Pakistan Security Report 2021

Up 42 percent from the year before, a total of 207 terrorist attacks took place in Pakistan in the year 2021, which also included five suicide blasts. Perpetrated by different nationalist insurgent, religiously inspired militant and violent sectarian groups, these attacks claimed in all 335 lives – an increase of 52 percent from those killed in such attacks in 2020 – and injured another 555 people.

The religiously inspired militant groups such as the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), local Taliban groups, and Islamic State Khorasan (IS-K), etc., perpetrated a combined total of 128 terrorist attacks – compared to 95 in previous year – which killed 236 people and injured 278 others. Different Balochi and Sindhi nationalist insurgent groups carried out 77 attacks – as compared to 44 such attacks in 2020 – which claimed 97 lives and wounded another 255 people. Meanwhile, compared to seven in 2020, two sectarian-related terrorist attacks were recorded in 2021 claiming as many lives as possible and inflicting injuries on another 22 people.