Source: Dawn
Author: Sana Saleem
Today marks the celebration of human rights around the world, but for us there’s much to mourn and little to celebrate. The scourge of discrimination lies at the root of our most pressing problems, faced with prejudice we fall silent and complacent.
In the conclusion of its State of Human Rights in 2010 annual report, the Human rights commission of Pakistan (HRCP) expressed “serious concern at the aggravation of the crisis of the state, caused primarily by a confrontation between institutions driven by insecurity or by self-righteousness”.