Terrorism Thrives.

The Interior Ministry in the Senate unleashed figures according to which there have been 434 terrorist attacks in Pakistan within the last six months. This development comes in the backdrop of stagnant and uncertain peace talks with the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), which has refused to budge from its hardline stance. The situation as it stands today then is the existence of extremist violence that targets security forces, state-institutions and civilians and to combat this, the government has launched operations to eliminate extremists.

Details of the report presented in the upper house of parliament state that the highest number of 247 terrorist attacks were recorded in KP, followed by 171 in Balochistan, 12 in Sindh and one in Punjab. The impact of such terrorist activities have disproportionately affected KP and Balochistan and a stalemate in peace talks in likely to exacerbate it since there will be the added repercussions of suffering through multiple operations led by the government to weave out militants.

Just recently, at least six terrorists were killed in an exchange of fire in the district of Kech and while...