Pakistan witnessed a total of 2,985 violent incidents, including terrorist attacks, security forces operations, ethno-political violence, inter-tribal clashes, drone attacks, and cross-border attacks, in 2011, a report has revealed.
An Islamabad-based think tank Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS) suggested in its annual 'Security Report 2011' that Pakistan witnessed suicide attack or drone hit every third day last year.
According to the report, casualties in violent incidents went down, from 10,003 fatalities in 2010 to 7,107 in 2011, a decrease of 29%.
The number of people injured in these attacks declined from 10,283 in 2010 to 6,736 in 2011, representing a 34% decrease, the report said.
The report also revealed that forty-five suicide attacks took place across Pakistan in 2011, compared to 68 in 2010 and 87 in 2009.
In these attacks in 2011, as many as 676 people were killed and 1462 injured. Most of the casualties were civilians. More than half of these attacks occurred in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, claiming the lives of 449 people.
According to the report, the overall incidence of sectarian violence in the country decreased by nine per cent from 152 incidents in 2010 to 139 in 2011.
The report also revealed that 75 US drone attacks took place in Pakistan in 2011, killing 557 people and injuring 153.
The report suggests that although conflict-related violence decreased in Pakistan in 2011, the complex security landscape in the country made it one of the most volatile states in the region and necessitated effective measures to curb militancy and terrorism.
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