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Deadly offensive: Taliban attacks in Pakistan

By Jennifer Thompson, Helen Warrell and Cleve Jones

Published: October 15 2009 19:38 | Last updated: November 19 2009 16:26

The Taliban bombing of a Peshawar market on October 28, in which at least 80 people were killed, is the most deadly militant attack to have occurred in Pakistan for two years. It marks a serious escalation in violence following the the Pakistani army’s decision to begin a new ground campaign against the Taliban in the Waziristan region, which borders Afghanistan, in mid-October.

The last time Pakistan saw such bloodshed was in October 2007, when at least 139 people were killed in a suicide bomb attack on Benazir Bhutto’s motorcade in Karachi.

See details and locations of the most recent attacks on the timeline below.

Pakistan bombings

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