14 April 2011
As many as 12,580 people were murdered, 581 kidnapped for ransom and 16,977 were abducted during last year in the country, said annual report of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) launched here on Thursday. Presenting salient points of the report, Secretary General HRCP, I..A Rehman said that 109,383 registered Afghan refugees returned back to Afghanistan while 1.6 million registered refugees are still based here. He said that according to the report seven million people were forced from their homes in the floods. Even as floodwater receded in many areas, millions remained in tents, with their houses destroyed and livelihood lost. In education sector, the report stated that Pakistan's literary rate was recorded at 57 percent during last year. Flood damaged more than 10,000 schools in the country and between 1.5 million to 2.5 million students were affected by it. The report said that 163 attacks were reported on educational institutions while militants killed 22 teachers in Balochistan between January 2008 to October 2010. Around 10 million children were affected by the massive floods, 2.5 million of them younger than five years of age, the report said adding, 1,154 juveniles were detained in the prisons across the country.
As many as 12,580 people were murdered, 581 kidnapped for ransom and 16,977 were abducted during last year in the country, said annual report of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) launched here on Thursday. Presenting salient points of the report, Secretary General HRCP, I..A Rehman said that 109,383 registered Afghan refugees returned back to Afghanistan while 1.6 million registered refugees are still based here. He said that according to the report seven million people were forced from their homes in the floods. Even as floodwater receded in many areas, millions remained in tents, with their houses destroyed and livelihood lost. In education sector, the report stated that Pakistan's literary rate was recorded at 57 percent during last year. Flood damaged more than 10,000 schools in the country and between 1.5 million to 2.5 million students were affected by it. The report said that 163 attacks were reported on educational institutions while militants killed 22 teachers in Balochistan between January 2008 to October 2010. Around 10 million children were affected by the massive floods, 2.5 million of them younger than five years of age, the report said adding, 1,154 juveniles were detained in the prisons across the country.
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