ISLAMABAD: At least 63 people were killed in Quetta’s bomb attacks on Monday outside a hospital.
Here is a list of major attacks against civilians by militant groups in the country since 2007:
– 2007 –
October 18: Bomb attacks targeting Benazir Bhutto kills 139 people in Karachi as she returns to Pakistan for the first time in eight years. She died in a gun and suicide attack on December 27 later that year.
– 2008 –
August 21: Twin suicide attacks kills 64 people outside country’s main weapon 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 Peshawar, killing 125 people.
December 7-9: At least 66 people die in four attacks at a market in Lahore.
– 2010 –
January 1: A suicide car bomb kills 101 people at a village volleyball game in 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 Mohmand.
September 3: A suicide attack kills 59 at a Shia rally in Quetta.
November 5: A suicide bomber kills 68 people during Friday prayers in Darra Adam Khel.
– 2011 –
April 3: 50 die after two suicide bombers attack a Sufi shrine in 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 Shia Hazaras.
February 16: A bomb at a market at Hazara Town, a Shia neighbourhood near Quetta, kills 89.
March 3: A car bomb explodes in a Shia neighbourhood in Karachi, killing 45.
September 22: 82 people die when two suicide bombers attack a church in Peshawar after a Sunday service.
– 2014 –
November 2: 55 people are killed by a suicide bomber at the main Wagah border crossing.
December 16: Taliban insurgents storm an army-run school in Peshawar, killing 154 people, most of them children.
– 2015 –
January 30: 61 people are killed as a suicide bomber hits a Shia mosque in Shikarpur.
May 13: The first attack officially claimed by the Islamic State group in Pakistan kills 45 Shia Muslims in Karachi.
– 2016 –
March 27: 75 people are killed and hundreds injured in an explosion that targets Christians near a park in Lahore.
August 8: At least 63 people die and dozens are wounded when a blast tears through mourners at a hospital in Quetta.
