Punjab has the most kidnapping for ransom cases among all provinces and territories. PHOTO: FILE
Punjab was followed by Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and Sindh, while Gilgit-Baltistan and Azad Jammu and Kashmir ranked at the bottom.
Except for Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, all provinces and territories had a higher number of persons recovered than the number of cases registered, reflecting the resolution of cases from previous years.
The chart below represents the number of kidnapping for ransom cases registered and the number of persons recovered, in total and broken down according to provinces and territories.
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Death sentences for drug offences
To questions by Dr Shireen Mazari, the Interior Minister provided the National Assembly with figures on persons facing the death penalty for drug offences including foreigners.
The National Assembly was informed that there are at present a total of 444 individuals facing drug offence related cases that are punishable by the death penalty.
However there are only 100 individuals who have actually been awarded the death sentence since 1997. Of these 70 sentences were either set aside by High Courts or the Supreme Court of Pakistan. Leaving 30 actually on death row.
The Assembly was also given details about foreigners who were facing the death sentence for drug offences in Pakistan.
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Only kidnapping? Punjab is on the top of all illegal activities. You name it and there you will find easily. I think time is ripe to create more provinces in our country. Punjab 3, Sindh 2, KP 3 and 3 also for Baluchistan. It is not possible to monitor crimes with such huge and over flowing population like Punjab.
@String theory.: I don't think that Punjab fares worse in terms of corruption than any other part of Pakistan. If anything corruption there is less due to the improvement in institutions and civil society. More interesting are reports from western writers who applaud the transparency in Lahore. Here is an article by a British writer to this effect:
http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1430177/fight-corruption-beijing-should-look-pakistan
@Kaleem: Punjab has no comparison when it comes to the ugliest crime of them all - GANG RAPE
Yes that is true Punjab has highest population if u make divide reporting cases as population wise than Punjab stands at number 3.
However we must know Pakistan is the one of the most corrupt country in world and Punjab has the largest share in corruption in terms of population