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02 October 2004
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16 Shaban 1425
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Overview of major terrorist attacks
ISLAMABAD, Oct 1: A bomb blast which killed at least 30 people at an imambargah on Friday is the latest in a wave of killings in Pakistan, plagued by sectarian violence and attacks on Western and official targets.
Here is a chronology of significant attacks in Pakistan this year.
January 15: Grenades are hurled at a Bible Society library in Karachi and a car bomb explodes 20 minutes later injuring 13 people, mainly police who were drawn to the scene by the first explosion.
March 2: At least 48 people are killed and 150 hurt in Quetta after a suicide bomber blows himself up during an Ashura procession and gunmen open fire on the procession.
March 15: Police narrowly prevent a huge car bomb exploding outside the US consulate in Karachi, when they find around 650 litres of chemical explosives, a timer and two detonators in a van left outside the building.
April 4: Five policemen and an attacker are killed when unidentified gunmen open fire on a police station in Karachi, also hitting an adjacent mosque.
May 3: A car bomb kills three Chinese engineers helping to build multi-million dollar Gwadar port and injures 11 others including two Pakistanis.
May 7: A suicide bombing during Friday prayers at a packed imambargah in Karachi kills 23 people and wounds some 100.
May 26: Two successive bomb blasts outside the US consul general's home and the Pakistan American Cultural Centre kill a police guard and injure 32 police and local journalists.
May 31: Twenty-two people are killed and nearly 40 injured after a suicide bomber blows up an imambargah in Karachi during evening prayers. The attack comes a day after the assassination of prominent Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai in the same area. Two people are killed in riots over the mosque attack and the Mufti Shamzai's assassination.
June 10: Gunmen open fire on a convoy carrying the corps commander Karachi, killing seven soldiers, three policemen and a pedestrian but missing the senior general.
July 30: A suicide car bomb attack targets Shaukat Aziz after he addresses an election rally in Attock. He survives but his driver and eight others, including the attacker, are killed. Around 30 other people, including seven policemen, are injured. -AFP
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