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This is the list of terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2013. Pakistan is facing many attacks by terrorists and also facing drone attacks.

January – March 2013

  • January 1 — Malik Mukhtar Hussain, was a prominent licensed organizer of Shia processions and majalis in Chiniot. He was gunned down in an Imambargah on 31 December 2012 by six armed men. After few days, an injured 16 years old Moazam Ali martyred. He was admitted at local hospital[1][2]
  • January 1 — A bomb mounted to a motorcycle exploded near Ayesha Manzil in Karachi after the address of MQM by Dr. Tahir-ul-Qadri, killing four people and injured more than 45.[3][4]
  • January 4 — Haider and Jamal, twin brothers, were going to the university on January 2, 2013 when unknown gunmen attacked them. Haider Lateef Qadri, who along with his twin brother Jamal Jafar Qadri, had suffered gunshot wounds died at a private hospital on Friday. His brother (jamal) had expired on the spot. The 20-year-old BCom student and his brother were attacked by two motorcyclists at the intersection of Mirza Adam Khan Road in Agra Taj Colony. Haider had been under treatment for three days. The motive behind the attack remains unclear.[5][6]
  • January 9 — A private school owner was shot dead in North Karachi in what police described as a ‘sectarian’ attack on Wednesday morning. Engineer Syed Ali Hyder Jafri, a 48 year old shia muslim, was shot dead in Sector 11-A, North Karachi, after he dropped his wife to a campus of their school, said an official at the Sir Syed police station. “It was surly a sectarian killing considering the ongoing spate of the killings in the city,” the SP said.[7][8] Another incident took place in Peshawar when Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) president for Kurram Agency Dr. Riaz Hussain was gunned down in Dabgari Garden near his clinic. He belonged to an influential Sadat family of Parachinar and had much influence over Shia Muslims in the province.[9] Zawar Shah, a Hazara Shia Muslim, was targeted outside his shop on Seerat Chowk, Khuzdar, Balochistan. He is a resident of Quetta and, according to reports, that’s where his body is being taken.[10][11]
  • January 10 — Four bombings in Quetta and the Swat Valley killed over a hundred people and injured an estimated 270. Many of the casualties were caused by the second blast as police and media rushed to the scene. The bombed area is predominantly Shia Muslim. The banned Sunni group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ) claimed responsibility for the attack in a predominantly Shi'ite neighborhood where the residents are ethnic Hazara.[12][13][14][15]
Main article: January 2013 Pakistan bombings
  • January 23 — Five people were killed and 3 injured in a blast in Orakzai Agency.[16]
  • January 24 — At least six people including three policemen were killed and seven injured after twin blasts in Karachi.[17]
  • January 30 — At least 3 people were killed and 4 injured in a blast outside a commercial plaza in Karachi at night.[18]
  • January 31 — Two polio vaccination doctors died in a roadside bomb blast in Waziristan on their way to Khurram.[19]
  • February 1 - A suicide blast killed 19 people and wounded 45 in a market targeting Shias outside a mosque in Hangu.[20] The death toll was reported variously above 20 and up to 24.[21][22][23]
  • February 7 - A policeman was killed and five other were wounded in a bomb attack targeting a police van in Karachi’s Orangi Town.[24]
  • February 8 - A bomb exploded near a marketplace in Kalaya, Orakzai, killing 16 people, and Baloch militants fired rocket-propelled grenades, killing one soldier and sounding five others in Turbat district, Balochistan.[25]
  • February 11 -At least six persons including an Assistant Sub Inspector were killed on Monday in various target killings in Karachi.[26]
  • February 14 - Seven people died in a blast at a police checkpoint in Hangu.[27] Later the toll rose to 11.[28] Then seven militia men were killed in a bomb attack on an anti-Taliban tribe.[29] Two passenger vehicles were struck by landmines killing 9 people near Hassan Khel, Orakzai region.[30] At least six suicide bombers were killed while attacking a police station outside Bannu.[31]
  • February 16 — Pakistani police have said 83 people killed on Saturday, saying a suicide bomber was behind the attack that pulverized a busy marketplace in Quetta.[32] The death toll rose to 91 after two days.[33]
Main article: February 2013 Quetta bombing
  • February 17 — Eight people were killed in target killings in Karachi on Sunday, Dawn reported the next day.[34]
  • February 18 — gunmen in police uniforms attacked the compound of a senior government official killing four security guards were killed in Peshawar. Two explosions occurred.[35] Eight more people died in targeted killings in Karachi.[36] Two blasts in Karachi injured at least two people.[37]In a separate incident, prominent Professor of Vitreoretinal Surgery, Dr. Syed Ali Haider and his 11 year old son, Murtaza, were shot dead, while on the way to Murtaza's school. It is suspected that the attacks were carried out by the banned Sunni extremist group, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi (LeJ).[38][39]
  • February 26 — A police official says a blast at a Sufi shrine in southern Pakistan has killed two people.[40]
  • March 3 — A powerful explosion ripped through a crowd of Shiites as they left a mosque in Karachi, Pakistan’s largest city, on Sunday, killing at least 45 people.[41]
Main article: March 2013 Karachi bombing
  • March 9 - A blast happened in the Jamia Chishtia mosque during Zuhr prayer in Peshawar, killed four at board and at least twenty seven injuries. Bomb was detonated in the walls of mosque.[42]
  • March 11 - A suicide bomber blew himself up near a police van in northwestern Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least two people and wounding 10, police said.[43]
  • March 15 - Pakistan officials say say a bomb blast in the country's largest city Karachi has killed three people and wounded five others.[44]
  • March 18 - A suicide bomber blew himself up in a courtroom in the north-westPakistani city of Peshawar, killing four people and wounding 47 others, officials said.[45]
  • March 21 - A car bomb exploded amid scores of people lining up at a food distribution center in northwest Pakistan on Thursday, killing at least 17 people and injuring 28 others in what appeared to be a rare attack on Pakistanis displaced by the country’s war against insurgents[46]
  • March 22 - A bomb planted on a motorbike killed six people and wounded another 15 on Friday in a crowded Pakistani market in troubled southwestern province Baluchistan, police said. [47]
  • March 24 - At least 17 Pakistani soldiers were killed when a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden water tanker into a check post in the restive North Waziristan tribal region of the country. [48]
  • March 29 - Twelve people were killed and 28 others sustained injuries when a suicide bomber attacked the convoy of the commandant of Frontier Constabulary (FC) near an army checkpost on the Fakhr-e-Alam Road in Peshawar Cantonment here on Friday. [49]
  • March 30 - A suicide bomber on Saturday struck a police patrol in a town of Peshawar in northwestern Pakistan, killing a policeman and wounding six others, police said.[50]
  • March 31 - The principal of a private secondary school in Ittehad Town was killed and several children, including his daughter, were injured after an attack and shooting at the school on Saturday morning in Karachi.[51]
  • March 31 -Two persons were killed and six others, including a former provincial legislator, injured in a bomb blast in Pakistan’s restive northwest on Sunday, police said.[52]

References

  1. ^ Mehmood, Rabia (3 January 2013). "'Secretion violence': Shiite leader gunned down at imambargah". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
  2. ^ "CHINIOT: Injured Moazam Ali martyrs". The Shia Post. 5 January 2013. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
  3. ^ "Bomb blast near Ayesha Manzil killed four people". Dawn. January 1, 2013. Retrieved January 3, 2013.
  4. ^ "Blast in Karachi after the address of MQM". The News. January 2, 2013. Retrieved January 3, 2013.
  5. ^ Safder, Waqas. "Lyari Twin Brothers' case: Father of Haider, Jamal urges CJP to take suo moto notice". The News Tribe. Retrieved 8 January 2013.
  6. ^ "Second twin injured in January 2 attack dies". The News International. 5 January 2013. Retrieved 5 January 2013.
  7. ^ "'Sectarian' attack". Dawn Newspaper. 9 January 2013. Retrieved 9 January 2013.
  8. ^ "Targeted killing: Private school association's chairperson killed". The Express Tribune. 10 January 2013. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
  9. ^ Ahmad, Riaz (January 10, 2013). "Targeted attack: PPP leader shot dead outside clinic". The Express Tribune. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
  10. ^ "Zawar Shah Martyred by Terrorists in Khuzdar, Balochistan". Ahlul Bayt News Agency. 10 January 2013. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
  11. ^ "2 more Shiites Killed including educationist". The Shia Post. 10 January 2013. Retrieved 10 January 2013.
  12. ^ Yousufzai, Gul (11 January 2013). "Rights group warns Pakistan faces worsening sectarian violence". Reuters Pakistan. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
  13. ^ Maqbool, Aleem (11 January 2013). "Pakistan blasts: Scores killed at Quetta snooker hall". BBC News. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
  14. ^ Zafar, Mohammad (11 January 2013). "Black Thursday: Bloodbath in Quetta". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
  15. ^ Figueras, Amanda (11 January 2013). "Musulmanes chiíes en Pakistán, los otros mártires". Elmundo. Retrieved 11 January 2013.
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  22. ^ http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1732953/Deadly-explosion-strikes-at-Pakistan-mosque
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  24. ^ http://dawn.com/2013/02/07/blast-heard-in-karachis-orangi-town-causalities-likely/
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  27. ^ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-21457531
  28. ^ http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2013/02/14/Northwest-Pakistan-violence-takes-big-toll/UPI-80981360901765/
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  30. ^ http://dawn.com/2013/02/14/explosion-kills-three-in-orakzai/
  31. ^ http://pakobserver.net/detailnews.asp?id=195958
  32. ^ http://edition.cnn.com/2013/02/17/world/asia/pakistan-blast/index.html
  33. ^ http://www.thefrontierpost.com/news/18430/
  34. ^ http://dawn.com/2013/02/18/eight-shot-dead-across-city/
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  41. ^ http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/04/world/asia/bombing-in-shiite-district-of-karachi.html?_r=0
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