Terrorist Attacks in Pakistan in 2015
Date10 January 2015 (2015-01-10) – 29 December 2015
(11 months, 2 weeks and 5 days)
Location
Pakistan
Result Ongoing
Belligerents
Pakistan Pakistan Terrorists
Commanders and leaders
Gen Qamar Javed Bajwa Fazlullah Hayat
Strength
unknown unknown
Casualties and losses

77 Soldiers killed

32 Cops killed

287 Civilians killed

979 killed

Italics indicates attacks resulting in more than 40 deaths
‡ indicates attacks resulting in more than 100 deaths
Underline indicates the deadliest terrorist attack/s to date
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This list is incomplete; you can help by adding missing items. (June 2015)

This is a list of terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2015.

January

9 January – Time bomb in drainpipe explosion killed at least eight people took place near Imambargah Aun Muhammad Rizvi in Rawalpindi s Chatian Hattian area

13 January – Insurgents shoot and killed at least 7 security forces and 2 others were wounded in Loralai District, Balochistan.[104]

14 January — At least 2 security personnel killed and another 3 were wounded after a vehicle hit a landmine in Kurram Agency, Federally Administered Tribal Areas.[105]

16 January — At least 1 person killed and 8 were wounded in a remote control blast in chani goth area of bahawalpur Bahawalpur District, Punjab.[106]

30 January — At least 53 people have been killed in a bomb blast at a Shia mosque in southern Pakistan.[107]

Main article: 2015 Shikarpur bombing

February

1 February – : A landmine explosion killed a captain and injured two personnel of FC Balochistan on Sunday evening in Balochistan's Naseerabad district.

13 February – At least 19 dead as Taliban militants storm Pak Shiite mosque in Peshawar.[108]

Main article: 2015 Peshawar mosque attack

17 February – At least 8 people were killed in a blast near Police Lines in Qila Gujar Singh area of Lahore on Tuesday and 19 others injured.[109]

18 February – 3 people were killed and several injured in an explosion at Qasar-e-Sakina Imambargah on Kurri Road, Rawalpindi located at Islamabad Expressway.

24 February — Bomb killed at least one and another 8 were injured in Chaman district, Balochistan.[110]

March

15 March – Suicide Bombers belonging to the terror outfit Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan targeted two churches in the Christian neighborhood of Youhana Abad, Lahore as worshippers were gathering for Sunday mass. At least fourteen people were killed in the blasts and another 70 were reported injured.[111][112][113]

Main article: Lahore church bombings
20 March attack in Karachi

20 March – At least 2 people have been killed and 7 wounded after a bomb planted on a motorcycle exploded outside a mosque in Pakistan's largest city Karachi, police have said.[citation needed]

27 March – Lt Col FC Alamdar Hussain, killed in an ambush at Sibi Tali Gang Road Balochistan during Survey of Area.[citation needed]

April

11 April – Militants gun down 20 laborers and injure 3 others in Turbat's Gogdan area in Balochistan.[114]

24 April – Social activist, Sabeen Mahmud is murdered in Karachi after hosting a session on the disappeared people of Balochistan at T2F (The Second Floor), the cafe and discussion space she founded.

May

4 May – Lt Col Ahsan(5AK) 82 Wing Commander & 3 troops injured in two different ambushes on Turbat-Buleda Mand road Balochistan.

25 May- In the village of Sambrial (Majra khurd) 8 people were killed at the cricket final...some were injured. They were 12 people with black mask and started firings during the match final. People's still considering that's they were Taliban's.

13 May — 46 people were killed when eight gunmen attacked a bus a Karachi. Most of the victims belonged to the Ismaili, Shia minority.

Main article: 2015 Karachi bus shooting

29 May — 35 people are forced off a bus and kidnapped by members of the United Baluch Army. 23 of those passengers were killed.

Main article: 2015 Mastung bus attack

August

Main article: 2015 Attock bombing

16 August — 14 people, including the Punjab home minister Shuja Khanzada died in the suicide blast in Shadi Khan village.

September

13 September — At least 10 people died when an explosion occurred near a packed rickshaw stand in Multan.

18 September — At least 29 people, including an army captain, were killed as militants attacked a Pakistan Air Force base in Badhaber area on the outskirts of Peshawar.

Main article: 2015 Camp Badaber attack

October

December

13 December — A bombing occurred at a clothes bazaar in Pakistan's Parachinar area in the Kurram Valley. It was not clear whether the bombing was a suicide attack or a remotely controlled detonation. The blast killed 23 people and another 30 were injured.[118][119][120][121][122][123]

23 Dec – Lt Col Haroon Mazhar wing commander 125 Makran scout got injured during action near Dasht Baluchistan.

29 December — At least 26 killed, 56 injured in suicide blast at NADRA office in Mardan.

Main article: 2015 Quetta bus bombing

See also

References

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