Summary The report was presented by Parliamentary Secretary Maryam Aurangzeb.
ISLAMABAD (Web Desk) – A report regarding deaths of civilians and law enforcement personnel in terror-related incidents across Pakistan in last five years was presented in the National Assembly today (Saturday), Dunya News reported.
The report presented by Parliamentary Secretary Maryam Aurangzeb states that 107 security men were killed in Punjab, 64 in Sindh, 872 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 605 in Balochistan, 1 in ICT, 1,487 in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), 4 in Azad Kashmir and 17 in Gilgit-Baltistan.
At least 152 civilian lost their lives in Punjab, 313 in Sindh, 2,422 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 1,050 in Balochistan, 61 in Islamabad, 1,470 in FATA, 1in Azad Kashmir and 63 civilians were targeted in Gilgit-Baltistan.
The report says that there are 206 death row prisoners who were convicted on terror charges, out of which 81 are in Punjab jails, 98 in Sindh, 25 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and one terrorist is in Islamabad jail.
The House was further informed that 90 terrorists were killed in Punjab, 342 in Sindh, 351 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, 435 in Balochistan, 7 in Islamabad, 2530 in FATA, 3 in AJK and one terrorist was killed in Gilgit-Baltistan.
During last five years, 64 terrorists were sentenced to death in Punjab, 106 in Sindh and one each in KPK, Islamabad and Balochistan.
Pakistan has executed 299 people since the death penalty was controversially reinstated in December last year. The government had ended a six-year moratorium on the death penalty as part of a terror crackdown after Taliban militants gunned down more than 150 people, most of them children, at Army Public School in Peshawar on December 16, 2014.
Pakistan Army is currently engaged in a major offensive (Zarb-e-Azb) in North Waziristan tribal agency to clear miltiant hideouts. So far, more than three thousand terrorists have been killed in the operation.
