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Contents
Corruption...................................................................................................................................................1
forced converstion.......................................................................................................................................1
afghan peace dialogue.................................................................................................................................2
Kashmir........................................................................................................................................................2
education.....................................................................................................................................................2
FATF blacklist...............................................................................................................................................2
Climate related............................................................................................................................................2
Justice........................................................................................................................................................3
administration............................................................................................................................................3
Effect of trade war...................................................................................................................................3
Population...................................................................................................................................................4
China tech..................................................................................................................................................4
Nuclear war.................................................................................................................................................4

(15)Forced conversion(14 Afghan peacedialogue (13)Kashmir(12) Education (11)fatf (10)climate(9)

justice (8)administration (7)trade war (6)maternal (5)morality ratio (4) population

(3)china tech (2)sexual assault (1) nuclear war

Corruption
Pakistan ranked 120 out of 180 countries in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2019
released by Transparency International on Thursday, slipping by three spots from the previous
year's ranking despite increased anti-corruption efforts.

forced converstion
according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), in 2018, more than 13
Hindu girls were abducted and married off to Muslims without the consent of their
families. But members of the Hindu community say the number is higher.
afghan peace dialogue
According to a World Bank research, Afghanistan-adjacent BRI corridor
can scratch the trade cost by 10.2%. If the border delays were halved,
the reduction of shipment times could be lowered by 21.6% too.

Kashmir
ccording to a 2015 survey by Médecins Sans Frontières, nearly 1.8 million adults in Kashmir
– 45% of the population – had shown symptoms of mental distress. More than 41% of the
population showed signs of depression, 26% signs of anxiety and 19% showed probable
symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder.

education
, the Global Human Capital Report 2017, World Economic Forum recognizes top ten
countries for skill and education in the order, Norway, Finland, Switzerland, United States,
Denmark, Germany, New Zealand, Sweden, Slovenia and Austria.

FATF blacklist
“According to the APG report, out of the 40 recommendations given to
Pakistan, the country has shown compliance in one (area), Financial
Institutions Secrecy Law, and has shown noncompliance in four areas,” stated
brokerage firm Topline Securities in its report.

“However, Pakistan is partially compliant on 26 and largely compliant on nine

recommendations,” it added.

Climate related
The carbon concentration in the atmosphere has gone up from 399.4 parts per
million in 2015 to 412 PPM in 2019 and the remaining carbon budget has
dipped from 420 gigatons to 350.
Lahore's air quality went from being 'hazardous' to 'unhealthy'
with an Air Quality Index (AQI) ranking of 157 on Saturday,
according to Air Visual

Justice
World Justice Project Report, 2019, ranks Pakistan at 118th position out of 126 in terms of
whether ordinary people can resolve their grievances peacefully and effectively though the civil
justice system. In the administration of criminal justice system, Pakistan was ranked at 92nd
position out of 126. 

administration
According to a report of UNO experts on Asian Democracies “the elitist culture of bureaucracy
by itself is divisive producing distorted values with wrong kind of expertise having no relevance
to the living knowledge of society’s needs and possibilities …. some governments are trying to
top-down the processes of ‘development’ that seek to serve the masses through bureaucracies
and the vested interests, 

 A recent report on torture in just one district of Punjab, i.e., Faisalabad District documented
1,424 confirmed cases of torture out of a sample of 1,867 Medico-Legal Certificates (MLCs)
compiled by a government-appointed District Standing Medical Board (DSMB) between 2006
and 2012.

Effect of trade war

 According to a report an all-out trade war such as that could decrease
the global GDP to about 3.8% lower than present.
A New York Times report published on September 12 suggests that the
number of American airdropped missiles and bombs in
Afghanistan is set to meet or possibly outpace the 7,362 munitions
launched in 2018. The most ordnance dropped before 2018, according
to Air Force data compiled since 2006, was in 2011 at the height of
American military presence in the country with 5,411 munitions In the
first six months of 2019, American and Afghan airstrikes killed and
injured 519 people, according to a United Nations report, amounting to
a 39% increase from the same time period last year, the report said.
increase in the maternal mortality ratio
1. according to the latest data (MICS 2018) there has been a substantial increase in the
maternal mortality ratio
According to Population Council estimates, each year, nearly 8.6 million women become
pregnant in Pakistan, of these, 15percent, i.e., 1.2 million women are likely to face maternal
complications.

according to PDHS 2007 data, maternal mortality ratio in rural areas was 1.8 times higher than
that of urban areas. Similarly, the maternal mortality ratio in women aged above 40 was
observed to be 4 times higher than those aged below 30.

Population
A recently released study by the Population Council and Guttmacher Institute,
Adding it Up, shows that the poorest women have almost one more child than
they want during their lifetime. 

China tech
 report by the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) which stressed that
China is a major threat in emerging technologies, including AI, and
China is closing the technology gap with the US and will soon lead in
AI, robotics, energy storage, fifth-generation cellular networks (5G),
quantum information systems, and possibly biotechnology.
2. 2.Sexual assault

The report collected data over a 10-year period and showed that of the
4,139 cases reported of child sexual abuse in Pakistan in 2017, as many
as 1,089 occurred in Punjab. It shows a consistent increase in these
crimes from 6.2% in 2008 to 16.2% in 2017. In the last decade, there
have been 272 incidents in Kasur alone.

Nuclear war
 A new study by American researchers gives the answer. Imagine this —
the immediate effects of a nuclear war between Pakistan and India may
lead to the deaths of up to 125 million people in just a week, according
to the study, co-authored by researchers at Rutgers University. That’s
2.5 times the fatalities of the Second World War when an estimated 50
million people were killed as a direct consequence of military action.