ISLAMABAD – Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies has revealed thecounterterrorism report for the year 2018.
A 29% decline in terrorist attacks in Pakistan has been witnessed last year.
The outlawed TTP, its splinters groups and ISIS’s Khurasan chapter remainedthe most potent threat to the country’s security, said a report by PakistanInstitute for Peace and Studies (PIPS).
At least 595 people were killed in the acts of terrorism around the countryin 2018, the report said, adding that about 38% were killed in five lethalattacks, which were claimed by ISIS in Balochistan Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
According to the report, 354 people were killed in Balochistan, which is59% of the total toll.
At least 262 terrorist attacks, including 19 suicide bombings, took placein Pakistan in 2018 and 171 were orchestrated by the outlawed TTP and itsoffshoots, the report said.