HRCP team to visit Balochistan

Within Two Months from the Same Organization and Area It is the responsibility of the government to ensure that Abdul Waheed Khan projects are continued so that his death will not be in vain On May 13 a well known human rights defender, social ...

ISLAMABAD: Of nearly 75,000 prisoners in jails in Pakistan, around 1,100 are women, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. The misery of the women prisoners is that their families no longer care for them or stay in contact with them ...

LAHORE, May 31: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has expressed alarm and disappointment over a declaration by the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) that DNA test results are not acceptable as primary evidence in rape cases. HRCP called the ...

UK-based advocate and human rights activist Jas Uppal has taken up the case of Indian prisoner Sarabjit Singh, who was killed in Lahore's Kot Lakhpat jail, with the one-man inquiry commission set up by Pakistan to probe the case. In a letter to the probe ...

First they came for the lawyers… News commentator, re Musharraf's sacking of Pakistan judges, 2007 If they remove the fountain of justice, where will the people go? Judge of the Lahore High Court, Pakistan, 2008 Rules established by men who have ...

Pakistan said Thursday that the US carried out 48 drone attacks in the country's tribal region in 2012.The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan said in its annual report that the US had conducted 74 drone strikes in 2011.The report strongly condemned drone ...

LAHORE, May 13: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan election monitors across the country did not find any evidence of systematic rigging on May 11 and urged all political parties to respect the people's verdict and avoid doing anything that ...

LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called on all political parties to respect the May 11 verdict of the people and avoid doing anything that could derail the democratic system. It has emphasised that HRCPs election monitors ...

A NGO has complained to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) against the custodial death of Pakistani prisoner Sanaullah Ranjay demanding a judicial inquiry in the death and Rs 25 lakh as compensation for the kin.