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62 clear cut act of extra judicial killings perpetrated by actors of a foreign state.
The number of drone attacks has declined recently but the fact remains that a
certain complicity and silence surrounds this grave issue. Media reports put
the number of drone attacks in 2012 at 48 compared to 74 in 2011. The total
number of casualties as a result of these attacks varied. Conservative estimates
put the number around 240 while some estimates went as high as 400.
According to statistics published by The Bureau of Investigative Journalism,
the number of injured were reported to be 115-172. Women and children were
also amongst those killed in these drone strikes.
Law and order
Terrorist attacks
According to Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS), an independent thinktank
in Pakistan, militant, nationalist insurgent and violent sectarian groups
carried out a total of 1,577 terrorist attacks across Pakistan in 2012, claiming
the lives of 2,050 people and causing injuries to another 3,822. Over 61 percent
of these attacks were carried out by the so-called religiously motivated militant
groups, mainly the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which caused the killing
of 1,076 people and injuries to another 2,227. The Baloch and Sindhi nationalist
insurgents carried out 404 attacks, killing 437 people and injuring 823 others.
More than 14 schools were bombed in Peshawar and FATA by terrorists.
The bombed schools included one middle school, 4 boys’ schools, 3 girls’
schools and six primary schools. As per a communiqué by Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa Police, 12 networks of terrorists were busted, 459 militants
were rounded up and 52 others were killed during 2012.
Meanwhile, 202 sectarian-related terrorist attacks, perpetrated by banned
sectarian groups, the TTP and groups affiliated with it claimed the lives of 537
people and caused injuries to 772 people. 531 people, mainly Shias, were killed
Blast in Kohat: Terrorists attacks persisted in cities across northwest
Pakistan.