Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2005

This is a list of terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2005.

January- March 2005
  • 8 January:- At least 10 people were killed in sectarian violence in the northern Pakistani city of Gilgit. The shooting of a Shia Muslim cleric earlier sparked clashes between his supporters and Deobandis.[1]
  • 19 March:- At least 35 people were killed and many injured when a Sipah-e-Sahaba terrorist exploded himself in a mixed crowd of Shia and Deobandi devotees at the shrine of Pir Rakhel Shah in the remote village of Fatehpur in Jhal Magsi District, Balochistan.[2]

May 2005
  • 25 May:- As many as six members of a family were killed in an explosion at the village of Bandkhel in Makeen Tehsil, South Waziristan.[3]
  • 27 May:- At least 20 people were slaughtered and 82 wounded due to a suicide bombing at the annual Shia Muslim congregation at the shrine of Bari Imam in Islamabad.[4]
  • 31 May:- Six bodies were recovered from a fast food outlet set ablaze by an angry mob after an attack on a Shia mosque in Karachi. It was retaliation to the suicide attack on the Shia mosque in central Karachi where five people were killed and about 20 others wounded.[5]

September - December 2005
  • 22 September:- At least six people, including a woman, were killed and 27 injured in two bomb blasts in Lahore. Police said the bombs went off within an interval of one and a half hours.[6]
  • 7 October:- Eight members of the Ahmadiyya faith were killed inside a mosque as worshipers were performing salat. The incident occurred in Mandi Bahauddin, Punjab.[7]
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  • 13 October:- Around 12 people including students were killed in the curfew and clashes between the Rangers and civilians in Gilgit. The clashes came after the death of a student in Rangers custody.[8]
  • 15 November:- A car bomb exploded outside a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet in Karachi. At least three people were killed and eight others wounded.[9]
  • 8 December:- At least 12 people were killed and 30 injured in a bomb explosion in the town of Jandola in South Waziristan.[10]
  • 22 December:- At least seven people were killed in what officials say was a battle between Islamic students and bandits in the town of Jandola in South Waziristan.[11]

References
  1. "Pakistan clashes kill at least 10", BBC News, 8 January 2005
  2. "35 killed in Balochistan shrine blast", Daily Times, 20 March 2005
  3. 2005/26/index12.php "Six of a family killed in Laddha blast", The Nation, 26 May 2005
  4. "20 killed in Bari Imam bombing", Daily Times, 28 March 2005
  5. "Riots after Karachi mosque attack", BBC News, 31 May 2005
  6. "Bomb blasts in Lahore kill six, hurt scores", Dawn, 23 September 2005
  7. "Eight die in Pakistan sect attack", BBC News
  8. "Gilgit students demand Rangers removal", Daily Times, 17 October 2005
  9. "Explosion shakes Karachi", CNN
  10. "Several killed in Pakistan blast", BBC News, 8 December 2005
  11. "'Islamic students' in gun battle", BBC News, 22 December 2005
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