Nearly 5000 civilians, over 2, 500 policemen and Pakistan Army Personnel have been killed by the terrorists of Alquida and Taliban in Pakistan. The number of injured is several times high. The losses due to Pakistan’s participation in the war on terror have been estimated to cross over 42 Billion Dollars.
The following article in a British daily does not give realistic picture of the cost that Pakistan is paying for siding with US and helping them in Afghan invasion. Over 2 Million Afghan refugees still remain Pakistan since the days of Soviet occupation. The right wing leaders accuse that enemies of Pakistan are funding the militants most of who are criminals and mercenaries recruited from tribal areas in between Afghanistan and Pakistan and some Uzbek and Indians. They accuse Hindu Zionist cabal of fomenting trouble in the region.
The number of civilians killed in US drone attacks in Waziristan Tribal belt is several times higher than the suspected militants hiding there and Amnesty International has criticized these attacks.
According to guardian.co.uk (Jan 11, 2010)
3,021 people killed in terrorist attacks in 2009 – a 48% rise, according to Islamabad think tank A record number of Pakistani civilians and security forces died in militant violence last year as the country reeled from an onslaught of Taliban suicide bombings that propelled it into the ranks of the world’s most perilous places.
Pakistan saw 3,021 deaths in terrorist attacks in in 2009, up 48% on the year before, according to a new report by the Pakistan Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS), an Islamabad-based defense think tank. Researchers counted a total of 12,600 violent deaths across the country in 2009, 14 times more than in 2006.
-Khan N. Arif
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