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The incident took place when hundreds of Shi'a Muslims were conducting a Chehlum procession to mourn and commemorate the martyrdom of Hussein bin Ali, in the Khanpur tehsil of Rahim Yar Khan district. The bomb had been planted beforehand near an electricity pylon and went off just when mourners approached a gathering square. According to an ...
The accident occurred at 6:18 a.m. PST [8] (01:18 UTC) on Main Line 1 in Liaquatpur tehsil, Rahim Yar Khan district, Punjab aboard the Tezgam express passenger train. Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad, the Pakistani Federal Minister for Railways, reported that two gas stoves exploded, setting the train on fire.
January 15 – A remote-controlled bomb went off during a Shi'a Muslim Chehlum procession in the tehsil of Khanpur in Rahim Yar Khan District, Punjab. Eighteen people were killed and dozens of others injured from the incident. [15
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 ]
On 18 July 2022, 10:00 AM a Baraati boat sank in Indus River near Machchka in Sadiqabad, Rahim Yar Khan District, Punjab, Pakistan. The number of people killed in the incident is 50, including women and children, and 24 other people are missing. Around 75 people were on board the boat while the operation is on to search for more people who drowned.
May 31 - 26 Shops belonging to Ahmadis in Faisalabad, 7 shops in Bhera, 3 in Bahawalnagar, 7 in Rahim Yar Khan and 6 in Gujranwala were ransacked and burnt. Jun 01 - Seven Ahmadis Mohammad Afzal Khokhar, Mohammad Ashraf Khokhar, Saeed Ahmad Khan, Manzoor Ahmad Khan, Mahmood Ahmad Khan, Sajjad Pervaiz and Ahmad Ali were killed in Gujranwala.
Police also arrested Shahzad Babar of Rahim Yar Khan after a Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) card registered in his name was used in the attack along with eight others. [ 53 ] Security officials in Pakistan told The Times that most of the two dozen people arrested in connection with the attacks belonged to Jaish-e-Mohammed , Lashkar-e-Jhangvi ...
On 28 February 2012, approximately 12 militants who were dressed in military uniforms stopped multiple buses on their routes through the Kohistan District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. 18 passengers were subsequently taken out of the buses and executed by the militants; 17 of the 18 victims were identified as Shia Muslim residents of Gilgit–Baltistan who were travelling to the city of ...