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Capital city
Islamabad |
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Corruption
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2.1 |
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[148th of 160]
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Parliamentary seats > Female
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2% |
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[129th of 143]
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Procedures to register property > number
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6
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[93rd of 167]
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Proportion of seats held by women in national parliament > %
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21.3 %
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[47th of 174]
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Start-up procedures to register a business > number
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11
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[44th of 171]
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Status
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pseudo-democracy |
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Suffrage
18 years of age; universal; joint electorates and reserved parliamentary seats for women and non-Muslims |
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Time required to build a warehouse > days
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218 days
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[60th of 168]
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Time required to enforce a contract > days
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880 days
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[20th of 171]
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Time required to register property > days
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50 days
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[82nd of 167]
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Time required to start a business > days
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24 days
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[120th of 171]
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Time to prepare and pay taxes > hours
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560 hours
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[23rd of 169]
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Time to resolve insolvency > years
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2.8 years
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[84th of 151]
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Total businesses registered > number
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40,631
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[57th of 71]
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Trademarks, nonresidents
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4,455
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[15th of 99]
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Trademarks, residents
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8,319
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[17th of 98]
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Transnational Issues > Disputes > International
various talks and confidence-building measures cautiously have begun to defuse tensions over Kashmir, particularly since the October 2005 earthquake in the region; Kashmir nevertheless remains the site of the world's largest and most militarized territorial dispute with portions under the de facto administration of China (Aksai Chin), India (Jammu and Kashmir), and Pakistan (Azad Kashmir and Northern Areas); UN Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP) has maintained a small group of peacekeepers since 1949; India does not recognize Pakistan's ceding historic Kashmir lands to China in 1964; India and Pakistan have maintained their 2004 cease fire in Kashmir and initiated discussions on defusing the armed stand-off in the Siachen glacier region; Pakistan protests India's fencing the highly militarized Line of Control and construction of the Baglihar Dam on the Chenab River in Jammu and Kashmir, which is part of the larger dispute on water sharing of the Indus River and its tributaries; to defuse tensions and prepare for discussions on a maritime boundary, India and Pakistan seek technical resolution of the disputed boundary in Sir Creek estuary at the mouth of the Rann of Kutch in the Arabian Sea; Pakistani maps continue to show the Junagadh claim in India's Gujarat State; by 2005, Pakistan, with UN assistance, repatriated 2.3 million Afghan refugees leaving slightly more than a million, many of whom remain at their own choosing; Pakistan has proposed and Afghanistan protests construction of a fence and laying of mines along portions of their porous border; Pakistan has sent troops into remote tribal areas to monitor and control the border with Afghanistan and to stem terrorist or other illegal activities |
United Nations mission
http://www.un.int/pakistan/ |
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Washington, D.C. embassies > Neighborhood
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Cleveland Park |
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