Suicide bombing in Pakistan kills 8

October 12th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - At least 30 people were killed and 40 injured Monday when a suicide bomber blew himself up in Pakistan's restive North West Frontier Province, a lawmaker said. The explosion took place next to a military vehicle.

October 6th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Pakistani Taliban Tuesday claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing at UN World Food programme (WFP) offices in Islamabad. The Monday afternoon attack, which killed five employees of the WFP, prompted immediate closure of all UN offices across the country "until further notice".

September 17th, 2009 KABUL - A suicide attack against an Italian military vehicle shook the Afghan capital Kabul Thursday, leaving at least two people dead, witnesses and officials said. A spokesman of the public health ministry told DPA the bodies of two civilians had been brought to a hospital.

June 9th, 2009 Recent attacks in or linked to PakistanA look at some recent major attacks in Pakistan or blamed on Pakistan-based militants: — Oct. 12, 2009: A suicide car bomb explodes near an army vehicle in a market in the northwest Shangla district, killing 41, including six security officers, and wounding 45.

May 31st, 2009 LAHORE - The deteriorating law and order situation and the expanding writ of extremists in Pakistan, and especially in Punjab can be gauged from the fact that at least 486 people including army, navy and police officials, have lost their lives in suicide attacks in the province since 2007. Besides that about 1,573 people have been injured in terror strikes since 2007 to till date, The News reports.

May 11th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Three security personnel were killed and five others injured when a suicide bomber rammed an explosives-packed vehicle into a check post in northwestern Pakistan, TV reports said Saturday. The incident took place in the Khawazakhela area of Swat.

May 5th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - At least four soldiers were killed Tuesday and more than a dozen people, including schoolchildren, were injured in a suicide car bombing in north-western Pakistan, police said. The bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a vehicle carrying paramilitary troops near a post located on the outskirts of Peshawar, the capital of the militancy-plagued North-West Frontier Province.

April 5th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - At least 20 people were killed and dozens injured as an explosion ripped through a Shiite mosque Sunday in Pakistan's Punjab province, a police official said. A suicide bomber blew himself up at the main entrance of the mosque in Chakwal district when the security guards challenged him.

April 5th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A teenaged suicide bomber blew himself up Sunday at a mosque in Pakistan's Punjab province, killing at least 20 people and injuring several others, media reports said. The explosion ripped through a congregation at the Shiite mosque in Chakwal area, about 100 km south from here.

March 27th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - At least 45 people were killed and dozens injured when a suicide blast ripped through a crowded mosque during Friday prayers in Pakistan's Khyber tribal region along the Afghan border, officials said. The bombing in Bagiari village of the Khyber tribal district in north-western Pakistan demolished the two-storeyed building.

March 27th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - At least 45 people were killed and dozens more injured Friday as a suicide blast ripped through a mosque in Pakistan's Khyber tribal region along the Afghan border, an official said.

March 26th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Six people were killed and several injured Thursday in a suicide blast in Pakistan's North West Frontier Province (NWFP). The suicide attack took place at Rasooldar hotel in Tank district's Jandola area, Geo News reported.

March 26th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - At least eight people were killed Thursday when a suicide blast ripped through a restaurant in north-western Pakistan as a feud raged between rival militant groups, a security official said. Around two dozen people were injured in the attack, which took place in a busy market in Jandola town in a semi-tribal region of North-West Frontier Province.

March 24th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - A policeman was killed and several people were injured Monday in a suicide bombing outside an office of the police's intelligence wing in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, security officials said. The bomber blew himself up when a police guard stopped him at the gate of the police's special branch, located in the heart of the city, just a few hundred yards away from the headquarters of the premier military Inter-Service Intelligence agency.

March 3rd, 2009 ISLAMABAD - Five people were killed Monday when a suicide blast ripped through an Islamic seminary in southwestern Pakistan, Geo TV reported. At least a dozen people were also injured in the blast that occurred during a discourse in Kali Karbala area in Balochistan's Pishin district, some 60 km north of provincial capital Quetta.