DAILY TIMES REPORT
ISLAMABAD: Following is a time line of major attacks in Pakistan since July 2007
July 15, 2007: Suicide attacks kill at least 47 people in northwest Pakistan, including 26 at a police recruitment center
July 19, 2007: Three suicide attacks kill more than 50 people. The deadliest attack targets Chinese workers in southwestern Pakistan, but kills only locals
October 18, 2007: Bomb attacks targeting two-time former premier Benazir Bhutto kill at least 139 people in Karachi, just hours after she returns to Pakistan for the first time in eight years. She survives unhurt
December 21, 2007: At least 50 are killed in an attack on a mosque in the northwest of the country
December 27: A gun and suicide bomb attack kills Benazir Bhutto and nearly two dozen of her supporters as she leaves a campaign rally in Rawalpindi. The interior ministry later says another 58 people died in a wave of unrest triggered by the former premier's assassination
February 16, 2008: Suicide car bomber strikes a rally by the Pakistan People’s Party in the tribal town of Parachinar, killing 37
February 29: A suicide bomber kills 44 people in Mingora, the main town in the troubled Swat valley, during the funeral of three policemen killed by a roadside bomb earlier in the day
March 2, 2008: Suicide bomber kills 43 at a meeting of anti-Taliban tribal elders in the northwestern district of Darra Adam Khel
March 10, 2008: Suicide attackers detonate two huge truck bombs in Lahore, killing 26 people and partly demolishing the Federal Investigation Agency building in the city
July 6, 2008: Suicide bomber kills 15 people in an attack on police in Islamabad during a rally to mark the anniversary of an army raid on Lal Masjid
August 21, 2008: Twin suicide attacks kill at least 57 people outside Pakistan's main arms factory in Wah, near Islamabad
September 6, 2008: Suicide bomber kills 33 people at a security checkpoint near Peshawar
September 20, 2008: At least 60 people were killed when a suicide attacker rammed a massive truck bomb into the gates of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad
October 10, 2008: A suicide bomber blows himself up at a meeting of anti-Taliban tribal leaders in Orakzai, killing at least 40 people
December 5, 2008: At least 27 people are killed and dozens injured when two bomb blasts struck crowded markets in northwest Pakistan
December 28, 2008: At least 41 people are killed in a bomb blast at a polling station in the town of Buner on the edge of the Swat valley
February 5, 2009: At least 35 people are killed when a suspected suicide bombing hits a crowd of Shia worshipers outside a mosque in Dera Ghazi Khan
February 20, 2009: Thirty people are killed in a suicide bombing at a funeral procession for an assassinated local Shia Muslim leader in Dera Ismail Khan
March 3, 2009: Gunmen mount a brazen, coordinated attack on Sri Lanka's touring cricket team in Lahore, killing eight people as well as wounding seven players and a coach
March 7, 2009: Eight policemen and soldiers killed in a booby-trapped car bomb attack on a police van on the outskirts Peshawar
March 16, 2009: A bomb explodes near a bus stop in Rawalpindi, killing seven people
March 27, 2009: A suicide bomber attacks a packed mosque in the northwestern town of Jamrud at prayer time, killing around 50 people and wounding dozens more
March 30, 2009: Gunmen storm a police training compound at Manawan, near Lahore, unleashing a fierce battle with security forces. agencies
Sunday, August 1, 2010
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