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Human Rights Day: ‘Pakistan was born free but most Pakistanis are in chains’

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KARACHI: Referring to the famous phrase ‘man is born free but everywhere he is in chains,’ University of Karachi faculty of law dean Justice (retd) Dr Ghaus Muhammad said that Pakistan was born free but most Pakistanis are in chains. He said this while speaking at a seminar titled ‘A Call for Re-engineering the Public […]


Petition filed for human rights panel

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ISLAMABAD: The apex court has received a petition, seeking its direction to constitute the National Commission for Human Rights as envisaged by Section 3 of the National Commission for Human Rights Act, 2012. A human rights activist, Julius Salik, moved the constitutional petition through his counsel, Raheel Kamran Sheikh, under Article 184 (3) of the […]


‘Violence has influenced art tremendously in recent times’

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By: SYED HASSAN ALI KARACHI: As artists are greatly affected by their surroundings, not only the death and destruction caused by bomb blasts, gun attacks and arson activities but also the subsequent changes in lifestyle of people and their emotions associated with growing violence are bound to reflect in their work, say artists and art […]