2008 Danish Embassy Bombing in Islamabad

Coordinates: 33°43′56″N 73°04′03″E / 33.732188°N 73.067552°E / 33.732188; 73.067552

Terrorist attacks
in Pakistan (since 2001)
Bold indicates attacks resulting in over 40 deaths
indicates attacks resulting in over 100 deaths
Red indicates the deadliest terrorist attack/s to date
2001
  • 1st Bahawalpur
2002
  • 1st Karachi
  • 2nd Karachi
2003
  • 1st Quetta
  • 1st Rawalpindi
2004
  • 2nd Quetta
  • 3rd Karachi
  • 1st Fateh Jang
  • 1st Multan
2005
  • 1st Mandi Bahauddin (Ahmadiyya)
2006
  • 4th Karachi
  • 1st Dargai
2007
  • 2nd Rawalpindi
  • 5th Karachi ‡
  • 1st Charsadda
  • 3rd Rawalpindi (Bhutto assassination)
2008
  • 2nd Charsadda
  • Parachinar
  • 1st Swat
  • 1st Darra Adam Khel
  • 1st Islamabad
  • 2nd Islamabad
  • Wah
  • 2nd Swat
  • 1st Peshawar
  • 3rd Islamabad
  • Orakzai ‡
  • 2nd Peshawar
2009
  • 2nd Lahore (Lankan cricket)
  • 1st Khyber
  • 3rd Lahore
  • 4th Islamabad
  • Chakwal
  • 4th Lahore
  • Upper Dir
  • 3rd Peshawar
  • 5th Lahore
  • Khanewal
  • Kohat
  • 4th Peshawar
  • 4th Rawalpindi
  • Shangla
  • 6th Lahore
  • 5th Islamabad
  • 5th Peshawar ‡
  • 5th Rawalpindi
  • 6th Peshawar
  • 6th Rawalpindi
  • 7th Lahore
  • 1st Dera Ghazi Khan
  • 1st Lower Dir
  • 6th Karachi
2010
  • Lakki Marwat ‡
  • 1st Bajaur
  • 2nd Lower Dir
  • 7th Karachi
  • 2nd Khyber
  • 3rd Khyber
  • 8th Lahore
  • 9th/10th Lahore
  • 7th Peshawar
  • 2nd/3rd Kohat
  • 8th Peshawar
  • 11th Lahore (Ahmadiyya)
  • 12th Lahore (Sufi)
  • 1st Mohmand Agency ‡
  • 13th Lahore (Shia)
  • 3rd Quetta
  • 2nd Darra Adam Khel
  • 8th Karachi (CID)
  • 2nd Mohmand Agency
  • 2nd Bajaur
2011
  • Faisalabad
  • 9th Peshawar
  • 2nd Dera Ghazi Khan
  • 3rd Charsadda
  • PNS Mehran
  • 10th Peshawar
  • 4th Khyber
  • 1st Quetta
  • 9th Karachi (target killings)
  • 1st Mastung
2012
  • 5th Khyber
  • 1st Rahim Yar Khan
  • 2nd Parachinar
  • 1st Kohistan
  • 11th Peshawar
  • 2nd Bajaur
  • 2nd Quetta
  • 12th Peshawar
  • 6th Khyber
  • 1st Mansehra
  • 2nd Darra Adam Khel
  • 1st Khuzdar
  • 13th Peshawar - Airport
  • 7th Khyber
  • 14th Peshawar
  • 15th Peshawar
  • 3rd Quetta
2013
  • 4th Quetta/3rd Swat ‡
  • 5th Quetta
  • 10th Karachi

The 2008 Danish embassy bombing was an attack on the Danish embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan on 2 June 2008. The suspected suicide car bombing in the parking lot of the embassy took place at around 12:10 pm (UTC+5), killing at least five and wounding many more. The Danish national security intelligence agency PET has concluded that al-Qaida was behind the attack. Al-Qaida claimed responsibility for the attack on 5 June 2008. The attack was confirmed to be an answer to the reprinting of Danish newspaper Jyllands-Posten's Muhammed cartoons in February 2006, as well as the presence of Danish troops in Afghanistan.

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