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Green benches were established in high courts across Pakistan
to deliver environmental justice. However, only 15% of the cases filed
at these benches could be decided and 20% of the fines imposed by
them could be collected.
10 air pollution monitors set up in Lahore, Quetta, Peshawar
and Karachi were shut down and no subsequent efforts were made by
the government to develop a mechanism for monitoring of air quality.
World Health Organization deemed water from Keenjhar Lake,
a protected wetland under the Ramsar Convention on Wetlands, unfit
for consumption.
Over 2,500 trees were cut down for development projects.
Refugees
Even though 83,000 Afghans were repatriated to Afghanistan
in 2012, 1.6 million registered and one million unregistered Afghans
still remained in Pakistan.
At least 800 Afghan nationals were taken into custody in 2012
under Foreigners Act for their presence in Pakistan without valid
documents.
Nothing was done to bring home a quarter of a million Pakistanis
stranded in Bangladesh since 1971.
At least 757,996 Pakistanis (163,102 families) remained
internally displaced by conflict.
The monsoon floods and drought in Tharparkar forced over a
million people from their homes.
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State of Human Rights in 2012