Italics indicates attacks resulting in more than 40 deaths ‡ indicates attacks resulting in more than 100 deaths Underline indicates the deadliest terrorist attack/s to date
January 1 – Malik Mukhtar Hussain, was a prominent licensed organizer of Shia processions and majalis inChiniot. He was gunned down in anImambargah on 31 December 2012 by six armed men. After few days, an injured 16 years old Moazam Ali martyred. He was admitted at local hospital.[2][3]
January 1 – A bomb mounted to a motorcycle exploded nearAyesha Manzil inKarachi after the address ofMQM by Dr.Tahir-ul-Qadri, killing four people and injured more than 45.[4][5]
January 4 – Haider and Jamal, twin brothers, were going to the university on January 2, 2013, when unknown gunmen attacked them. Haider Lateef Qadri, who along with his twin brother Jamal Jafar Qadri, had suffered gunshot wounds died at a private hospital on Friday. His brother (jamal) had expired on the spot. The 20-year-old BCom student and his brother were attacked by two motorcyclists at the intersection of Mirza Adam Khan Road in Agra Taj Colony. Haider had been under treatment for three days. The motive behind the attack remains unclear.[6][7]
January 9 – A private school owner was shot dead in NorthKarachi in what police described as a ‘sectarian’ attack on Wednesday morning. Engineer Syed Ali Hyder Jafri, a 48-year-old shiamuslim, was shot dead in Sector 11-A, North Karachi, after he dropped his wife to a campus of their school, said an official at the Sir Syed police station. "It was surly a sectarian killing considering the ongoing spate of the killings in the city," the SP said.[8][9] Another incident took place in Peshawar whenPakistan Peoples Party (PPP) president forKurram Agency Dr. Riaz Hussain was gunned down in Dabgari Garden near his clinic. He belonged to an influential Sadat family ofParachinar and had much influence over Shia Muslims in the province.[10] Zawar Shah, aHazaraShia Muslim, was targeted outside his shop on Seerat Chowk,Khuzdar,Balochistan. He is a resident ofQuetta and, according to reports, that's where his body is being taken.[11][12]
January 10 – Four bombings inQuetta and theSwat Valley killed over a hundred people and injured an estimated 270. Many of the casualties were caused by the second blast as police and media rushed to the scene. The bombed area is predominantlyShia Muslim. The banned Sunni groupLashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) claimed responsibility for the attack in a predominantly Shi'ite neighborhood where the residents are ethnicHazara.[13][14][15][16]
February 1 – A suicide blast killed 19 people and wounded 45 in a market targeting Shias outside a mosque in Hangu.[20] The death toll was reported variously above 20 and up to 24.[21][22][23]
February 7 – A policeman was killed and five other were wounded in a bomb attack targeting a police van in Karachi's Orangi Town.[24]
February 8 – A bomb exploded near a marketplace in Kalaya, Orakzai, killing 16 people, and Baloch militants fired rocket-propelled grenades, killing one soldier and sounding five others in Turbat district, Balochistan.[25]
February 11 – At least six persons including an Assistant Sub Inspector were killed on Monday in various target killings in Karachi.[26]
February 14 – Seven people died in a blast at a police checkpoint in Hangu.[27] Later the toll rose to 11.[28] Then seven militia men were killed in a bomb attack on an anti-Taliban tribe.[29] Two passenger vehicles were struck by landmines killing 9 people near Hassan Khel, Orakzai region.[30] At least six suicide bombers were killed while attacking a police station outside Bannu.[31]
February 16 – Pakistani police have said 83 people killed on Saturday, saying a suicide bomber was behind the attack that pulverized a busy marketplace in Quetta.[32] The death toll rose to 91 after two days.[33]
February 17 – Eight people were killed in target killings in Karachi on Sunday, Dawn reported the next day.[34]
February 18 – gunmen in police uniforms attacked the compound of a senior government official killing four security guards were killed in Peshawar. Two explosions occurred.[35] Eight more people died in targeted killings in Karachi.[36] Two blasts in Karachi injured at least two people.[37] In a separate incident, prominent Professor of Vitreoretinal Surgery, Dr. Syed Ali Haider and his 11-year-old son, Murtaza, were shot dead, while on the way to Murtaza's school. It is suspected that the attacks were carried out by the banned Sunni extremist group,Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ).[38][39]
February 26 – A police official says a blast at a Sufi shrine in southern Pakistan has killed two people.[40]
March 3 – A powerful explosion ripped through a crowd of Shiites as they left a mosque in Karachi, Pakistan's largest city, on Sunday, killing at least 45 people.[41]
March 9 – A blast happened in the Jamia Chishtia mosque duringZuhr prayer inPeshawar, killed four at board and at least twenty seven injuries. Bomb was detonated in the walls of mosque.[42]
March 11 – A suicide bomber blew himself up near a police van in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least two people and wounding 10, police said.[43]
March 15 – Pakistan officials say a bomb blast in the country's largest city Karachi has killed three people and wounded five others.[44]
March 18 – A suicide bomber blew himself up in a courtroom in the north-westPakistani city of Peshawar, killing four people and wounding 47 others, officials said.[45]
March 21 – A car bomb exploded amid scores of people lining up at a food distribution center in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 17 people and injuring 28 others in what appeared to be a rare attack on Pakistanis displaced by the country's war against insurgents[46]
March 22 – A bomb planted on a motorbike killed six people and wounded another 15 on Friday in a crowded Pakistani market in troubled southwestern province Baluchistan, police said.[47]
March 24 – At least 17 Pakistani soldiers were killed when a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden water tanker into a check post in the restive North Waziristan tribal region of the country.[48]
March 29 – Twelve people were killed and 28 others sustained injuries when a suicide bomber attacked the convoy of the commandant of Frontier Constabulary (FC) near an army checkpost on the Fakhr-e-Alam Road in Peshawar Cantonment here on Friday.[49]
March 30 – A suicide bomber on Saturday struck a police patrol in a town of Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan, killing a policeman and wounding six others, police said.[50]
March 31 – The principal of a private secondary school in Ittehad Town was killed and several children, including his daughter, were injured after an attack and shooting at the school on Saturday morning in Karachi.[51]
March 31 – Two persons were killed and six others, including a former provincial legislator, injured in a bomb blast in Pakistan's restive northwest on Sunday, police said.[52]
April 2 – At least 7 people have been killed in an attack by dozens of militants on an electricity plant in the Pakistani city of Peshawar, officials say.[53]
April 4 – Suspected militants threw a grenade at a vehicle carrying paramilitary security officers in Karachi (southern Pakistan) on Wednesday, killing 3 and wounding 3 others.[54]
April 10 – Gunmen shot to death a policeman protecting a team of female polio workers in northwestern Pakistan on Wednesday, the latest in a series of attacks on people working on the U.N.-backed vaccination campaign, police said.[55]
April 11 – Fakhrul Islam, A Muttahida Qaumi Movement leader, who was a candidate for Pakistan's upcoming polls, was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in southern Sindh province on Thursday, police said.
April 13 – A bomb planted in a bus killed at least 8 passengers and wounded 7 others in northwestern Pakistan on Saturday, police said.[56]
April 14 – A Pakistani police officer says a bomb blast has killed a local leader in an anti-Taliban political party ANP in the northwestern Swat valley.[57]
April 16 – QUETTA: At least 4 people were killed, including the son of the provincial chief of the Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N)Sanaullah Zehri, when a blast targeted his convoy in restive Balochistan's Khuzdar district.[58]
April 16 – At least 17 people including policemen and minors were killed and near 60 more wounded in a suicide bomb blast that tore through an Awami National Party (ANP) corner meeting in Peshawar on Tuesday evening.[59]
April 21 – A woman suicide bomber today detonated a bomb outside a hospital in a lawless tribal area of northwest Pakistan, killing at least 4 people and injuring five others.[60]
April 24 – Eight bomb explosions in 24 hours in Pakistan's three provincial capitals left 11 people dead and around 60 injured, heightening security fears ahead of the May 11 general election in the country, according to police and media reports.[61]
April 25 – A bomb exploded outside an election office of MQM, one of Pakistan's main political parties Thursday evening, killing five people and wounding 9 in the latest attack ahead of the nation's May 11 elections in Karachi.[62]
April 27 – A bomb exploded on Friday near the office of a main Pakistan political party that had received threats from the Taliban, killing nine people in the latest attack in the run-up to next month's parliamentary election.[63]
April 28 – Bomb blasts targeting the election offices of two candidates in northwest Pakistan killed at least 11 people and injured 30 Sunday, the latest in a string of terror attacks that have cast a shadow over parliamentary elections slated for mid-May.[64]
April 29 – Pakistani authorities say a suicide bomber targeting policemen has killed 8 people in the main northwestern city of Peshawar.[65]
May 4 – Three people have been killed by two blasts near the offices of a political party (MQM) in the Pakistani city of Karachi.[66]
May 6 – A suicide bomber targeted an election rally organized by a religious party Jamiat Ulema-e- Islam in Pakistan on Monday, killing 25 people & wounding 65, officials said.[67]
May 7 – Asuicide bomber killed at least nine people and wounded a candidate campaigning in northwest Pakistan town of Hangu on Tuesday.[68]
May 8 – Officials in northwestern Pakistan say a suicide car bomber has killed two people and wounded at least 23.[69]
May 11 – Bomb attacks kill 29 on Pakistan Election.[70]
May 12 – At least six people were killed and 45 got injured in a suicide car attack on Balochistan province 's police chief house in Pakistan's southwest city of Quetta on Sunday night.[71]
May 17 – Blasts targeting two mosques in northwestern Pakistan on Friday have left 15 people dead and others injured, a police official said.[72]
June 18 – asuicide bomber detonated his vest at a funeral inShergarh,Mardan in northwestPakistan, killing at least 34 people and injuring over 60 people.[73] The attack took place at a funeral prayer service for Abdullah Khan, who owned a compressed natural gas station.[74][75] One of the people killed in the attack wasImran Khan Mohmand, who was previously an independent MPA.[76]
June 20 – asuicide bomber blew himself up at aShiite mosque, killing 15 people and injuring over 20. The attack happened in the Shiite area known as Gulshan Colony. The attacker is believed to have been a Sunni Muslim.[77] Three people were suspected of carrying out the attacks. The perpetrators first gunned down a police officer and a security guard, before the suicide bomber went into the mosque.[78] There were reportedly around 300 people worshiping inside the mosque.[79] The president of Pakistan,Asif Ali Zardari, commented about the attack saying, "Such cowardly and heinous acts by the militants cannot weaken the nation's resolve to pursue its struggle against militancy."[80]
June 26 – Bomb attacks in Pakistankilled 10 people and wounded nine others on Wednesday, including a senior judge who was critically injured following a blast in the business capital Karachi, officials said.[81]
June 30 –At least 52 people have been killed in Pakistan, on the same day Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and British counterpart David Cameron met to discuss security.[82]
July 6 – Atime-device bomb blast occurred in thefood street of theOld Anarkali district, in the eastern city ofLahore,Pakistan. The blast killed five people and injured dozens of others.[83] The blast was triggered by a time-device bomb. The blast occurred on the night of Saturday on 6 July 2013. Two people died on the spot while three succumbed to their injuries atMayo Hospital on Sunday, bringing the death toll to five. The deaths were confirmed by police andRescue 1122 officials. Mirza Taimoor, a student of GC university Lahore was also injured severely in this incident.[84]
July 7 – A blast in a food street in theAnarkali area ofLahore killed three people and injured dozens of others.[85]
July 8 – At least nine people, including two bomb disposal officers were killed in two separate blasts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.[86]
July 10 – PresidentAsif Ali Zardari's chief security officer and two others was killed in a bomb attack in Karachi.[87]
July 11 – A Bomb explodes near minority Shiite mosque in northwest Pakistan killed two people and injured six others.[88]
July 15 – Motorcycle-riding gunmen killed seven people in the restive Pakistani city of Quetta on Monday, with four members of the country's Hazara religious minority among the victims, police said.[89]
August 7 Eleven teenagers were killed and twenty-six others were injured while playingfootball at a market inKarachi. The bombing took place in the Lyari District of Karachi. The bomb was targeted at provincial leaderJaved Nagori, who was attending the match handing out prizes.[91][92]
August 8 – A suicide bomber exploded at a funeral being held for a police officer. The bomb exploded in Quetta, Pakistan, and killed as many asthirty-one people and injured over fifty people.
August 9 – Four gunmen opened fire at a mosque inQuetta while people were exiting the mosque. As a result, at least ten people were killed and thirty more people were injured. It is suspected that the target in the shooting was former Pakistan Peoples Party minister Ali Madad Jatak. This shooting occurred during the time when many Pakistani citizens were celebratingEid al-Fitr.[93]
September 6 – 7 shia people killed with firing in jassoki Punjab.
September 15 – Major General Sanaullah Niazi, in charge of military operations in Swat, was killed along with two subordinates in a bomb attack in Upper Dir district near the Afghan border.[94]
October 10 – A blast occurred outside a restaurant in the busyAnarkali district ofLahore, killing one person and injuring 16 others. This was the second blast in Lahore this year, the earlier one also occurring in the Anarkali area on 7 July.[96]
October 10 – A bomb explosion outside a city police station inQuetta killed 5 people and injured 37 others.[97]
November 15 – The clashes erupted in Rawalpindi, when an Ashura procession in the main downtown area coincided with a sermon in a nearby mosque at least 8 dead and 44 injured.[98]
December 17 – Suicide Blast outside an Imambargah situated in the Gracey Lines area Rawalpidni killed three people, including two policemen and left 14 injured.
