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The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Tuesday noted the barring of Sikhs from a gurdwara in Lahore and called the restriction by...

In a latest report on the situation prevailing in Balochistan, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) Wednesday said the dead bodies of 140...

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Monday expressed concerns over torture of Punjab University (PU) Philosophy Department faculty members and students by...

HRCP has condemned the murder of an unarmed young man by the Sindh Rangers in Karachi on Wednesday. The incident’s video, broadcasted by television...

Pakistan military came in for a lot of criticism in a session titled “Pakistan after Osama bin Laden: Options for Pakistan” conducted in the...

The Human Right Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) Saturday expressed grave concern over the recovery of the dead bodies of missing persons in Balochistan and...

LAHORE - Speakers at a seminar arranged by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on 'Growth of Intolerance in Pakistan' on Sunday at its New Garden Town Main Office condemned intolerance of all kinds.
The speakers highlighted the facts responsible for the increase in intolerance in the country. Supreme Court Bar Association (SCBA) President and renowned human rights activist Asma Jahangir, Dr Mehdi Hassan, Dr Mubashar Hassan, Dr Haroon, Fehmida Riaz, Khalid Ahmed and

LAHORE - Zohra Yousaf and Kamran Arif were elected chairperson and co-chairperson respectively of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Sunday.
Other elected office-bearers include Treasurer Zafar A Chaudhry, vice-chairpersons Tahir Hussain (Balochistan), Saleema Hashmi (Punjab), Sher Muhammad Khan (Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) and Amarnath Motumal (Sindh). Other elected members of the council include Dr Tahira Kamal, Zahoor Ahmed Shahwani, Nasreen Azhar, Salehzada, Jarar

ISLAMABAD - Terming the overall human rights situation in Pakistan as "abysmally alarming", the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) pointed out in its report on human rights in Pakistan in 2010 released on Thursday that police, criminals, and the United States - through its drones' strikes - retained their penchant for extra-judicial killings without any accountability. Launching the annual report, HRCP Chairman Dr Mehdi Hassan and Secretary General IA Rehman said the

ISLAMABAD - Over 900 people were killed due to American Drone attacks in the tribal areas of Pakistan, while as many as 12,580 people were murdered, 581 kidnappings for ransom and 16,977 cases of abduction were also reported, according to Human Rights Commission of Pakistan.
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan in its annual report stated that 957 people were killed due to American Drone attacks in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
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LAHORE - The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed concern at registration of cases in Khanewal against hundreds of tenants under the Anti-Terrorism Act. The tenants had participated in a march to Lahore on Monday to press their demand for ownership rights of the land that they had been cultivating for decades.
In a statement issued on Wednesday, the commission said that while the administration had largely refrained from using force to prevent the tenants'

LAHORE - The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has shown its outrage and grief at the murder of Minister for Minorities' Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti, calling the assassination "work of militants who are out to eliminate anyone raising his voice against the persecution of vulnerable people". This has come after an HRCP's coordinator Naeem Sabir, from district Khuzdar was also murdered by hardliners.
"The assassins of Federal Minister for Minorities' Affairs Shahbaz Bhatti and

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has voiced concern that the problems of the flood-hit population all over Pakistan seem to have come off the priority list even though the difficulties facing the affected people remain as challenging as ever and in some areas have even aggravated.
HRCP has been conducting damage and needs assessment in 33 flood-affected districts across the country and monitoring relief efforts there. In January and February the Commission held

LAHORE - The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) called upon Balochistan government to secure the release of th HRCP activist Siddique Eido who was abducted in Gwadar by men wearing official uniforms on December 21 last year.
In a letter to the Balochistan chief minister, HRCP expressed concern that despite a lapse of 50 days no progress has been made in securing Eido's release. The Commission said: "At the very least, statements of the four policemen of Pasni Police

LAHORE - Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called upon the Punjab government to ensure an early and transparent investigation of an alleged incident of honour killing of a young woman in a village of Bahawalpur district.
The young woman, Saima, left her parents house in November and went away to Karachi with a man named Dilawar she wanted to marry as her family wanted her to marry someone else. Saima's family had took Dilawar's father to Karachi with them and brought

LAHORE - The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Friday expressed it concern and sorrow over killing of private TV channel reporter Wali Khan Babar in Karachi and demanded a full investigation in order to bring his killers to justice. The HRCP said that it was grieved at murder of yet another journalist in Pakistan and expressed sympathies and conveyed condolences to Babar's family and colleagues. The fact that Babar was the second Pakistan journalist killed in 2011

LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), taking notice of the issuance of death warrants for a man in Sukkur Jail, has demanded order's withdrawal, calling upon the government to continue the informal moratorium on the death penalty in place since 2008.
An HRCP statement issued on Tuesday expressed concern at the issuance of death warrants for a man detained in Sukkur Jail, whose hanging is scheduled for 6:30 am on January 12. This is contrary to the policy