Terrorist incidents in Pakistan in 2022 include:

January–March

* 8 January - Three people were killed and three were injured in a attack on the brother of former caretaker Chief Minister

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in the Loni Road area in

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. * 17 January - One policeman was killed and three other policemen were injured in shootout in G-8

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. Two terrorists were also killed in the shootout. *20 January - 2022 Lahore bombing *25 January - 2022 Kech District attack * 2 February - 2022 Panjgur and Naushki raids * 2 March - March 2022 Quetta bombing * 3 March - 2022 Sibi suicide bombing * 4 March -

2022 Peshawar mosque attack On 4 March 2022, the Islamic State – Khorasan Province attacked a Shia mosque at Qissa Khwani Bazaar in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. The suicide attack, carried out by an Afghan man who was a long-term resident of Pakistan, kille ...

* 15 March - On 15 March 2022, an

improvised explosive device An improvised explosive device (IED) is a bomb constructed and deployed in ways other than in conventional warfare, conventional military action. It may be constructed of conventional military explosives, such as an artillery shell, attached t ...

detonated on a convoy of security forces in the village of Sangan,

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killing four

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personnel and seriously injuring six others.

April–June

* 26 April - 2022 University of Karachi bombing * 12 May - 2022 Karachi Saddar bombing * 15 May - 2022 Miranshah suicide bombing * 16 May - 2022 Karachi Bolton Market bombing * 19 May - One person was killed and several were injured in a bomb blast in

Quetta Quetta is the capital and largest city of the Pakistani province of Balochistan. It is the ninth largest city in Pakistan, with an estimated population of over 1.6 million in 2024. It is situated in the south-west of the country, lying in a ...

July–September

* 13 September - 2022 Swat blast * 13 September - Three soldiers of Pakistan Army were killed in a cross-border attack from Afghanistan in the

Kurram district Kurram District () is a district in the Kohat Division of the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province of Pakistan. The name Kurram comes from the river ''Kwarma'' () in Pashto, which itself derives from the Sanskrit word ''Krumu'' (). Until 2018, it funct ...

. * 28 September - One police officer was killed by unidentified person in Mardan. * 28 September - Four Frontier Constabulary personnel were injured in a hand grenade attack in Bara, Khyber district.

October–December

* 16 November -

2022 Lakki Marwat attack On 16 November 2022, an attack claims the lives of six police officers, including ASI (Assistant Sub-Inspector) in Lakki Marwat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. At least six police officers, including an Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI), died when t ...

* 30 November -

November 2022 Quetta bombing Pakistan is one of the two remaining countries in the world where poliomyelitis (polio) is still categorized as an endemic viral infection, the other one being Afghanistan. While it has yet to fully eradicate polio, there has been a major downwards ...

* 3 December – One police officer was killed by unidentified person in

Mardan Mardān is a city in the Mardan District of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, Pakistan. Located in the Valley of Peshawar, Mardan is the List of cities in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa by population, second-largest city of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (after Peshawar). ...

. * 14 December -

December 2022 Miranshah suicide bombing On 14 December 2022, a suspected suicide bomber blew himself up in Miranshah, North Waziristan North Waziristan District (, ) is a Districts of Pakistan, district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in Pakistan. It is the northern part of Wazir ...

* 18 December -

2022 Bannu CTD centre attack On 18 December 2022, the Pakistani Taliban carried out an attack on a counterterrorism centre in the Bannu District, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. They took the officers hostage until 20 December, when Pakistan's security forces lay siege to the centr ...

* 23 December -

2022 Islamabad suicide attack On 23 December 2022, at least one policeman was killed and several others injured in a suicide attack in Islamabad's sector I-10 Interstate 10 (I-10) is the southernmost transcontinental highway in the Interstate Highway System of the ...

* 25 December - Five

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personnel were killed in a improvised explosive device (IED) blast during a clearance operation in Kahan, Balochistan. * 29 December - At least three soldiers of Pakistan Army were killed in clashes with terrorists near the border with

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the Durand Line, east and south, Iran to the Afghanistan–Iran borde ...

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