Pakistan terrorism incidents in 2025

What it does not prove: An incident count treats a mass-casualty bombing and a failed roadside IED identically, and coding rules determine whether a coordinated multi-site assault is one attack or several. Read against the 1,139 deaths, 1,045 incidents means roughly 1.1 deaths per attack — evidence that the burden is high-frequency attrition against security forces and infrastructure, not the spectacular mass-casualty bombings the public narrative remembers.

Memory hook: 1,045 attacks → about 1.1 deaths each, attrition rather than spectaculars

Rebuts the claim: 'Terrorism in Pakistan now consists of a handful of high-profile mass-casualty attacks' — frequency, not lethality per incident, is what the data shows.