Pakistani security forces suffer deadliest year for a decade while fighting insurgency, report finds

Associated Press

PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) — Pakistan’s security forces suffered their highest casualties in nearly a decade while battling insurgency in 2024, an Islamabad-based research group said in a report. “On average, nearly seven lives were lost daily,” according to the report by the Center for Research and Security Studies, which tallied “at least 685 fatalities and 444 terror attacks.” The data was published as militants attacked a security post and a bomb went off outside a government office in the country’s restive northwest, killing a police officer and two civilians on Tuesday.