A day after two separate bomb attacks by suspected Taliban militants… Pakistanis are feeling insecure.

A suspected Taliban suicide bomber killed at least 35 people in Rawalpindi on November 2nd. A second blast at a police checkpoint in the city of Lahore wounded six people.

[Sajid Ali, Local Resident]:
“The security situation is such that no person is secure here. Wherever you go, it feels as if there is going to be a bomb blast any time. Whatever place you look at, whether it is Islamabad or the smallest village, no place is safe anymore."

Last week, more than 100 people were killed and scores injured when a car bomb exploded in a crowded market in Peshawar.

Last month, militants launched a brazen attack on army headquarters, taking dozens of people hostage before commandos stormed the building and rescued them.

The Pakistani army is attacking Taliban strongholds near the Afghan border. Taliban fighters have retaliated by stepping up bomb attacks and raids.

Police checkpoints have sprouted up all over the country in an effort to stem the violence.

[Raja Khadim Hussain, Police Officer]:
"We have set up this checkpoint so that we can make people's lives more secure. We agree that residents are inconvenienced, because their children have to go to school. So we are trying to arrest as many terrorists as possible."

Pakistan’s army offensive is being closely watched by the United States and other powers fighting the Taliban in neighboring Afghanistan.