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Pakistan

Pakistan

Asia

Endorsements

Safe Schools Declaration

Not Endorsed

Paris Principles

Not Endorsed

Vancouver Principles

Not Endorsed

EWIPA Declaration

Not Endorsed

No current endorsements

Relevant UN Resolutions

No current co-sponsorships

GCPEA Education Under Attack

Has not been profiled

Other Important Information
Memberships in International Regional Organizations

No current memberships

Peacekeeping

Is not a peacekeeping contributing country

Key Information

Key information about the country.

Advocacy Meetings

Chronological recap of the engagement with this state or any other relevant information that can support advocacy.

None

Examples of Good Practice

What, if anything, the country has done to protect education and/or implement any of the 8 commitments outlined in the Declaration.

Commitment 1

None

Commitment 2

None

Commitment 3

None

Commitment 4

None

Commitment 5

None

Commitment 6

Following the 2014 attack on the Army Public School in Peshawar, Pakistan, the Government of the Punjab, Home Department, issued an advisory note requesting that all schools increase school security within 48 hours through specified measures. Among the list of 24 activities were several physical protection measures: 1) Constructing boundary walls around the school up to 8 feet in height; 2) Fencing the boundary wall with razor wire up to another 2 feet in height; 3) Using a single entry/exit gate generally and using a second gate only in exceptional circumstances or as an emergency exit; 4) Erecting concrete barriers at the entry/exit gate; 5) Installing a walk-through gate and using metal detectors for physical search of the entrants and using bottom view mirrors for checking vehicles; and 6) Ensuring zigzag entry into premises by deploying concrete barriers.

Commitment 7

None

Commitment 8

None

Funding Opportunities

Chronological recap of the engagement with this state on funding opportunities.

None

Relevant Contacts

Contact information of the representatives of Permanent Missions, and national Ministries as well as the focal points for the State-led Implementation Network.

None

Other Relevant Information

Other relevant information about the country.