Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2017

This article is an outline of terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2017 in chronological order.

January

• 20 January - An IED placed in a vegetable crate exploded at a vegetable market in Parachinar, a city in Pakistan's Kurram Agency tribal area. The Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed responsibility for the explosion. The blast killed at least 25 people and injured at least 87 others.[1]

February

• 12 February - Samaa TV assistant cameraman Taimoor Khan killed in an incident. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan claimed the responsibility.[2]
• 13 February - A blast outside the provincial assembly in Lahore killed at least 14 people including DIG Police and SSP Operations and injured more than 87 others.[3]
• 15 February - At least two people killed and seven others injured in a suicide blast in Peshawar's Hyatabad area.[4]
• 15 February - 5 People including 3 Levies personnel killed in a suicide attack in Mohmand Agency.[5]
• 16 February - Three soldiers killed including an army captain, two injured in an IED explosion in Awaran.[6]
• 16 February - At least 88 people were killed and over 350 others injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up in the Shrine of Lal Shahbaz Qalandar in Sehwan, 125 kilometers north of Jamshoro.[7]
• 17 February Five people, including four police officers, were killed after unidentified suspects opened fire on police van near Mission Mor, Dera Ismail Khan.[8]
• 21 February Three suicide bombers targeted a sessions court in Tangi, Charsadda District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, killing 7 people and injuring more than 20 others.[9]

March

• 6 March - Five soldiers of Pakistan army and 10 militants were killed in a cross border attack at three border checkpoints in Mohmand Agency.[10]
• 31 March- At least 25 people were killed and 90 injured in a blast outside a Shia Imambargah in Parachinar.[11]

April

• 14 April - 4 Rangers personnel martyred and 3 were injured and Rangers kill 10 TTP militants in operation near DG khan.[12]
• 25 April - 14, including six children, killed and 9, including 4 Khasadar officials, injured in a roadside blast in Kurram Agency.[13]

May

• 12 May - An attack targeting Abdul Ghafoor Haideri killed 25 people in Mastung District. Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant claimed responsibility of attack.[14]
• 13 May - 10 laborers were killed after two gunmen opened fire on laborers working in Gwadar.[15]

June

• 23 June - 14 people ─ including seven policeman ─ lost their lives, while 19 others were injured in a suicide blast that shook Shuhada Chowk in Quetta's Gulistan Road area on Friday morning.[16]
• 23 June- At least 75 people were killed and more than 150 wounded when twin blasts tore through a market in Parachinar. Lashkar-i-Jhangvi al-Alami claimed the responsibility.[17]

July

• 10 July - 3 people were killed and over 20 injured when a suicide bomber blew himself up at Bogra Chowk in Chaman, Baluchistan.[18]
• 24 July- At least 25 people were killed and 53 others wounded in suicide attack in Lahore.[19]

August

• 12 August- A blast targeting military personnel killed 15 people (8 soldiers and 7 civilians) and injured 32 in Quetta, the provincial capital of Balochistan, Pakistan.

October

• 5 October - 21 people, including a police constable, were killed and more than 30 injured in an explosion at Dargah Pir Rakhel Shah in Fatehpur, a small town in the Jhal Magsi District of Balochistan.[20]
• 18 October - At least eight people, including seven policemen, were killed and 24 others injured in an explosion targeting a truck carrying police officials in the Sariab Mill area of Quetta.[21]

November

• 9 November - A senior police officer was among three suspected militants involved in ISI Clandestine activities who died in a suicide attack on Quetta the provincial capital of Balochistan.[22] However there is no valid argument about the role of operation being performed.

Main article: 2017 Peshawar police vehicle attack

• 24 November - A motorcycle suicide bomber targeted a police vehicle of AIG Asharf Noor while he was travelling to work, Asharf Noorr and his guard are killed and eight others police in the AIG's squad were injured.[23][24][25]

the above reference is for peshawar and not quetta.

December

Main article: 2017 Peshawar Agriculture Directorate attack

• 1 December - Nine dead as gunmen storm hostel of Agricultural Training Institute, Peshawar.[26]
• 17 December - A bomb killed nine and injured fifty-seven at a Methodist church in Balochistan.[27] The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant took responsibility.[28]

See also

• 2017 in Pakistan
• Terrorism in Pakistan
• List of terrorist incidents, 2017

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