Eleven bloody days in Pakistan: a timeline

Resurgence in militant violence has killed 136 people in just under a fortnight.

Police cordon off the area of an explosion in Lahore, targeting two eateries in which eight people were killed on Thursday. The coordinated attacks indicate that militant violence has come calling on Pakistan after a lull.

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.