Pakistan Human Rights Violations

Report portrays grave plight of human rights in Pakistan’s Sindh province

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan's 2023 annual report has revealed a grave state of human rights in Pakistan's Sindh…

5 months ago

Pakistan Army has retreated from Marri and other tribal areas: Baloch leader Hyrbyair Marri

Hyrbyair Marri is the leader of the Free Baloch Movement (FBM) that advocates for an independent homeland for the Baloch…

1 year ago

Pakistan sets up Afghan detention camps in Balochistan, Sindh as Af-Pak braces a humanitarian crisis

As an enraged Pakistan presses on with the deportation of Afghan refugees, it has set up detention camps in various…

1 year ago

Armed groups kill Pak mining official as resource nationalism surges in Balochistan

In a major blow to Pakistan's efforts at inviting international investments in Balochistan, project manager of the Pakistan Mineral Development…

1 year ago

Baloch activist slams Pakistan for disguising ‘death squad’ members as ‘footballers,’ rules out dip in armed struggle

London: It is unusual that the interim government in Pakistan has a Prime Minister, an Interior Minister, an Information Minister…

1 year ago

The trauma faced by Pakistani Sindhi and Baloch communities has lasted 76 years: Dr Lakhu Luhano

The last few days have seen unprecedented protests by beleaguered Sindhi Hindus over the kidnappings of dozens of hostages by…

1 year ago

Afghanistan bans Swedish NGOs from charitable work over Quran burning incident

Annoyed by the burning of the Quran in front of a mosque in Sweden on the Muslim festival of Eid,…

1 year ago

Does Pakistan’s fury in Balochistan show insurgents have started winning their guerilla war?

Pakistani army officer, Major Abdullah Shah was killed in a military operation in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa this week. Pakistani military public…

1 year ago

Enforced Disappearances in Balochistan and the international standards of human rights

By Haidar KB Baloch The enforced disappearance is defined as the arrest and detention of an individual by the state…

1 year ago

Is the BLA a terrorist organisation?

There is no justification in calling the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) a terrorist organisation, as Pakistan calls it, or, a…

1 year ago

Baloch activist declares ‘long march’ from Balochistan to Geneva highlighting enforced disappearances

Mama Qadeer Baloch, the well-known Baloch activist fighting for the cause of missing persons, has decided to internationalise the issue…

1 year ago

Pakistan dreams shattered

Pakistan is a divided society today with everybody seeming to be fighting each other. It is a self-inflicted wound. And…

1 year ago

Enforced disappearances in Balochistan is Pakistan’s shame

The Baloch community in south-west Pakistan observed the Baloch Missing Persons’ Day on June 8 by holding Twitter spaces and…

1 year ago

Lawyer pleading Imran Khan’s treason case shot dead in Quetta, Balochistan

Armed bikers shot dead senior Pakistani Supreme Court lawyer Abdul Razzaq Shar on Tuesday in Balochistan capital Quetta. Shar was…

1 year ago

Pakistan’s dreaded ‘enforced disappearances’ expand from Balochistan to Punjab

Pakistan's legendary human rights abuse of "enforced disappearances" in strife-torn Balochistan is now getting mainstreamed in the Punjab province as…

1 year ago

Watch: Baloch diaspora slams Pakistani celebrations of Chagai nuclear tests, launches multiple protests

Even as a tumultuous and unstable Pakistan celebrated the silver jubilee of its nuclear tests on 28 May 1998 as…

1 year ago

Pakistani atrocities are worse than those of Mongol tyrant Hulagu Khan: Baloch leader Mama Qadeer

Mama Qadeer Baloch and his organization - Voice of Baloch Missing Persons (VBMP) completes 5,000 days of strike on 1…

2 years ago

Pakistan crosses the Rubicon, to formally deploy army in Balochistan amid stiff resistance

The Pakistani cabinet led by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has approved the deployment of the Pakistani Army in Balochistan in…

2 years ago

Independence only solution as Baloch-Pakistan contradiction is irreconcilable

Dr. Naseem Baloch The current situation in Pakistan is the result of irreconcilable national contradictions. The current state of Pakistan is…

2 years ago

Sindhis raise the pitch for independent Sindhudesh through April protests

Sindhi organisations are commemorating April as a memorial month for nationalists who spent their lives fighting for an independent Sindh.…

2 years ago

India hosts 2nd largest Muslim population, minorities decimated in Pakistan: Sitharaman

Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Tuesday slammed the reports appearing in Western media about violence against minorities in India, especially…

2 years ago