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	Pakistan - Gurupedia
		Pakistan is a heavily populated country, suffering from internal political and religious disputes, lack of foreign investment, and a costly confrontation with neighboring India.
		Pakistan's economic outlook has brightened in recent years in conjunction with a great improvement in its foreign exchange position, notably its current-account surplus and rapid growth in hard currency reserves.
		Pakistan's economy, thought to be highly vulnerable to external and internal shocks, was unexpectedly resilient in the face of adverse events such as the Asian financial crisis, global recession, drought, the post-9/11 military action in Afghanistan, and tensions with India.
	www.gurupedia.com /p/pa/pakistan.htm (1951 words)

	Pakistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pakistan is partially separated from modern-day India by natural barriers such as the Rann of Kutch and the desolate 500-mile (800-km) long Thar desert, and many of these groups did not penetrate further into the rest of the Indian subcontinent.
		Pakistan's Two largest mainstream parties are the leftist Pakistan Peoples Party and the centrist Pakistan Muslim League (Q), which obtained a plurality in the October 2002 elections.
		The Finance and Trade Center, Karachi, Pakistan Pakistan, a developing country, is the sixth most populous in the world and is faced With a number of challenges on the political and Economic fronts.
	pakistan.iqnaut.net (6088 words)

	Pakistan
		In 1988, the general died in an aircraft crash and Pakistan returned to an elected government, ushered in with the election of Benazir Bhutto.
		Pakistan, a developing country, is the sixth most populous in the world and is faced with a number of challenges on the political and economic fronts.
		Pakistan's economy, once thought to be highly vulnerable to external and internal shocks, was unexpectedly resilient in the face of adverse events such as the Asian financial crisis, global recession, drought, the post-9/11 military action in Afghanistan, and military tensions with India.
	www.mcfly.org /en/Pakistan (3162 words)

	Districts of Pakistan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Districts of Pakistan form the third tier of government in Pakistan, ranking as subdivisions of the provinces of Pakistan.
		Districts are further subdivided into tehsils which may contain villages or municipalities.
		Prior to 2001, there were 106 districts but with the reorganisation, these were reduced to 102 by the merger of the five districts of Karachi Central, Karachi East, Karachi South, Karachi West and Malir to form Karachi District.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Districts_of_Pakistan (434 words)

	Pakistan - TvWiki, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Pakistan is the second largest Muslim country in terms of population and its status as a declared nuclear power—the only Islamic nation—also plays into its role on the international scene.
		Pakistan, a developing country, is the sixth most populous in the world and has faced a number of challenges on the political and economic fronts.
		Pakistan's religious demographics were influenced by the partition of British India, which led to the fleeing of 7 million Muslims into Pakistan from India and 6 million Hindus and Sikhs from Pakistan to India and led to a larger Muslim majority than had previously existed.
	www.tvwiki.tv /wiki/Pakistan (7230 words)

	UNICEF Pakistan - Overview - About Pakistan
		Bordering Pakistan is India to the east, China to the north, and Afghanistan and Iran to the west while its southern coastline lies on the Arabian Sea.
		Pakistan's population is approximately 153.96 million nearly 50% of which are children below the age of 18.
		Pakistan's bustling major cities include the sea port Karachi with an estimated population of 11 million; Lahore, the cultural capital, with 5.7 million; Faisalabad, an important industrial center, with 6.5 million; and the capital Islamabad and its twin city Rawalpindi, with 3.7 million.
	www.unicef.org /pakistan/overview.html (763 words)

	CHARLES BRAY's Pakista Journal
		Pakistan has been battling al Qaeda-linked militants and the tribal leaders sheltering them for months as part of a campaign to rid the country of Islamic radicals the government calls terrorists.
		According to Pakistan's independent human rights commission, in most cases of rape where a victim is unable to produce four male witnesses as required by law, she is charged with adultery.
		Pakistan: At least 461 women were killed by family members in Pakistan in 2002, the country's independent Human Rights Commission says.
	www.greatestcities.com /users/cbray5003/Asia/Pakistan (4180 words)

	Pakistan: Save the Children
		Currently, the Pakistan Field Office implements two programs in Pakistan: the Pakistan program for Pakistani beneficiaries and the Afghan refugee program for Afghan refugees who have not been able to repatriate to Afghanistan because of ethnic or economic constraints.
		Pakistan’s development indicators are not only grim but also alarming due to the sheer numbers involved.
		Pakistan is today the seventh largest country in the world with a population of 149 million and it is on its way to becoming the third largest by 2050.
	www.savethechildren.org /countries/asia/pakistan.html (1009 words)

	Pakistan Times \| Metro: 60% population drinks contaminated water in 15 Punjab districts
		LAHORE: Environment Protection Department (EPD) Punjab has found that 60% population of 15 districts of the province is using contaminated water for drinking purposes.
		EPD collected 375 samples of drinking water from 15 districts and found 60% of them unfit for drinking purpose during the laboratory test, he elaborated.
		EPD has advised the concerned district governments to take steps for providing pure water supply to the people living in these areas and it got a traditional "Okey " response from them, he said adding, only time would tell, to what extent they would implement the advice.
	pakistantimes.net /2004/01/23/metro2.htm (269 words)

	Top20Pakistan.com - Your Top20 Guide to Pakistan!
		Pakistan was an ally of the United States for much of its early history as a modern nation-state, from the 1950s and as a member of CENTO and SEATO.
		Pakistan was the top reformer in the region and the number 10 reformer globally — making it easier to start a business, reducing the cost to register property, increasing penalties for violating corporate governance rules, and replacing a requirement to license every shipment with two-year duration licenses for traders.
		Pakistan's religious demographics were altered by the partition of British India, which led to the fleeing of 7 million Muslims into Pakistan from India and 6 million Hindus and Sikhs from Pakistan to India and led to a larger Muslim majority than had previously existed.
	www.top20pakistan.com (5234 words)

	OnlineWomen: Pakistan
		The New Year's Eve election took place in 18 districts of Pakistan, which earmarked a third of the seats in village councils for women.
		The status of women in Pakistan is not homogenous because of the interconnection of gender with other forms of exclusion in the society.
		There is considerable diversity in the status of women across classes, regions, and the rural/urban divide due to uneven socioeconomic development and the impact of tribal, feudal, and capitalist social formations on women’s lives.
	www.onlinewomeninpolitics.org /pakistan/pakdocs.htm (575 words)

	Deprivation profile of regions -DAWN - Business; September 23, 2002
		Karachi is the least deprived district of Pakistan, while Lahore is the least deprived district of Punjab and ranks second after Karachi on the national level.
		Of the 24 districts of the NWFP, Peshawar is the least deprived whereas Quetta is the least deprived district of Balochistan.
		Of the 10 least poor districts in Pakistan, seven are in Punjab and the remaining three are equally distributed among the remaining three provinces.
	www.dawn.com /2002/09/23/ebr2.htm (1789 words)

	Pakistan Daily News Brief (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Around 4,500 children were currently in detention in various Pakistani jails and out of them 3200 have not been convicted of any offence and their trials have been delayed for several months and years.
		This was stated by the former chief Justice of Supreme Court of Pakistan Justice (Retd.) Saeed-uz-Zaman Siddiqui at the launching ceremony of a book on laws relating to children by Advocate M. Elias Khan.
		The Taliban were moving regularly around the districts under their control on the new motorbikes with satellite phones.
	www.observerindia.com /cps/from_pak/pb031111.htm (281 words)

	Pakistan Facts - Nuclear Proliferation and Terrorism Secrets of a Rogue Nation
		However, it is now known that Pakistan's nuclear technology was being exported to North Korea as late as spring 2002, and to Libya in the fall of 2003.
		The northern districts of Pakistan’s North West Frontier Province are replete with Jihadi sentiments despite President Pervez Musharraf’s crackdown on organisations shouting the slogan of ‘holy war’ against Indian forces in Indian-Occupied Kashmir and US led forces in Afghanistan.
		Anyone who serves in Pakistan knows that his family, if not he, can be evacuated on short notice for a variety of reasons, from impending war with India to fear of being killed by Pakistani terrorists.
	www.pakistan-facts.com /index.php?page=37 (1884 words)

	Pakistan Link Headlines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		As per report, Pakistan is the lowest after Nepal in respect of literacy rate among the 17 South Asian countries.
		The most adverse aspect of the scene is that the total number of illiterates in Pakistan almost doubled as in 1951 it was 22.54 million but rose to 48.84 million in the 1998 census.
		The report said the ‘seraiki belt’ in southern Punjab, 6 districts in Sindh, 9 in NWFP and the entire Balochistan except two districts have the lowest literacy rate, the total low literacy districts being 83 out of 105 districts in Pakistan.
	www.pakistanlink.com /headlines/April04/02/03.html (374 words)

	Information of Pakistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The number of districts rose to 106 again in December 2004, when four new districts[1] were created in the province of Sindh of which one (Umerkot) had existed until 2000 and three districts (Kashmore, Qambar and Jamshoro) were newly created.
		In May 2005, the Punjab provincial government created a new district[2] by raising the status of the Nankana Sahib from a tehsil of Sheikhpura District to a district in its own right.
		Districts marked with * were recently created and no data is available yet.
	www.pak.gov.pk /districtPK.aspx (339 words)

	Saving the Lifeblood of Sindh's Coastal Communities (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		AGRICULTURE AND fishing are the lifeblood of some 2.3 million people living in the coastal districts of Pakistan's once highly productive Sindh province.
		In recognition of the area's problems, the Government of Pakistan has requested ADB to help design, in a consultative and participatory fashion, a coastal and inland community development project.
		To ensure full understanding and support from the community, the project preparatory team has conducted seven consultative workshops in the three main project areas that were attended by more than 350 representatives from affected communities, civil society, and government.
	www.adb.org /media/Articles/2006/9452-Pakistan-coastal-communities (799 words)

	CNN.com - Pakistan quakes kill at least 17 - Feb. 14, 2004
		Police said 13 people died in the Battagram district, about 160 km (100 miles) northwest of Islamabad, when their minibus was struck by falling rocks and plunged into a ravine.
		In Balakhot, in the adjoining district of Mansehra, four people were killed and 11 hurt when the tremors damaged about 200 houses.
		An official at Pakistan's Meteorological Department said the epicentre of the tremors was near the Kaghan valley, some 200 km (125 miles) northeast of the city of Peshawar, and added: "We don't expect more aftershocks."
	www.cnn.com /2004/WORLD/asiapcf/02/14/quake.pakistan.reut (306 words)

	GlobaLex - A Legal Research Guide to Pakistan
		The Chief Justice of Pakistan is appointed by the President.
		In every district of a Province, there is a Court of District Judge which is the principal court of original jurisdiction in civil matters.
		The Supreme Court of Pakistan is the apex court in the judicial hierarchy of the country.
	www.nyulawglobal.org /globalex/pakistan.htm (6278 words)

	Deprivation high in Balochistan, Sindh -DAWN - Business; July 11, 2002
		The annual report of the SPDC on social development in Pakistan entitled ‘Growth, Inequality and Poverty’, launched formally on Tuesday, has constructed Multi Deprivation Indicators (MDIs) based on the premise that deprivation is based on multiple dimensions.
		The superior position of Punjab with respect to development is amply manifested by the fact that its most deprived district Rajanpur ranks 19th in 100 districts of Pakistan.
		Karachi in Sindh has been found to be the most developed district in Pakistan followed by Lahore while Musakhel in Balochistan is ranked as the most deprived district in the country.
	www.dawn.com /2002/07/11/ebr6.htm (448 words)

	MinVision - Gilgit and Skardu Districts, Northern Areas, Pakistan (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Gem, and especially mineral specimen, mining in the Gilgit and Skardu districts of Pakistan’s Northern Areas is a relative recent phenomenon.
		Although some gem deposits were noted during the British occupation of the area, it was not until mineral and gem dealers arrived in the early 1970s that the industry took hold in the region.
		Stak Nala, in the Skardu District, with its green and green/pink elbaite crystals is by far the most prolific source.
	www.minvision.com /article-73.html (558 words)

	Pakistan - SikhiWiki, free Sikh encyclopedia.
		These invasions began to separate Pakistan from the historical currents that dominated Indian history even prior to Islam and yet eastern Pakistan would remain somewhat culturally allied to adjacent regions in India, while western Pakistan emerged as an extension of the Perso-Afghan civilization dominated by the Pashtuns and Baluch.
		The Minar-e-Pakistan in Lahore commemorates the Pakistan ResolutionFrom August 14, 1947, until 1971, the nation consisted of West Pakistan and East Pakistan.East Pakistan seceded from Pakistan after the Civil War of 1971, becoming the nation of Bangladesh.
		[edit] Political Parties Pakistan's two largest mainstream parties are the Pakistan Peoples Party and the Pakistan Muslim League (Q) (supported by the military establishment of Pakistan), which obtained a plurality in the October 2002 elections.
	www.sikhiwiki.org /index.php?title=Pakistan (2028 words)

	The Hindu : Front Page : Pakistan quake death toll touches 20,000
		ISLAMABAD: On the basis of preliminary estimates, Pakistan announced on Sunday that 20,000 people were killed and 42,397 injured in the earthquake that struck on Saturday.
		The Pakistan Army suffered casualties in PoK; 200 personnel were killed and 450 Army officers and personnel injured.
		Musharraf said there were reports of extensive damage in Muzaffarabad with 50 per cent of the hilly city believed to be devastated; a number of schools and hospitals had collapsed and children were trapped inside the schools.
	www.hindu.com /2005/10/10/stories/2005101009660100.htm (663 words)

	IUCN Pakistan
		Pakistan is one of the early signatory of this convention and made its commitment to conserve this fragile ecosystem.
		Broghil Lake on the divide between Chitral and Ghizer Districts in Northern Pakistan.
		The wetlands of Pakistan include flood plain wetlands of major river systems and their extensive network of tributaries; saline and temporary wetlands of arid and semi arid expanses inland; coastal system such as lagoons, backwaters and estuaries; mangrove swamps; marine wetlands; and offshore Astola Island in Balochistan.
	www.iucn.org /places/pakistan/ne50.htm (582 words)

	Population Census Organization
		Population Census Organization process and disseminate data in the form of regular census reports and a number of supplementary reports based on analysis and research of demographic data as well.
		Population Census Organization has published the 1998 Census reports of all districts, provinces and Pakistan.
		Data published in District, Provincial and National Reports of 1998 Census is also available on CDs which can be obtained from PCO, Hqs., Islamabad.
	www.statpak.gov.pk /depts/pco (206 words)

	UNICEF - Panorama: Pakistán - Pakistan's children say to President: Please do more for education (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This postcard project began last April when the Pakistan's Coalition for Education, a group of 25 non-governmental organizations, invited children from 51 districts in Pakistan to send a message to the President of the country.
		"In Pakistan, corporal punishment is widely used in schools and at home, children often feel maltreated, not respected, not understood; they are sometimes ridiculed by teachers and other adults.
		Here in Pakistan UNICEF stands ready to work with government, partner agencies and civil society to make sure that the Millennium Development Goal of promoting gender parity in education by 2005 is actively addressed and real forward progress is made."
	www.unicef.org /spanish/infobycountry/pakistan_24504.html (441 words)

	Community
		NCHD was set up in 2002 as a fast track initiative by the Government of Pakistan as a public private partnership to help Pakistan achieve Millennium Development Goals such as Universal Education, Lowering of Infant and Maternal Mortality and Population Growth Rate as well as Community Development.
		In this regard he appreciated the role of NCHD which has opened 8,800 Adult Literacy Centers in 53 districts in which 85% of the learners are female.
		The President said it was a matter of great pride that this initiative has been recognized by UNDP as an international best practice and that several countries including China are studying this model for replication in their countries.
	www.pakistanlink.com /Community/2005/Aug05/12/02.HTM (753 words)

	Labor Party Pakistan \| The First Day of Bhatta Workers Strike (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The strike call was given by Pakistan Bhatta Mazdoor Union (PBMU) against the non implementation of the courts decisions for abolition of Peshgi (advance) system.
		But the news of the strike is reaching in other parts of Pakistan and more and more workers are calling the union office for posters and information to start the union and strike.
		The Qasur district Police Officer DPO has been giovenb an application to register a case against the Bhatta bosses for kidnapping, so for no case is been registered.
	www.laborpakistan.org /news/labour/bhattastrike.php (847 words)

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