ISLAMABAD: Militant group Islamic State (IS) is continually on the rise in Sindh and Balochistan, as claimed in a security report, ‘Pakistan Security Report 2017’, released by the Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS). The report also claims that despite a 16 per cent decline in terrorist attacks last year, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and its associated groups remained the strongest threat, followed by Balochistan Liberation Army and Balochistan Liberation Front. According to the report, militant, nationalist/insurgent and violent sectarian groups carried out 370 terrorist attacks in 64 districts of the country in 2017. As many as 19 terrorist attacks were sectarian-related, in which 71 people were killed and 97 injured. National Security Adviser (r) Lt Gen Nasser Khan Janjua, in the report, reveals that a ‘national security policy’ has been documented and circulated internally in the government.

Source: Pakistan Today January 08, 2018 05:15 UTC