Youtube: Saleem Safi is a highly knowledgeable and reliable journalist with deep insights into the the security situation in Pakistan. This weekly programme that he hosts discussed in detail the serious dangers that the current security situation poses to Pakistan and its political leaders. Watch here:
Twin bombings kill 15, wound more in south India Reuters. Bomb blasts in India kill 11: Police examine the site of an explosion at Dilsukh Nagar in the southern Indian city of Hyderabad. IMAGE 48 min ago India’s prime minister called the attack that put bombs on bicycles in […]
The News: LONDON: A British government minister, Lord Tariq Ahmad, has condemned the bomb attacks in Quetta, which have killed more than 80 people from the Shia Hazara community. “Yet […]
Dawn: KABUL: The US-led international coalition on Friday rejected a UN rights group’s concern about reports that US military strikes have killed hundreds of children in Afghanistan during the past […]
Amnesty International: After a decade of insurgency, Pakistan’s Tribal areas remain in a state of crisis. In the Tribal areas, the courts are barred from upholding the fundamental rights protections guaranteed under Pakistan’s constitution. This document summarizes the report by Amnesty International which shows that, rather than investigating and prosecuting […]
Youtube: Published on Dec 19, 2012 United Nations Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief Professor Heiner Bielefeldt reflects on religious freedoms around the world, particularly in Pakistan. Pakistan […]
Express Tribune: ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Wednesday denied Indian allegations that its troops killed two Indian soldiers in a second cross-border ceasefire violation in days and called on UN observers to investigate. India summoned Pakistan’s high commissioner to New Delhi to protest against Tuesday’s killings, in which India’s chief military spokesman said […]
Daily Telegraph: The 15-year-old was shot in the head by a Taliban assassin as she took a bus home from school in the country’s North West in early October. She […]
Center for Research and Security Studies: The overall level of violence declined by almost 15 percent during 2012[1] across Pakistan.[2]Meanwhile, ethno-political violence in Karachi (Sindh), religio-political terrorism in Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP), and nationalist-separatistviolence in Balochistan continued unabated. The deadly wave of target killings in Karachi, presumably triggered by the rivalry between Muttahida […]
Businessinsider.com: I’ve heard it said that, if you take a walk around Waikiki, it’s only a matter of time until someone hands you a flyer of scantily clad women clutching handguns, overlaid with English and maybe Japanese text advertising one of the many local shooting ranges. The city’s largest, the […]
The European Court of Human Rights Global Post: The European Court of Human Rights made history Thursday by ruling in favor of a Lebanese national who said he was tortured by a […]
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International Herald Tribune: By HUMA YUSUF: LONDON — On Monday, a dozen masked gunmen said to be affiliated with the Taliban and Lashkar-e-Taiba broke into a graveyard in an elite neighborhood […]
Blog By Ahmad Shoaib ہ منتخب ہوا۔ اس موقع پر پاکستان کے اقوام متحدہ میں مستقل نمائندہ نے میڈیا سے بات چیت کرتے ہوئے کہا کہ پاکستان نے ہمیشہ اپنے ملک میں انسانی حقوق کی اقدار کو بلند کیا ہے اور انسانی حقوق پاکستان کے قانون اور نظریہ کا حصہ […]
Newstatesman by Samira Shackle: By any standards, the last few days have been bleak for Pakistan’s persecuted minority communities. It started on Saturday, when a century-old Hindu temple in Karachi’s busy Soldier Bazaar area was demolished with the help of police. The Shri Rama Pir Mandir (temple) was razed to […]
GlobalPost: Evidence suggests its human rights record has ‘deteriorated substantially.’ Dawood I. AhmedNovember 24, 2012 09:24 Pakistani missing persons families hold pictures of their missing people as they staged a demonstration in Karachi in 2007. Scores of individuals and civil liberty groups observe the International Human Rights Day in Pakistan. […]
Taliban shooting victim Malala, 15, is set to make Britain her permanent home after having a bullet removed from her spine Teenager’s father offered job by consulate in Birmingham Everyone in the Yousufzai family is currently on a tourist visa She has been treated at UK hospital after a bullet […]
NY Times: WASHINGTON — The conflict that ended, for now, in a cease-fire between Hamas and Israel seemed like the latest episode in a periodic showdown. But there was a second, strategic agenda unfolding, […]
BANGKOK, Thailand — Myanmar’s coastal Rakhine State is stricken with just the sort of mess certain international aid groups are designed to relieve. Roiling conflict between the region’s native Buddhists and a stateless Muslim ethnicity, the Rohingya, has brought on mob killings, torched villages, mass displacement and even bow-and-arrow wounds. […]
Express Tribune: LADDAH: The outlawed Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan has decided to `deal’ with the Muttahida Qaumi Movement and rid the people of Karachi of its `suppression’. TTP spokesman Ihsanullah Ihsan called reporters and read out a statement on Friday, saying the Taliban had decided to rid the people of Karachi of […]