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29 July 2010 The heaviest monsoon rains on record cause catastrophic floods in Pakistan (starting with Swat and the northern mountains), which eventually leave 1,900 dead and more than 20 million displaced. The Zardari administration comes under strong criticism for failures in the relief effort.
September – October 2010 Pakistan temporarily blocks NATO supplies to Afghanistan via the Khyber Pass in protest against a US helicopter attack that killed Pakistani soldiers on the Afghan border.
November – December 2010 WikiLeaks reveals details of Pakistani co-operation with the US including the presence of limited numbers of US special forces in Pakistan. Leaked cables also record unflattering US opinions of President Zardari, and the diversion and misuse of US military aid to Pakistan.
4 January 2011 Salman Taseer, liberal Governor of Punjab (appointed by President Zardari) is assassinated by one of his own bodyguards, a Barelvi conservative Muslim outraged by Mr Taseer’s criticism of Pakistan’s harsh blasphemy law and its use to persecute religious minorities.
Appendix Two: Pakistani Statistics
Population growth
1951 census: 33,816,000 (17.80 per cent urban)
1961 census: 42,978,000 (22.46 per cent urban)
1972 census: 65,321,000 (25.40 per cent urban)
1981 census: 84,254,000 (28.28 per cent urban)
1998 census: 130,580,000 (32.51 per cent urban)
2010: 180,000 to 200,000 (estimate)
Annual rate of population growth (2010 estimate)
2.2 per cent (down from 3.1 per cent in the 1980s)
Infant mortality (2009 estimate)
62 per 1,000 births
Age distribution (2008)
0 – 14 years: 42 per cent
15 – 64 years: 55 per cent
65 and over: 4 per cent
Life expectancy (2007 estimate)
Men: 66.5 years
Women: 67.2 years
Literacy (2010)
Total population: 55.9 per cent
Men: 68.2 per cent
Women: 43.6 per cent
Population by province (1998 census)
Punjab: 56 per cent (approximate)
Sindh: 22 per cent (approximate)
North West Frontier Province (NWFP): 13 per cent (approximate)
Balochistan: 7 per cent (approximate)
Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA): 2.5 per cent (approximate)
Territory of Pakistan
803,940 square kilometres (340,000 square miles) plus 85,000 square kilometres (32,818 square miles) for Azad Kashmir and the Northern Areas, both disputed with India
Territory by province
Balochistan: 347,000 square kilometres
Punjab: 205,000 square kilometres
Sindh: 140,000 square kilometres
NWFP: 74,000 square kilometres
Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA): 27,000 square kilometres
(Azad Kashmir): 13,000 square kilometres)
(Northern Areas): 72,000 square kilometres)
Human Development Index (2006)
Pakistan: 0.539 (comparable to Ghana)
Urban: 0.656 (comparable to South Africa)
Rural: 0.496 (comparable to Togo)
Urban Punjab: 0.657 (comparable to Tajikistan)
Urban Sindh: 0.659
Urban NWFP: 0.627 (comparable to India)
Urban Balochistan: 0.571
Rural Punjab: 0.517 (comparable to Sudan)
Rural NWFP: 0.489
Rural Balochistan: 0.486
Rural Sindh: 0.456 (comparable to Eritrea)
Index
Abbas, Athar
Abbas, Ghulam
Abbasi, Ashraf
Abbotabad
Abdul Latif, Shah
Abdul Qadir, Emir
Abdul Wahab, Muhammad
Abdullah, Maulana Mohammed
Abdur Rahman, Emir of Afghanistan (Abdurrahman Khan)
Abdur Rehman, General Akhtar
Abdur-Rahman (labourer in Mohmand Agency)
Abraham Lincoln, USS
adjournments, legal
Advani, Lal Krishna
Afghanistan
anti-Soviet jihad
army
border with Mohmand Agency
border with Pathan areas
and British
effect on Western policy towards Pakistan
heroin trade in
Indian consulates in
Indian involvement in
Indian Muslims in
invasion of India
Islamist groups in
Lashkar-e-Taiba and
loyah jirga
militants in
Muslims in
Northern Alliance
and Pakistani political parties
Pakistani trade with
Paktika province
and Pathans
poverty of
Soviet occupation of
suicide bombings in
Sunni refugees from
support for Baloch rebels
Taleban militias
threat