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ISLAMABAD, July 19: More than 180 people have died in a spate of attacks since security forces first laid siege to Lal Masjid in Islamabad on July 3.
July 4: A suicide car bomber attacks a military convoy in North Waziristan, killing 11 people including six soldiers. Four civilians die in a bomb blast and a policeman is killed by a rocket in the Swat Valley, where extremists call for a holy war on government forces.
July 6: Gunmen fire at President Pervez Musharraf’s plane as it takes off from an airfield near Islamabad in what officials say is a failed assassination attempt. A suicide car bomber kills four soldiers near Swat.
July 8: Attackers shoot dead three Chinese workers on the outskirts of Peshawar city.
July 10-11: Security forces raid the Lal Masjid. Authorities say the operation killed 11 troops and at least 75 of those inside the mosque.
July 12: A suicide car bomber kills five people, including three police, in Swat. Three people die when another attacker blows himself up at a government office in Miramshah.
July 14: Twenty-four people are killed when a suicide car bomber rams a paramilitary convoy in North Waziristan.
July 15: Two suicide car bombers strike a security forces convoy in Swat, killing 12 personnel and five civilians. Hours later at least 26 police officials and recruits die in a suicide attack on a recruitment centre in Dera Ismail Khan. Militants in North Waziristan rip up a 10-month-old peace accord.
July 17: Seventeen people are killed in a suicide attack on a rally where hundreds of people gathered to hear a speech by Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammad Chaudhry. A suicide bomber kills three soldiers and a civilian in North Waziristan.
July 18: Militants ambush a convoy in North Waziristan, sparking a gunbattle that leaves 17 soldiers and 17 rebels dead.
July 19: A suicide car bomber blows himself up near a convoy of Chinese citizens and local security forces in the south-western town of Hub, killing at least 28 Pakistanis but no Chinese. Another attacker rams his explosives-laden vehicle into a police college in Hangu, killing at least six people.—AFP
