More than 80,000 Pakistanis, including over 48,000
civilians, have been killed in the decade-long U.S.-led war against
terror in the country, according to a new report.
The report, titled “Body Count: Casualty Figures after 10 Years of the
War on Terror”, was released by the International Physicians for the
Prevention of Nuclear War along with Physicians for Social
Responsibility and Physicians for Global Survival, The Express Tribune reported on Sunday.
The report, dealing with the conflict from 2004 until the end of 2013,
shows that a total of 81,325 to 81,860 persons — including 48,504
civilians, 45 journalists, 5,498 security personnel and 26,862 militants
— lost their lives in the terror operation.
It also
said that around 1.3 million people were directly and indirectly killed
in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan as a result of U.S.-led wars in the
regions during the same period.
One million people were killed in Iraq and 220,000 in Afghanistan as a result of the war, it said.
“The figure is approximately 10 times greater than that of which the
public, experts and decision makers are aware,” the authors of the study
said.
“And this is only a conservative estimate.
The total number of deaths in the three countries could also be in
excess of 2 million,” they said.
The report scoured
the results of individual studies and data published by United Nations
organisations, government agencies and non-governmental organisations.
PTI
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