Source: The Associated Press
KARACHI, Pakistan (AP) — A Pakistani court has freed the parents of a 5-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy on bail a day after police raided an illegal wedding for the children.
Police arrested the parents and a cleric preparing to perform the ceremony before 100 guests in Karachi on Friday.
On Saturday, a […]

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Article/Report,                                                                               
                         24th June 2008
Dear Companions
  
I am readdressing with humble concern the report on the subject of the heaviest issue.
There is a necessity of immediate attention, accuracy, consideration and examinations of the conditions heretofore exposed.
On the fifty-fifth session, 7th September 2001, 11th plenary meeting, the UN General Assembly adopted the Resolution 55/282.
The General Assembly […]

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Source: The Guardian

By Declan Walsh
It started with a dead dog, escalated into a tit-for-tat tribal war, and has now reached a grotesque climax with the exchange of 15 child brides.
Pakistani human rights activists are outraged at reports that a long-running blood feud in a remote corner of western Baluchistan province has been resolved by the […]

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I am extremely pissed-off after reading an article published in The Guardian by Declan Walsh today!
You would be too… at the insensitivity… the height of illiteracy… at such preposterous traditions that, for centuries, have marred the lives of so many… women and young girls in particular!
When will we evolve and shed off these inhuman, man-made […]

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Uninhabited deserts, barren land and an under-developed region going through insurgency for long – this is what I knew about Baluchistan before setting my foot there. There has been a curiosity somewhere inside me to know the details but it never grew strong enough to make a trip to the province. A few of us […]

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Source: Times of India
AMRITSAR: In a major breather for Sarabjit Singh, the Indian prisoner on death row in Pakistan, Islamabad on Monday further deferred his hanging by another 21 days.
Sarabjit was scheduled to be hanged on May 1, after president Pervez Musharraf had earlier deferred his hanging — initially scheduled for April 1.
The reason given […]

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Source: Teeth Maestro
The May 18 Memorial Foundation in Gwangju, Korea proclaimed Mr. Muneer A. Malik as the winner for the 2008 Gwangju Prize for Human Rights.
Mr. Muneer A. Malik was the former President of the Supreme Court Bar Association who has played an enormous role in the struggle of the lawyers, judges and the rest […]

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United Nations Human Rights Council and former human rights minister Ansar Burney who played a key role in the recent release of another Indian man after decades in a Pakistani prison,has promised to review Sarabjit Singh’s case.The UN official has a broader goal of reviewing the cases of Indian prisoners held in Pakistan jail and […]

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Source: Punjab Newsline
JAGMOHAN SINGH
AMRITSAR: The Pakistan’s most renowned human rights activist and United Nations Human Rights Council Advisory Committee Ansar Burney Wednesday lashed at the visa policy of India and Pakistan.
Burny who has arrived Wednesday India through the land route of Indo – Pak Attari Check Post here, on the special invitation extended by Punjab’s […]

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Source: AFP
LONDON - Britain for the first time has included Pakistan on a list of countries of concern over human rights, saying there had been “very little progress” towards pledged improvements
Pakistan featured on a list of 21 “major countries of concern” like China, Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Zimbabwe in the Foreign Office’s Human Rights […]

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Source: The Times of India
AMRITSAR: Even as India on Friday expressed gratitude to Pakistan for putting off hanging of Sarabjit Singh, Pakistan is likely to hand over the body of Laxman, an Indian prisoner who died in Landhi jail of Karachi to India. On March 10, India had handed over the body of Pakistani national […]

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Source: The Hindu
Nirupama Subramanian
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Pakistani media: Mehmood was tortured in jail
“He was not provided consular access”
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ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Wednesday said it was “deeply shocked and angered” at the death of a Pakistani prisoner in India, and asked for an explanation of the charges under which he was held and the circumstances of his death.
The body of […]

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Source: Daily Times
* Report says major human rights problems included restrictions on citizens’ right to change their government, extra-judicial killings, torture, and disappearances
By Khalid Hasan
WASHINGTON: The human rights situation worsened during 2007, stemming primarily from President Pervez Musharraf’s decision to impose a 42-day state of emergency, suspend the Constitution and dismiss superior court judges, according […]

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Source: AFP
LAHORE, Pakistan (AFP) — Pakistan late Monday released an Indian man who spent 35 years languishing on death row on espionage charges, jail officials said.
“Kashmir Singh has been released. He was received by Human Rights Minister Ansar Burney,” Bashir Ahmed, deputy superintendent of Kot Lakhpat Jail in Lahore, told AFP.
Singh, 61, who now sports […]

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Around 60-80% of the people of Pakistan are demanding the “Islami Nizam”. These figures are not produced only by a local journalist but also from many international research groups. Then where is the democracy? Why can’t their voices be heard? Where are those people that can understand the cause of instability in my country? Where are […]

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Source: Dawn
Losing all hopes in the PCO-dictated judiciary for the recovery of their dear ones allegedly in the custody of agencies for the last five years, relatives of these missing persons have started finding other means for their solicitation.
A delegation of the aggrieved families, assembled at the platform of Defence of Human Rights, called on […]

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Source: Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
[January 23, 2008] The Board of Directors of the Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is pleased to announce that it has decided to grant its 3rd Asian Human Rights Defender Award jointly to Muneer Malik, former President of the Pakistan Supreme Court Bar Association, together with his successor, Choudhry […]

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Source: Dawn
A head constable, who was serving as traffic in charge here, has been posted as an in-charge SHO of a police station in Mithi, district head quarters of Tharparkar. The new in-charge SHO Allah Jurio Saher, reportedly a Pakistan Muslim League sympathizer, got it announced through ‘drum beating’ on Tuesday for the information […]

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Source: The Star
500 people have disappeared since country became front line for war on terror
RAWALPINDI, Pakistan–Amina Masood Janjua keeps a picture of her husband in her purse, another on her cellphone and a third in her mind – the way he looked the last day she saw him, July 30, 2005.

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Source: Rise of Pakistan
By Misha Rehman
In the aftermath of the bomb blast in Lahore, where do we stand in our own country?
For some like Marx, history is a linear progression-from feudalism to capitalism and so on. For the colonizers and now imperialists, man evolved from savages to barbarians to the civilized. Darwin spoke of mankind […]

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Source: Teeth Maestro
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), along with other civil society groups, will be observing December 10 (Universal Human Rights Day), as black day. The idea is to highlight the unprecedented human rights abuses by the government against the people and against all sections of civil society in 2007, including curbs on […]

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WASHINGTON, Nov 10: Human rights activists and Pakistani-Americans demonstrated outside the White House during the weekend to demand an immediate end to emergency rule in Pakistan.

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Source: The Washington Post 
By Afsin Yurdakul
‘’I can’t speak for too long on the phone,’’ Asma Jahangir said in a calm, determined tone, ‘‘the military might cut it off.’’ Nonetheless, Pakistan’s leading human rights lawyer and

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