Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2019#February
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Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2019 include:
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January
- 5 January - Six people, including two women, were injured in an improvised explosive device (IED) blast in Peshawar. The IED was planted in a car parked next to Sunehri Masjid in Peshawar Cantonment.{{cite news |title=Six injured in Peshawar bomb attack |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1455796 |work=Dawn |date=January 6, 2019}}{{cite news |title=Blast leaves six injured in Peshawar |url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/415080 |work=The News International |date=January 5, 2019}}
- 6 January - At least nine people were injured in an IED blast in Jan Adda area of Pishin District. The IED planted in a motorcycle targeted a Balochistan Levies vehicle.{{cite news |title=Nine injured in blast targeting Levies vehicle in Balochistan's Pishin |url=https://www.samaa.tv/news/2019/01/nine-injured-in-blast-targeting-levies-vehicle-in-balochistans-pishin/ |work=Samaa TV |date=January 6, 2019}} Another two people, including a security man, were injured in a motorcycle blast near a Frontier Corps vehicle in Panjgur.{{cite news |title=Blasts leave 11 injured in Pishin, Panjgur |url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/1882626/1/ |work=The Express Tribune |date=January 6, 2019}}{{cite news |title=12 injured in Pishin, Panjgur blasts |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1455941 |work=Dawn |date=January 7, 2019}}
- 9 January - A Karachi-Islamabad RLNG pipeline was targeted by a timed explosive device near Bhong in Rahim Yar Khan District.{{cite news |title=RLNG pipeline in Rahim Yar Khan targeted in bomb attack |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1456436 |work=Dawn |date=January 9, 2019}} No casualties were reported as a result of the incident.{{cite news |title=Gas supply suspended in Rahim Yar Khan after pipeline explodes, catches fire |url=https://www.samaa.tv/news/2019/01/gas-supply-suspended-in-rahim-yar-khan-after-pipeline-explodes-catches-fire/ |work=Samaa TV |date=January 9, 2019}}
- 29 January - January 2019 Loralai attack - 9 people including 8 policemen and a civilian were killed while 22 others were injured when gunmen and suicide bombers attacked a Deputy Inspector General's (DIG) office. The Tehrik-i-Taliban claimed responsibility for the attack.{{Cite web|url=https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/425191-loralao-attack-death-toll-mounts-to-9|title=Loralai attack death toll mounts to 9|website=www.thenews.com.pk|language=en|access-date=2019-02-03}}
February
- 16 February - Armed men attacked and killed two Frontier Corps in Loralai.{{Cite web|url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/1912827/1-four-fc-troops-martyred-near-panjgur/|title=Four more FC troops martyred near Panjgur|date=February 18, 2019|website=The Express Tribune}} Later on 17 February 2019, another attack took place on Pakistani security personnel in which four members of the Frontier Corps were killed in the Gardab area of Panjgur District.{{Cite web|url=https://www.nawaiwaqt.com.pk/18-Feb-2019/985786|title=بلوچستان: دہشتگرد حملے میں 4 سکیورٹی اہلکار شہید|date=February 18, 2019|publisher=Nawa-i-Waqt|language=ur}} The attack was carried out by the Baloch Raji Ajoi Sangar (BRAS), an alliance of three Balochi terrorist organizations, the Baloch Liberation Army, Balochistan Liberation Front and Baloch Republican Guard.{{Cite web|url=http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-02/18/c_137831127.htm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190219015728/http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2019-02/18/c_137831127.htm|url-status=dead|archive-date=February 19, 2019|title=4 security personnel killed in terrorist attack in SW Pakistan - Xinhua | English.news.cn|website=www.xinhuanet.com}}{{cite web |last1=Shahid |first1=Saleem |title=Four FC men martyred in Panjgur attack |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1464495/four-fc-men-martyred-in-panjgur-attack |publisher=Dawn |language=en |date=18 February 2019}}{{cite web |title=Four Pakistan soldiers killed in Balochistan attack: Report |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/pakistan/four-pakistan-soldiers-killed-in-baloch-attack-report/articleshow/68041697.cms |work=The Times of India |access-date=18 February 2019 |language=en |date=18 February 2019}} These attacks were preceded by the January 2019 Loralai attack in Balochistan in which eight policemen and a civilian were killed by gunmen and suicide bombers affiliated with Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan on 29 January 2019.{{Cite news|url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/1899305/1-least-five-injured-loralai-terrorist-attack/|title=Nine martyred in gun-and-suicide attack on DIG office in Loralai|work=tribune.com.pk|access-date=2019-01-29}}
April
12 April - 2019 Quetta attack
18 April - gunmen massacred several passengers travelling from Karachi to Gwadar in Makran, Balochistan, Pakistan. An estimated 15 to 20 armed militants stopped around five or six buses between 12:30{{nbsp}}am and 1{{nbsp}}am on a Makran Coastal Road. After the buses halted the gunmen then inspected the identity papers of the passengers and had about 16 of them disembark. At least 14 were shot dead, while two passengers managed to escape from the gunmen and travelled to the closest Balochistan Levies checkpost. They were later transported to Ormara Hospital for treatment. Law enforcement and Levies personnel arrived at the scene shortly afterward and commenced an investigation into the attack. The victims' bodies were taken from the Noor Baksh Hotel.{{Cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1476893|title=14 offloaded from passenger bus, shot dead on Makran Coastal Highway|last=AP|first=Syed Ali Shah {{!}} AFP {{!}}|date=2019-04-18|website=Dawn|language=en|access-date=2019-04-18}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2019/04/gunmen-kill-bus-passengers-pakistan-balochistan-official-190418045138814.html|title=Gunmen kill bus passengers in Pakistan's Balochistan: Official|website=Al Jazeera English|access-date=2019-04-18}} The Baloch Raaji Aajoi Sangar (BRAS), an alliance of ethnic Baloch militant armed groups, took responsibility for the massacre{{cite book |last=Siddiqui
|first=Khurram |year=2023 |title=Security of the China Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC): Counterinsurgency in Balochistan |publisher=Taylor & Francis |isbn=9781000999112}} in an email statement.
"... those who were targeted carried [identification] cards of the Pakistan Navy and Coast Guards, and they were only killed after they were identified." Raaji Aajoi Sangar, the spokesperson for the Baloch, said in the statement.
May
- 8 May - At least 13 people were Killed in a 2019 Lahore bombing suicide attack outside Data Darbar in Lahore.
- 21 May - At least 5 people were Killed in an attack on Pearl Continental Hotel in port city Quetta.
June
26 June - Three suicide bombers were killed by the security forces to stop a terrorist attack on Police Line in Loralai. One policeman was also killed and five people were injured in the attack.{{Cite web |date=2019-06-25 |title=Three bombers killed as forces stave off terror attack |url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/2000362/loralai-police-lines-attack-quetta |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=The Express Tribune |language=en}}
July
- 21 July - At least seven people were killed in a suicide attack at a hospital in Dera Ismail Khan.{{cite news |title=Female suicide bomber strikes hospital in Pakistan, killing 9 |url=https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/south-asia/article/3019500/female-suicide-bomber-strikes-hospital-pakistan-killing-9 |work=South China Morning Post |date=21 July 2019}}
- 27 July - Pakistan Army's 10 personnel were killed in two separate attacks in North Waziristan and Balochistan.{{Cite web |last=Dawn.com |date=2019-07-27 |title=10 armed forces personnel martyred in two terrorist attacks in N. Waziristan, Balochistan: ISPR |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1496532 |access-date=2023-07-22 |website=DAWN.COM |language=en}}
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