Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2019

Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2019 include:

January

• 5 January - Six people, including two women, were injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in Peshawar. The IED was planted in a car parked next to Sunehri Masjid in Peshawar Cantonment.^[1][2]
• 6 January - At least nine people were injured in an IED blast in Jan Adda area of Pishin District. The IED planted in a motorcycle targeted a Balochistan Levies vehicle.^[3] Another two people, including a security man, were injured in a motorcycle blast near a Frontier Corps vehicle in Panjgur.^[4][5]
• 9 January - A Karachi-Islamabad RLNG pipeline was targeted by a timed explosive device near Bhong in Rahim Yar Khan District.^[6] No casualties were reported as a result of the incident.^[7]
• 29 January - January 2019 Loralai attack - 9 people including 8 policemen and a civilian were killed while 22 others were injured when gunmen and suicide bombers attacked a Deputy Inspector General's (DIG) office. The Tehrik-i-Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.^[8]

February

• 16 February - Armed men attacked and killed two Frontier Corps in Loralai.^[9] Later on 17 February 2019, another attack took place on Pakistani security personnel in which four members of the Frontier Corps were killed in the Gardab area of Panjgur District.^[10].The attack was carried out by the Baloch Raji Ajoi Sangar (BRAS), an alliance of three Balochi terrorist organizations, the Baloch Liberation Army, Balochistan Liberation Front and Baloch Republican Guard.^[11][12][13] These attacks were preceded by the January 2019 Loralai attack in Balochistan in which eight policemen and a civilian were killed by gunmen and suicide bombers affiliated with Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan on 29 January 2019.^[14]

April

12 April - 2019 Quetta attack

18 April - gunmen massacred several passengers travelling from Karachi to Gwadar in Makran, Balochistan, Pakistan. An estimated 15 to 20 armed militants stopped around five or six buses between 12:30 am and 1 am on a Makran Coastal Road. After the buses halted the gunmen then inspected the identity papers of the passengers and had about 16 of them disembark. At least 14 were shot dead, while two passengers managed to escape from the gunmen and travelled to the closest Balochistan Levies checkpost. They were later transported to Ormara Hospital for treatment. Law enforcement and Levies personnel arrived at the scene shortly afterward and commenced an investigation into the attack. The victims' bodies were taken from the Noor Baksh Hotel.^[15][16] The Baloch Raaji Aajoi Sangar (BRAS), an alliance of ethnic Baloch militant armed groups, took responsibility for the massacre^[17] in an email statement. "... those who were targeted carried [identification] cards of the Pakistan Navy and Coast Guards, and they were only killed after they were identified." Raaji Aajoi Sangar, the spokesperson for the Baloch, said in the statement.^[16]

May

• 8 May - At least 13 people were Killed in a 2019 Lahore bombing suicide attack outside Data Darbar in Lahore.
• 21 May - At least 5 people were Killed in an attack on Pearl Continental Hotel in port city Quetta.

June

26 June - Three suicide bombers were killed by the security forces to stop a terrorist attack on Police Line in Loralai. One policeman was also killed and five people were injured in the attack.^[18]

July

• 21 July - At least seven people were killed in a suicide attack at a hospital in Dera Ismail Khan.^[19]
• 27 July - Pakistan Army's 10 personnel were killed in two separate attacks in North Waziristan and Balochistan.^[20]

References

1. "Six injured in Peshawar bomb attack". Dawn. January 6, 2019.
2. "Blast leaves six injured in Peshawar". The News International. January 5, 2019.
3. "Nine injured in blast targeting Levies vehicle in Balochistan's Pishin". Samaa TV. January 6, 2019.
4. "Blasts leave 11 injured in Pishin, Panjgur". The Express Tribune. January 6, 2019.
5. "12 injured in Pishin, Panjgur blasts". Dawn. January 7, 2019.
6. "RLNG pipeline in Rahim Yar Khan targeted in bomb attack". Dawn. January 9, 2019.
7. "Gas supply suspended in Rahim Yar Khan after pipeline explodes, catches fire". Samaa TV. January 9, 2019.
8. "Loralai attack death toll mounts to 9". www.thenews.com.pk. Retrieved 2019-02-03.
9. "Four more FC troops martyred near Panjgur". The Express Tribune. February 18, 2019.
10. "بلوچستان: دہشتگرد حملے میں 4 سکیورٹی اہلکار شہید" (in Urdu). Nawa-i-Waqt. February 18, 2019.
11. . www.xinhuanet.com. Archived from the original on February 19, 2019.
12. Shahid, Saleem (18 February 2019). "Four FC men martyred in Panjgur attack". Dawn.
13. "Four Pakistan soldiers killed in Balochistan attack: Report". The Times of India. 18 February 2019. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
14. "Nine martyred in gun-and-suicide attack on DIG office in Loralai". tribune.com.pk. Retrieved 2019-01-29.
15. AP, Syed Ali Shah | AFP | (2019-04-18). "14 offloaded from passenger bus, shot dead on Makran Coastal Highway". Dawn. Retrieved 2019-04-18.
16. "Gunmen kill bus passengers in Pakistan's Balochistan: Official". Al Jazeera English. Retrieved 2019-04-18.
17. Siddiqui, Khurram (2023). Security of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC): Counterinsurgency in Balochistan. Taylor & Francis. ISBN 9781000999112.
18. https://tribune.com.pk/author/368 (2019-06-25). "Three bombers killed as forces stave off terror attack". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 2023-07-22. {{cite web}}: |last= has generic name (help); External link in |last= (help)CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
19. "Female suicide bomber strikes hospital in Pakistan, killing 9". South China Morning Post. 21 July 2019.
20. Dawn.com (2019-07-27). "10 armed forces personnel martyred in two terrorist attacks in N. Waziristan, Balochistan: ISPR". DAWN.COM. Retrieved 2023-07-22.

External links

• South Asia Terrorism Portal