A major growth in terrorist attacks and inflammation number of civic casualties has brought Pakistan to second place in the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) 2025.
The latest GTI report published by the Institute of Economics and Peace (IEP) is a compilation of 163 countries worldwide, which creates at least 99.7 percent of the world’s population. The GTI evaluates indicators, including terrorist incidents, casualties, injuries, and their influence on terrorism.
The report shows that the number of deaths related to terrorism in Pakistan has seen a steady growth in the last five years with the biggest year-on-year growth and during 2024, there has been a huge increase of 45 percent of terrorist attacks across the country.
“This trend is reflected by an increase in the number of terrorist attacks, which exceeded 517 in 2023, to 1,099 in 2024. This is the first year when the attacks have exceeded 1,000 since the installation of the index,” read in the report.
The banned terrorist organization Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has emerged as the fastest growing group and the deadliest organization in the country for the second consecutive year, with an increase in deaths of at least 90 percent.
During 2024, TTP carried out 482 attacks in Pakistan, resulting in 585 deaths, increased by at least 91 percent from last year, with 293 deaths.
“TTP was responsible for 52 percent of the deaths in Pakistan in 2024. Pakistan has experienced significant growth in terrorism since the Taliban’s increase in power in Afghanistan. Terrorist groups working from Afghanistan have intensified their attacks, especially with the border of Pakistan-Afghanistan. The affected areas, affected areas, with these western border areas with these western border areas with more than 2024, more than 96 percent of the terrorists and deaths in Pakistan during 2024 Are, “The report mentions.
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