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Pashtuns hold massive public gathering against enforced disappearances, ki
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
North Waziristan [Pakistan], November 17 (ANI): The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) held a public gathering in Miran Shah, North Waziristan on Sunday, calling for an end to the brutalities in the country in the form of enforced disappearances, killings and abuses of civilians, and asked th
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'Thousands of Pashtuns' protest against Pakistani establishment 'brutaliti
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
North Waziristan [Pakistan], November 15 (ANI): Thousands of Pashtuns on Thursday participated in the protest organised by Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) in North Waziristan against Pakistani establishment "brutalities" in the form of "extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and unl
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'Demoralized, shocked' Sindh Police in open revolt against Pak Army over I
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], October 21 (ANI): It is not just political parties in Pakistan who are protesting against the 'deep state' in the country, police officers in the Sindh province are also revolting against the atrocities of the powerful army.
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Balochistan facing a pandemic of impunity and abuse of rights, activist te
Updated : 5 years, 5 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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International organizations term Pak as killing field for minorities: Indi
Updated : 5 years, 5 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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Enforced disappearances of Sindhi people by govt agencies continue unabate
Updated : 5 years, 5 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, 5 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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Activists thank British MPs for raising extrajudicial killings, enforced d
Updated : 5 years, 6 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, 6 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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ICJ chides Pak probe body on enforced disappearances
Updated : 5 years, 6 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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UN experts: Pakistan must end enforced disappearance of human rights defen
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], September 4 (ANI): UN human rights experts today called on the Pakistani authorities to end the secret detention of human rights defender Idris Khattak, who has not been heard from in more than nine months.
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Baloch, Sindhis, Pashtuns stage protest against Pakistan in Toronto
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Toronto [Canada], Aug 31 (ANI): Members of Baloch, Sindhi and Pashtun organisations staged a protest on Sunday in Toronto to mark the 'International Day of Victims of Forced Disappearances', demanding the United Nations and international community to press Pakistan to end forced disappearanc
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