This article is an incomplete outline of terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2023 in chronological order.

January

*3 January – Two intelligence officers, including the director of the provincial

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department, were shot dead outside a restaurant in Khanewal, Punjab, by suspected Pakistani Taliban gunmen. *13 January – Sarband police station attack in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. *15 January – A gunman fled after shooting three officers at the post in Zardad Dahri, in Charsadda District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Two of three

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died on way to hospital. *18 January – Four soldiers were killed in a cross-border attack from the Iranian border in

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, Balochistan. *19 January – Three police officers were killed in a

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at a police outpost in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. *20 January – A bomb blast derailed a

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in Peshi, Kachhi District, Balochistan, injuring eight people. *30 January – 2023 Peshawar mosque bombing *31 January – A police station in Mianwali, Punjab, came under a gun attack by a group of

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s. Police said that the attack was repulsed.

February

* 10 February – Two soldiers martyred in IED attack in Balochistan. * 17 February

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. * 26 February

2023 Barkhan blast On 26 February 2023, an explosion occurred in the Rakhni market of Barkhan district, Balochistan, killing at least four people and injuring 14 others. Background The blast was caused by an IED planted on a motorcycle and detonated remotely. V ...

March

* 6 March –

Bolan suicide bombing On 6 March 2023, a terrorist attack occurred in Bolan, Balochistan province, Pakistan. The attack targeted a van carrying police officers from Sibi back to Quetta, killing at least nine and injuring 13. The attacker, believed to be a suicide bom ...

: A suicide bombing in Bolan, Balochistan, killed 8 policemen, 1 civilian and left several others injured. * 20 March – Havelian rocket attack * 21 March – ISI brigadier and three soldier martyred in South Waziristan shootout. * 29 March –

2023 Lakki Marwat terrorist attack On 29 March 2023, a terrorist attack occurred on the Saddar Police Station in Lakki Marwat, a city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The attack resulted in the killing of four policemen, including Deputy Superintendent (DSP) Iqbal Mohmand, and i ...

* 31 March - 2023 A CTD official & a cleric killed during a raid.

April

* 1 April -

2023 Kech District attack On 1 April 2023, four Pakistani soldiers were killed in a terrorist attack along the Pak-Iran border in Kech district, Balochistan. The Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) confirmed that the attackers had operated from the Iranian side of th ...

. 4 Pakistani soldiers were killed. * 3 April - 2 police officials killed in Kohat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. * 4 April - 4 FC personnel killed in 2 separate attacks by members of Pakistani Taliban forces in South Waziristan. * 7 April - 1 assistant police inspector killed and 2 others injured by Swabi grenade attack. * 8 April -

2023 Khyber blast On 8 April 2023, an improvised explosive device (IED) struck a security forces vehicle, which resulted in the deaths of two soldiers and injury to 4 others in Pakistan's Khyber District. The troops who died have been named as Naib Subedar Hazrat ...

. 2 soldiers killed by IED blast. * 9 April - 1 Pakistani soldier killed in firefight with terrorists, 2 terrorists killed. *10 April - 2023 Kandahari Bazar Bombing. 4 people, including 2 police officers, were killed, and 15 others injured by a motorcycle bomb targeting police in Quetta as part of the ongoing Balochistan insurgency. *11 April - 4 police officers killed in Quetta operation by insurgents.

May

*9 May - In response to the

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of former prime minister Imran Khan on corruption charges, supporters of the

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party began mass riots. The riots primarily targeted government and military property. Over four thousand people were arrested in connection to the riots, and at least ten fatalities were confirmed. *13 May - 2023 Muslim Bagh attack. a Frontier Corps camp in Muslim Bagh, Balochistan was attacked by a group of six militants. The militants would kill six members of the corps and a civilian before the military preformed a counter attack which killed all six militants. *23 May - 2023 North Waziristan suicide blast.

June

*5 June - Two

and two Pakistani Taliban members are killed in a shootout in the North Waziristan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. *24 June - One person is killed and five others are injured after a suicide bombing in Turbat, Balochistan.

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