dpa
Islamabad
Pakistan witnessed an alarming surge in militant attacks in 2024 amid ongoing threats from Islamist militants and insurgent groups.
“Pakistan experienced a 40% surge in militant attacks in 2024 compared to the previous year, recording 905 incidents that resulted in 1,177 deaths and 1,292 injuries,” according to statistics released by the Islamabad-based think tank, Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS), on Tuesday.
According to the data 527 security forces personnel were killed over the past year, the highest number since 2014, amid a surge in violence by Islamist militants allegedly operating from across the border in Afghanistan.
Last week, the military’s media wing ISPR said it lost 383 officers and soldiers over the year. Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, a group which wants to implement rule by Islamic law known as sharia, claimed the highest number of attacks. The group was pushed back by the military in a series of offensives that began in 2014, but it returned in force after the fall of Kabul to their Afghan counterparts three year ago.
