Violence surged marginally across Pakistan during the current week in comparison to the past week. Bomb blasts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) and insistent target killings in Karachi continued rocking Pakistan during the entire week. Casualties due to the ongoing infighting among ethno-political and sectarian factions in Karachi reached to whopping 195 during last seven weeks. The data collected (from ten newspapers that CRSS uses as the source) suggests that 136 persons were killed as a result of 54 incidents of violence across the country during the reported week (for details see data sheet).These violent incidents also left 167 people injured. The persistent wave of violence and spree of target killings across the country once again pushed the civilian death toll to the top, wherein 68 percent civilians perished. Numerically speaking 93 civilians lost their lives and 149 others were wounded in violent incidents of various kinds during the week. Militants suffered the second highest number of fatalities, wherein 38 militants got killed and another nine were wounded, mostly during operational attacks by the security forces in different areas of KP and Federally Administered Tribal areas (FATA). Furthermore, like the preceding week, only one CIA operated drone strike was reported during the current week killing three suspected militants in Miramshah Bazaar, North Waziristan Agency (FATA). The sabotage campaign, launched by the militants to dismantle state infrastructure continued unabated, as two power pylons of 132KV were blown up by the miscreants in Maund area of Kohlu district (Balochistan). Unlike the past week where no sectarian attack was reported; three sectarian attacks were witnessed during the current week claiming seven lives, among them five Shia and two Sunni Muslims. Moreover, casualties due to the target killings surged by eight percent (25 percent against last week 17 percent) and the number of target killing incidents almost doubled (32 against last...

The violence subsided relatively across Pakistan during the current week. Wave of bomb blasts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), intermittent target killings in Karachi and frequent skirmishes between militants and military in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) rocked Pakistan. Fatalities involving warring ethno-political factions in Karachi have peaked to whopping 152 during last six weeks. The data collected (from ten newspapers that CRSS uses as the source) suggests that 123 persons were killed as a result of 39 incidents of violence across the country during the reported week (for details see data sheet).These violent incidents also left 165 people injured. At a time when total death toll saw a relative respite, the number of injured surged sharply from last week 74 to 165 (more than double) this week. Unlike the previous week, where militants topped the causality ladder, civilians bore the major brunt ofthe ongoing conflicts in the country. In total, 81 civilians perished and 144 others wounded in different violent incidents. The second highest number of deaths was of militants, wherein 31 militants died and 13 got injured under different circumstances across the country. In contrast to the past two weeks that witnessed eight remote-controlled drone strikes killing 58 militants; only one CIA operated drone strike was reported during the week killing four people in North Waziristan Agency (FATA). The sabotage campaign launched by the militants to dismantle state infrastructure continued unabated as three power pylons, one of 220kv and another two of 132kv, two tube-wells and three shops were blown up by the miscreants in different areas of KP and Balochistan provinces. Suspected militants also blew up two schools in Mardan and Kohat districts of KP. Contrary to the past eleven weeks where scores of people got killed due to sectarian attacks, no such attack was reported during the week in any part of the country. Furthermore, causalities due to the target...