‘Over 80,000 Pakistanis killed in U.S.-led anti-terror op’

March 29, 2015 06:12 pm | Updated 06:12 pm IST - Islamabad

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.

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