Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2014
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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]
This is a list of terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2014.
January – March
- 1 January — A bomb blasted on the Qambrani road in Akhtarabad, Quetta near a bus, which was carrying at least 50 pilgrims from Iran to Pakistan.[1] Police confirmed that three of the passengers are killed and at least twenty-four injured.[2]
- 6 January - A student Aitzaz Hasan prevented a suicide bomber from entering his school at Hangu village.
- 9 January - A car suicide-bomb was blasted by Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan near the car of a senior police officer Chaudhry Aslam Khan, in which Khan was killed with two others.[3][4]
- 19 January -
- Six military personnel and eight civilians were killed in a suicide bombing in a town near the headquarters of the Pakistan Army. According to the BBC, "Soldiers and paramilitary forces were planning to leave the town of Bannu, in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, for Razmak in North Waziristan, when their convoy was hit by the blast." Also according to the BBC, "Police say a group of soldiers had been passing on foot at the moment of Monday's explosion in Rawalpindi."[5][6]
- 13 people including five security personnel were killed and 29 others injured after a suicide bomber exploded himself at R.A Bazar in Rawalpindi.
- 2014 Bannu bombing
- 21 January - 2014 Mastung bus bombing
- 2 February - 2014 Peshawar cinema bombings
- 9 February - 8 people killed and 8 injured in a grenade attack, followed by a shooting, at a gathering at a Sufi shrine in Karachi.[7]
- 1 March — A bomb killed at least 11 people and injured another 10 in Federally Administered Tribal Areas.[8]
- 3 March - An attack at the district court in sector F-8 in Islamabad killed at least 11 people. Several gunmen attacked the court's premises and detonated two explosive devices (possibly one suicide bomber). Responsibility for the attack was claimed by a splinter group of the Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan, called Ahrarul Hind.[9]
April – August
- 8 April - At least 16 people were killed when militants detonated an IED on a train at Sibi railway station.[10] The separatist United Baloch Army claimed responsibility for the attack.[11]
- 9 April - At least 24 people were killed when militants detonated an explosive device at a vegetable market in sector I-11 in Islamabad. The separatist United Baloch Army claimed responsibility for the attack.[12]
- 8 June - At least 24 people were killed when militants attacked a bus carrying Shia pilgrims from Iran to Quetta in Balochistan province of Pakistan.[13]
- 8 June — Jinnah International Airport attack
- At least 30 people were killed when terrorists attacked Jinnah International Airport in Karachi on the night of June 8. The 10 Militants were killed in a combat that lasted for 5 hours.[14]
- 11 June — Tirah air strike
- At least 25 suspected militants were killed and 15 injured when military planes bombed their hideouts in Tirah valley of Khyber Agency
- 11 June — Five killed in separate clashes near Swat Valley
- In the first incident, unidentified men fired at a car in the Kooza Bandi village of Swat Valley, killing three people including a police guard.
- In a separate incident, up to six militants stormed a checkpoint in the northwestern town of Dargai, that lies in the Malakand region neighbouring Swat. Two Levies personnel were killed in the attack, Express News reported.[15]
- 15 August 2014- 2014 Quetta Airbase attack, 12 Militants, and 11 persons injured after a failed attack on PAF bases in Quetta
September - December
- 6 September - Pakistani Navy frigate PNS Zulfiquar was attacked and briefly captured by al-Qaeda and rogue Pakistani Navy officers before being recaptured by Pakistani forces. The attack was intended to use the Zulfiquar's anti ship missiles to attack the U.S. Navy fleet in the Arabian Sea. 10 militants which included 4 rogue Pakistani navy officers were killed in the ensuing operation to recapture the ship. One rogue officer detonated a suicide bomb inside the ship after being surrounded. 4 other officers who were involved but who did not participate in the attack were later apprehended.[16][17]
- 2 November - 2014 Wagah border suicide attack: An attack on the Wagah Border, close to the Pakistani city of Lahore and the Indian city of Amritsar killed more than 60 people with more than 110 injured. There were no initial claims of responsibility.
- 7 November At least 6 people were killed and 4 wounded in two explosions in Mohmand Agency.[18]
- 16 December 2014 Peshawar school massacre: At least 132 children among over 141 killed by Taliban militants who stormed an army-run school in Peshawar city. Seven militants were also killed during the SSG rescue operation [19]
- 18 December At least 3 paramilitary soldiers died from a roadside bomb in Bajaur Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas[20]
References
- ^ Baloch, Shehzad (1 January 2014). "Quetta: 2 dead as suicide bomber targets pilgrims returning from Iran". tribune.com.pk. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
- ^ "Three killed, 24 injured as blast hits pilgrims' bus in Quetta". nation.com.pk. 1 January 2014. Retrieved 1 January 2014.
- ^ "Bomb kills Pakistan police chief Chaudhry Aslam Khan". bbc.co.uk. 9 January 2014. Retrieved 9 January 2014.
- ^ "Pakistani cop who hunted Taliban killed by car bomb". The Australian. 10 January 2014.
- ^ "Deadly blast hits Pakistan city of Rawalpindi". BBC News. 20 January 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
- ^ "Suicide blast in Rawalpindi kills 13, injures at least 15". The Express Tribune. 19 January 2014. Retrieved 20 January 2014.
- ^ "8 Killed in Attack on Sufi Gathering". www.nytimes.com. 9 February 2014. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
- ^ "Bomb killed 11 people in Pakistan". Dawn. 1 March 2014.
- ^ "Judge, 10 others killed in Islamabad blasts, firing". 2014-03-03.
- ^ "Sibi train blast death toll reaches 16". 2014-04-08.
- ^ "Baloch separatists claim Islamabad terror attack; 24 killed". 2014-04-09.
- ^ "Baloch separatists claim Islamabad terror attack; 24 killed". 2014-04-09.
- ^ "24 Shia pilgrims killed in an Attack on Bus in Balochistan, Pakistan". IANS. news.biharprabha.com. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
- ^ "Attack on Karachi Airport in Pakistan airport leaves over 23 dead". IANS. news.biharprabha.com. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
- ^ "Five killed in separate clashes near Swat Valley". 2014-06-11.
- ^ "New al Qaeda wing in South Asia claims major attack". Reuters. 17 Sep 2014.
- ^ "Al Qaeda Militants Tried to Seize Pakistan Navy Frigate". Wall Street Journal. 16 Sep 2014.
- ^ Zahir Shah Sherazi (2014-11-07). "Twin blasts kill at least six people in Mohmand". Retrieved 29 June 2015.
- ^ "132 children killed in Peshawar school attack". The Express Tribune. 2014-12-16. Retrieved 29 June 2015.
- ^ AFP (2014-12-18). "Three FC soldiers killed in Bajaur roadside bomb blast". Retrieved 29 June 2015.