List of Terrorist Incidents Since 2001: Terrorism in Pakistan According To
List of Terrorist Incidents Since 2001: Terrorism in Pakistan According To
List of Terrorist Incidents Since 2001: Terrorism in Pakistan According To
Contents
War on terrorism
Main article: Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
The current wave of terrorism peaked during 2009. Since then it has declined as result of selective
military operations conducted by the Pakistan Army.[2] According to South Asian Terrorism Portal
Index (SATP), terrorism in Pakistan has declined by 89% in 2017 since its peak years in 2009.[2]
In 2012, the Pakistani leadership sat down to sort out solutions for dealing with the menace of
terrorism and in 2013, political parties unanimously reached a resolution on Monday 9, September
2013, at the All Parties Conference (APC), stating that negotiation with the militants should be
pursued as their first option to counter terrorism.[17]
With the terrorists attacks continuing in late 2013 the political leadership in Pakistan initiated a
military operation against terrorists named Operation Zarb-e-Azb; a joint military offensive against
various militant groups, including the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Jundallah,
al-Qaeda, the East Turkestan Islamic Movement (ETIM), the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan (IMU)
and the Haqqani network.[18][citation needed] The operation was launched by the Pakistan Armed Forces on
15 June 2014 in North Waziristan (part of the Federally Administered Tribal Areas along the Afghan
border) as a renewed effort against militancy in the wake of the 8 June attack on Jinnah International
Airport in Karachi, for which the TTP and the IMU claimed responsibility.[19]
Operation Zarb-e-Azb has been described as turning point in Pakistan war on terrorism. The
operation was successful and Pakistan experienced sharp decline in terrorism since the launch of
the operation.[20] According to National Counter Terrorism Authority (Nacta), Pakistan experienced
largest number of terrorist attack in 2010. Since 2014, terrorist attacks in Pakistan have significantly
declined. Pakistani officials state that the terrorism in Pakistan will decline more once the fencing of
Pakistan-Afghanistan border is complete.[20]
Pakistani newspaper, Dawn news, reports that Pakistan's economic losses due to war on terrorism
declined by 62% from 2014 to 2018. The Pakistani economy suffered $23.77 billion in 2010-11 due
to expenses related to war on terrorism. This amount declined to $12 billion in 2011-12. In 2016-17,
Pakistan economy suffered $5.47 billion and $2.07 billion on 2017-18. Pakistani government
estimates that Pakistan has suffered total losses of $126.79 billion since 9/11 attacks.[12]
Afghan President's spokesperson, Aimal Faizi, told reporters that the National Directorate of
Security (NDS) was working with Latif. Latif was conduit for funding to TTP. Some of the funding for
TTP might have come from NDS.[21] Former NDS head, Asadullah Khalid, posted a video belonging
to TTP on his Twitter account where he claimed that Badaber Camp attack was tit for tat.[22]
See also
Operation Zarb-e-Azb
War on terror
Insurgency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
2014 Larkana temple attack
2019 Ghotki riots
2020 Karak temple attack
References
1. ^ "Fatalities in terrorist violence in Pakistan 2003-2018". South Asian Terrorism Portal Index
(SATP). Retrieved 18 August 2018.
2. ^ Jump up to: "Terrorism in Pakistan decline by 89% in 8 years". ProPakistani. Archived from
a b c d
13. ^ Matthew Rosenberg. "U.S. Disrupts Afghans' Tack on Militants". New York Times.
Retrieved 28 October 2013.
14. ^ Umar Farooq (1 January 2014). "Afghanistan-Pakistan: The covert war". The
Diplomat. Archived from the original on 4 January 2014. Latif spent much of his time since
2010 between Afghanistan and Pakistan, and it is believed he was a conduit for funding to
the TTP. It now appears some of that funding might have come from Afghanistan’s
intelligence agency, the National Directorate of Security (NDS)....Yet, the president’s
spokesperson, Aimal Faizi, openly told reporters the NDS had been working with Latif “for a
long period of time.” Latif, Faizi said, “was part of an NDS project like every other intelligence
agency is doing.”
15. ^ "Former Afghan intelligence head says Badaber attack is a 'tit for tat', terms TTP militants
as 'martyrs'". Daily Pakistan. 19 September 2015. Archived from the original on 20
September 2015.
16. ^ "Terrorism in Pakistan". The Nation. 20 April 2016.
17. ^ "APC: Political leaders decide on Taliban talks as first step". 9 September 2013.
18. ^ US commander commends Zarb-e-Azb for disrupting Haqqani network's ability to target
Afghanistan 6 November 2014., The Express Tribune
19. ^ "Gunmen kill 13 at Karachi's Jinnah International Airport". BBC News. 9 June 2014.
20. ^ Jump up to: Umar Farooq (1 January 2019). "Terror incidents continued to decline in
a b
Bibliography
Hassan Abbas. Pakistan's Drift Into Extremism: Allah, The Army, And America's War On
Terror, M.E. Sharpe, 2004. ISBN 0-7656-1497-9
Zahid Hussain. Frontline Pakistan: The Struggle with Militant Islam, New York: Columbia
University Press, 2007. ISBN 0-231-14224-2
Further reading
Ali, Nosheen. "Books vs Bombs? Humanitarian development and the narrative of terror
in Northern Pakistan." Third World Quarterly. Volume 31, Issue 4, 2010 ("Special Issue:
Relocating Culture in Development and Development in Culture"). p. 541-559. DOI:
10.1080/01436591003701075. Published online on 28 June 2013. Available
on EBSCOHost Academic Search Complete, Accession number 51818440.
External links
Pakistan portal