Human Rights Commission Of Pakistan

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has raised alarm over thirty Hindus including both women and children reportedly being taken hostage by organised criminal gangs in Pakistan's Sindh.

India has hit out at Pakistan as well as the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for raising the Kashmir issue at the UN Human Rights Commission and said the grouping has "helplessly" allowed itself to be held "hostage" by Islamabad.

India has successfully defeated insurgencies in Punjab and the Northeast and it is now time to strengthen New Delhi's fight against insurgencies in Kashmir, columnist Sunanda Vashisht told a US Congressional hearing on Human Rights in Washington on Thursday. Terrorists trained by Pakistan had caused "ISIS level of horror and brutality" in the Kashm...

India has reacted strongly and lodged a diplomatic protest over a new report by the UN Office of the High Commission for Human Rights on the situation in Jammu and Kashmir. The Indian government has called the report "false, with a motivated narrative".

Pakistan's independent human rights watchdog on Monday raised concerns about incidents of forced conversions and marriages of Hindu and Christian girls, saying around 1,000 such cases were reported just in the southern Sindh province alone last year.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday condemned the killing of 40 CRPF personnel in the Pulwama terror attack, saying the "scourge of terrorism" is one of the major factors leading to violation of human rights in the society.

An 18-year-old girl was beheaded along with her 21-year-old boyfriend in Pakistan by her father and uncle, in what the police are calling yet another incident of honour, the media reported today.

The BJP on Tuesday termed a recent UN Human Rights Commission report on alleged human rights violation in Jammu and Kashmir as a "nefarious conspiracy" designed by Pakistan, following reports that a Canada-based Pakistani was in touch with the author of the report.

A girl and her fiance were gunned down, allegedly by the girl's maternal uncle after spotting them chatting in Pakistan's Sindh province, in the latest case of honour killing, a media report said.

A 69-year-old British landlord who instructed agents not to let his properties to people from India and Pakistan is facing legal action, UK's human rights watchdog said today.

In the space of a few days last month, five Pakistani bloggers - all known as left-leaning social-media activists - were abducted and vanished into unknown hands. After a domestic and international outcry, the missing men suddenly reappeared this month - safe and unharmed, but just as mysteriously.

Pakistan's rights watchdog today expressed "grave apprehensions" over the prevailing human rights and security situation in the country's largest city which it said has aggravated in recent months.

India has strongly raised human rights violations in Balochistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir at the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva. Pakistan had approached the UN body over the unrest in Kashmir.

Parveen Rafiq screamed from her rooftop, "I have killed my daughter. I have saved my honor. She will never shame me again."

Pakistan's army is preparing for a final push in the coming weeks in its fight against militants, but there are concerns that rights are being rolled back in the name of defeating terror.

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has raised alarm over thirty Hindus including both women and children reportedly being taken hostage by organised criminal gangs in Pakistan's Sindh.

India has hit out at Pakistan as well as the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) for raising the Kashmir issue at the UN Human Rights Commission and said the grouping has "helplessly" allowed itself to be held "hostage" by Islamabad.

India has successfully defeated insurgencies in Punjab and the Northeast and it is now time to strengthen New Delhi's fight against insurgencies in Kashmir, columnist Sunanda Vashisht told a US Congressional hearing on Human Rights in Washington on Thursday. Terrorists trained by Pakistan had caused "ISIS level of horror and brutality" in the Kashm...

India has reacted strongly and lodged a diplomatic protest over a new report by the UN Office of the High Commission for Human Rights on the situation in Jammu and Kashmir. The Indian government has called the report "false, with a motivated narrative".

Pakistan's independent human rights watchdog on Monday raised concerns about incidents of forced conversions and marriages of Hindu and Christian girls, saying around 1,000 such cases were reported just in the southern Sindh province alone last year.

The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) on Tuesday condemned the killing of 40 CRPF personnel in the Pulwama terror attack, saying the "scourge of terrorism" is one of the major factors leading to violation of human rights in the society.

An 18-year-old girl was beheaded along with her 21-year-old boyfriend in Pakistan by her father and uncle, in what the police are calling yet another incident of honour, the media reported today.

The BJP on Tuesday termed a recent UN Human Rights Commission report on alleged human rights violation in Jammu and Kashmir as a "nefarious conspiracy" designed by Pakistan, following reports that a Canada-based Pakistani was in touch with the author of the report.

A girl and her fiance were gunned down, allegedly by the girl's maternal uncle after spotting them chatting in Pakistan's Sindh province, in the latest case of honour killing, a media report said.

A 69-year-old British landlord who instructed agents not to let his properties to people from India and Pakistan is facing legal action, UK's human rights watchdog said today.

In the space of a few days last month, five Pakistani bloggers - all known as left-leaning social-media activists - were abducted and vanished into unknown hands. After a domestic and international outcry, the missing men suddenly reappeared this month - safe and unharmed, but just as mysteriously.

Pakistan's rights watchdog today expressed "grave apprehensions" over the prevailing human rights and security situation in the country's largest city which it said has aggravated in recent months.

India has strongly raised human rights violations in Balochistan and Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir at the UN Human Rights Commission in Geneva. Pakistan had approached the UN body over the unrest in Kashmir.

Parveen Rafiq screamed from her rooftop, "I have killed my daughter. I have saved my honor. She will never shame me again."

Pakistan's army is preparing for a final push in the coming weeks in its fight against militants, but there are concerns that rights are being rolled back in the name of defeating terror.