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Karo Kari still haunts Sindh

KARACHI – While scanning through the annals of history of the sub-continent, numerous cases of Karo Kari or honor killings have been reported. This is not a pre-historic practice. Acts such as these are unfortunately being practiced blatantly, even today, mostly in the Upper Sindh Region and its adjoining areas. Nowadays it is gaining momentum […]


57 killed over Karo-Kari during 2006 in Jacobabad

JACOBABAD: About 57 men and women had been killed over the pretext of Karo-Kari, while 67 people lost their lives in different incidents in the district of Jacobabad during 2006, says a human rights watchdog report. The report was launched at a seminar on human rights at the Jacobabad press club on Friday. The report […]


HRCP slates torturing of Pindi protesters

KARACHI: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) expressed its utter shock and grief over the barbaric violence of the Rawalpindi Police led by SP Yasin Farooq, SP Muhammad Azam, DSP Rana Shahid, against the protesting families of the missing people that made the front pages of the national press, on Friday. Ex-senator Iqbal Haider, […]


Protest against boy’s kidnapping

SUKKUR: Hundreds of people, including women and children, held a demonstration on Friday outside the Sukkur press club in protest against police failure to recover a kidnapped boy. The protesters belonging to Bachal Shah Miani area were led by Dhani Bux Chohan and Bachal Shah Miani union council Nazim Tariq Chohan.They gathered outside the press […]


PARC conference: Speakers demand govt implement child rights laws

* One million child labourers in NWFP alone Staff Report PESHAWAR: Speakers at a conference on child protection have demanded that the government implement child rights laws.The conference was organised by the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC) at the Peshawar Garrison Club on Thursday.Labour Department Deputy Director Zahoor Ahmad […]


Relatives of the missing beaten up

By Bakhtawar Mian ISLAMABAD, Dec 28: Police broke up a protest demonstration organised by family members and relatives of missing persons, badly beating and arresting several of them after they tried to march to the GHQ to present a memorandum to the Vice-Chief of the Army Staff.More than a hundred people, mostly women and children […]


Lovebirds booked under Hudood Ordinance

MULTAN: The Makhdoom Rashid police have registered a case under the now obsolete Hudood Ordinance against a couple in violation of the newly introduced Women Protection Act (WPA) and allegedly harassed them at the behest of the bride’s influential family and local politicians. Majida Perveen, 22, of Jatt clan tied the knot with Muhammad Amin […]


NGOs going on with illegal acts’

LAHOREThe four NGOs which deal in runaway, lost and destitute children in the city are functioning despite their alleged involvement in “illegal activities”. The Child Protection and Welfare Bureau had requested the Punjab Social Welfare and Baitual Maal Department to immediately close down the Idara Khidmat-i-Khalq (Old Anarkali), Al-Nijat Foundation (Allama Iqbal Town), Children Help […]


HRCP seeks release of two Hindu traders

KARACHI: The office bearers of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan have expressed concern over the disappearance of at least two minority Hindu community members. She said such disappearances would not go down well with the efforts being made by the government at the international level to promote a soft image globally. The HRCP demanded that […]


The News

KARACHI: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has said that it continue receiving complaints regarding kidnapping and disappearance of citizens from various parts of the country. According to a press release issued on Tuesday, Zohra Yusuf, Vice Chairperson of HRCP, said according to recent complaints, several citizens belonging to the Hindu community are the […]


Changing the blasphemy law

THE state minister for information had announced on Saturday that Pakistan’s minorities would get good news on Christmas in the form of a review of discriminatory laws, which included the blasphemy law. Although the promised review did not come on Monday, one hopes that it will be taken up soon and the government has not […]


Hindus are going missing in Sindh: HRCP

KARACHI: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed concern over some missing Hindus in Sindh, said a press release Tuesday, adding that several complaints have been received of “enforced disappearances”. On September 9, 2006, 55-year-old Gordhan Das (alias G. M. Bhagat) of district Umerkot was picked up from reportedly by four law enforcement […]


Tribesmen protest against lawlessness

KARACHI: A large number of people belonging to different tribes held a protest demonstration on Monday outside the Karachi Press Club (KPC) against the growing criminal activities in Warah, Kambar-Shahdadkot Districts. They were carrying banners and placards inscribed with slogans. Speaking on the occasion, Israr Sodhar said that the criminal activities were on rise in […]


Workshop in Karachi on Gender-based violence

Date: December 25-29, 2006 Location: Karachi Any gender-based act that results in physical, sexual or mental torture or harm to women or any form of threats to harm women may be described as gender based violence. In Pakistan, a majority of women not only lack their basic rights but also face social, cultural and economic […]