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Pursuing reforms in Pakistans tribal belt
by Ziad Haider

THIS summer I had the opportunity to work with the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. While I set out to document Pakistans lawyers movement that seeks the restoration of judges deposed by President Musharraf last year, my topic evolved to land on an equally dire imperative for Pakistan as attaining judicial independence: securing its federally administered tribal areas (Fata) from where the Taliban is launching attacks and where al Qaeda is operational.
My focus was on pursuing legal and political reforms to mainstream this long-neglected and colonially administered region into Pakistan. An impoverished region of three million people along the Afghan border still governed by laws and political agents assigned by the British Empire, Fatas governance has fuelled its insecurity with grave local and global consequence. Militant groups benefit from the state lacking any writ across many areas; the political vacuum created by a legal bar on political parties and the inapplicability of laws passed by Parliament; a criminal code whose provisions violate constitutional rights; and the slow pace of justice that has led many to turn to Taliban-style Syariah courts


That's less than any year since 1924, when there were far fewer cars on the road.
For us to even be considering comparing 2007 and 2008 to 1924 is something very significant, he said.
Increased seat belt usage could be much of the reason for the decline in deadly crashes, he said. A survey by the Illinois Department of Transportation in June concluded that 90.1 percent of drivers and front seat passengers wear them, compared to about 76 percent in 2003.
The seat belt trend corresponds with increased enforcement by police, Ley said, especially since a primary safety belt law was passed in 2003 allowing officers to pull over vehicles simply because someone in the front seat wasn't buckled up.
We do look at the seat belt to be a huge reason or cause for (fewer fatalities), he said.
But a recent study by a University of Michigan professor suggests that high gas prices may also be helping with the decline in fatalities, both by keeping some motorists off the road and by changing their habits when they do drive.
I don't mean to minimize the efforts of such (police) agencies - they have made a lot of good contributions, said Michael Sivak, research professor and head of the Human Factors Division at the university's Transportation Research Institute




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