January 2010 Bajaur bombing was a suicide bombing in
Khar Khar may refer to:
Places
* Khar, Mumbai, a suburb of Mumbai, India
* Khar, Punjab, a town in the Punjab Province, Pakistan
* Khar, Bajaur, a town in the Bajaur Agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, Pakistan
* Khar, Nepal, a village ...
town in
Bajaur
Bajaur District ( ps, باجوړ ولسوالۍ, ur, ) is a district in Malakand Division of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. Until 2018, it was an agency of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas, then during restructuring that merg ...
in Pakistan on January 30, 2010. At least 16 people were killed when a man dressed in a
burqa
A burqa or a burka, or , and ur, , it is also transliterated as burkha, bourkha, burqua or burqu' or borgha' and is pronounced natively . It is generally pronounced in the local variety of Arabic or variety of Persian, which varies. Examp ...
walked up to a military checkpoint and detonated himself.
2 soldiers were among the dead and at least 25 were injured. It has long been suspected that
Osama bin Laden and
Ayman al-Zawahiri have been hiding in Bajaur.
[ A curfew was imposed in the district after the blast. The bomber was thought to be between 18 – 23 years of age.]Asif Ali Zardari
Asif Ali Zardari ( ur, ; sd, ; born 26 July 1955) is a Pakistani politician who is the president of Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarians and was the co-chairperson of Pakistan People's Party. He served as the 11th president of Pakist ...
, Prime Minister Syed Yousaf Raza Gilani
Yusuf Raza Gilani (Urdu
Urdu (;["Urdu"](_blank)
'' Fahmida Mirza
Fahmida Mirza ( ur, ; born 20 December 1956) is a Pakistani politician who was Federal Minister for Inter Provincial Coordination, in office from 20 August 2018 until 10 April 2022. She served as the 18th and only women Speaker of the National ...
, Deputy Speaker Faisal Karim Kundi, Chairman Senate Farooq H Naek, Deputy Chairman Jan Muhammad Jamali, Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi
Makhdoom Shah Mahmood Hussain Qureshi ( ur, ; born 22 June 1956) is a Pakistani politician who served as the 29th Minister of Foreign Affairs from 2018 to 2022. He previously held the post from 2008 to 2011. He has been a member of the Nationa ...
, Minister for Defence Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar
Chaudhry Ahmad Mukhtar ( ur, احمد مختار) (22 June 1946 – 25 November 2020) was a Pakistani politician and businessman who served as the Defence Minister of Pakistan in the PM Yousaf Raza Gillani-led cabinet. He also owned Servis G ...
, Minister for Religious Affairs Hamid Saeed Kazmi, Minister for Zakat and Ushr Noor-ul-Haq Qadri and Minister of State for Religious Affairs Shagufta Jumani.[
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See also
*List of terrorist incidents, 2010
This is a timeline of incidents in 2010 that have been labelled, or investigated as possible cases of "terrorism" and are not believed to have been carried out by a government or its forces (see state terrorism and state-sponsored terrorism).
Li ...
*List of terrorist incidents in Pakistan since 2001
This is the list of terrorist incidents in Pakistan. The War on Terror had a major impact on Pakistan, with terrorism in sectarian violence, but after the September 11 attacks in the United States in 2001, it also had to combat the threat of a ...
References
2010 murders in Pakistan
Mass murder in 2010
Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2010
Suicide bombings in Pakistan
History of Khar
Bajaur District
Crime in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
January 2010 events in Pakistan
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