Terrorism claims more than 3,000 lives in 2 years

Interior minister says terrorists carried out 2,500 suicide attacks and bomb blasts across the country.

ISLAMABAD: Terrorism incidents claimed more than 3,000 lives and injured 9,000 during the last two fiscal years in Pakistan.

Speaking in Senate on Friday, Interior Minister Rehman Malikrevealed that the figures did not include security personnel and those killed in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).

He said that terrorists had carried out 2,500 suicide attacks and bomb blasts across the country.

Balochistan topped the list with the 1,633 incidents and 760 people killed in the province.

The highest death toll in the last two years was in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa with 1,524 losing their lives in 716 incidents.

In Punjab 600 people lost their lives in 27 suicide attacks and bomb blasts. Sindh reported 134 people being killed in 56 such incidents.

Islamabad suffered 125 casualties in 16 incidents and Azad Kashmir 21 in ten.

According to the statistics provided by the Interior Minister, police and investigation agencies arrested 600 people suspected of involvement in these attacks and later released 352 of them.