OPINION

NATIONAL

HUMAN RIGHTS

DISAPPERANCE

 Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances (as on December 2015) a total of 3,012

cases were filed, out of which 1,449 have been traced, and even out of 1,390 pending cases,
only 125 relate to Balochistan?
 ARTICLE 10
 INDEPENDENT TRIBUNAL

Terrorism

 Saeed has been arrested under the Fourth Schedule of the Anti-
Terrorism Act of 1997. The Fourth Schedule or Section 11-
EEEE(1), that deals with preventive detention, stipulates that
an individual (a ‘proscribed person’) may be detained by
security forces : 90 days extend to 2 years for terrorism
 JuD was classified as a ‘foreign terrorist organisation’ by the
US State Department in 2014.
 The Second Schedule by itself does not ban the organisation
 listed under a UN Security Council resolution banning terrorist
groups since 2008
criminal justuc system

National Assembly has passed Criminal Law (Amendment) Act 2017,

a bill that seeks to address the issues of abuse of blasphemy law,
sectarian hate speech, forced marriage of non-Muslim women and
the crime of lynching
Justice Tanveer Ahmad Khan in 1997 after the Shanti Nagar incident
and by Justice Iqbal Hameeduddin after the Gojra incident in 2009.
The Charing Cross bombing has validated Justice Qazi Faez Isa’s indictment of state institutions,
particularly of the federal interior ministry, for failing to act more effectively against proscribed
militant and sectarian groups operating under new banners

outlawed Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT) now operating under the banner of Jamaatud Dawa getting involved
with the militant Islamic State (IS) group

ECONOMIC
  John Perkins, the author of the best-seller Confessions of An
Economic Hitman : crippling debt leads to financial insolvency
and eventually results in compromising their sovereignty 

 Dar IMF reckons that external debt service obligations will

climb to nearly $8.4 billion during 2016-17.
 Professor Dr Samina Khalil, a director at the Applied
Economics Research Centre Karachi, we are leading towards
economic hurricane
 honesty, transparency and accountability is the best way to
address the issue, Ms Lagarde 
Wall Street Journal, in a recent piece, finds that Pakistan’s middle class has “soared” as stability
returns. “Pakistan’s economy is a pleasant surprise” writes Tyler Cowen for Bloombergpoints

Several years ago, then Goldman Sachs chief economist Jim O’Neill (the originator of the term BRICs)
had included Pakistan in the list of the ‘Next-11’ emerging markets to look out for.

Pakistan’s GDP as measured in current US dollars (used purely for the sake of convenience and ease
of comparison) has more than doubled since 2006, and expanded over seven times since 1990. Sakib
sherani

In terms of size of economy, the country’s global rank improved from 47th in 1990 to 39th over this
period (Pakistan is the 24th largest economy in the world on a purchasing power parity basis)

William Easterly’s seminal 2001 paper on the political economy of “growth without development” in
Pakistan.

 1979, Iran’s rank in the Human Development Index has risen from 142nd to 69th, with the adult
literacy rate increasing from 36 per cent to over 84pc. Similarly, infant mortality has been brought
down from over 44 per 1,000 live births in 1990, to 14.4 as of 2013.

 inewuality : Lawrence Katz, an economist at Harvard redistribute rces

corruption

 army chief Raheel Sharif went so far as to say that the war against terrorism could not bring
peace and stability unless the “menace of corruption is uprooted”
 quaid bribery and corruption; that really is a poison … we must put that down with an iron
hand”
 Hunter S. Thompson, an American writer and journalist, stated in Songs of the Doomed: “we
cannot expect people to have respect for law and order until we teach respect to those we
have entrusted to enforce those laws.”

Education

 Female Secondary School Stipend Programme initiated in Punjab in 2004, 

  Stipend Programme for Secondary School Females in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa that was started
in 2006, and the 2016 policy to end gender segregation in public schools in Balochistan to
allow girls access to higher quality boys’ schools.
 National Education Policy, and the Education Sector Reforms. T
 2015 Asian Development Bank report, female enrolment is up as the net enrolment ratio
improved by 16pc in recent years. But only quarter in labour


 INTERnational

WORLD ORDER

 US  with the biggest economy and mightiest military force ever seen. It spends around $600
billion a year on defence, owes some $20 trillion.
 PAUL KENNEDY The Rise and Fall of Great Powers, first published in 1987,
 state’s strength can be measured only relative to other states. Secondly, ascendancy over
the long term correlates strongly to available resources and economic resilience. Finally,
military overstretch and corresponding relative decline is the fate of powers whose
ambitions and security needs are greater than their resources.
 Russia has shown in Syria, it is capable of challenging American hegemony

US

 Vietnam War, the U.S. military sprayed 20 million gallons of

chemicals,  1962-71

Israel Attacked Palestinian Civilians with White Phosphorus

in 2008 - 2009
Washington Attacked Iraqi Civilians with White Phosphorus
in 2004
The U.S. Military Littered Iraq with Toxic Depleted Uranium
in 2003


AFGHANISTAN

 Hezb-i-Islami Afghanistan (HIA) chief gulbuddin hekmatyar

 September 2016 Kabul-HIA peace pact on the one hand
 the government has promised to release hundreds of HIA prisoners, make the group part of
the electoral reform process, repatriate refugees from Pakistan and adhere to Islamic
principles.
 One sticking point is the immunity Hekmatyar and his supporters have been promised for
their past actions. 
 Places in security forces , party based election system
  international support for Afghan-owned negotiations and glad tidings RUSSIA OPPOSED

next

 War has been a part of life in Afghanistan for over 30 years.

The US cannot eliminate the Taliban or end violence in that
country,” Obama 
 report by the United States Forces Afghanistan : 36 territory
under talibann control


TRUMP

 The global and national militant organisations are delighted at

Trump’s policy towards Muslims.
 Recently Senator John McCain and Lindsey Graham made a
strong statement criticising the ban on Muslim countries and
stated that this would benefit ISIL 
 Dictatorship policies in ME : Classic example of this inner
explosion is manifest in Syria, Iraq, Somalia, Libya and Yemen
 disparity in income, pervasive corruption combined with lack
of modern education and a progressive outlook are crippling
Muslim societies.
Pak india

 cold start doxtrine : conventional.quick sepwrate kashmir from pakistan

 Nasr, a short range ballistic missile which is flaunted as a self
defense tool 
 fundamental vulnerability in the plan lies in the 80kms of road
from Madhopur to Jammu taking 8- 10 days
 largest democracy in the world, blind towards kashmir
 lack of sustained diplomacy


FACTS

 daily cost of the Assembly comes to Rs9.5m if counted over the total 365 calendar days of
the year
 PIDE MUHAMMAD IDREES : PROVINCISLISATION OF CIVIL SERVICES
 ARTICLE 172-3 subject to existing obligations , mineral oil and natural gas vested in provinces
and federal govt
  Article 6 of the Sino-Pakistan Agreement signed in 1963 as it
makes it clear that after the settlement of the Kashmir dispute
between Pakistan and India, the sovereign authority concerned
 will reopen negotiations with China on the boundary to replace
the present agreement.
 Erik Prince is allegedly the new ex-officio foreign policy adviser
to Trump
