India Spend: Terror Deaths Rise Sharply In Pakistan, Decline In India
As many as 56,480 people have been killed in Pakistan since 2005, at an average of nearly 14 a day.
Pakistan’s rising graph of terrorism-related deaths shows no sign of slowing, with 43 people dead and 20 injured when six motorcycle-borne terrorists raked a bus with automatic gunfire in the Pakistani port city of Karachi on Wednesday. Terrorism-related deaths in Pakistan increased 748.15% between 2005 and 2014. Over the same period, India saw a 70% decline in terrorism-related deaths.
Source: South Asia Terrorism Portal; *Figures for 2015 up to May 10.
As many as 56,480 people have been killed in Pakistan since 2005, at an average of nearly 14 a day.
Of those dead, 54.43% (30,799) were terrorists, 34.95% (19,740) civilians and 10.52% (5,941) security forces.
Prior to the bus attack, as many as 1,520 people have been killed in Pakistan in 2015 alone from terrorism-related violence, according to the latest data released by the South Asian Terrorism Portal. Like Pakistan, neighbouring India too has suffered the effects of terrorism, although at a lesser level. Since 2005, 19,385 persons have been killed, at an average of nearly five a day. Of those killed, 45.97% (8,911) were terrorists, 37.72% (7,312) civilians and 16.31% (3,162) security forces. In India, 251 people have died so far in 2015 from terrorism-related events.
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