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Pakistan: Balochistan bleeds as BYC report alleges state-led killings
Updated : 2 months, 4 weeks ago IST
A new report released by the Baloch Yakjehti Committee has alleged a disturbing escalation in extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearances and staged police encounters across Balochistan during February, raising fresh concerns about Pakistan's security policies in the province, as reporte
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HRCP slams Pakistan's CCD for 924 deaths in 'staged' encounters
Updated : 2 months, 4 weeks ago IST
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has accused Punjab's Crime Control Department of institutionalising staged police encounters. The report recorded over 900 deaths in 2025, alleging systemic extrajudicial killings and a lack of mandatory investigations. HRCP has called for an immediate
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"State government is finished": Ajay Rai slams UP govt after court flags "
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
Rai alleged that law and order in the state had completely collapsed, saying, "The state government is finished, and they are carrying out, half encounters, full encounters...They are bulldozing the homes, will they ensure justice to anyone?"
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"Completely unacceptable": Allahabad HC questions UP Police "encounter" sh
Updated : 4 months, 1 week ago IST
Through an order passed on January 28, Justice Arun Kumar Singh Deshwal directed the Director General of Police (DGP) and the Additional Chief Secretary (Home) of the state to appear before the Court via video conferencing on Friday, January 30.
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Pakistan: Petition urges Lahore High Court to halt alleged fake police enc
Updated : 6 months, 1 week ago IST
A petition in the Lahore High Court accuses Punjab's Crime Control Department of hundreds of fake police encounters since 2025. It demands enforcement of a law requiring FIA investigations into custodial deaths, claiming courts have already ruled such encounters illegal but no action has bee
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Pakistan's police encounters replace rule of law, HRCP warns of alarming r
Updated : 8 months ago IST
According to HRCP, more than 500 police encounters have taken place in the province since January 2025, resulting in over 670 deaths, a figure higher than in any other province.
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SC asks Assam Human Rights Commission to probe alleged fake encounter cas
Updated : 1 year ago IST
The Supreme Court on Wednesday directed the Assam State Human Rights Commission to inquire into all alleged incidents of extra-judicial killings in the state.
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Pakistan Human Rights Commission highlights decline in civic freedoms, det
Updated : 1 year, 1 month ago IST
In his remarks at the launch of annual report, HRCP chairperson Asad Iqbal Butt highlighted continued state-sanctioned violence in 2024, with at least 379 officially reported new cases of enforced disappearance, two extrajudicial killings of persons suspected of blasphemy and 4,864 staged po
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Pakistan: Rights group expresses concern over encounter of Sindhi activist
Updated : 1 year, 9 months ago IST
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has raised concerns over the ongoing police encounters in Sindh, Pakistan against activists raising voices against state repression.
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Fake police encounters become norm in Pakistan: Report
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
A resident of Karachi, Kashif fell victim to a fake encounter staged by the police. He has since been granted bail and returned to his hometown.
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Street crimes increasing at alarming rate in Pakistan: Report
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
As many as 12 street criminals were also killed in police encounters while 17 got injured. There were almost 300 cases of street crimes on a daily basis.
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Pakistan: Relatives protest, claim class X student killed in "fake encount
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
The relatives of one of the two alleged robbers killed during separate police "encounters" in the district, staged a protest blocking Burewala Road and claimed that the deceased was a Class X student and was killed by Machiwal police in a "fake" shootout.
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