Terror Attack Catalogue

Date: October 25th, 2010
Method: Bomb, disguised as milk container
Location: The Baba Farid Shrine in Pakpattan, Pakistan
Death Toll: 6
Injury Toll: 20
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed (Suspected Taliban)

Wire Update reports:

The blast happened shortly before dawn, at around 6.30 a.m. local time, at the eastern gate of the Baba Farid Shrine when two men on a motorcycle dropped off a milk container near the gate. Moments later the container exploded, creating a huge ball of fire.
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Monday’s blast is the third major attack on a shrine in Pakistan over the past four months. On July 1, at least 40 people were killed and more than 170 others were injured during an attack at the Datta Darbar Shrine in Lahore. Another attack happened at the Abdullah Shah Ghazi Shrine in Karachi, killing 14 people and injuring more than 70 others.

Date: April 23rd, 2010
Method: Beheading
Location: North Waziristan, Pakistan
Death Toll: 5
Injury Toll: 0
Perpetrators: Taliban

CNN reports:

Residents Friday found four beheaded and bullet-riddled bodies with a handwritten note nearby accusing them of spying for the U.S. and the Pakistani military, said Muthar Zeb, the top government official in North Waziristan.

He said residents found the bodies dumped along a road. Zeb said the body of another man accused of spying was found near the town of Mir Ali.

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North Waziristan is believed to be the operating base of pro-Taliban militant commander Jalaluddin Haqqani and Pakistani Taliban commander Hafiz Gul Bahadar, both of whom are suspected of fomenting the insurgency against U.S. troops across the border in Afghanistan.

The Pakistani army says many Taliban fighters who fled last year's military offensive in another tribal region, South Waziristan, have also taken refuge in North Waziristan.

The Pakistani military has yet to launch an offensive against militants in North Waziristan because it says its troops are spread too thin with at least ten other military offensives in the region.

Date: April 19th, 2010
Method: Suicide Bomber
Location: Peshawar, Pakistan
Death Toll: 24
Injury Toll: 30+
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed

The Associated Press reports:

Police said the target was apparently officers watching over a rally by members of a political party against power cuts in the city. Police officers and protesters were among the 22 dead and more than 30 injured, said police chief Liaqat Ali Khan.

The rally was being held by the Jamat-e-Islami party, an Islamist grouping that is sympathetic to many of the goals of the Taliban and regularly criticizes army operations against them.

Police and two government officials blamed the Taliban for the attack. But Jamat-e-Islami spokesman Ameer-ul-Azeem declined to do so, and instead alleged that CIA or Indian intelligence were behind it — the conspiracy theory of choice for right-wing Islamists in Pakistan.

Date: April 19th, 2010
Method: Bomb
Location: Peshawar, Pakistan
Death Toll: 1
Injury Toll: 10
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed

The Associated Press reports:

Earlier, a bomb exploded outside a school run by a police welfare foundation, killing a young boy and wounding 10 people. The school raises money to help families of police officers. The victim was a boy aged between 5 and 7. Five of the wounded were children.
Taliban and al-Qaida militants based in the Afghan border region — who are fighting Pakistani police and the army — have carried out hundreds of attacks over the last three years. They have frequently targeted security forces, government officials and their supporters or family members in mosques, schools and markets, showing no concern for civilian casualties.

Date: April 18th, 2010
Method: Suicide Bomber, Truck Bomb (Truck loaded w/ 250 kilograms of explosives)
Location: Saddar police station in Kohat, Pakistan
Death Toll: 7
Injury Toll: 26
Perpetrators: Taliban

The Washington Post explains:

Pakistan Taliban claimed responsibility in a telephone call to police in Kohat, police said later.

A militant spokesman had said the attack on the police station was in response to police arrests and the killing of militants, said a police spokesman in Kohat town.

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After its offensives in Swat, South Waziristan and Bajaur, the military has been attacking militants in other areas, including the Orakzai region, where many of the Islamists who fled the earlier offensives are believed to have taken refuge.

The army says more than 300 militants had been killed in fighting in recent weeks in Orakzai and the Kurram region but there has been no independent confirmation of the deaths.

Date: April 17th, 2010
Method: Twin Suicide Bombers
Location: Refugee Camp Kachcha Pakka in Kohat, Pakistan (In the North West Frontier Province)
Death Toll: 41
Injury Toll: 62
Perpetrators: Lashkar-e-Jhangvi

The Press Associated reports:

Two suicide bombers dressed in burqas have killed 41 people and wounded 62 others in an attack on a camp for refugees fleeing military offensives in north-western Pakistan.
The United Nations said it was temporarily suspending its programmes helping displaced people in Kohat and neighbouring Hangu as a result of the bombings.
The blasts occurred at a food distribution point, but there were conflicting reports whether the victims were lining up for food or being registered. The camp in the Kohat region is sometimes used by foreign humanitarian groups, including the World Food Programme, to deliver aid.
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The camp was for people who fled from the Orakzai district, where the army has been fighting militants since the end of last year.

The News reports:

A dreaded militant organisation of Punjabi Taliban, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi Al-Alami, has claimed responsibility for the two consecutive suicide attacks in Kohat.

“We claim responsibility for the two Fidayee (suicide) attacks in Kohat. The Shia community was in fact our target that our two Fidayeen (suicide bombers) achieved,” explained a caller, who introduced himself as Usman Haider, a spokesman for the outlawed outfit.

Date: April 16th, 2010
Method: Suicide Bomb
Location: Civil Hospital Quetta, Pakistan
Death Toll: 12 - 10 - 8
Injury Toll: 35
Perpetrators: Lashkar-e-Jhangvi

CNN reports:

Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, a banned militant group in Pakistan, has claimed responsibility for the suicide blast, according to group spokesman Ali Sher Haideri.

Date: April 10th, 2010
Method: Bombing
Location: Chiragali Payeen in Dir District, Pakistan
Death Toll: 0
Injury Toll: 0
Perpetrators: Militants (Unconfirmed)

The News International is the only agency to report at this time:

Militants blew up a primary school for boys with explosive device in Chiragali, a remote mountainous area in the district, early on Saturday. The Gandigar police confirmed the incident and said the militants had blown up the Government Primary School in Chiragali Payeen, some 20 kilometres east of Dir town, at 1:30am.

Date: April 9th, 2010
Method: 2 Suicide Bombers
Location: Lakki Marwat, Pakistan
Death Toll: 0
Injury Toll: 0
Perpetrators: Unconfirmed

The News and Dawn.Com report that two suicide bombers had blown themselves up to avoid arrest.
Samaa and CriEnglish report that one bomber was shot dead by police, and the other bomber blew himself up to avoid arrest.

Date: April 7th, 2010
Method: Bomb
Location: Landi Kotal area of Khyber tribal Region, Pakistan
Death Toll: 1
Injury Toll: 4-8 (unconfirmed)
Perpetrators: Taliban

Associated Press reports a bomb had been planted on a NATO Oil tanker.

Date: April 5th, 2010
Method: Petrol bombs, Rockets
Location: Zakha Khel area of Khyber tribal Region, Pakistan
Death Toll: 0
Injury Toll: 0
Perpetrators: Taliban

The Times of India reports that 8 oil tankers were destroyed. The tankers
supply NATO forces with fuel.

Date: April 5th, 2010
Method: Truck Bomb, Machine Guns, Grenades,(at least) 5 Suicide Bombers - NYT
Location: American Consulate in Peshawar, Pakistan
Death Toll: 6
Injury Toll: 20

Date: April 5th, 2010
Method: Suicide Bombing
Location: Timegara town of Dir District, Pakistan
Death Toll: 53
Injury Toll: 107
Perpetrators: Taliban

The attack occurred at a rally in Timergara. There was approximately 500 people attending the rally.

Al Jazeera reports:

Zahid Khan, a spokesman for the Awami National Party, said that members of his party had been celebrating plans to change the name of North West Frontier Province, where Lower Dir is located, when a suspected suicide bomber detonated his explosives.

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New York Times:

A spokesman for the Pakistani Taliban, Azam Tariq, claimed responsibility for the attack, saying it was in retaliation for Pakistani military operations in the western tribal areas that border Afghanistan, and for American missile strikes in the area that killed dozens of militants over the past several months.

The Lede quotes Taliban Spokesman Azam Tariq:

“We accept the attacks on the American consulate. This is revenge for drone attacks,” Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) spokesman Azam Tariq told AFP by telephone from an undisclosed location. “We have already told you that we have 2,800 to 3,000 fedayeen (suicide bombers). We will carry out more such attacks. We will target any place where there are Americans,” he said.

Adnkronosinternational reports that senator Haji Adeel, senior vice president of the Awami National Party (ANP) suspects Al-Quaeda to be be behind the attack. Sources told Adnkronos International (AKI) that Al-Qaeda also worked with the Taliban in co-ordinating the attack.