Islamabad, April 1 – Pakistan's continued custodial torture reflects serious institutional shortcomings, particularly the lack of adequate training for police forces in modern investigative techniques, such as forensic analysis and evidence-based interrogation methods, according to a report...
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Islamabad, March 15 – Pakistan's judicial commission investigating the devastating January 17 fire at the Gul Plaza mall in Karachi was told that rescue services arrived late and failed to evacuate people trapped inside during the crucial early hours of the blaze, local media reported.The...
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Quetta, March 1 – Following losses during the Baloch Liberation Army’s (BLA) Operation Herof, Pakistani police in Balochistan and Sindh killed 27 individuals who had been forcibly disappeared in Karachi, Quetta, and other locations, and later labelled them as armed militants, according to a...
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Quetta, February 28 – The killing of 27 Baloch people forcibly disappeared by Pakistani forces earlier this month during the second phase of 'Operation Herof' is not an isolated incident, but part of a broader pattern that has persisted for more than a decade in Balochistan, according to a...
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