Tag: enforced disappearance

The National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) Chairman Justice (r) Ali Nawaz Chohan asked the government to amend the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and...

ISLAMABAD: The Amnesty International urged Pakistan to resolve hundreds of cases of enforced disappearances as the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) adopted on Monday...

--Senator Babar says registration of NGOs by security agencies is like asking a wolf to guard a lamb --Babar reiterates demand for accountability of state...

LAHORE: The Lahore High Court (LHC) on Friday ordered police and intelligence agencies to recover missing peace activist Raza Mahmood Khan and present him...

ISLAMABAD: The Senate Committee on Human Rights will take up the issue of a missing peace activist, Raza Khan, today. According to the notice, the...

Civil society says state institutions have failed people LAHORE: Rights activists and civil society have expressed grave concerns over an increasing trend of...

India's human rights commission has asked New Delhi to investigate at least 2,080 unmarked mass graves discovered in border areas of the Indian-held Kashmir region, Al-Jazeera said...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan People's Party (PPP) Senator Farhatullah Babar has urged Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal to take notice of the "enforced disappearance" of a Turkish educationist and his...

--Demand recovery of Punhal Sariyo in a presser KARACHI: Sindh Human Rights Defenders Network and Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (PILER) on Friday...

  UNITED NATIONS: Marking the 10th anniversary of an historic treaty to keep people from suffering enforced disappearance or secret detentions, the United Nations has...