Major militant attacks in Pakistan in 2010

Major militant attacks in Pakistan in 2010

Army offensives and U.S. missile strikes are believed to have decreased militant attacks in Pakistan, but the violence is far from ended. A look at some of the major attacks so far in 2010:

— July 9: A pair of suicide bombers kill 62 people and wound 111 in the Mohmand tribal region.

— July 2: Twin suicide bombers attack Pakistan’s most revered Sufi shrine in the eastern city of Lahore, killing 47 people and wounding 180.

— May 29: Two teams of seven militants armed with hand grenades, suicide vests and assault rifles attack two mosques of the Ahmadi minority sect in Lahore, killing 97 and wounding dozens.

— May 18: A remote-controlled bomb kills 13 people, including three police, in Dera Ismail Khan, a northwestern city hosting thousands of tribesmen displaced from a military offensive in South Waziristan.

— April 19: A suicide bomber apparently targeting police at a conservative Islamic party rally in the northwestern city of Peshawar kills 23 and wounds more than 30.

— April 18: Two burqa-clad suicide bombers attack refugees lined up to register for food and other relief supplies in Kohat district in the northwest, killing 41 people and wounding dozens more.

— April 5: Militants unleash a car bomb and grenade attack against the U.S. Consulate in Peshawar, killing four people.

— April 5: Hours before the consulate attack, a suicide bomber attacks a rally of an anti-Taliban political party in Lower Dir district, killing 45 people and wounding more than 70.

— March 13: Two suicide bombers targeting army vehicles in Lahore kill more than 55 and wound more than 100.

— March 8: A suicide bomber rams an explosives-laden vehicle into a building where police interrogate high-value terror suspects in Lahore, killing 13 people and wounding 45 others.

— Feb. 18: A bomb tears through a mosque in the Khyber tribal region, killing 29 people and wounding 50 more.

— Feb. 5: Two bombs targeting the Shiite Muslim minority sect in southern Karachi city kill 33 and wound 176.

— Feb. 3: A suicide bomber kills three U.S. servicemen and three civilians in the northwest’s Lower Dir region.

— Jan. 1: A suicide bomber drives a truckload of explosives into a volleyball field in Lakki Marwat district in the northwest, killing at least 96 people and wounding more than 100.