At least eight people were killed in a bomb blast in Lahore on Thursday, the tenth attack to strike Pakistan in just under a fortnight, with the apparently coordinated wave pointing to a resurgence in militant violence.
Here is a recap of the incidents which have killed 136 people over the past 11 days:
February 23
- At least eight people were killed and 30 injured after a blast ripped through a building in an upscale shopping area of the eastern city of Lahore. No group has immediately claimed the attack.
February 21
- At least seven people were killed when multiple suicide bombers attacked a court complex in northern Pakistan. The attack was claimed by the Jamaat-ul-Ahrar (JuA) faction of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), or the Pakistani Taliban.
February 16
- At least 90 devotees were killed and hundreds wounded when a devastating bomb detonated in the popular Sufi shrine of Lal Shabaz Qalandar in Sehwan in southern Pakistan. The Islamic State group had claimed the attack.
- Gunmen on motorcycles killed four policemen and a civilian in the northwestern town of Dera Ismail Khan. The attack was claimed by the umbrella TTP.
- An improvised explosive device claimed by JuA hit an army convoy in the restive southwestern province of Balochistan, killing three soldiers and wounding two others.
February 15
- A suicide bomber rode a motorcycle into a van carrying judges in the northwestern city of Peshawar, killing the van’s driver in an attack claimed by the umbrella TTP.
- Two suicide bombers launched an assault on a government compound in the Mohmand tribal region in the northwest, killing five people and wounding seven, with the attack claimed by JuA. Later, a fourth suicide bomber blew himself up as police surrounded him.
February 13
- Fourteen people were killed and 82 injured when a powerful bomb blast tore through Lahore. The attack, apparently targeting police, was claimed by JuA.
- Two members of the bomb disposal squad were killed while defusing a device in Quetta, the capital of Balochistan. No group has claimed responsibility for the bomb.
February 12
- A roadside bomb killed three paramilitary soldiers in a restive northwestern tribal area bordering Afghanistan.