The United Nations has declared this decade as the U-N Decade of Human Rights Education. We in Pakistan have also decided to declare the year 2000 as the Year of Human Rights and Human Dignity. A second commission will be formed to undertake police reform to combat corruption and inefficiencies. The general says his government will also take steps to restrict the application of Pakistan's controversial blasphemy laws. The Muslim country has been under fire for introducing these laws, which mandate the death penalty for anyone found guilty of insulting the religion Islam.
Critics say the laws are generally used against minorities and to settle personal vendettas.