Around 73 people, including security personnel, militants and civilians, were killed and 76 injured in almost 18 incidents of violence in NWFP and tribal areas in August.Six suicide attacks - one each in Hangu, Shangla and Tank districts, two in North Waziristan Agency and one in Parachinar, Kurram Agency - also took place. Around five incidents of violence were reported in Swat, one in Swabi, three in Peshawar, one in Lakki Marwat and others in the North Waziristan. However, July was more deadly than August, as suicide bombers went on a bombing spree in the aftermath of the Lal Masjid military operation.
On August 3, a bomb exploded in Lakki Marwat district, injuring four people, while a remote-controlled blast injured six people in Matta tehsil of Swat the same day. A suicide attacker struck a bus station in Parachinar, Kurram Agency, on August 4, killing nearly nine people and injuring 43 others. The same day, four soldiers and 10 militants were killed in North Waziristan. Three Pakistan Air Force (PAF) personnel sustained injuries in a blast on August 6 near the Gulshan Rehman Colony on Kohat Road in Peshawar. A remote-controlled bomb killed two people in North Waziristan on August 11, while another bomb went off at the Peshawar Bus Terminal on August 7, but there were no casualties.
Two people died in Swabi on August 15, when a tuition centre was bombed. A suicide bomber targeted a military convoy in Tank district, injuring five soldiers, whereas seven militants were killed in North Waziristan Agency in clashes with security forces on August 17. Three soldiers were killed in a suicide attack on Tarkhobi check-post in North Waziristan on August 18 and 15 militants died when security forces pounded their hideouts in the Mir Ali town of North Waziristan on August 19.
A suicide bomber rammed his explosive-laden car into the Mandoori check post in Tal tehsil of Hangu district, killing nearly six soldiers on August 20. Militants attacked a check post in Bannu district in the Miran police precinct on August 22 that left four FC personnel and three militants dead. A remote-controlled blast on August 23 at the Charbagh police post in Swat district injured four cops. Another suicide bomber killed nearly five soldiers in Miranshah, North Waziristan, on August 24. A suicide attack on a police mobile killed four policemen and wounded two others in the Machar area of Shangla district in Swat on August 26.
On August 29, three soldiers sustained injuries when an improvised explosive device (IED) targeted security forces in the Datta Khel tehsil of North Waziristan. Two men sustained injuries when militants targeted a passenger coach in Peshawar the same day. Militants blew up around six CD shops, 20 other shops and three houses in Matta tehsil of Swat on August 30, however, no casualties were reported in the incidents. On August 31, two Frontier Constabulary soldiers died when militants attacked their check post in the Gali Bagh area of Swat.