pakistan 2008

PAKISTAN

HOME TO AN ANCIENT CIVILISATION ,THE SITE OF SOME OF THE EARLIEST HUMAN

SETTLEMENTS

SOME OF ASIA'S MOST MIND-BLOWING LANDSCAPES

the Indian subcontinent

Afghanistan and Iran

the Arabian Sea

India

A MULTITUDE OF CULTURES

AND A LONG TRADITION OF HOSPITALITY

“ W h e r e t h e r e is s u n s h in e , t h e r e is a ls o s h a d e . ”

- K a s h m ir i p r o v e r b

One in ten children does not survive their fifth birthday

with the majority of deaths due to: diarrhoea,

Pneumonia, or vaccine-preventable diseases.

Pakistan’s maternal mortality ratio between 350 and 600 per 100,000 live births

c o m p a r e d t o 1 7 p e r 1 0 0 , 0 0 0 l iv e b ir t h s

in t h e U n it e d S t a t e s .

Pakistan spends less than 2.5 per cent of its GDP on the education sector.

Just over half of the 19 million children of primary school going age are enrolled in

primary education.

Three in ten children are c h r o n ic a lly m a ln o u r is h e d

lack safe water and household sanitation

especially in rural areas.

Pakistan has been greatly affected by the increase in world food prices.

With the cost of staple food becoming a serious struggle for many.

Just over a third of Pakistani women are literate.

An estimated 3.6 million children under the age of 14 work

mostly in exploitative and hazardous labour.

Brick kilns (b h a t t a ) The Peshgi system is a form of

bonded labour

which allows employers to keep workers as virtual slaves.

Formally abolished 12 years agoemployers are trying to implement it again.

T h e r e a r e 1 . 8 m il l io n w o r k e r s in b r ic k k iln

f a c t o r ie s .

Most of the workers are illiterate and do not know how much money they are repaying.

“ L if e is l ik e a la m p f la m e ; it n e e d s a l it t le o i l n o w a n d

t h e n . ”

- K a s h m ir i p r o v e r b