Indian trail of terror: RAW Bomb blasts in Pakistan

World Thursday, October 8th, 2009

It is ironic that the Kerry Luger bill mentions Quetta and Murdike, but the likes of Ms. Hillary Clinton choose to ignore the trail of terror that takes a toll on Pakistani civilians. While Admiral Mullen and Richard Holbrooke send admonishments to Islamabad on a regular basis–RAWs bloody hands leaving their nasty prints on the women and children of Pakistan get a free pass.

If there is a database of Indian terror activities in Pakistan, it has been kept under wraps and buried deep into the Hindu Kush. There have been been about 1000 terror attacks on Pakistan.

Barrister Munshi and Dr. Isha Khan have wrtten hundreds of articles on RAW. Barrister Munshi’s book “The India Doctrine” decribes the RAW activities in a holistic manner against all of India’s neighbors.

There is a story senior journalist A.S. Panneerselvan tells of the experience of the first group of Tamil Tigers who were brought to a remote camp in Uttar Pradesh for arms training by the Indian government in the early 1980s. Every evening, the camp’s Tibetan cook would look at the group of Sri Lankan Tamils and start laughing. Eventually, one of the Tamils learnt enough Hindi to ask the cook what was so funny. “Thirty years ago,” the old man said, “I was in this camp with other Tibetans getting trained and there was somebody else to cook for us. Now you are here and I am cooking for you!” “That may be so,” the LTTE man said, “but I still don’t see what’s so funny.” Prompt came the reply: “You see, I’m wondering who you will be cooking for 20 years from now ? I think it may be the Chakmas!”
RAW Page: Indian Intelligence Services: Rupee News has attempted to document some of the nafarious activities of RAW. This writing is one of a series of articles on the Indian Intelligence agency commonly known as RAW (Research and Analysis Wing). Some of the bombings in Pakistan have been the work of RAW affiliates or surrogates, while most bombings have either been conduced by RAW agents, or other intelligence agencies of India. The Afghan RAM, the Isreali Mossad and the KGB is also used to bomb Pakistan. The current headquarters of the BLA is in Tel Aviv. Of course Pakistan is not the only country that has faced Indian attacks. All of India’s neighbors have faced and are facing terror in all it manifestations.

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Subterfuge and confusing the enemy is part of normal RAW tactics. The RAW bombings are not simple affairs of blowing up builidngs or crowded markets. Some of the bombings have been disguised as attacks on other faiths or communal riots beteween the faiths. RAW strategically places bombs in mosques, imam baras and also in rival religious factions. This exacerbates rivalries that have been exacerbated by sophisticated psy-ops.

RAW and terrorist activities: Apart from launching the propaganda, the economy and psychological warfare the RAW has been indulging in a series of terrorist activities in Pakistan. Many of the major terrorist attacks, carried out in Pakistan by RAW have been acknowledged by independent international observers such as Foundation of American Society (FAS), owing to the overwhelming evidences left by the agency behind.

RAW’s trail of terror in the Pakistani Provinces:

R.A.W. considers Sindh and Balochistan province and now FATA as well to be Pakistan’s soft underbelly.

It has made it the prime target for sabotage and subversion.

R.A.W. has enrolled an extensive network of agents and antigovernment elements and is convinced that with a little push restless things will revolt.

Taking full advantage of the agitation in Sindh in 1983, and the periodic ethnic riots, R.A.W. has attempted to penetrate Sindh and cultivated dissidents and secessionists, thereby creating hard-liners unlikely to allow peace to return to Sindh.

R.A.W. is also similarly involved in Balochistan supporting the cold war relic, the BLA.

R.A.W. has been attempting to confuse the ground situation in Kashmir so as to keep the world’s attention away from the gross human rights violations in Indian-occupied Kashmir.

RAW and ISI Phobia: Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency (I.S.I.), being almost 20 years older than R.A.W. and having acquired a much higher standard of efficiency in its functioning, has become the prime target of R.A.W.’s designs.

The I.S.I. is considered to be a stumbling block in R.A.W.’s operations and has been made a target of massive misinformation and propaganda campaigns.

The tirade against I.S.I. continues unabated.

The idea is to keep I.S.I. on the defensive by alleging in multi factorial issues whatsoever.

R.A.W.’s fixation on I.S.I. has taken the shape of I.S.I.-phobia, as in India every one traces the origin of all happenings and shortcomings to the I.S.I.

Whenever and wherever there is a kidnapping, a bank robbery, a financial scandal, a bomb blast, or what have you, the I.S.I. is deemed to have been involved.

The Government of Pakistan is reluctant to assign responsibility for terrorist activity to the Indian Government, even when evidence can be verified. Terrorist activities in Pakistan attributed to the clandestine activities of Indian and Afghan intelligence agencies that have credibly been vested are and include:

It is learnt that the US authorities strongly believe that RAW and some other Indian intelligence agencies have been the only source of terrorism in Pakistan.

It is learnt that experts are of the firm view that RAW, India’s external intelligence agency, is not the only secret agency of India, assigned the duties to carry out subversive activities in Pakistan but in fact several other Indian agencies have also been given similar assignments.

According to The Daily Mail findings, a Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC) at Delhi assigned terrorist and sabotage duties to the Intelligence Bureau, RAW, Military Intelligence, Naval Intelligence, Air Intelligence, Special Frontier Force, Joint Cipher Bureau etc. All these agencies have been actively executing plans of terrorism formulated by the succeeding governments in many countries of the region, particularly Pakistan.

RAW allegedly executed a hijacking of an Indian Airliner to Lahore in 1971 which was attributed to the Kashmiris, to give a terrorist dimension to the Kashmiri national movement. However soon the extent of RAW’s involvement was made public.

July 14, 1987 Karachi, Pakistan 72 car bombs (2)

All through the 80s hundreds of bombs exploded in Pakistan in retaliation for the war against the USSR in Afghanistan. RAW-Khad and the KGB tried to stop Pakistan by intimidating the general population and demorlaizing the civilan population into capitulation to the USSR and India.

Terrorism in Pakistan has been prevalent since the 1980s mostly due to the Soviet-Afghan War, and the subsequent proxy war against the communists that continued for at least a decade. The war brought numerous fighters from all over the world to South Asia in the name of jihad, often financed by the United States or Saudi Arabia. These fighters, known as mujahideen, created havoc in Pakistan by carrying out terrorist activities inside the country well after the war officially ended.

December 21, 1995 Peshawar, Pakistan 45 car bomb

A car bomb explosion, in SaddarArea, Peshawar, on 21 December, 1995, causing death of 37, innocent people and injuring over 50 others.

An explosion at, Shaukat Khanum Cancer Hospital, Lahore, on 14 April 1996, claiming the lives of 7 persons and injuring some 34 others.

A bomb blast near Bhaipheru in a passenger bus, traveling from Lahore to Sahiwal on 28 April 1996, killing 44 people on the spot and wounding another 30.

A bomb explosion in a bus near Sheikhupura on 8 May, 1996, killing 7 people and injuring 29.

A bomb explosion near Alam Chowk, Gujranwala, causing a significant number of casualties on June 10, 1996.

A bomb explosion in a passenger bus near Kharian on 10 June, 1996.

A bomb explosion outside Madrassah Faiz-ul-Islam Rawalpindi on 10 June, 1996.

A bomb blast at Faisalabad railway station on 8 July, 1996.

A bomb blast in Rawalpindi.

A bomb blast in Lahore.

This chart is but a sampling of Indian bomb balsts in Pakistan. Each year the number grows.

Bomb blast incidents in Pakistan – 1998
Month	Incidents	Killed	Injured
Jan	9	2	23
Feb	9	16	83
March	12	20	121
April	7	7	43
May	3	3	17
June	14	31	71
July	4	-	3
Aug	5	5	5
Sept	5	-	31
Oct	8	3	43
Nov	2	4	13
(till 20th)
Total	78	91	453
(collated from Press reports)

In May, 1999 the US State department, in its annual report on terrorism, spared three lengthy paragraphs for Pakistan (as a victim of terrorism and sectarian strife).

A bomb blast at Sabzi Mandi of Islamabad on 19 September, 2000, killing 20 people and injuring nearly 80 others etc.

Apart from these blasts the RAW has carried out a number of other subversive activities including sniper’ firing and grenade attacks on Mosques, Imam Bargahs, and other religious places, printing and distribution of inflammatory religious literature.

Punjab has remained the main target of RAW activities during the past few years where 224 bombs were exploded by RAW agents during the past 13 years or so resulting in the killing of 554 innocent citizens and injuring 2958 others.

During the year 2000 there have been 18 bomb attacks in Punjab, eight in Punjab alone killing 13 persons.

2001

October 28 Attack on a Protestant church in southern Punjab city of Bahawalpur resulted in 16 deaths and 5 injuries. The causalities were all Christian worshipers except one police officer.[32]

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.[33]

2002

February 22 The American journalist Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered in Karachi.[34]

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.[35]

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.[36]

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.[37]

May 8 Bus bombing in Karachi kills 11 Frenchmen and 3 Pakistanis near the Sheraton hotel.[38]

Main article: 2002 Karachi bus bombing

June 14 A powerful car bomb exploded near the heavily-guarded US Consulate in Karachi, killing 12 people and wounding over 50 others. A portion of the outer wall of the consulate was blown apart.[39]

Main article: 2002 US consulate bombing in Karachi

July 13 Nine foreign tourists and three Pakistani nationals were injured in an attack near an archaeological site in the district of Mansehra.[40]

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. The attack was carried by four gunmen, when they started firing indiscriminately, however no pupils were among those killed, all of whom were Pakistani guards and employees at the school.[41]

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.[42]

October 16 More than eight people were injured in a series of parcel bomb explosions in Pakistan’s largest city, Karachi.[43]

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.[44]

November 15 An explosion on a bus in Hyderabad, Sindh killed two people and injured at least nine others.[45]

December 5 Three people were killed in an attack at the Macedonian Honorary consulate in the city of Karachi. The dead – all Pakistani – were tied up, gagged and killed before the explosion at the office.[46]

December 25 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.[47]

2003

February 28 Two policemen were shot dead outside the United States consulate in Karachi, the same place where 12 people were killed by a car bomb nine months ago.[48]

March 10 Two people were injured when a masked terrorist opened indiscriminate fire on a mosque in Gulistan Colony, Faisalabad.[49]

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.[50]

July 4 At least 47 people were killed and 150 injured in an attack on a Shia mosque in the south-western Pakistani city of Quetta.[51]

October 3 Six employees of Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) were killed and several others injured when their official van was fired upon on Hub River Road in Mauripur, Karachi. A Lashkar-e-Jhangvi cadre was officially charged.[52]

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.[53]

December 14 President Pervez Musharraf survived an assassination attempt when a powerful bomb went off minutes after his highly-guarded convoy crossed a bridge in Rawalpindi. Musharraf was apparently saved by a jamming device in his limousine that prevented the remote controlled explosives from blowing up the bridge as his convoy passed over it.[54]

December 25 Another attempt was carried on the president 11 days later when two suicide bombers tried to assassinate Musharraf, but their car bombs failed to kill the president; 16 others nearby died instead. Musharraf escaped with only a cracked windscreen on his car. Militant Amjad Farooqi was apparently suspected as being the mastermind behind these attempts, and was killed by Pakistani forces in 2004 after an extensive manhunt.[55]

2004

February 28 An apparent suicide bomber was killed and three worshipers were injured in an attack on Imambargah in Satellite Town, Rawalpindi.[56]

March 2 At least 42 persons were killed and more than 100 wounded when a procession of the Shia Muslims was attacked by rival Sunni extremists at Liaquat Bazaar in Quetta.[57]

May 3 A car bomb in south-western city of Gwadar killed three Chinese engineers and injured 10 other people.[58]

May 7 A suicide bomber attacked a crowded Shia mosque in Sindh Madrassatul Islam in Karachi, killing at least 15 worshipers. More than 100 people were also injured, 25 of them critically in the attack. One person was killed in the riots that followed the attack.[59]

May 14 Six members of Shia family was shot dead in Mughalpura locality of Lahore.[60]

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.[61]

May 30 A senior Sunni 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.[62]

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.[63]

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.[64]

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.[65]

August 2 Chief Minister of Balochistan province Jam Mir Mohammad Yousaf escaped an assassination bid when unidentified persons fired at his convoy killing one of his bodyguards and injuring two others.[66]

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.[67]

August 31 Three persons were killed and three others injured in a bomb blast at a shop in the Balochi town of Kalat.[68]

September 21 Suspected Sipah-e-Sahaba members gunned down at least three members of a Shi’a family in a RAW attack shown as a sectarian attack in Dera Ismail Khan.[69]

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.[70]

October 7 A powerful car bomb left 40 people dead and wounded over 100 during a Sunni rally to commemorate Maulana Azam Tariq, assassinated leader of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, in the central city of Multan. This was most probably shown as a retaliation of Sialkot suicide attacks exactly a week ago.[71]

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.[72]

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 responsibilty[73]. BLA is supported by RAW

2005

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 Muslims.[74]

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 devotees at the shrine of Pir Rakhel Shah in remote village of Fatehpur in Jhal Magsi District, Balochistan.[75]

May 25 As many as six members of a family were killed in an explosion at village Bandkhel in Makeen Tehsil, South Waziristan.[76]

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.[77]

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.[78]

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..[79]

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.[80]

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.[81]

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.[82]

December 8 At least 12 people were killed and 30 injured in a bomb explosion in the Jandola town of South Waziristan.[83]

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.[84]

2006

January 25 At least six people were killed and five others hurt after a bus ran over a landmine in Dera Bugti District, Balochistan.[85]

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.[86]

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.[87]

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.[88]

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.[89]

April 11 Over 50 people, including Sunni scholars, were killed in a bomb explosion at a religious gathering celebrating the birthday of Prophet Muhammad in Nishtar Park, Karachi.[90]

June 12 At least five people were killed and 17 wounded in a bomb attack in Quetta hotel.[91]

June 15 Unidentified gunmen killed a senior prison official Amanullah Khan Niazi and four others in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi.[92]

June 16 Two female teachers and two children were shot dead in Khoga Chiri village in Orakzai Agency.[93]

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.[94]

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.[95]

August 26-31 Akbar Bugti’s killing sparked five days of rioting that left six people dead, dozens wounded and 700 under arrest.[96]

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.[97]

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.[98]

October 20 A bomb blast killed at least six people and left 21 injured in a busy shopping district of Peshawar.[99]

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 region in the previous month.[100]

May 8, 2002 2002 Karachi bus bombing, Karachi, Pakistan 14 car bomb

June 14, 2002 US consulate, Karachi, Pakistan 12 truck bomb

October 7, 2004 Multan, Pakistan 40 car bomb

In 2004-2008: Pakistan was the victim of suicide bombs perpetuated by the Indian agents like Baitulalh Mehsud

RAW has become more and more sophiticatedin its actions. Subterfuge has been taken to the highest levels. Many of the attacks dubbed as suicide attacks may have simply been bombs with sophisticated timers attached to them. There is some evidence that the severed heads were thrown at the sites to obsfuscate the environment and spread fear in the population to make them think that it is sucide bombers. Here is a chronology of some of the worst bomb attacks since July 2007:

July 14, 2007 – Suicide car-bomber kills 24 paramilitary soldiers and wounds 29 in North Waziristan.

July 15 – Sixteen people, most of them paramilitary soldiers, are killed in suicide-bomb ambush on patrol in Swat Valley in North West Frontier Province (NWFP). Separately, suicide bomber targets police recruits in Dera Ismail Khan in NWFP, killing 29.

July 17 – Suicide bomber kills 16 people outside court in Islamabad where country’s suspended chief justice, Iftikhar Chaudhry, was due to speak.

July 19 – Three suicide attacks in a single day in three towns kill at least 52 people.

July 27 – Suicide bomb attack in a restaurant near Islamabad’s Red Mosque kills 13 people, most of them policemen.

September 4 – Two suicide bombers kill 25 in Rawalpindi.

Sept 13 – At least 15 soldiers killed in suicide bombing in an army canteen near Islamabad.

October 19 – At least 139 people killed in suicide bomb attack on former prime minister Benazir Bhutto’s motorcade as she is driven through Karachi after arriving home from eight years of exile.

October 25 – Suspected suicide bomber kills 21 people, including 17 soldiers, in an attack on an army convoy in Swat.

November 24 – Twin suicide car bomb attacks kill 15 people in Rawalpindi, on the eve of the return of former prime minister Nawaz Sharif from exile in Saudi Arabia.

December 17 – A suicide bomber kills 10 military recruits in the northwestern town of Kohat.

December 21 – A suicide bomber kills at least 41 people in a mosque in northwest Pakistan during Eid festival prayers.

December 27 – Bhutto is killed in a bomb attack after a rally in Rawalpindi. More than 20 others are killed in the attack.

January 10, 2008 – A suicide bomber walks up to policemen outside the High Court in Lahore and sets off explosives. Nineteen people are killed, 16 policemen and 3 passers-by.

February 22 – A roadside bomb kills 13 members of a wedding party, including the bride, in Swat.

February 29 – A suicide attack on a police funeral in the district of Swat kills 40 people.

March 2 – At least 40 people are killed when a suicide bomber attacks a traditional tribal meeting in the tribal region of Darra Adam Kheil.

March 11 – Two suicide car bombers strike, killing 24 people, most of them in an attack on a government security office in Lahore.

October 7, 2004 Multan, Pakistan 40 car bomb

July 19, 2007 Hub, Pakistan 30 car bomb

November 24, 2007 Rawalpindi, Pakistan 35 car bombs (2)

February 16, 2008 Parachinar, Pakistan 47 car bomb

June 2, 2008 Islamabad, Pakistan (2008 Danish embassy bombing)

2007

January 15 A powerful blast in the Jalozai refugee camp destroyed a mud-house, killing four people and injuring five others.[101]

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.[102]

January 27 At least 13 people, including a senior police official, 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.[103]

February 6 A suicide bomber detonated his explosives in a parking area outside Islamabad International Airport injuring 5 people.[104]

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.[105]

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.[106]

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.[107]

April 10-11 Up to 35 people were killed and scores of others wounded in heavy fighting between rival Shia and Sunni groups in different areas of the Kurram Agency on Tuesday night and Wednesday.[108]

April 28 Assassination attempt on Aftab Ahmad Khan 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.[109]

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.

Main article: 2007 Karachi riots

May 15 A bomb blast at the local Marhaba hotel in Peshawar killed 24 people and injured 30.[110]

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.[111]

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.[112]

June 19 At least 22 people were killed and 10 others wounded when a missile hit a cluster of compounds in Datakhel area of North Waziristan.[113]

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.[114]

July – September

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.[115] 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.[116]

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.[117]

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.[118]

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.[119]

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.[120]

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 Pakistan Peoples Party political workers waiting for the arrival of Chief Justice Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry, who was to address a lawyers convention.[121]

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.[122]

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.[123]

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.[124] The same day Raziq Bugti, former guerrilla commander turned spokesman for the Balochistan government, was shot dead by assailants in Quetta.[125]

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.[126]

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.[127]

August 26 Four policemen were killed and two others wounded in a suicide attack in the Machaar area of Shangla district.[128]

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.[129]

Main article: September 2007 bombings in Rawalpindi

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.[130] The same day Omar Ayub Khan’s protocol officer, Liaquat Hussain, was found shot dead near the Northern Bypass in Karachi.[131]

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.[132]

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.[133]

September 17 Militants blew up a welfare hospital in Mian Mandi bazaar, 10 kilometres northwest of the agency headquarters in Mohmand Agency. Sources said that two explosions were heard at around 2am when the Al Sehat Welfare Hospital building collapsed.[134]

October – December

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.[135]

October 9 A time bomb exploded at Nishtarabad CD-market injuring at least 16 people in Peshawar.[136]

October 12 Mohmand Taliban publicly behead six “criminals” and lashed three others in the name of Sharia.[137]

October 18 Attack on Benazir Bhutto convoy killed over 139 in Karachi and sleft 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

Main article: 2007 Karachi bombing

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.[138]

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. It was suspected to be a suicide attack.[139]

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.[140]

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.[141]

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 Amir Muqam in Peshawar. The minister was unhurt, but a cousin of his was injured. The three dead were policemen guarding the house.[142]

November 17-19 As many as 94 people were killed and 168 injured in three days of in-fighting between the rival Sunni 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.[143]

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 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.[144]

December 9 At least 10 people including three policemen and seven civilians, including two children, perished in a car bombing near Matta, Swat District.[145]

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.[146]

December 13 Two suicide bombings near an army checkpost in Quetta killed seven people, including three personnel of the Pakistan Army.[147]

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.[148]

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.[149]

December 21 On the eve of Eid ul-Adha, a suicide bomb blast again targeted Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao killing at least 57 and injuring over 100 at Jamia Masjid Sherpao, in Charsadda District. Aftab Ahmad survived the blast, but his younger son Mustafa Khan Sherpao, was injured.[150]

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.[151]

December 27: Two-time Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is 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.

Main article: Assassination of Benazir Bhutto

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.[152]

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.[153]

2008

January – March

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.[154]

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.[155]

January 17 At least 12 people were killed and 25 others injured, three of them critically, when a suicide bomber blew himself up in an imambargah in Peshawar.[156]

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.[157]

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.[158]

Main article: 2008 Charsadda bombing

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.[159]

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.[160]

Main article: 2008 Parachinar bombing

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.[161]

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.[162]

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.[163]

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.[164]

March 2 At least 42 people were killed and 58 injured in a suicide attack, when the bomber struck the meeting of tribal elders and local officials in the town of Darra Adam Khel, a few miles south of Peshawar. 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.[165]

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.[166]

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 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.[167]

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.[168]

March 16 At least 20 people were killed in a missile strike in the tribal area of South Waziristan.[169]

April – September

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.[170]

April 17 At least 20 people were killed and dozens others injured in the clashes between two belligerent factions in Khyber Agency.[171]

April 25 At least three people were killed and 26 injured when a car bomb exploded near Mardan City Police Station.[172]

May 1 17 people were injured, three of them seriously, when a suicide bomber blew himself up in a mosque in Bara tehsil, Khyber Agency. The incident took place in the the headquarters of the armed religious group Amr Bil Maroof wa Nahi Anil Munkir (promotion of virtue and prevention of vice), and it probably targeted amir of the group Haji Namdar.[173]

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.[174]

May 9 A bomb exploded at the Al-Saeed Hotel on Sumungli Road in Quetta’s Jinnah Town, leaving at least 19 people injured.[175]

May 16 Two security officials were killed and another was injured when a remote-controlled bomb set off and damaged their vehicle in the Kohat Cantt area.[176]

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.[177]

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.[178]

May 26 Seven people were killed and five others injured in what appeared to be incidents of sectarian violence in Dera Ismail Khan.[179]

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.[180]

Main article: 2008 Danish embassy bombing

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.[181]

June 16 A bomb blast inside a Shia mosque killed at least four people and wounded two others in Dera Ismail Khan.[182]

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 capital’s Lal Masjid.[183]

Main article: 2008 Lal Masjid bombing

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 Islamabad.[184]

July 13 Four people were injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up soon after the concluding session of the Shuhada-e-Islam Conference in Dera Ismail Khan.[185]

August 2 At least eight police and security workers were killed when a remote-controlled bomb exploded near their vehicle in Mingora, Swat.[186]

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 causalities included at least 94 militants, 14 soldiers and around 28 civilians

Blast near Pakistan consulate in Afghanistan

KABUL, July 31: An explosion outside a Pakistani consulate in western Afghanistan wounded at least one person on Thursday, officials said.The explosives were attached to a bicycle outside the gates of the consulate in the city of Herat, said Naeem Khan, spokesman for the Pakistan’s Embassy in Kabul. He said a policeman was wounded.

But interestingly, after their failed coup against ISI and his failure to protect Pakistan’s strategic national interests, the PM and his embarrassed advisor desperately tried to put up some sort of defense for Pakistan and ISI to redeem their own badly tarnished credibility and prestige. It’s too little too late.

Relations between ISI and CIA souring?

Americans were not interested in disrupting the Kabul-based fountainhead of terrorism in Balochistan nor do they want to allocate the marvellous predator resource to neutralise the kingpin of suicide bombings against the Pakistani military establishment now hiding near the Pak-Afghan border.

In the strongest evidence-based confrontation with the American security establishment since the two countries established their post-9/11 strategic alliance, Pakistani officials proved Brahamdagh Bugti’s presence in Afghan intelligence safe houses in Kabul, his photographed visits to New Delhi and his orders for terrorism in Balochistan.We wanted to know when our American friends would get interested in tracking down the terrorists responsible for hundreds of suicide bombings in Pakistan and those playing havoc with our natural resources in Balochistan while sitting in Kabul and Delhi”

Many of the bombs are disguised at “Suicide bombs”.
Recent major attacks in Pakistan By The Associated Presso
A look at some of the bloodiest attacks in Pakistan since the slaying of former leader Benazir Bhutto in December 2007:

_ March 27, 2009: A suicide bomber demolishes a mosque near the northwestern town of Jamrud, killing about 50 people and injuring scores more during Friday prayers.

_ Feb. 20, 2009: A suicide attack at a funeral for a slain Shiite Muslim leader kills 30 people and injures more than 60 more outside a mosque in Dera Ismail Khan.

_ Dec. 28, 2008: A bomber blows himself up at a polling station during a local election in the northwestern Buner district, killing 40 people.

_ Dec. 4, 2008: A car bomb outside a Shiite mosque in the northwestern city of Peshawar kills 29 people and wounds more than 100 others.

_ Oct. 10, 2008: A suicide attacker kills 43 people at a meeting of pro-government elders in the Orakzai tribal region.

_ Sept. 20, 2008: A suicide truck bomb kills at least 54 and wounds more than 250 and devastates the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad.

_ Sept. 6, 2008: A suicide car bombing kills at least 35 people and wounds 80 at a police checkpoint in Peshawar.

_ Aug. 21, 2008: Suicide bombers blow themselves up at two gates of a weapons factory in the town of Wah, killing at least 67 people and wounding at least 100.

_ March 11, 2008: Suicide bombs rip through seven-story police headquarters and a house elsewhere in the eastern city of Lahore, killing at least 24 people and wounding more than 200.

_ Feb. 29, 2008: Suicide bomber strikes funeral of slain police officer in the Swat Valley, killing more than 40 people and wounding at least 60.

_ Feb. 16, 2008: Suicide car bomber attacks election rally in the border town of Parachinar, killing 40 people.

_ Jan. 10, 2008: Suicide bomber blows himself up among police guarding the High Court in Lahore, killing 24 people and wounding scores more.

_ Dec. 27, 2007: Former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and 20 other people are killed in a suicide bombing and shooting attack in Rawalpindi, just south of the capital.

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