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Khyber Pakhtunkwa province, Pakistan: events and estimated deaths in January 2026

Monthly report of a regionDataset: UCDP Candidate Events, preliminaryData through

UCDP recorded 38 eventsP of organized violence in Khyber Pakhtunkwa province, Pakistan in January 2026. The best estimate of deaths in these events is 103P. The low estimate is 103 and the high estimate is 110P. UCDP counts 15P of these deaths as deaths of civilians. The count for December 2025 was 43 events.

The count for January 2025 was 50 events. The change from January 2025 to January 2026 is down 24 percentP. Among the 26 months with a report for Khyber Pakhtunkwa province, Pakistan, January 2026 has the 23rd highest count of events. Khyber Pakhtunkwa province, Pakistan holds 45 percentP of the events that UCDP recorded in Pakistan in January 2026. In January 2025, the share was 59 percent.

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

The report of the country for this month: Pakistan, January 2026.

Not all events in UCDP Candidate will make it into the final UCDP GED and new events will be added. The UCDP Candidate is a dataset containing events that have a high probability of being included in the final annual version of UCDP GED.

An incident where armed force was used by an organized actor against another organized actor, or against civilians, resulting in at least 1 direct death at a specific location and a specific date

UCDP's words. Source: UCDP Candidate Events Dataset Codebook, version 1.5 (Introduction) and UCDP GED Codebook, version 26.1 (section 2, the definition of an event), copied on .

This page rests on UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9, with data through . The figures from January 2026 are from Candidate Events. Candidate Events are preliminary and UCDP revises them.

The pages give counts and their sources. They give no travel, security or safety advice. A count of events is not a measure of danger.

Events

The table lists the events with 10 or more estimated deaths. The CSV file of Pakistan has each event.

No event of this month has 10 or more estimated deaths. The CSV file has each event.

Actors, as UCDP names them

Names as UCDP writes them.

Table 1. Khyber Pakhtunkwa province: actors, as UCDP names them, in the events of January 2026, in name order
Name, as UCDP writes itEventsEstimated deaths in these events
Government of Pakistan30P90P
IS2P2P
Jamaat-ul-Ahrar1P4P
Lashkar of Orakzai2P5P
Lashkar-e-Taiba1P1P
TTP36P101P

An event has two sides, so one event can be in two rows. The deaths are the deaths in the events of a side. The table does not say which side caused a death.

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events.

All months

Table 2. Monthly reports of Khyber Pakhtunkwa province, newest first: events and estimated deaths
MonthEventsEstimated deathsDataset
September 202669P299PCandidate Events
August 202676P280PCandidate Events
July 202674P256PCandidate Events
June 202677P234PCandidate Events
May 202641P204PCandidate Events
April 202638P155PCandidate Events
March 202653P120PCandidate Events
February 202650P185PCandidate Events
January 202638P103PCandidate Events
December 202543170GED
November 202563266GED
October 202553353GED
September 202552284GED
August 202553125GED
July 202551141GED
June 202535110GED
May 20253187GED
April 202543175GED
March 202551217GED
February 202543181GED
January 202550185GED
December 202444190GED
November 202444265GED
October 202450138GED
September 202443130GED
August 202439120GED

P Preliminary. The figure is from UCDP Candidate Events, and UCDP revises these events. Search engines list a report of a month in the last 12 months that has 30 or more events. The other reports stay online and ask search engines not to list them.

Khyber Pakhtunkwa province: all figures

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ConflictStats. Khyber Pakhtunkwa province, Pakistan: events and estimated deaths in January 2026. https://conflictstats.com/country/pakistan/khyber-pakhtunkwa-province/month/2026-01/. Source: Uppsala Conflict Data Program, UCDP GED 26.1 and UCDP Candidate Events 26.0.9. Data through .

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