Death toll in terrorist attacks in Pakistan crosses 4,000 this year

The number of casualties in terrorist attacks in Pakistan is increasing.

At least 3,822 people have been killed in terrorist attacks in Pakistan this year. The country has seen the highest number of deaths from terrorism this year in almost a decade. This information was given in a report on Wednesday (December 18) by the South Asia Terrorism Portal (SATP), an international organization that monitors terrorism in South Asia.

Their report presents statistics on deaths from terrorism in Pakistan from 2014 to 2025. It shows that the number of deaths from terrorist attacks in 2025 increased by 70.93 percent compared to 2015. The highest number of deaths from terrorist attacks in Pakistan's history occurred in 2014. That year, terrorists took the lives of about 5,500 people in the country.

Of these, about 150 people, including 134 students, were killed in a terrorist attack at the Army Public School in Peshawar. However, the number of casualties decreased slightly after that. In 2015, 3,685 people lost their lives to terrorism in the country.

The number of casualties decreased slightly in the following years when the Pakistani military stepped up counter-terrorism operations in response to the Peshawar school attack. But after the Taliban government came to power in Afghanistan, terrorist attacks in Pakistan increased again. Pakistan alleges that the notorious terrorist group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is now using the country's territory to carry out terrorism in Pakistan, taking advantage of the laxity of the Taliban government in Afghanistan.

Before the SATP, the Islamabad-based think tank Center for Research and Security Studies (CRSS) had said in a report that the rate of terrorism-related violence in Pakistan increased by 46 percent in the three months from June 1 to August 31, 2025, compared to previous years.

Firstpost reported.