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PAKISTAN INDIA PEOPLES’ FORUM FOR PEACE & DEMOCRACY (India)
PRESS STATEMENT May 14, 2014 Pakistan-India Peoples’ Forum for Peace & Democracy (PIPFPD) strongly condemns the brutal attack in Karachi where 47 people including women were gunned down. The attackers targetted an Ismaili community bus. Jundullah, an anti-shia militia and a splinter group of Tehrik-e-Taliban, has claimed responsibility for the attack. The killing […]
Pakistan: Arrest, Prosecute Sectarian Killers
(New York, May 14, 2015) – The Pakistan government should investigate and bring to justice those responsible for the May 13, 2015 attack on members of the Ismaili Shia community in Karachi that killed 43 people, Human Rights Watch said today. An extremist group called Jundullah, a splinter group of the Tehreek-e-Taliban (TTP), or Pakistani […]
Karachi incident calls for appropriate and immediate action to counter religiously motivated terrorism: CHRE
Centre for Human Rights Education- Pakistan, an organization working to promote religious tolerance and respect of religious diversity has strongly condemned the barbaric attack on the Ismaili community (a group of Shia Muslims) in which at least 46 died and 24 injured including children reportedly. Mr. Samson Salamat, Director of the Centre for […]
Custodial abuse: Alleged torture cells at police stations, internment centres condemned
PESHAWAR: Human rights activists on Monday said there was no justification for torture in any situation, whether a country was in the state of war or in other crisis. Addressing a consultation organised by the Potohar Organisation for Development Advocacy (Poda) at Peshawar Press Club, activists were critical of the police department for being the main […]
Cops booked, suspended over ‘death in custody’
BAHAWALNAGAR: The alleged death of a man in police custody sparked a massive protest here, while three policemen were suspended and the A Division police lodged a first information report against them on the complaint of the victim’s brother. Saddar Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) Ismail Mohal had arrested Iftikhar alias Goga around two weeks ago over […]
Appeal from the INSEC Chairperson, Nepal
The devastation caused by earthquake on and after April 25 is massive. More than 7,000 lost their lives and the number is increasing. 39 districts are hit out of which 11 are severely affected. Several historical monuments recognized as world heritage by UNESCO have crumbled. There are always limits to our capacity to mitigate the […]
Torture
A man died of alleged police torture in the lock-up of the Cantonment Police Station. Police had arrested the suspect, identified as Azam, in an abduction case. During investigation, police claimed, the suspect suffered a heart attack and he was rushed to the emergency ward of the Bahawal Victoria Hospital (BVH) where doctors pronounced him […]
