October 2009 in Pakistan
- October 5, five people were killed when a [...] bomber dressed in military fatigues walked through the security cordon at the World Food Program offices of the United Nations in Islamabad.
- October 9, in the busiest bazaar in Peshawar, the capital of the North-West Frontier Province, militants set off a car bomb that killed 48 people.
- October 11, 10 militants dressed in army fatigues and armed with automatic weapons, mines, grenades and [...] jackets breached the perimeter of the army headquarters in Rawalpindi in a raid that left 23 people dead and set off a 20-hour siege.
- October 12, militants launched their fourth assault in a week on strategic targets across Pakistan, this time with a [...] car bombing against a military vehicle in a crowded market in the northwest, [...] 41 people and wounding dozens more.
- October 23, a [...] bombing at Pakistan’s premier aeronautical manufacturing complex killed seven people; it was one of a string of attacks on major government installations this month.