The 5,000 bomb blast victims' families were entitled to benefit from Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) after thorough scrutiny of each case. Chairperson BISP Farzana Raja confirmed that the disbursement would start soon and completed till June 2011. She said same social safety net would be applied to them as available to other poor families.
It has been learnt that an allocation of Rs 99.2 billion has been proposed for the Benazir Income Support Program (BISP) for 2011-12. The allocation of Rs 5 billion has been made for the Bomb Blast Victims and Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) for the next three years 2012-14 in the Medium Term Budgetary Framework (MTDF).
However, the report of Pak Institute for Peace Studies (PIPS) indicated that the number of bomb blast victim families are much higher as per registered by BISP. The matter of their compensations has not yet been decided by BISP. According to report, US drones attacks in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) registered 165 percent increase in 2010 as compared to the previous year but the number of suicide attacks across the country fell by 22 percent against 2009.
The violent incidents increased in Sindh, Punjab and Gilgit Baltistan in 2010 as compared to the previous year, indicating growing urban terrorism in Pakistan. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) was the most volatile region of the country with 459 attacks; while 111 attacks were reported in Sindh, 62 in Punjab, 13 in Gilgit Baltistan, six in Islamabad and five in Azad Kashmir.
A total of 2,113 militant, insurgent and sectarian-related terrorist attacks were reported from across the country in 2010, killing 2,913 people and injuring another 5,824. The worst affected region of the country was the insurgency-hit province of Balochistan where the highest number of attacks were reported (737), followed by the militancy-infested Federally Administered Tribal Areas (720).
The report maintains that there was a considerable decrease in the number of violent attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's (KPK) settled areas. However, the security situation remained volatile as militants dislodged from their strongholds constantly managed to relocate to other parts of FATA.
Defence experts said that the internal security scenario indicates that critical security challenges still remain unaddressed, with the government yet to evolve an effective and comprehensive counter-terrorism policy.
The report maintains that Pakistan witnessed an overall decrease in the number of violent incidents in 2010, the first time that had happened since 2007. A total of 3,393 attacks were reported in 2010 compared to 3,816 in 2009, a decrease of 11 percent. Similarly, the overall casualties also went down, from 12,623 fatalities in 2009 to 10,003 in 2010. The number of people injured in these attacks also declined from 12,815 in 2009 to 10,283 in 2010. The number of suicide attacks across the country also fell by 22 percent in comparison to 2009, with 68 suicide attacks in 2010, compared to 87 the previous year.
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