India among Nations Most Impacted By Terrorism
New York: India, Pakistan and Afghanistan were among the nations most impacted by terrorism in 2011, according to a new global study, which said the terror strikes worldwide had increased fourfold since the start of the Iraq war in 2003.
The inaugural Global Terrorism Index (GTI) said Pakistan, India and Afghanistan accounted for 12 percent, 11 percent and 10 percent of global terrorist incidents respectively from 2002 to 2009.
In 2011, Middle East, India, Pakistan and Russia were the area’s most impacted by terrorism. Overall, there were 7,473 fatalities in 2011 due to terrorism, which is 25 percent less than in 2007.
The report said the number of terrorist incidents increased virtually every year since the 9/11 attacks in the U.S., with most terror strikes occurring in a wider conflict situation. The index shows that global terrorism only started to increase after the escalation of the Iraq war.
This was subsequently followed by further increasing waves of terrorism in Afghanistan and then in Pakistan 18 months later. While terrorism fatalities fell by 25 percent since 2007, coinciding with the wind-down of the Iraq war, Iraq still remained the country that suffered most from terrorism in 2011.
