ISLAMABAD, May 5 (Xinhua) -- The number of militant attacks in Pakistan increased by 24 percent in April, but deaths and injuries decreased by 53 percent as compared to March this year, a Pakistani think-tank said.
In April, the militants have carried out 34 attacks, in which 55 people were killed, including 34 security force personnel, 13 civilians and eight militants, while 25 people injured, including 11 security force personnel and 14 civilians, according to figures released by Islamabad-based think- tank Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS).
The militants carried out 26 attacks across the country in March, in which 115 people were killed and 288 people injured, the PICSS said in a report.
Last month, most of the attacks took place in Pakistan's erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), now part of the country's northwest Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) province, followed by other parts of KP and southwest Balochistan province, according to the report.
In April, PICSS recorded 16 militant attacks in erstwhile FATA, in which 31 people were killed, including 21 security force personnel, seven militants and three civilians, while 10 people were injured, including six security force personnel and four civilians.
In KP, militants carried out 10 attacks, in which 17 people were killed, including 12 security force personnel and five civilians, while injuring six people, three civilians and three security force personnel, according to the report.
In Balochistan, four militant attacks were witnessed, in which one security force personnel and one civilian were killed, while five people were injured, including one security force personnel and four civilians, the report added.
In Pakistan's southern Sindh province, four militant attacks took place, in which four civilians and one militant got killed, while injuring four others, three of whom were civilians and one security force personnel, according to the PICSS report.
In the country's most populated eastern Punjab province, no militant attack took place in April.
Meanwhile, Pakistani security forces carried out 22 actions against the militants, in which 11 suspected militants were arrested and 27 militants were killed, PICSS said, adding that most of the arrests took place in the province of Punjab. ■