October 2009 in Pakistan

• October 5, five people were killed when a suicide bomber dressed in military fatigues walked through the security cordon at the World Food Program offices of the United Nations in Islamabad.^[1]

• October 9, in the busiest bazaar in Peshawar, the capital of the North-West Frontier Province, militants set off a car bomb that killed 48 people.^[2]
• October 11, 10 militants dressed in army fatigues and armed with automatic weapons, mines, grenades and suicide jackets breached the perimeter of the army headquarters in Rawalpindi in a raid that left 23 people dead and set off a 20-hour siege.^[3]
• October 12, militants launched their fourth assault in a week on strategic targets across Pakistan, this time with a suicide car bombing against a military vehicle in a crowded market in the northwest, killing 41 people and wounding dozens more.^[4]
• October 23, a suicide bombing at Pakistan’s premier aeronautical manufacturing complex killed seven people; it was one of a string of attacks on major government installations this month.^[5]

References

1. Pir Zubair Shah and Mark McDonald (October 12, 2009). "Car Bomb Kills at Least 41 in Restive Region of Pakistan". New York Times. Retrieved October 12, 2009.
2. Pir Zubair Shah and Mark McDonald (October 12, 2009). "Car Bomb Kills at Least 41 in Restive Region of Pakistan". New York Times. Retrieved October 12, 2009.
3. Pir Zubair Shah and Mark McDonald (October 12, 2009). "Car Bomb Kills at Least 41 in Restive Region of Pakistan". New York Times. Retrieved October 12, 2009.
4. Pir Zubair Shah and Mark McDonald (October 12, 2009). "Car Bomb Kills at Least 41 in Restive Region of Pakistan". New York Times. Retrieved October 12, 2009.
5. Jane Perlez (October 23, 2009). "Pakistan Air Force Site Is Bombed". New York Times. Retrieved November 5, 2009.