List of terrorist incidents in Jammu and Kashmir

Separatist militant insurgency in Kashmir since 1989 has led by Pakistan has caused several terrorist attacks and incidents within the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir. ^{[1] [2]}

Security personnel deaths	6413
Civilian deaths	14930
Militant deaths	23386
Total	44729 [3] [ needs update ]
Data from Ministry of Home Affairs

List

Year	Date	Incident	Perpetrators	Deaths	Ref	State Government	Central Government
1989	14 September	Assassination of BJP leader and Lawyer Tika Lal Taploo.	Anti-Pandit Militants	1	[4]	Farooq Abdullah (JKNC)	Rajiv Gandhi (INC)
	4 November	Assassination of retired Judge Nilkanth Ganjoo.	JKLF	1
1990	13 February	Assassination of Lassa Kaul (Director of Doordarshan)	Anti-Pandit Militants	1	[5] [6]		V. P. Singh (Janata Dal)
	6 April	Assassination of CEO of Hindustan Machine Tools H. L. Khera.	JKLF	2
		Assassination of Vice Chancellor of University of Kashmir, Mushir-u-Haq.
	1 May	Assassination of Sarwanand Koul Premi and his son.	Anti-Pandit Militants	2
	21 May	Assassination of Imam Mohammad Farooq Shah.	Hizbul Mujahideen	1
1990–1991		Exodus of Kashmiri Hindus	Anti-Hindu and Anti India Millitants	217-228	[7] [8]	Dissolved (Jagmohan Malhotra)	Chandra Shekhar (SJPR) P. V. Narasimha Rao (INC)
1994	29 March	Assassination of Lt Gen E. W. Fernandes and other Indian Army officers.	Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen	15	[9] [5]	Dissolved (Gen K. V. Krishna Rao)	P. V. Narasimha Rao (INC)
1995	26 January	Assassination attempt on Governor Lt Gen K. V. Krishna Rao.	Hizbul Mujahideen Lashkar-e-Taiba	8	[10]
	20 July	Bomb Explosion in Jammu		20	[11]
1998	26 January	Wandhama massacre		23		Farooq Abdullah (JKNC)	Inder Kumar Gujral (INC)
	17 April	Prankote massacre		29			Atal Bihari Vajpayee (BJP)
	21 April	Thub Village massacre		13
	19 June	Chapnari massacre		25
	3 August	Chamba massacre		35
1999	7 September	Assassination of BJP Candidate Haider Noorani [12]		1	[12]
	3 November	Suicide attack at Badami Bagh cantonment		10	[13]
	24 December	Suicide bomber attack on JnK Special Operations group police officers	Lashkar-e-Taiba	12	[11]
2000	7 January	Attack on the Meteorological Center, Srinagar.		4	[5]
	20 March	Chittisinghpura massacre	Lashkar-e-Taiba	35
	15 May	Assassination of Minister for Power, Gulam Hasan Bhat	Hizbul Mujahideen	5
	August	2000 Amarnath pilgrimage massacre		62	[14]
	3 November	Assassination of Aga Syed Mehdi in a landmine explosion		6	[15]
	25 December	Attack on Army HQ Badami Bagh, Srinagar		9	[5]
2001	9 February	Suicide bomber attack on JnK police control room	Al-Umar-Mujahideen	12
	10 February	2001 Kot Charwal massacre	Lashkar-e-Taiba	15
	2 March	Ambush on police personnel in Rajouri		17
	8 June	Grenade explosion in Charar-e-Sharief shrine.		4
	20 July	Amarnath Massacre		8	[16]
	21 July	Doda Massacre		16	[5]
	2-3 August	2001 Kishtwar massacre	Lashkar-e-Taiba	15
	7 August	Jammu Railway Station shootout		13	[17] [18]
	29 August	Anantnag bus attack		9	[5]
	1 October	Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly car bombing	Jaish-e-Mohammed	36
2002	20 January	Poonch massacre	Lashkar-e-Taiba	11
	30 March	First Raghunath temple attacks		11
	14 May	2002 Kaluchak massacre		31	[19]
	21 March	Assassination of Abdul Ghani Lone		1	[20]
	13 July	2002 Qasim Nagar massacre		25
	6 August	2002 Amarnath pilgrimage massacre		11
	11 September	Assassination of Mushtaq Lone, State Law Minister		3	[21]	Mufti Mohammad Sayeed (JKPDP)
	11 November	IED blast on the Jammu Srinagar national highway		8	[5]
	22 November	IED blast in Srinagar	Lashkar-e-Taiba	6
	23 November	IED blast at Lower Munda on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway.		19
	24 November	Secoind Raghunath temple attacks	Lashkar-e-Taiba	14
	5 December	Assassination of Ghulam Mohiuddin Lone, brother of Mushtaq Lone.		1
	20 December	Assassination of Abdul Aziz Mir		1
2003	28 January	Assassination of Farooq Ahmed Kuchchay, NC politician	Hizbul Mujahideen	2
	14 March	Suicide attack on Muharram procession in Poonch		4
	16 March	Attack on remote police post		11
	23 March	Nadimarg massacre	Lashkar-e-Taiba	24	[22]
	22 April	Landmine blast in Udhampur		6	[5]
	19 May	Massacre in form of beheading in Rajouri	Jaish-e-Mohammed	6
	26 May	Ambush at the house of a Village Defence Committee member		5
	28 June	Suicide attack at Sunjwan military base		12
	22 July	Suicide attack at the Akhnoor army base, killing one Brigadier		8
	13 September	Ambush on the car of political leader Mohammad Yusuf Parray		3	[23]
2004	2 January	Suicide attack at the Jammu Railway Station		4	[24]
	3 March	Suicide attack at the Court complex in Jammu		7
	9 March	Suicide attack at the PIB of the GOI		2
		Suicide attack on Directorate of Information of the Govt of JnK
	8 April	Attack at a PDP political rally in Uri		11	[25]
	23 May	IED explosion at the Jammu-Srinagar Highway		30	[5]		Manmohan Singh (INC)
	26 June	Terrorist attack in Surankote		12
	2 July	Attack on the convoy of MP, Choudhury Lal Singh		6	[26]
	19 July	Assassination attempt on Deputy Chief Minister Mangat Ram Sharma		6	[27]
	28 July	Overnight gunfight at the paramilitary base on the banks of Dal lake		5	[5] [28]
	4 August	Ambush at CRPF camp		9	[24]
	5 December	IED explosion in Pulwama		10	[5]
2005	7 January	Suicide attack on Income tax office, Srinagar		3-5	[24] [29]
	24 February	Suicide attack at Divisional Commissioners office		6	[5]
	12 May	Grenade attack in a school in Srinagar		2	[30]
	13 June	Explosives-laden car detonates in Pulwama		13	[5]
	24 June	Bus boarded by security personnel attacked by bomb in Srinagar		9	[31]
	19 July	Attack at a village in Udhampur	Lashkar-e-Taiba	6	[5]
	20 July	Suicide attack on Army vehicle in Srinagar		5
	9 September	3 Families attacked in Udhampur		6
	10 September	Attack on an Army convoy on the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway		5
	10 October	Four families attacked in Rajouri	Hizbul Mujahideen	10
	18 October	Assassination of Dr. Ghulam Nabi Lone, Minister for Education	Islamic Front	4	[24]
	2 November	Suicide attack near the residence of outgoing CM Mufti Md Sayeed		10
	14 November	Suicide attack at a business hub in Srinagar	Islamic Front	4		Ghulam Nabi Azad (INC)
	15 November	Assassination attempt on PDP leader Ghulam Hassan Mir		3-6	[32]
	16 November	Assassination attempt on Minister Usman Majeed		4	[5]
2006	23 January	Gunfight with special operations group		4
	9 April	Terrorists kill a family of 3 in Udhampur		3
	14 April	Serial grenade blasts in Srinagar		5
	1 May	Doda massacre	Lashkar-e-Taiba	57
	21 May	Attack on the Rally of CM Ghulam Nabi Azad		6-7	[33]
	25 May	Grenade attack in Srinagar		8	[5]
	12 June	Attack on Laborers in Anantnag		9
	30 June	Assassination of Ghulam Nabi Dar, NC leader in Kulgam		7	[34]
	11 July	Grenade attack in Srinagar	Lashkar-e-Taiba	8	[5]
	10 November	Grenade attack in Pulwama		6
2007	8 February	Ambush on Security Patrol in Pulwama		5
	30 March	Attack on laborers in Rajouri		5
	29 July	Attack on a civilian bus near Shalimar Garden		6
	17 August	IED blast near Security forces in Awantipora		5
	11 October	IED blast in Baramullah	Hizbul Mujahideen	7
2008	13 June	Ambush on Army personnel	Lashkar-e-Taiba	5
	4 July	Ambush on Army personnel in Kupwara		5
	19 July	IED blast in an Army bus in Srinagar	Hizbul Mujahideen	10		Dissolved (Narinder Nath Vohra)
	24 July	Grenade attack in SSrinagar		5
		Attack on the house of a surrendered militant	Hizbul Mujahideen	4
	27 August	Suicide attack in Kenachak		11
2009	21 April	IED blast in Poonch		5		Omar Abdullah (JKNC)
	12 September	IED blast in Central Jail in Srinagar		3
	30 December	Shootout on CRPF vehicles	Hizbul Mujahideen	4
2010	16 March	Attack on civilians in Srinagar		6
2013	24 June	Ambush on Army personnel in Srinagar	Hizbul Mujahideen	8	[13]
	26 September	Twin suicide attacks in Kathua		13	[35] [5]
2014	28 March	Truck Hijacking in Kathua	Lashkar-e-Taiba	6
	7 April	Landmine explosion in Baranda Mor		3
	13 August	Attack in Pulwama before new Prime ministers visit		3			Narendra Modi (BJP)
	27 November	Suicide attack in Arnia	Lashkar-e-Taiba	10	[13]
	5 December	Suicide attack on Army personnel in Uri		17
2015	20 March	Suicide attack in a Kathua police station		6		Dissolved (Narinder Nath Vohra)
	6 April	A militant attack in Shopian District		3	[35]	Mehbooba Mufti (JKPDP)
2016	2 January	2016 Pathankot Airbase attack	Jaish-e-Mohammed	12
	17 August	Ambush on Military convoy in Baramullah		3
	18 September	2016 Uri attack	Jaish-e-Mohammed	24
	29 November	Suicide attack on Military personnel in Nagrota		7
2017	23 February	Attack on a Patrol party in Shopian		4
	1 May	Ambush on a Bank Van in Kulgam		7
	16 June	Ambush on Military convoy in Anantnag	Lashkar-e-Taiba	6
	10 July	2017 Amarnath Yatra massacre		8
	26 August	Suicide attack on Security forces in Pulwama		8
	21 September	Assassination attempt on PDP leader Naeem Akhtar	Hizbul Mujahideen	3
2018	6 January	IED blast in Sopore		4
	10 February	Suicide attack on Sunjuwan Military Station	People's Anti-Fascist Front	9
	29 August	Militant attack at Arhama in Shopian District		4		Dissolved (Satya Pal Malik)
	21 October	Attack at Laroo village in Kulgam		15
2019	14 February	2019 Pulwama attack	Jaish-e-Mohammed	41
	12 June	Ambush on Security forces in a school in Anantnag	Al-Umar-Mujahideen	5
	29 October	Attack on Bengali laboureres		5
2020	4 May	Attack on CRPF patrol		4
	8 July	Assassination of BJP leader Wasim Ahmad Bari		3		G. C. Murmu
	29 October	Attack on BJP workers	The Resistance Front	3		Manoj Sinha
2021	12 December	Ambush on police vehicle in Srinagar	Jaish-e-Mohammed	3
2022	11 August	Foiled suicide attack in Rajouri	People's Anti-Fascist Front	5
2023	1 January	Attack on civilians in Rajouri		4
	20 April	Ambush on army vehicle in Poonch	People's Anti-Fascist Front	5
	5 May	IED blast in Rajouri	People's Anti-Fascist Front	5
	21 December	Ambush on Army vehicle		5
2024	9 June	2024 Reasi attack	The Resistance Front	9
	9 July	Attack on Army convoy in Kathua		5	[36]
	4 November	Grenade attack on Lal Chowk, Srinagar	Lashkar-e-Taiba	0 (12 injured)	[37]
2025	22 April	2025 Pahalgam attack	Lashkar-e-Taiba	28	[38]

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