According to Afghanistan's Chamber of Commerce and Industries deputy head, Khan Jan Alokozai, about 500 shipping containers of trade goods enter Afghanistan via Pakistan on a daily basis.

According to the International Lesbian and Gay Association ( ILGA ) seven countries still retain capital punishment for homosexual behavior: Afghanistan, Iran, Mauritania, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, and Yemen.

According to Encyclopædia Britannica, " Although there was a clear Muslim majority in Kashmir before the 1947 partition and its economic, cultural, and geographic contiguity with the Muslim-majority area of the Punjab ( in Pakistan ) could be convincingly demonstrated, the political developments during and after the partition resulted in a division of the region.

According to the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority ( PTA ), Mobilink continues to lead the market with 35. 7 million subscribers, followed by Telenor with 29. 3 million, Ufone with 23. 1 million, Zong with 15. 6 million, and Warid Telecom with 14. 3 million.

According to his son, Mehmood, along with other scientists and engineers, eye-witnessed the Indo-Pak War of 1971, and had locked himself in his room where he cried for two days over the loss of East Pakistan.

According to President Zardari of Pakistan,

According to an article in Nature by Philip Ball, while there are various evidences for silk production in China back to around 2570 BC, newly discovered silk objects from the Indus valley in eastern Pakistan are believed to date from between 2450 BC and 2000 BC, " making them similarly ancient ".

According to Heritage Online, nearly 65 % of the total seminaries ( Madrasah ) in Pakistan are run by Deobandis, 25 % by the Barelvis, 6 % by the Ahle Hadith and 3 % by various Shia organizations.

According to Charlie Wilson's reference, Israel proliferated the sensitive and advance weapon technology to Pakistan, while reverse engineered the Soviet weapons after Israel had confiscated from PLO during the Lebanon war, and channeled these weapons to Mujahedin.

According to the ' American Friends of Bilderberg ', the 2008 agenda dealt " mainly with a nuclear free world, cyber terrorism, Africa, Russia, finance, protectionism, US-EU relations, Afghanistan and Pakistan, Islam and Iran ".

According to Rolf Mowatt-Larssen, a former investigator with the CIA and the US Department of Energy, there is " a greater possibility of a nuclear meltdown in Pakistan than anywhere else in the world.

According to different sources, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed was born in Kuwait City, Kuwait, on March 1, 1964, or April 14, 1965, to parents who had roots in Balochistan, a province of Pakistan bordering Iran and Afghanistan.

According to a summer 2001 report in The Friday Times, even the Taliban leaders challenged the very existence of the Durand Line when former Afghan Interior Minister Abdur Razzaq and a delegate of about 95 Taliban visited Pakistan.

According to the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Pakistan, a cost audit is " an examination of cost accounting records and verification of facts to ascertain that the cost of the product has been arrived at, in accordance with principles of cost accounting.

According to press reports in 2002 Padilla had been in the Afghanistan – Pakistan region in 2001 and early 2002.

According to UN statistics, 1. 7 million Afghans have so far fled to Pakistan and some 400, 000 to Iran in order to escape the strife in their country.

According to an analysis published by Saban Center for Middle East Policy at Brookings Institution in 2008 Pakistan was the worlds ' most active ' state sponsor of terrorism including aiding groups which were considered a direct threat to USA.

According to some reports published by the Council of Foreign Relations, the Pakistan military and the ISI have provided covert support to terrorist groups active in Kashmir, including the al-Qaeda affiliate Jaish-e-Mohammed ".

According to scholar Vali Nasr, political tendencies of Sunni and Shia Islamic revival differ, with Sunni fundamentalism " in Pakistan and much of the Arab world " being " far from politically revolutionary ", while Shia fundamentalism is strongly influenced by Ruhollah Khomeini and his talk of the oppression of the poor and class war.

According to Minorities Concern of Pakistan, forced conversion of Christian and Hindu girls are on the rise in Pakistan.

According to Gilani Kamran ( GC University ), Pakistani literature was expected to take a new direction along with the new state of Pakistan at this point, but did not immediately meet this expectation.

According to several critics it had not only evolved its own identity, but also had played a significant role in documenting the hardships and hopes of Pakistan in the latter part of the 20th century.

According to Gujral, these five principles, scrupulously adhered to, would achieve a fundamental recasting of South Asia ’ s regional relationships, including the difficult relationship between India and Pakistan.

According to City Mayors Statistics The world's fastest growing cities and urban areas from 2006 to 2020 Gujranwala rank 27th in the world with the average annual growth 2006 to 2020 3. 49 % and rank 1st in Pakistan then Faisalabad with the average annual growth of 3. 32 % with rank 33rd in the world.

According to the standard modern text on the work, Lamar Ronald Lacey's The Myth of Aktaion: Literary and Iconographic Studies, the most likely original version of the myth is that Actaeon was the hunting companion of the goddess who, seeing her naked in her sacred spring, attempts to force himself on her.

According to Alex Dupuy, Chair of African American Studies and John E. Andrus Professor of Sociology at Wesleyan University the ability of Haiti to adequately manage the mining operations or to obtain and use funds obtained from the operations for the benefit of its people is untested and seriously questioned.

" According to Bronwen Walter, professor of Irish Diaspora Studies at Anglia Ruskin University, " the adoption of a hyphenated identity has been much more problematic for the second generation Irish in Britain.

According to the Military Balance published by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, the force was organized into one armored, one infantry, and one paratroop / commando brigade.

According to the libertarian Institute for Humane Studies, " the libertarian, or ' classical liberal ,' perspective is that individual well-being, prosperity, and social harmony are fostered by ' as much liberty as possible ' and ' as little government as necessary.

According to the Centre for Geopolitical Studies, the Russian information campaign which the centre characterises as a " real mud throwing " exercise, has provoked a split in Estonian society amongst Russian speakers, inciting some to riot over the relocation of the Bronze Soldier.

According to Kevin Benson, the 10th director of the school, " The first ' official ' reference to the School of Advanced Military Studies ( SAMS ) graduates as Jedi Knights was on 12 May 1992 during a meeting of the Committee on Armed Services Military Education Panel in Washington D. C ." Congressman Ike Skelton stated, " we all know that the real stamp of approval came when General Schwarzkopf requested SAMS graduates, sometimes referred to as ' Jedi Knights ," be sent to his headquarters in Riyadh to assist in developing the campaign plan.

According to Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things, by Lafcadio Hearn, a butterfly was seen in Japan as the personification of a person's soul ; whether they be living, dying, or already dead.

According to the International Institute of Strategic Studies ' Military Balance 2010, the latter includes an Army of 12, 500, a Navy of 500 and a 500-strong Air Force, while the CIA Factbook describes the People's Armed Forces as consisting of the Intervention Force, Aeronaval Force ( navy and air ) and the Development Force.

According to Ruth Berman of Science Fiction Studies, the lists of suggested reading published for juvenile readers never contained Baum's work.

According to David Ownby, Professor of History and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the Université de Montréal, Li became an " instant star of the qigong movement ", and Falun Gong was embraced by the government as an effective means of lowering health care costs, promoting Chinese culture, and improving public morality.

According to Cynthia Brown, director of UTPA's Center for Border Economic Studies, Mexicans invested $ 1. 4 billion dollars into the economy and paid for 41, 000 jobs.

According to its website " The Esperantic Studies Foundation promotes research and teaching on Esperanto and on related issues of interlingual communication, especially in the context of higher education in North America.

According to Ian Hancock, director of the Program of Romani Studies at the University of Texas at Austin, there also existed a trend to downplay the actual figures.

According to a 2005 article by Randy Borum and Chuck Tilby, in Studies in Conflict & Terrorism: " Some organizations such as Ruckus Society and Anarchist Black Cross Federation even specialize in providing training in activism and varying forms of civil disobedience.

According to Kampfner, " Wolfowitz used his perch at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies as a test-bed for a new conservative world vision.

According to Vatthana Pholsena, assistant professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore and author of the book " Post-war Laos ", Kaysone Phomvihane was the top policy maker in LPDR, and a strongman.

According to Dietrich and Loretz in Handbook of Ugaritic Studies ( ed.

According to Tim Josling, a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University, food stamps or other methods of distribution of purchasing power directly to consumers might fit into the range of international programs under consideration to tackle food insecurity.

According to Xiang Lanxin, politics professor at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, the Chinese politburo system is itself inherited from the Bolsheviks in 1917 under Vladimir Lenin when he established it to command and control the October Revolution.

According to Kerala Migration Survey ( 1998 ) by Center for Developmental Studies, Kerala, Saint Thomas Christians lead all other communities in Kerala with respect to Socioeconomic Development Index which is based on parameters like possession of land, housing & consumer durables, education and employment status.

According to David Rampton in “ Studies in Contemporary Fiction ,” Circe Berman ’ s approaching Rabo with the challenge of making meaningful, moral art is Vonnegut himself directly addressing meaninglessness in art by asking for “ committed art .” Rampton also proposed that Vonnegut may be questioning the possibility of truly moral art by writing about the lack of morality in the lives of many artists.

According to Jakob Nielsen, " Studies of user behavior on the Web find a low tolerance for difficult designs or slow sites.

According to their website, " Founded in 1987 by an interfaith coalition of laity and clergy, the Institute for Christian & Jewish Studies offers a variety of educational programs that highlight the distinctiveness of the Jewish and Christian traditions and confront the dangerous misunderstandings that have evolved in our two communities.

According to a study by the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute, about 90 % of the contemporary Dominican population has West African ancestry to varying degrees.