After the independence from British Government in 1947, Pakistan inherited a prison system which was based on a colonial legacy. The basic aim of the system was the suppression of the political opponents as the prisons were used mainly for the confinement of the freedom fighters instead of the ...
it passed to the British as part of India and became a separate Muslim state in 1947. The country originally included the Bengalese territory of East Pakistan, which achieved its separate independence in 1971 as Bangladesh. Pakistan became a republic in 1956. Islamabad is the capital and Karachi...
Unfortunately, our national security state refused to countenance political negotiations with the Baloch insurgents innumerable times, resulting in the insurgency tipping over into the demand for independence. This is not a good portent for Pakistan. Sympathies or otherwise with the Baloch cause and it...
Partition and independence in 1947, and the subsequent accession of Cooch Behar to India in 1949, elevated the enclaves to the international level. Initially this was unproblematic, with India and Pakistan concluding agreements on cross-border trade and movement in the enclave areas. Censuses in 195...
The two countries were born at midnight, August 15, 1947, when the former British colony was partitioned into mostly Hindu India and Muslim-dominated Pakistan. Within months, they were fighting over Kashmir, the first of their three wars since independence. And Wednesday, the bloodshed continu...
So we achieved independence from British colonialism and we are entering the phase of cantonment colonialism,” he concluded. Adding to the economic gloom, former chairman of the Federal Board of Revenue Syed Shabbar Zaidi said that Pakistanis don’t even realise that they have ruined themselves. ...
From the time of its independence until 2001 [18], Pakistan did not have an indigenously developed mental health act. This greatly constrains any legislative frameworks, protections, and legalities for those with mental illness. The Lunacy Act of 1912, a law from colonial era, was based on ...
Following independence, jurisdiction for the mentally ill continued to be based on the Sindh Mental Health Ordinance 2013 In April 2010 the 18th constitutional amendment was passed. As part of the amendment, provinces and not the federation were responsible for psychiatric healthcare provision. Mental...
b. The Pakistani perspective Pakistan also benefits from receiving China’s help. Gaining independence from which partitioned from India, Pakistan has always lived in the shadows of its stronger and larger neighbour, the most sensitive conflict being the territorial disputes over the Kashmir region (...
of moving abroad, the website has come up with a map of the world where the names of countries are replaced with their ‘second languages’. While in most cases this shows the effects of colonialism and cultural imperialism, in the case of Pakistan, it reflects post-independence policymaking...