Tag: Karachi press club
Sindh and Balochistan tormented by enforced disappearances
Aug. 05, 2020: Rafique Umrani was a tailor by profession and a father of five. But for his family he might as well be dead. On September 17, 2017, Umrani was abducted by plain-clothed officials from Nazar Street, Larkana, and to ...
Journalists outraged by Rangers entry in Karachi Press Club
Jul 29, 2020: The governing body of the Karachi Press Club (KPC) has fiercely condemned the manner in which the Pakistan Rangers personnel barged into the premises of the KPC. The historic building of KPC, they said, has been the ...
SINDH: A victim of enforced disappearances
Twenty year old Aqib Chandio was abducted from his home in Gulshan-e-Hadeed, a neighborhood in the Malir district of Karachi in the early hours of Tuesday, July 7, 2020, by plainclothes men. Prior to this latest incident, he had been forcibly picked up on May 30, 2018, before being released a year later. It had only been 9 months since he had come back when unknown people whisked away from the young man yet again.
Not without my sons – A mother’s battle for custody
Jun 25, 2020: Kausar Leghari is a woman who is desperate for the custody of her children and for this she has been protesting outside Karachi Press Club for days. Years ago, Leghari had been a victim of domestic violence. Her husband, Ali Ahmed, ...
5000 polio vaccinators fired from jobs for ‘undesirable’ performance
Jun 6, 2020: On June 1, hundreds of community-based vaccinators of the polio eradication program rallied outside the Karachi Press Club to protest against the termination of their jobs. In 2016, over 14,000 vaccinators were hired with the assistance ...