Right to education without discrimination on April 18, 2018In March 2018, The UN Human Rights Council adopted the outcome report of Pakistan’s third Universal Periodic Review (UPR). The Pakistani government accepted 168 out of the 289 recommendations it received from the UN member states, while 117 recommendations were ‘noted’ and four were rejected. Several recommendations that Pakistan accepted and noted, call for an […]
Right to dignity of Christian women in Pakistan on January 26, 2018On January 18, 2018 a division bench of the Lahore High Court (LHC) held the hearing of an appeal that challenged the order of a single bench, which restored section 7 of the Christian Divorce Act 1869. While, the court proceedings would continue on this matter it is simultaneously important to look into the rationale […]
State should prevent shrinking of democratic spaces on April 17, 2017The first half of April 2017 has witnessed two horrifying incidents in the name of blindfolded belief – one in Sargodha and the other in Mardan. In the former, 20 visitors to a shrine were killed by the custodian and the latter was an instance of lynching of a university student, Mashal Khan. These are […]
Balochistan Higher Education Secretary Abdullah Jan kidnapped on March 15, 2017QUETTA: Unknown armed men abducted Balochistan Higher Education Secretary Abdullah Jan from Wahdat colony in Quetta. According to police, Abdullah Jan was kidnapped on Wednesday morning from Quetta’s Sabzal Road area, when he was on his way to his office at Civil Secretariat. Chief Minister Sanaullah Zehri took an immediate notice for Abdullah’s recovery. Moreover, […]
Yuhannabad: seeking justice on March 14, 2017Two years earlier, I was in California pursuing my Masters degree. It was close to midnight and I was about to sleep when my phone rang. It was unexpected to receive another call from home as I had talked to them only a few minutes ago. Picking up the phone, I heard my younger sister […]