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Pakistan failing on human rights, claims new HRCP report
[DAWN] An independent watchdog criticised Pakistain's human rights...which are usually entirely different from personal liberty... record over the past year in a new report released on Monday, saying the nation has failed to make progress. The damning report card issued by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistain (HRCP) says people continue to disappear in Pakistain, sometimes because they criticise the establishment and other times because they advocate better relations with India. The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances, per the report, received 868 new cases, of which 555 were settled. The report claims that the blasphemy law continues to be misused, especially against dissidents, with cases in which mere accusations that someone committed blasphemy lead to deadly mob violence. While deaths directly linked to acts of terrorism declined in 2017, the report said attacks against the country's minorities were on the rise. Posted by: Fred 2018-04-17 |
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