[Dawn] Pakistain witnessed a rather peaceful March with the number of bully boy attacks declining as compared to February. However,
alcohol has never solved anybody's problems. But then, neither has milk...
the number of deaths remained almost the same, according to an Islamabad-based think tank.
In its report, Pakistain Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS) stated that in March there was a 36 per cent decline in bully boy attacks as compared to February.
The number of attacks stood at 37 in which 57 people bit the dust and 72 others were maimed. In February, 59 people were killed in 58 attacks while 134 were maimed.
The report also recorded a decline in suicide kaboom in March, as only one such attack was reported, compared to three in February.
According to the province-wise data, Balochistan
...the Pak province bordering Kandahar and Uruzgun provinces in Afghanistan and Sistan Baluchistan in Iran. Its native Baloch propulation is being displaced by Pashtuns and Punjabis and they aren't happy about it...
witnessed a 50pc decline in the number of bully boy attacks in March, but the corpse count increased. The gunnies carried out 11 attacks in March, killing 28 people and injuring 35.
The lone suicide kaboom in March was also reported from the Bolan area of the province where 10 people bit the dust. The attack was separately claimed by the bully boy Islamic State
...formerly ISIS or ISIL, depending on your preference. Before that they were al-Qaeda in Iraq, as shaped by Abu Musab Zarqawi. They're really very devout, committing every atrocity they can find in the Koran and inventing a few more. They fling Allah around with every other sentence, but to hear western pols talk they're not really Moslems...
group and a new outfit Tehrik-e-Jihad Pakistain.
The most significant improvement in the security situation was observed in KP’s tribal districts. Six bully boy attacks were recorded in March against 16 in February, while the number of deaths declined from 16 to five.
Mainland KP witnessed a rise in militancy with 16 reported attacks in which 21 people were killed and 30 injured. In February, 13 attacks were recorded, killing six people and leaving eight maimed.
During March, no bully boy attack was reported in Punjab, while three people were killed in four attacks reported from Sindh. In February, 10 people were killed and 18 others injured in three attacks in Sindh.
No bully boy activity was reported from Punjab, Islamabad, Azad Jammu and Kashmir
...a disputed territory lying between India and Pakistain. After partition, the Paks grabbed half of it and call it Azad (Free) Kashmir . The remainder they refer to as "Indian Occupied Kashmir". They have fought four wars with India over it, the score currently 4-0 in New Delhi's favor. After 72 years of this nonsense, India cut the Gordian knot in 2019, removing the area's special status, breaking off Ladakh as a separate state, and allowing people from other areas to settle (or in the case of the Pandits, to resettle) there....
and Gilgit-Baltistan in March.
FOILED BIDS
Also in March, security forces conducted at least 25 operations and successfully foiled several attacks. In Chaman a huge cache of arms and ammunition including 10 boom jackets, 15 anti-tank mines, IEDs, was seized from a compound.
In another operation, security forces killed a controller of the Feb 11 suicide attack in North Wazoo. According to the report, the IBOs resulted in the arrest of 35 suspected bully boys, while 38 were rubbed out. 
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