Pakistan sees deadliest year in a decade
AP News••world
Key Points:
- Pakistan experienced its deadliest year in over a decade in 2025, with combat-related deaths rising 74% to 3,413, including 2,138 militants killed, according to the Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS).
- The surge in violence is attributed to intensified counterterrorism operations against the Pakistani Taliban (TTP), which has escalated attacks on Pakistan’s security forces, alongside increased suicide bombings and militants’ use of U.S. military equipment left from the Afghanistan withdrawal.
- Security personnel deaths rose 26% to 667, the highest since 2011, and civilian deaths reached 580, the highest since 2015; militant attacks totaled at least 1,066 with a
