Posts Tagged ‘Human Rights’

We have previously posted several articles on LUBP highlighting the plight of the people of Gilgit-Baltistan including the violation of their rights through the proposed Diamer-Bhasha Dam project. We note with concern that two innocent persons were killed yesterday by police while protesting for their rights in Chilas. We express our solidarity [...]

Family members of Shazia Masih, including, from left, her sister; her mother, Nasreen Bibi; and her aunt and brother. The girl died while working as a maid. Photo: NY Times Lahore: February 13, 2010. (PCP) Pakistan Muslim League Nawaz group PML(N) and bureaucracy of the Punjab government bulldozed justice in Pakistan with fabricated medical [...]

Va la-qad karramna banee Aadam (Al-Qur’an, 17/70) - but, alas, our secret agencies know not! Early last month, when the government’s defiance of the Supreme Court ruling on Musharraf’s notorious presidential decree NRO had shaken the country, the Supreme Court opened up another front. This time the adversary was far more [...]

Renowned columnist Munno Bhai once asked in one of his columns that when ultimately countries have to sit at the negotiating table after wars, why do not they do this before the war to save thousands of lives. Nowadays the world is in so much disaster that we are hearing news of wars and wars from all over the world, and it is just not killing [...]

We Pakistanis idealize them. Everything they do is sacred just like this beating the UAE prince gave to an Afghani. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I81ArtQgn8

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE - AHRC-STM-241-2009 December 8, 2009 - A Statement by the Asian Human Rights Commission PAKISTAN: Corruption cases against Generals, Air Marshals and Admirals are the test of an independent judiciary Successive governments and courts are conspicuously avoiding the trying of corruption cases against the former top [...]

AWWAMIYA: The street graffiti is so brazenly political in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province that it hardly seems like Saudi Arabia at all, Reuters reports. ‘Down with the government’, ‘Death to the traitors’ read the messages on the walls of Awwamiya, a small town in the eastern region on the Gulf coast where most of the conservative [...]

Dawn Editorial Saturday, 17 Oct, 2009Suicide and fidayeen attacks are occurring with such numbing regularity that it is difficult to pause and reflect on the fate of the victims and their families because the next attack is only days, or even hours, away. –File photoDrowned out by the orgy of militant violence unleashed across the country is a [...]

Do you know where God lives. God lives in that old cottage which provided the jhugga (shirt) to the women undressed by the religion / morality brigade in Phoolnagar.Do you know where the devil lives? Go no further from the CM house in Raiwind, not very far from the markaz of the Tablighi (more...)

By Qudrat Ullah The Gojra inferno has once again highlighted the need to reassess our treatment of Pakistan’s most potential asset- the non Muslim Pakistanis and decide the future strategy in the light of past mistakes. One positive aftermath of this sad frenzy is that the media has extensively discussed our policy (if there is any) of [...]

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Govt. of ‘Kufr’ could carry on, but not that of tyranny: NawazMarch 01, 2009LAHORE: Muslim League-N Quaid Mian Nawaz Sharif has said that the country was beset with several problems, which led him to enter into an agreement with President Zardari.Addressing Jamia Naimia here, Nawaz Sharif said that the people earlier used to fear President [...]

Less grey A little more colour and substance has been added to the ghostly form of Dr Aafia Siddiqui, currently languishing in an American detention facility and said to be suffering severely from mental illness. An illness so severe that it is not possible for her to appear before the court (more...)

Saudi Monstrosity and International SilenceBy Huda JawadFebruary 04, 2009 "Information Clearinghouse" -- - For the past several weeks, dozens of family members have been reaching out to the Iraqi government in a fragile gesture meant to save the lives of their sons. In January 2009, Saudi courts convicted 25 young Iraqi men of trespassing into [...]

Our heroes and heroinesON Wednesday, the UN General Assembly conferred the prestigious UN Human Rights Award on the late Benazir Bhutto. Her son, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, received the award from the UN Assembly chief Miguel D’Escoto Brockman. Benazir Bhutto deserved the award not because she was the Muslim world’s first woman prime minister but [...]

Wednesday, November 26, 2008By our correspondentWASHINGTON: The United Nations has decided to confer its top human rights award posthumously on former prime minister Benazir Bhutto for promoting democracy and fundamental freedoms in Pakistan, informed sources at the UN Headquarters said on Tuesday.The award will be announced on December 10, the UN [...]