Jun 13, 2020: Areas of Sindh have become a battleground for deadly clashes among around a dozen tribes. On a daily basis one or two people are being killed because of perpetual hostility. So far thousands of innocent lives have been ...
Jun 28, 2020: A small ceremony was held this week to lay grounds for the construction of a Hindu temple in Islamabad, which will be called Shri Krishna Temple. The Shri Krishna ‘mandir’ will be Islamabad’s first functional temple for the Hindu ...
In another case, a mother of four children reported to AGHS that her children were taken away illegally from her, including a minor girl. The eldest daughter said that the accused subjected her to physical and sexual abuse. The...
This afternoon some people claiming to be from the ISI barged into my Urdu publisher Maktaba Daniyal offices, confiscated all copies of Urdu translation of A Case of Exploding Mangoes. Threatened the manager, wanted information about our whereabouts. Coming...
MODERATOR:
Saroop Ijaz
Human Rights Watch Lawyer for Pakistan
SPEAKERS:
I.A. Rehman
Award-winning Human Rights Activist
Salman Akram Raja
Advocate, Supreme Court of Pakistan
Maleeka Bokhari
MNA and Parliamentary Secretary Law and Justice, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)
Musadiq Malik
Member of Senate of Pakistan...
On 13th November, 56 year old human rights activist, Idris Khattak was forcibly disappeared in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Khattak had tirelessly worked on enforced disappearances in Pakistan and he was also affiliated with Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, documenting...
Lockdowns have been enforced across the world in an effort to restrict the spread of Coronavirus, as part of social distancing measures. However, in parts of Balochistan, the lockdown seems to be having the opposite of its intended ...
Jun 5, 2020: In addition to the surge in COVID-19 cases in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, hospitals in the province are now struggling to tend to an increasing number of patients due to an acute shortage of necessary equipment, space, and medicines. As a ...
