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World Press Freedom Index 2025

Total countries: 180

Topper: Norway

Bottom: Eritrea

Pakistan: 158th

India: 151st

Additional Information:

This index has been released by Paris-based international NGO named Reporters Without Borders

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Total countries: 117

The previous edition, released in 2019, had placed Pakistan at the 89th spot

Report released: May 29, 2022

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Pakistan ranked 120 out of 180 countries in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2019 released by Transparency International on 23rd January 2020.

Previous year’s Pakistan ranked 117 out of 180 countries in the Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI) 2018

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According to Sahil, Rawalpindi and Islamabad have been listed as districts with second and third highest numbers of child abuse cases.

Kasur topped the list with 298 cases.

Sahil: a non-governmental organization (working for child protection)

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FATF Stands for Financial Action Task Force. 

Headquarters located in Paris & founded in 1989.

FATF recently meeting held in Paris from 01-03-2022 to 04-03-2022.

FATF once again retained Pakistan on grey list.

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Pakistan needs 12 votes out of 39 to exit the “grey" list and move up to join countries that do not require monitoring. 

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The study, titled ‘Democracy Report 2022:  Autocratisation Changing Nature?’  produced by the Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) Institute at the University of Gothenburg.

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World Wildlife Fund (WWF) on August 14, 2020, with only 5.7pc of land, or around 4.54 million hectares under forest cover, the country’s deforestation rate is the second highest in Asia, after Afghanistan and is well below the recommended cover of 25pc.

About WWF:
The World Wide Fund (WWF) for Nature is an international non-governmental organization founded in 1961 that works in the field of wilderness preservation and the reduction of human impact on the environment.

Headquarters located in Switzerland.

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Pakistan was placed on the Child Soldiers Prevention List (CSPA) in 2021.

On 19 July 2022, United States upgraded Pakistan on another list of states that do not take adequate steps to curb human trafficking removing it from a watch list of potential violators.

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امریکہ نے پاکستان اور ترکی کو اپنی چائلڈ سپاہیوں کی روک تھام ایکٹ (سی ایس پی اے) کی فہرست میں شامل کیا ہے ، یہ ایک ایسا عہدہ ہے جو فہرست ممالک کو فوجی امداد پر پابندیوں کا باعث بن سکتا ہے۔

یو ایس چائلڈ سپاہیوں کی روک تھام کے قانون میں غیر ملکی حکومتوں کی فہرست کی سالانہ ٹی آئی پی رپورٹ شائع کرنے کی ضرورت ہے جنہوں نے پچھلے سال (یکم اپریل 2020 سے 31 مارچ 2021) کے دوران بچے فوجیوں کو بھرتی یا استعمال کیا ہے۔ اس نام کے لیے جن اداروں کا جائزہ لیا گیا ان میں مسلح افواج ، پولیس ، دیگر سیکورٹی فورسز اور حکومت کی حمایت یافتہ مسلح گروہ شامل ہیں

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About Global Terrorism Index 2025

Publisher: Institute for Economics and Peace (IEP)

Starting publishing in the year 2000

Total countries included: 163

Pakistan: 2nd 

Bottom: Burkina Faso

Additional Information:

The banned Tehreek-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) emerged as the fastest-growing terrorist group, with 90pc increase in attributed deaths.