Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2017

Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2017 include, in chronological order:

January

  • 21 January - a bomb was detonated at a vegetable market in Parachinar, in the Kurram Valley of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. At least 25 people were killed and 87 injured by the explosion.[1][2] Parachinar is the administrative headquarters of the Kurram Agency near the Afghan border.[3] The same area has previously seen several blasts in 2008, February 2012,[4] September 2012,[5] 2013 and in December 2015.[6]

Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Bajwa visited Parachinar and paid a visit to the injured of the bomb blast in Agency Headquarters Hospital.[7][8]

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi al-Alami and the Pakistani Taliban splinter Shehryar Mehsud group both separately issued a joint claim of responsibility.[9]

Seven suspects were arrested following a search operation after the blast.[10]

February

March

April

  • 5 April - April 2017 Lahore suicide bombing
  • 7 April - Ashfaq Ahmed, a retired University of Veterinary Sciences professor and Ahmadi civilian, were shot death for assailants in Sabzazar neighborhood, Lahore, Pakistan. Al-Alami faction of Lashkar-e-Jhangvi and the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar faction of Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) separately claimed responsibility for the attack, but sources also attributed the incident to Aalmi Majlis-i-Tahfuz-i-Khatam-i-Nubuwaat.[21][22] In 21 May, four assailants from Aalmi Majlis-i-Tahfuz-i-Khatam-i-Nubuwaat were held in relation of the attack.[23]
  • 14 April - 4 Rangers personnel killed and 3 were injured and Rangers kill 10 TTP militants in operation near DG khan.[24]
  • 25 April - 14, including six children, killed and 9, including 4 Khasadar officials, injured in a roadside blast in Kurram Agency.[25]

May

  • 12 May - An attack targeting Abdul Ghafoor Haideri killed 25 people in Mastung District. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed responsibility of attack.[26]
  • 13 May - 10 laborers were killed after two gunmen opened fire on laborers working in Gwadar.[27] The two gunmen fired on labourers at Pishgan and Gant, which are 20 kilometres from each other.[28] Eight labourers died on the spot; two died shortly afterwards.[29] According to an eyewitness, both gunmen came from the Pashkun area and they spoke in Balochi. A C-130 aircraft belonging to the Pakistan Air Force was used to fly the labourers to their native areas after the funeral, which was held in Senator Marwoon Ishaq Cricket ground at around 3 pm.[30] Law enforcement agencies rushed to the site of the attack and started a search operation.[31]

June

July

  • 10 July - 3 people were killed and over 20 injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at Bogra Chowk in Chaman, Baluchistan.[34]
  • 24 July- At least 25 people were killed and 53 others wounded in suicide attack in Lahore.[35]

August

  • 7 August - August 2017 Lahore bombing a truck bombing occurred at Band Road in Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan. Two people were killed and 35 others were wounded.
  • 12 August - A blast targeting military personnel killed 15 people (8 soldiers and 7 civilians) and injured 32 in Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan, Pakistan.

October

  • 5 October - 21 people, including a police constable, were killed and more than 30 injured in a suicide bombing at Dargah Pir Rakhel Shah in Fatehpur, a small town in the Jhal Magsi District of Balochistan.[36]
  • 18 October - At least eight people, including seven policemen, were killed and 24 others injured in an explosion targeting a truck carrying police officials in the Sariab Mill area of Quetta.[37]

November

  • 9 November - A senior police officer was among three suspected militants involved in ISI Clandestine activities who died in a suicide attack on Quetta the provincial capital of Balochistan.[38] However there is no valid argument about the role of operation being performed.
  • 24 November - A motorcycle suicide bomber targeted a police vehicle of AIG Asharf Noor while he was travelling to work, Asharf Noorr and his guard are killed and eight others police in the AIG's squad were injured.[39][40][41]

the above reference is for peshawar and not quetta.

December

See also

References

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  2. ^ "News from The Associated Press". Retrieved 21 January 2017.
  3. ^ Agencies & Ali Akbar (January 21, 2017). "Blast in Parachinar vegetable market kills 25". Dawn News. Retrieved January 21, 2017.
  4. ^ "28 killed, 36 injured in Parachinar blast". Express Tribune. February 17, 2012. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  5. ^ "14 Shias killed, 80 injured in Parachinar bombing: Officials". Express Tribune. AFP. September 10, 2012. Retrieved 22 January 2017.
  6. ^ "Parachinar blast kills 25, 54 injured". Daily Times. January 21, 2017. Retrieved January 21, 2017.
  7. ^ "Parachinar blast: Army chief inquires on health of the injured". Dunya News tv. January 22, 2017. Retrieved January 22, 2017.
  8. ^ Ali Akbar (January 22, 2017). "Seven suspects arrested in search operation after Parachinar blast". Dawn News. Retrieved January 22, 2017.
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  29. ^ "8 LABORERS SHOT DEAD BY TERRORISTS IN GWADAR". Radio Pakistan. 13 May 2017. Retrieved 13 July 2017.
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  42. ^ "Nine dead as gunmen storm hostel of Peshawar's Agricultural Training Institute". www.dawn.com. December 2017.
  43. ^ "9 killed in suicide attack on Quetta's Bethel Memorial Methodist Church". 2017-12-17.
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