Civilian casualties in, ongoing, armed conflicts in Pakistan have sharply risen since 2007, especially after the Lal Mosque operation. One possible reason for such sharp increase was a bloody wave of suicide attacks unleashed by Pakistani Taliban to avenge the Lal Mosque killings.  Since 2007 as many as 36,706 civilians have been killed and injured in terrorist attacks and others incidents of violence like sectarian strife, ethnically motivated targeted killings, nationalist separatist insurgency in Balochistan as well as in criminal violence across the country. The most number of civilian casualties were recorded in 2009 when more than 9,000 civilians were killed or wounded in a deadly wave of terrorist attacks that swept through the country in the wake of military operations Rah-e-Rast (Path of deliverance) in Malakand Division and Rah-e-Nijat (Path to Salvation) in South Waziristan Agency against Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP), a conglomerate of anti-state militant groups based in the Federallya Administered Tribal Areas (FATA).

Year	KPK		FATA		Balochistan		Sindh/ Karachi		Punjab		Islamabad		Total
2011	Killed	Injured	Killed	Injured	Killed	Injured	Killed	Injured	Killed	Injured	Killed	Injured
Sep	86	166	37	51	73	83	44	31	2	11	0	0	584
Aug	12	63	115	171	92	108	175	104	3	6			849
July	21	64	58	116	71	50	202	210	1	9			802
June	87	211	20	39	28	71	4	32		4	1	4	501
May	82	208	43	47	43	30	5	15	8	14	1	-	496
Apr	29	45	38	32	49	69	25	51	50	102			490
March	103	291	42	34	66	93	5	1	25	135	1		796
Feb	40	73	23	24	28	31	1	2	3	29			254
Jan	65	107	23	17	36	30	1	7	9	71	1		367
2010	722	1580	543	872	483	903	238	466	276	887	15	35	7020
2009	1005	1580	1005	2777	275	824	19	40	339	1090	16	49	9019
2008	982	1735	497	694	296	807	146	352	219	621	89	315	6753
2007	1096	1595	1663	2020	224	564	210	544	113	276	132	338	8775
Total	4330	7718	4107	6894	1764	3663	1075	1855	1048	3255	256	741	36706