Freedom of expression
1-At least 18
journalists were killed in Pakistan in 2012.
2-According to Press
Freedom Index, Pakistan was one of the deadliest countries for journalists for
the second year running, with a ranking of 151 out of 179 countries.
Freedom of
association
3-At least 356
political activists were killed in 2012 in Karachi alone on account of their
party affiliation.
Health Rs7,845m In
the 2012-13 fiscal, the allocation of funds to the health sector further
declined to a mere 0.2 percent (Rs. 7,845 million) of GNP.
4-There were around 9
million drug addicts in Pakistan and the number was on the rise. Two million of
the addicts were aged between 15-25 years and the number of female addicts was
around 200,000.
5-Pakistan ranked
sixth among the 22 high-risk tuberculosis countries.
6-About 1.6 million
cases of malaria occurred annually.
7-One out of every
nine women in Pakistan faced the risk of breast cancer which resulted in 40,000
deaths every year, higher than in any other country in Asia.
Law and order
1-police encounters
were reported from across the country in 2012 in which 427 suspects were
killed.
2-50 drone attacks
took place in FATA in 2012, compared to 74 in 2011. Estimates of casualties
varied between 240 and 400.
3-1,577 terrorist
attacks took place across Pakistan in 2012, claiming the lives of 2,100 people
and causing injuries to another 3,850.
4-100 Shia Hazaras
were killed in Balochistan alone.
5-2,284 people died in
ethnic, sectarian and politically-linked violence in Karachi in 2012.
Jails, prisoners and
disappearances
1-75,444 There were a
total of 75,444 detainees in Pakistan’s prisons against the authorised capacity
of 44,578.
2-1,289 There were
1,289 juvenile prisoners in jails across the country, and an overwhelming
majority of them was under trial.
Freedom of thaought,
conscience and religion
1-72 At least 72 dead
bodies were recovered from Balochistan of individuals who had gone missing in
previous months.
2-583 people were
killed and 853 injured in 213 incidents of sectarian-related terrorist attacks
and sectarian clashes.
3-20 As many as 20
Ahmadis were killed on account of their religious identity.
4- 6 In Karachi, at
least six churches were attacked, two of them within a period of 10 days in
October.
Education
1-Pakistan stood at
number 52 in the world ranking of countries according to the percentage of
women in parliament.
2-At least 121 schools
were targeted by militants opposed to education, especially girls’ education.
3-Rs71.6b In the
budget for 2012-13, primary education got Rs 71.6 billion and secondary
education Rs 69.4 billion – too little to realize MDGs.
4-22 out of every 25
primary school-age children were expected to fail or drop out of school before
the fifth grade.
5-10.9% Around 10.9
percent of schools in Pakistan lacked proper buildings, 37.7% lacked boundary
walls, 33.9% had no drinking water facility, 36.9% lacked toilets, and 59.6%
schools had no electricity.
Women
1-52 Pakistan stood at
number 52 in the world ranking of countries according to the percentage of
women in parliament.
2-5.1m According to
UNESCO, at least 5.1 million Pakistani children were out of school, 63 percent
of whom were girls.
3-913 As many as 913
girls and women were killed in the name of honour in 2012. These included at least
99 minor girls.
4-74% of the girls
married off in Charsadda and Mardan districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in 2012
were under 16.
Environment
1-National Policy on
Climate Change was approved by the cabinet World Health Organization deemed
water from Keenjhar Lake, a protected wetland under the Ramsar Convention on
Wetlands, unfit for consumption.
2-Over 2,500 trees
were cut down for development projects.
Children
1-A marginal decline
was observed in infant mortality and under five year mortality rates in 2012
but Pakistan still lagged behind other South Asian countries.
2-58 cases of polio, a
disease that afflicts only two other countries in the world, were reported from
28 districts of Pakistan.
3-2nd Pakistan had the
world’s second highest number of out-of-school children aged five to nine
years.
4-At 2.8 percent of
its gross national product (GNP), Pakistan’s expenditure on education was the
second lowest in South Asia.
5-During the first six
months of 2012, 1,573 incidents of child sexual abuse were recorded.
6-Almost 11 million
children were engaged in child labour.
7-Refugees Nothing was
done to bring home a quarter of a million Pakistanis stranded in Bangladesh
since 1971.
1.6m registered and
one million unregistered Afghans still remained in Pakistan and near to 5m
refugees unregisterd who belong from african countries.
Floods
The monsoon floods
and drought in Tharparkar forced over a million people from their homes.
At least 797,396
Pakistanis (163,102 families) remained internally displaced by conflict.
By: All Pakistan
Federation of United trade unions (APFUTU)
