The Asian Age

MAJOR ATTACKS SINCE 2007

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Q October 18: 2007 Bomb attacks targeting ex-PM Benazir Bhutto kill 139 people in Karachi as she returns to Pakistan for the first time in eight years

Q Bhutto herself dies in a gun and suicide attack on December 27

Q August 21: Twin 2008 suicide attacks kill 64 people outside Pakistan’s main arms factory at Wah near Islamabad

Q September 20: 60 people are killed when a suicide truck bomb destroys part of Marriott hotel in Islamabad Q October 28: A 2009 car bomb rips apart a market in the northweste­rn city of Peshawar killing 125 people Q December 7-9: At least, 66 people die in four attacks at a market in Lahore 2010 Q January 1: A suicide car bomb kills 101 people at a village in Bannu Q May 28: Gunmen and suicide bombers storm mosques in Lahore killing 82 Q July 9: A suicide bomber kills 105 people in Mohmand Q September 3: A suicide attack kills 59 at a Shia Muslim rally in Quetta Q November 5: A suicide bomber kills 68 people in Darra Adam Khel 2013 Q January 10: A double suicide attack kills 92 in Quetta Q February 16: A bomb at a market at Hazara Town kills 89 Q September 22: 82 die when suicide bombers attack a Peshawar church

2014 Q November 2: 55 people are killed by a suicide bomber at the main Pakistan-India border crossing

Q December 16: Taliban storms an Army-run school in Peshawar killing 154 people

Q January 30: 61 2015 people are killed as a suicide bomber hits a Shia mosque in Shikarpur

Q May 13: The first attack officially claimed by the ISIS in Pakistan kills 45 Shias in Karachi

Q March 27: 71 2016 people are killed and hundreds injured in an explosion that targets Christians near a park in Lahore

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

Q September 17: A Taliban suicide bomber kills 36 people as they attend Friday prayers at a mosque in a northweste­rn Pakistani tribal area

 ??  ?? 2011 Q April 3: 50 die after two suicide bombers attack a Sufi shrine in the central town of Dera Ghazi Khan Q May 13: Two suicide bombers kill 98 outside a police training centre in Charsadda
2011 Q April 3: 50 die after two suicide bombers attack a Sufi shrine in the central town of Dera Ghazi Khan Q May 13: Two suicide bombers kill 98 outside a police training centre in Charsadda
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