3,021 people killed in terrorist attacks in 2009 – a 48% rise, according to Islamabad thinktank

::2010-01-11

Pakistan saw 3,021 deaths in terrorist attacks in in 2009, up 48% on the year before, according to a new report by the Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS), an Islamabad-based defence thinktank. Researchers counted a total of 12,600 violent deaths across the country in 2009, 14 times more than in 2006.

Death toll climbs to 93 in Lakki Marwat blast

::2010-01-02

LAKKI MARWAT: The death toll in the Lakki Marwat suicide attack rose to 93 with more than 100 hundred injured. On Friday, a suicide bomber blew up an explosives-laden double-cabin pickup in the middle of a crowd gathered for a volleyball game.

Democracy, govt inaction cannot work together

::2010-01-02

LAHORE: Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz (PML-N) Chief Nawaz Sharif has said that democracy and government’s inaction could not go side by side. He said this while presiding over the party’s provincial organising committee meeting held in Lahore to brief the PML-N chief on the Local Governments Act draft, which has been prepared to be presented for legislation in the Punjab Assembly.

27 dead, 90 hurt in DG Khan blast

::2009-12-15

DERA GHAZI KHAN: At least 27 people were killed and many more wounded when a suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden vehicle into the crowded Khosa market in Dera Ghazi Khan on Tuesday.

Several injured in twin Lahore blasts

jang::2009-12-07

LAHORE: Twin blasts in Lahore have injured several people, some of them seriously, at Moon market in Iqbal Town Lahore, Geo News reported Monday.

Rawalpindi mosque suicide attack toll mounts to 40

jang::2009-12-04

RAWALPINDI: Forty persons have been martyred, including children, and over 80 others injured in the terror attack at Parade Lane mosque in Rawalpindi. DG ISPR has put the death toll to 32.

Mysterious shifting of Swiss case documents

jang::2009-12-01

GENEVA: Pakistani High Commissioner in Britain Wajid Shamsul Hasan headed a secret operation in Geneva and received at least 12 cartons comprising the original documents and evidences against some Pakistani high-ups in Swiss money laundering case, Geo News reported Tuesday.

24 militants killed in Swat, Dir

::2009-05-09

SWAT: Twenty-four militants were killed and several hideouts destroyed in security forces offensive in Swat and Dir.

Thousands flee Pakistan violence

::2009-05-09

There are growing fears of a refugee crisis in Pakistan as hundreds of thousands flee fighting.

Bloodbath in Chakwal leaves 26 dead, 40 injured

::2009-04-06

Twenty-six people were killed and more than 40 others injured in Chakwal, Pakistan when a suicide bomber blew himself up at the city’s main Imambargah on Sunday, causing widespread destruction. After the bombing which followed a series of such incidents, the entire country appeared vulnerable with terrorists at liberty to choose the place and time to attack. This was the third suicide attack in less than 24 hours in which security personnel and a religious sect were targeted.

Mumbai Attack Trial to Begin on April 15

::2009-04-06

Mumbai: The trial of lone surviving gunman in the Mumbai terror attack case, Mohammed Amir Ajmal Kasab will begin in the premises of Arthur Road central jail from April 15. The chargesheet of the case will be handed over to the defence lawyers this week.