For the first time, Pakistan recorded the highest score on the Global Terrorism Index 2026 and is the country most impacted by terrorism. According to the index report, this follows a sharp resurgence in terrorist activity driven in part by the Afghan Taliban regime’s return to power in Afghanistan in 2021. Pakistan has been ranked among the ten countries most impacted by terrorism every year since the inception of the index. However, terrorism in Pakistan had been declining from 2014 to 2019, but the report says that Pakistan experienced six times as many terrorist incidents in 2025 as in 2020. Deaths from terrorism are now at their highest level since 2013. The report says that Pakistan’s strained relations with its neighbours, combined with rising violence from the TTP and the BLA, have created significant security risks.
Deaths from terrorism in Pakistan are now at their highest level since 2013, with the country recording 1,139 terrorism deaths and 1,045 incidents in 2025. The TTP is the deadliest terrorist group in Pakistan, as its attacks constitute over 67 per cent of total attacks in Pakistan since 2007. The second most active terrorist group in the country is the BLA. The TTP was responsible for 56 per cent of terrorism-related deaths in Pakistan in 2025. They carried out 595 attacks, resulting in 637 deaths, an increase of 13 per cent from the 555 deaths in the preceding year, while the BLA was responsible for Pakistan’s largest terror attack of 2025, when Baloch terrorists seized control of Jaffar Express. According to the terrorism index, just under 70 per cent of deaths from terrorism occurred in only five countries: Pakistan, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Niger, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). In 2025, Pakistan surpassed Burkina Faso as the country most impacted by terrorism.
This report is not surprising given what the Pakistani government has been saying ever since the return of the Afghan Taliban regime to power. It vindicates Pakistan’s stance about the TTP and BLA. It is quite clear how the enemies of Pakistan are colluding with these terrorist groups to destabilise our country. Pakistan has provided enough evidence to the world on how India has been funding and training TTP and BLA terrorists to carry out attacks on our soil, while the Taliban regime continues to provide them safe havens on Afghan soil. COAS-CDF Field Marshal Asim Munir, who spent Eid with the troops and officers in Kurram, stressed that terrorists operating from sanctuaries across the border in Afghanistan will not be allowed to undermine Pakistan’s security. It is not for nothing that Pakistan has had to carry out strikes in Afghanistan, even though we have made it clear countless times that Pakistan neither sought to impose war nor intended to occupy any part of Afghanistan. Our sole demand is that Afghan soil must not be used for terrorism against it and there would be no dispute if such assurances were provided. Pakistan’s ongoing Operation Ghazab Lil Haq was temporarily halted due to Eidul Fitr but it has not ended. Pakistan has urged the Taliban regime to fulfil commitments made under the Doha Agreement. The havoc that terrorism has wreaked in recent years is unprecedented. The ball is in the Taliban regime’s court. If they want this to end, they have to end their facilitation of terrorist proxies.
