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Balochistan facing a pandemic of impunity and abuse of rights, activist te
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Swittzerland], September 29 (ANI): Balochistan is facing a pandemic of impunity and abuse of rights, Baloch activist Munir Mengal told the United Nations on Tuesday while urging the UN working body on enforced disappearances to take appropriate actions to ensure stringent action agai
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'Silence of world community on human rights violations in Balochistan gave
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 28 (ANI): The silence of the world community on the large scale human rights violations in the region of Balochistan has given impunity to Pakistan, according to Waja Siddique Azad, the Secretary-General Baloch Peoples Congress (BPC).
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International organizations term Pak as killing field for minorities: Indi
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 28 (ANI): Underscoring that Pakistan is known as the "killing field" for the minorities, India on Monday slammed Islamabad which has "institutionalised" enforced disappearance as a tool of "subjugation against dissent and criticism", adding that the country re
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Multani case: Punjab Police asks former DGP Saini to join probe today
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], September 28 (ANI): Punjab Police has summoned former state Director General of Police (DGP) Sumedh Singh Saini to join the investigation in the 1991 Balwant Singh Multani disappearance case on Monday.
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Enforced disappearances of Sindhi people by govt agencies continue unabate
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 25 (ANI): Enforced disappearances of Sindhi people by Pakistan agencies continue unabated in the country and abduction is used as a tool to spread terror among the minority communities, said Secretary-General of World Sindhi Congress, Lakhu Luhana on Thursday
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Balochistan struggling to end Pakistan's oppression: Activist at UNHRC
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 25 (ANI): Highlighting the rising incidents of enforced disappearances in Balochistan, President of Baloch Voice Association, Munir Mengal, told United Nations Human Right Council (UNHRC) that people in the region are struggling to end oppression, suppression
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China knew how virulent COVID-19 was, says Pompeo
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Wisconsin [US], September 24 (ANI): US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday said that the Chinese Communist Party knew how virulent COVID-19 that originated in Wuhan was adding that Beijing censored and made courageous whistleblowers who tried to sound the alarm disappear.
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Activists thank British MPs for raising extrajudicial killings, enforced d
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
London [UK], September 15 (ANI): A Baloch political activist has thanked British Member of Parliament Jonathan Gullis for raising the issue of extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances of the Baloch before the British government.
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Enforced disappearances in Pakistan has reached new level of 'brazenness':
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 11 (ANI): Enforced disappearances in Pakistan has reached a level of "brazenness inconceivable" a few years ago, Pakistani newspaper Dawn said in an editorial.
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Former Punjab Police chief Sumedh Singh Saini moves SC after high court di
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
New Delhi/Ludhiana (Punjab) [India], September 10 (ANI): Former Punjab Director General of Police (DGP) Sumedh Singh Saini on Thursday moved the Supreme Court seeking anticipatory bail in a case related to alleged abduction and disappearance of a Junior Engineer Balwant Singh Multani in 1
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ICJ chides Pak probe body on enforced disappearances
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 9 (ANI): The International Commission of Jurists (ICJ) has hit out at Pakistan's Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances (COIED), saying it has failed to hold perpetrators responsible for the crime in the last several years.
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HC dismisses anticipatory bail plea of ex-Punjab DGP in 29-year-old disapp
Updated : 5 years, 9 months ago IST
Chandigarh (Punjab) [India], September 8 (ANI): The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday dismissed the anticipatory bail plea of former Punjab Director General of Police (DGP) Sumedh Singh Saini in connection with a 29-year-old case related to the alleged abduction and murder of Balwant
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