Tag: Human Rights

  • IDP Crisis: A tragedy of errors and Cover-ups – HRCP

    The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has published a very comprehensive report on the IDP situation in NWFP titled A tragedy of errors and Cover-ups:The IDPs and outcome of military actions in FATA and Malakand Division its quite a comprehensive report. I have taken the liberty to extract some critical sections which caught my…

  • UK Border Agency deports a Pakistani National to Afghanistan

    A young Pakistani born and bred in village Dhok Gangaal, Post Office Adiala, Tehsil & District Rawalpindi, Irfan Faisal son of Multan Khan who was born on 5 December 1978 holding a machine readable Pakistani passport number AC8911731 which was issued by Rawalpindi office on 12 September 2005 and is valid until 11 September 2010…

  • Arundhati Roy at Karachi Press Club

    Arundhati Roy speaks at the Karachi Press Club on Friday at the Womens Action Forum Seminar titled Women to Reclaim Public Space

  • Women to Reclaim Public Spaces – A Seminar by WAF

    A Programme of Defiance & Resistance by the Womens Action Forum Karachi Press Club 8th May, 2009, 5:30 – 7:30pm Womens Action Forums invites you to a programme highlighting the implications of Talibanisation for women, artists, and minorities in particular, and to our country in general. The Talibans have created terror through slaughtering of people,…

  • Protest Demo Against the Feudalism in Khaskheli

    Today 28 April a protest demonstration was held against Sanghars influential feudal lord Waryam Faqeer by the Joint Action Committee (JAC) Karachi. JAC is a compilations of many civil society organizations, LPP, AP, PILER, HRCP. Shirkat Gah, Aurat Foundation, Takleeq Foundation, etc. The protesters demonstrated for arrest of feudal Waryam Faqeer and appealed to the…

  • The Forthcoming Horror in Swat

    This is an update on the Swat situation which was posted onto the Peoples Resistance Mailing List by Dr. Riaz Ahmed on 24th April [three days back]. I believe this analysis is worth reading and understanding the ground reality from the people in swat and their concerns surrounding Sufi Mohammad and the possible incursions by…

  • ABC: Torture Tape implicates UAE Sheikh

    I seriously don’t know how to react, on one hand we here in Pakistan are fighting a battle against the illiterate Talibans who continue on their rampage of brutality releasing video after video of flogging, beheadings and even suicide bombings, but it shocks me to watch the ‘educated’ stoop exactly to the same level, now…

  • Death of a student at LUMS

    Today at LUMS, 3 students went out of the gates and were smashed into by a drunk driver in a Pajero. One student, Waheeb Alam, has been pronounced dead, another has suffered major injuries, while the third one is relatively OK [Muhammad Majid & Sohaib Tariq]. As usual, the hospital had to deny medical aid…

  • Baluchistan, a golden goose that could have been

    Guest Blog by Insouciant Baluchistan, which earned the status of a separate province only in 1970, comprises of 44% of the land of Pakistan. Buried with vast resources of natural gas, copper and gold, it has a unique geo-political importance in the region. The landlocked Afghanistan and energy rich Central Asia is in its north,…

  • Protests in Karachi & Lahore against the Flogging incident

    A number of protests are being organized across the country to condemn the flogging incident in SWAT where a young woman was flogged in public for being seen with another man on the street KARACHI Labor Party Pakistan & Peoples Resistance LOCATION: Press Conference and protest at Karachi Press Club TIME: 4:00pm on Saturday 4th…

  • No Honor in Killing – Making Visible Buried Truth

    This is an art exhibition of 5 victims of the brutal Nasirabad honor killings it is an attempt to keep tehir memory alive via art and dialogue and seek justice for these women whose murder outrages teh entire nation Art Exhibition and Dialogue ‘No Honor in Killing, Making Visible Buried Truth’ Location: Benazir Gallery Institute…

  • Mukhtar Mai being pressured by Federal Minister to drop case

    Mukhtar Mai is due to appear in the Supreme Court of Pakistan tomorrow on 11th February for a hearing on her outstanding case. Since a few days reports have been emerging that she was under pressure from high level authorities to drop the case, specifically Federal Defence Production Minister Abdul Qayyum Jatoi elected from Muzaffargarh…

  • The Oppressed Have Become the Oppressors

    After the downfall of Nazi Germany, the German people “washed their hands” of any complicity in the Jewish extermination camps by pleading ignorance. Lower rank German soldiers excused themselves by saying that they were only following military orders! Today, in the Holy Land, the Zionist Jews, with the support of the majority of Israel’s population…

  • Support the release of Israeli Shministim’s

    Shministim – are 16, 17, 18 and 19 year old students studying in the 12th grade – these are a new breed of conscientious objectors in Israel and right now they are taking a stand. They believe in a better, more peaceful future for themselves and for Israelis and Palestinians, and they are refusing to…

  • Baluchi women in military torture cells, sexual slavery, Musharraf accused

    Asian Human Rights Commission has in early January published a report which reveals a shocking trend in Baluchistan, women who have been struggling for the greater autonomy of Baluchistan have been arrested by state agencies and have been forced into sex slavery under the custody of the Pakistan Army. AHRC had earlier also published another…