On 15 January 1999, at least fifteen children were injured, some seriously, when a bomb exploded at a school in Rawalpindi, Punjab. The city where the GHQ (General Head Quarters) of Armed Forces is situated. The eye witness account said that unidentified attackers apparently hurled the device into government-run junior school in the city’s Dhok Hassu District.

It ripped through a corridor around midday (0700 GMT) when the school’s morning shift students were leaving and the afternoon shift students were playing.

On 15 January 1999, unknown assailants attacked a Shiite "Imam Bargah" (place of worship) in Sialkot. According to eyewitness account, the attack was very intense, where the attacker used AK47 assault rifles for several minutes before fleeing the spot. Fortunately, there was no casualty or any one injured, the eye witness account said.

On 13 January 1999, gunmen shot dead Haji Ikram Ullah Khan Niazi, former provincial minister and sitting Member of the provincial Assembly of Punjab. His security guard was also killed while his grandson and two others were seriously injured.

The eyewitness accounts said that the gunmen were sitting amongst the visitors for an hour. After heated exchange of words, four gunmen, wrapped in "chaddars" (long Shawls) popped out Klashnikov (AK47) assault rifles and sprayed Niazi and others with hail of bullets.

The gunmen sped away in a car with the number-plate of the Punjab provincial Government, the eye witness account said.

The ruling PML denies charges that these acts of terrorism in Punjab are Government sponsored or link to their inability to govern and accuse the opposition and sectarian forces for violence and terrorism that has claimed 4,358 lives and 7,297 abduction and rape cases last year in Punjab compared with 3,562 lives and 5,923 abduction and rape cases in Sindh during the same period. Terrorism in Punjab has claimed nearly two hundred lives alone in 1999, so far.