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Pakistan courts failed to take firm action against 'enforced disappearance
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 13 (ANI): The cases of kidnapping and enforced disappearances of activists, journalists, and even students have become common in Pakistan but still, the court has not taken any concrete steps to put a full stop to the rising number of cases.
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Pakistan may replicate Bangladesh mistake in Balochistan
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 11 (ANI): The repressive campaigns by the Pakistan Army against Baloch students could prove to be Pakistan's 'Bangladesh' mistake.
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Pakistan: As world celebrates Eid, families of Baloch missing persons dema
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 11 (ANI): As the Muslims around the world celebrated Eid, families of Baloch missing persons protested in Quetta to demand the release of their loved ones, local media reported.
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Pakistani security agencies targeting family members of exiled Baloch poli
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Frankfurt [Germany], July 9 (ANI): Expressing anger toward Pakistan for the increasing number of enforced disappearances in the country, a Baloch activist revealed that Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) and Military Intelligence (MI) arrested his father without any involvement in
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Pak: PAC urges removal of Former Justice Javed Iqbal as head of missing pe
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 8 (ANI): Amid an incessant surge in 'Enforced Disappearances' and misuse of power by higher authorities in Pakistan, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) on Thursday urged Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif for the removal of former justice (retired), Javed Iqbal, as the
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Not a single family in Balochistan whose member, relative not forcibly dis
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 7 (ANI): With a spike in the number of enforced disappearances in Balochistan in the past few months, there is not even a single family in the province whose member or a relative has not been forcibly disappeared, reported a Canada-based think tank, International F
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Pakistan HC directs police to find missing student
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], July 5 (ANI): Pakistan's Sindh High Court on Monday directed the police to find the whereabouts of a missing student of NED University of Engineering and Technology and present him in court amid rising cases of enforced disappearances in Pakistan.
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Extrajudicial killings in Balochistan on the rise: Report
Updated : 3 years, 8 months ago IST
Balochistan [Pakistan], July 2 (ANI): Alongside a massive rise in cases of enforced disappearances and abduction in Balochistan, there has been a reported increase in the number of extrajudicial killings in Balochistan, stated the monthly newsletter of the Baloch Human Rights Council (BHRC)
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Pakistan court holds state responsible for enforced disappearances: HRW
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
New York [US], June 29 (ANI): The Islamabad High Court (IHC) has provided a glimmer of hope for hundreds of victims of enforced disappearances in Pakistan, the Human Rights Watch (HRW) said on Wednesday.
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Pakistan's Baloch movement to launch online campaign against forceful abdu
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 29 (ANI): The Baloch National Movement (BNM) will launch on Wednesday an online campaign to condemn the forceful abductions of political activists by security forces in Pakistan's Balochistan province on Wednesday.
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BNM urges global communities to pay heed to Pakistani atrocities on Baloch
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Munster, (Germany), June 27 (ANI): In a public demonstration held in Munster, Germany on Saturday, the Baloch National Movement (BNM) called on international communities to take notice of Pakistan's increasing atrocities on Balochistan.
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Pakistan: Rights groups condemn forced disappearance of Karachi-based soci
Updated : 3 years, 9 months ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], June 25 (ANI): Human rights groups have condemned the forced disappearance of Karachi-based social media activist, Arsalan Khan, who went missing from the city's Clifton area, the latest in the series of abductions.
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