ISLAMABAD: Days before the Trump administration suspended US security assistance to Pakistan, Islamabad launched a new factsheet, showing how terrorism has killed more than 74,000 people over the last 14 years and cost $123 billion in economic losses.

The report re-emphasised Pakistan’s stance that the death of 122 children at a Peshawar school on Dec.16, 2014, was a watershed moment, which galvanised the entire nation against terrorism and the operations launched since then have targeted all terrorists, without any exception, said a report.

The booklet detailed Pakistan’s counter-terrorism efforts and shows how it has forced terrorists to escape to their hideouts or flee across the border to Afghanistan.

It specifically highlighted the sacrifices of the Pakistani armed forces and civilian security forces in restoring normalcy to the country in general and the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (Fata) in particular.

The booklet previewed the progress made under each of the 20 points of the National Action Plan (NAP) and underlines the nation’s determination to defeat terrorism.

A similar report by the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War placed the number at 48,504 deaths Pakistan suffered while fighting militants between 2003 and 2015.

The Global Terrorism Index (GTI) shows a marked decline in terrorism-related violence in Pakistan since 2014, partially due to military operations targeting militants in tribal areas and acknowledges that Pakistan has made a major stride in curbing terrorism.

Neta C. Crawford, the author of a study — “Update on the Human Costs of War for Afghanistan and Pakistan, 2001 to mid-2016” — released in November 2017, endorsed Islamabad’s claim that the war in Pakistan “began as Al Qaeda and the Taliban fled from Afghanistan into the northwest region of Pakistan in 2001.”

She also noted that Pakistan’s losses remain underreported, showing how the estimates of losses in drone attacks range from a low of 158 civilian deaths to a high of 2,657.

She endorsed another Pakistani claim that “increased intensity of the fighting in Afghanistan could have a spillover effect in Pakistan.”

The report noted that more than one million people were displaced in the 2014 anti-militant operation in North Waziristan.