Pakistan Human Rights Violations

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan’s 2023 annual report has revealed a grave state of human rights in Pakistan’s Sindh province with a significant rise in street crime, kidnappings, and …

Hyrbyair Marri is the leader of the Free Baloch Movement (FBM) that advocates for an independent homeland for the Baloch community from Pakistan. Hyrbyair comes from the Marri tribal family …

As an enraged Pakistan presses on with the deportation of Afghan refugees, it has set up detention camps in various parts of the country to hold ‘undocumented Afghan refugees’. The …

In a major blow to Pakistan’s efforts at inviting international investments in Balochistan, project manager of the Pakistan Mineral Development Corporation (PMDC) Shabahat Mirza was killed in an improvised explosive …

London: It is unusual that the interim government in Pakistan has a Prime Minister, an Interior Minister, an Information Minister and even the Supreme Court justice from Balochistan. The Baloch …

The last few days have seen unprecedented protests by beleaguered Sindhi Hindus over the kidnappings of dozens of hostages by bandits. The protests happened over several days in numerous towns …

Annoyed by the burning of the Quran in front of a mosque in Sweden on the Muslim festival of Eid, the Taliban government suspended all Swedish activities on Tuesday in …

Pakistani army officer, Major Abdullah Shah was killed in a military operation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa this week. Pakistani military public relations agency, the Inter-Services Public Relations (ISPR) said he died …

By Haidar KB Baloch The enforced disappearance is defined as the arrest and detention of an individual by the state or any third party with the support of the state …

There is no justification in calling the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) a terrorist organisation, as Pakistan calls it, or, a Foreign Terrorist Organisation in Pakistan as the United States has …

Mama Qadeer Baloch, the well-known Baloch activist fighting for the cause of missing persons, has decided to internationalise the issue of forced abductions by the Pakistan government by announcing a …

Pakistan is a divided society today with everybody seeming to be fighting each other. It is a self-inflicted wound. And the May 9 mayhem has shattered dreams of Pakistan to …

The Baloch community in south-west Pakistan observed the Baloch Missing Persons’ Day on June 8 by holding Twitter spaces and organising social media campaigns. The marginalised ethnic community has been …

Armed bikers shot dead senior Pakistani Supreme Court lawyer Abdul Razzaq Shar on Tuesday in Balochistan capital Quetta. Shar was pleading a treason case involving former prime minister Imran Khan. …

Pakistan’s legendary human rights abuse of “enforced disappearances” in strife-torn Balochistan is now getting mainstreamed in the Punjab province as various paramilitary forces and agencies go on a kidnapping spree. …

Even as a tumultuous and unstable Pakistan celebrated the silver jubilee of its nuclear tests on 28 May 1998 as the Youm-e-Takbeer, the Baloch diaspora observed the day as black …

Mama Qadeer Baloch and his organization – Voice of Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) completes 5,000 days of strike on 1 April 2023. Mama Qadeer Baloch has been protesting against atrocities …

The Pakistani cabinet led by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has approved the deployment of the Pakistani Army in Balochistan in view of the deteriorating security situation in the country’s south-west …

Dr. Naseem Baloch The current situation in Pakistan is the result of irreconcilable national contradictions. The current state of Pakistan is not a sudden occurrence but rather the consequence of actions …

Sindhi organisations are commemorating April as a memorial month for nationalists who spent their lives fighting for an independent Sindh. Every year April 25 is observed as the death anniversary …

The human rights abuses by the Pakistani State in its estranged province of Balochistan through enforced disappearances, torture and summary executions has been noticed by British members of parliament. In …