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The 2009 Karachi bombing or Ashura attack took place on 28 December 2009 inside a Shia procession commemorating the day of Ashura, at Muhammad Ali Jinnah Road, Karachi, Pakistan. Ashura is the holiest of days for followers of Shia Islam and marks the anniversary of the death of Hussain, grandson of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, who was killed ...
2009 Usterzai bombing, a suicide car bombing killed at least 39 people in Usterzai Pakistan. 26 September :- Two suicide attackers on Saturday separately rammed their explosives-laden vehicles into a police station in Bannu and a military-owned commercial bank in Peshawar cantonment, killing at least 23 people and injuring around another 200.
Attack on Benazir Bhutto convoy killed over 139 in Karachi and left 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. Karachi Bombs in Pictures. 49.
On 26 April 2022, a suicide bombing hit a van near the University of Karachi 's Confucius Institute, killing three Chinese academics and their Pakistani driver. The Balochistan Liberation Army, [3] claimed responsibility, saying that the perpetrator was the organization's first female suicide bomber. [4] [5]
16 October — More than eight people were injured in a series of parcel bomb explosions in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi. [11] 15 November — An explosion on a bus in Hyderabad, Sindh killed two people and injured at least nine others.
2015 Karachi bus shooting. / 24.8554; 67.1719. On 13 May 2015, eight gunmen attacked a bus travelling in Safoora Goth, Karachi, Sindh in Pakistan. The shooting left at least 46 people dead. All of the victims were of the Ismaili Shia Muslim minority, suggesting the attack was a targeted killing of sectarian nature. [1]
Details. On May 8, 2002, a man driving a car bomb pulled up next to a bus outside Sheraton Hotel in Karachi. He detonated the car, ripping the bus apart, and killing himself, 11 Frenchmen, and two Pakistanis. The Frenchmen were engineers working with Pakistan to design an Agosta 90B-class submarine for Pakistani Navy. About 40 others were wounded.
The December 2009 Rawalpindi attack in Rawalpindi, Pakistan was a terrorist attack on a mosque during Friday prayers on 4 December 2009. [2] The mosque is located near the Pakistan Army 's headquarters in Rawalpindi, is surrounded by military houses and is frequented by retired and serving officers. [2] [3]