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Attacks in Pakistan since July, 2007 

July 14: Suicide car-bomber kills 24 paramilitary soldiers and wounds 29 in North Waziristan.

July 15: Sixteen persons, most of them paramilitary soldiers, are killed in an ambush on patrol in Swat valley in North West Frontier Province (NWFP). Separately, suicide bomber targets police recruiting centre in Dera Ismail Khan in the NWFP, killing 29.

July 17: Suicide bomber kills 16 persons outside court in Islamabad where country’s suspended Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was due to speak.

July 19: Three suicide attacks in a single day in three towns kill at least 52 persons.

July 27: Suicide bomb attack in a restaurant near Islamabad’s Red Mosque kills 13 persons, most of them policemen.

September 4: Two suicide bombers kill 25 in Rawalpindi.

September 11: Suicide bomber kills 16 persons in northwest Dera Ismail Khan.

September 13: At least 15 soldiers killed in suicide bombing in an army canteen near Islamabad.

October 19: At least 139 persons killed in a suicide bomb attack on Benazir Bhutto’s motorcade as she is driven through Karachi after arriving home from eight years in self-exile. The attack is one of the deadliest in Pakistan’s history.

October 25: Suspected suicide bomber kills 21 persons, including 17 soldiers, in an attack on an army convoy in the northwestern Swat valley.

November 24: Twin suicide car bomb attacks kill 15 persons in Rawalpindi, on the eve of the return of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif from exile in Saudi Arabia.

December 17: A suicide bomber kills 10 military recruits in the northwestern town of Kohat.

December 21: A suicide bomber kills at least 41 persons in a mosque in northwest Pakistan during Id prayers.

December 27: Bhutto is killed in a gun and bomb attack after a rally in Rawalpindi. At least 16 others are killed in the attack. — Reuters