Terror attacks register 55pc decrease in 2015

PESHAWAR: As many as 220 terrorist attacks were reported in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2015 compared to 493 in 2014, showing a decrease of at least 55 percent.

According to the statistics of the Central Police Office, the attacks using the improvised explosive devices (IEDs) came down to 87 in 2015 compared to 239 in the previous year. This meant decrease of 64 percent in the IED attacks while comparing the last two years.

Besides, no vehicle-borne IED was exploded in the province during 2015. The number of such attacks was four in 2014. Six suicide attacks were reported in the province during the last year against 11 in 2014.

The number of missile attacks registered a decrease from two to one, firing of rockets from 12 to four, grenade attacks from 69 to 35 and firing incidents from 165 to 87.The overall law and order was better compared to the last many years. The two major attacks reported during the year included one on the camp of the Pakistan Air Force in Badaber and the other on the Imamia Masjid in Peshawar’s Hayatabad town.

Though the target killing of policemen and other people continued, the number of such attacks went down.The number of extortion cases decreased by 52 percent. However, the bomb attacks on the houses of well-off people who were the target of extortion showed an increase during the last two months of the year.