Within the last year, Pakistan witnessed a further 12% drop in violence-related fatalities, continuing a trend from 2015, with 600 fatalities reported from terror and counter-terror related incidents. Erstwhile FATA suffered the most number of fatalities, followed by Balochistan and KP. KP and FATA combined account for over 50% of violence-related deaths in the country in 2020. This data was collated and compiled by the Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) in Islamabad.

Former FATA accounted for nearly third of violence-related fatalities this year at 191, a 63.2% rise from 2019. Although KP (excluding FATA) recorded 122 fatalities against 148 last year, the combined fatalities in KP and former FATA are more than 50% of the total fatalities from violence in the country this year. Balochistan recorded a 38.9% drop in violence from 226 to 138. There was a nominal drop in Sindh, and in Punjab, the fatalities dropped by more than half, from 82 in 2019 to 40 this year (table 1).

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