Khaleej Times

Major militant attacks in Pakistan

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Here are some of the deadliest attacks in Pakistan in the last three years: — Oct 25: Gunmen storm a police academy in the southweste­rn city of Quetta, killing at least 59 people, mostly cadets and trainees; — Sept 16: Suicide attack kills 36 worshipper­s in a mosque in the northweste­rn tribal region of Mohmand; — Aug 08: Suicide bombing kills more than 70 people at a gathering of lawyers on the grounds of a government-run hospital in Quetta; — March 27: Bombing on Easter Sunday kills 65 people in the eastern city of Lahore, in a park crowded with Christians, including many children; — March 16: Bomb rips through a bus carrying Pakistani government employees in the volatile northweste­rn city of Peshawar, killing 15 people; — Jan 20: Militants storm a school in Charsadda in northweste­rn Pakistan in an hours-long attack, killing at least 20 people; 2015: — Sept. 18: Taleban storm a military air base used as a residentia­l area on the outskirts of Peshawar, killing 29 people, including 16 praying inside a mosque; — Aug. 16: Suicide bombing at the home of Punjab province’s home minister, Shuja Khanzada, kills 18 people, including the minister and a senior police officer; — May 29: Gunmen hijack a bus and kill 22 people near Pishin district in southweste­rn Balochista­n province; — May 13: Gunmen storm a bus in Karachi, killing 45 people; — April, 11: Gunmen in restive southweste­rn Pakistan kill 20 workers at a dam constructi­on site; — March 17: Two suicide bombers attack two churches in the eastern Pakistani city of Lahore as worshipper­s pray inside, killing 15 people; — Jan. 30: Suicide bombing at a mosque in southern city of Shikarpur kills 59 people; 2014: — Dec.16: Militants attack an armyrun school in Peshawar, killing over 150 people, mostly schoolchil­dren; — Nov. 2: Taleban suicide bombing kills 60 in an attack on a paramilita­ry checkpoint close to the Wagah border crossing with India; — June 9: Ten gunmen disguised as police guards attack a terminal in Karachi, Pakistan’s busiest airport, killing 13 people during a five-hour siege. — June 8: Suicide bombing in the country’s southwest kills at least 23 devotees returning from Iran. —

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