Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2002
In 2002, 14 terrorist, insurgent and sectarian-related incidents were reported that killed 60 people and injured 150.
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Terrorist attacks
in Pakistan (since 2001)
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
‡ indicates attacks resulting in more than 100 deaths
Underline indicates the deadliest terrorist attack/s to date
- 1st Bahawalpur
- 1st Karachi
- 1st Quetta
- 2nd Quetta
- 1st Multan
- 1st Mandi Bahauddin (Ahmadiyya)
- 4th Karachi
- Dargai
- 1st Dera Ismail Khan
- 1st Charsadda
- July bombings ‡
- 2nd Rawalpindi
- 5th Karachi ‡
- 2nd Charsadda
- 3rd Rawalpindi (Bhutto assassination)
- 3rd Charsadda
- 2nd Parachinar
- 1st Swat
- 1st Islamabad
- 2nd Islamabad
- 2nd Dera Ismail Khan
- 1st Wah
- 1st Peshawar
- 3rd Islamabad
- 1st Orakzai ‡
- 2nd Peshawar
- 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
- 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
- 12th Karachi (Chaudhry Aslam assassination)
- 1st Bannu
- 2nd Mastung
- 20th Peshawar
- 13th Karachi (Jinnah International Airport)
- 14th Quetta
- Wagah border
- 21st Peshawar (school massacre) ‡
- Shikarpur
- 22nd Peshawar
- 15th Lahore
- 14th Karachi
- 3rd Mastung
- Attock
- Camp Badaber
- Taunsa Sharif
- 15th Quetta
- Jacobabad
- 6th Parachinar
- 16th Quetta
- 5th Charsadda (Bacha Khan University)
- 23rd Peshawar
- 16th Lahore
- 17th Quetta
- 3rd Mohmand
- 18th Quetta
- 2nd Khuzdar
- 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
- 28th Peshawar
- 5th Mastung/2nd Bannu ‡
- 15th Dera Ismail Khan
- 2018 election violence
- 2nd Orakzai
- 15th Karachi (Chinese consulate)
- 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]
February
- 22 February — The American journalist Daniel Pearl was kidnapped and murdered in Karachi.[1]
- 26 February — At least 11 Shi'a worshipers were killed by indiscriminate firing by a group of masked gunmen at the Shah-i-Najaf Mosque in Rawalpindi.[2]
March – May
- 17 March — A grenade attack on a Protestant church in the heavily guarded diplomatic enclave in Islamabad killed five persons, including a US diplomat's wife and daughter, and left more than 40 others injured.[3]
- 7 May — Noted religious scholar Prof Dr Ghulam Murtaza Malik, his driver and a policeman were shot dead by two gunmen in Iqbal Town, Lahore.[4]
- 8 May — Bus bombing in Karachi kills 11 Frenchmen and 3 Pakistanis near the Sheraton hotel.[5]
June – August
- 14 June — A powerful car bomb exploded near the heavily guarded US Consulate in Karachi, killing 12 people and wounding over 50 others. A portion of the outer wall of the consulate was blown apart.[6]
- 13 July — Nine foreign tourists and three Pakistani nationals were injured in an attack near an archaeological site in the district of Mansehra.[7]
- 5 August — At least six people were killed and four injured in a gun attack on a missionary school for foreign students in mountain resort of Murree. The attack was carried by four gunmen, when they started firing indiscriminately, however no pupils were among those killed, all of whom were Pakistani guards and employees at the school.[8]
- 9 August — Three nurses—and an attacker—were killed while 25 others injured in a terrorist attack on a church in the Taxila Christian Hospital, in Taxila, northern Punjab.[9]
September – December
- 25 September — Gunmen stormed the offices of a Christian welfare organisation in Karachi, tied seven office workers to their chairs before shooting each in the head at close range.[10]
- 16 October — More than eight people were injured in a series of parcel bomb explosions in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi.[11]
- 15 November — An explosion on a bus in Hyderabad, Sindh killed two people and injured at least nine others.[12]
- 5 December — Three people were killed in an attack at the Macedonian Honorary consulate in the city of Karachi. The dead – all Pakistani – were tied up, gagged and killed before the explosion at the office.[13]
- 25 December — Unidentified assailants threw a grenade at a Presbyterian church in Pakistan's central Punjab province, killing three young girls. At least 12 others were injured in the attack at Daska, near Sialkot.[14]
References
- ^ "Khalid Sheikh Muhammad: I beheaded Daniel Pearl" CNN, 15 March 2007
- ^ "Death toll in mosque attack rises to 11" Dawn, 28 February 2002
- ^ "Hunt for Pakistan church bombers" CNN, 18 March 2002
- ^ "Dr Murtaza Malik, cop and driver shot dead" Dawn, 8 May 2002
- ^ Suspect arrested in attack that killed 11 Frenchmen USA Today
- ^ Pakistan searches for blast leads BBC News
- ^ "Tourists injured in Pakistan blast" BBC News, 13 July 2002
- ^ Gunmen attack Pakistan school BBC News, 5 August 2002
- ^ Mohammad Asghar. "Three nurses killed in Taxila chapel attack" Dawn, 10 August 2002
- ^ "Gunmen kill seven christian charity workers" The Independent, 25 September 2002
- ^ "Several injured in Karachi blasts" BBC News, 16 October 2002
- ^ "Bus explosion in Pakistan kills two" CBC Canada, 15 November 2002
- ^ "Karachi consulate attack kills three" BBC News, 5 December 2002
- ^ "Pakistan arrests after church attack" BBC News, 26 December 2002