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Asia > Pakistan > Crime

PAKISTANI CRIME STATS:   Top Stats   All Stats  
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> % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 21.45 % ... [3rd of 38]
Corruption > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 40.31 % ... [3rd of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed lacking confidence in courts to uphold property rights 62.59 % ... [2nd of 39]
Courts > % of managers surveyed ranking this as a major business constraint 20.02 % ... [2nd of 39]
Executions 135 executions [4th of 22]
Illicit drugs
opium poppy cultivation estimated to be 800 hectares in 2005 yielding a potential production of 4 metric tons of pure heroin; federal and provincial authorities continue to conduct anti-poppy campaigns that force eradication - fines and arrests will take place if the ban on poppy cultivation is not observed; key transit point for Afghan drugs, including heroin, opium, morphine, and hashish, bound for Western markets, the Gulf States, and Africa; financial crimes related to drug trafficking, terrorism, corruption, and smuggling remain problems
Illicit drugs
opium poppy cultivation estimated to be 800 hectares in 2005 yielding a potential production of 4 metric tons of pure heroin; federal and provincial authorities continue to conduct anti-poppy campaigns that force eradication - fines and arrests will take place if the ban on poppy cultivation is not observed; key transit point for Afghan drugs, including heroin, opium, morphine, and hashish, bound for Western markets, the Gulf States, and Africa; financial crimes related to drug trafficking, terrorism, corruption, and smuggling remain problems
Prisoners 87,000 prisoners [12th of 0]
Prisoners > Female 1.7% [119th of 134]
Prisoners > Per capita 59 per 100,000 people [122nd of 164]
Prisoners > Pre-trial detainees 66.1% [12th of 143]
Prisoners > Share of prison capacity filled 222.5% [11th of 128]
Software piracy rate 84% [13th of 107]
United States extradition treaties > Citation 47 Stat. 2122.
United States extradition treaties > Date signed December 22, 1931
United States extradition treaties > Entered into force March 9, 1942
Unpaid diplomatic parking fines 69.4 [10th of 143]

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SOURCES: World Development Indicators database; Amnesty International; CIA World Factbook, 14 June, 2007 ; The Eighth United Nations Survey on Crime Trends and the Operations of Criminal Justice Systems (2002) (United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, Centre for International Crime Prevention); International Centre for Prison Studies - World Prison Brief; Fifth Annual BSA and IDC Global Software Piracy Study; Wikipedia: List of United States extradition treaties ; Cultures of Corruption: Evidence from Diplomatic Parking Tickets Ray Fisman Edward Miguel Columbia University and NBER University of California, Berkeley and NBER 2006

ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Pakistan, Islamic Republic of Pakistan

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