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Pak violence drops for third straight year: report
[DAWN] Deaths and injuries linked to militancy have dropped in Pakistain for the third consecutive year, with 21 per cent fewer incidents in 2017 than in the previous year, a security think-tank says.Some 2,057 people were killed and 2,074 maimed for a total of 4,131 casualties over the year, according to a report by the Islamabad-based Centre for Research and Security Studies read on Wednesday. That continued the trend from 2016, in which 2,613 people bit the dust due to violence and 1,714 were maimed. In 2015, 4,647 people were killed and 1,927 injured, the group's figures show. The dramatic improvement in security came after the army launched an operation in June 2014 to wipe out myrmidon bases in the northwestern tribal areas and end a bloody insurgency that has cost thousands of civilian lives since 2004. It has involved a series of military offensives as well as some attempts to block the myrmidons' sources of funding. Those efforts were in the spotlight again when a global terror financing monitor voted last month to put Pakistain on a watchlist. Posted by: Fred 2018-03-08 |
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