human rights

Lahore, March 26 Over 33,000 Afghan nationals, including women and children, have been deported from the Punjab province of Pakistan during the ongoing crackdown launched against illegal Afghans last year, police said on Thursday.Punjab Inspector General of Police (IGP) Abdul Kareem said in a...

March 26, New Delhi – The United Nations (UN) General Assembly designated the transatlantic African slave trade as "the gravest crime against humanity" on Wednesday, despite opposition from the United States and some European countries.In a move that advocates hailed as a step towards healing...

New Delhi, March 26 Observing that dowry deaths are a severe stain on society, the Supreme Court has stated that despite legal prohibitions, this practice continues to result in the unnatural deaths of thousands of women.A bench of justices JB Pardiwala and Vijay Bishnoi made the observation...

The National Human Rights Commission has issued notices to the Chief Secretary and the Director General of Prisons, Chhattisgarh, regarding the reported deaths of 285 inmates in various prisons across the state over the past four years. Taking the matter suo motu, the Commission has requested a...

March 26, New Delhi: Bangladesh observed Genocide Day on Wednesday in solemn remembrance of the victims of the brutal military crackdown carried out by Pakistani forces on the night of March 25, 1971, under the codename Operation Searchlight.In his address, Prime Minister Rahman described the...

Dhaka, March 25 Bangladeshi Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has termed the March 25, 1971 genocide as a "pre-planned" massacre and appealed to build a state and society of "equality, human dignity and social justice," in the spirit of the Liberation War.Referring to it as "one of the most...

Quetta, March 25 – A leading human rights organization expressed serious concerns on Wednesday over the continued enforced disappearances of Baloch women at the hands of Pakistani forces.As atrocities against civilians continue to rise in Balochistan, Paank, the Baloch National Movement's...

Kabul, March 25 – Richard Bennett, the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights situation in Afghanistan, stated on Wednesday that UN experts have called for prompt, independent, and transparent investigations into the Pakistani airstrikes on the Kabul rehabilitation center.On March 16...

March 25, New Delhi – India has rejected Pakistan’s statement on judicial matters concerning a banned terrorist organization, asserting that Islamabad has no authority to comment on India’s internal affairs or judicial processes.In a statement, India's Ministry of External Affairs said that...

New Delhi, March 25 India categorically rejected Pakistan's condemnation of the life sentence handed to Kashmiri separatist Asiya Andrabi on Wednesday, and said that Islamabad should introspect on its systematic human rights violations instead of promoting "frivolous" narratives.A Delhi court...

Lahore, March 25 Police in several districts of Pakistan's Punjab province have prevented the Ahmadi minority community from performing their religious rituals during Eid, the Jamaat Ahmadiyya Pakistan (JAP) said on Wednesday.In a statement issued here, the JAP cited purported government...

March 25, New Delhi – Bangladesh is observing Genocide Day today in solemn remembrance of the victims of the brutal military crackdown carried out by Pakistani forces on the night of March 25, 1971, under the codename Operation Searchlight.The day marks one of the darkest chapters in the...

New Delhi, March 25 – The Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to entertain a plea seeking directions for a court-monitored investigation into the killing of a young man during Holi celebrations in Delhi’s Uttam Nagar.While granting liberty to the petitioner to approach the Delhi Commissioner...

Dhaka/New Delhi, March 25 Bangladeshi Prime Minister Tarique Rahman has called for the establishment of the "spirit of equality, human dignity, and social justice" that characterized the Liberation War, as the nation observed Genocide Day on Wednesday.The Pakistani army launched "Operation...

Mumbai, March 25 Actress Sonal Chauhan has expressed her concerns over the disturbing events taking place around the world.The actress said that all of this reflects the cruelty of the times we live in. Taking to her social media account, the actress shared a note expressing her thoughts and...

Washington, March 25. Secret transcripts of a 1971 conversation between President Richard Nixon and his National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger reveal that the United States refused to condemn Pakistan's military crackdown in East Pakistan, despite warnings from its own diplomat about the...

Islamabad, March 24: The recent suicide bombing inside a mosque in Islamabad, Pakistan, which killed at least 31 worshippers and injured over 160 others, was not an isolated incident but part of a grim trend for the Shia community in the country. The attack on the Khadija Tul Kubra mosque in...

New Delhi, March 24 The NHRC said on Tuesday that it has issued notices to the district magistrate and senior superintendent of police of Raipur over reports that three sanitation workers died while cleaning a septic tank at a private hospital in this district of Chhattisgarh.In a statement...

New Delhi, March 24 The NHRC said on Tuesday that it has issued a notice to the Delhi government and the city's police chief over the death of nine members of a family in a fire incident in the Palam area earlier this month, and has sought a detailed report on it within two weeks.According to...

New Delhi, March 24 – The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has taken cognizance of a media report regarding the death of three sanitation workers in Raipur district, Chhattisgarh, while cleaning a septic tank at a private hospital.Observing that the contents of the news report, if true...