Chronology of major attacks

People searching for their missing relatives look at the pictures of those who were killed in the suicide bombing, aimed at former prime minister Benazir Bhutto's vehicle in a procession on October 18, displayed outside a mortuary in Karachi yesterday.Photo: AFP

Pakistan has been beset by violence, almost all suicide bombings mostly claimed by Islamic militants, since the military stormed the al-Qaeda linked Red Mosque in Islamabad in July.
The attacks, culminating this week with blasts during former premier Benazir Bhutto's homecoming parade, Pakistan's worst suicide bombing, have left almost 400 people dead.
Here is a chronology of major attacks in the last four months:
July 12: Suicide car bomber kills five people, including three police, in Swat in the northwest. Three people die when another attacker blows himself up at a government office in Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan tribal area.
July 14: Twenty-four people are killed in a suicide attack on military convoy in North Waziristan.
July 15: Suicide attacks kill more than 40 people in northwest Pakistan, including 26 at a police recruitment centre.
July 17: Seventeen people are killed in a suicide attack on a rally by Pakistan's chief justice, Iftikhar Muhammad Chaudhry.
Suicide bomber kills three soldiers and a civilian in North Waziristan.
July 19: Three suicide attacks kill more than 50 people. The deadliest targets Chinese workers in southwestern Pakistan but kills only locals, while another strikes inside an army mosque in the northwest.
July 27: Suicide attack during protests in Islamabad sparked by the re-opening of the Red Mosque kills 15.
August 13: Four people are killed by roadside bomb on eve of celebrations for Pakistan's 60th anniversary of independence.
August 10: Militants in South Waziristan tribal zone kidnap 16 soldiers and later behead one. The others are released after about three weeks.
August 18: Suicide attack in North Waziristan kills two soldiers.
August 20: Three soldiers are killed in suicide attack in northwestern town of Hangu.
August 26: Suicide bomber kills four policemen in northwestern Swat valley.
August 30: More than 150 Pakistani soldiers "stranded" in South Waziristan amid tensions with militants. Army says they are safe, rebels say they have been kidnapped.
September 1: Three soldiers, two civilians are killed in suicide attack in Bajaur tribal zone.
September 4: Two suicide attackers, one on a military bus and another in a market, kill at least 25 people near military headquarters in Rawalpindi.
September 11: A suicide bomber blows himself up inside a minibus as police try to arrest him killing 17 people in northwest Pakistan
September 13: A suicide bomber kills 20 commandos from an elite unit tasked with tackling Osama bin Laden's extremist network.
October 1: A suicide bomber disguised in a woman's burqa strikes at a police checkpost in northwestern Pakistan, killing at least 16 people.
October 18: One suicide attack and another smaller blast targeting former premier Benazir Bhutto kill at least 139 people in Karachi, just hours after she had returned to Pakistan for the first time in eight years.