Pakistani rescue workers move the body of a victim at the site of an explosion in Lahore on July 24, 2017. An explosion killed at least 15 people and injured 20 in a busy vegetable market in Pakistan's eastern city of Lahore July 24, rescue officials said, but it was not immediately clear what caused the blast. "We have 15 confirmed (fatal) casualties and 20 injured," Jam Sajjad Hussain, a spokesman for the Rescue 1122 service, told AFP. / AFP PHOTO / ARIF ALI
According to the Annual Security Report compiled by the Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS), Pakistan reported 600 violence-related fatalities in 361 incidents during 2020, a 12% decline from 2019.
Last year, the former FATA region, which merged with KP in May 2018, witnessed the most fatalities, followed by Balochistan and KP.
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Former FATA region recorded 191 violence-related deaths during 2020, a 63.2% increase from 2019.
Meanwhile, Balochistan reported 138 deaths and KP recorded 122 deaths in 2020 against the 226 and 148 of 2019 respectively.
Both Sindh and Punjab recorded a decline in violence-related fatalities in 2020 as well. On the other hand, Islamabad and Gilgit Baltistan reported an increase in fatalities last year. No death was reported in Azad Jammu Kashmir in 2020.
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Of the 600 fatalities recorded last year, 228 were reported in 101 security operations and 372 were reported in 260 terrorist attacks. 86 terrorists were also apprehended during security operations in 2020.
In terms of fatalities by victims, 242 civilians, 200 militants, and 158 security officials died last year.
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