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.