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The Islamabad Marriott Hotel bombing occurred on the night of 20 September 2008, when a dumper truck filled with explosives was detonated in front of the Marriott Hotel in the Pakistani capital Islamabad, killing at least 54 people, injuring at least 266 and leaving a 60 ft (20 m) wide, 20 ft (6 m) deep crater outside the hotel. [4]
On 23 December 2022, at least one policeman was killed and several others injured in a suicide attack in Islamabad's sector I-10. The reason for the attack is still unclear. [1] [2] After the explosion, the law enforcement agency has cordoned off the area. [3]
30 January - Four people were killed and six were injured in a bomb blast in Balochistan. [5] 31 January - Five people were injured in a grenade attack on the election office of PPP in Quetta. [6] 31 January - Rehan Zeb Khan, election candidate, was killed in gun attack in Bajaur, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Three other people were also injured in the ...
Pakistan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs denounced the bombing, saying it was a “heinous terrorist attack near Karachi airport.” It said another Chinese was injured in the attack. “We extend our deepest condolences and sympathies to the families of the victims, both Chinese and Pakistani, and offer prayers for the swift recovery of the ...
Pakistani counterterrorism police in multiple raids arrested at least 12 suspects in connection with last week's suicide bombing that killed five Chinese workers and their Pakistani driver in the ...
Bomb A restaurant in Islamabad: 1: 10: A bomb was hurled over a wall surrounding the restaurant. Four of the 12 people wounded in the bombing were U.S. FBI agents. In addition to wounding the agents, the explosion killed a Turkish woman and wounded a fifth American, three Pakistanis, a person from the United Kingdom and someone from Japan. [95 ...
The bombing alienated the host of the embassy, Pakistan, and Pakistan was "the best route into Afghanistan." [ 16 ] Zawahiri later referred to the bombings in his autobiographical text. We had to react to the Egyptian government's expansion of its campaign against Egyptian fundamentalists outside the country.
20 September:- A massive truck bomb exploded outside the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, killing at 57 people and wounding 266 others. The suicide attack believed to be carried by a single individual left a 20 feet (6.1 m) deep and 50 feet (15 m) wide crater, and was later owned by a little known group called Fidayeen-e-Islam.