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Pakistan's military intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and law enforcement have been accused of arresting and kidnapping political leaders who have demanded more autonomy or freedom from Pakistan. They have also been accused of arresting student activists and teachers protesting the exploitation of the Pakistani government.
[1] [2] [3] Human rights activists allege that the law enforcement agencies in Pakistan are responsible for the cases of forced disappearance in Pakistan. However, the law enforcement agencies in Pakistan deny this and insist that many of the missing persons have either joined militant organisations such as the TTP in Afghanistan and other ...
List of cases of law enforcement brutality in Pakistan; Presidency of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq; Q. ... Human rights abuses in Sindh; The State of Bonded Labor in Pakistan; T.
The United Nations Human Rights Chief, Volker Türk said he was “alarmed” by reports of abuse of Afghan refugees in Pakistan amid an ongoing policy of mass deportation, according to a ...
1980 – Communist leader Nazeer Abbasi was one of many who died under interrogation during the martial law of Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq. [1] 2010 – In protests by the Hazara Province Movement, several protesters were shot dead and dozens were injured by Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Police in Abbottabad.
The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) is a rights group that campaigns for accountability for alleged human rights violations committed by the Pakistan Armed Forces.Since its beginning in February 2018, the PTM had faced arbitrary detentions, treason charges against its leaders, and a blanket ban on media coverage of its events in Pakistan.
Adams says that the problems were not "rampant" but they needed to be addressed, and that the severity of human rights issues in Indian-administered Kashmir were "much, much, much greater". [7] Pakistan's Information Minister Tariq Azim Khan rejected the contents of the report and said that Azad Kashmir was free of human rights violations. [7]
In 1995, Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto asked HRCP to investigate the state of lawlessness in Karachi, Pakistan. National Human Rights Commission. While revisiting the draft law on the establishment of the National Human Rights Commission, the Ministry of Human Rights sought and incorporated input from HRCP. Death penalty. HRCP has consistently ...