Balochistan has topped terrorist related incidents as compared to other provinces with 1,424 such incidents were reported during the last three years (2009-11 till date).
As per latest countrywide statistics of reported crime which were submitted to the federal government, Khyber Pakhtukhwa ranked second with 1,218 such incidents while in Punjab and Sindh, the number of terrorist incidents was 104 and 534 respectively during the period. The number of such cases registered in Gilgit-Baltistan was 37 while in Islamabad Capital Territory it was 19. The comparative data of all provinces including Gilgit-Baltistan and ICT shows the nature of crimes including murder, abduction, abduction for ransom, IED explosives and terrorist incidents.
Punjab topped the murder crime with registered cases of 15,000 in three years, Sindh second with 9,020 cases while the number of such cases in KPK was 6,676 and 1,355 in Balochistan. ICT with 305 and GB with 148 murder cases were the fifth and sixth in the list. Moreover, Punjab again topped in the registered abduction cases with 33141, Sindh 8,253 cases, KPK 956, Balochistan 511, ICT 159 and 32 abduction cases were registered in GB during the period. Similarly, in abduction for ransom crime, Punjab again on top with 416 cases, Sindh 412, KPK 306, Balochistan 84, ICT eight and GB with only one such case in almost three years. In crime of Improvised Explosive Device (IED) explosions, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was on top with 326 registered cases, Balochistan 188 cases, Punjab 27 cases, Sindh with 22 cases while the number of such cases was two each in ICT and GB.