President of the Baloch Voice Association Munir Mengal has said that Pakistani Army Chief General Asim Munir should be questioned in the US about enforced disappearances, military operations, extrajudicial killings and systematic abuse of rights in Balochistan.
Large-scale protests have erupted across Balochistan after an alarming rise in cases of killings and enforced disappearances spanning different demographics in the region, the Human Rights Council of Balochistan (HRCB) stated in a report.
Following the pollution review meeting with the officers of the Environment Department at the Delhi Secretariat, Gopal Rai on Monday announced that the anti-pollution measures under GRAP IV regulations will remain enforced in Delhi until the next order of Commission for Air Quality Managemen
In an effort to prevent further deterioration of air quality, the Commission for Air Quality Management sub-committee on Saturday decided to invoke the 11-point action plan as per Stage-II of revised GRAP in the entire National Capital Region.
The traditional Ramlila in Ayodhya, which has been a calendar event in the temple town around Dussehra for the better part of six decades now, returned to the stage after a year-long and enforced hiatus because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
Baloch and Pashtun political activists have raised the growing issue of enforced disappearances in Balochistan and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa provinces of Pakistan during the 54th Session of UN Human Rights Council Session on Friday.
The organisers have been demanding urgent UN intervention to protect the lives of the Baloch people, who have been facing the worst human rights violations.
Michela Mutovciev, a Research Analyst at Amsterdam-based EFSAS think-tank made her intervention during the Interactive dialogue with the Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances during the 54th Session of the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Tuesday.
US Congressman Brad Sherman on Friday raised the issue of kidnappings by criminals, enforced disappearances, extrajudicial killings and imprisonment of women by authorities without due process in Pakistan, particularly in Sindh.
In order to highlight the surge in the cases of enforced disappearances across Balochistan and Sindh, a protest rally was held to commemorate the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearances on Wednesday.
Pakistan police baton-charged the people protesting against increasing cases of enforced disappearances of Baloch people on the main Mauripur road in Karachi, according to the organisers, reported Dawn.