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Pakistan witnessed substantial human rights violations in 2020: Report
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Lahore [Pakistan], May 4 (ANI): As in preceding years, Pakistan witnessed substantial human rights violations in 2020, from forced conversions of religious minorities and crimes against women to enforced disappearances and curbs on freedom of expression, the Human Rights Commission of Pakist
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Families of Shia missing persons hold protest against Pak govt's role in e
Updated : 4 years, 11 months ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], April 5 (ANI): Pakistan's Joint Action Committee (JAC) for Shia missing persons and families held a sit-in protest against the Imran Khan government's involvement in the rising cases of enforced disappearances in the country.
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Pak court slams Imran Khan govt for lack of interest in missing persons' c
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Karachi [Pakistan], March 24 (ANI): Pakistan's Sindh High Court has reprimanded the Imran Khan government for showing disinterest in the cases of missing persons and deplored that no legislation had so far been made against enforced disappearances.
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Balochistan: Land of enforced disappearances
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], March 3 (ANI): There are many heartbreaking stories of enforced disappearances in Pakistan's Balochistan province.
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Germany: Free Balochistan Movement stage protest against enforced disappea
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Frankfurt [Germany], March 3 (ANI): The Free Balochistan Movement Germany Branch organised a protest in front of the Pakistani Consulate in Frankfurt to express solidarity with the families of the state victims of enforced disappearance in Balochistan and to inform the international communit
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Baloch activists hold protest in solidarity with families whose members su
Updated : 5 years ago IST
Amsterdam [Netherlands] March 2 (ANI): Baloch political activists organised a protest in front of the Royal Palace in Amsterdam to show their solidarity with the families whose members have been subject of enforced disappearances in Pakistan's Balochistan province.
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'Plight of missing persons have increased': NGO highlights issue of enforc
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 20 (ANI): The World Sindhi Congress (WSC), an NGO, had a virtual meeting with the United Nations Working Group on Involuntary or Enforced Disappearances, wherein they agreed to make a more concerted efforts to raise the International Community's understanding of the
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Speak to relatives of Baloch missing persons: Maryam Nawaz asks Pak PM
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], February 18 (ANI): Amid the growing atrocities against the minority communities of Pakistan, PML-N vice president Maryam Nawaz has asked Prime Minister Imran Khan to speak to the relatives of the Baloch missing persons who are protesting in Islamabad against the various
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US congressman supports 'Long Walk' organized by Sindhi minorities over en
Updated : 5 years, 1 month ago IST
Washington [US], February 14 (ANI): US congressman, Brad Sherman on Sunday supported "Long Walk' or "Long March" from New York City to Washington DC by Sindhi Foundation, covering a distance of more than 350 miles on foot to draw attention to issues like enforced disappearances, the plight o
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UN experts raise concerns over scourge of enforced disappearances and tort
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
Geneva [Switzerland], December 10 (ANI): UN human rights experts have raised concerns about the scourge of enforced disappearances and torture in Pakistan, calling on the Government to uphold its human rights obligations by initiating prompt, thorough and impartial investigations into suc
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Pashtuns hold massive public gathering against enforced disappearances, ki
Updated : 5 years, 4 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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