A bloody month

April 16: A bomb blast in Peshawar’s Yakatoot area kills 16 people while dozens others are injured.

In a separate bombing, blast targeted the convoy of Pakistan Muslim League. At least four people are killed in the blast and 25 others are injured.

April 18: Imran Khan’s house in Islamabad was attacked by a gang who mistreated his brother-in-law and other family members. In Peshawar, at least two explosions and gunfire kills five people.

April 21: A hand grenade was thrown at the residence of an election commission officer in Kharan, Balochistan.

The election camps of the Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf (PTI) and Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) in Karachi were set on fire.

April 22: Two ANP activists were killed when unknown gunmen fired upon the party’s election rally in the Pishin district. The attacks were claimed by the banned Baloch Liberation Army.

April 23: At least six people were killed and another 45 injured in an explosion in Quetta’s Nichari road area. The banned militant outfit Lashkar-i-Jhangvi claimed responsibility for the blast.

April 24: Eight separate bomb blasts rocked Sindh, Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces of Pakistan killing 11 and injuring 75 more.

April 25: TTP was reported to be distributing pamphlets in Buner, Peshawar, and different areas of Karachi as a warning to the citizens to not participate in the upcoming May 11 polls. The pamphlets warned the voters that they would be entirely responsible for their lives should they choose to participate in the election.

April 26: A bomb blast in Karachi kills at least 10 people, including a child, and more than 40 people sustained injuries. The attack was claimed by the TTP.

April 27: A bomb-and-rocket attack hit the rally of Mohammad Hashim Shahwani, a candidate of the Jamiat Ulema-i-Islam (JUI-F) held in Machh. In Karachi, two separate blasts killed at least two people and injured 25 others, including two children.

These blasts were followed by another bomb targeting an election meeting of ANP’s candidate Bashir Jan in OrangiTown, killing at least 11 and injuring over 50 people. TTP claimed responsibility for this attack.

April 28: A corner meeting in Karachi of a PPP candidate was attacked, killing at least three people. A bomb blast in Swabi kills a child and injures 13 others

April 29: Election offices of three candidates in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Kohat, and Peshawar were attacked with bombs, killing at least nine and leaving 56 injured. Another bomb in Maqsoodabad near Charsadda kills three.

April 30: An independent election candidate and three others were killed in Balochistan’s Jhal Magsi area by unknown attackers. In a separate incident, two MQM workers were shot dead by unknown gunmen in Hyderabad.

May 3: TTP gunned down the ANP candidate for NA-254, Sadiq Zaman Khattak and his four-year-old son in Korangi’s Bilal Colony area in Karachi. Khattak was the general secretary of the party in District East of Karachi.

May 4: A time bomb exploded outside the election office of Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaaf (PTI) near Peshawar’s Panchgai road. PTI’s election office and nearby shops were damaged in the blast.

May 5: Violence broke out between rival political parties in Karachi’s Landhi area just before the May 11 polls. The violence claimed one life and left four other people injured, according to both police and party sources.

Three people were killed and at least 40 were injured in a bomb blast targeting an MQM election office in Karachi’s Azizabad area.

May 6: A bomb blast occurs in Charsadda’s Shabqadar Mirzai area targeting a PPP election office.

An explosion targeting the rally of a JUI-F candidate in Hangu district kills 10 and wounds 22 others.

In a separate incident, another bomb blast targeted a PPP rally in the Baba Gam village of Lower Dir, killing three and wounding five.

— Compiled from agencies