ISLAMABAD: At least 63 people were killed Monday in a bomb attack on mourners outside a hospital in Quetta in southwest Pakistan.
Here is a list of major attacks against civilians by militant groups in the country since 2007:
-- 2007 --
October 18: Bomb attacks targeting former premier Benazir Bhutto kill 139 people in Karachi as she returns to Pakistan for the first time in eight years. Bhutto herself dies in a gun and suicide attack on December 27.
-- 2008 --
August 21: Twin suicide attacks kill 64 people outside Pakistan´s main arms factory at Wah near Islamabad.
September 20: Sixty people are killed when a suicide truck bomb destroys part of the five-star Marriott hotel in Islamabad.
-- 2009 --
October 28: A car bomb rips apart a market in the northwestern city of Peshawar, killing 125 people.
December 7-9: At least 66 people die in four attacks at a market in Lahore, Pakistan´s second biggest city.
-- 2010 --
January 1: A suicide car bomb kills 101 people at a village volleyball game in the northwestern district of Bannu.
May 28: Gunmen and suicide bombers storm mosques belonging to the Ahmadi religious minority in Lahore, killing 82 people.
July 9: A suicide bomber kills 105 people in a busy market in the northwestern tribal district of Mohmand.
September 3: A suicide attack kills 59 at a Shiite Muslim rally in Quetta.
November 5: A suicide bomber kills 68 people during Friday prayers in the northwest´s Darra Adam Khel area.
-- 2011 --
April 3: Fifty die after two suicide bombers attack a Sufi shrine in the central town of Dera Ghazi Khan.
May 13: Two suicide bombers kill at least 98 people outside a police training centre in Charsadda.
-- 2013 --
January 10: A double suicide attack on a snooker club kills 92 in a district of Quetta populated by Shiite Hazaras.
February 16: A bomb at a market at Hazara Town, a Shiite neighbourhood near Quetta, kills 89.
March 3: A car bomb explodes in a Shiite neighbourhood in Karachi, killing 45.
September 22: Eighty-two people die when two suicide bombers attack a church in Peshawar after a Sunday service.
-- 2014 --
November 2: Fifty-five people are killed by a suicide bomber at the main Pakistan-India border crossing.
December 16: Taliban insurgents storm an army-run school in Peshawar, killing 154 people, most of them children.
-- 2015 --
January 30: Sixty-one people are killed as a suicide bomber hits a Shiite mosque in Shikarpur in southern Pakistan.
May 13: The first attack officially claimed by the Islamic State group in Pakistan kills 45 Shiite Muslims in Karachi.
-- 2016 --
March 27: Seventy-five people are killed and hundreds injured in an explosion that targets Christians near a park in Lahore.
August 8: At least 45 people die and dozens are wounded when a blast tears through mourners at a hospital in Quetta.
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