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Religious minorities observed the National Minorities’ Day across the country on 11 August for equal rights.
15 August 2023 - Religious minorities, including Christian, Hindus, and Sikhs, observed the National Minority Day across the country on 11 August for equal rights, and asked the state (…)
The government of Pakistan maligned the Centre for Social Justice (CSJ), a rights body, for “alleged anti-state propaganda,” for submitting a human rights report in July 2022 to the United Nations Human Rights Council for Universal Periodic Review (UPR).
A news item appeared in Daily Jang, a (…)
Baloch nationalist leader and member of the Awami Workers Party, Yousaf Masti Khan, has been booked for sedition after a fiery speech criticizing the military establishment of Pakistan. He was arrested by the Gwadar police and sent off for a one-day remand.
According to details, the Baloch (…)
France is persisting with its decision to hold the final of three independence referendums in New Caledonia on December 12, disregarding Indigenous independence leaders’ calls for a postponement of the vote and now for “non-participation” – effectively a boycott – due to the impact of the COVID (…)
On November 30, Ali Wazir was granted bail by the Supreme Court but remains in jail as a case is pending against him. He was accused of insulting a state institution in a speech in December 2020 and has been incarcerated for close to a year
Ali Wazir
On Tuesday November 30, the Supreme Court (…)
As Imran Khan’s government moves to outlaw virtually any criticism, media figures fear ‘darkest era’ of press freedom
Gathered before a solemn crowd, Hamid Mir, one of Pakistan’s best-known journalists, spoke defiantly. “Do not ever enter the homes of journalists again,” he said. “We don’t (…)
THE latest (for November 2020) monthly press release of the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances offers us sufficient information to show that enforced disappearances should continue to attract the attention of the government and civil society as one of the topmost matters of concern (…)
Husband says foul play cannot be ruled out after body of 37-year-old dissident discovered in Toronto
A dissident Pakistani human rights activist living in exile in Canada has been found dead in Toronto after going missing.
Karima Baloch, 37, was granted asylum in Canada in 2016 after her (…)
THE government seems to have decided to take a great leap backward with its proposed punishment for persons found guilty of rape, for which the penalty even at present is death.
It has decided to add to the Pakistan Penal Code section 376 B which says: “Exceptional first offenders or repeat (…)
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, expresses concern over the issuing of a detention order against Dr. Ammar Ali Jan for attending the Student Solidarity March in Lahore on 28 November 2020.
The peaceful protest was held to highlight the issues (…)
ENFORCED disappearances have been making headlines for quite some time. The families of victims of enforced disappearance have sustained their protest without a break and judicial censure of the executive’s fumbling has become more strident.
The Islamabad High Court suggested that the prime (…)
Many populist authoritarian regimes in the Third World have been violating human rights, clamping down on protests, charging intellectuals, journalists and poets by misusing anti-terror and sedition laws. Recently we witnessed the murder of a peasant leader in Philippines. India’s majoritarian (…)
Journalists across various cities protested on Thursday against the siege of Dawn’s Islamabad offices by a mob earlier this week.
The mob on Monday had staged a demonstration against the publication of a news report regarding the origins of the London Bridge attacker who stabbed two persons (…)
LAHORE: Police have registered cases against the organisers and participants of the recently held Student Solidarity March on sedition charges and arrested Alamgir Wazir, one of the participants.
The Civil Lines police on behalf of the state registered a case on sedition charges against the (…)
Lahore/Islamabad, 29 November. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) deplores the government’s response to the Students’ Solidarity March, being held on Friday 29 November across cities and towns in Pakistan.
HRCP is alarmed by reports that students supporting the march are being (…)
After a dozen of hearings in Kharqhamar check post attack case , on 18 September Peshawar High Court’s Bannu bench accepted the bail pleas of MNA’s, Ali Wazir and Mohsin Dawar [see The News article below]. The MNAs have been asked to provide surety bonds worth Rs1 million each. They have been (…)
On May 26, the army fired on a non-violent protest by the Pashtun Defence Movement (PTM) in Waziristan, killing at least 13 people and injuring dozens.
Ali Wazeer. Photo: Ali Wazeer/Twitter.
Two PTM members of the Pakistan National Assembly, Ali Wazeer and Mohsin Dawar, who led the protest, (…)
When David Miranda intervened in the Committee on Foreign Relations and National Defense, he thought Ali Wazeer had been released. This information was wrong. What happened is that Ali Wazeer was presented at an anti-terrorist court and was then being sent by the judge to Peshawar Jail. It is (…)
We, as feminists who uphold the peaceful resolution of conflict, stand in solidarity with the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) in their struggle for fundamental rights. We condemn the violence that took place on May 26th in the Khar Qamar area of North Waziristan in which 13 civilians were (…)
Yesterday was an explosive day at the national parliament. Bilawal Bhutto, son of Benazhir Bhutto who heads the Pakistan Peoples Party had written a two-page letter addressed to the speaker of the Assembly to order for the production of Ali Wazeer, from jail to the National Parliament on Friday. (…)
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