Rawalpindi : A total of 293 people have been killed and 521 injured in 436 terrorist attacks in Pakistan since January this year. ISPR, the media wing of the army, gave this information. In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, 192 people were killed and 330 were injured in 219 incidents, while in Balochistan 80 people were killed and 170 were injured in 206 attacks, said Director General (DG) of Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry. .
A total of 21 people were killed and 21 others were injured in the 11 incidents in Punjab and Sindh provinces, he said. The DG said that this year, security forces conducted 8,269 major and minor intelligence-based operations, in which 1,535 terrorists were either killed or arrested. The official said that on an average, more than 70 operations are being conducted daily by the police, security forces and other law enforcement agencies across the country.
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