By: Syed Hasan Ali KARACHI: Nearly 100 per cent increase has been witnessed in the number of killings across the city during the first five months of the year as compared to last year’s corresponding period, it emerged on Saturday. While 750 people had been killed between January and May last year, as many as […]
QUETTA: Member Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) Asma Jhangir on Tuesday asked the militant groups to trust the incumbent political government giving them specific time for the resolution of issues of the province of Balochistan. Addressing a press conference here at local hotel, she said that law and order situation in the province was […]
By: Maleeha Hamid Siddiqui KARACHI: Media Manzar, a book by senior journalist and poet Mahmood Shaam, was launched at the Karachi Arts Council on Tuesday. Speakers at the launch said the book touched upon diverse media-related perspectives and redefined the media’s role in the saturated electronic and print media market. “We are becoming media consumers […]
Lahore: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has moved the Supreme Court of Pakistan to review an order disposing of a petition filed in 2007 for recovery of a large number of victims of enforced disappearance. On May 18, the Supreme Court had disposed of through a short order HRCP’s constitutional petition regarding enforced […]
KARACHI: The polio vaccination refusals declined by about 60 per cent in 2012 when compared to 2011, says State of Human Rights in Pakistan, a report compiled by non-governmental Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP). But Pakistan continues to be one of the only three countries in the world where polio still exists – the […]
KARACHI: The solution to Balochistan’s problems lies in the provision of basic human rights to its native people, which can only be achieved by pulling out the armed forces and ending the role of secret agencies in the province. These views were expressed by the National Party vice president, Hameed Baloch and Awami Workers Party […]
KARACHI: The general elections of 2013 were the most expensive election in Pakistan’s history, especially for financially-weak candidates who could not bear expenses to contest elections, says Human Right Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) initial report for election 2013. Few candidates and parties spent heavy amount on advertisement on print and electronic media and even used […]
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has recommended a serious initiative to revamp the Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP), redefine its priorities and reduce bureaucrats’ meddling in political affairs. The recommendations have been made in the HRCP’s preliminary report on Elections 2013 based on its monitoring of the electoral process before and on […]
KARACHI: While most people hold the institution of democracy synonymous with the US, a poster exhibition currently on at the Arts Council under the joint aegis of the Arts Council and the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), sets the record straight. One of the posters from Greece reads, “Democracy: a Greek product, 2,500 years […]
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan on Thursday demanded action against all those who played any part in the assault on Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who died in a hospital on Wednesday. The HRCP called upon both Islamabad and New Delhi to take urgent measures to prevent the incident from undermining bilateral ties and […]
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed serious concern at reports of apparently unauthorised raids and disappearance of several individuals in Kech and Gwadar districts of Balochistan and the killing of two political workers in Sindh. In a statement issued on Monday, the Commission said: “It is a matter of great concern that […]
LAHORE: Strongly condemning the attacks on political leaders, workers and their candidates, that have already resulted in many deaths, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called upon the government to fulfil its duty of protecting the politicians and also urged upon all parties to face the threat of violence unitedly instead of being […]
Rafia Zakaria THE Human Rights Commission of Pakistan’s annual report was released last week. Unsurprisingly, it is a compendium of the country’s failures over the past year. From freedom of thought and religion to freedom of movement, nearly every area seems to have suffered — and suffered tremendously. In 2012, 583 Pakistanis were killed in […]
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) expressed alarm at growing intolerance and abuse of belief, continued incidents of disappearance and illegal detention of citizens in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. In a statement issued at the conclusion of HRCP Council meeting on Sunday, sectarian violence and general breakdown of law and order in the […]
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