In 2009, Pakistan suffered 50 terrorist, insurgent and sectarian-related incidents that killed 180 people and injured 300.
January 4 January:- At least seven people, three of them policemen and two journalists, were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up in front of the Government Polytechnic College near an imambargah on Multan Road in Dera Ismail Khan. About 25 people were injured, most of them policemen.Irfan Mughal. "Suicide bomber kills seven in D.I. Khan" Dawn, 5 January 2009 10 January:- A fierce gunbattle between rival sects in Hangu continued on Saturday amid efforts to broker an early truce to stop bloodshed. Official sources said that 26 people, including the deputy chairman of the local chapter of the Ahli Sunnat Wal Jamaat, Mufti Rustam, had been killed and several others injured in the two-day fighting.Abdul Sami Paracha. "Fierce battles in Hangu leave 26 dead" Dawn, 11 January 2009 26 January:- At least five people have been killed and many more wounded in a bomb blast in north-west Pakistan, police say. The bomb, attached to a bicycle, went off on a busy main road in the town of Dera Ismail Khan."Pakistan cycle bomb 'kills five'" BBC News, 26 January 2009 While in another incident, Hussain Ali Yousafi, chairman of the Hazara Democratic Party, was shot dead by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi in the southwestern city of Quetta."Hussain Ali Yousafi, chairman of the Hazara Democratic Party'" BBC News, 26 January 2009
February 3 February:- One man was killed and 18 others injured in a hand grenade attack on a Sunni mosque at Mohallah Joginwala in Dera Ismail Khan district on Tuesday evening."One killed in DIK mosque blast" Daily Times, 4 February 2009 5 February:- Up to 32 people were killed when a suspected suicide bombing ripped through a crowd of Shia worshippers outside a Dera Ghazi Khan mosque on Thursday. Police said the blast targeted dozens of people converging on the Al Hussainia Mosque after dark, shortly before a religious gathering."Imambargah blast kills 32 in DG Khan" Daily Times, 6 February 2009 7 February:- At least seven officers were killed in an attack on a checkpoint in Mianwali in Punjab near restive Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa."Seven police killed in Pakistan" BBC News, 7 February 2009 11 February:- Awami National Party (ANP) provincial lawmaker Alam Zeb Khan was killed and eight people injured in a remote-controlled blast on Wednesday. The bomb had been fitted to a motorbike parked near the residence of the slain MPA on Dalazak Road in Peshawar. This was the sixth such attack on ANP in less than a year."ANP legislator killed in bomb attack" Daily Times, 12 February 2009 17 February:- At least three people were killed by a car bomb which exploded outside the home of a government official in north-western Pakistan. The bomb targeted a local anti-Taliban mayor in the suburb of Bazidkhel near the city of Peshawar. He survived but several people were hurt."Pakistan car bomb 'kills three'" BBC News, 17 February 2009 20 February:- A curfew was imposed in Dera Ismail Khan and the army called in to quell riots immediately after a suicide bomber killed at least 30 Shia's and injured another 157 who were attending a funeral in southern Dera Ismail Khan district. Witnesses said police ‘ran off’ when gunfire broke out after the blast at the funeral of Shia leader Sher Zaman – who was gunned down a day earlier."32 killed at DI Khan funeral blast" Daily Times, 21 February 2009
March 2 March:- A suicide bomber killed five and injured 12 at a girls’ religious school in Pishin District of Balochistan on Monday."Six killed in Pishin girls’ madrassa suicide blast" Daily Times, 3 March 2009 3 March:- A convoy carrying Sri Lankan cricketers and officials in two buses was fired upon by 12 gunmen, near the Gaddafi Stadium in Lahore. The cricketers were on their way to play the third day of the second Test against the Pakistani cricket team. Six members of the Sri Lankan cricket team were injured. Six Pakistani policemen and two civilians were killed."Pak police arrests four in Sri Lankan team attack" SamayLive.com, 3 March 2009
5 March:- One person was killed and 19 others sustained injuries when a hand-grenade hurled by unidentified people at the worshippers exploded in Ameer Hamza mosque in Dera Ismail Khan."One killed, 19 hurt in DIK mosque attack" The News, 6 March 2009 While in Peshawar, unidentified people blew up the mausoleum of the most-revered mystic poet of the Pakhtun land Rahman Baba in the early hours of Thursday by planting four bombs inside the structure of the shrine.Ghulam Dastageer. "Militants blow up Rehman Baba’s shrine" The News, 6 March 2009 7 March:- A bomb-laden car exploded in Peshawar as police tried to pull a body from it killing eight people and injuring five. Seven of the dead were policemen while the other was a passerby. In a separate incident, a roadside bomb killed three civilians and wounded four troops in the town of Darra Adam Khel."Bombings Kill 11 in Pakistan Amid Political Feuds" The New York Times, 7 March 2009 11 March:- Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Senior Minister and Awami National Party leader Bashir Bilour survived an assassination attempt that left six people, including two suspected suicide attackers, dead in Namak Mandi in Peshawar on Wednesday. Four persons, including a young girl, who was married the previous Sunday, were critically wounded in the firing, grenade attack and suicide blast. This was the second assassination attempt on Bilour in less than six months and seventh suicide attack on ANP in little over a year.Javed Aziz Khan. "Senior Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa minister survives another attempt on life' The News, 12 March 2009 16 March:- At least 14 people were killed and 17 injured on Monday when a suicide bomber blew himself up near the busiest bus stand of Rawalpindi at Pirwadhai.Imran Asghar and Asim Yasin. "14 killed, 17 injured in Rawalpindi suicide blast" Daily Times, 17 March 2009 18 March:- Five people including three policemen were killed and four injured when over 100 unidentified armed men attacked a police vehicle at the entrance of the University of Malakand at Chakdara in Lower Dir District on Tuesday night."3 cops among 5 killed in attack on Malakand University" Daily Times, 19 March 2009 23 March:- A security official was killed and three others injured in a suicide bombing outside a police Special Branch office in Islamabad."Cop killed in suicide attack on Special Branch office in Islamabad" Daily Times, 24 March 2009 26 March:- At least 10 people were killed and 25 others injured in suicide attack at a restaurant targeting opponents of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan chief Baitullah Mehsud near Jandola, South Waziristan on Thursday."10 killed in Jandola suicide blast" Daily Times, 27 March 2009 27 March:- 76 persons were killed and over 100 injured in an apparent suicide attack on a mosque at Peshawar-Torkham Highway in Jamrud, Khyber Agency during the Friday congregation. Intelligence sources, however, put the number of dead at 86 but officials of the political administration were conservative by putting the death toll at 50.Daud Khattak and Nasrullah Afridi. "76 killed in Jamrud mosque bombing" The News, 28 March 2009
30 March:- At least eight police recruits and a civilian were killed when about 10 terrorists attacked the Manawan Police Training School in Lahore near the border with India with guns and grenades. Security forces regained control of the facility in an operation that lasted for more than eight hours. About 93 cadets and civilians were injured.Rana Tanveer. "Lahore braves terror" Daily Times, 31 March 2009
April 4 April:- A suicide bomber struck a camp of the Frontier Constabulary (FC) at Margalla Road in Islamabad on Saturday, killing at least eight FC personnel and a civilian, besides the attacker himself, and injuring 12 others.Shakeel Anjum. "Ten die as suicide bomber hits FC camp in Islamabad" The News, 5 April 2009
5 April:- A suicide bomber blew himself up at a Shia religious gathering in an Imambargah in Chakwal on Sunday, killing at least 22 people and wounding 60. The attacker struck at the gates of a Shia mosque where some 1,200 people were attending a religious gathering."22 killed in suicide attack on Chakwal Imambargah" Daily Times, 6 April 2009
6 April:- Police found bullet-riddled bodies of four local aid workers, including three women, in Shinkiari area of Mansehra District."Three women among 4 NGO workers killed in Mansehra" Daily Times, 7 April 2009 15 April:- A suicide car bomber attacked a security post in north-western Pakistan, killing at least 18 people, nine of them police and injuring five others. The bomber set off his explosives as he pulled up at a checkpoint in Charsadda, a town near the city of Peshawar."Suicide car bomber hits Pakistan" BBC News, 15 April 2009 18 April:- A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb at a checkpoint in the northwestern Pakistani town of Hangu’s Doaba area Saturday, killing at least 22 people, including five security personnel, and injuring another 15."At least 22 killed in suicide attack in Hangu " Dawn, 18 April 2009 26 April:- 12 children were killed in north-western Pakistan after playing with a bomb they mistook for a toy. The children died after the bomb, which resembled a football, exploded on Saturday in Lower Dir District."Bomb kills 12 Pakistani children" BBC News, 26 April 2009 29 April:- Targeted killings in Karachi claimed the lives of 34 people and wounded 40 in a matter of hours by unidentified gunmen in different parts of the city. In the month-long incidents of violence until 28 April the police record showed that 16 people had been shot dead and 54 wounded in different incidents of killings. The statistics further showed that of the total number of people, 43 people belonged to the Pakhtun community while seven were Urdu-speaking people.S. Raza Hassan. "Targeted killings claimed 50 lives in April" Dawn, 1 May 2009
May 5 May:- Seven people, two children and a Frontier Corps soldier among them, were killed and 48 others injured when an explosives-laden car rammed into a pick-up near a checkpost on the Peshawar-Bara road 12 km west of Peshawar Cantonment.Ali Hazrat Bacha. "Suicide bomber kills 7 near Peshawar" Dawn, 6 May 2009 11 May:- 10 people died as a suicide bomber blew up his explosives-laden vehicle near an FC checkpost in the outskirts of Darra Adam Khel on Monday, killing eight civilians and two security personnel and injuring 27 other people.Abdul Sami Paracha. "10 killed in Darra suicide attack" Dawn, 12 May 2009 14 May:- 9 police officers were injured when three grenades exploded in the city.
16 May:- Two successive bomb blasts rocked Peshawar on Saturday, leaving 13 people dead and 34 others injured. A powerful car-bomb killed 12 people and wounded 31 others, including schoolchildren and women, in the Barisco area, while a low intensity device ripped through a garments store in the packed Gora Bazaar in Peshawar Saddar, killing a minor girl and injuring three others.Javed Aziz Khan. "13 killed in Peshawar blast" The News, 17 May 2009 21 May:- At least nine people – four civilians and five security personnel – were killed and 25 injured in a suicide attack near a Frontier Corps (FC) fort in Jandola area of Tank on Thursday evening."Nine killed in Tank suicide blast" Daily Times, 22 May 2009 22 May:- At least 10 people were killed and 75 injured when a powerful car bomb went off outside a cinema in Peshawar’s Cinema Road area on Friday evening.Manzoor Ali Shah. "10 killed in car explosion outside Peshawar cinema" Daily Times, 23 May 2009