The Human Rights Committee of the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) on Friday decided to constitute human rights committees at provincial and district levels, besides publishing an annual report on human rights violations in the country. The committee meeting was held under Salahuddin Panhwar, and attended by members including Muhammad Ahsan Bhoon, Muhammad Ramzan Chaudhry and Kalb-e-Hassan, who was a special invitee. Other than discussing the agenda items, the committee also requested Kalb-e-Hassan to nominate members for the Human Rights Committee in Rawalpindi division.
PBC’s various members would decide members for the committees in Lahore, Gujranwala, Faisalabad, Sargodha, Multan, Bahawalpur and DG Khan in Punjab. Similarly other members would constitute committees for districts in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Balochistan and Sindh. The PBC members are authorised to associate any member of the provincial bar council with the formation of committees in their respective areas. The committee also decided that the PBC would publish an annual report on human rights violations in Pakistan at the end of every year.