Did You Know?

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Did You Know Pakistan?

Over 250,000

This the number of Pakistanis still (in 2008) stranded in Bangladesh. These are  mostly Urdu speaking Muslims from India (mostly from the state of Bihar) who left the ancestral homes in India to migrate to a new and better homeland called 'Pakistan'. These are the loyal Pakistanis who, in 1971, when many Bangalis began an insurgency to break away from West Pakistan, sided fully with the central government in West Pakistan and assisted the Pakistan Army in any way they could. For this reason, the Bengalis view them to this day as 'traitors' and refuse to give them any rights as citizens of Bangladesh.

The reward these Pakistanis received for their loyalty to their country from successive Pakistani leaders in Islamabad is a total refusal to accept them as citizens of Pakistan and to give them entry to Pakistan to resume their lives with their families.

Consequently, as a result of their love and loyalty to a united Muslim state called 'Pakistan' both the Muslim governments of Pakistan and Bangladesh are forcing these people (who sacrificed their everything when they left India) to live in squalid tent cities  with no health or education facilities.

 23 MILLION

A childhood lost forever: 23 million is the number of school age children in Pakistan who are engaged in child labour.

1,60,000

This is the number of Pakistanis who will go for Hajj from Pakistan in 2007. This is 10,000 more than last year.

            Over 3.5 
            MILLION

The number of drug addicts in Pakistan, out of a population of about  160 Million.

       $1BILLION

The amount General Musharraf gets per year for supporting America in the so called “War on Terror”. This amount is little publicised and paid to General Musharraf in monthly instalments. Since General Musharraf has been in power, he has received $5.8 Billion for his assistance to the US.

Source: website of The New York Times Newspaper and VoA (GeoNews)

• Did you know that a teacher in Pakistan gets paid less than most drivers get paid by NGO’s? Ever wondered why morale amongst teachers is so low?

                          The Right Priorities?

58 children die of measles in Pakistan EVERY day. The country spends 20% of it's annual budget on defence but just 1% on healthcare for it's people. Source: Unicef report 2006.

 48 MILLION

The number of people living below the poverty line in Pakistan. These are people who have an income of less than $1 Dollar a day.

 $7.8 BILLION

The amount of money Pakistan spent on petroleum imports in the year 2006/7.

Did You Know the World?

1.5 BILLION

The number of people who will be born in poor countries over the next 25 years. Over the same period, only 50 million people will be added to rich countries.

• Did you know Muslims were the first to use chemistry to produce medicines. It was Razi who first used salts in minerals (magnesium, zinc, iron) for medical purposes.

• Did you know Ibn Zayyat, a famous Muslim geographer, who died in the year 1198, was the first to outline a map of America? This map was discovered in 1952, in the Escroyal Library in Madrid, after which a professor at Barcelona University, Dr. Khawan Khirtith, authenticated it.

• Did you know the first to mint coins (Dirhams and Dinars) was the Umawi Caliph Abdul Malik bin Marwan?

• Did you know the first Muslim leader to order books of other languages to be translated into Arabic was the Caliph Abu Ja’far Al-Mansur?