In June 2006 a five member bench of Supreme Court judges ordered police in Kashmore, Sindh province to arrest a PPP leader and national assembly member, Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani, for involvement in Sang Chatti (offering young girls as blood money). He was accused, along with others, of offering a total of five young girls [...]

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Several months ago eight women, three of them minors, were buried alive in Balochistan, reportedly by the same men. Those responsible have close ties to the provincial government and to the police, and investigations into the case have gone through a Kafkan array of delays and setbacks. For information on these cases please refer here. [...]

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Groups from 82 Countries Seek Urgent Reforms
As UN member states begin three days of debate on the rights of the child, more than 300 nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) from 82 countries called on the UN General Assembly to take urgent action to end executions for crimes committed by children, Human Rights Watch said today.
The vast majority [...]

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Tens of thousands of civilians require immediate international humanitarian assistance as a result of escalating fighting on both sides of the Afghanistan-Pakistan border since the beginning of August, Amnesty International said today.
More than 20,000 people have fled from Pakistan to eastern Afghanistan to avoid fighting between government forces and pro-Taleban insurgents in Pakistan’s Federally Administered [...]

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While welcoming the release of 11-year-old Pakistani-American, Muhammad Ahmad, from the murky realm of US custody in Afghanistan, the Asian Human Rights Commission is still waiting for information on where and why the child was detained and for how long, plus information on his current condition and official status.
No information about the child’s missing younger [...]

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With the swearing in of Pakistan’s president, Asif Ali Zardari, the Pakistani government should act immediately to reverse the country’s human rights record.
Amnesty International urged Mr Zardari and his party’s government to:

reveal the fate of hundreds of victims of “enforced disappearances”

reinstate all the judges illegally deposed by former president Pervez Musharraf in November 2007

commute the [...]

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Iran, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Pakistan, and Yemen Executed 32 for Crimes Committed as Children
Ending executions for crimes committed by children in just five countries would result in universal implementation of the prohibition on the juvenile death penalty, Human Rights Watch said in a report released today. Governments should use next week’s United Nations General Assembly [...]

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Children of Dr. Afia Siddiqui are removed from Bagram and their whereabouts are unknown and Dr. Afia is denied permission to attend court proceedings
The Asian Human Rights Commission has received information that the two children of Dr. Afia Sidiqui, who is currently in custody in the United States on charges of assault and attempting to [...]

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Saturday 30 August marked the 25th anniversary of the International Day of the Disappeared. Irene Khan, Secretary General of Amnesty International, calls on Pakistan’s new government to publish details on those held in secret detention and shed light on the fate of many disappeared citizens.
Pakistan’s new ruling coalition may have successfully forced Pervez Musharraf to [...]

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The human remains of the five women who were buried alive in Balochistan province have been desecrated by the wild animals and the provincial government has done nothing to provide a decent burial for these victims of honour killings. The provincial government, through its home secretary, has denied the incident reported in the Asian Human [...]

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