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#57 From: <nwfp_secretariat@...>
Date: Tue Oct 7, 2008 7:08 am
Subject: NWFP Government should take serious steps for the improvement of education 		pcenwfp
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NWFP Provincial government should take serious steps for the improvement of education:

 

Educational problems are increasing day by day and the public sector education quality is decreasing after the passage of time. After the announcement by the government to provide free text books to the government schools, from the last 4 years the condition of the education has more worsened. It can be better judged that there is no single example of a union council in whole province, where the complete sets of books are provided to all the students in that particular union council. Thousand of the vacant posts of teachers has resulted in closure of schools and the department failed to reopen them temporarily, thousands posts laying vacant on primary, middle, high and higher secondary level. Hundreds of schools are running without any principal or head teacher. On one hand there is free hand to the private sector education, while on other hand the public sector education is ignored.

 

One third of students currently studying in government schools have no books, and the sets provided are incomplete. No single set of the text book is available in market so that the parents could purchase it for their children. Hundreds of Non Governmental Organizations (NGOs) who are trying hard to educate the children specially the girls in the remote and fare flung areas of the province are not yet provided free books after the decision of the government last year. They are rolling between the Provision of Free Text Book Project (PFTB) and NWFP Text Book Board.

 

The rapidly changing policies of the department have increased frustration of the poor parents. The recent example of changing the uniform is an additional burden on parents in these hard days. The parents of more than 2.4 million boys’ students in different levels of the school would bear more than 11 billion rupees to purchase new uniform. This amount is almost triple of the budget allocated for the free books by the government. The other decision is to change the session and conduct the examination in March next year. Especially in those parts of the province, where the winter vacations for 2 and half months are given, the study there would be mostly suffered in such situation where the books distribution is still awaiting.

 

One can easily imagine the destruction in education, in the 2005 earthquake about 8000 schools demolished in which the low quality construction was also a factor killing about 16000 died and thousand of children injured and handicapped. The quake has completed 3 years, but the slow pace of work will take decades to reconstruct the schools. In tribal areas and district Swat hundreds of the schools are set to fire and blasted, due to which thousands of students mostly girls are forced to keep themselves away from education. The negative propaganda against the girl’s education has also helped the girls to dropout from schools and remains in homes. Some 15 thousand girls in the rural areas discontinued their education, when government stopped funds for the 204 Community Primary Schools run by government last year. And most recently the closure of NCHD, about two thousand of feeder schools are closed resulting hundreds thousand students future to darkness. The government did not provide any alternate plan to keep the children in schools. In Kurram Agency the schools are closed since last one year due to sectarian fighting and in Waziristan and Bajour the schools are closed due to security forces operation. These current trends are portraying very bad situation. As per government recent figures there are total 7.2 million children of school going age (5-14 years) in which 2.8 million children are out of school in the province, in which 1.8 million are girls.

 

 

The political leadership of the province should sense the situation and adopt the friendly policies, other wise, we would never be able to educate our nation. The targets of the Education for All (EFA), the government plan to 100% enrollment by 2010 or the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in which we have missed out some targets already and still lagging behind, all these goals will only remain dreams and false promises with our nation and international community.

 

 

Ibrash Pasha

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#55 From: "ibrashpasha" <ibrashpasha@...>
Date: Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:42 am
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I've just found a great Development Communication resource - it's the Reporting Skills and Professional Writing Handbook. You should take a look at http://www.reportingskills.org.

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Date: Thu Sep 18, 2008 1:42 pm
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16 DAYS OF ACTIVISIM AGAINST GENDER VIOLENCE
November 25 - December 10 - 2008
 

2008 16 Days Take Action Kit

The 2008 16 Days Take Action Kit can be downloaded in PDF* or Microsoft Word format. If you are willing to translate any of the following materials into a different language, please contact the Center at 16days@....

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  • Current Campaign Announcement: English, Español, Français
  • Campaign Profile: English, Español, Français,
  • Description of Dates: English, Español, Français
  • Suggested Actions: A Guide to Getting Involved for New Activists: English, Español, Français
  • Demands for Action: English, Español, Français
  • 10 Ways You Can Engage: English, Español, Français
  • Participating Countries & Organizations: English, Español, Français
  • Bibliography and Resource List: English, Español, Français
  • Flyer for Involving Youth Activists: English, Español
  • Claiming Rights, Claiming Justice: A Guidebook on Women Human Rights Defenders, published by Asia Pacific Forum on Women, Law and Development in collaboration with a group of women rights, human rights and sexual health advocates:English, Español, Français

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  • Current Campaign Announcement: English, Español, Français
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Human Rights for Women - Human Rights for All: UDHR60

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The 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights is a historic moment, recognizing the past six decades of work to secure the conventions and treaties that make up the human rights framework. The principles of the declaration also gave legitimacy to activists around the world who were calling for the realization of universal human rights.

On December 10, 2007, a civil society campaign was launched to celebrate the upcoming 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). This project is pioneered by a group of notable activists known as "The Elders" and seeks to reclaim the principles in the UDHR through the message that Every Human Has Rights. The Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL) is proud to be a partner in this UDHR60 NGO campaign, which comes at a time when the legitimacy of both women's rights and human rights are being challenged in too many settings.  

Human rights cannot be universal without human rights for women.  The UDHR60 campaign offers an opportunity to advocate for women's rights and the quest to end gender inequality, and to create a world free from violence, discrimination and injustice. These are critical to building a just, peaceful and sustainable world where human rights for all are respected.  Over the past 60 years, women have created groundbreaking global and local efforts to challenge gender inequality and feminist approaches to human rights are being developed and used around the world.  Women's advocacy has brought about pioneering change in areas such as education, health, law, and political participation – and, in interpretations of the human rights framework itself.  The global frameworks for realizing women's rights have been spelled out in the Women's Convention (CEDAW), and in documents from other UN processes, such as the Vienna Human Rights Declaration, the Cairo Programme of Action, theBeijing Platform for Action, the Millennium Development Goals, and the World Summit.  Women have successfully demanded state political will to create meaningful change, but the implementation and resources to fulfill these promises are still lacking. 

CWGL's focus in this UDHR60 campaign is not exhaustive, but what we will do is build on, celebrate and honor this global momentum, particularly in areas most closely related to our work on women's human rights. In addition, we will dedicate the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign 2008 to celebrate the 60th anniversary of the UDHR and to make demands to advance women's human rights.  CWGL's primary areas of focus will be:

  • Support Women Human Rights Defenders
  • End Violence Against Women
  • Strengthen Gender Equality Structures in the UN
  • Expand Financing for Gender Equality

Recognizing that the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign provides an opportunity to bring global activism around women's rights to the forefront of the celebration of UDHR60 on December 10 2008, we invite all to join in celebrating the anniversary of the Declaration and honoring decades of landmark women's rights advocacy. We encourage groups to focus their plans for the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign 2008 on activities that address the many human rights challenges facing women around the globe and to celebrate the leadership of women in defending human rights. 

Please see the 2008 Take Action Kit for more details on each of these ideas, including actions tailored especially for the 2008 16 Days Campaign. 
The kit will be available online and in print in August – contact the Center for Women's Global Leadership at the address below to request a kit:
Center for Women's Global Leadership 
160 Ryders Lane, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 08901-8555 USA; Phone (1-732) 932-8782; Fax: (1-732) 932-1180; E-mail:16days@...; Or to access the kit online, go tohttp://www.cwgl.rutgers.edu/16days/home.html

Join the 16 Days movement! 
Create or join a community, campus, national or international activity for the 16 Days. Request a Take Action kit, join the 16 Days listserv, and use past 16 Days International Calendars of Activities (available online) to spark ideas for your activities or to find information about groups in your area. Submit your planned projects to CWGL for posting to the 2008 International Calendar of Activities and become part of the global 16 Days movement.

Join the 16 Days electronic discussion! 
Join the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence email listserv discussion, which lets activists share work against violence, build partnerships with others worldwide, and to develop strategies and themes for the annual 16 Days campaign. 
To join the discussion, visit https://email.rutgers.edu/mailman/listinfo/16days_discussion.

Submit your materials! Help us build a 16 Days Archive! 
CWGL requests that participants in the 16 Days campaign – past as well as present – send descriptions of your current or past 16 Days events to the contact information below for posting in the electronicInternational Calendar of Activities. CWGL would also be pleased to receive other materials, including posters, fliers, photographs, t-shirts, video footage, poems, songs, statements, and reports for the campaign archives. If you have photographs, documents, or other examples of your work that you can send in an electronic version, please do so and we will post it on the website.

The 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence is coordinated by the Center for Women's Global Leadership.


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#53 From: cppak <cppak2003@...>
Date: Wed Sep 17, 2008 12:12 pm
Subject: The Pakistani government must expose the US game plans. 		cppak2003
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The Pakistani government must expose the US game plans.

 

It is an established fact that violence begets violence; if the American led NATO forces intensify the attacks inside the Pakistani area would definitely cause increased extremism and terrorism. The current signs of the attacks on Karachi and Islamabad by American leadership and the presence of the Taliban in Karachi as stated by MQM leader Altaf Hussain would push Pakistan into a disintegration and civil war like situation.  

 

This was stated by Comrade Imdad Qazi in a press statement. Comrade further told that imperialist US can¢t be permitted at any cost to do such acts against Pakistan. These acts are also very dangerous for the democracy here which is in the infancy stage yet. The current uncertainty in the country and intolerance are the results of the these American plans. Comrade Qazi suggested to the government to expose these American games publicly and inform the people of Pakistan on the exact situation. Similarly all democratic forces should also initiate agitation against these plans and attacks otherwise it is leading to a dangerous situation.     

 

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#52 From: cppak <cppak2003@...>
Date: Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:56 pm
Subject: Communist Party of Pakistan statement of attacking Girls schools in NWFP. 		cppak2003
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Communist Party of Pakistan statement of destroying Girls schools in NWFP.

The bombing and burning of the girls schools in NWFP is an act of violence against humanity. The targeted schools of girls are more than 160 schools in the Districts of Swat, Bajour, Mohmand, Dir Upper, Dir Lower and other parts of FATA and NWFP. It is a plan to keeping the female population in darkness and deprived. The female literacy rate is very low in these parts of the country and it was needed to establish more (almost double the numbers) the school there for boys and girls and educate the young population of the nation. The female literacy rate is about 22-24% in Swat, 2-3% in Bajour, 10-12% in Dir Lower and 8-10% in Dir upper.  But unfortunately the education institution and specially the girls schools from primary to higher secondary level are being targeted by the militants and thousands of girls remained in homes due to the security fears and destroying the schools. About one in four schools in Swat are destroyed by the militants. In some area the small girls of primary schools are forced to wear burqa (vail). Recently the Girls High School at Ganori Village is blasted in Dir Upper. The only Girls High school in Wari Tehsil (Subdivision ) of Dir Upper is burnt and all the girls are now forced by government to get the school leaving certificates.

Communist Party of Pakistan condemns these acts of militants to keep away the girls from education and forcing them into the age of darkness. Communist Party of Pakistan calls upon all the parents, teachers, political and rights activists to protect the schools as some of the brilliant parents did in Swat and Dir. CPP demands from the governmnet to provide security to the schools, students and teachers. The reconstruction of the destroyed schools should be the first priority of the Government and special programme on the reconstruction should be initiated. 

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#51 From: cppak <cppak2003@...>
Date: Mon Sep 15, 2008 11:58 am
Subject: Communist Party of Pakistan statement on India’s fresh incidents. 		cppak2003
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Communist Party of Pakistan statement on India’s fresh incidents.

 

After building the relationship of Indian bourgeoisie's with imperialism and agreeing on Indo- US nuclear deal, congress government is extremely under pressure. As a result the position of Indian left is strengthened due to anti imperialist slogan and grounds. Hence the world imperialism plotted a scam web. BJP in these circumstances has become an important mean for the imperialist. The disturbing of peace in Kashmir, acting against the Christians in Orissa and other places, and damaging the secular democratic shape of politics by boosting the communalism. Delhi bomb explosions are also the series of this plan.   

 

In the upcoming elections, the imperialist allies Congress and BJP were foreseeing clear defeat and the communist lead left and democratic forces were having chances of overwhelming victory, and as result India would adopt the path leads to national sovereignty and independence.        

 

All the current Indian situation and events are part of the game plan to give success to the imperialist’s puppets. Communist Party of Pakistan condemns these series of conspiracies, also condemns the killings in these incidences and condoles with their families.  The Communist Party of Pakistan is already faced with such conspiracies. We think that our comrades in India would foil these conspiracies, and would be succeeded in the next election by defeating the communal and t allied forces of imperialist.



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#50 From: cppak <cppak2003@...>
Date: Sat Sep 13, 2008 3:44 am
Subject: Communist Party of Pakistan on expelling US ambassadors from Bolivia and Venezuela. 		cppak2003
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Communist Party of Pakistan on expelling US ambassadors from Bolivia and Venezuela.

 

US imperialism is passing though a crises and imperialist system has started a move of terrorism by supporting separatist movements. It also boosts the so called extremism by creating separatist movements and searching for the reasons to fight in different regions of the world. In the Latin-American region, after seeing the revolutionary inclination and popularity, imperialist US America  has become aggressive. They also tried to use Columbia against Venezuela and similarly it supports the anti revolutionary forces in Bolivia. The US ambassador is involved in all these plots; Communist Party of Pakistan condemns it.

 

Communist Party of Pakistan supports the act of expelling the ambassadors from Bolivia and Venezuela. US is also doing the same acts in the different boarder areas of Pakistan, the elected government of Pakistan should take bold decisions like taken by Bolivian and Venezuelan governments, such decisions are very much necessary.

 

Communist Party of Pakistan appeals to all progressive forces to accelerate the political campaign against Imperialist America.  

 


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Date: Fri Sep 12, 2008 9:44 am
Subject: Bolivia & Venezuela Orders US Ambassadors Out from both countries 		cppak2003
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Published on Thursday, September 11, 2008 by Agence France Presse
Bolivia Orders US Ambassador Out, Warns of Civil War
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LA PAZ (AFP) - - President Evo Morales of Bolivia on Wednesday ordered the US ambassador expelled, accusing him of contributing to divisions in the country which the government warned was headed towards "civil war."
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Ambassador Philip Goldberg was to be sent an official message from the foreign ministry "informing him of the decision by the national government and its president that he should return to his country at once" and that he was "persona non grata," Morales said.

[Bolivia's President Evo Morales delivers a speech at the presidential palace in La Paz, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008. Morales said Wednesday that he is expelling the U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia, Philip Goldberg, for allegedly inciting violent opposition protests. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)]Bolivia's President Evo Morales delivers a speech at the presidential palace in La Paz, Thursday, Sept. 11, 2008. Morales said Wednesday that he is expelling the U.S. Ambassador to Bolivia, Philip Goldberg, for allegedly inciting violent opposition protests. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)
The move came amid violence in several regions that Morales's spokesman, Ivan Canelas, said were creating conditions for "a sort of civil war."

Anti-government protesters on Tuesday ransacked government offices, and seized oil facilities and three regional airports.

In southeast Bolivia, a gas pipeline was blown up Wednesday in what head of the state energy company YPSL, Santos Ramirez, said was a "terrorist attack" by anti-government protesters.

The explosion occurred in Yacuiba, near the border with Argentina, causing a cut in natural gas supplies to that country and to Brazil.

The unrest was a worsening of a political conflict between Morales, Bolivia's first indigenous president, and rebel governors in five of the country's nine states.

The conservative governors are opposing Morales's bid to reform the country along socialist lines designed to benefit the indigenous majority, and are encouraging the protesters in their actions.

They have also made moves towards autonomy, something Morales has branded as illegal. Two weeks ago, he ordered troops to guard gas facilities and government offices in their eastern lowland territories.

In his speech Wednesday, the president accused the US ambassador of aiding his opponents.

Last month, his foreign ministry protested a high-profile meeting Goldberg held with the governor of Santa Cruz state, Ruben Costas, Morales's chief foe.

The government also noted this week that the head of the Santa Cruz employers' federation, Costas's ally Branko Marinkovic, had just returned from the United States.

In Washington, the US State Department said it had not received a formal order from Bolivia to withdraw its ambassador. A spokesman, Gordon Duguid, said Morales's charges against Goldberg were "baseless."

Bolivia, South America's poorest nation, has been in the grip of the contest between Morales and the rebel governors for months, but the risk of widespread violence had up to now been tempered by political moves by both sides.

Last month, a referendum called by Morales delivered a strong confirmation of his leftist mandate, with two-thirds of voters backing him. But in the rebel states, voters also returned most of the governors forming the opposition coalition.

After failed negotiations to find a compromise solution, Morales announced two weeks ago a new referendum, for December 7, to vote on his rewritten constitution, which would redistribute land and national revenues to give more to the indigenous population.

The opposition coalition, which also includes town mayors, have focused their attention on the main source of Bolivia's income: the natural gas fields that lie in their eastern half of the country.

Militants linked to the opposition group set up road blocks to add pressure to the governors' demands for more control over gas revenues. On Wednesday, pro-Morales supporters did the same, cutting roads from the capital La Paz to Santa Cruz.

The situation has created a divided Bolivia, one riven by ethnic confrontation between the indigenous community and the population in the more prosperous east which is largely of European and mixed descent.

© 2008 Agence France Presse




BBC NEWS | Americas | Chavez acts over US-Bolivia row
Chavez acts over US-Bolivia row

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is expelling the US envoy to Caracas, amid an escalating regional diplomatic row.

Mr Chavez said US ambassador Patrick Duddy had 72 hours to leave, adding the move was in solidarity with Bolivia.

It came just hours after Washington ordered out the Bolivian ambassador, in response to its own envoy being told to leave Bolivia.

Bolivia accuses the US envoy of inciting growing violent protests against President Evo Morales.

At least eight people were killed and some 20 injured in clashes between pro- and anti-government groups in Bolivia on Thursday.

Bolivia has seen large numbers of protests in recent weeks by opponents of Mr Morales's economic and social policies.

'Go to hell'

President Chavez used coarse language to describe his feelings about Washington as he ordered the expulsion of US envoy Patrick Duddy.

"The Yankee ambassador to Caracas has 72 hours to leave Venezuela, in solidarity with Bolivia, with the Bolivian people, and with the Bolivian government," Mr Chavez said.

"Go to hell 100 times," he said.

Mr Chavez also announced that he was recalling his envoy from Washington.

Earlier, the US state department declared that the Bolivian ambassador in Washington, Gustavo Guzman, was "persona non grata".

State department spokesman Sean McCormack said the decision was taken "in response to unwarranted actions, and in accordance with the Vienna Convention [on diplomatic protocol]".

He referred to Wednesday's move by Bolivia to expel US Ambassador Philip Goldberg.

President Morales accused Mr Goldberg of "conspiring against democracy" and encouraging the break-up of Bolivia, but Mr McCormack said the expulsion was a "grave error", describing the accusations as "baseless".

Military protection

The eight deaths in Bolivia's remote northern jungle region of Pando happened as pro- and anti-government protesters fought each other with clubs, machetes and firearms, officials said.

Seven of the victims were farmers killed by opposition activists, reports say.

A government spokesman described the killings as a massacre.

Protesters have also been blocking roads and occupying buildings in eastern regions, which are home to Bolivia's important natural gas reserves.

Opposition groups want greater autonomy as well as more control over revenues of natural gas in their areas.

They object to Mr Morales's plans to give more power to the country's indigenous and poor communities, by carrying out land reform and redistributing gas revenues.

On Monday, the government announced it was sending the military to protect gas fields and infrastructure from demonstrators and guarantee exports to neighbouring countries.

On Wednesday, officials said saboteurs had caused a blast on a pipeline, forcing them to cut natural gas exports to neighbouring Brazil by 10%.

The Brazilian foreign ministry said in a statement that the government was taking the necessary measures to guarantee gas supplies in the country.

The statement also expressed Brazil's "grave concern" at the events in Bolivia, and deplored the outbreak of violence and attacks on state institutions and public order.

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#48 From: cppak <cppak2003@...>
Date: Fri Sep 12, 2008 6:22 am
Subject: War in South Osetia- Statement of All-Union Communist Party (bolsheviks) 		cppak2003
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The Statement of Secretary of the Central Committee

All-Union Communist party (bolsheviks)

« About a confrontation in South Osetia »

 

A political conflict developed during for long time in South Osetia in August, 2008 was gone in a stage of the direct operations, begun bombardment, and then - full destruction Chinval by the Georgian armies that has served as an occasion to introduction on territory of South Osetia of the Russian army which have begun military actions against the Georgian armies with application of tanks, artillery, systems Hailstones”, the Navy and bombardment of territory of Georgia of the Air Forces of Russia. The ruling Russian mode approves, that « Russia has been compelled to apply force to save of the peace population », that « Russia has gained a brilliant military victory » and that « the Russian army, met crisis of 90th years, has revived and has shown the fighting power ». Official propagation has developed chauvinistic campaign, damning mode Saakashvili and its American patrons, glorifying a military victory of Russia and « the victorious president », speculate on blood fallen in this war and on sufferings of the people who have remained without a roof over the head. A position of a ruling mode very much have supported also a number of the parties calling  “oppositional” and even “communistic”, including CP the Russian Federation, propagandizing nowadays mean lie about « the Russian mode as the defender of small people and resisting pressure to imperialism of the USA and NATO ». However chauvinistic fanfares and enthusiastic reports about a victory cannot hide a true state of affairs and hide in a shadow of original originators of the conflict.

 

AUCP (b) holds up to shame mode Saakashvili (which coming to power was promoted substantially by the Russian diplomacy), soiled blood the osetins, abhazes, the Georgian, Russian and transformed Georgia in semicolony the USA. At the same time the fault for tragedy of South Osetia lays and on present governors of Russia. Some circumstances of the conflict suggest about arrangement of ruling circles of Russia and Georgia. In particular, questions are quite lawful: why the Russian authorities acting as « defenders of interests of people of South Ossetia », have allowed the Georgian party to concentrate the armies, at two days unpunishedly to fire Chinval, to undertake storm of city, to finish business to a mass slaughter and destructions, and only then to start military actions? Why the corresponding diplomatic demarches, capable to prevent a tragic outcome have not been undertaken? Why official Russian propagation informs nothing on protests of Georgian people against

Saakashvili’s to bloody massacre?

 

Abundantly clear, what not to ruling circles of capitalist Russia to talk profusely about necessity « protection of small people » and « rendering assistance weak ». The mode on which fault the population of Russia is reduced to one million person annually, a mode on which fault Russia wins first place in the world on natural decline in population, children’s death rate and to deliveries of slaves on world « the black market », cannot be the defender of freedom and validity.

 

Abundantly clear, that « small victorious war » was favourable Medvedev-Putin’s regime to mode to « consolidation of the Russian society » around of ruling circles. It is favourable that who makes profi t of military deliveries and on transformation of South Osetia into « a black hole of economy » for on an example of the Chechen Republic well-known as officials capitalists likes « restoration of the destroyed areas » and what means are plundered thus. This war has helped also to mode Saakashvili, prebecome before all world as « a victim of aggression of Russia and bombardments of territory of Georgia ». This war is favourable to a top of the Russian army and the power structures, received grades, awards and money for « a victorious outcome » and demanding now increase in military charges. But this war contradicts interests of people of Caucasus, interests not only Georgian, but also the Russian people, become by a change in game of “mighties of this world”. This war has once again shown the original attitude of a mode to the Russian army which have become by the hostage of politicians, sent recent, not trained as follows recruits on massacre and not managed to equip army with the modern weapon which for a long time is sold abroad.

 

Today as V.I.Lenina’s told in the beginning of the last century the words are very actual: « Hundred thousand hired slaves to the capital go on massacre for the sake of interests of the several crowned robbers, for the sake of profits of bourgeoisie. Wars with all of them disasters are generated with capitalism, aggravates struggle between the nations and transforms slaves to the capital into gun meat ».

 

The all-Union Communist party (bolsheviks), in the name of vital interests of all workers of weights, lifts the resolute protest against crimes of authority. We hold up to shame all guilty in ðàçâÿçûâàíèè this bloody massacre. We resolutely condemn the untied chauvinistic campaign. AUCP (b) declares, that only overthrow of authority of the capital can provide free development of Georgia, all Caucasian people and people of Russia.

Long live proletarian internationalism!

Down with war, down with capitalism!

Long live a socialist revolution!

Long live Russia Soviet, socialist!

Proletarians of all countries, unite!

 

Secretary of Central Committee AUCP (b)



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16 US troops commit suicide in Iraq
Mon, 08 Sep 2008 12:48:50 GMT
Sixteen US troops from the a unit of the Airborne Division have committed suicide inside a military base in Iraq, security sources say.

Iraqi security sources have revealed that 21 US troops had committed suicide inside a former Iraqi air force base 27 days ago, Fars News Agency reported on Monday.

According to the sources, the 21 troops were treated in a hospital but only five soldiers have survived and they are in a critical condition. Security officials said they used potent narcotics to kill themselves.

The troops' motivations for suicide are not known but according to Iraqi sources the servicemen belonged to a unit of the US Airborne Division that was behind the massacre of several Iraqi families-- mostly women and children-- in northern Baghdad, said Ali al-Baghdadi an Iraqi security official.

The suicides took place in the soldiers' dormitory after the dinner time.
"The bodies of the US troops became misshapen such a way that they looked like 5000-year mummies," said a witness.

According to Iraqi officials' estimates, some 600 US troops, including senior officers, have committed suicide in Iraq since the invasion of the country in 2003. Half of the suicide attempts have been successful.

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Date: Wed Sep 10, 2008 7:43 am
Subject: CPPak Circular on Political Situation of Pakistan 		cppak2003
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Political Situation of Pakistan

    Pakistan has entered into a democratic period after passing through a long interval of military dictatorship. After 1977 president house has remained occupied, directly or indirectly, by representatives of Civil or Military Bureaucracy even when a government setup was civilian apparently. Now it can be hoped, after Mr. Asif Ali Zardari's election as president of Pakistan, that the president house will not work as center of conspiracies and intrigues. Now, when the two offices of prime minister and president have been filled with elected representatives of people, it is their responsibility to keep the conspiring elements of civil military bureaucracy at a distance. They should accept the mandate given to democratic forces at different levels. They have to avoid the past undemocratic attitude of destabilizing the elected provincial governments. An elected civilian setup has emerged after a very protracted people's struggle and the gains of this struggle have to be protected by all means. It is the joint responsibility of ruling coalition, parliamentary democratic forces, democratic forces outside parliament and Pakistani people to consolidate the hard earned democracy.

    The newly elected government has to address certain problems faced by people on priority basis. Spiral of price hike, unemployment, poverty, decreasing purchasing power of middle class, menace of terrorism and scarcity of fundamental requirements of life have forced the common man to live a sub-human life. Masses expect an improvement in shortest possible time. Government will also have to take suitable long-term steps to give correct direction to internal and external policies. Restoration of original constitution of 1973, giving maximum autonomy to provinces, fighting militancy by administrative and political steps, making judiciary completely independent, decreasing dependence on International Monetary Institutions to minimum possible level, guarantying minimum wages to industrial and farms workers and necessary legislation for protecting their rights, restarting closed industrial units, giving equal rights to different religious communities and weaker segments of the society, making education free up to intermediate level and decreasing the cost of higher education, restoring confidence of people having separatist tendencies due to denial of their due rights for prolong period, implementing agricultural reforms announced during past periods, changing the privatization policy so as to keep services and profitable industry in public sector and immediate discontinuation of the blind process of selling the national assets, and stopping the policy of subservience to United States of America are some of the prerequisites for progress and prosperity of the country.

      Since the establishment of real democratic order and its consolidation is the common responsibility of all democratic forces, it is the duty of democratic forces outside parliament and specially those of left to try to transform the elected civilian government into real democratic one. To organize joint activities on the basis of a minimum program will be a good start in that direction. Organizing peasant, labour and democratic conferences will help in protecting the seedling of democracy from anti-democratic forces, specially military establishment and their allies i.e.  International Monetary Institutions and International Imperialism. Government should also avoid trying to silence the voice of dissent. It should encourage positive criticism and should help grow democratic and left forces. If the creation of hurdles for political movements by intelligence agencies and their assistance to negative forces is not stopped, it may result, with the active involvement of America, in a very dangerous polarization of political forces in near future. We may, thus, witness emergence of two distinct camps comprising all fundamentalist and anti-democratic forces having Jihadi culture and right of center political parties on one side and all pro America so called liberal forces and ruling coalition on the other side. The two diagonally opposed forces may create anarchy in the name of fighting America or defeating fundamentalism. In this situation military generals may be tempted to takeover the reins of government in their hands and this may also effect the country's geography.

Issued by Central Secretariat
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#45 From: National Secretariate PCE <nationalsecretariat@...>
Date: Tue Sep 9, 2008 2:49 am
Subject: [Fwd: International Literacy Day / Journée internationale de l'alphabétisation ] 		nspcepk
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Dear CCNGO/EFA members,

 

With reference to our message below on the celebration of the International Literacy Day today, I am pleased to provide you with the link to UNESCO's web pages where you can find updated information and new materials (press release, UNESCO Director General message for ILD, information about worlwide celebrations, etc.).

 

The link is the following:

http://portal.unesco.org/education/en/ev.php-URL_ID=57733&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

 

For your consideration, you can also find attached a fact sheet including facts and figures on literacy worldwide (in English and Spanish).

 

As emphasized in our previous email, we would be very grateful if you could let us know about initiatives, activities and events that you and your partners are organizing in your country/region. We would highly appreciate it if you could send this useful information to literacy-day@....

 

We look forward to hearing from you.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Grégory Dubois

EFA International Coordination Team

UNESCO

7, Place de Fontenoy

75007 Paris

tel : + 33 1 45 68 14 37 

fax : + 33 1 45 68 56 26

g.dubois@...

 

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Chers membres de la CCONG/EPT,

 

Suite à notre message ci-dessous au sujet de la célébration de la Journée internationale de l’alphabétisation aujourd'hui, j’ai le plaisir de vous communiquer le lien vers les pages internet de l’UNESCO où vous pourrez trouver des informations mises à jour et de nouveaux matériels (communiqué de presse, message du Directeur général de l’UNESCO à l’occasion de la Journée internationale de l’alphabétisation, informations sur les célébrations dans le monde, etc.).

 

Le lien internet est le suivant : http://portal.unesco.org/education/fr/ev.php-URL_ID=57733&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html.

 

Pour votre considération, vous trouverez également ci-joint un document présentant les principaux faits et chiffres sur l’alphabétisation dans le monde (en anglais et espagnol).

 

Come nous l’avions souligné dans notre email précédent, nous vous serions très reconnaissants si vous pouviez nous informer des initiatives, activités et événements que vous et vos partenaires organisez dans votre pays et/ou région. Nous apprécierions beaucoup si vous pouviez envoyer ces informations à literacy-day@....

 

Dans l’attente de vous lire, nous prions de bien vouloir agréer, Madame, Monsieur, l’expression de nos salutations les plus sincères.

 

Grégory Dubois

Equipe de coordination internationale de l’EPT

UNESCO

7, Place de Fontenoy

75007 Paris

tel : + 33 1 45 68 14 37 

fax : + 33 1 45 68 56 26

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Dear CCNGO/EFA members,

 

As you know, International Literacy Day  is coming up on 8 September. Celebrated annually within the framework of the United Nations Literacy Decade (2003-2012), International Literacy Day is an opportunity to remind the international community of the status of literacy and adult learning globally. This year, International Literacy Day will focus on the vital relationship between Literacy and Health, which is also the thematic emphasis of the 2007-2008 biennium of the United Nations Literacy Decade (UNLD). This year’s slogan is “Literacy is the best remedy”.

 

International Literacy Day 2008 is therefore an excellent opportunity to sensitize policymakers and a wider public to the significance of literacy for healthy societies, with a strong emphasis on the prevention of epidemics and communicable diseases such as HIV, tuberculosis and malaria. In this context, we would like to encourage you to organize specific activities to mark this occasion, in cooperation with all concerned EFA partners, and to bring the issues to the attention of the media in your countries. UNESCO Headquarters in Paris will be organizing a round table on literacy and health on 8 September, with influential speakers from UNAIDS and other constituencies.

 

In order to facilitate your participation in this common initiative, you will find attached the banners and posters (in English, French and Spanish) produced by UNESCO. On our website (www.unesco.org/education/en/literacy/day) you will also find information on Literacy Prizes awarding projects in Ethiopia, Zambia, South Africa and Brazil. In late August, we will also send you further information relating to facts and figures on literacy worldwide, a press release and other documents.

 

We have set up a special email account to share information ahead of this day – thank you in advance for letting us know about plans and initiatives in your region (literacy-day@...). Do not hesitate to contact us for further information.

 

It is our collective responsibility to make literacy a reality for all. Your continued cooperation can definitely make a difference.

 

We look forward to collaborating with you.

 

Yours sincerely,

 

Grégory Dubois

EFA International Coordination Team

UNESCO

7, Place de Fontenoy

75007 Paris

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fax : + 33 1 45 68 56 26

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Chers membres de la CCONG/EPT,

 

Comme vous le savez, la Journée internationale de l’alphabétisation se tiendra le 8 septembre prochain. Célébrée chaque année dans le cadre de la Décennie des Nations Unies pour l’alphabétisation (2003-2012), la Journée internationale de l’alphabétisation est l’opportunité de rappeler à la communauté internationale le statut de l’alphabétisation et de l’éducation des adultes dans le monde. Cette année, la Journée internationale de l’alphabétisation se concentrera sur la relation vitale entre Alphabétisation et Santé, qui est également la priorité de l’exercice biennal 2007-2008 de la Décennie des Nations Unies pour l’alphabétisation (DNUA). Le slogan de cette année est: «L’alphabétisation est le meilleur remède ».

 

La Journée internationale de l’alphabétisation est ainsi une excellente opportunité pour sensibiliser les responsables politiques et l’opinion publique sur l’importance de l’alphabétisation pour des sociétés saines, l’accent étant mis plus particulièrement sur les épidémies et les maladies transmissibles telles que le VIH, la tuberculose et le paludisme. Ainsi, nous souhaiterions vous encourager à organiser vos propres activités pour célébrer cet événement, en coopération avec tous les partenaires de l’EPT concernés, et à attirer l’attention des médias sur ces questions dans votre pays.

 

Une table ronde sur le thème de l’alphabétisation et de la santé sera d’ailleurs organisée le 8 septembre, au siège de l’UNESCO, à Paris, avec des orateurs d’ONUSIDA et autres organisations.

 

Afin de faciliter votre participation à cette initiative commune, vous trouverez ci-joint des posters et bannières (en français, anglais et espagnol) produits par l’UNESCO à cette occasion. Sur notre site internet (www.unesco.org/education/en/literacy/day) vous pouvez également trouver des informations sur les Prix d’alphabétisation de l’UNESCO 2008, qui ont récompensé des projets en Ethiopie, en Zambie, en Afrique du Sud et au Brésil. A la fin du mois d’août, nous vous enverrons également de plus amples renseignements quant aux faits et aux chiffres sur la situation de l’alphabétisation dans le monde, ainsi qu’un communiqué de presse et d’autres documents.

 

Nous avons créé une boîte email spéciale pour faciliter la communication et partager les informations relatives à cette importante journée. Nous vous remercions par avance de nous communiquer vos projets et initiatives dans vos régions respectives (literacy-day@...). N’hésitez pas à nous contacter pour de plus amples informations.

 

Il est de notre responsabilité que l’alphabétisation soit une réalité pour tous. Votre coopération peut véritablement faire la différence.

 

Nous espérons sincèrement pouvoir collaborer avec vous sur ce thème.

 

Cordialement,

 

Grégory Dubois

EFA International Coordination Team

UNESCO

7, Place de Fontenoy

75007 Paris

tel : + 33 1 45 68 14 37 

fax : + 33 1 45 68 56 26

g.dubois@...

 

 

 

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Dear Comrades

Attached is the Communist Party of Pakistan Circular on the current situation in Pakistan.

In Solidarity

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Date: Tue Apr 22, 2008 9:26 am
Subject: Global Action Week (GAW 23rd April to 2008 		ibrashpasha@...
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Global Action Week (GAW 21rd to 27th April to 2008)

“Unfortunately today 72 million young children will not have even the chance to go to school. Where I come from alone, Colombia, in South America, 3 million young people under 18 years old do not go to school and many more drop out without knowing how to read or write. It is especially hard for girls, children with a disability, children affected by conflict, orphans, and poor children who have to do a job instead of going to school.  This is not right. It is not just.

Together we can say to our leaders during Global Action Week that no one should be excluded from a quality basic education – and the chance to reach their potential.

We can start by taking part in the World’s Biggest Lesson during this year’s Action Week. We need to teach our leaders the reality of all those millions of children out of school.”

Shakira, Honorary Chair of Global Campaign for Education’s Action Week 2008

 

 

In Pakistan – The World's Biggest Lesson in Pakistan will take place in 40 districts with politicians joining schools and local community groups to be part of the lesson.  The Coalition has produced education materials with education for all messages to be handed out to politicians and parents and media organizations. There will be public rallies, walks and seminars at district, provincial and national level.  The World's Biggest Lesson will take place in 40 districts with politicians joining schools and local community groups to be part of the lesson.  There will be public rallies, walks and seminars at district, provincial and national level.

 

In NWFP:- Pakistan Coalition for Education (PCE) is celebrating the week in about 10 districts of the NWFP. For details please visit the GCE site  http://www.campaignforeducation.org/index.html

and PCE site http://www.pcepk.org/ for further information contact

 

Ibrash Pasha

Provincial Coordinator

Pakistan Coalition for Education (PCE) NWFP

C/O Khwendo Kor Dir Region at Timergara

 

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Date: Thu Sep 6, 2007 6:56 am
Subject: Seminar on Closure of Girls Community Primary Schools in NWFP 		ibrashpasha@...
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Pakistan Coalition for Education (PCE)

Provincial Secretariat NWFP

Khwendo Kor, Regional Office, Balambat Colony Timergara Dir

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Dated September 5, 2007

 

Subject: Seminar on Closure of Girls Community Primary Schools in NWFP

 

 

Dear Sir/ Madam

 

Pakistan Coalition for Education (PCE) is a network of diverse civil society organizations and individuals committed to quality education for all. It acts collectively to influence policies and practices through research based advocacy and mobilization. This coalition was formed in year 2004.

 

You may be aware that due to non availability of funds education department has closed 204 Girls Community Primary Schools in the province. The salary of the schools teachers is not paid since December 2006.

 

The EDOs Dir Upper and Dir Lower have terminated the teachers and closed the schools. They issued the termination orders in back dates i.e. May 2007.

 

PCE has organized a seminar in which affected students, teachers and community will participate. You are invited to show solidarity with them, at Peshawar Press Club, on 8th September 2007. The programme starts at 1200 HRS sharp, the speakers include parliamentarian, right activists and representatives of teacher unions.

 

Please confirm your participation on phone number 091-58222-55 to Mr. Zahir Gul, Advocacy Coordinator (Khwendo Kor) cell# 0321-9095716, or

Ibrash Pasha Phone number 0945-822806, cell# 0300-9363403

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Looking forward to favourable response

 

Regards

 

 

 

Ibrash Pasha

Provincial Coordinator-

Pakistan Coalition for Education (PCE) NWFP.

 

Key Speakers:

 

Ijaz Qasim (SPO- Peshawar)

Ibrash Pasha (PCE- NWFP)

Ms. Farah Aqil Shah (MPA- NWFP)

Ms. Neghat Orakzai (MPA-NWFP)

Mr. Sultan Bhader/ Imran (HRCP)

Malik Khalid (All Primary Teacher Association NWFP)

Naushad Khan (Community Elder- Community School Paloso Dag Dir)

Female Teacher of CPS (Dir/ DIkhan)

 


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#38 From: "ibrashpasha" <ibrashpasha@...>
Date: Tue Sep 4, 2007 12:36 pm
Subject: International Literacy Day and Dark future of 14000 Girls Students in NWFP 		ibrashpasha@...
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Dear All
 
Hope you are well
 
You will be aware of the closure of the 204 government community primary schools in NWFP by the government due to the non availability of funds. About 14000 girls students are affected of this action. These schools were established by the government in 2003-04, which are closed recently by issuing the termination orders. The salaries are not yet paid from December 2006.
 
Pakistan Coalition for Education (PCE) along with other partners like HRCP and Gandhara are facilitating the Girls Students, Teachers and Community Members do a press conference on the occasion of International Literacy Day (8 September) at Peshawar Press Club. The Students, teachers and community members will demonstrate in front of Press club.
 
We are planning to hold a meeting on 10th or 10th September 2007 of all the stakeholder in this connection.
 
The media and interested friends are requested to join the Press Conference and Meeting.
 
Please Contact
 
Ibrash Pasha
Provincial Coordinator
Pakistan Coalition for Education (PCE) NWFP
 
Cell # 0300-9363403
 
 

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NGO driver kidnapped
By By our correspondent

KARAK: Three unidentified armed persons kidnapped a female official of Khwendo Koor (KK), a Peshawar-based non-governmental organisation along with the driver and vehicle here on Tuesday.

However, she was later released in Bannu while the driver and the vehicle were taken away.

A double cabin pickup was on its way to Karak from Sarat Khel, carrying female field worker Umme Kalsoom and driver Abdus Samad. At Kothakilla, three armed persons intercepted the vehicle. They snatched the vehicle and sat the driver in the back seat. One of the accused drove the vehicle and on reaching Bannu released the lady with the message that the organisation should arrange an amount for the release of the driver and the recovery of the vehicle.

When contacted, KK Regional Manager Naeemur Rasheed Khattak said they were unable to pinpoint anyone in this regard. He said the culprits could be members of a professional kidnapper group. “We are waiting for demands of the kidnappers for the release of the driver and recovery of the vehicle,” he added.

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PNCC is the Punjab provincial chapter of Pakistan NGOs Forum (PNF) a
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لاکھوں افراد ووٹر لسٹ سے خارج

Report by Adnan Adil – BBC  Lahore

پاکستان میں انتخابی عمل کی نگرانی کرنے والی پینتیس غیرسرکاری تنظیموں نے کہا ہے کہ ملک میں آئندہ عام انتخابات کے لیے جس طریقے سے ووٹر فہرستیں تیار کی جارہی ہیں اس سے سوا دو کروڑ سے زیادہ افراد حق رائے دہی سےمحروم ہو جائیں گے۔

چاروں صوبوں میں کام کرنے والی پینتیس مختلف غیرسرکاری تنظیموں (این جی اوز) نے فری اینڈ فیئر الیکشن نیٹ ورک (فافین) کے نام سے ایک مشترکہ تنظیم بنائی ہے جس کا مقصد منصفانہ انتخابات کے لیے شہریوں کی مدد سے انتخابی عمل کی نگرانی کرنا ہے۔

جمعہ کو لاہور میں غیرسرکاری تنظیم فافین کے اجلاس کے بعد اس کے سیکرٹری جنرل سرور باری نے کہا کہ سرکاری اعداد و شمار کے مطابق ملک میں تقریبًا سوا دو کروڑ افراد کے پاس شناختی کارڈ نہیں ہے جس سے ان کا نام ووٹر لسٹوں میں درج نہیں کیا جا رہا۔

ان کا کہنا تھا کہ الیکشن کمیشن نے ووٹر فہرستوں میں نام کے اندراج کے لیے کمپیوٹرائزڈ شناختی کارڈ پیش کرنا لازمی شرط بنا دیا ہے۔

فافین کے سیکرٹری جنرل نے کہا کہ الیکشن کمیشن نئے سرے سے ووٹر فہرستیں بنا رہا ہے جو توقع ہے کہ اگلے چند ماہ میں عوام کے سامنے پیش کر دی جائیں گی۔

انہوں نے یہ بھی کہا کہ ملک کے مختلف علاقوں سے یہ اطلاعات موصول ہورہی ہیں کہ الیکشن کمیشن نے ووٹروں کے اندراج کے لیے جو فارم تقسیم کیے تھے ان میں سے پچیس فیصد سے زیادہ فارم اسے واپس نہیں مل سکے۔ یوں لوگوں کی ایک بڑی تعداد اس وجہ سے بھی ووٹر کے طور پر درج نہیں ہوسکے گی۔

انہوں نے کہا کہ حزب اختلاف کے بہت سے سیاسی رہنماؤں نے شکایت کی ہے کہ ان کے حلقوں میں ووٹروں کے نام فہرستوں سے خارج کیے جا رہے ہیں۔

انہوں نے کہا کہ غیرسرکاری تنظیموں کا موقف تھا کہ الیکشن کمیشن ووٹر فہرستیں بنانے کے لیے نئے سرے سے اعداد و شمار اکٹھا کرنے کے بجائے شناختی کارڈ بنانے والے قومی ادارہ نادرا کے اعداد و شمار کی بنیاد پر ووٹر فہرستیں بناتا تو زیادہ تعداد میں ووٹروں کا اندراج ہوسکتا تھا۔

غیرسرکاری تنظیموں نے یہ مطالبہ بھی کیا کہ بھارت کی طرح پاکستان میں بھی الیکشن کمیشن ووٹر لسٹوں کو انٹرنیٹ پر فراہم کرے تاکہ لوگ انہیں جب چاہیں دیکھ سکیں اور ان تک رسائی حاصل کرسکیں

فافین کے سیکرٹری جنرل کا کہنا تھا کہ الیکشن کمیشن ملک میں اگلے عام انتخابات منصفانہ کرانے کے لیے تمام انتخابی حلقوں کے پولنگ سٹیشنوں کی سکیم کو بھی الیکشن سے ایک مہینہ پہلے حتمی شکل دے اور انہیں انٹرنیٹ پر فراہم کرے کیونکہ گزشتہ عام انتخابات میں ایک دن پہلے تک پولنگ سٹیشن تبدیل کیے جاتے رہے جس سے دھاندلی کا تاثر پیدا ہوا۔

انہوں نے کہا کہ بھارت اور پاکستان میں الیکشن کمیشن کے اختیارات لگ بھگ ایک ہی جیسے ہیں لیکن پاکستان میں الیکشن کمیشن ان اختیارات کو استعمال نہیں کرتا۔

انہوں نے مطالبہ کیا کہ الیکشن کمیشن آف پاکستان اپنی ساکھ قائم کرنے کے لیے عملی اقدامات کرے اور اپنے اختیارات استعمال کرے۔

پینتیس غیرسرکاری تنظیموں کے نیٹ ورک (فافین) کا موقف تھا کہ صدر جنرل پرویز مشرف نے حکمران جماعت مسلم لیگ اور روشن خیال اور اعتدال پسند افراد کے حق میں مسلسل مہم چلا کر یہ تاثر پیدا کردیا ہے کہ اگلے عام انتخابات میں ریاستی مشینری غیرجانبدار نہیں ہوگی۔

غیرسرکاری تنظیموں نے مطالبہ کیا کہ الیکشن کمیشن صدر مشرف کے بیانات کا نوٹس لیتے ہوئے ان کے خلاف قانون کے مطابق کارروائی کرے۔

پاکستان میں اکتوبر سنہ دو ہزار دو کے عام انتخابات کے نتیجہ میں جنم لینے والی موجودہ پارلیمنٹ کی مدت اکتوبر سنہ دو ہزار سات میں ختم ہوجائے گی۔ اس سال کے آخر یا اگلے سال کے شروع میں عام انتخابات کا انعقاد متوقع ہے۔

 


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Date: Sat Dec 30, 2006 7:29 am
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Dear all,
Plz accept the heartiest  
Season's Greetings
Happy New Year
&
Happy EId
May this new year 2007 bring peace, joy and prosperity for all of us.
(Der Der Akhtar Mubarak Sha)
 
Ibrash Pasha
Regional Manager Khwendo Kor Dir/
Provincial Coordinator, Pakistan Coalition for Education (PCE) NWFP

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Date: Tue Dec 26, 2006 3:31 am
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EFA global monitoring report 2006 launch
Friday, July 28,2006

ISLAMABAD: Out of the 771 million total adult illiterate population, 60 percent are in Asian countries and Pakistan has 6.2 percent of the total world illiterates, says the 2006 EFA global monitoring report.

The report “Literacy for life” was launched on Thursday by UNESCO. According to the report, 48.7 percent of Pakistan’s population that falls between the age group of 15 plus was literate, including 61.7 percent men and 35.2 percent women. In the adult literacy rate list of South and West Asian countries, Pakistan stands third last followed by Nepal at second last with 48.6 percent and Bangladesh at last with 41.1 percent adult literacy rate.

In the list of seven South and West Asian countries, Maldives is at the top of adult literacy that is 96.3 pc, including 96.2 percent men and 96.4 percent women. The report shows that 90.4 percent Sri Lankan adults were literate, including 92.2 percent men and 88.6 percent women.

Iran and India come at number three and four with 77 and 61 percent adult literacy rates respectively.

The UNESCO’s data shows that the number of illiterates and their percentage is increasing in Pakistan. According to census reports of Pakistan, 18.64 million people of were illiterate in 1951. In 1961, the number increased to 22.08 million, in 1972 it was 33.59 million, in 1981 it was 42.69 and in 1998 it increased to 50.38 million.

Likewise, the percentage of GDP spending on education continued to decline. It was 2.62 percent in 1996-97, 2.34 percent in 1997-98, 2.40 percent in 1998-99, 1.7 percent in 1999-00, 1.6 percent in 2000-01, 1.9 percent in 2001-02, 1.7 percent in 2002-03, 2.1 percent in 2003-04, 2.2 percent in 2004-05 and 2.1 percent in 2005-06, the UNESCO figures said quoting the census of Pakistan.

The report said that literacy was a right denied to over 50 million people in Pakistan and had been neglected in the policy agenda of the country.

The UN officials, in their presentations, reminded Pakistan of its commitment under national education policy 1998-2010 according to which literacy rate would be increased to 86 percent and 78 million people would be made literate by establishing 82,000 non-formal basic education schools and creating literacy corps comprising students and teachers. They recommended that the political leadership should lead the literacy movement and educational budget should be raised to four percent of the GDP.

According to the report, out of the 771 million adult illiterates, India had the highest share of 34.6 percent, China 11.3 percent, Pakistan 6.2 percent, Bangladesh 6.8 percent, Nigeria three percent, Ethiopia three percent, Egypt two percent, Indonesia 2.4 percent and Brazil two percent.

The report said that more than 380 million adults in South and West Asia lacked basic learning tools to take informed decisions and fully participate in the development of their societies. It said that on average, less than 60 percent of the total adult population in South and West Asia could read and write with any understanding, which is one of the lowest literacy rates in the world. The levels are even lower than 50 percent in Bangladesh and Pakistan. It says that regional literacy rate had increased to 11 percent since 1990, but still these countries found it difficult to reach the EFA adult literacy target of reducing levels of illiteracy by 50 percent by 2015 due to their current low literacy rates.

It says women constituted majority of the region’s adult illiterates with only 66 literate women for every 100 literate men. Indeed, most of the countries show substantial gender disparities in literacy, with the gender parity index (GPI) well below the regional average in Bangladesh 0.62, Nepal 0.56 and Pakistan 0.57 which are also the countries with lowest literacy rates, the report says.

It further says that in the countries where overall literacy rate is comparatively low, urban/rural disparities are also large. Pakistan is a typical example with 44 percent rural and 72 percent urban populations that are literate.

It said that the region as a whole had recently registered a sharp increase in primary enrolments but the goal of universal primary education remains a distant one as more than 30 million primary school age children were not enrolled, 58 percent of whom are girls. The net enrolment ratio varies from 59 percent in Pakistan to 92 percent in Maldives.

The report proposed a three-pronged strategy to enhance literacy that included universal quality basic education for girls and boys, scaling up youth and adult literacy programmes and development of environments conducive to the meaningful use of literacy. Anisa Zeb Tahirkheli, the minister of state for education, pledged that the EFA goals would soon be achieved. “We still have one decade left. The government is fully gearing up. We will go through the report. You will see significant change in these figures in the years to come,” she said.


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Unesco says 6.5 million children out of school: Illiteracy on rise in Pakistan



By Baqir Sajjad Syed


ISLAMABAD, Nov 30: Experiencing a rise in its illiterate population, Pakistan ranks second among the countries of the world with highest number of out-of-school children.

These shocking revelations about Pakistan, which spends a little over 2 per cent of its GDP on education, were made in Unesco’s Education For All Global Monitoring Report 2007 launched here on Thursday.

However, Minister of State for Education Anisa Zeb Tahirkhaili, who was the chief guest at the launch ceremony, said she was hopeful about the situation despite Unesco’s scepticism.

Talking to Dawn, the minister said the government had taken the issue of out-of-school kids as a challenge.

According to the report, Nigeria with some 8 million out-of-school kids stands first in the hall of shame, whereas India follows Pakistan at the third spot with 4.5 million such kids. Ranked fourth, Ethopia fares better than nuclear powers Pakistan and India.

To make matters worse, the net enrolment ratio (NER) in Pakistan is less than 80 per cent as compared to other developing countries where enrolment ratios jumped to over 85 per cent by 2004, says the report, adding that NERs increased significantly in South and West Asia from 77 per cent to 86 per cent, with the exception of Pakistan and Nepal.

It says that of the 6.5 million out-of-school kids, 80 per cent were never enrolled, 10 per cent dropped out, while the remaining could get to school at some later stage.

The grave situation can be a direct fallout of poverty as some 65.6 per cent of the population lives on less than $2 a day, it says.

According to the report, a study of primary school attainment in rural areas of Punjab and NWFP concluded that economic constraints on households are a key factor in explaining the out-of-school phenomenon. The sudden loss of remittances from a household member or the birth of an extra sibling both significantly increase the likelihood. The population growth rate in 1.8-2 per cent.

The study linked this issue to another unfortunate reality: the high incidence of stunting. Approximately 37 per cent of the children of less than 5 years of age suffer from stunting in the country. Under-nutrition has a negative impact on school participation and achievement. Studies in Pakistan and other countries showed that stunted children were less likely to enrol in school, and more likely to enrol later and to drop out.

Poverty explains part of this correlation.

The disability incidence rate among children in the country is also towards the higher side. Almost 15 per cent suffer from impairments such as seizures, cognitive, motor, vision or hearing disabilities.

Javed Hassan Ali, chief of policy review team of the education ministry, put a question mark on the government’s initiatives for enhancement of literacy rates and enrolment ratios, saying: “All that has so far been done can bring numerical results, but qualitatively little has been done.”

He said the average period spent in school was 3.8 years for boys and 1.3 years for girls.

Mr Ali said increase in financial resources alone would not do the trick, capacity would also have to be increased.


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PAKISTAN: Girls' schools face growing threat in NWFP
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 DARRA ADAM KHEL, 20 December (IRIN) - It is not uncommon to hear the sound of gunfire in the small town of Darra Adam Khel, 42 miles south of Peshawar, the provincial capital of Pakistan's rugged North West Frontier Province (NWFP).

In fact, a deafening volley sounds out every few minutes in the town's dusty main bazaars, as traders or buyers test out the weapons on sale at the many shops lined along the market.

Darra Adam Khel, for over a century, has been the centre of locally manufactured arms and replicas of almost every conceivable weapon, from pistols and hand grenades to automatic machine guns, carved out with astonishing skill at the small iron forges visible everywhere.

It is estimated that at least 10,000 people from among the population of around 80,000 earn their living from the weapons trade – which flourishes despite government bans on displaying weapons in public.

"Our grandfathers and great grandfathers made swords and sabers. We make guns," explained Azam Khan, 40, a trader, as he carefully tested the weight and balance of a newly turned out Kalashnikov gun.

But recently, the weapons of Darra Adam Khel, located in a tribal area where the writ of Pakistan's government is limited, have been turned inwards. The targets have been schools for girls, and today many girls in the area no longer go to school.

"We want her to be educated. It is important these days, but we are too scared to send her," says Azmat Khan, as his daughter, Faria, aged nine, helps her mother knead dough for rotis (bread). She has not been to school for two weeks.

"It is too dangerous now, and my friends and I are scared," Faria told IRIN.

Over the past two months, at least two schools in the area have been bombed. They include the Government Girls' High School at Akharwal in Darra Adam Khel, which suffered damage after a bomb attack at the end of November and the under-construction Girls' Degree College Sheraki, whose boundary wall was damaged in another bomb attack.

"There have also been notices affixed on the gates of schools, asking people to stay away. The situation is very bad," a spokesperson for the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) said at the organisation's Peshawar office.

Parents of pupils, teachers, school heads and bus drivers bringing pupils to schools have also been threatened and warned to stay away. In other cases, militant extremists have made phone calls to schools, ordering that girl students wear the 'burqa' (a full veil covering the body from head to foot).

The targeting of schools for girls is not limited to Darra Adam Khel. In November, am aerial attack carried out by the Pakistani military in Bajaur Agency, killed at least 80 pupils at a seminary school. The attack has led to a marked rise in extremist sympathies in the area, with the bombing widely condemned.

Recently, pamphlets circulated in Bajaur have warned parents to keep girls away from school and ordered schools to ensure children are dressed in shalwar kameez rather than 'western' clothes including trousers and shirts.

The problem is a part of growing 'Talibanisation' across the province, spurred on by the situation in Afghanistan. There have been various reports of attacks on music or video shops, threats to barbers not to shave men and warnings to female health workers and teachers to leave specific areas across many parts of NWFP.

"We are too scared to go back to our schools, even though we worry about the students who will suffer because there are no classes to go to," said Surriya Bibi, 50, who till recently taught at a private school in the Darra Adam Khel area.

There have been accusations that the coalition of religious parties running NWFP's provincial government - the Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA) - has done too little to combat the problem. For its part, the MMA has consistently stated it does not oppose education for girls and is in fact eager to encourage it.

But the impact of the latest attacks has been extremely negative, with no official attempt to provide security to women or girls who want to go to school. This can only augur ill in a part of the world where the literacy rate for women stands at around 10 percent on average; in many rural areas of NWFP it is even lower because of a lack of sufficient schools, traditional reluctance to educate girls and orthodox hostilities to allowing schools to operate.

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Date: Fri Dec 8, 2006 12:35 pm
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Senate body concerned over state of education

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ISLAMABAD: The Senate Standing Committee on Education, Science and Technology voiced serious concerns over more than 12,000 ghost schools in the country and lack of basic facilities at thousands of educational institutions across Pakistan.

The committee, which met here on Thursday with Rozina Alam Khan in the chair, underlined the need for immediate steps to improve the situation in the education sector.

Federal Education Minister Lt Gen (r) Javed Ashraf Qazi told the committee that there were more than 12,000 schools in the country, which were not working - more than half of them in Sindh. Around 31 percent of the students enrolled in grade-I leave school without completing primary education, which is one of the highest dropout rates in the world.

According to the official statistics provided to the Senate committee, 14 percent of those enrolled in grade-I drop out in the first year, 3.7 percent between class II and III, 5 percent between class III and IV and another 8.5 percent between class IV and V.

Among these dropouts, 40.2 percent are male and 19.2 percent female students. In 2005, there were 53,481 schools in the country without boundary walls, 46,766 without drinking water facility, 81,633 without electricity and 57,216 without latrines. Around 9,776 schools do not have any building. Of these, 3,433 are in Punjab, 4,001 in Sindh, 1,214 in NWFP, 586 in Balochsitan, 292 in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), 36 in Federally Administered Northern Areas (FANA) and 215 in Azad Kashmir (AJK).

There are a total of 227,791 educational institutions in the country, 76,047 of them in the private sector. Of these, 14,123 are mosque schools, 122,349 primary schools, 38,449 middle schools, 25,090 secondary schools, 1,882 inter and degree colleges, 49 universities, 1,324 technical and professional institutions, 3,059 vocational and polytechnic institutions, 4,831 NFBE and 12,153 seminaries. There are only 354 seminaries in the public sector. Of the 281 British System institutions, only 11 are in the public sector.

NWFP, FATA and FANA are facing serious shortage of female teachers. Balochistan has 50,893 teachers - 68 percent of them male and 32 percent female. NWFP has 198,893 teachers - 128,703 of them male and 70,190 of them female. FATA has 16,584 male teachers and 5,495 female teachers. FANA has 9,363 male teachers and 5,833 female teachers.

Punjab is the only province in the country where the number of female teachers is higher than male teachers. It has 295,438 male teachers and 421,330 female teachers. Sindh has 145,673 male teachers and 145,076 female teachers. AJK has 54 percent male teachers and 46 percent female teachers.

Of the total students (33,379,578) currently studying in the educational institutions of the country, 18,981,213 (57 percent) are male and 14,398,365 (43 percent) are female. The worst gender disparity in the enrolment is in FATA, which has 605,437 students - 75 percent of them male and 27 percent female. In NWFP, 64 percent of the total 5,206,932 students are male. In Balochistan, the boys and girls enrolment ratio is also 64:36. In FANA, it is 54 percent boys and 46 percent girls.


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