2015 in Pakistan

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The following lists events that happened during 2015 in Pakistan.

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Incumbents

Federal government

Events

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

December

Arts

Cinema

Economy

Sport

Cricket

International

Domestic

Football

Deaths

Public holidays

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Events from the year 2009 in Pakistan.

Events from the year 2010 in Pakistan.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jundallah (Pakistan)</span> Baloch militant organization operating in Balochistan, Pakistan

Jundallah was a militant group associated with Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP). The group was commanded by militant Hakimullah Mehsud, the Emir of TTP, until his death on 1 November 2013. Ahmed Marwat was the spokesman of the group. On 17 November 2014, a group spokesman told Reuters that it had vowed allegiance to the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, after a meeting with a three-man delegation from the group. In January 2017, the Government of Pakistan imposed, interalia, a ban on Jundullah and other splinter groups that claimed responsibility for terror attacks.

This is a list of terrorist attacks in Pakistan in the calendar year 2011.

These are the list of Terrorist attacks in Pakistan in 2010.

In 2008, Pakistan saw 40 terrorist attacks, which caused 154 fatalities and 256 injuries.

In 2009, Pakistan suffered 50 terrorist, insurgent and sectarian-related incidents that killed 180 people and injured 300.

This is a list of terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2004.

This is a list of terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2012. Pakistan has faced numerous attacks by insurgents as a result of the ongoing War in North-West Pakistan by the Pakistani military against militant groups, part of the War on Terror. At the same time, there have also been numerous drone attacks in Pakistan carried out by the United States which exclusively target members of militant groups along the Afghan border regions.

This is a list of terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2013. Some of the incidents are sectarian in nature and the TTP is responsible for a majority of them.

Events in the year 2014 in Pakistan.

This is a list of terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2014.

This is a list of terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2015.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Jamaat-ul-Ahrar</span> Organization

Jamaat-ul-Ahrar was a terrorist organization that split away from Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan in August 2014. The group came to prominence after it claimed responsibility for the 2014 Wagah border suicide attack. In August 2020, it merged back to TTP.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2014 Peshawar school massacre</span> Terrorist attack in Peshawar, Pakistan

On 16 December 2014, six gunmen affiliated with the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) conducted a terrorist attack on the Army Public School in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar. The terrorists, all of whom were foreign nationals, comprising one Chechen, three Arabs and two Afghans, entered the school and opened fire on school staff and children, killing 149 people including 132 schoolchildren ranging between eight and eighteen years of age, making it the world's fifth deadliest school massacre. Pakistan launched a rescue operation undertaken by the Pakistan Army's Special Services Group (SSG) special forces, who killed all six terrorists and rescued 960 people. In the long term, Pakistan established the National Action Plan to crack down on terrorism.

This is a list of terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2016. Pakistan was the 10th most dangerous country by criminality index in 2016.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">2015 Karachi bus shooting</span> Terrorist attack in Karachi, Pakistan

On 13 May 2015, eight gunmen attacked a bus travelling in Safoora Goth, Karachi, Sindh in Pakistan. The shooting left at least 46 people dead. All of the victims were of the Ismaili Shia Muslim minority, suggesting the attack was a targeted killing of sectarian nature.

Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2017 include, in chronological order:

Operation Radd-ul-Fasaad was a combined military operation by the Pakistani military in support of local law enforcement agencies to disarm and eliminate the terrorist sleeper cells across all states of Pakistan, started on 22 February 2017. The operation aimed to eliminate the threat of terrorism, and consolidating the gains of Operation Zarb-e-Azb which was launched in 2014 as a joint military offensive. It was further aimed at ensuring the security of Pakistan's borders. The operation underwent active participation from the Pakistan Army, Pakistan Air Force, Pakistan Navy, Pakistan Police and other Warfare and Civil Armed Forces managed under the Government of Pakistan. More than 375,000 intelligence-based operations had been carried out as of 2021. This operation has been mostly acknowledged after Operation Zarb e Azb.

Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2018 include:

References

  1. 1 2 "Airstrikes kill 39 militants in Pakistan". 4 January 2015. Retrieved 4 January 2015.
  2. "Bomb at volleyball match kills 4 in northwest Pakistan". 4 January 2015. Retrieved 5 January 2015.
  3. "Suicide blast kills seven in Pakistan". 10 January 2015. Archived from the original on 9 January 2015. Retrieved 10 January 2015.
  4. "Death toll in horrific road mishap near Karachi reaches 57". 11 January 2015. Retrieved 11 January 2015.
  5. "Officials scramble after massive power outage hits Pakistan". Associated Press. 25 January 2015. Archived from the original on 28 January 2015. Retrieved 26 January 2015.
  6. "Pakistan arrests Peshawar school massacre suspects".
  7. "Pakistani Taliban attack Shia mosque in Peshawar". BBC News. 13 February 2015.
  8. "Bomb blast kills 2 at Shi'ite mosque in Pakistan's Rawalpindi". Reuters. 18 February 2015. Archived from the original on March 7, 2016.
  9. "11 killed, 48 injured as blasts target Lahore Church". 15 March 2015. Retrieved 15 March 2015.
  10. "Pakistan says 80 militants killed in heavy clashes in country's lawless north-west". Australian Broadcasting Corporation . 22 March 2015.
  11. "Pakistan gunmen kill 45 on Karachi Ismaili Shia bus". BBC News. 13 May 2015.