2007 Charsadda mosque bombing

{{Short description|Terrorist Attack}}

{{Infobox civilian attack

| title = 2007 Charsadda mosque bombing

| location = Charsadda District, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan

| date = 21 December 2007

| partof = Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa

| image = File:Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan (claims hatched).svg

| caption = Location of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan

| target = Mosque

| type = Suicide bombings

| weapons = Explosive belts

| fatalities = 50

| injuries = 100

| perpetrator = Unknown

}}

{{Campaignbox Waziristan}}

{{Terrorism in Pakistan}}

On 21 December 2007, at least 50 people were killed and 100 others injured by a suicide bombing in Charsadda District, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan.{{cite web|url=https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7155161.stm|title=Pakistan suicide blast 'kills 50'|publisher=BBC News|date=21 December 2007}} The bomber detonated his explosives in a mosque in the residential compound of Interior Minister Aftab Ahmad Khan Sherpao, where prayers for Eid al-Adha were being conducted. Sherpao was among the 1,000 people in the mosque at the time, but was not injured. The bomb contained around seven kilograms of explosive as well as nails and ball bearings.

Charsadda suffered major insurgent attacks in April 2007, February 2008, May 2011, January 2016 and February 2017.