Peshawar: With the latest suicide attack on a Federal Minister Ameer Muqam’s house in Hayatabad, Peshawar, the number of suicide attacks in Pakistan reached to 62 which has killed a total of around 800 people.
The first suicide attack was occurred in the country’s capital Islamabad in 1995 when the bomber rammed his explosives-laden truck into the embassy of Egypt which killed 14 people. The bomber was Egyptian.
The second bomber was Pakistani who attacked French engineers outside of Karachi’s Sheraton Hotel in May 2002. 14 people including 11 French engineers were killed in this attack.
On 14 June, 2002, another suicide bomber detonated his explosives-laden truck outside of American embassy in Karachi which killed 12 persons.
Only one suicide attack was taken place in 2003 which targeted President Gen. Pervez Musharraf in Rawalpindi, near capital Islamabad. Five people were killed in this attack.
The next year Pakistan experienced five suicide attacks including the one in Attock on the country’s Prime Minister. The other four attacks had sectarian base. A total of 57 people were killed in these attacks.
2005 saw only two suicide attacks, both sectarian, which killed 31 people.
The number of suicide attacks in 2006 again rose to six, including two sectarian, which killed around 140 people. American embassy and Pakistani security forces were targeted in the four suicide attacks on this year.
The number of suicide attacks in 2007 has rose to the highest level. A total of 47 suicide attacks have been occurred till the recent one in Hayatabad, Peshawar. 538 people are killed in these suicide attacks. A former Prime Minister and two Federal Ministers were targeted in these suicide attacks.
The country’s cosmopolitan city Karachi has seen nine suicide attacks so far which killed a total of 230 people.
Eleven suicide attacks were occurred in Punjab which killed 90 people. Five of theses suicide attacks were in Rawalpindi, near Islamabad, where numerous military bases are located.
Two suicide incidents have taken place in Baluchistan that killed 47 people.
Most of the suicide attacks, 35, have taken place in the Northern Western Frontier Province that which killed around 370 people.
The capital, Islamabad, has also seen five suicide attacks that killed 69 people.
Most of these suicide attacks have been happened in settle areas which means that the security situation is very miserable in the country.
(Translated from BBC Urdu)