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The Committee is repeating this year its previous direct request, to which once again no answer has been received. The Government has now not provided detailed information on the application of this Convention in more than a decade. It requests the Government to provide information in its next report on the matters raised in the direct request, and more generally. It recalls in this connection that the Government also has not replied to comments made on the application of the Convention in 2003 by the All-Pakistan Federation of Trade Unions.

More generally, the Committee is aware that the situation in the tribal areas, many of which are located along the border with Afghanistan, has been seriously affected by the war in Afghanistan and the rapid evolution in the situation in these areas. The Committee urges the Government to provide a general appreciation of this situation as it relates to the application of this Convention.

[The Government is asked to reply in detail to the present comments in 2005.]