Second year in a row report shows global declin­e in number of deaths from terror­ist attack­sPakistan ranks fifth out of 163 countries on the Global Terrorism Index (GTI) with a score of 8.4 out of 10, the Australia and US-based Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP) said in its report. The GTI is based on data from the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) which is considered to be the most comprehensive global data set on terrorist activity and has now codified over 170,000 terrorist incidents. “Terrorism has fallen significantly in the epicentres of Syria, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Nigeria, which are four of the five countries most affected by terrorism”, stated the report. PakistanAccording to the report, 2016 was the third consecutive year in which Pakistan recorded fewer deaths related to terrorism. “Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan was responsible for 283 deaths in 2016, which accounted for 30 per cent of total deaths from terrorism that year.

Source: The Express Tribune December 02, 2017 09:56 UTC