Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2018

This article is an outline of terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2018 in chronological order.

January

  • 1 January - Civilians and security officials were injured in two bomb attacks in Chaman.[1]
  • 2 January - Frontier Corps soldiers were injured in an explosion in Quetta.[2]
  • 9 January - Multiple casualties from a bomb in Quetta.[3][4]
  • 15 January - Security personnel were killed when their vehicle was ambushed in Balochistan.[5]
  • 16 January - Gunmen killed a police constable in Quetta.[6][7]
  • 16 January - A suicide bomber on a motorcycle in Karachi, aided by gunmen, targeted a senior officer known for leading raids on militant hideouts. The officer survived, and his guards killed two of the gunmen.[8]
  • 18 January - Gunmen killed a mother and daughter working on polio vaccination in Quetta.[9]
  • 30 January - A bomb explosion in the Upper Kurram Agency killed multiple members of the same family.[10]

February

  • 2 February - A suicide bomber injured two guards.[11]
  • 3 February - Eleven soldiers of Pakistan Army were killed from a suicide attack near a military camp in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa.[12]
  • 5 February - Multiple casualties from a bomb that targeted a pro-government leader in Panjgur.[13]
  • 7 February - Multiple casualties from a remote-controlled explosion in Bajaur Agency.[14][15]
  • 5 February - Gunmen attacked two Chinese nationals in Karachi.[16][17]
  • 5 February - Multiple casualties when a vehicle was attacked in North Waziristan.[18][19]
  • 14 February - Tehrik-i-Taliban gunmen killed paramilitary soldiers in Quetta.[20]
  • 16 February - A leading tribal elder and chief of a local peace committee was killed by a bomb in Bajaur Agency.[21]
  • 21 February - A police checkpoint in Peshawar was attacked by people with hand grenades.[22]
  • 23 February - The car of a senior government official on Peshawar’s Ring Road was targeted with a bomb.[23]
  • 28 February - Paramilitary soldiers were killed in a suicide bombing outside Quetta. Elsewhere in Quetta, gunmen killed two guards in a senior police officer's convoy.[24][25]

March

  • 8 March - Two people were shot in Quetta.[26][27]
  • 14 March - Multiple casualties in a suicide bombing at a police checkpoint outside Lahore.[28][29][30]
  • 17 March - Terrorists killed polio workers and a paramilitary Frontier Corps soldier in Mohmand Agency.[31][32]
  • 24 March - A hand grenade thrown at a spring festival in Dera Ismail Khan injured dozens of people.[33][34]
  • 30 March - An IED killed policemen in the district police officer's convoy in Dera Ismail Khan.[35][36]
  • 31 March - Gunfire during an operation in Balochistan resulted in the death of one soldier and one terrorist.[37][38]

April

  • 1 April - Gunmen attacked a vehicle in Quetta, killing a member of the Shia Hazara community.[39]
  • 9 April - A suicide bomber injured multiple people near a Balochistan Frontier Corps vehicle in Quetta.[40][41]
  • 15 April - Christians were shot and killed outside a church in Quetta.[42]
  • 18 April - A shopkeeper in the Shia Hazara community was shot and killed in Quetta.[43]
  • 22 April - Gunmen on a motorcycle killed Shiites outside Quetta.[44]
  • 24 April - Three suicide bombings killed multiple policemen in Quetta.[45][46]
  • 26 April - Multiple people were killed by a hand grenade attack at a wedding in North Waziristan.[47][48]
  • 28 April - Two shopkeepers in the Hazara community were shot and killed in Quetta.[49][50]

May

  • 2 May - A roadside bomb exploded in Safi Tehsil.[51]
  • 3 May - A bomb injured three security personnel in Jani Khel.[52]
  • 3 May - A vehicle carrying civilian employees of a atomic agency PAEC was attacked in Attock. There were multiple casualties.[53][54]
  • 4 May - Six labourers of Punjabi descent were shot dead in Balochistan.[55][56]
  • 6 May - Ahsan Iqbal, Interior Minister, was shot in the shoulder while getting out of his car to attend a political meeting in Punjab province.[57]
  • 11 May - A bomb targeted a police patrol at a bus stop in Bannu.[58]
  • 14 May - A Shiite religious scholar was shot by Lashkar-e-Jhangvi terrorists in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.[59]
  • 27 May - Two Policemen and two militants were killed when unidentified militants opened fire on Policemen at Sarki Road in Quetta, Balochistan.[60]

July

August

  • 2 August - 13 schools were attacked and set on fire by militants in villages of the Diamer district of the administrative territory of Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan.
  • 4 August - A government girls' school was torched in the Darel tehsil of the Diamer District in Gilgit-Baltistan in Pakistan. In another incident, one policeman was killed and another wounded in a gun battle in the Tangir tehsil of the same district. A militant was also killed in the incident.

See also

References

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