Timeline of deadliest insurgent attacks in Pakistan
At least 58 people were killed and dozens more wounded when Islamist militants wearing suicide vests stormed a Pakistani police academy near Quetta in the troubled southwestern province of Balochistan overnight. Here is a list of major attacks by militant groups in the country since 2007: -- 2007 -- October 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 December 27. -- 2008 -- August 21: Twin suicide attacks kill 64 people outside Pakistan's main arms factory at Wah near Islamabad. September 20: Sixty people are killed when a suicide truck bomb destroys part of the five-star Marriott hotel in Islamabad. -- 2009 -- October 28: A car bomb rips apart a market in the northwestern city of Peshawar, killing 125 people. December 7-9: At least 66 people die in four attacks at a market in Lahore, Pakistan's second biggest city. -- 2010 -- January 1: A suicide car bomb kills 101 people at a village volleyball game in the northwestern district of Bannu. May 28: Gunmen and suicide bombers storm mosques belonging to the Ahmadi religious minority in Lahore, killing 82 people. July 9: A suicide bomber kills 105 people in a busy market in the northwestern tribal district of Mohmand. September 3: A suicide attack kills 59 at a Shiite Muslim rally in Quetta. November 5: A suicide bomber kills 68 people during Friday prayers in the northwest's Darra Adam Khel area. -- 2011 -- April 3: Fifty die after two suicide bombers attack a Sufi shrine in the central town of Dera Ghazi Khan. May 13: Two suicide bombers kill at least 98 people outside a police training centre in Charsadda. -- 2013 -- January 10: A double suicide attack on a snooker club kills 92 in a district of Quetta populated by Shiite Hazaras. February 16: A bomb at a market at Hazara Town, a Shiite neighbourhood near Quetta, kills 89. March 3: A car bomb explodes in a Shiite neighbourhood in Karachi, killing 45. September 22: Eighty-two people die when two suicide bombers attack a church in Peshawar after a Sunday service. -- 2014 -- November 2: Fifty-five people are killed by a suicide bomber at the main Pakistan-India border crossing. December 16: Taliban insurgents storm an army-run school in Peshawar, killing 154 people, most of them children. -- 2015 -- January 30: Sixty-one people are killed as a suicide bomber hits a Shiite mosque in Shikarpur in southern Pakistan. May 13: The first attack officially claimed by the Islamic State group in Pakistan kills 45 Shiite Muslims in Karachi. -- 2016 -- March 27: Seventy-five people are killed and hundreds injured in an explosion that targets Christians 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. September 17: A Taliban suicide bomber kills at least 36 people as they attend Friday prayers at a mosque in a northwestern Pakistani tribal area.
