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PAKISTAN: Six more disappeared persons extra judicially killed in Balochistan

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the bodies of six disappeared persons have been found in different areas of Balochistan. The bodies had bullet wo...

PAKISTAN: Acid attacks — women and girls — PowerPoint 

An article from the Women’s UN Report Network forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: Acid attacks — women and girls — PowerPoint Dear friends, The Asian Human Right...

SOUTH ASIA: A poem for Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary — some gouge out the eyes of others 

An article from the Sri Lanka Guardian forwarded by the Asian Human Rights Commission SOME GOUGE OUT THE EYES OF OTHERS Basil Fernando Cry, Tagore, cry. Your nation knows you not. Yes, they have cerem...

SOUTH ASIA: A poem for Tagore’s 150th birth anniversary — some gouge out the eyes of others 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from the Sri Lanka Guardian, written by Basil Fernando. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- An article f...

PAKISTAN: A human rights defender was booked on murder charges for raising the cases of scheduled caste Hindus

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a human rights defender, who belongs to the Kohli group, a scheduled caste Hindu, was booked in a murder case whe...

PAKISTAN: Another Azad Kashmiri becomes the victim of ISI butchery 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from Kashmir National Party, Azad Kashmir Chapter. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong &...

PAKISTAN: Sindh government provides protection to the killers of the Fisherfolk Forum activists instead of the victims and their families 

The activists of the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum and members of civil society was brutally baton charged and manhandled by the police in front of the Provincial Assembly building. Twelve protestors were...

PAKISTAN: Acid attacks — five men and seven women attacked during the first four months of 2011 

Naghma Iqtidar Acid throwing is a form of violence in which a perpetrator attacks his victim by throwing acid on his or her body. The attack may result in damaging the skin tissues, often exposing and...

PAKISTAN: Young Hindu was abducted from police station by a religious mob and his whereabouts are unknown. Police refuse to investigate

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a young Hindu scheduled cast man was abducted by a mob of hundreds of persons from a police station. The police s...

PAKISTAN: Petition to President Zadarai urging the arrest of killers of fisherfolk activists 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following open letter from the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF) to President of Pakistan. Asian Human Rights Commissi...

PAKISTAN: Military threatens food security of farmers by illegal land grabbing in Punjab 

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has learned that the food security of peasants in the Punjab has been threatened by illegal land grabbing by the military for decades. The peasan...

PAKISTAN: Five more disappeared persons bullet riddled bodies are found in Balochistan

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the bodies of five disappeared persons have been found in different areas of Balochistan. The bodies bore bullet ...

PAKISTAN: Eleven persons were killed in the name of honour during the first four months of 2011 in Sindh province 

Naghma Iqtidar  An honor killing is the murder of a family member by his or her relatives due to the belief of wrongdoing. These wrongdoings are decided by the family if they think that the dishonor ...

PAKISTAN: After Osama-the Church is scared. Revenge attacks will come as no surprise 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following article from CatholicHerald.co.uk , written by Nasir Saeed. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- FAn article from...

PAKISTAN: Call for immediate arrest of the murderers of two activist fishermen and stop the land grabbing

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received updated information regarding two human rights leaders murdered on May 5 by notorious land mafia from the ruling party, Pakistan P...

PAKISTAN: Agencies’ role in JSMM activists’ murder must be probed: HRCP

Dear friends, The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) wishes to forward to you the following press release from Human Rights Commission of Pakistan. Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong —...

PAKISTAN: The peasant women were shot and injured by the gangsters of speaker of a provincial assembly; police files charges against the villagers

Dear friends,  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the son of the provincial speaker of the Punjab assembly and his henchmen attacked a village and fired upon the w...

PAKISTAN: Child slavery — 20,000 children with small heads are run by the shrines for beggary 

Malik Ayub Sumbal  No one knows about the reality and sad saga of these greenish veiled and shaved head individuals carried by their masters with a chain about their necks to get the sympathies of th...

PAKISTAN: The growing situation of the Religious Intolerance in Gujranwala 

Dear friends, We wish to share with you the following statement from Centre for Legal Aid assistance and settlement (CLAAS). Asian Human Rights Commission Hong Kong ————- FOR I...

PAKISTAN: Extra Judicial killings in Balochistan — 25 journalists, writers, human rights defenders, students and activists were killed during the first four months of this year 

24 activists were among those who were extra judicially killed after their abduction by uniformed and plain clothe persons The extra judicial killings of the journalists, writers, human rights defende...