Pakistan, with 324 executions in 2015, ranks third worldwide – report
REUTERS – Krista Mahr Pakistan hanged 324 people last year to rank third worldwide in terms of executions, but the vast majority of those put to death had...
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Torture has become a lifestyle in Pakistan: Asian Human Rights Commission
MERINEWS – Anjan Kumar Samal To state that torture is endemic and rampant in Pakistan would be an understatement; torture has in fact become a lifestyle, a norm that...
Remembering Aftab: Aftab Bahadur’s killing is not only tragic, it is perverse
(THE GUARDIAN – Clive Stafford Smith) Aftab Bahadur was hanged at Central Jail Lahore (Kot Lakhpat), in the early hours of this morning. He was executed for a crime...
Pakistan and the Rights of the Child
THE NATION – Zainab Zeeshan Malik On 24-25 May, the Government of Pakistan was reviewed by the Committee on the Rights of the Child, regarding its implementation of the...
Torture rampant in Pakistan jails, police cells
(NEWS LENS PAKISTAN – Durdana Najam) Zainab Malik, heads advocacy at Justice Project Pakistan (JPP), told News Lens Pakistan that Ahmad’s death was just one example of custodial torture...
The Time Will Come When I Die – But I Pray I Will Live Until My Natural Death
THE HUFFINGTON POST – Abdul Basit Abdul Basit has been on death row in Pakistan since 2009. In 2010, he contracted tubercular meningitis, and was left paralyzed from the...
Special report: Are new anti-terror laws an exercise in futility?
DAWN – Malik Asad In an effort to improve the laws and institutions dealing with prosecution of terrorists, the PML-N government took a number of measures, such as...
Dr Suddle terms existing police laws ‘repressive’
(DAWN – Saher Baloch) KARACHI: The repealed Police Order, 2002, which was meant to align police force with the Constitution and law, was a far better framework to govern...
Disowned Migrants
THE NATION The government has failed to provide legal assistance to citizens detained abroad- many languishing miles away from home for several years. In the latest hearing of the...
Govt reply in overseas Pakistanis case disappointing
THE NEWS The Lahore High Court Justice Mansoor Ali Shah on Thursday expressed disappointment on reply submitted by the federal government and observed that the reply of government showed...