Hindu fundamentalists understand that they have hold on police and other security forces can do all
these nuisance openly and hence have been creating nuisance of demolition of Babari mosque and
burning of houses of other communities and destroying of properties of other minorities. But they forget
that the Muslims have religious affinity attachment with 56 Muslim countries in the world outside India
which has enough reactions within Muslim world what has been done in India. This phenomenon is
equally taken for any country in the world not necessarily taken for granted for India. So, if India or any
country of the world want to remove terrorism, the communities which has religious or cultural bondage
with the other countries must be respected properly. Unfortunately, in India, the Muslims are religiously
discriminated openly in every field. In today’s globalised world, such things are addressed easily to all
countries and communities through out the world. The reactions are a natural thing. The patriotism
towards a country is a natural thing. As regards patriotism, there is no distinction between the
communities due to its being a natural thing. But, of course, the patriotism can be affected by external
sources like hate, injustices in employment or representation of democratic institutions like parliament,
state assemblies etc. The open injustices to the Muslims are easily addressed to the Muslims of other
countries. And it is quite natural that local person or agency can support such activities. Famous poet
Allama Iqbal told “ if from a farm of wheat one cannot obtain wheat, such farms should be destroyed” The
same poet said “sare jahan se achha Hindustan hamara” Muslim cannot be a betrayal. Muslim uses the
world “Hindustan” in stead of India. But it the whole Muslim community is hated and neglected by the
fellow country men, how can the nation expect patriotism from them?

(2) It is a tendency of the present rulers of the countries through out the world that they behave some what
in arrogant way. The rulers/governments do not want to listen to the demands of the so called terrorist
organization. As for example, Lasker-e-tayyaba has its mission that kashmiris should be given choice of
self determination by plebiscite which have been agreed by Pakistan and India. So, their demand is
legitimate. They want to say that actions must be taken for plebiscite but no actions since 60 years are
taken. This is the agreement at the time of partition of India-Pakistan. So, it seems that the action of
Lasker-e-tayyaba may be regarded as a revolutionist organization. But the government of India is in fear
of losing Kashmir in a plebiscite not interested and tries to use power and force to depress the
organization. The Student Islamic Movement of India is basically student organization which involved in
activities in safeguarding Muslims interests after the demolition of Babari Mosque. The Hindu
fundamentalists demolished Babari Mosque. In demolishing action of Babari Mosque, Mr. Lalkrishna
Advani was active leader! In stead of removing him from future elections, he is now one of the projected
prime ministerial candidate of India in 2009 general parliamentary elections! Now could any body say
what Muslims of India should do? The Muslims are discriminated and they are not avoided from active
representation of Indian politics. The Muslims have 15.4 per cent of total population of India but their
representation in Parliament is just 5 per cent! So, the Muslims have to struggle for their legitimate
demands. In this way, the Muslim organizations like SIMI’s activities seem to be like that of revolutionist
activities rather than terrorist activities. The government must think of this seriously.

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(3) The injustices to the Muslims like severe under-representation in employment and education in
government as well as public and private undertakings must be removed. The Indian public and whole the
world public watched live encounter operation of Indian securities with so called terrorist on TV during 60
hours of operation in India at Tajmahal hotel, Oberoi Hotel, and Nariman House in which two so called
terrorists fought shows their courage to fight against plenty of commandoes demonstrate that the Muslims
are brave. Commandoes were changing to take rest but the so called terrorists did not take rest! The age
of so called terrorists was 20 or 21years! The surprise thing is that such a brave community is not given
an opportunity in Indian Military! What kind of religious discrimination is this? The same thing happens for
other security services of India like police, state reserve police, central reserve police, border security
force and like that. I have used the word “so called terrorists” in stead of “terrorist” because, they fought
for the benefit of Muslim community which is harassed by Hindu hardliners and the fundamentalism is
spread somewhat in Indian Military! Presently Malegaon bomb blast terror was created by Indian Military
personnel and retired Indian Military personnel who trained some hindu boys too! This fact was brought to
notice through an investigation by ATS chief Karkare who was killed in encounter operation in Mumbai
hotel terror attack. This happens due to under-representation of Muslims in bureaucratic system and
security system of India. The Hindu hardliners are protected by government. The recent violence in Orissa
state in which so many churches and houses of Christians were burnt by Hindu hardliners are one more
example. India is talking about removing terrorism and reaches up to Pakistan but India must see to
remove Hindu hardliners first. The first incident of terror in India was started by Hindu fundamentalists by
demolishing Babari mosque. The first incident of Hindu terror was created by Hindu hardliners by
murdering Mahatma Gandhiji. So, those main culprits who sow the seed of terrorism must be captured
and must be prosecuted.

(4) In the present politics, the people have the option to choose from more bad man or less bad man
rather than thinking of bad or good man. Such politicians impose war which kills so many innocents
whereas so called small terrorists organizations kill relatively fewer innocents. What is the difference?
Some one would say that during war the innocents are killed unwillingfully whereas the terrorists kill the
innocents people willing fully. Any way, killing is killing. Before imposing war unwilling fully killings must be
taken care of. In fact, terror attacks are the result of failure diplomacy or can be said as unsuccessfull
governing. When some people are ready to sacrifice their lives without selfishness, the present politicians
and government must think seriously about the demands of the so called organization. The so called
terrorists have no selfishness of their own. If you consider the case of Mumbai terror attacks, what were
the personnel benefits to the so called terrorist? Nothing! They sacrificed their lives for what? Only for the
community, only for their Muslim brothers. They wanted that their community brothers, irrespective of the
citizenship of the country, must not be tortured and harassed. The Hindu majority want to harass the
minority in one or the other way. Due to the Islam religion, they are harassed! Islam is the latest religion
on the earth which they accept. They know that the Muslims are forced to convert. They know that in
Gujarat, the government passed law that if Hindu is converted to a new religion, specific inquiry and
government permission is required and if a Muslim/Christian is converted to Hinduism, no such inquiry
and permission needed! Can such a thing happen in a democratic country? Now tell what the
Muslims/Christians should do? Such things are the main causes of terror attacks. So, it can be rather
termed as a revolutionist attack.

(5) Islam is the religion of truth. In Islam it is written “the martyrs are not dead but alive, and they are
provided sustenance(food)” Hence the martyr’s body never get decomposed. The Muslims have
witnessed so many martyrs bodies. So, we the human cannot decide who the martyr is. Only Allah (God)
decides who the martyr is. And Allah makes the martyr to the one who is on the truth. Now, those so
called terrorists’ dead bodies must be observed for a week or two without any protection system like cold
room, ice or any other chemical for preservation. Then see if the bodies get bad smell or decomposition. If
it is so, then the terrorists would be true terrorist. And if it gives no bad smell or gets no decomposition, the
bodies must be buried respectfully by the Muslim people considering them as martyrs. Muslims of India
cannot consider the government to be so clean. Let the Allah (God) decides. The Muslims are so
confident about this.

(6) So, in short, the religion is based on the truth. For upholding the truth, any truthful work must be
supported. So, it is advisable that the government must work in a just full manner. Double standard policy
for different communities must be avoided. When a father does not work with a just among his sons, his

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home breaks away. They cannot live under a single roof. Similarly, if the government of a country wants
that every people remain safely and peacefully among each other, it is a duty of the government that the
communities must be respected, communities must have proportionate share in governing system as per
their population share of the country.

(7) I have been writing constantly to impose reservation policy for parliament seats for Muslim and Hindus
as per population ratio in the country. But the government is not interested. If this thing is done, the
election campaign provocative language against communities will be stopped and thus cooling down
Muslim anger.

Quick look out of the Truth of the real facts in India. The international governments must ask clarity about
following thing. What the Muslims should do if the government does not take appropriate steps.

A: Double standards played in implementing POTA rule for Muslim and Hindu terrorist criminals. The
Godhara kand Muslims were prosecuted by POTA law whereas the aftermath Gujarat riots Hindu terror
criminals were not prosecuted by POTA law.

B: Hindu criminals are caught in Camera CD. They distributed the CDs of Hindu terror against the
Muslims. But no POTA law imposed on them.

C: Fake encounters are done against the Muslims. The innocent wife of sohrabuddin was murdered by
police!

D: Hindu provocative language election campaign is done against minority Muslims but the Hindus are not
suspended from election.

E: Not a single election commissioner is employed so far in the history of 60 years of Indian democracy.

F: The Muslims population in India is 16 percent. But their representation in Parliament is 5 percent. In
administration 2 percent, in military might be 0.2 percent, in police and other internal security 2 percent,
general employment 4 percent, judiciary about 2 percent! These figures are approximate.

G: The negligible representation of the Muslims caused total injustice and no will power to solve Kashmir
issue. In Kashmir, Indian Military deployed in the ratio of 7:1 (One army person per seven citizens). They
are tortured by Indian Military at the time of demonstration and in the name of infiltration from Pakistan
border.

So, these matters must be solved in a appropriate and prudent way. The people of the age of just 20 to 25
years are going to sacrify their lives with no selfish intentions is labeled as terrorists and the government
and their machineries get payment, other incentives, benefits and yet not solving the problems are labeled
as truth full persons! The Muslims in general and the international public of the whole world cannot be
made fool by calling truthful martyrs as terrorists. If the revolutionists are considered to be terrorists then
the government and their machineries are the creator of the terrorists.

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