Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2003

There are only a few terrorist attacks in Pakistan, resulting over 50 deaths.

February – March 2003
  • 28 February:- Two policemen were shot dead outside the United States consulate in Karachi, the same place where 12 people were killed by a car bomb nine months ago.[1]
  • 10 March:- Two people were injured when a masked terrorist opened indiscriminate fire on a mosque in Gulistan Colony, Faisalabad.[2]

June – July 2003
  • 8 June:- 11 Pakistani police trainees were shot dead in what is believed to have been a sectarian attack on Sariab Road, Quetta, as they all belonged to Hazara Shi'a branch of Islam. Another nine were reported wounded.[3]
  • 4 July:- At least 47 people were killed and 150 injured in an attack on a Shia mosque in the south-western Pakistani city of Quetta.[4]
Main article: 2003 Quetta mosque bombing

October – December 2003
  • 3 October:- Six employees of Space and Upper Atmosphere Research Commission (SUPARCO) were killed and several others injured when their official van was fired upon on Hub River Road in Mauripur, Karachi. A Lashkar-e-Jhangvi cadre was officially charged.[5]
  • 6 October:- Maulana Azam Tariq, chief of the Millat-i-Islamia (formerly Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan) and MNA, was assassinated by unidentified gunmen along with four others as his car drove into the capital, Islamabad.[6]
  • 14 December:- President Pervez Musharraf survived an assassination attempt when a powerful bomb went off minutes after his highly guarded convoy crossed a bridge in Rawalpindi. Musharraf was apparently saved by a jamming device in his limousine that prevented the remote controlled explosives from blowing up the bridge as his convoy passed over it.[7]
  • 25 December:- Another attempt was carried on the president 11 days later when two suicide bombers tried to assassinate Musharraf, but their car bombs failed to kill the president; 16 others nearby died instead. Musharraf escaped with only a cracked windscreen on his car. Militant Amjad Farooqi was apparently suspected as being the mastermind behind these attempts, and was killed by Pakistani forces in 2004 after an extensive manhunt.[8]

References
  1. Phil Reeves. "Police officers killed in gun attack outside US consulate in Karachi" The Independent, 1 March 2003
  2. "Two injured in Faisalabad mosque attack" Dawn, 10 March 2003
  3. "Police massacre in Pakistan" BBC News, 8 June 2003
  4. "47 killed in Quetta mosque attack" Daily Times, 5 July 2003
  5. "Evidence concluded in Suparco killing case" Dawn, 24 June 2005
  6. "Azam Tariq gunned down in Islamabad" Dawn, 7 October 2003
  7. Near miss for Musharraf convoy BBC News
  8. Musharraf survives second assassination attempt in two weeks CBC Canada
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