ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: Pakistan witnessed a decrease of 34 percent in terrorism activities during the year 2015 as compared to 2014, the official sources said here on Monday.
According to details, incidents of terrorism reduced from 5,496 in 2014 to 3,625 in 2015 and the new year has so far witnessed 80 per cent decline in terror acts and extremism by breaking network of terrorists in FATA, Karachi and Balochistan after developing much needed consensus among the political parties.
The sources said this achievement is due to the fact that all political forces clustered around National Action Plan to take it to logical conclusion.
A terror-stricken country was largely out of fear in 2015, when a close coordination and cooperation between Armed Forces and civilian leadership made Zarb-e-Azb a great success, destroying footholds of the most feared terrorists entrenched in North Waziristan and Khyber Agency, the sources maintained.
The National Action Plan (NAP), the sources said, has also brought about relief to the nation as the country has witnessed overall decline in heinous offences, particularly the crime against persons, last year as compared to 2014.
The statistics showed a vivid picture in regard to crime against persons in Pakistan as the total murder incidents decreased manifold largely due to the country-wide execution of the convicts, particularly the terrorists belonging to the banned organizations.
Punjab and Sindh have taken lead on two other provinces in bringing the total heinous crime down under the NAP. After the implementation of NAP, the sources said that three and two per cent decline was witnessed from 2014 to 2015 in the total crime that had taken place in Sindh and Punjab, respectively.
Punjab’s overall crime was reported 3, 89,554 cases in 2014 which decreased to 3, 82,932 in 2015 showing a difference of 6,622. Unfortunately, two provinces Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Balochistan witnessed 10 and 1 per cent surge in the total crime in 2015 as compared to 2014.
Punjab being the most populous province of Pakistan with approximately 56pc of the country’s total population showed an unprecedented decline in murder cases under the NAP. In 2014, as many as 6,094 persons were murdered in Punjab and this number had come down to 4,522 in 2015, according to the statistics.
Sindh took a lead on other provinces in this particular category of crime (murder incidents) by reporting 42pc reduction in 2015 as compared to 2014.
In dacoity and robbery incidents, Punjab and Sindh also showed visibly good performance under NAP as both had reported 33pc and 37pc decline in the former and 16pc and 25pc in the latter category of crime, respectively.
The kidnap for ransom has been a very challenging task in Pakistan during the last few years as the countrywide surge in the percentage of this kind of crime had upset the rich and business class. After the implementation of NAP, the sources said that all the provinces overwhelmingly responded to this category of crime by reducing it to 52pc.
In respect of crime against property, the data showed the KP had reported 3,702 incidents of crime against property in 2014 which increased to 3,826 next year.
In Punjab, the incidents of crime against property declined from 96,062 in 2014 to 84,518 in 2015. The same is the situation in Sindh which had reported 17,975 cases in 2014 that later decreased to 13,932 next year.
Source: APP
