PAKISTAN
Title:
Human Rights Case No. 20107-G/2013 (Action on News clipping in the daily “Dawn” dated 26.05.2013 regarding incident of burning of school van in Gujrat)
Court:
Supreme Court of Pakistan
Citation:
Human Rights...
PAKISTAN
Title:
S.M.C. No. 1 of 2014 and others (Suo moto actions regarding suicide bomb attack of 222.9.2013 on the Church in Peshawar and regarding threats being given to Kalash tribe and Ismailies in Chitral)
Court:
Supreme Court of...
Despite international condemnation, children can be sentenced to death, life imprisonment and corporal punishment in countries around the world.
With partners, CRIN is campaigning to end these human rights violations. One key element of the...
The reports looks at how the US drone programme in Pakistan has caused large amounts of militants to relocate to other areas of the country. In turn, this relocation has brought radicalisation, violence and crime to the regions of Pakistan where...
[19 May 2014] -
Minority communities in Pakistan have long had a raw deal. Accounting for just 10 percent of this country’s population of 180 million, they are no strangers to marginalisation, discrimination or even...
Domestic buildings have been hit by drone strikes more than any other type of target in the CIA’s 10-year campaign in the tribal regions of northern Pakistan, new research reveals.
By way of contrast, since 2008, in neighbouring Afghanistan...
On 7 May, Mr. Rashid Rehman Khan, a Supreme Court advocate, board member and former Chairperson of the Society for the Protection of the Rights of the Child (SPARC) was murdered by unidentified gunmen in his office for defending a university...
[30 April 2014] -
The Sindh Assembly has become the country’s first elected assembly to have passed a bill on child marriages that places a ban on marriage of children under 18 years and makes its violation punishable with rigorous...
Introduction
The conflict in North Waziristan
Balochistan
Sectarian and religious conflict
Kashmir
Sources
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The Islamic Republic of Pakistan was created in 1947, out of the partition of the Indian sub-continent, and has been divided...
[7 April 2014] - Mohammad Musa might not be old enough to have taken his first step or sounded his first word, but that has not stopped a Pakistani court from charging the nine-month-old boy with attempted murder.
The infant, along with his...
