List of terrorist incidents in Jammu and Kashmir
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Separatist militant insurgency in Kashmir since 1989 has caused several terrorist attacks and incidents within the union territory of Jammu and Kashmir.
Tables
Civilian deaths
Civilian deaths
Security personnel deaths
Civilian deaths
6413
14930
Militant deaths
Militant deaths
Security personnel deaths
Militant deaths
6413
23386
Total
Total
Security personnel deaths
Total
6413
44729
Data from Ministry of Home Affairs
Data from Ministry of Home Affairs
Security personnel deaths
Data from Ministry of Home Affairs
| Security personnel deaths | 6413 |
| Civilian deaths | 14930 |
| Militant deaths | 23386 |
| Total | 44729 |
| Data from Ministry of Home Affairs | |
· List
1989
1989
Year
1989
Date
14 September
Incident
Assassination of BJP leader and Lawyer Tika Lal Taploo.
Perpetrators
Anti-Pandit militants
Deaths
1
State government
Farooq Abdullah
(JKNC)
Central government
Rajiv Gandhi (INC)
4 November
4 November
Year
4 November
Date
Assassination of retired Judge Nilkanth Ganjoo.
Incident
JKLF
Perpetrators
1
1990
1990
Year
1990
Date
13 February
Incident
Assassination of Lassa Kaul (Director of Doordarshan)
Perpetrators
Anti-Pandit militants
Deaths
1
State government
V. P. Singh
(Janata Dal)
6 April
6 April
Year
6 April
Date
Assassination of CEO of Hindustan Machine Tools H. L. Khera.
Incident
JKLF
Perpetrators
2
Assassination of Vice Chancellor of University of Kashmir, Mushir-u-Haq.
Assassination of Vice Chancellor of University of Kashmir, Mushir-u-Haq.
Year
Assassination of Vice Chancellor of University of Kashmir, Mushir-u-Haq.
1 May
1 May
Year
1 May
Date
Assassination of Sarwanand Koul Premi and his son.
Incident
Anti-Pandit militants
Perpetrators
2
21 May
21 May
Year
21 May
Date
Assassination of Imam Mohammad Farooq Shah.
Incident
Hizbul Mujahideen
Perpetrators
1
1990–1991
1990–1991
Year
1990–1991
Incident
Exodus of Kashmiri Hindus
Perpetrators
Anti-Hindu and Anti India militants
Deaths
217-228
State government
Dissolved
(Jagmohan Malhotra)
Central government
Chandra Shekhar
(SJPR)
P. V. Narasimha Rao
(INC)
1994
1994
Year
1994
Date
29 March
Incident
Assassination of Lt Gen E. W. Fernandes and other Indian Army officers.
Perpetrators
Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen
Deaths
15
State government
Dissolved
(Gen K. V. Krishna Rao)
Central government
P. V. Narasimha Rao
(INC)
1995
1995
Year
1995
Date
26 January
Incident
Assassination attempt on Governor Lt Gen K. V. Krishna Rao.
Perpetrators
Hizbul Mujahideen
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Deaths
8
20 July
20 July
Year
20 July
Date
Bomb Explosion in Jammu
Incident
20
1998
1998
Year
1998
Date
26 January
Incident
Wandhama massacre
Perpetrators
23
Deaths
Farooq Abdullah
(JKNC)
Ref
Inder Kumar Gujral
(INC)
17 April
17 April
Year
17 April
Date
Prankote massacre
Incident
29
Perpetrators
Atal Bihari Vajpayee
(BJP)
21 April
21 April
Year
21 April
Date
Thub Village massacre
Incident
13
19 June
19 June
Year
19 June
Date
Chapnari massacre
Incident
25
3 August
3 August
Year
3 August
Date
Chamba massacre
Incident
35
1999
1999
Year
1999
Date
7 September
Incident
Assassination of BJP Candidate Haider Noorani
Deaths
1
3 November
3 November
Year
3 November
Date
Suicide attack at Badami Bagh cantonment
Perpetrators
10
24 December
24 December
Year
24 December
Date
Suicide bomber attack on JnK Special Operations group police officers
Incident
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Perpetrators
12
2000
2000
Year
2000
Date
7 January
Incident
Attack on the Meteorological Center, Srinagar.
Deaths
4
20 March
20 March
Year
20 March
Date
Chittisinghpura massacre
Incident
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Perpetrators
35
15 May
15 May
Year
15 May
Date
Assassination of Minister for Power, Gulam Hasan Bhat
Incident
Hizbul Mujahideen
Perpetrators
5
August
August
Year
August
Date
2000 Amarnath pilgrimage massacre
Perpetrators
62
3 November
3 November
Year
3 November
Date
Assassination of Aga Syed Mehdi in a landmine explosion
Perpetrators
6
25 December
25 December
Year
25 December
Date
Attack on Army HQ Badami Bagh, Srinagar
Perpetrators
9
2001
2001
Year
2001
Date
9 February
Incident
Suicide bomber attack on JnK police control room
Perpetrators
Al-Umar-Mujahideen
Deaths
12
10 February
10 February
Year
10 February
Date
2001 Kot Charwal massacre
Incident
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Perpetrators
15
2 March
2 March
Year
2 March
Date
Ambush on police personnel in Rajouri
Perpetrators
17
8 June
8 June
Year
8 June
Date
Grenade explosion in Charar-e-Sharief shrine.
Perpetrators
4
20 July
20 July
Year
20 July
Date
Amarnath Massacre
Perpetrators
8
21 July
21 July
Year
21 July
Date
Doda Massacre
Perpetrators
16
2-3 August
2-3 August
Year
2-3 August
Date
2001 Kishtwar massacre
Incident
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Perpetrators
15
7 August
7 August
Year
7 August
Date
Jammu Railway Station shootout
Perpetrators
13
29 August
29 August
Year
29 August
Date
Anantnag bus attack
Perpetrators
9
1 October
1 October
Year
1 October
Date
Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly car bombing
Incident
Jaish-e-Mohammed
Perpetrators
36
2002
2002
Year
2002
Date
20 January
Incident
Poonch massacre
Perpetrators
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Deaths
11
30 March
30 March
Year
30 March
Date
First Raghunath temple attacks
Incident
11
14 May
14 May
Year
14 May
Date
2002 Kaluchak massacre
Incident
31
21 March
21 March
Year
21 March
Date
Assassination of Abdul Ghani Lone
Incident
1
13 July
13 July
Year
13 July
Date
2002 Qasim Nagar massacre
Incident
25
6 August
6 August
Year
6 August
Date
2002 Amarnath pilgrimage massacre
Incident
11
11 September
11 September
Year
11 September
Date
Assassination of Mushtaq Lone, State Law Minister
Incident
3
Deaths
Mufti Mohammad Sayeed
(JKPDP)
11 November
11 November
Year
11 November
Date
IED blast on the Jammu Srinagar national highway
Perpetrators
8
22 November
22 November
Year
22 November
Date
IED blast in Srinagar
Incident
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Perpetrators
6
23 November
23 November
Year
23 November
Date
IED blast at Lower Munda on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway.
Perpetrators
19
24 November
24 November
Year
24 November
Date
Secoind Raghunath temple attacks
Incident
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Perpetrators
14
5 December
5 December
Year
5 December
Date
Assassination of Ghulam Mohiuddin Lone, brother of Mushtaq Lone.
Perpetrators
1
20 December
20 December
Year
20 December
Date
Assassination of Abdul Aziz Mir
Perpetrators
1
2003
2003
Year
2003
Date
28 January
Incident
Assassination of Farooq Ahmed Kuchchay, NC politician
Perpetrators
Hizbul Mujahideen
Deaths
2
14 March
14 March
Year
14 March
Date
Suicide attack on Muharram procession in Poonch
Perpetrators
4
16 March
16 March
Year
16 March
Date
Attack on remote police post
Perpetrators
11
23 March
23 March
Year
23 March
Date
Nadimarg massacre
Incident
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Perpetrators
24
22 April
22 April
Year
22 April
Date
Landmine blast in Udhampur
Perpetrators
6
19 May
19 May
Year
19 May
Date
Massacre in form of beheading in Rajouri
Incident
Jaish-e-Mohammed
Perpetrators
6
28 June
28 June
Year
28 June
Date
Suicide attack at Sunjwan military base
Perpetrators
12
22 July
22 July
Year
22 July
Date
Suicide attack at the Akhnoor army base, killing one Brigadier
Perpetrators
8
13 September
13 September
Year
13 September
Date
Ambush on the car of political leader Mohammad Yusuf Parray
Perpetrators
3
2004
2004
Year
2004
Date
2 January
Incident
Suicide attack at the Jammu Railway Station
Deaths
4
3 March
3 March
Year
3 March
Date
Suicide attack at the Court complex in Jammu
Perpetrators
7
9 March
9 March
Year
9 March
Date
Suicide attack at the PIB of the GOI
Perpetrators
2
Suicide attack on Directorate of Information of the Govt of JnK
Suicide attack on Directorate of Information of the Govt of JnK
Year
Suicide attack on Directorate of Information of the Govt of JnK
8 April
8 April
Year
8 April
Date
Attack at a PDP political rally in Uri
Perpetrators
11
23 May
23 May
Year
23 May
Date
IED explosion at the Jammu-Srinagar Highway
Perpetrators
30
Ref
Manmohan Singh
(INC)
26 June
26 June
Year
26 June
Date
Terrorist attack in Surankote
Perpetrators
12
2 July
2 July
Year
2 July
Date
Attack on the convoy of MP, Choudhury Lal Singh
Perpetrators
6
19 July
19 July
Year
19 July
Date
Assassination attempt on Deputy Chief Minister Mangat Ram Sharma
Perpetrators
6
28 July
28 July
Year
28 July
Date
Overnight gunfight at the paramilitary base on the banks of Dal lake
Perpetrators
5
4 August
4 August
Year
4 August
Date
Ambush at CRPF camp
Perpetrators
9
5 December
5 December
Year
5 December
Date
IED explosion in Pulwama
Perpetrators
10
2005
2005
Year
2005
Date
7 January
Incident
Suicide attack on Income tax office, Srinagar
Deaths
3-5
24 February
24 February
Year
24 February
Date
Suicide attack at Divisional Commissioners office
Perpetrators
6
12 May
12 May
Year
12 May
Date
Grenade attack in a school in Srinagar
Perpetrators
2
13 June
13 June
Year
13 June
Date
Explosives-laden car detonates in Pulwama
Perpetrators
13
24 June
24 June
Year
24 June
Date
Bus boarded by security personnel attacked by bomb in Srinagar
Perpetrators
9
19 July
19 July
Year
19 July
Date
Attack at a village in Udhampur
Incident
Lashkar-e-Taiba
Perpetrators
6
20 July
20 July
Year
20 July
Date
Suicide attack on Army vehicle in Srinagar
Perpetrators
5
9 September
9 September
Year
9 September
Date
3 Families attacked in Udhampur
Perpetrators
6
10 September
10 September
Year
10 September
Date
Attack on an Army convoy on the Srinagar-Jammu National Highway
Perpetrators
5
| Year | Date | Incident | Perpetrators | Deaths | Ref | State government | Central government |
| 1989 | 14 September | Assassination of BJP leader and Lawyer Tika Lal Taploo. | Anti-Pandit militants | 1 | Farooq Abdullah (JKNC) | Rajiv Gandhi (INC) | |
| 4 November | Assassination of retired Judge Nilkanth Ganjoo. | JKLF | 1 | ||||
| 1990 | 13 February | Assassination of Lassa Kaul (Director of Doordarshan) | Anti-Pandit militants | 1 | V. P. Singh (Janata Dal) | ||
| 6 April | Assassination of CEO of Hindustan Machine Tools H. L. Khera. | JKLF | 2 | ||||
| Assassination of Vice Chancellor of University of Kashmir, Mushir-u-Haq. | |||||||
| 1 May | Assassination of Sarwanand Koul Premi and his son. | Anti-Pandit militants | 2 | ||||
| 21 May | Assassination of Imam Mohammad Farooq Shah. | Hizbul Mujahideen | 1 | ||||
| 1990–1991 | Exodus of Kashmiri Hindus | Anti-Hindu and Anti India militants | 217-228 | Dissolved (Jagmohan Malhotra) | Chandra Shekhar (SJPR) P. V. Narasimha Rao (INC) | ||
| 1994 | 29 March | Assassination of Lt Gen E. W. Fernandes and other Indian Army officers. | Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen | 15 | Dissolved (Gen K. V. Krishna Rao) | P. V. Narasimha Rao (INC) | |
| 1995 | 26 January | Assassination attempt on Governor Lt Gen K. V. Krishna Rao. | Hizbul Mujahideen Lashkar-e-Taiba | 8 | |||
| 20 July | Bomb Explosion in Jammu | 20 | |||||
| 1998 | 26 January | Wandhama massacre | 23 | Farooq Abdullah (JKNC) | Inder Kumar Gujral (INC) | ||
| 17 April | Prankote massacre | 29 | Atal Bihari Vajpayee (BJP) | ||||
| 21 April | Thub Village massacre | 13 | |||||
| 19 June | Chapnari massacre | 25 | |||||
| 3 August | Chamba massacre | 35 | |||||
| 1999 | 7 September | Assassination of BJP Candidate Haider Noorani | 1 | ||||
| 3 November | Suicide attack at Badami Bagh cantonment | 10 | |||||
| 24 December | Suicide bomber attack on JnK Special Operations group police officers | Lashkar-e-Taiba | 12 | ||||
| 2000 | 7 January | Attack on the Meteorological Center, Srinagar. | 4 | ||||
| 20 March | Chittisinghpura massacre | Lashkar-e-Taiba | 35 | ||||
| 15 May | Assassination of Minister for Power, Gulam Hasan Bhat | Hizbul Mujahideen | 5 | ||||
| August | 2000 Amarnath pilgrimage massacre | 62 | |||||
| 3 November | Assassination of Aga Syed Mehdi in a landmine explosion | 6 | |||||
| 25 December | Attack on Army HQ Badami Bagh, Srinagar | 9 | |||||
| 2001 | 9 February | Suicide bomber attack on JnK police control room | Al-Umar-Mujahideen | 12 | |||
| 10 February | 2001 Kot Charwal massacre | Lashkar-e-Taiba | 15 | ||||
| 2 March | Ambush on police personnel in Rajouri | 17 | |||||
| 8 June | Grenade explosion in Charar-e-Sharief shrine. | 4 | |||||
| 20 July | Amarnath Massacre | 8 | |||||
| 21 July | Doda Massacre | 16 | |||||
| 2-3 August | 2001 Kishtwar massacre | Lashkar-e-Taiba | 15 | ||||
| 7 August | Jammu Railway Station shootout | 13 | |||||
| 29 August | Anantnag bus attack | 9 | |||||
| 1 October | Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly car bombing | Jaish-e-Mohammed | 36 | ||||
| 2002 | 20 January | Poonch massacre | Lashkar-e-Taiba | 11 | |||
| 30 March | First Raghunath temple attacks | 11 | |||||
| 14 May | 2002 Kaluchak massacre | 31 | |||||
| 21 March | Assassination of Abdul Ghani Lone | 1 | |||||
| 13 July | 2002 Qasim Nagar massacre | 25 | |||||
| 6 August | 2002 Amarnath pilgrimage massacre | 11 | |||||
| 11 September | Assassination of Mushtaq Lone, State Law Minister | 3 | Mufti Mohammad Sayeed (JKPDP) | ||||
| 11 November | IED blast on the Jammu Srinagar national highway | 8 | |||||
| 22 November | IED blast in Srinagar | Lashkar-e-Taiba | 6 | ||||
| 23 November | IED blast at Lower Munda on the Jammu-Srinagar National Highway. | 19 | |||||
| 24 November | Secoind Raghunath temple attacks | Lashkar-e-Taiba | 14 | ||||
| 5 December | Assassination of Ghulam Mohiuddin Lone, brother of Mushtaq Lone. | 1 | |||||
| 20 December | Assassination of Abdul Aziz Mir | 1 | |||||
| 2003 | 28 January | Assassination of Farooq Ahmed Kuchchay, NC politician | Hizbul Mujahideen | 2 |
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