Timeline of nation’s deadliest insurgent attacks

At least 59 people were killed and dozens more wounded when extremists wearing suicide vests stormed a Pakistani police academy near Quetta in Pakistan overnight.

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

Oct 18: Bomb attacks targeting former premier Benazir Bhutto kill 139 people in Karachi as she returns to Pakistan for the first time in eight years. Bhutto herself dies in a gun and suicide attack on Dec 27. • 2008

Aug 21: Twin suicide attacks kill 64 people outside Pakistan’s main arms factory at Wah near Islamabad. • 2009

Oct 28: A car bomb rips apart a market in the northwestern city of Peshawar, killing 125 people. • 2010

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

July 9: A suicide bomber kills at least 105 people in a busy market in the northwestern tribal district of Mohmand. • 2011

May 13: Two suicide bombers kill at least 98 people outside a police training center in Charsadda. • 2013

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

Feb 16: A bomb at a market at Hazara Town, a Shiite neighborhood near Quetta, kills 89. • 2014

December 16: Taliban insurgents storm an army-run school in Peshawar, killing 154 people, most of them children. • 2015

Jan 30: Sixty-one people are killed as a suicide bomber hits a Shiite mosque in Shikarpur in southern Pakistan. • 2016

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

August 8: At least 73 people die and dozens are wounded when a blast tears through mourners at a hospital in Quetta.