WASHINGTON – US State Department on Thursday has issued its annual CountryReports on Terrorism for the year 2017.

According to the annex of statistical information, in 2017, the totalnumber of terrorist attacks reported in Pakistan decreased 22 percent, andthe total number of deaths decreased 11 percent; however, the total numberof people injured increased six percent in comparison to 2016.

“Perpetrator deaths comprised nine percent of all deaths in Pakistan in2017, compared to 24 percent worldwide.

The decline in the number of terrorist attacks was particularly steep inKhyber Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh provinces, where attacks decreased by morethan 85 percent since 2013,” it stated.

In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the number of deaths caused by terrorist attacksdeclined 89 percent since 2013, commensurate with decreasing numbers ofattacks, the report revealed.

Fifty-nine percent of all attacks took place in five countries(Afghanistan, India, Iraq, Pakistan, and the Philippines), and 70 percentof all deaths due to terrorist attacks took place in five countries(Afghanistan, Iraq, Nigeria, Somalia, and Syria), it concluded.