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Call to end human rights violations in Pakistan

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Karachi: Political parties’ representatives, civil society organisations and associations of human, women and labour rights, on Thursday, called for the need to conceive measures to end human rights excesses, rampant in Pakistan against minorities, women and other vulnerable sections of the society. The exhortations were made during a seminar, ‘A call for re-engineering the public […]


4 journalists and 5 support staff shot dead, 38 injured and 06 others received death

Pakistan Press Foundation

The Asian Human Rights Commission has received shocking reports of journalists having to face the worst ordeals possible, during the course of the year 2014. Four journalists and five of their supporting staff have been killed by “un-known” persons and more than 38 journalists were attacked and injured by the police and mostly by those […]


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Journalist implicated in murder case, being hounded

KARACHI: A journalist has allegedly been implicated in an honour killing case by a powerful tribe to punish him for raising the issue of domestic abuse and murder of a woman who had been declared Kari. According to the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) the victim, Sikandar Bhutto, is in hiding and the alleged killers […]


19-year-old boy sodomised, poisoned in Burewala

LAHORE: The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) says it has received information that a 19-year-old tea vender in Burewala was sodomised and poisoned and he later died in hospital in November 2012. According to a press release issued by AHRC, the rapists threw the victim, Aamir Baloch, in the mud after sodomising him, intending that […]