41case filesUpdated Jul 14, 2026
Casepin holds 41 case files in Pakistan. By legal status, 17 marked unsolved, 5 marked ongoing and 19 marked solved.
Credit: Hamid MirCC BY-SA 3.0SourceSOLVEDListenAbbottabad compound (Waziristan Haveli), Abbottabad, Pakistan · 2011
On May 2, 2011, U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six killed Osama bin Laden, founder of al-Qaeda and orchestrator of the September 11 attacks, during a CIA-led raid on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan. Three other people in the compound were also killed, and bin Laden's body was buried at sea.
Credit: Oliver MarkCC BY-SA 4.0SourceSOLVEDListenLiaquat National Bagh, Rawalpindi, Pakistan · 2007
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto was killed on 27 December 2007 in Rawalpindi following a shooting and suicide bombing after a political rally, an attack that also killed 23 other people. A UN inquiry found her security had been fatally insufficient and the crime scene mishandled; two police officers were later convicted, five Taliban-linked suspects were acquitted, and Pervez Musharraf was indicted but declared a fugitive before being separately sentenced in absentia on unrelated treason charges.
Credit: Kamran HayatPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListenMultan, Punjab, Pakistan · 2016
Pakistani social media celebrity and feminist activist Qandeel Baloch was drugged and asphyxiated at her parents' home in Multan on 15 July 2016 by her brother, who said he killed her for "bringing disrepute" to the family. He was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in 2019 but was released by an appeals court in 2022.
Credit: SohaibTahirSTCC BY-SA 3.0SourceSOLVEDListenMall Road, Charing Cross, Lahore, Pakistan · 2017
A suicide bomber killed at least 18 people, including several police officers, and wounded more than 87 at a pharmacists' and chemists' protest on Mall Road in Lahore, Pakistan, on 13 February 2017. Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, a faction of the banned Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, claimed responsibility.
Credit: Jawad ZakariyaCC BY 2.0SourceUNSOLVEDListenMarriott Hotel, Islamabad, Pakistan · 2008
On the night of 20 September 2008, a truck bomb detonated outside the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad, Pakistan, killing at least 54 people and injuring at least 266 in one of the deadliest terrorist attacks in the country's history.
Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSourceSOLVEDListenQuetta Railway Station, Quetta, Balochistan, Pakistan · 2024
A suicide bombing at Quetta railway station in Pakistan killed at least 32 people and injured 55 others on 9 November 2024, in an attack claimed by the separatist Balochistan Liberation Army.
Credit: Unknown author - but due to age, image in public domainPublic domainSourceUNSOLVEDListenLiaquat Bagh (formerly Company Bagh), Rawalpindi, Pakistan · 1951
Pakistan's first prime minister, Liaquat Ali Khan, was shot and killed while addressing a public gathering in Rawalpindi on 16 October 1951; his alleged assailant was shot dead by police at the scene, and the full circumstances behind the killing remain unresolved.
UNSOLVEDListenKarsaz Road, Karachi, Pakistan · 2007
A bombing attack on the motorcade of former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto in Karachi on 18 October 2007 killed at least 180 people and injured about 500, mostly members of her party, two months before her assassination.
Police Lines Mosque, Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan · 2023
A suicide bomber disguised as a police officer detonated an explosive vest inside the Police Lines mosque in Peshawar, Pakistan, on 30 January 2023, killing 84 people and injuring 217, mostly police officers attending Friday prayers.
Credit: Baptiste MarcelCC BY-SA 2.5SourceSOLVEDListenOutside Sheraton Hotel, Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan · 2002
A suicide car bomb attack outside the Sheraton Hotel in Karachi on 8 May 2002 killed 14 people, including 11 French engineers working on a Pakistani submarine project, and wounded about 40 others.
The files run from 1930 to 2024. The 2010s hold the most, with 18 files. The oldest is Qissa Khwani massacre, from 1930.
By type, the largest groups are murder and homicide cases (7), kidnapping and abduction cases (4) and mass shooting cases (4).
4 files of the 41 have coverage attached: 9 videos, podcasts and documentaries from 2 creators. The most covered is Killing of Osama bin Laden, with 6 items to watch or hear. 60 Minutes Australia and Coffeehouse Crime have covered the most of them.
Every file is written from cited sources and pinned where it happened, and every person named carries the legal status the record gives them. If you hold information about an unsolved case, contact the investigating agency named in its file rather than posting it publicly. Families and anyone involved can request a correction from any file.
Osama bin Laden in 2001 (3x4 cropped) — Credit: Hamid MirCC BY-SA 3.0Source
Benazir Bhutto — Credit: Oliver MarkCC BY-SA 4.0Source
Qandeel Baloch (3x4 cropped) — Credit: Kamran HayatPublic domainSource
Islamic Summit Minar Charing Cross — Credit: SohaibTahirSTCC BY-SA 3.0Source
Punjab 1909 (Rawalpindi division) — Credit: From the Imperial Gazetteer of India, Hunter, William Wilson, Sir, (1840-1900), Cotton…Public domainSource
File:Marriot Hotel Islamabad Pakistan bombing.jpg — Credit: Jawad ZakariyaCC BY 2.0Source
Quetta railway station bombing — Credit: Unknown authorPublic domainSource
Liaquat Ali Khan 1945 — Credit: Unknown author - but due to age, image in public domainPublic domainSource
Investigations underway after suicide bombing at Pakistan mosque kills 32 1-31 screenshot — Credit: Kanal13CC BY 3.0Source
File:French stele memoriam bomb karachi 8 may 2002 in chrebourg p-ad20090730-11h42m07s-mjw.jpg — Credit: Baptiste MarcelCC BY-SA 2.5Source
Gulshan-e-Iqbal Park, Lahore — Credit: AdnanrailCC BY-SA 3.0Source
International border at Wagah - evening flag lowering ceremony — Credit: Kamran AliCC BY-SA 3.0Source
41. By status: 17 unsolved, 5 ongoing and 19 solved. The count covers published files only and changes as new files clear review.
Qissa Khwani massacre, from 1930. Open the file
Killing of Osama bin Laden, with 6 videos, podcasts and documentaries linked from its file. Open the file
60 Minutes Australia (1 case) and Coffeehouse Crime (1 case).
It rebuilds hourly from the published files; the newest file change here is dated Jul 14, 2026. A status changes only when the record behind it does.
