Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2025

* v
* t
* e

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

This article is about Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2025 in chronological order.

## January

[edit]

* 4 January – An improvised explosive device (IED) detonated near a military convoy in Turbat, Balochistan, killing a soldier and injuring 35 others.[1]
* 9 January – Sixteen miners were abducted from a vehicle by militants in Lakki Marwat District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.[2]
* 10 January – 3 people were injured in IED blast targeting FC truck in Chaman, Balochistan.[3]
* 16 January – Five people were killed in an attack on a humanitarian aid convoy in Kurram District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.[4]
* 28 January – Two soldiers and five militants were killed in an attack on a security outpost in Killa Abdullah District, Balochistan.[5]

## February

[edit]

* 1 February –
* Eighteen members of the Frontier Corps were killed in an attack by the Balochistan Liberation Army on their vehicle near Mangochar, Kalat District, Balochistan. Twenty-four attackers were also reported to have been killed.[6]
* Five people, including four members of the security forces, were killed in an attack by militants on their vehicle in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.[7]
* 3 February – A police officer escorting polio vaccination workers was killed in an ambush by unidentified gunmen in Jamrud, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.[8]
* 6 February – A militant assault on a police post in Karak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, killed three police officers and injured five others.[9]
* 14 February – A roadside bomb targeted a vehicle carrying coal miners in Harnai, Balochistan, killing 11 and injuring five.[10]
* 17 February – A convoy of aid trucks in Kurram District was ambushed, killing a driver and a security official, and injuring 15 others.[11]
* 18 February – Four soldiers responding to the attack on the aid convoy in Kurram District the previous day were killed in an ambush by militants.[12]
* 19 February –
* Seven people were killed in an attack by gunmen on a bus in Barkhan District, Balochistan.[13] The Balochistan Liberation Army subsequently claimed responsibility.[14]
* A police officer escorting polio vaccination workers was killed in an ambush by unidentified gunmen in Bajaur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.[15]
* 21 February – Six militants were killed in a raid by security forces in Karak District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.[16]
* 23 February – Security forces killed seven militants in two separate operations in Dera Ismail Khan District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.[17][18]
* 24 February – Ten militants were killed in a raid by security forces in Bagh, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.[19]
* 28 February –
* 2025 Darul Uloom Haqqania bombing: A suicide bombing during Friday prayers in Darul Uloom Haqqania in Akora Khattak, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, killed Hamid Ul Haq Haqqani and six others.[20]
* Two people were killed in a roadside bombing near a pharmacy in Orakzai District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.[21]
* Ten people, including two soldiers, were injured in a roadside bombing on a vehicle carrying members of the security forces in Quetta.[21]

## March

[edit]

* 3 March – A woman blew herself up beside a Frontier Corps vehicle in Kalat, Balochistan, killing another person and injuring three others.[22]
* 4 March – Eighteen people were killed in a combined suicide bombing and assault on a military base in Bannu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, that was claimed by the Pakistani Taliban affiliate Jaish Al-Fursan.[23]
* 11 March – 2025 Jaffar Express hijacking: Balochistan Liberation Army militants blew up railway tracks and hijacked the Jaffar Express train bound from Quetta to Peshawar taking 450 people hostages including both security personnel and civilians.[24][25]
* 15 March – Munir Shakir, the founder of Lashkar-e-Islam, was killed in a bomb attack in Peshawar.[26]
* 16 March – The BLA attacked a Frontier Corps convoy in Noshki, Balochistan, killing five people, including three soldiers. The attack involved an explosion followed by a suicide bombing. Security forces killed four attackers in retaliation.[27]

## April

[edit]

* 15 April –
* April 2025 Mastung Bus Bombing: A bus carrying personnel from the Pakistani security forces was targeted with an improvised explosive device, resulting in the deaths of three soldiers and injuries to twenty others.[28] The Islamic State – Khorasan Province, a regional affiliate of the Islamic State, claimed responsibility for the attack.
* Two polio vaccination workers were abducted by unidentified gunmen in Dera Ismail Khan.[29]
* 18 April – A member of the Ahmadiyya community was killed in an attack by a suspected Islamist mob in Karachi.[30]
* 23 April – Two security escorts for polio workers were killed in a gun attack in Mastung District, Balochistan.[31]
* 25 April –
* Four Frontier Corps (FC) personnel were killed and three others injured in a bomb blast in the Margate area of Quetta. The explosion occurred during a bomb disposal operation involving an improvised explosive device (IED).[32]
* A member of the Ahmadiyya community was killed in a shooting in Bhulair, Punjab.[33]
* 27 April – 2025 North Waziristan border clashes: Seventy-one Pakistani Taliban militants trying to enter the country from the Afghanistan border were killed by security forces in North Waziristan.[34]
* 28 April – Seven people were killed in a bomb attack outside the office of a peace committee in Wana, South Waziristan.[35]

## May

[edit]

* 6 May – Seven soldiers were killed in a bomb attack on a military vehicle in Machh, Kachhi District, Balochistan.[36] The Baloch Liberation Army claimed responsibility for the attack.[37]
* 11 May – Two police officers were killed in a bomb attack on their vehicle in Peshawar.[38]
* 16 May – A doctor belonging to the Ahmadiyya community was shot dead at a hospital in Sargodha.[39]
* 18 May – Four people were killed in a car bombing near a market in Killa Abdullah District, Balochistan.[40][41]
* 19 May – 2025 Waziristan drone strike: Four children were killed in a suspected drone strike in Mir Ali, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.[42]
* 21 May – 2025 Khuzdar school bus bombing: A suicide bomber drove an explosive-laden vehicle into a school bus transporting students of the Army Public School, killing eight people, including 4 children and injuring 53 others.[43][44]
* 27 May – A police officer escorting polio vaccination workers was killed in a shooting in Nushki District, Balochistan.[45]
* 30 May – A government official was killed in an attack claimed by the BLA on Surab, Balochistan.[46]

## June

[edit]

* 18 June – A railway track explosion near Jacobabad, Sindh, derailed several bogies of the Jaffar Express.[47]
* 28 June – 2025 Mir Ali attack: A suicide bomber from the Hafiz Gul Bahadur Group drove an explosive-laden vehicle into a Pakistan Armed Forces convoy in Mir Ali, North Waziristan, killing between 13 and 16 soldiers and injuring several others, including civilians.[48]

## July

[edit]

* 1 July – One civilian was killed in an attack by gunmen on a police station and two banks in Mastung District, Balochistan.[49]
* 2 July – Five government officials, including an assistant commissioner, were killed while 11 others were injured in a roadside bomb attack on their vehicle in Bajaur District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.[50]
* 10 July – Nine people were abducted and killed by gunmen from several buses in Balochistan.[51]
* 16 July – Three people were killed in a gun attack on a bus in Kalat District, Balochistan.[52]
* 19 July – One Army Major was killed and 3 civilians were injured in a bomb blast in Quetta.[53]
* 27 July – Seven people were killed in a gun attack on a protest rally in Tirah, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.[54]

## August

[edit]

* 6 August – Two police officers were killed in an IED attack on their vehicle in Wanna, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.[55]

## See also

[edit]

* 2025 in Pakistan
* Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2024

## References

[edit]

1. ^ "Deadly bomb targets convoy carrying Pakistan security forces". VOA News. 5 January 2025. Retrieved 5 January 2025.
2. ^ "Pakistan recovers 8 out of 16 mine workers abducted by militants". AP News. 9 January 2025. Retrieved 9 January 2025.
3. ^ Zehri, Abdullah (2025-01-10). "3 civilians injured in IED blast targeting FC truck in Balochistan's Chaman: police". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 2025-06-01.
4. ^ "Death toll rises to 5 in rocket and gun attack on an aid convoy in restive northwestern Pakistan". AP News. 17 January 2025. Retrieved 17 January 2025.
5. ^ "2 soldiers, 5 militants killed in southwest Pakistan during attack on security post". AP News. 28 January 2025. Retrieved 28 January 2025.
6. ^ "Dozens of soldiers, fighters killed in Baloch separatist attack in Pakistan". Al Jazeera. 1 February 2025. Retrieved 1 February 2025.
7. ^ "Militants kill four security force members in northwest Pakistan: Police". Al Arabiya. 2 February 2025. Retrieved 3 February 2025.
8. ^ "Gunmen kill a police officer working on Pakistan's first polio drive of the year". AP News. 3 February 2025. Retrieved 3 February 2025.
9. ^ "Militant attack on a police post in restive northwestern Pakistan leaves 3 officers dead". AP News. 6 February 2025. Retrieved 6 February 2025.
10. ^ "A roadside bomb struck a vehicle carrying miners in southwestern Pakistan, killing 11 people". AP News. 11 February 2025. Retrieved 14 February 2025.
11. ^ "2 people killed when militants ambush trucks with aid for northwestern Pakistan". AP News. 17 February 2025. Retrieved 17 February 2025.
12. ^ "4 Pakistani troops killed while responding to an attack on aid trucks in restive northwest". AP News. 18 February 2025. Retrieved 18 February 2025.
13. ^ Godbole, Tanika (19 February 2025). "Pakistan: Gunmen kill 7 Punjabis in bus attack". DW. Retrieved 19 February 2025.
14. ^ "Outlawed Pakistani separatist group claims killing of 7 in bus attack in restive southwest". AP News. 20 February 2025. Retrieved 20 February 2025.
15. ^ "Gunmen kill police officer assigned to guard polio workers in northwestern Pakistan". AP News. 19 February 2025. Retrieved 19 February 2025.
16. ^ "Pakistan security forces kill 6 militants in a raid in the northwest". AP News. 21 February 2025. Retrieved 21 February 2025.
17. ^ "Security Forces kill 7 Khwarij in DI Khan". Associated Press of Pakistan. 2025-02-23. Retrieved 2025-02-23.
18. ^ Dawn.com (2025-02-23). "7 terrorists killed in separate operations in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's DI Khan: ISPR". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 2025-02-23.
19. ^ "Pakistani security forces kill 10 militants in a raid near Afghanistan". AP News. 25 February 2025. Retrieved 25 February 2025.
20. ^ "Haqqania madrassa's top official among seven killed in Nowshera suicide blast". Geo TV. 28 February 2025.
21. ^ a b "Suicide bomb at a seminary in northwest Pakistan kills top cleric and 5 others ahead of Ramadan". AP News. 28 February 2025.
22. ^ "Female suicide bomber kills 1 person and injures 3 in southwest Pakistan". AP News. 1 February 2025. Retrieved 3 March 2025.
23. ^ "Pakistanis mourn 18 killed in a suicide bombing at an army base". AP News. 5 March 2025. Retrieved 5 March 2025.
24. ^ "Pakistan train hijack: Militants threaten to 'execute' hostages; over 400 onboard". Hindustan Times. Retrieved 2025-03-11.
25. ^ "Pakistan Train Hijack LIVE: 450 Hostages Including Military Personnel In BLA's Captivity, Civilian Passengers Released". News18. Retrieved 2025-03-11.
26. ^ "Prominent Religious Scholar Mufti Munir Shakir Killed in Peshawar Blast".
27. ^ "Pakistan army hit by another BLA attack, 5 killed, including 3 soldiers". ANI News. 16 March 2025. Retrieved 16 March 2025.
28. ^ "Three personnel martyred, 20 hurt in Mastung blast". Dawn. April 16, 2025. Retrieved April 22, 2025.
29. ^ "Roadside bomb kills 3 in southwest Pakistan as 2 polio workers are abducted in the northwest". AP News. 15 April 2025. Retrieved 15 April 2025.
30. ^ "Pakistan: Islamist mob beat Ahmadi man to death in Karachi". DW News. 18 April 2025. Archived from the original on 18 April 2025. Retrieved 19 April 2025.
31. ^ "Gunmen kill 2 security officials assigned to protect polio workers in southwest Pakistan". AP News. 23 April 2025. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
32. ^ "Four FC troops martyred in Quetta bomb blast". Samaa TV. Samaa TV. 25 April 2025. Retrieved 25 April 2025.
33. ^ "Ahmadi community says gunmen killed one of their members and wounded another in eastern Pakistan". AP News. 25 April 2025. Retrieved 25 April 2025.
34. ^ "Pakistani troops kill 54 militants attempting to sneak into Pakistan from Afghanistan". AP News. 27 April 2025. Retrieved 27 April 2025.
35. ^ "Bombing in a former stronghold of Pakistani Taliban kills 7 people and wounds 16". AP News. 28 April 2025. Retrieved 28 April 2025.
36. ^ "Roadside bomb targeting security vehicle kills 7 soldiers in southwest Pakistan". BBC. 2025-05-07. Retrieved 2025-05-07.
37. ^ "Pakistan blames India after seven soldiers killed in Balochistan blast". Al Jazeera. 6 May 2025. Retrieved 24 May 2025.
38. ^ "Bomb targeting a vehicle carrying police killed 2 officers in northwest Pakistan". AP News. 2025-05-12. Retrieved 2025-05-12.
39. ^ "Pakistani police search for the suspect in the killing of an Ahmadi minority doctor". AP News. 2025-05-19. Retrieved 2025-05-19.
40. ^ "Car bomb explodes near a market in restive southwestern Pakistan, killing 4 and wounding 20". AP News. 2025-05-19. Retrieved 2025-05-19.
41. ^ "Car bomb in Pakistan's restive southwest kills four people". Al Jazeera.
42. ^ "Thousands protest after a suspected drone strike kills 4 children in northwest Pakistan". AP News. 2025-05-20. Retrieved 2025-05-20.
43. ^ "Death toll from Pakistan school bus bombing rises to 8 as Islamabad blames India". AP News. 2025-05-23. Retrieved 2025-05-21.
44. ^ "Suicide bomber kills five on school bus in Pakistan's Balochistan". Reuters. 21 May 2025. Retrieved 24 May 2025.
45. ^ "Gunmen shoot and kill policeman assigned to protect polio workers in restive NW Pakistan". AP News. Retrieved 2025-05-27.
46. ^ "One dead after insurgents briefly seize control of a city in southwest Pakistan and loot a bank". AP News. 31 May 2025. Retrieved 31 May 2025.
47. ^ zahid, maleeha (2025-06-18). "Explosion on railway track in Jacobabad: Five bogies derail, no casualties reported". Daily Times. Retrieved 2025-06-18.
48. ^ "At least 13 soldiers killed in suicide bombing in northwestern Pakistan". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2025-06-29.
49. ^ "Militants in Pakistan storm a police station and set fire to banks, killing a boy". AP News. 1 July 2025. Retrieved 1 July 2025.
50. ^ "Roadside bomb hits a vehicle carrying gov't administrator in NW Pakistan, killing 5 officers". AP News. 2 July 2025. Retrieved 2 July 2025.
51. ^ "Gunmen in Pakistan kidnap, kill nine bus passengers, officials say". Al Jazeera. 11 July 2025. Retrieved 11 July 2025.
52. ^ "Gunmen fire on a passenger bus in southwestern Pakistan and kill 3 people". AP News. 16 July 2025. Retrieved 16 July 2025.
53. ^ "Major martyred, child among three injured in Quetta magnetic IED blast". Pakistan Today. 2025-07-20. Retrieved 2025-07-20.
54. ^ "Pakistani security forces kill 3 militants linked to 2024 attack on Chinese in Karachi". AP News. 22 July 2025. Retrieved 22 July 2025.
55. ^ "A roadside bomb targeting police vehicle in northwest Pakistan kills 2 officers and wounds 14". AP News. 7 August 2025. Retrieved 7 August 2025.

Portals:

* 2020s
* Crime
* Pakistan

* v
* t
* e

Terrorist incidents in Pakistan by year

1980s|

* 1980
* 1981
* 1982
* 1983
* 1984
* 1985
* 1986
* 1987
* 1988
* 1989

1990s|

* 1990
* 1991
* 1992
* 1993
* 1994
* 1995
* 1996
* 1997
* 1998
* 1999

2000s|

* 2000
* 2001
* 2002
* 2003
* 2004
* 2005
* 2006
* 2007
* 2008
* 2009

2010s|

* 2010
* 2011
* 2012
* 2013
* 2014
* 2015
* 2016
* 2017
* 2018
* 2019

2020s|

* 2020
* 2021
* 2022
* 2023
* 2024
* 2025

*[v]: View this template
*[t]: Discuss this template
*[e]: Edit this template