Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2004
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- 28 February:- An apparent suicide bomber was killed and three worshippers injured in an attack on Imambargah in Satellite Town, Rawalpindi, Punjab.[1]
- 2 March:- At least 42 people were killed and more than 100 wounded when a procession of Shia Muslims was attacked by Deobandi extremists at Liaquat Bazaar in Quetta, Balochistan.[2]
- 10 April:- At least one person was killed and three others were wounded when a bomb exploded in a parking area near a hall where hundreds of people were attending a concert by Indian singer Sonu Nigam.
- 3 May:- A car bomb in Gwadar, Balochistan killed three Chinese engineers and injured 10 other people.[3]
- 7 May:- A suicide bomber attacked a crowded Shia mosque in Sindh Madrassatul Islam in Karachi, Sindh, killing at least 15 worshippers. More than 100 people were also injured, 25 of them critically in the attack. One person was killed in the riots that followed the attack.[4]
- 14 May:- Six members of Shia family was shot dead in Mughalpura locality of Lahore, Punjab.[5]
- 26 May:- Two car bombs explode within 20 minutes of each other outside the Pakistan-American Cultural Center and near the US consul general's residence in Karachi, killing two men and injuring more than 27 people, most of whom were policemen and journalists.[6]
- 30 May:- A senior Deobandi religious scholar and head of Islamic religious school Jamia Binoria, Mufti Nizamuddin Shamzai, was shot dead in his car while leaving his home in Karachi.[7]
- 31 May:- A suicide bomber blew up the Imambarghah Ali Raza mosque in Karachi in the middle of evening prayers, killing 16 worshippers and injuring 35 others. Two people were killed in riots over the mosque attack and Shamzai's assassination.[8]