ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Balochistan government has launched a state-of-the-art threat assessment center to strengthen early warning and prevent terrorism, officials said Monday.
Balochistan Additional Chief Secretary Hamza Shafqaat said the Provincial Intelligence Fusion and Threat Assessment Center (PIFTAC Balochistan) unites police, the counter-terrorism department, intelligence agencies, and civil administration on a single platform.
The center allows real-time information sharing and joint analysis. “PIFTAC strengthens early warning and prevents terrorism. It helps disrupt terror financing, drug trafficking, and organized crime. It also coordinates action against illegal spectrum and unregulated communications,” Shafqaat wrote on social media platform X.
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“Information that was once scattered is now shared and acted upon in time. This allows the state to move from reacting to incidents to preventing them before they occur,” he added.
The move comes amid a sharp rise in combat-related deaths in Pakistan in 2025. The Pakistan Institute for Conflict and Security Studies (PICSS) reported that deaths rose 73 percent to 3,387. These included 2,115 militants, 664 security forces personnel, 580 civilians, and 28 members of pro-government peace committees.
Lt. Gen. Ahmed Sharif Chaudhry, Pakistan military spokesperson, said security forces carried out 75,175 intelligence-based operations last year and killed 2,597 militants. Pakistan reported 5,397 terrorism incidents in 2025.
Islamabad often accuses Afghanistan of allowing groups like the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) and the Balochistan Liberation Army (BLA) to operate from its soil. Kabul denies the charges. Pakistan also accuses India of supporting these militant groups, which New Delhi rejects.
