Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2024

This article is about terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2024 in chronological order.

January

• 10 January - Three police officers and one civilian was killed in a terrorist attack in Kohat. ^[1]
• 29 January - One person was injured in a gun attack on ANP leader in Shangla Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. ^[2]
• 29 January - One police officer was killed and one truck driver injured in a rocket attack on Mach Jail in Balochistan. ^{[3] [4]}
• 30 January - Four people were killed and six were injured in a bomb blast in Balochistan. ^[5]
• 31 January - Five people were injured in a grenade attack on the election office of PPP in Quetta. ^[6]
• 31 January - Rehan Zeb Khan, election candidate, was killed in gun attack in Bajaur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Three other people were also injured in the attack. ^[7]

February

• 1 February - Zahoor Ahmad of ANP was killed in gun attack in Killa Abdullah Balochistan. One person was injured in the attack. ^[8]
• 2 February - A bomb blast targeted the office of Election Commission of Pakistan in Karachi. ^[9]
• 5 February - 10 police officers were killed and six were injured in a terrorist attack on Chodwan police station in Dera Ismail Khan. ^[10]
• 7 February - Two bomb blasts in Pakistan’s southwestern province of Balochistan killed at least 22 people with more injured. ^[11]

March

• 16 March – Seven soldiers were killed in a terrorist attack in the Mir Ali area of North Waziristan district. ^[12]
• 20 March - 10 people (including 2 soldiers) were killed in a bomb blast and gun attack by the BLA militants at Gwadar Port Authority Complex. ^[13]
• 26 March - 6 killed (including one paramilitary soldier) in a militant attack on Pakistan naval airbase. ^[14]
• 26 March - Five Chinese nationals killed in suicide bomb attack in Pakistan. ^[15]
• 30 March – One person killed and 14 others, including three soldiers, are injured in a bomb attack in Harnai District, Balochistan. ^[16]

June

• 9 June - an improvised explosive device (IED) killed 7 Pakistani soldiers. ^[17] The device exploded near a security convoy in Lakki Marwat, a district in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province bordering Afghanistan. ^[18] No group claimed responsibility. ^[19]
• 11 June - the Pakistani army reportedly killed 11 militants in response to the bombing. ^[20] The overnight operation was conducted in a former stronghold of the Pakistani Taliban. ^[21]

July

• 22 July – a government Girls' High School in Mir Ali, District North Waziristan was destroyed by unidentified persons using bombs. ^[22]

August

• 26 August - At least 73 people were killed when separatist militants attacked police stations, railway lines and highways and security forces launched retaliatory operations in Balochistan province. ^[23]

October

• 7 October - Two Chinese nationals were killed and at least 10 others were injured in a suspected suicide attack near Jinnah International Airport in Karachi. ^[24]

• 11 October - At least 21 coal miners, including three Afghans, were killed and six others injured in a terrorist attack in Duki District, Balochistan. ^[25]

November

• 1 November - 9 people including three children were killed and 29 were injured in Mastung, Balochistan. ^[26]
• 9 November - At least 32 people, including the perpetrator were killed and 55 others are injured in a suicide bombing at the Quetta railway station in Quetta, Balochistan. ^{[27] [28]}
• 21 November - 2024 Kurram attack: At least 54 people were killed in an attack by unidentified people on a passenger convoy in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province. ^[29]

References

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