Italics indicates attacks resulting in more than 40 deaths ‡ indicates attacks resulting in more than 100 deaths Underline indicates the deadliest terrorist attack/s to date
At 11am on 18 September 2009, a suicide car bombing took place at Kacha Pakha bazaar village market at a busy intersection, badly damaging Hikmat Ali hotel, as well as a restaurant and shops, causing some to collapse.[1][2] It happened in a ShiaMuslim area of Usterzai, North-West Frontier Province, Pakistan, five and a half years after the war in northwest Pakistan began.[1][2] The attack killed at least 39 people and injured another 54, most of whom are believed to have been members of Pakistan's Shia minority, who are often targeted by extremists among the majority SunniMuslims.[1][2]
A group calling itself Lahskar-e-Jhangvi al-Almi says it carried out the attack, in revenge for the killing of a prominent religious leader, Maulana M Amin, in Hangu, NWFP, three months earlier.[1] They are believed to be linked to Taliban-linked Sunni supremacist group Lashkar-e-Jhangvi.[1]
