Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2004

This is a list of terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2004.

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Terrorist attacks
in Pakistan (since 2001)

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

2001|

* 1st Bahawalpur

2002|

* 1st Karachi

2003|

* 1st Quetta

2004|

* 2nd Quetta
* 1st Multan

2005|

* 1st Mandi Bahauddin (Ahmadiyya)

2006|

* 4th Karachi
* Dargai

2007|

* 1st Dera Ismail Khan
* 1st Charsadda
* July bombings ‡
* 2nd Rawalpindi
* 5th Karachi ‡
* 2nd Charsadda
* 3rd Rawalpindi (Bhutto assassination)

2008|

* 3rd Charsadda
* 2nd Parachinar
* 1st Swat
* 1st Islamabad
* 2nd Islamabad
* 2nd Dera Ismail Khan
* 1st Wah
* 1st Peshawar
* 3rd Islamabad
* 1st Orakzai ‡
* 2nd Peshawar

2009|

* 4th/5th Dera Ismail Khan (January violence)
* 6th Dera Ismail Khan
* 2nd Lahore (Sri Lankan cricket)
* 1st Khyber
* 3rd Lahore
* Chakwal
* 7th/8th Dera Ismail Khan (May attacks)
* 4th Lahore
* 3rd Peshawar
* 5th Lahore
* Usterzai
* 4th Peshawar
* 4th Rawalpindi
* Alpuri
* 6th Lahore
* 5th Islamabad
* 5th Peshawar ‡
* 5th Rawalpindi
* 6th Peshawar
* 6th Rawalpindi
* 7th Lahore
* 1st Dera Ghazi Khan
* 1st Lower Dir
* 6th Karachi

2010|

* 1st Lakki Marwat ‡
* 1st Bajaur
* 2nd Lower Dir
* 7th Karachi
* 2nd Khyber
* 3rd Khyber
* 8th, 9th & 10th Lahore
* U.S consulate/Timergarah attack
* 2nd/3rd Kohat
* 8th Peshawar
* 11th Lahore (Ahmadiyya)
* 9th Dera Ismail Khan
* 12th Lahore (Sufi)
* 1st Mohmand ‡
* 13th Lahore (Shia)
* 3rd Quetta
* 2nd Darra Adam Khel
* 8th Karachi (CID)
* 2nd Mohmand
* 2nd Bajaur

2011|

* Faisalabad
* 9th Peshawar
* 2nd Dera Ghazi Khan
* 4th Quetta
* 4th Charsadda
* 9th Karachi (PNS Mehran)
* 10th Peshawar
* 10th Dera Ismail Khan (police station)
* 4th Khyber
* 5th Quetta
* Karachi targeted killings ‡
* 1st Mastung

2012|

* 5th Khyber
* 1st Rahim Yar Khan
* 1st Kohistan
* Mansehra
* 13th Peshawar (airport)
* 11th Dera Ismail Khan

2013|

* 8th Quetta/3rd Swat ‡
* 9th Quetta
* 10th Karachi
* Election day
* Quaid-e-Azam residency
* 10th Quetta
* Mardan
* Nanga Parbat
* 11th Quetta/17th Peshawar
* 14th Lahore
* 5th Parachinar
* 12th Dera Ismail Khan (prison attack)
* 11th Karachi
* 12th Quetta
* 13th Quetta
* 18th Peshawar ‡
* 19th Peshawar

2014|

* 12th Karachi (Chaudhry Aslam assassination)
* 1st Bannu
* 2nd Mastung
* 20th Peshawar
* 13th Karachi (Jinnah International Airport)
* 14th Quetta
* Wagah border
* 21st Peshawar (school massacre) ‡

2015|

* Shikarpur
* 22nd Peshawar
* 15th Lahore
* 14th Karachi
* 3rd Mastung
* Attock
* Camp Badaber
* Taunsa Sharif
* 15th Quetta
* Jacobabad
* 6th Parachinar

2016|

* 16th Quetta
* 5th Charsadda (Bacha Khan University)
* 23rd Peshawar
* 16th Lahore
* 17th Quetta
* 3rd Mohmand
* 18th Quetta
* 2nd Khuzdar

2017|

* 13th Dera Ismail Khan
* 7th Parachinar
* 17th Lahore
* 24th Peshawar
* Sehwan
* 6th Charsadda
* 8th Parachinar
* 18th Lahore
* 25th Peshawar
* 4th Mastung
* 19th Quetta/9th Parachinar
* Chaman
* 19th Lahore
* 20th Lahore
* 4th Bajaur
* 20th Quetta
* 1st Harnai
* 14th Dera Ismail Khan (Ataullah Shah)
* Jhal Magsi
* 27th Peshawar
* 21st Quetta

2018|

* 28th Peshawar
* 5th Mastung/2nd Bannu ‡
* 15th Dera Ismail Khan
* 2018 election violence
* 22nd Quetta
* 2nd Orakzai
* 15th Karachi (Chinese consulate)

2019|

* 1st Loralai
* 2nd Loralai/Panjgur
* 23rd Quetta
* 20th Lahore
* 1st Gwadar

2020|

* 24th Quetta
* 25th Quetta
* 16th Karachi (Stock Exchange)

2021|

* 1st Machh
* 3rd Chaman
* 26th Quetta (Serena Hotel)
* 21st Lahore
* 17th Karachi
* 27th Quetta
* 28th Quetta

2022|

* 22nd Lahore
* 1st Kech
* Panjgur and Naushki
* 29th Quetta
* Sibi
* 29th Peshawar
* Sangan
* 18th Karachi
* 19th Karachi
* 1st Miranshah
* 4th Swat
* 2nd Lakki Marwat
* 30th Quetta
* 2nd Miranshah
* 3rd Bannu
* 7th Islamabad

2023|

* 31st Peshawar
* 20th Karachi
* Barkhan
* Bolan
* Havelian
* 3rd Lakki Marwat
* 8th Khyber
* 31st Quetta
* Muslim Bagh
* 32nd Peshawar
* Zhob
* 1st N Waziristan
* Bara
* Khar
* 2nd N Waziristan
* 6th Mastung
* Hangu
* 16th Dera Ismail Khan
* 2nd Gwadar
* Mianwali
* Chilas
* Daraban

2024|

* 2024 Balochistan
* BLA Gwadar attack
* Shangla
* Lakki Marwat
* 32nd Quetta
* Kurram

2025|

* Darul Uloom Haqqania
* Jaffar Express hijacking
* 7th Mastung
* North Waziristan clashes
* 2nd Machh
* 3rd N Waziristan
* 3rd Khuzdar
* Mir Ali
* 5th Bajaur

## February - May

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* 28 February:- An apparent suicide bomber was killed and three worshippers injured in an attack on Imambargah in Satellite Town, Rawalpindi, Punjab.[1]
* 2 March:- At least 42 people were killed and more than 100 wounded when a procession of Shia Muslims was attacked by Deobandi extremists at Liaquat Bazaar in Quetta, Balochistan.[2]

Main article: 2004 Quetta Ashura massacre

* 10 April:- At least one person was killed and three others were wounded when a bomb exploded in a parking area near a hall where hundreds of people were attending a concert by Indian singer Sonu Nigam.
* 3 May:- A car bomb in Gwadar, Balochistan killed three Chinese engineers and injured 10 other people.[3]
* 7 May:- A suicide bomber attacked a crowded Shia mosque in Sindh Madrassatul Islam in Karachi, Sindh, killing at least 15 worshippers. More than 100 people were also injured, 25 of them critically in the attack. One person was killed in the riots that followed the attack.[4]
* 14 May:- Six members of Shia family was shot dead in Mughalpura locality of Lahore, Punjab.[5]
* 26 May:- Two car bombs explode within 20 minutes of each other outside the Pakistan-American Cultural Center and near the US consul general's residence in Karachi, killing two men and injuring more than 27 people, most of whom were policemen and journalists.[6]
* 30 May:- A senior Deobandi religious scholar and head of Islamic religious school Jamia Binoria, Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, was shot dead in his car while leaving his home in Karachi.[7]
* 31 May:- A suicide bomber blew up the Imambarghah Ali Raza mosque in Karachi in the middle of evening prayers, killing 16 worshippers and injuring 35 others. Two people were killed in riots over the mosque attack and Shamzai's assassination.[8]

## June - August

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* 10 June:- Gunmen opened fire on a convoy carrying the corps commander Lt Gen Ahsan Saleem Hyat in Karachi, killing 11 people. The corps commander who escaped unhurt later became the vice chief of army staff under General Pervez Musharraf. This was the first such attack on the Pakistan Army, not counting the earlier assassination attempts on General Pervez Musharraf who was also the President of the country, since the military began operations in Waziristan in 2004.[9]
* 30 July:- Assassination attempt on the Prime Minister-elect Shaukat Aziz, while he was campaigning for by-election in Fateh Jang, Attock District, Punjab. Even though he survived the attempt, nine people were killed due to the suicide bombing.[10]
* 2 August:- Chief Minister of Balochistan province Jam Mohammad Yousaf escaped an assassination bid when unidentified persons fired at his convoy killing one of his bodyguards and injuring two others.[11]
* 8 August:- At least eight people were killed and over 40 others injured when two bombs exploded in quick succession near the Jamia Binoria madrasa, Karachi.[12]
* 31 August:- Three people were killed and three others injured in a bombing at a shop in Kalat, Balochistan.[13]

## September - December

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* 21 September:- Suspected Sipah-e-Sahaba members gunned down at least three members of a Shi'a family in a sectarian attack in Dera Ismail Khan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.[14]
* 1 October:- A suicide bombing left 25 people dead and dozen injured at a Shia mosque during Friday prayers in Sialkot, Punjab.[15]

Main article: Sialkot mosque bombing

* 7 October:- A powerful car bomb left 40 people dead and wounded over 100 during a Deobandi rally to commemorate Maulana Azam Tariq, assassinated leader of Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, in Multan, Punjab. This was most probably in retaliation to the Sialkot bombing six days earlier.[16]

Main article: 2004 Multan bombing

* 10 October:- An explosion by a suicide bomber at a mosque used by Shia Muslims in Lahore killed at least four people and injured another eight.[17]
* 10 December:- At least 10 people were killed and 30 injured in a bombing at a market in Quetta. The bomb exploded near an Army truck, as Balochistan Liberation Army claimed responsibility.[17]

## References

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1. ^ Rezvan Malick. "1 killed, 3 injured amid Suicide attack near Imambargah in Rawalpindi"[usurped] Pakistan Times, 29 February 2002
2. ^ Carnage in Pakistan Shia attack BBC News
3. ^ "Pakistan car bomb kills Chinese" BBC News, 3 May 2004
4. ^ 'Suicide attack' hits Karachi mosque BBC News
5. ^ Six of a Shia family shot dead in Mughalpura Daily Times
6. ^ 2 explosions near US consul’s house Daily Times
7. ^ Mufti Shamzai killed in ambush Daily Times
8. ^ 16 die in Karachi mosque explosion Daily Times
9. ^ Karachi Army Chief Survives Assassination Attempt Voice of America
10. ^ Pakistan's PM designate survives assassination attempt CBC Canada
11. ^ "Baluchistan CM escapes bid on life" The Tribune India, 2 August 2004
12. ^ S. Raza Hassan. "Twin blasts leave 8 dead in Karachi" Dawn, 9 August 2004
13. ^ "Blast in Pakistan leaves 3 dead" The Tribune India, 31 August 2004
14. ^ Animesh Roul. "Sipah-e-Sahaba: Fomenting Sectarian Violence in Pakistan" The Jamestown Foundation: Global Terrorism Analysis, 27 January 2005
15. ^ Bomb carnage at Sialkot mosque BBC News
16. ^ Blast at SSP rally kills 40 in Multan Daily Times
17. ^ a b Blast hits Pakistan Shia mosque BBC News

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