Terrorism in Pakistan

The risk of terrorist attacks in Pakistan over the past years can be classified as extremely high. Worldwide this is one of the most dangerous countries with the most and devastating attacks. Over the past 5 years a total number of 6136 terrorist incidents has been recorded, in which 7129 people have been killed and 13070 injured. Among them were 190 suicide acts.

In 372 incedents a total of 2166 people have been kidnapped or taken as hostage, though a ransom was rarely (49 times) extorted.

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Most frequent attack targets in Pakistan

(2013 to 2017)

Target	Attacks	Killed	Injured	Hostages
Private citizens	1612	2,776	5,765	598
Police	1233	1,626	2,432	438
Government	531	588	1,116	178
Business	524	476	1,174	251
Educational institution	335	328	449	569
Utilities	319	18	41	8
Military	293	487	964	43
Religious institutions	278	920	2,007	25
Transportation	220	243	743	55
Political parties	209	205	422	23

Most affected regions

(2013 to 2017)

Region	Attacks	Killed	Injured	Hostages
Balochistan	2064	2,115	3,965	945
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa	1878	2,118	3,492	821
Sindh	1119	1,348	2,443	83
Federally Administered Tribal Areas	723	921	1,763	279
Punjab	260	550	1,213	17
Islamabad Capital Territory	44	48	129	11
Gilgit-Baltistan	17	20	28	8
Azad Kashmir	10	4	6	0
Bolochistan	1	0	0	0

Terrorist organisations in Pakistan

Organisation	Attacks	Killed	Injured	Hostages
Taliban	469	1,961	3,678	592
Islamic State	84	446	848	10
Lashkar-e-Jhangvi	68	702	1,433	343
Jaish-e-Islam	20	73	84	1
Baloch Nationalists	19	24	72	0
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar	14	29	72	5
Jundallah	13	213	336	0
Tehrik-e-Khilafat	13	9	21	0
Halqa-e-Mehsud	11	10	7	37
Al-Qaida	9	6	9	1
Lashkar-e-Balochistan	8	1	15	0

All information sourced from the "National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism" (START) and its Global Terrorism Database. An act of terrorism is concidered every incident which is aimed at attaining a political, economic, religious, or social goal, but not for pure profit motives. In addition these incidents must not be legitimized by warfare activities, listet in the Geneva Conventions of 1949.