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THE latest (for November 2020) monthly press release of the Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances offers us sufficient information to show that enforced disappearances should continue to attract the attention of the government and civil society as one of the topmost matters of (...)
Husband says foul play cannot be ruled out after body of 37-year-old dissident discovered in Toronto
A dissident Pakistani human rights activist living in exile in Canada has been found dead in Toronto after going missing.
Karima Baloch, 37, was granted asylum in Canada in 2016 after her work (...)
THE government seems to have decided to take a great leap backward with its proposed punishment for persons found guilty of rape, for which the penalty even at present is death.
It has decided to add to the Pakistan Penal Code section 376 B which says: “Exceptional first offenders or repeat (...)
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, expresses concern over the issuing of a detention order against Dr. Ammar Ali Jan for attending the Student Solidarity March in Lahore on 28 November 2020.
The peaceful protest was held to highlight the issues (...)
Many populist authoritarian regimes in the Third World have been violating human rights, clamping down on protests, charging intellectuals, journalists and poets by misusing anti-terror and sedition laws. Recently we witnessed the murder of a peasant leader in Philippines. India’s majoritarian (...)
Journalists across various cities protested on Thursday against the siege of Dawn’s Islamabad offices by a mob earlier this week.
The mob on Monday had staged a demonstration against the publication of a news report regarding the origins of the London Bridge attacker who stabbed two persons to (...)
LAHORE: Police have registered cases against the organisers and participants of the recently held Student Solidarity March on sedition charges and arrested Alamgir Wazir, one of the participants.
The Civil Lines police on behalf of the state registered a case on sedition charges against the (...)
Lahore/Islamabad, 29 November. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) deplores the government’s response to the Students’ Solidarity March, being held on Friday 29 November across cities and towns in Pakistan.
HRCP is alarmed by reports that students supporting the march are being (...)
After a dozen of hearings in Kharqhamar check post attack case , on 18 September Peshawar High Court’s Bannu bench accepted the bail pleas of MNA’s, Ali Wazir and Mohsin Dawar [see The News article below]. The MNAs have been asked to provide surety bonds worth Rs1 million each. They have been (...)
On May 26, the army fired on a non-violent protest by the Pashtun Defence Movement (PTM) in Waziristan, killing at least 13 people and injuring dozens.
Ali Wazeer. Photo: Ali Wazeer/Twitter.
Two PTM members of the Pakistan National Assembly, Ali Wazeer and Mohsin Dawar, who led the protest, (...)
When David Miranda intervened in the Committee on Foreign Relations and National Defense, he thought Ali Wazeer had been released. This information was wrong. What happened is that Ali Wazeer was presented at an anti-terrorist court and was then being sent by the judge to Peshawar Jail. It is (...)
We, as feminists who uphold the peaceful resolution of conflict, stand in solidarity with the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) in their struggle for fundamental rights. We condemn the violence that took place on May 26th in the Khar Qamar area of North Waziristan in which 13 civilians were (...)
Yesterday was an explosive day at the national parliament. Bilawal Bhutto, son of Benazhir Bhutto who heads the Pakistan Peoples Party had written a two-page letter addressed to the speaker of the Assembly to order for the production of Ali Wazeer, from jail to the National Parliament on (...)
South Asians for Human Rights (SAHR), a regional network of human rights defenders, condemns the use of live ammunition by the Pakistan army against activists of the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) in North Waziristan.
SAHR has learnt that the Pakistan security forces opened fire on several (...)
In the morning of Sunday, May 26, 2019, the Pakistani army openend fire on people protesting against its brutal operations in the region bordering Afghanistan. Videos show unarmed, peaceful protesters cheering and chanting slogans when their leaders, Pakistan National Assembly members Ali Wazir (...)
On May 26, 2019 a peaceful procession in the Waziristan region led by Ali Wazir and Mohsin Dawar, both Members of National Assembly (MNAs), was fired upon by army men, leaving at least 13 dead and over forty injured.
Ali Wazir and Mohsin Dawar were elected as Members of the National Assembly (...)
Pakistan has army brutally beaten Pashtun’s Peaceful protester Ali Wazir. Wazir represents the voice of a nation. Pashtoons strongly condemn such barbaric and brutal use of force by Pakistan Army and request international community and United Nations Security Council to intervene and demand (...)
Ali Wazir and Mohsin Dawar, both members of Pakistan’s National Assembly, have been arrested by the military the morning of Sunday, 26 May 2019 . An international solidarity campaign is launched.
At the present moment in time the whereabouts of comrade Ali Wazir, MNA elected in July 2018 from (...)
The mobilization for the release of Ali Wazeer, PTM Member of Parliament, is quickly taking momentum in Pakistan.
Arrested parliamentarians Ali Wazir has become the top trend on Twitter a day after his arrest on 28th May 2019. Tens of thousands participated in the Twitter company (...)
The latest information about the incident happened in North Waziristan on May 26 has confirmed that Ali Wazir has been transferred to the Peshawar jail and his foot has not been fractured. Recent Videos
Mass communication is great power in these days and the state is using and controlling it (...)
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