Bomb blasts in Peshawar – 2007

December 26: Unidentified people blew up the office of a cable TV network situated on the Agha Mir Jani Shah Road in the provincial capital Peshawar. Sources said that the owner of the office, Ejaz Hussein, had been threatened to close the business.

December 20: An internet centre and two CD shops were blown up in various areas of Peshawar. According to police, the explosives had been planted inside the shops. An unnamed senior police official said the explosion left police with no other option but to force the owners of internet centres, snooker clubs, CD and video shops to close their businesses, which was not being tolerated by the Taliban.

December 19: Suspected militants bombed an audio-cassettes shop in the Chamkani Police Station limits. The blast damaged the shop, but no casualties were reported.

December 18: Militants lobbed a bomb at a police post on Ring Road in the precincts of Yakatoot Police Station area. However, there were no casualties.

December 17: Suspected militants detonated two bombs that damaged the shrine of Abdul Shakoor Malang Baba situated in the limits of Chamkani Police station. However, no loss of life or injuries was reported.

December 8: A girls’ school was damaged in a bomb blast in Ahmed Shah village near the provincial capital Peshawar. Teachers and students of the Government Girls Middle School had received several warning letters asking them to start wearing the veil.

December 4: In the first such attack of its kind, a female suicide bomber blew herself up in a high security zone. Except for the suicide bomber, who was said to be in her mid-30s, no other casualty was reported in the blast. The offices of the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) are located in the maximum-security Peshawar Cantonment area.

November 26: A bomb exploded in the Government Girls Primary School in the village of Sher Bahadur, destroying the main gate, windows, doors and boundary wall of the school. However, no loss of life or injuries was reported.

November 13: A man died when a bomb exploded in a cyber café in the Gulbahar police precincts.

November 9: Three persons are killed and two others, including a former provincial minister, are injured when a suicide bomber blows himself up in the house of Federal Minister for Political Affairs Amir Muqam. The blast occurs at around 3.45pm (PST) when the minister was having a meeting with some of his associates at his home in Hayatabad. Muqam, who is also provincial president of the ruling Pakistan Muslim League, escaped unhurt.

November 2: An explosion at the Karkhano Market destroyed at least 14 shops and cabins selling CDs, TV sets and music albums. The bomb which exploded at the junction of SS and Shinwari Markets also damaged two electricity transformers.

October 9: Twenty-five people were injured in a bomb blast at the Hussain CD Market. The bomb, planted on a water cooler, exploded at 4pm (PST) when a large number of people were present in the plaza. It was a Russian-made time device, which badly damaged at least 10 shops, police and officials of the Bomb Disposal Squad said. Capital City Police Officer Abdul Majeed Marwat linked the incident to the series of bomb attacks on CD shops across the province. An unknown radical outfit had reportedly been issuing threatening letters to owners of CD shops for the last four months to terminate their "un-Islamic" business, otherwise, they would be taken to task.

September 8: At least 24 persons were injured when a time bomb planted in a car exploded within the limits of the East Cantonment police station at around 11.15 am.

August 29: A civilian was injured when suspected militants fired a rocket on a vehicle in the Yakatoot police precinct. Yakatoot Police Station Duty Officer Syed Bacha said that a rocket hit a bus leaving for Parachinar with 14 passengers on board. He said the attack partially damaged the vehicle and that a passenger named Israr Ali was wounded.

August 7: A time-bomb exploded at a bus terminal in Peshawar, damaging a vehicle but causing no casualties.

August 6: Two personnel of the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) and a child accompanying them were injured when a bomb exploded near their vehicle on the Kohat Road. The Bhana Manri police said the explosive device had been planted on the structure of under-construction shops along the main road, which exploded when the PAF vehicle was passing by the place.

June 30: Two suspected terrorists were killed while attempting to plant a bomb in a Hazarkhani warehouse, in the jurisdiction of Yakatoot police station. Three time bombs, hand grenades and two kilograms of explosives were recovered from the incident site.

Two people were wounded in a bomb explosion inside a bus at a bus terminal. Witnesses said three buses were destroyed and seven others were partially damaged.

June 27: Three CD shops were blown up in the Matani locality. However, no loss of life or injuries was reported. Owners of the shops, Akhtar Munir, Hamayun and Iftikhar, told the police that they had not received any prior letters or calls for the closure of their businesses. This is the fourth incident of attacks on CD and video shops in the city.

June 5: A bomb was lobbed into a private school in the Hayatabad locality of Peshawar. However no loss of life or property was reported.

May 15: 25 people were killed and at least 35 others wounded when a suicide bomber blew himself up on the ground floor of the Marhaba Hotel in Peshawar. Most of those killed were Afghans, including the restaurant’s owner Sadruddin and his two sons, two women and a five year-old child. Witnesses and police said that restaurant owner Sadruddin was an Uzbek of Afghan origin and he was a supporter of former Uzbek warlord Abdur Rashid Dostum.

April 28: A bomb exploded at the Peshawar International Airport canteen causing minor damage to the building.

April 16: Three children were killed and four other people, including two women, were wounded when a hand grenade exploded inside a house in the Badhbare village in the outskirts of Peshawar.

April 6: An explosion at the Peshawar bus terminal in the Gulbahar area damaged a Quetta-bound vehicle.

April 5: A bomb exploded near the City District Women Degree College in the Hashnagri region on the Grand Trunk Road in Peshawar. Police said that the blast occurred at 7:15 pm but nobody was hurt, adding that the explosive weighing 1.5 kg had been planted in an empty plot. However, AFP reported that two passers-by were wounded.

March 27: Militants detonated a dynamite in an open field near the International Committee of the Red Cross office, which was bombed on February 10, 2007, in the Pishtakhara area of Peshawar. However, no loss of life or injuries was reported.

February 10: A blast at the office of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Peshawar at around 4:30am damaged four vehicles and some property, but nobody was injured as the office was closed. The US advised American citizens to avoid crowded markets and public demonstrations in Peshawar, following the blast at the ICRC. "Americans are advised against visiting Peshawar’s Old City and Sadar Bazaar, and restrict movement throughout the city, staying mainly in the University Town area," read a notice issued by the US Embassy in Islamabad.

January 27: Fifteen people, including six police officials, were killed and 60 others injured in a suicide attack targeting a Muharram procession near Qasim Ali Khan Mosque in the Dilgaran area of Qissa Khawani Bazaar in Peshawar. City police commissioner Mallik Muhammad Saad, a Deputy Superintendent of Police, three other police personnel and a Nazim (local official) were among those killed in the blast. Superintendent of Peshawar Police, Zaibullah, said that an unidentified bomber detonated explosives strapped to his body when police stopped him from entering the procession, which was to be taken out from Qasim Ali Khan Mosque.