Wednesday, October 28, 2009

HAPPY HALLOWEEN

  • Oct 28: Blast rocks a women's market in Peshawar, killing at least 80.
  • Oct 23: A suicide bomber kills seven people close to an air force complex in northwestern Pakistan.
  • Oct 22: Gunmen shoot and kill a senior army officer and a soldier in Islamabad.
  • Oct 20: Two suicide bombers attack the International Islamic University in Islamabad, killing six people.
  • Oct 16: Three suicide attackers hit a police station in Peshawar, killing 13.
  • Oct 15: Teams of gunmen attack three security facilities in the eastern city of Lahore, leaving at least 28 people dead, while car bombs kill 11 people in northwestern Kohat district and a 6-year-old boy in Peshawar.
  • Oct 12: A suicide car bomb explodes near a market in the northwestern Shangla district, killing 41.
  • Oct 10: A raid on the army headquarters in Rawalpindi leads to a 22-hour standoff that leaves nine rebels and 14 others dead.
  • Oct 9: A suicide car bomb in Peshawar kills 53 people.
Pakistan. The new Cambodia.

By now we're seeing almost daily attacks in Pakistan.



But these are cities we've known about for decades. Peshawar has long been connected with the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. Since at least the 1990s.

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