June 2011 Peshawar bombings [SEP] point in time
June 2011 Peshawar bombings
The June 2011 Peshawar bombings occurred on 12 June 2011 in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. At least 34 people were killed, and more than 90 were injured, when two bombs exploded in a market around midnight. The first bomb went off around 11:50 p.m. local time in Khyber market area, which is a commercial and residential area, and injured 3 people. After a crowd gathered in the area, a teen-aged suicide bomber on a motorcycle set off a second explosion, killing
Bajaur bombing, 47 killed.
2011
- 3 April: 2011 Dera Ghazi Khan bombings, more than 50 killed.
- 12 June: June 2011 Peshawar bombings, more than 34 were killed.
- 19 August: 2011 Khyber Agency bombing, more than 48 killed.
2012
- 26 February: Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy won her first Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject for Saving Face, becoming the very first Pakistani Oscar winner
2013
- 10 January: January 2013 Pakistan bombings, 130