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(DAWN – Saher Baloch) KARACHI: The repealed Police Order, 2002, which was meant to align police force with the Constitution and law, was a far better framework to govern...
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