Wars in Afghanistan and Pakistan according to a new US study. The study by the Costs of War Project, based at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University says another one lakh and 62 thousand have been wounded since the US-led offensive that toppled the Taliban government in Afghanistan after the 9/11 attacks.
The study added that the war in Afghanistan is intensifying rather than moving toward an end, as the number of deaths and injuries has increased significantly in recent years. The study said the United States’ announcement this year that it is slowing its troop withdrawal, underscores the fact that the war in Afghanistan is not ending, it is getting worse.
In Pakistan, the war has seen a lower intensity in recent years although there remains very hot conflict in the North West of the country. The study focuses on death and injury caused directly by the stuff of warfare. War also causes indirect deaths, as people perish due to malnutrition, lack of health care and the hardship of displacement.