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 […]
HRCP slams massacre in Karachi bus attack
Lahore, May 13: The barbaric killing of members of the Ismaili community in a bus attack in Karachi is highly condemnable, but it deserves more than mere words of censure and sympathy from the authorities, the political parties and the civil society, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) said on Wednesday. In a statement, […]
کراچی : بس میں ہونے والے قتل وغارت گری کی مذمت
لاہور 13مئی 2015ء پریس ریلیز کراچی میں ایک بس پر حملہ کے نتیجے میں ہونے والے قتل وغارت گری کی شدید مذمت کرتے ہوئے پاکستان کمیشن برائے انسانی حقوق نے کہا ہے کہ ارباب اقتدار، سیاسی جماعتوں اور سول سوسائٹی کی جانب سے اس واقعے کی محظ مذمت، ملامت اور اظہار ہمدردی ہی کافی نہیں۔اسماعیلی […]
HRCP grieved over death of Norwegian ambassador
Lahore, May 8: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has expressed deep sorrow over the death of Norwegian Ambassador Leif H. Larsen, in a helicopter crash in Gilgit-Baltistan on Friday. In a statement, the Commission said: “HRCP is deeply saddened by the death of Lief Larsen and condoles with the Norwegian government and people, his […]
انسانی حقوق کے محافظین کے تحفظ کے لیے مطالبات پر مشتمل منشور کی منظوری
اسلام آباد 07مئی 2015ء پریس ریلیز پاکستان کمیشن برائے انسانی حقوق (ایچ آر سی پی) نے جمعرات کو ایک مشاورت کا اہتمام کیا۔ مشاورت کے اختتام پر 11نکاتی منشور منظور کیا گیا جس میں حکومت سے مطالبہ کیا گیا کہ انسانی حقوق کے محافظین کی سلامتی وتحفظ کو یقینی بنایا جائے اور ان کے کام […]
HRCP event adopts charter of demands for protecting HRDs
Islamabad, May 07: A consultation organised by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) here on Thursday concluded with an 11-point charter of demands calling upon the government to ensure safety and protection for human rights defenders and to facilitate their work. The consultation, attended by a large number of civil society representatives, began with a […]
Indonesia: Planned executions “a shameful stain” for President Widodo
Paris, Jakarta, 24 April 2015 – The planned execution of 10 inmates convicted of drug-related offenses is a shameful stain on President Joko Widodo’s policymaking, FIDH and its member organization KontraS said today. The two organizations reiterate their appeal to President Widodo for a halt to all executions and the commutation of all death sentences. […]
Pakistan: Dismay after assassination of Ms. Sabeen Mahmud in Karachi
Paris-Geneva, 27 April 2015 – The Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders (a joint programme of FIDH and the World Organisation Against Torture OMCT) expresses its dismay over the assassination of Ms. Sabeen Mahmud on 24 April 24 2015 in Karachi, and calls upon Pakistan authorities to investigate and bring the perpetrators of […]
