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This is a list of terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2005.


January- March 2005[]

  • 8 January:- At least 10 people have been killed in sectarian violence in the northern Pakistani city of Gilgit. The shooting of a Shia Muslim cleric earlier sparked clashes between his supporters and Deobandis.[1]
  • 19 March:- At least 35 people were killed and many injured when a Sipah-e-Sahaba terrorist exploded himself in a mixed crowd of Shia and Deobandi devotees at the shrine of Pir Rakhel Shah in remote village of Fatehpur in Jhal Magsi District, Balochistan.[2]

May 2005[]

  • 25 May:- As many as six members of a family were killed in an explosion at village Bandkhel in Makeen Tehsil, South Waziristan.[3]
  • 27 May:- At least 20 people were slaughtered and 82 wounded due to a suicide bombing at the annual Shia Muslims congregation at the shrine of Bari Imam in Islamabad.[4]
  • 31 May:- Six bodies were recovered from a fast food outlet set ablaze by an angry mob after an attack on a Shia mosque in Karachi. It was retaliation to the suicide attack on the Shia mosque in central Karachi where five people were killed and about 20 others wounded.[5]

September - December 2005[]

  • 22 September:- At least six people, including a woman, were killed and 27 injured in two bomb blasts in Lahore. Police said the bombs went off within an interval of one and a half hour.[6]
  • 7 October:- Eight members of the Ahmadiyya faith were killed inside a mosque as worshipers were performing salat. The incident occurred in Mandi Bahauddin, Punjab, Pakistan.[7]
  • 13 October:- Around 12 people including students were killed in the curfew and clashes between the Rangers and civilians in Gilgit. The clashes came after the death of a student in Rangers custody.[8]
  • 15 November:- A car bomb exploded outside a Kentucky Fried Chicken outlet in Karachi, Pakistan. At least three people were killed and eight others wounded.[9]
  • 8 December:- At least 12 people were killed and 30 injured in a bomb explosion in the Jandola town of South Waziristan.[10]
  • 22 December:- At least seven people have been killed in what officials say was a battle between Islamic students and bandits in the Jandola town of South Waziristan.[11]

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