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i have full sympathy for your traumatised child hood in the hands of your maulvi who abused you in madarsa .
Report finds nearly 70,000 cases of sexual violence against children in pakistan
HASAN MANSOOR — PUBLISHED APR 29, 2015 06:33AM
The urban-rural ratio of the child abuse cases was 33 to 67 per cent in the country.—AFP/File
At least 142 of the victims were murdered after being sexually assaulted, last year.—AFP/File
The urban-rural ratio of the child abuse cases was 33 to 67 per cent in the country.—AFP/File
At least 142 of the victims were murdered after being sexually assaulted, last year.—AFP/File
KARACHI: A report on children’s rights in the country released on Tuesday presented some dismal facts about their condition in every aspect ranging from education and health to labour, abduction, sexual assault and murder.
Titled The State of Pakistan’s Children – 2014, the report prepared by the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (Sparc) was formally launched by its representatives Kashif Bajeer and Zahid Thebo at a hotel.
The report found that nearly 70,000 cases of violence against children were reported last year though the number of unreported incidents was estimated to be higher. Quoting figures from an independent report, Sahil’s Cruel Numbers Report 2014, Sparc stated that 1,786 cases of sexual assault against children — 1,172 committed against girls and the remaining 614 involving boys — were reported from January to June last year. The total number of such cases was 3,508 last year, indicating an increase of 17 per cent from the previous year.
Also read: Pakistan fails to meet MDGs on child rights
The Sparc report said there were 1,225 cases of rape/ sodomy, including gang-rape and gang sodomy, and 258 cases of attempted rape/sodomy, gang-rape and gang sodomy. At least 142 of the victims were murdered after being sexually assaulted, it added. A close examination of the issue revealed that eight per cent victims of sexual abuse aged between six and 10 years, 26pc were in the age group of 11-15, while 11pc were between 16 and 18 years. Among the victims were also a few babies aged up to one year.
About various forms of sexual abuse, the report said 755 victims were abused after abduction, 313 were raped, 147 were sodomized, 100 were gang-raped, 94 survived attempted rapes, 63 were gang sodomized, and 53 were victims of child marriages.
While the urban-rural ratio of the cases was 33 to 67 per cent in the country, the majority of cases of child abuse (2,054) were reported in Punjab, followed by 875 cases in Sindh, 297 in Balochistan, 152 in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa 90 in Islamabad, 38 in Azad Jammu and Kashmir, one case each in Gilgit-Baltistan and the federally administered tribal agencies.
According to the report, abduction cases increased by 7pc from 1,706 in 2013 to 1,831 in 2014, indicating a daily average of five abductions last year.
Referring to the Acid Survivors Foundation, the Sparc report said that 40 victims of acid attacks in the country last year were children. Among them, 11 were boys and 29 were girls, it said.
Pointing out that the legal age for marriage has been fixed above 18 years for both boys and girls according to the Sindh Child Marriage Restraint Bill, 2014 that prescribes two years imprisonment and a fine of Rs50,000 for the violators, the Sparc report found that seven per cent girls in the country were married before the age of 15, while 24pc were married before they were 18. Pregnancies by child-brides put them at high risk of birth complications as well as endangering their own health, it added.The report said of the 25 million Pakistani children, aged 5-9, one fourth were out of school and nearly 13 million of them belong to Punjab. Pakistan ranks second in the world with most out-of-school children.
It said the U5MR (Under 5 Mortality Rate) in Pakistan was 86 per 1,000 births in the year 2013, but it was far from the target of 52 deaths per 1,000 births under the millennium development goals.
By the end of 2014, there were a total of 1,456 juvenile offenders confined in detention centres in the four provinces – a vast majority of them were under trial. Punjab had the highest number (757), followed by KPK (301), Sindh (291), and Balochistan (107).
Referring to the ILO figures, it said some 12.5 million children were involved in some form of labour activity in Pakistan. Unicef estimated 10 million child labourers in 2012. With the large number of out-of-school children and the families working as bonded labour, there were many children playing an active role in the workforce, the report found. Of them, 264,000 children were estimated to be domestic workers, working in unprotected and unregulated environments. The report gave no figure for last year vis--vis torture on domestic workers, while in 2013 there were 21 cases of torture of child domestic workers reported out of whom eight died.
Published in Dawn, April 29th, 2015
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shame shame shame on sodomists !
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abe sodomy affected look where do you stand .
ha ha ha ha failed state ka @modern.fakir tujhe europe me koshish kar ke asylum le lena chahiye , sharam kar .
The top 10 failed states in the world are:
- Somalia
- Zimbabwe
- Sudan
- Chad
- Democratic Republic of Congo
- Iraq
- Afghanistan
- Central African Republic
- Guinea
- Pakistan
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.but the world does not accept R@pists anywhere which is why you get kicked out of Australia [hilar][hilar][hilar]
[h=1]India on track to becoming a failed state[/h]
INDIA ranks 78th in the Failed States Index 2012, which measures adversarial social, economic and political pressures faced by nations. Finland scores least risk at 177 and Somalia worst at 1.
India has fallen steeply from 110 in 2007.Anecdotal evidence based on recent corruption and mal-governance-ridden domestic scams suggests it at 45-55 next year in company with the likes of Colombia, Angola and Kyrgyzstan.India passes muster on just two of the 12 indicators that comprise the index -- intellectual capital and international behaviour.It scores abysmally on other crucial indicators, including demographic pressures (malnutrition, water scarcity); group grievances (ethnic & communal tensions, powerlessness); state legitimacy (corruption, protests); public services (crime, social services); uneven economic development (income inequalities) and on political elite behaviour (factionalised and constantly in a gridlock over a quest for political power).Is India on a slow track to a failing state? A pointer to what might be in store for India comes from the book by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, Why Nations Fail.After a comprehensive survey of the rise and fall of nations from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union to (new) African states, they contend that nation-states do not fail because of culture, weather, geography or ignorance of what policies are right. Nations collapse because "extractive" economic institutions fostered by local elites come to rule them.Abetted by self-seeking functionaries, these institutions exist for the benefit of elites, who gain from extraction of valuable minerals, land, water, labour or from protected monopolies.They conclude that the key to sustained progress is in "combining political centralisation with inclusive economic institutions". Absolutist states have strong centres, but power wielders fashion an economic framework to enrich themselves.In democratic states, power rests with a plurality of groups and inclusive institutions arise.But if there is no strong political centre to provide direction and to control or sanction, power accrues to the elite(s). Extractive institutions then arise. In both scenarios, internal contradictions pile up -- indicators for the Failed States Index provide a measure -- and the exploitative structure inevitably fails, bringing down the entire corrupt system with it.The relevance of this analysis to India today is inescapable.The centre is not holding. In the era of coalitions, power has been seeping from the Delhi sultanate to islands of political elites. And the relatively inclusive institutions midwifed by a superbly crafted constitution have been suborned by national and regional establishments into extractive tools for personal gain.Indian legislatures are no longer forums for informed debate. Instead, under the guise of "seeking a consensus", they are now nodal points for crass political horse-trading. Or for obstructionist mobocracy.Cutting across party affiliations, regional and social loyalties, the objective of the political class is to acquire power, not sound governance or advancing national interests. It has mauled the ideology of democracy into the sole objective of winning elections. Its parasitic behaviour is focused on extracting perks from public and private sectors; on status and symbols; competitive populism and casteism; dynasticitis; protecting each other from greater accountability; and on blatantly exercising discretion-based powers, which the Brits used for disbursing patronage to divide and rule, and which now serve as founts for extortion in cahoots with bureaucrats and crony capitalists.Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's indecisive leadership relies largely on confetti of populist schemes for electoral advantage. His own personal integrity is unquestionable, but he's led the most corrupt federal government since independence, benignly neglecting massive sleaze in ministerial fiefdoms under his watch.Meanwhile bureaucracy, the famed steel frame of yesteryears, is rusting. With officials appointed and removed at whims of elected kleptocrats, the anointed favourites' humiliating task is to extract swill from troughs of discretionary powers for political snouts to sip. As for the defence establishment, it is now mired in scandals from land grabbing, procurement frauds to generals expropriating a share of largesse meant for war widows.Worse, the army chief dragging the government to the courts on a personal issue has opened a chink to armed forces' potential politicisation.The Indian judiciary is doing its best to fill the vacuum in the wake of a somnolent executive and paralysed legislatures.But this activism has a major downside.Handing out pronouncements daily on relatively trivial subjects, its higher reaches are becoming part of the political process, compromising their role as chambers of dispassionate reflection on issues of constitutional significance. It is also tainted by corruption and dispensing too little justice, too late. The legal system can no longer cope with the demands of a litigious citizenry increasingly aware of its rights.The concerted attempts by the three constitutional pillars to undermine the media's role as auditors of their accountability is another insidious trend. India is turning increasingly censorious on books, arts, cinema, the internet and reporting.Freedom is lost in small steps. Calls for protests to the American government over an article critical of Singh in the Washington Post betrays a disturbing mindset; it implicitly assumes that a government should control media content.The debilitating shenanigans of the unholy, well-knit trinity of politicians, bureaucrats and their private sector cronies are now eroding confidence at home.The tarnished economy is treading towards a 4-5 per cent GDP growth rate.This self-inflicted, reform-resistant decline is evident in India's ranking at 111 in the latest Economic Freedom of the World Index (2010 data). It gauges the extent to which the policies and institutions in a country support economic activity for poverty reduction, etc. India is closer to Burundi (144) than to Hong Kong (1). Notably, it was 76th in 2007. This BRIC "angel" can only fall further in 2012.The international euphoria that lauded India's recent "rise" from stultified economic depths is fading. Pessimism about its capabilities on regional and geopolitical fronts is seeping. The fluffy souffle of arrogant pretensions to a superpower status has fallen flat. India is a half-baked power.Arguably, India's very antecedents are partly responsible for the fast-diminishing political and administrative authority of the central government. Post-Independence India was always an artificial construct. Fashioning it from 550-odd distinct entities was a landmark achievement.But, to paraphrase Mark Twain, it was only a bundle of countries. It began to unravel with linguistic divisions. Sixty-five years later, values and practices associated with a genuine democracy have still not coalesced into good governance for the common good in (purportedly) a one nation-state.Instead, demands and counter-demands and protests on endless issues have accelerated. Impulses more in line with a confederation than with a federation are emerging.Interestingly, the government's acknowledgement that some economic reforms need not apply nationwide because of local opposition suggests a subliminal acceptance of a co-federalist model.And yet the Indian political class continues to smugly showcase the country as an example of "unity in diversity".A million mutinies thus confront India today. But the cadaverous gerontocracy across its political board remains preoccupied with fiddling for power post-2014 elections, while relegating policies to meet the aspirations of an expanding cohort of new, upwardly mobile stakeholders to the back burner.India has depreciated from a "functioning anarchy" to a dysfunctional democracy.If the idea of India (secularism, democracy) is to survive, the good among the ugly will have to cross their political and social divides and forsake the "me" culture to renovate the constitution and abolish feudal powers of patronage before darkness falls at noon on one of the most misgoverned nations on the globe.Rakesh Ahuja heads Axessindia Consultancy Group, Canberra, and was the former Australian Deputy High Commissioner to India.
[h=1]India on track to becoming a failed state[/h]
- RAKESH AHUJA
- THE AUSTRALIAN
- NOVEMBER 15, 2012 12:00AM
INDIA ranks 78th in the Failed States Index 2012, which measures adversarial social, economic and political pressures faced by nations. Finland scores least risk at 177 and Somalia worst at 1.
India has fallen steeply from 110 in 2007.Anecdotal evidence based on recent corruption and mal-governance-ridden domestic scams suggests it at 45-55 next year in company with the likes of Colombia, Angola and Kyrgyzstan.India passes muster on just two of the 12 indicators that comprise the index -- intellectual capital and international behaviour.It scores abysmally on other crucial indicators, including demographic pressures (malnutrition, water scarcity); group grievances (ethnic & communal tensions, powerlessness); state legitimacy (corruption, protests); public services (crime, social services); uneven economic development (income inequalities) and on political elite behaviour (factionalised and constantly in a gridlock over a quest for political power).Is India on a slow track to a failing state? A pointer to what might be in store for India comes from the book by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, Why Nations Fail.After a comprehensive survey of the rise and fall of nations from the Roman Empire to the Soviet Union to (new) African states, they contend that nation-states do not fail because of culture, weather, geography or ignorance of what policies are right. Nations collapse because "extractive" economic institutions fostered by local elites come to rule them.Abetted by self-seeking functionaries, these institutions exist for the benefit of elites, who gain from extraction of valuable minerals, land, water, labour or from protected monopolies.They conclude that the key to sustained progress is in "combining political centralisation with inclusive economic institutions". Absolutist states have strong centres, but power wielders fashion an economic framework to enrich themselves.In democratic states, power rests with a plurality of groups and inclusive institutions arise.But if there is no strong political centre to provide direction and to control or sanction, power accrues to the elite(s). Extractive institutions then arise. In both scenarios, internal contradictions pile up -- indicators for the Failed States Index provide a measure -- and the exploitative structure inevitably fails, bringing down the entire corrupt system with it.The relevance of this analysis to India today is inescapable.The centre is not holding. In the era of coalitions, power has been seeping from the Delhi sultanate to islands of political elites. And the relatively inclusive institutions midwifed by a superbly crafted constitution have been suborned by national and regional establishments into extractive tools for personal gain.Indian legislatures are no longer forums for informed debate. Instead, under the guise of "seeking a consensus", they are now nodal points for crass political horse-trading. Or for obstructionist mobocracy.Cutting across party affiliations, regional and social loyalties, the objective of the political class is to acquire power, not sound governance or advancing national interests. It has mauled the ideology of democracy into the sole objective of winning elections. Its parasitic behaviour is focused on extracting perks from public and private sectors; on status and symbols; competitive populism and casteism; dynasticitis; protecting each other from greater accountability; and on blatantly exercising discretion-based powers, which the Brits used for disbursing patronage to divide and rule, and which now serve as founts for extortion in cahoots with bureaucrats and crony capitalists.Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's indecisive leadership relies largely on confetti of populist schemes for electoral advantage. His own personal integrity is unquestionable, but he's led the most corrupt federal government since independence, benignly neglecting massive sleaze in ministerial fiefdoms under his watch.Meanwhile bureaucracy, the famed steel frame of yesteryears, is rusting. With officials appointed and removed at whims of elected kleptocrats, the anointed favourites' humiliating task is to extract swill from troughs of discretionary powers for political snouts to sip. As for the defence establishment, it is now mired in scandals from land grabbing, procurement frauds to generals expropriating a share of largesse meant for war widows.Worse, the army chief dragging the government to the courts on a personal issue has opened a chink to armed forces' potential politicisation.The Indian judiciary is doing its best to fill the vacuum in the wake of a somnolent executive and paralysed legislatures.But this activism has a major downside.Handing out pronouncements daily on relatively trivial subjects, its higher reaches are becoming part of the political process, compromising their role as chambers of dispassionate reflection on issues of constitutional significance. It is also tainted by corruption and dispensing too little justice, too late. The legal system can no longer cope with the demands of a litigious citizenry increasingly aware of its rights.The concerted attempts by the three constitutional pillars to undermine the media's role as auditors of their accountability is another insidious trend. India is turning increasingly censorious on books, arts, cinema, the internet and reporting.Freedom is lost in small steps. Calls for protests to the American government over an article critical of Singh in the Washington Post betrays a disturbing mindset; it implicitly assumes that a government should control media content.The debilitating shenanigans of the unholy, well-knit trinity of politicians, bureaucrats and their private sector cronies are now eroding confidence at home.The tarnished economy is treading towards a 4-5 per cent GDP growth rate.This self-inflicted, reform-resistant decline is evident in India's ranking at 111 in the latest Economic Freedom of the World Index (2010 data). It gauges the extent to which the policies and institutions in a country support economic activity for poverty reduction, etc. India is closer to Burundi (144) than to Hong Kong (1). Notably, it was 76th in 2007. This BRIC "angel" can only fall further in 2012.The international euphoria that lauded India's recent "rise" from stultified economic depths is fading. Pessimism about its capabilities on regional and geopolitical fronts is seeping. The fluffy souffle of arrogant pretensions to a superpower status has fallen flat. India is a half-baked power.Arguably, India's very antecedents are partly responsible for the fast-diminishing political and administrative authority of the central government. Post-Independence India was always an artificial construct. Fashioning it from 550-odd distinct entities was a landmark achievement.But, to paraphrase Mark Twain, it was only a bundle of countries. It began to unravel with linguistic divisions. Sixty-five years later, values and practices associated with a genuine democracy have still not coalesced into good governance for the common good in (purportedly) a one nation-state.Instead, demands and counter-demands and protests on endless issues have accelerated. Impulses more in line with a confederation than with a federation are emerging.Interestingly, the government's acknowledgement that some economic reforms need not apply nationwide because of local opposition suggests a subliminal acceptance of a co-federalist model.And yet the Indian political class continues to smugly showcase the country as an example of "unity in diversity".A million mutinies thus confront India today. But the cadaverous gerontocracy across its political board remains preoccupied with fiddling for power post-2014 elections, while relegating policies to meet the aspirations of an expanding cohort of new, upwardly mobile stakeholders to the back burner.India has depreciated from a "functioning anarchy" to a dysfunctional democracy.If the idea of India (secularism, democracy) is to survive, the good among the ugly will have to cross their political and social divides and forsake the "me" culture to renovate the constitution and abolish feudal powers of patronage before darkness falls at noon on one of the most misgoverned nations on the globe.Rakesh Ahuja heads Axessindia Consultancy Group, Canberra, and was the former Australian Deputy High Commissioner to India.
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Banned
abe chirkut tum to fail ho gaye , behuda baqwas insan dusaro ko fail karna chahta hai ? [hilar][hilar][hilar]
loser padistani. har jagah padne pahunch jata hai.(bigsmile)
bina lade ladgaye
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your good days are ahead (bigsmile)
sad news !
Pakistani passport still among worst in the world: report
OCTOBER 16, 2015 BY NEWS DESK
The Pakistani passport this month dropped 14 places in the global travel ranking making it one of the worst passports to travel with, a report revealed.
The Visa Restrictions Index 2015, prepared by Henley & Partners, ranked Pakistan at 106th, making it one of four of the worst passports in the world.
With Pakistans passport among the least desirable, Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan followed closely behind at 107, 108 and 109 respectively. Meanwhile, the report places India at 87 and Bangladesh at 98.
The Henley & Partners Visa Restrictions Index is a global ranking of countries according to the travel freedom that their citizens enjoy. The index is produced in cooperation with the International Air Transport Association (IATA), which maintains the worlds largest database of travel information, and is published annually. The amount of nationalities evaluated is 199.
In 2014, Pakistan was ranked at 92, sharing the spot with Somalia, with citizens of both countries enjoying visa-free access to only 32 destinations around the world.
The report further revealed that the worlds most powerful passports were now issued in the UK and Germany, with Finland, Sweden and the US all dropping to second place.
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ch@ddi ...you need to stop r@ping and get the Chinese to issue you a Visa on your Passport which is Worse than some african countries [hilar][hilar][hilar]
Here read :
Why does the Indian passport rank so low in the global ranking of countries based on travel freedom their citizens enjoy?
India ranks 74th on the list. Indians can travel to 52 countries without visa. In comparison, Gambian,Lesotho or even Botswana citizens can travel to 68 countries visa-free. Americans can travel without visa to 172 countries and Briton enjoy visa-free travel to 173 countries along with the c... (more)
The main problem is: poverty + socialism + size + bad neighborhood + lower International stature
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China is ranked even lower than India in that list. [1] This is not a reflection of either countries' economic strength or reputation, but merely a policy followed by developed nations of the west to prevent their respective countries from being over-run by large-scale Indian or Chinese immigration. However, getting a visa for a legitimate tourist from either of these countries isn't too much of a problem.
Map of countries where the Chinese can go without a visa:[3]
Having lost my passport in Spain in the past, I could see how bad it could get when all of my Italian friends on the visit could go back to Italy by just showing their identity cards, without even needing a passport, whereas I needed a passport from the Indian consulate and then the Italian and Spanish visas from their respective consulates.
In the 70s, Indians could go to countries like England or Germany without needing a visa, but this changed in the 80s as more and more Indians could then afford to go to these countries and settle down there on a permanent basis. Indians, for the first time since independence, needed a visa to go to the land of their former rulers!
To give you an example, the Indian and Pakistani diaspora each form 2% of the British population, and the British Government spends more than 200 billion on welfare, with a sizable chunk going to the Indian and Pakistani immigrants. [4] People often have many children to milk the welfare system to their advantage[4], which is a major concern for the British Government.
The European and American passports are powerful because the chances of them illegally staying back in any country is less, and there's no historical precedence against them.
[1] http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vis...
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil...
[4] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/...Written Oct 5, 2013 • View Upvotes • Answer requested by Meenakshhi Mishra
Image: Passportindex.org
Indian Passport ranks 59th at current, the position is not considered pretty good respect to the Indian influence in the world economy and defence.
The passport ranking is published by The Henley & Partners and they term this as the Visa Restrictions Index, it is determined on the basis of the number of countries that their citizens can travel to visa-free.
Reasons why India stands in providing visa-free travel to the countries around the world.
However, the new proactive foreign policy is evolving as the way to increase global influence.
Being a supporter of the Russia in the cold war era, while being an NAM member also lost its credibility to gain influence.
In fact, the countries with large masses & endorsing lasrge migration are way back onto the index
The Pakistani passport this month dropped 14 places in the global travel ranking making it one of the worst passports to travel with, a report revealed.
The Visa Restrictions Index 2015, prepared by Henley & Partners, ranked Pakistan at 106th, making it one of four of the worst passports in the world.
With Pakistan’s passport among the least desirable, Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan followed closely behind at 107, 108 and 109 respectively. Meanwhile, the report places India at 87 and Bangladesh at 98.
The Henley & Partners Visa Restrictions Index is a global ranking of countries according to the travel freedom that their citizens enjoy. The index is produced in cooperation with the International Air Transport Association (IATA), which maintains the world’s largest database of travel information, and is published annually. The amount of nationalities evaluated is 199.
In 2014, Pakistan was ranked at 92, sharing the spot with Somalia, with citizens of both countries enjoying visa-free access to only 32 destinations around the world.
The report further revealed that the world’s most powerful passports were now issued in the UK and Germany, with Finland, Sweden and the US all dropping to second place.
Pakistan Today
Dedicated to telling the news as it is
http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2015...-world-report/[/QUOTE]
Here read :
Why does the Indian passport rank so low in the global ranking of countries based on travel freedom their citizens enjoy?
India ranks 74th on the list. Indians can travel to 52 countries without visa. In comparison, Gambian,Lesotho or even Botswana citizens can travel to 68 countries visa-free. Americans can travel without visa to 172 countries and Briton enjoy visa-free travel to 173 countries along with the c... (more)
The main problem is: poverty + socialism + size + bad neighborhood + lower International stature
- Capitalism and free movement. OECD countries (all countries at the top of the table are Capitalistic nations) are at the top as they historically understood the importance of free movement of goods and labor*. India, China and other socialist/communist nations often were paranoid about foreign people in the 20th century and erected unreasonable barriers on the movement of goods and people. Here is the table of visa restriction. The countries at the top are also among the best countries to do business due to reduced redtape.
(No. of foreign countries for which a citizen doesn't need a visa) - Economy and Social Welfare: Visa restrictions are highly related to per-capita GDP and social services available in the home country. Almost every country welcomes Scandinavians because they know it is less likely that a Scandinavian will become an illegal immigrant, given how good social services in their countries are.
- Size and history: India and China are humungous nations with a history of citizens settling all over the world. We have been seasoned travelers for centuries. People of Indian origin form a sizable minority in over a dozen nations in all the continents (Nepal, Mauritius, Fuji, Suriname, Guyana, Trinidad, Sri Lanka, UK, Canada, Singapore, Malaysia). We have so many people that even if 0.1% of us emigrate to a particular nation we could form a sizable minority there.
- Terrorism threats & violence. South Asia as a region has been a big source of a lot of terrorists in the West. Although India is not the main culprit, we live a pretty bad neighborhood.
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“The poorer, the less democratic and the more exposed to armed political conflict the target country is, the more likely that visa restrictions are in place against its passport holders. The same is true for countries whose nationals have been major perpetrators of terrorist acts in the past.”
China is ranked even lower than India in that list. [1] This is not a reflection of either countries' economic strength or reputation, but merely a policy followed by developed nations of the west to prevent their respective countries from being over-run by large-scale Indian or Chinese immigration. However, getting a visa for a legitimate tourist from either of these countries isn't too much of a problem.
Map of countries where the Chinese can go without a visa:[3]
Having lost my passport in Spain in the past, I could see how bad it could get when all of my Italian friends on the visit could go back to Italy by just showing their identity cards, without even needing a passport, whereas I needed a passport from the Indian consulate and then the Italian and Spanish visas from their respective consulates.
In the 70s, Indians could go to countries like England or Germany without needing a visa, but this changed in the 80s as more and more Indians could then afford to go to these countries and settle down there on a permanent basis. Indians, for the first time since independence, needed a visa to go to the land of their former rulers!
To give you an example, the Indian and Pakistani diaspora each form 2% of the British population, and the British Government spends more than 200 billion on welfare, with a sizable chunk going to the Indian and Pakistani immigrants. [4] People often have many children to milk the welfare system to their advantage[4], which is a major concern for the British Government.
The European and American passports are powerful because the chances of them illegally staying back in any country is less, and there's no historical precedence against them.
[1] http://india.blogs.nytimes.com/2...
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vis...
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fil...
[4] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/...Written Oct 5, 2013 • View Upvotes • Answer requested by Meenakshhi Mishra
Image: Passportindex.org
Indian Passport ranks 59th at current, the position is not considered pretty good respect to the Indian influence in the world economy and defence.
The passport ranking is published by The Henley & Partners and they term this as the Visa Restrictions Index, it is determined on the basis of the number of countries that their citizens can travel to visa-free.
Reasons why India stands in providing visa-free travel to the countries around the world.
- Less MoU
However, the new proactive foreign policy is evolving as the way to increase global influence.
- Less Involvement in global affairs
Being a supporter of the Russia in the cold war era, while being an NAM member also lost its credibility to gain influence.
- Large population
In fact, the countries with large masses & endorsing lasrge migration are way back onto the index
- Threats
The Pakistani passport this month dropped 14 places in the global travel ranking making it one of the worst passports to travel with, a report revealed.
The Visa Restrictions Index 2015, prepared by Henley & Partners, ranked Pakistan at 106th, making it one of four of the worst passports in the world.
With Pakistan’s passport among the least desirable, Somalia, Iraq and Afghanistan followed closely behind at 107, 108 and 109 respectively. Meanwhile, the report places India at 87 and Bangladesh at 98.
The Henley & Partners Visa Restrictions Index is a global ranking of countries according to the travel freedom that their citizens enjoy. The index is produced in cooperation with the International Air Transport Association (IATA), which maintains the world’s largest database of travel information, and is published annually. The amount of nationalities evaluated is 199.
In 2014, Pakistan was ranked at 92, sharing the spot with Somalia, with citizens of both countries enjoying visa-free access to only 32 destinations around the world.
The report further revealed that the world’s most powerful passports were now issued in the UK and Germany, with Finland, Sweden and the US all dropping to second place.
Pakistan Today
Dedicated to telling the news as it is
http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2015...-world-report/[/QUOTE]
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