Tag: enforced disappearance

NCHR chairman urges govt to make enforced disappearances an offence: report

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

Amnesty International urges Pakistan to resolve enforced disappearances cases

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...

Policy to deal with NGOs must be rooted in legislation: Senate...

--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...

LHC orders police, intel agencies to recover missing activist Raza Khan

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

Senate committee to take up missing peace activist issue today

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...

Enforced disappearances: ‘Law of jungle’ cannot prevail, say activists

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

New Delhi asked to probe 2,080 mass graves in Occupied Kashmir

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...

PPP senator urges interior minister to take notice of Turkish educationist,...

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...

Justice denied in missing persons’ issue: HR activists

--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...

UN urges all govts to endorse convention on enforced disappearance

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