Press Release

UNICEF congratulates Pakistan on joining 100 countries in ratifying the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities

Islamabad, 6 June 2011 - UNICEF today congratulates Pakistan on its ratification of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). Pakistan joins 100 other countries in ratifying the first legally binding human rights treaty focusing exclusively on disability rights.

The Convention is truly a breakthrough in giving children with disabilities the protection to which they are entitled. It also has the potential to empower children with disabilities as rights-holders who act as “ambassadors of ability” to their families, schools and communities, instead of being treated as objects of charity. The Convention is also of great importance to UNICEF’s work, as it gives visibility to the most excluded and stigmatized of all the world’s children – children with disabilities.

“Together, the Convention on the Rights of the Child and the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities represent powerful instruments for rights-based, inclusive development of all children in Pakistan,” said UNICEF Pakistan Representative, Mr Dan Rohrmann.

“UNICEF calls on all partners in Pakistan to use the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities to advance the spirit of the treaty to its fullest extent,” he said.

On 25 September 2008, Pakistan signed the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, which was adopted on 13 December 2006.

According to the Pakistan Year Book 2010, almost 3.3 million people in Pakistan live with some form of disability, with more than half of those being children. Additional disaggregated data on children with disabilities, if available, would prove invaluable in inclusive development programming.

Implementation of the Disability Convention will be spearheaded by provincial authorities and the Capital Administration and Development Division together with a host of stakeholders and partners.

“UNICEF stands ready to support their efforts in order to accelerate achieving the rights of all children,” said Mr Rohrmann.


About UNICEF

UNICEF is on the ground in over 150 countries and territories to help children survive and thrive, from early childhood through adolescence. In Pakistan, it works with the government, NGOs and other partners to support child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. It has provided vital relief and reconstruction support to help individuals rebuild their lives after emergencies, such as the 2010 monsoon floods and the October 2005 earthquake. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.


For further information, please contact:

Kristen Elsby, Chief, Advocacy & Communication, UNICEF Pakistan
Mobile +92 300 500 2595
Email: kelsby@unicef.org


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their  lives in Pakistan?



A three in one collage
from media tribe sources

By Kulamarva Balakrishna
Taravadu Taranga Trust for Media Monitoring
TTTMM
Vienna,June 6,2011: I was saddened to learn the pathetic
choice before Pakistani journalists,who lost according to
reports, 24 colleagues since last year. This year the number
has reached to four with the unexplained death of Syed
Saleem Shahzad,whose body was picked up from a slice gate
net of a Jhelum river canal within forty eight hours of his
mysterious abduction from the fortified capital Islamabad.
He should have completed second part of his report for the
Hong Kong based Asia Times Online.The subject of his
report was the unusual shared attack,shared with insiders,
by terrorists on the Mehran navy airbase of Karachi on
May 22 at the dead of night. The attack was carried out
by no more than six terrorists that caused destruction of
the navy´s two newest surveillance aircraft and killed more
than a dozen security personnel, injuring many more during
the course 17 hour firefight with a total of more than a thousand
security forces participation  in the operation. The attack was
so complex that it compelled the security forces to save
eleven Chinese and six American weapons servicing engineers.
It looks as though the journalist gave his life for violating
the unwritten circumscription of FREEDOM OF THE PRESS
in that country by filing the first part of the report..The
second part, he could not complete since he was taken
captive by unidentified hands.The following collage makes
me conclude that in Pakistan journalists´ lives are only
slightly better than that of explosive belt suicide boys
in that, the boys have no chance of survival whatever
but the journalists, who are family men have no more than
fifty percent chance of living their professional lives full.

I have selected three reports of Pakistani Media-Tribe
sources to make a collage that may shed some light on
the sad event. Two parts of the collage was sourced
from a U.K. based Muslim Identity of 21st century website,
qern.org I reached through Media-Tribe. I present the
collage below: 

From:
Tariq Khattak >
Date: Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 5:59 AM


Pakistan Government, Local Media Owners,                                     Courts  Also Responsible For Troubles of
Journalists

 

I got mixed response from my earlier mail titled "Foreign

Media Also Responsible For Deaths of Pakistani Journalists."

Majority blamed me for an agent of ISI and establishment              but some appreciated it. Many were supportive of truth,

liberty, freedom of expression and other nice slogans                 without realising ground realities and consequences in                     a police state like Pakistan.


All of the non-journalists bashed me for writing this piece,                as they have nothing on stake. They want others to fight                   for them, pay for it, while they keep themselves away and             safe.


Other sections of society should also risk their                                  lives for betterment of society.


I think that government is also responsible for troubles

of journalist community. Keeping their stomachs empty

is integral part of their information policy so that they

can bar them from independent thinking and keep them               busy in making both ends meet.


Pakistani Courts also put their weight behind the owners         adding to miseries of journalist community, many judges            would personally call owners as soon as they are approached            by staff—what a shame.


Similarly, the media owners should also share the blame.              They look everything purely from business point of view                which is very selfish attitude.The ever-increasing influence                of marketing staff in every news organisation is enough                    to prove it.


Many media owners would stress ethics and honesty among            staff without considering it practical for themselves.They                  think that journalists and their families are super humans                 that survive without food.


Whatever majority of journalists in Pakistan get in the                name of salaries is in fact a small, humiliating and irregular          stipend which can be termed alms/donation at best.This double standard works well for owners but it's hard for journalists               to accept and there is no institution that can help them out.

The situation leaves majority of reporters/sub editors with             little options but to explore other avenues to provide for                 bread and butter to unfortunate families.


Such areas may include serving other private and government organisations/individuals, indulgence in PR activities,                working for foreign media, begging and black mailing.


They are not paid properly yet they hide the fact that they are serving others due to negative mindset of journalist community towards PR professional. (God knows when PR professionals

would be considered as humans and respectable segment

of the society).


Once I asked a friend that why is he hitting Pakistan and           Islam in every news filed to foreign media. He said that              foreign media has helped his family to migrate from inferior         good to superior. Once his salary was OK to meet expenses,         now it is not for personal entertainment.


"This is a whirlpool from which I cannot come out even                   if I try" was his last justification after which I preferred to                close the topic.It is an undeniable fact that almost everyone             is aware of the situation which has resulted in many problems. Many would not accept any journalist as son in law, ( in a

pimped marriage society.kb) as they know that it amounts             to playing with future of their daughters.Will there be any

end to suppression?- Tariq Khattak


Muslim identity
in U.K.!!!




From: Akber Choudhry <akber@qern.org>
Date: Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 4:31 PM


 Foreign Media Responsible for Killing                                            of Pakistani Journalists


Great comments all around.  Freedom of speech is not               absolute, and extra-judicial murders are abhorrent to
civilisation itself.

The fourth estate has a watchdog role -- what the public
should be aware of in
order to make rational decisions
about their lives and their leaders. When the
powerful
start to deceive, the truth should be known.  Even then,
operational
details and names are hidden, even by Wikileaks.
 In fact, Wikileaks was a
phenomenon due to Western
media becoming too cosy to power, a fact that

has since been acknowledged, even by the New York Times
.  

The New York Times declares boldly 'All the news that's
fit to print' with the clear realisation that there is news
that is not fit to print.

Intelligence agencies carry out tit-for-tat operations to keep
 us OUT of war -- it
shows the intelligence level and operational readiness of the other side without going into full-scale war. 
KGB-CIA shenanigans kept the Cold War cold. All
intelligence
agencies fund and keep militant organisations to do their dirty
work.


ISI is very good at what it does, and is an intelligence
agency worthy of a nuclear power, and necessary for
such a power.
 
Again, some dirty games of intelligence
agencies keep us out of full-blown war.
They keep the
American and Indian agencies in their place.They are not

angels, and we would not wa
nt them to be either.

The ISI, as part of the government, should be held
accountable by the media, but its operational details
should not be revealed. The most a journalist should
do in such situations when he/she feels that a broader
principle may be compromised is to go abstract and
outline the principle at stake.
A golden  rule -- how would a US reporter write
about the CIA, or the Hindustan Times about RAW?

Operational details are just titillating details that have
no purpose in educating
the public.  While Saleem was
a great reporter, and he laid bare an issue, which

Ghaznvi has discussed here

 (http://www.qern.org/en/rapidly-changing-al-qaeda-endgame-pakistan-0),
his crossing the line may have left not choice for the people
who
regularly put their lives on the line for us.Still, if it
was the ISI, it was wrong.
It is a delicate balancing act.

Regards,
Akber

Rapidly Changing Al-Qaeda                 Endgame in Pakistan

Submitted by ghaznvi on Tue, 2011-05-31 20:43

Saleem Shahzad was the fearless Pakistani reporter who was kidnapped last night and      found dead today.As usual, the Interior         Minister promised an inquiry and visited                his home,and all the foreign news agencies            for whom he worked expressed their condolences.

In addition to the sorrow over a reporter I admired, his death tells us a lot about the changing game within   Pakistan. Saleem was as close as you could get to the Taliban and Al-Qaeda while not being overtly sympathetic to them.A gifted         reporter, he found his natural voice when reporting about the           intricacies of the relationship between the various warring                  factions in Pakistan. He had written on "asiatimes online"                        Part 1 of what went on behind the attack on the Pakistani Navy          but did not live long enough to write Part 2.He had also written a well-received book on the Taliban and Al-Qaeda.

The background of this goes to the court-martial of Al-Qaeda          infiltrators into the Navy,which resulted in this attack.

The Pakistan military has two problems:

  • Like all militaries around the world, nationalism and             religion are used as motivators for the fighting armed                 forces. Pakistan was created with a Muslim identity,                      and thus the same terminology used by the non-state                     actor al-Qaeda is the same one used to inspire the                        state's armed forces -- jihad in the way of God.This               requires a philosophical clarity that is lacking and that                 will be published on this site as 'Dominion, Sedition                    and Struggle'.
  • While the Pakistan Army does wish Al-Qaeda and                     Taliban success in forcing the Americans and Indians                   out of Afghanistan,it does not look kindly on this                    isolationist and anti-state rhetoric infiltrating its ranks.                     It has now drawn the line.

The reason why jihadi forces have failed throughout modern             history is because the virulent fanaticism that makes them so          effective in the battlefield is the same virulent fanaticism that                 does not allow them to rule without creating perceived enemies           out of everyone.Infighting, lack of compromise and respect                   for others, and disobedience to all authority sets them on a                      path where they can never run a state.

The food supplies, hospitals, markets, telephone networks,                  trains, petrol supply chain, roads and arms that al-Qaeda relies               on to further its own goals are provided by the states of the                    host countries.This is very similar to a parasitic existence --                     but it is not in the interest of the parasite to destroy the host.           Nowhere has Al-Qaeda or other militant groups succeeded                      in providing the basics of a functioning society for any length                  of time.It is only a myth propagated by illiterate 'scholars'                    who are intent on augmenting their power base.

Al-Qaeda may be near the peak of its soft power -- it needs                    to get political very fast, very soon, like the IRA -- or it will                   lose its sympathisers and will be militarily crushed in South                  Asia.Or, we hope, some politician can harness the soft power               while distancing the al-Qaeda version of jihad from the                    Pakistani military's version."- Ghaznavi on qern.(end)





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Poverty does not breed extremism in Pakistan, study finds
Spending millions of pounds on development in Pakistan will do nothing to
keep young men out of the clutches of the Taliban, according to an extensive
survey of Pakistani attitudes towards extremism which will deepen the row
over Britain's aid budget.

Studies suggest poorer Pakistanis were actually less likely to support
extremist groups than more affluent, better educated people Photo: AFP
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/rob-crilly/)
By _Rob Crilly_ (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/journalists/rob-crilly/) ,
Islamabad
4:23PM BST 20 May 2011
The study, conducted by researchers from prestigious American universities,
found no link between poverty and support for militant groups.
The findings undermine a central pillar of the Conservative government's
radical new policy on aid, which will deliver almost £1.4bn to _Pakistan_
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/) over the next five
years as part of a strategy to protect Britain from terrorist attack.
On Wednesday, Theresa May, the Home Secretary, spelled out the policy to a
jeering audience of police officers, who face pay cuts while extra cash is
earmarked for Pakistan.
"If you get aid right in certain parts of the world, such as Pakistan, it
will reduce the possibility of terrorism on the streets of the UK," she
said.
Christine Fair, a South Asia expert at Georgetown University and one of the
authors of the new paper, said there was no evidence for such sweeping
assertions and that her study of 6,000 people suggested that poorer Pakistanis
were actually less likely to support extremist groups than more affluent,
better educated people.
"The terrorism literature has long held that poverty does not explain
terrorism," she told The Daily Telegraph.
"Yet despite what would be a fairly robust body of literature, both the
British government and the American government, have put together this canard
that we can buy our way out of terrorism by investing in education and so
forth. We simply don't find this."
Andrew Mitchell, who became International Development Secretary last year,
has repeatedly talked of putting national security at the heart of aid
policy.
With domestic budgets being cut, the argument has been deployed to justify
continuing to spend money overseas – even in Pakistan, a middle income
country where few people pay tax and the government spends more than £4bn on
its Army and nuclear arsenal each year.
In March, a review of British overseas declared, "Tackling extreme poverty
in Pakistan will help make the UK safer," as ministers announced they would
more than double the amount of cash for the terrorist-hit country – to
£446m in 2015, so long as certain benchmarks are met.
However, development agencies such as Oxfam have warned that such moves are
wrongheaded and that money should be spent purely to help those in need –
not to protect Britain.
The new research, the first of its kind and published by the Social Science
Research Network, suggests the money will not even help make Britain more
secure.
In an "endorsement experiment", respondents were asked how much they
supported different policies – the use of peace jirgas or reform of school
curricula for example.
A test group was told the policies were connected with Kashmiri terror
groups or the Afghan Taliban.
The difference between their responses and those of a control group, which
was not told of any connection, was taken as a measure of support for the
militant groups.
When compared with socio-economic indicators, the researchers found poorer
people were less likely to support extremist politics.
The paper concluded that poorer people in Pakistan were more likely to be
the victims of suicide bombings and other terror attacks, and therefore were
more likely to have negative feelings towards militants.
"This does mean there aren't good reasons to invest in education and
poverty mitigation. There are perfectly good reasons to do that. But if you are
doing it with the explicit goal of buying security at home, there is not a
lot of evidence," said Dr Fair.
"None at all."
Andrew Mitchell, International Development Secretary, insisted that
countries lacking education and mired in poverty were the least stable.
"Improving governance, security and the rule of law, matched with better
opportunities in terms of education and jobs, means we are lifting people out
of extreme poverty and addressing grievances that can lead people towards
extremism," he said.
"It is too narrow to consider this issue simply in terms of financial
poverty and extremism. It is vital to consider a wider range of issues that can
lead to instability and extremism, including local grievances and poor
education."
Source :
_http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/8526473/Poverty-does-not-breed-extremism-in-Pakistan-study-finds.html_
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/8526473/Poverty-does-not-breed-ext
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financial year ending 2010. This was announced by CEO of PQFTL, P. Ahmed.


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expenses for the year. The Company will share the surplus amount with
Individual Takaful participants on the basis of their contributions to the
Waqf Fund.


"The provision of surplus makes Takaful equitable and financially more
viable as compared to the conventional insurance system. We are the first
Takaful Company in Pakistan to declare a Surplus on their BancaTakaful
product." Ahmed said.

PQFTL has distribution agreements in place for its BancaTakaful products
through premier banks such as Standard Chartered Bank, Dubai Islamic Bank,
Albaraka Bank, Dawood Islamic Bank, MCB Bank, Faysal Bank and Bank Alfalah.
PQFTL is the largest provider of BancaTakaful in Pakistan.


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Senior Hurriyat leader and Chief Patron Islamic Political Party (jk) Mr. Mohammad Yousuf Naqash has said that this statement of Ram JetMalani is mischievous, unrealistic and condemnable in which he has said that Kashmiris are unaware about the meaning of FREEDOM and want to remain with India. The said leader belonging to the dreaded communal organization Bhartiya Janta Party is trying to deceive the Indian people by such deceptive and false statement. When he knows it that Kashmiris took guns for salvation from the illegal and forced occupation of India and continue to struggle and sacrifice for achieving this aim. There is no doubt in it that  Ramjethmalani like in the past has come Kashmir this time also for sabotaging the ongoing movement of Kashmiri people against India. So his this such deceptive and false statement should be an eye opener to those leaders who met him.

Press Secretary

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Sri Lankan PM inaugurated 6th China-South Asia Business Forum


PR (Islamabad)- "China and South Asian countries can bring about visible change in the global economy through promotion of cross-border trade and mutual trust and seize enormous untapped opportunities" this was stated by Hon'ble D.M. Jayarathne, Prime Minister of Sri Lanka during his keynote address to the 6th China-South Asia Business Forum  jointly organized by  China Council for Promotion of International Trade (CCPIT) and SAARC Chamber of Commerce & Industry in Kunming city of Yunnan Province of the Peoples' Republic of China on 5th June, 2011. 

 

The Sri Lankan premier accentuated the need for exchange of cooperation in Science and Technology, Energy, Agro-business and Tourism sector and sought Chinese Investment in South Asian countries to create better complementarities. The session was moderated by Mr. Rashid Bathiuddin, Minister for Industries and Commerce, Sri Lanka and addressed by business leaders from China and South Asia.

 

On behalf of the business community of South Asia, Immediate Past President of SAARC CCI, Mr. Tariq Sayeed addressed the Forum and proposed 10-point agenda for augmenting economic cooperation between China and South Asia.  He regarded China's economic development as one of the wonders of 21st century and perceived that China shall soon become the global economic leader. While appreciating the role of China-South Asia Business Forum, he said that since its establishment on 2005, the trade volume between China and South Asia has improved from $ 25 billion to $ 80 billion in 2010 and hoped that by year 2015, the volume will likely to cross $ 125 billion while referring the commitment of Heads of the Governments of China and India who have envisaged bilateral trade target of $ 100 billion by 2015.    

 

Vice Chairman, CCPIT Mr. Wang Jinzhen, said that since the opening of economy, China has been able to achieve high growth level and despite global financial crisis managed to attain double digit growth and overall witnessed 11.2% GDP growth for last one decade. He said that the objective of the creation of the CSABF and organizing of South Asian Commodity Fair as a regular annual feature is to provide South Asian countries to make niche in China, which despite being the largest export nation, was the 2nd largest import destination of the World.

 

Mr. Akber Khan, Vice President FPCCI represented the Private Sector of Pakistan and highlighted the areas of cooperation between China and Pakistan. He sought FDI and relocation of labour intensive and value-added Chinese manufacturing units in Pakistan, which could help bridge huge trade deficit faced by Pakistan.

 

The inaugural session f the Forum was also addressed by H.E. Bai Enpei, Secretary of Yunnan Committee of Chinese Communist Party, Mr. Wu Hailong, Assistant Minister of Ministry of Foreign Affairs of China, Mr. Tariq Puri, Chief Executive of TDAP, Dr. Mohammad Sharif Sariff, Deputy Minister of Commerce & Industry of Afghanistan and Mr. I.M. Pandey, Counsel General of India Consulate General in Guanghzhou. The Forum was followed by two sessions. The First session "How to expand the trade, innovate commercial policies and create a favourable environment for cooperation on a wider scale on trade and investment" was moderated by Mr. Macky Hashim, former President SAARC CCI (Sri Lankan) and the second session "How to promote investment and facilitate cooperation in Energy, Agriculture, Infrastructure Development and Tourism" was moderated by Mr. Iqbal Tabish, Secretary General of SAARC CCI. The sessions were addressed by prominent business figures from South Asia including President, Bhutan CCI, First Vice President, Federation of Bangladesh CCI and H.E. Ambassador of Bangladesh. Consul General of Pakistan and Commercial Counselor in Chedgdu and diplomatic corps of all eight South Asian Nations and more than 300 businessmen attended the Forum.


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