CHRONOLOGY-Violence surges in Pakistan after storming of mosque

CHRONOLOGY-Violence surges in Pakistan after storming of mosque
17 Jul 2007 19:32:46 GMT
Source: Reuters

July 17 (Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed 13 people on Tuesday outside a court in the Pakistani capital Islamabad where the country's suspended chief justice was due to speak, police and officials said.

Violence has surged in Pakistan since troops surrounded the Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, in Islamabad, following clashes with Islamist gunmen. Commandos stormed the fortified mosque-school compound a week later. The government says at least 102 people were killed during the clashes, siege and assault.

More than 100 people, most of them police and troops, have been killed in a series of suicide attacks and shootings in North West Frontier Province since July 3.

Here is a chronology of violence in Pakistan since the siege of Lal Masjid began:

July 4 - A suicide bomber kills six soldiers and two children in North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and a roadside bomb aimed at police kills four civilians in another part of the province.

July 6 - A suicide bomber throws himself at an army jeep, killing six soldiers in NWFP.

July 8 - Unidentified gunmen kill three Chinese workers and wound another in Peshawar in NWFP.

- A policeman is killed in a blast in NWFP.

July 12 - Two suicide bomb attacks kill seven people, including three policemen, in the semi-autonomous North Waziristan tribal region and NWFP.

July 14 - A suicide car-bomber kills 24 paramilitary soldiers and wounds 29 in North Waziristan; two security officials are wounded in another blast in NWFP.

July 15 - Sixteen people, most of them paramilitary soldiers, are killed in a suicide-bomb ambush on a patrol in Swat valley in NWFP.

- A suicide bomber targets a police recruiting centre in Dera Ismail Khan in NWFP, killing 29.

July 17 - A suicide bomber kills 13 people outside a court in the capital Islamabad where the country's suspended chief justice Iftikhar Chaudhry was due to speak.

- A suicide bomber kills four, including three soldiers, in North Waziristan.