Hamburg - There have been a number of deadly terrorist
attacks in Pakistan over the last few months. Most were suicide
attacks:
September 20, 2008: In a car bomb attack on the Marriott Hotel in
the centre of the capital Islamabad, 53 people were killed and 260
injured, according to government sources. Among the dead were the
Czech ambassador and other foreigners. The radical Islamist group
Fedayin-e-Islam claimed responsibility for the suicide attack. The
group has contacts with the group Tehrik-e-Taliban, the Pakistani
branch of the formerly Afghan-based Islamist extremist Taliban.
August 21 2008: In north-western Pakistan three suicide bombers
killed at least 78 people in the city of Wah. Some 100 people were
injured in the explosion outside of a weapons factory. Tehrik-e-
Taliban claimed responsibility.
August 19, 2008: At least 23 people were killed and 20 injured in
an attack on a hospital in the North-West Frontier Province. Police
said the suicide bomber blew up among a crowd outside the hospital's
emergency room in the city of Dera Ismail Khan.
June 2, 2008: A car bomb attack on the Danish embassy in Islamabad
left at least six people dead, Pakistani government sources said. The
al-Qaeda terrorist network claimed responsibility, seeking revenge
for the publication of 'insulting caricatures' of Islam's prophet
Mohammed.
March 11, 2008: In two suicide attacks in the eastern city of
Lahore, at least 27 people were killed and 200 injured. The first
attack struck the regional headquarters of the Pakistani federal
justice ministry. The second attack took place in an advertising
agency near the residence of Asif Ali Zardar, the leader of the
Pakistani People's Party (PPP) and the widower of murdered former
premier Benazir Bhutto.
March 2, 2008: Around 40 people were killed and many more
seriously injured in a suicide attack in the country's north-west.
The attacker detonated the bomb during a tribal assembly of around
1,000 participants in the city of Darra Adam Khel. Tribal leaders had
called the assembly to discuss combatting Islamist extremists.
February 16, 2008: Forty-seven people were killed and around 150
injured in an attack on an office of an independent political
candidate for parliament ahead of elections scheduled for two days
later. The suicide bomber drove a car bomb in the election office in
Parachinar on the border with Afghanistan.
December 27, 2007: Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto is
murdered in a bombing in Rawalpindi. Twenty other people died along
with the politician, who was twice prime minister. The interior
Ministry blamed the attack on extremists connected with al-Qaeda. The
terrorist network however denied complicity in the incident.
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