Bank accounts of 4,863 individuals blocked: NACTA

The government has blocked bank accounts of 4,863 individuals through State Bank of Pakistan (SBP) and an amount of over Rs 131.595 million has been frozen, said a report issued by National Counter Terrorism Authority (NACTA).
The NACTA report said that 67 organisations have been proscribed and four are under observation while 8,307 individuals have been placed on Schedule-IV. During this year, 178 individuals have been placed on Schedule-IV, it added.
The report said that the country witnessed a decline of 21 percent in the terror incidents in 2018 as compared to 2017. Tribal districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) suffered the maximum incidence of terror attacks, followed by Balochistan, KP, Punjab and Sindh, it said.
The report said that 517 precious lives were lost in terror attacks in 2018 (203 LEAs personnel and 314 civilians) compared to 668 (228 LEAs personnel and 440 civilians) in 2017. This implies a 22.6 percent reduction in fatalities. Moreover, 1,256 persons were injured as a result of terror attacks (494 LEAs personnel and 762 civilians) compared to 2,153 (413 LEAs and 1,740 civilians) in 2017 - this represents a significant 41.6% decrease in persons injured due to terror attacks.
The NACTA report says that the exercise of reforming seminaries began with data available, which reflected significant discrepancy in the number of seminaries in the country as reported by various agencies. The policy framework is to pursue, register, reform, mainstream and maintain sustained oversight. To address the issue of variation in reported data, the provincial governments and intelligence agencies embarked upon mapping of seminaries in the country, it says.
Under geo-tagging and mapping of seminaries, Punjab completed mapping of 13,782 (100%) seminaries, ICT has also completed mapping 354 (100%) seminaries, while mapping of seminaries is under process in Sindh (80%), Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (75%), Balochistan (60%) and tribal districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (85%), according to the authority.
It says that a total number of 664 threat alerts were received in 2018, out of which 361 were for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and 158 were for Balochistan. The breakup of threat alerts is 70 for all Pakistan, 62 for Punjab, 45 for Sindh, 07 for GB, 18 for ICT and 02 threat alerts were for AJK. These alerts were forwarded to the relevant counter terrorism departments and home departments for vigilance and action.