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Amnesty International slams Pakistan for cases of enforced disappearances
Updated : 2 years, 6 months ago IST
Amnesty International slammed Pakistan over the multiple cases of enforced disappearance, and secret and arbitrary detentions and called out the authorities to take action and work towards ending this practice.
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Haiti: Journalists at risk from arson, kidnapping, attack
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
The dangers for journalists in Haiti have escalated in recent months, with killings, abductions, and attacks among the most pressing threats, Voice of America (VOA) reported.
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Pakistan: Forced abductions an endemic issue in Sindh
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
Forced abductions of girls as young as twelve years of age have become a regular affair in Pakistan's Sindh as these girls have been trafficked to locations far from their homes and made to marry men who are often twice their age, Dailytimes reported.
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Two-year-old abducted from Pakistan's Kandhkot
Updated : 2 years, 9 months ago IST
This is the second such incident in less than two weeks time. Two weeks ago a three-year-old child named Samrat Kumar was abducted from the Kandhkot of Sindh Province. The Chief Justice of Sindh High Court took notice of the kidnapping of three-year-old Samrat Kumar from Kandhkot. Chief Just
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Inspiring story of 22 Sikh women amid the pain of partition
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
On the March 8 morning, 1947, 22 brave women were sacrificed unflinchingly amidst the recitation of 'Gurbani'. It must have been horrifying for all involved. The extreme courage and tolerance required to kill your kin, your loved ones, is inexplicable, yet it was done, Khalsa Vox reported.
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Pak Human Rights Commission expresses concern over missing cases in Baloch
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The Commission's fact-finding report released in one press conference in Quetta said: Anger and pain are on the rise in people here (Balochistan) because of forcible missing cases/abductions, economic stress, gagging of media, inapt administration, as per Sindh Express.
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Balochistan minister Sardar Abdul Rahman Khetran freed in murder case
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Sardar Khetran, who was arrested on charges of murdering three people, including a woman, and abducting six people in Barkhan, was released from Central Jail in Quetta on bail after paying surety bonds of PKR 500,000 in each case. Khetran's bail application was approved by the Rakhni session
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Overseas Pakistani Christians protest against human rights violations suff
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The protest was organised by Action Committee for Christian Rights, Overseas Pakistan Christian Alliance and Global Human Rights Defence (GHRD), The Netherlands on the occasion of Women's Day held on March 8.
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Delhi Summit: Quad leaders say Russia's nuclear weapon threat "inadmissibl
Updated : 3 years ago IST
"We continued to discuss our responses to the conflict in Ukraine and the immense human suffering it is causing, and concurred that the use or threat of use of nuclear weapons is inadmissible," read Quad leaders joint statement.
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Abductions of Baloch women, new wave of state repression in Balochistan
Updated : 3 years ago IST
New series of these protests are taking place after the enforced disappearances of Baloch women. On 3rd February Pakistan Army in collaboration with Intelligence agencies forcibly disappeared Rahim Zehri, his mother Mahbas Khatoon, his wife Rasheeda Zehri, and their two children from Gishkor
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Pakistan: UN experts urge action on coerced religious conversions, forced
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
"We urge the Pakistan Government to take immediate steps to prevent and thoroughly investigate these acts objectively and in line with domestic legislation and international human rights commitments. Perpetrators must be held fully accountable," the experts said over the spike in the number
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Pakistan: Women, minors unsafe amid rising abduction cases in Sindh
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
According to Pakistan's vernacular media, Jasarat stated that Saima Makrani Baloch, a 15-year-old young girl, was allegedly abducted from the limits of Allahabad police station in Sindh's Larkana city.
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