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Pakistan Sees Deadliest Year in a Decade, with Combat Deaths Surging 74% in 2025, Report Says
Militant attacks caused over half of the 3,413 deaths, with 667 security personnel killed—a 26% rise from 2024, says the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies.
- In 2025, Pakistan experienced combat-related deaths surging 74%, with the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies reporting 3,413 fatalities including 2,138 militants.
- Counterterrorism pressure pushed a 124% rise in militant deaths from 2024, while PICSS recorded at least 1,066 militant attacks and a 53% increase in suicide attacks in 2025.
- Gen. Ahmad Sharif Chaudhry said Pakistan's security forces carried out 67,023 intelligence-based operations, killing 1,873 militants including 136 Afghan nationals, and arrested about 500 militants last year, up from 272 in 2024.
- Following the Oct. 9 explosions in Kabul, a Qatar-mediated ceasefire has largely held though three Istanbul rounds failed to reach a November agreement, and Field Marshal Asim Munir urged Afghanistan's Taliban to choose sides in December.
- Security personnel and civilians bore heavy losses, with 667 security personnel and 580 civilian deaths, while multiple militant groups including the Pakistani Taliban claimed most attacks and Islamabad accuses Kabul, which Afghanistan's Taliban government denies.
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n1info.rsThe past year 2025 was Pakistan's deadliest in the past decade, as conflict-related deaths rose by 74 percent, with militants accounting for more than half of the casualties, according to a new report released today by an independent think tank.
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Pakistan sees deadliest year in a decade, with combat deaths surging 74% in 2025, report says
Pakistan experienced its deadliest year in over a decade in 2025, with combat-related deaths surging 74%, according to a new report from an independent think tank.
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