TIMELINE: Major attacks in Pakistan after mosque assault

(Reuters) - A suicide bomber blew himself up in northwest Pakistan on Tuesday killing 16 people as police tried to search him, police said.

Pakistan has seen a surge in attacks since a military assault against a Taliban-led movement in an Islamabad mosque killed 102 people in July. Over 260 people have been killed in the attacks.

Here is the chronology of the attacks since July:

* July 4: Suicide bomber kills six soldiers and two children in North West Frontier Province (NWFP). Roadside bomb aimed at police kills four civilians in another part of province.

* July 6: Suicide bomber throws himself at army jeep, killing six soldiers in NWFP.

* July 8: Unidentified gunmen kill three Chinese workers and wound another in Peshawar, NWFP. Separately, a policeman is killed in blast in NWFP.

* July 12: Two suicide bomb attacks kill seven people, including three policemen, in semi-autonomous North Waziristan tribal region and NWFP.

* July 14: Suicide car-bomber kills 24 paramilitary soldiers and wounds 29 in North Waziristan; two security officials are wounded in another blast in NWFP.

* July 15: Sixteen people, most of them paramilitary soldiers, are killed in suicide-bomb ambush on patrol in Swat valley in NWFP. Separately, suicide bomber targets police recruiting centre in Dera Ismail Khan in NWFP, killing 29.

* July 17: Suicide bomber kills 16 people outside court in Islamabad where country's suspended chief justice, Iftikhar Chaudhry, was due to speak. Separately, suicide bomber kills four, including three soldiers, in North Waziristan.

* July 18: Seventeen soldiers are killed when militants attack security force convoy in North Waziristan.

* July 19: Three suicide attacks kill at least 52 people. At least 30 are killed in southern town of Hub. In northwest city of Hangu a car bomber kills seven people. And at least 15 worshippers are killed at mosque at army training centre in northwest Kohat.

* July 27: Suicide bomb attack in restaurant near Islamabad's Red Mosque complex kills 13 people, most of them policemen.

* August 13: Roadside bomb kills four people in northwest Pakistan on eve of the country's 60th independence day.

* August 16: Roadside blast kills two soldiers in North Waziristan.

* August 18: Soldier is killed in attack on security post near Afghan border.