Pakistan Fast Facts
Here’s a look at Pakistan. It borders Iran, Afghanistan and India in Southeast Asia. In 1947, Pakistan gained its independence from Great Britain.
About Pakistan
Population: 238,181,034 (July 2021 est.)
Median age: 22 years
Capital: Islamabad
Ethnic Groups: Punjabi 44.7%, Pashtun (Pathan) 15.4%, Sindhi 14.1%, Saraiki 8.4%, Muhajirs 7.6%, Balochi 3.6%, other 6.3%
Religion:Muslim 96.4% (Sunni 85-90%, Shia 10-15%); other 3.6% (includes Christian and Hindu) (2010 est.)
Unemployment: 6% (2017 est.)
1947-1948 – Pakistan fights its first war against India over control of the Kashmir area.
1965 – Pakistan and India fight their second war over Kashmir.
1971 – Pakistan and India go to war over independence for East Pakistan, later renamed Bangladesh.
1973 – A constitution providing for a parliamentary system of government is adopted.
Pakistan Fast Facts
Here’s a look at Pakistan. It borders Iran, Afghanistan and India in Southeast Asia. In 1947, Pakistan gained its independence from Great Britain.
About Pakistan
Population: 238,181,034 (July 2021 est.)
Median age: 22 years
Capital: Islamabad
Ethnic Groups: Punjabi 44.7%, Pashtun (Pathan) 15.4%, Sindhi 14.1%, Saraiki 8.4%, Muhajirs 7.6%, Balochi 3.6%, other 6.3%
Religion:Muslim 96.4% (Sunni 85-90%, Shia 10-15%); other 3.6% (includes Christian and Hindu) (2010 est.)
Unemployment: 6% (2017 est.)
1947-1948 – Pakistan fights its first war against India over control of the Kashmir area.
1965 – Pakistan and India fight their second war over Kashmir.
1971 – Pakistan and India go to war over independence for East Pakistan, later renamed Bangladesh.
1973 – A constitution providing for a parliamentary system of government is adopted.
Pakistan Fast Facts
Here’s a look at Pakistan. It borders Iran, Afghanistan and India in Southeast Asia. In 1947, Pakistan gained its independence from Great Britain.
About Pakistan
Population: 238,181,034 (July 2021 est.)
Median age: 22 years
Capital: Islamabad
Ethnic Groups: Punjabi 44.7%, Pashtun (Pathan) 15.4%, Sindhi 14.1%, Saraiki 8.4%, Muhajirs 7.6%, Balochi 3.6%, other 6.3%
Religion:Muslim 96.4% (Sunni 85-90%, Shia 10-15%); other 3.6% (includes Christian and Hindu) (2010 est.)
Unemployment: 6% (2017 est.)
1947-1948 – Pakistan fights its first war against India over control of the Kashmir area.
1965 – Pakistan and India fight their second war over Kashmir.
1971 – Pakistan and India go to war over independence for East Pakistan, later renamed Bangladesh.
1973 – A constitution providing for a parliamentary system of government is adopted.
ACCIDENTS of all sorts frequently occur in the country. Accidents or failures should be a learning opportunity. This is done by investigating or finding the reasons for failure, which is also called root cause failure analysis.
Root cause failure analysis is a part of an investigation of accidents/failures of aircraft, trains, or any engineering system. On the one hand, it helps to improve the working of a system, while, on the other, it promotes a culture of accountability.
Although every accident at the national level needs to be investigated, major air crashes and train accidents need more attention, because the performance of our national organisations, such as the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) and Pakistan Railways, cannot be compromised.
CAA heaps blame on pilots for PIA Havelian crash
National
December 18, 2020
KARACHI: The Civil Aviation Authority on Thursday questioned the credibility of Aircraft Accident and Investigation Board’s inquiry report into the PIA’s ATR crash at Havelian in the Sindh High Court, submitting that “AAIB report seems to be based on lots of assumptions.”
The SHC was hearing a petition seeking a judicial inquiry into the December 2016 flight of Pakistan International Airlines’ PK-661 crash inquiry in which 42 passengers, including singer-turned-preacher Junaid Jamshed and the crew, lost their lives. Filing comments about the entire procedure followed by the CAA for issuing airworthiness certificates to the aircraft and to the AAIB report before SHC, CAA’s director airworthiness submitted that findings of the inquiry report were vague and finalized without reviewing/evaluating the international civil aviation safety oversight system in general and Pakistan Civil Aviation Auth