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The human rights violations of the Ahmadiyya community has been systematic and state-sponsored. General Zia, the military dictator of Pakistan, went many steps further in 1984, when to gain the support of Islamic fundamentalists in Pakistan, he promulgated the anti-Ahmadiyya Ordinance XX that added Sections 298-B and 298-C in Pakistan Criminal ...
Apart from Human Right Organisations, Baloch separatists themselves have accused each other of being involved in human rights violations. [35] Separatists accuse each other of being involved in extortion, kidnapping, and even raping local Baloch. [35]
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]
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 ...
Pages in category "Human rights abuses in Pakistan" The following 36 pages are in this category, out of 36 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.
Human rights abuses in Kashmir have been perpetrated by various belligerents in the territories controlled by both India and Pakistan since the two countries' conflict over the region began with their first war in 1947–1948, shortly after the partition of British India.
However, the human rights record of Pakistan declined under the dictatorship of the US-supported General Zia. [10] General Zia introduced Sharia Law which led to Islamization of the country. [11] The current regime in Pakistan has been responsible for torture, extrajudicial executions and other human rights violations. [12]
During the first eight months of 2017, roughly "110 nationalist activists and human rights defenders" in Sindh disappeared. [19] The Secretary-General of World Sindhi Congress told the United Nations Human Rights Council on 25 September 2020 that "enforced disappearances of Sindhi people by Pakistan agencies continue unabated. In the last 3 ...