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Rangers’ policing powers undermine human rights: HRCP

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Karachi: The special policing powers that allow paramilitary soldiers to arrest people without a warrant and any concrete evidence, keep them in custody for 90 days, and torture or humiliate suspects in their custody violate the principles of human rights, the chief of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said in a talk with The […]


Non-Muslim residents of Lyari afraid of returning home

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KARACHI: “There were five of them,” she said while holding her young child with one arm and hiding her face with the other. That’s how the young mother of three, and a victim of gang-rape, started narrating her ordeal at a press conference called at the Karachi Press Club by the Human Rights Commission of […]