CIAO DATE: 02/2015
December 2014
Center for Strategic and International Studies
Every American has to sympathize with the Pakistani people in the horror that befell them at the killings of so many school children. Every American parent can imagine the heartbreak of the Pakistani parents who suddenly lost their children for an extremist cause that offers only hatred instead of hope. It is important, however, to put such acts of terrorism in context and to look at the patterns involved. The Burke Chair has prepared a short briefing showing how the patterns of terrorism in Pakistan compare with those in other states, and the patterns in violence and terrorism in Pakistan from 1970 to 2013, using the Global Terrorism Database that is part of the statistical annex to the US State Department Country reports on terrorism issued in April 2014
Resource link: The Metrics of Terrorism and Instability in Pakistan [PDF] - 778K