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The victims of terror attacks are divided into three main categories: civilians, security personnel, and outlaws (militants/insurgents/criminals). While militants, insurgents, and criminals target civilian and security personnel, the targets of the security operations are always outlaws (militants, criminals, and insurgents).
The following information details the affiliations of the victims of terror attacks in the last six years including members of political parties, religious parties, religious persons, polio teams, and others.
Political party member fatalities
Most political parties active in the country have suffered casualties from terror attacks or violence. MQM tops that list by a large margin, followed by ANP, BNP, PPP, PMLN, and PTI (table 08).
Religious party member fatalities
Among the religious parties, ASWJ appears to have had the largest number of victims of terror attacks (135) in the last six years, and the majority of them were targeted between 2013 and 2015. This is followed by JUIF, ST, and JI (table 09).
Religious person fatalities
A total of 231 seemed to be targeted because of their faith, or for attending religious gatherings. They are detailed as follows.
Foreigner fatalities
In the last six years, 60 foreigners lost their lives to terrorism, including Afghans (43), Ukrainians, American, and Nepali tourists (9), Chinese (3), an Uzbek and an Iranian.
Media personnel fatalities
As many as 40 persons belonging to the media community lost their lives in six years and most of the victims belonged to mainstream newspapers or TV channels. The majority of them were the victims of target killings or suicide attacks (table 12). Another 55 suffered injuries during the same period, ostensibly as an intimidation tactic.
Polio team fatalities
At least 103 persons associated with the polio vaccination campaign were the martyrs of terror attacks during last six years; 17 were females. Another 73 survived the attacks. Nearly a third of these victims were targeted in FATA and nearly another third in KP (table 13)+.
Polio teams comprise of vaccinators and police guards assigned for their protection. Both were targeted in attacks (table 14).
Security official fatalities
As many as 2,751 security personnel were victims of terror attacks in the reporting period. The table below offers yearly data on the number of fatalities suffered by security. Overall, there has been a rise in the percentage of the total victims of terror attacks, but a decline of almost 66% since 2013, and 68% since 2014.
Nearly 50% of these were police officials and followed by personnel from the Army, Frontier Corps, Khassadars, Levies, Rangers, Pakistan Air Force, and others (table 16).
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