Author: Muhammad Nafees
Editor: Zeeshan Salahuddin
The Center for Research and Security Studies has launched its Annual Security Report [Special Edition 2013-2018]. The report takes a comprehensive look at the security situation of Pakistan over the span of last six years.
Across Pakistan, and across all metrics, violence-related casualties continued to decline in 2018, registering a 45% drop from the previous year, and 86% drop since 2013. If we look purely at fatalities from terror attacks and incidents, the number dropped 83% from 4,643 in 2013 to 754 in 2018. This an unprecedented drop in violence across the country. The bulk of the success is owed to the extensive kinetic operations conducted across the country. However, while the progress on eliminating terrorism is exceptional, the progress on eliminating its root cause of extremism remains woeful at best.