Pakistan: Major militant attacks in recent years

A look at deadly assaults on people and places in Pakistan over the last several years.

2011

Sept. 20: Militants kill at least 26 Shiites on a bus near the southern city of Quetta.

May 23: Pakistani commandos recapture a major naval base from Taliban attackers who struck to avenge the killing of Osama bin Laden in a US raid. Militants destroyed two US-supplied surveillance aircraft and killed at least 10 personnel.

May 13: A pair of Taliban suicide bombers attacks paramilitary police recruits in Shabqadar, killing 80, also in retaliation for bin Laden's killing.

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