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BASC-SOAS Seminar highlights systematic human rights abuses against Baloch
Updated : 7 months, 3 weeks ago IST
The Baloch Advocacy and Studies Centre held its first public seminar in London, highlighting serious human rights abuses against Baloch people in Iran and Pakistan, including killings and disappearances. Experts, activists, and UN representatives called for international attention and jus
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2024 HRCP Report exposes worsening human rights emergency across Pakistan
Updated : 8 months, 4 weeks ago IST
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan's 2024 report highlights democratic decline, rising militancy, enforced disappearances, and human rights abuses in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. It notes blasphemy-related violence, child and gender-based abuse, labour violations, and environmental crises, paint
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Baloch youth hunted and executed by Pakistan's military death squads
Updated : 9 months ago IST
21-year-old Zeeshan Baloch was abducted and killed in Balochistan, hours after a protest by his family. BYC blamed Pakistan's military-backed death squads and called it part of ongoing state violence against Baloch youth. His death highlights the region's continuing crisis of enforced disapp
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Geneva: UKPNP leaders demand UN action on human rights violations in PoJK,
Updated : 9 months ago IST
The United Kashmir People's National Party (UKPNP) held a demonstration outside the United Nations headquarters in Geneva during the 59th Session of the United Nations Human Rights Council. The protest aimed to spotlight severe human rights abuses in Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir (PoJK
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MQM leader Altaf Hussain urges India to speak up against 'genocide' of Moh
Updated : 9 months ago IST
He appealed to PM Modi to take "immediate notice" of the human rights abuses perpetrated by the Pakistan Army, specifically pointing to events that began on June 19, 1992, when military operations were launched against Mohajirs.
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Stalin's alliance with Congress is stark display of political opportunism:
Updated : 9 months ago IST
Launching an attack against the DMK and Congress alliance, the statement said that DMK Chief Minister Stalin's alliance with the Congress party is a stark display of political opportunism. Given the Congress party's dark history of human rights abuses and loss of life during the Emergency, t
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Iranian regime remains the greatest threat to Middle-East peace, says West
Updated : 9 months ago IST
Catherine Perez-Shakdam criticised Iran for denying a Trump-brokered ceasefire with Israel, accusing it of spreading disinformation and pursuing regional dominance. She warned of continued instability unless the Iranian regime falls and praised Israel's recent actions against Iran's nuclear
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BNM marks 16 years of Zakir Majeed's disappearance with protest outside UK
Updated : 9 months, 2 weeks ago IST
BNM held a protest in London marking 16 years since Zakir Majeed Baloch's enforced disappearance. Speakers, including his mother, urged global action against Pakistan's human rights abuses in Balochistan and called for justice for the forcibly disappeared.
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JSMM Chairman Shafi Burfat appeals to UN over systematic repression in Sin
Updated : 9 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Shafi Burfat of JSMM urged the UN to act against Pakistan's alleged human rights abuses in Sindh, including raids, abductions, and enforced disappearances. He accused the military of targeting Sindhi activists and land grabs, calling for urgent global intervention and a UN fact-finding missi
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BLF leader accuses Pakistan of using ISIS-K narrative to undermine Baloch
Updated : 9 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Baloch leader Allah Nazar Baloch accused Pakistan's military of promoting ISIS-K as propaganda to undermine Baloch nationalist movements, while highlighting systematic oppression, misuse of anti-terror laws, and human rights abuses in Balochistan, according to The Balochistan Post.
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New Pakistan law sparks fears of systemic human rights abuses in Balochist
Updated : 9 months, 3 weeks ago IST
The new law grants Pakistan's military and intelligence agencies sweeping authority to detain individuals, primarily targeting Baloch citizens, for up to 90 days without charge, based solely on suspicion.
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Paank slams Pakistan over extrajudicial killings in Balochistan; bodies of
Updated : 9 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Paank condemned the extrajudicial killings and enforced disappearances in Balochistan, urging Pakistan to stop these human rights abuses and deliver justice to victims' families. International groups have also called for investigations into these ongoing violations causing great suffering.
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