CHRONOLOGY-Violence surges in Pakistan after storming of mosque
Source: Reuters
July 18 (Reuters) - Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf on Wednesday ruled out declaring an emergency amid a rising tide of militant attacks that have killed more than 130 people this month, officials said. In the latest violence, militants killed 17 soldiers in the North Waziristan region on the Afghan border a day after a suicide bomber killed 16 people in the capital, Islamabad. Pakistan has seen a surge in violence since government forces surrounded Islamabad's Lal Masjid, or Red Mosque, compound on July 3. A week later, commandos stormed the complex killing 75 supporters of hardline clerics. Here is a chronology of violence in Pakistan since the siege of Lal Masjid began on July 3: July 4 - A suicide bomber kills six soldiers and two children in North West Frontier Province (NWFP) and a roadside bomb aimed at police kills four civilians in another part of the province. July 6 - A suicide bomber throws himself at an army jeep, killing six soldiers in NWFP. July 8 - Unidentified gunmen kill three Chinese workers and wound another in Peshawar in NWFP. - A policeman is killed in a blast in NWFP. July 12 - Two suicide bomb attacks kill seven people, including three policemen, in the semi-autonomous North Waziristan tribal region and NWFP. July 14 - A suicide car-bomber kills 24 paramilitary soldiers and wounds 29 in North Waziristan; two security officials are wounded in another blast in NWFP. July 15 - Sixteen people, most of them paramilitary soldiers, are killed in a suicide-bomb ambush on a patrol in Swat valley in NWFP. - A suicide bomber targets a police recruiting centre in Dera Ismail Khan in NWFP, killing 29. July 17 - A suicide bomber kills 16 people outside a court in Islamabad where the country's suspended chief justice, Iftikhar Chaudhry, was due to speak. - A suicide bomber kills four, including three soldiers, in North Waziristan. July 18 - Seventeen soldiers are killed when militants attack a security force convoy in North Waziristan. - Five militants are killed when they ambush another military convoy in North Waziristan.
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