qwe on September 25, 2014Child abduction has three main forms: a stranger removes a child for criminal purposes, a stranger removes a child to bring up that child as that person’s own or a parent removes or retains a child from the other parent’s care, often in the course of or after divorce proceedings. That parent is mostly the […]
Who is responsible? on September 14, 2014A massacre occurred on June 17 this year in Model Town where innocent people lost their lives. The police applied excessive force against those protecting Tahirul Qadir’s house. The Chief Minister (CM) of Punjab, Mr Shahbaz Sharif, on that very day, while talking to the media, opined that if found guilty he would resign and […]
What is forced conversion? on August 23, 2014The landmark judgment delivered on June 19, 2014 by a full bench of the Supreme Court (SC) of Pakistan concerning the bomb attack on Peshawar’s All Saints Church is a milestone in the country’s history. The judgment said that there is a need to guarantee equal rights to minorities in Pakistan. The 32-page judgement said […]
Domestic violence should be a crime on July 9, 2014Domestic violence has become a major issue in Pakistan and other subcontinental countries. About 5,000 women are killed in Pakistan from domestic violence with thousands of others maimed or disabled. The Thomson Reuters Foundation ranked Pakistan as the third most dangerous country in the world for women, after Afghanistan and the Democratic Republic of Congo; […]
Homicide in the name of honour on June 27, 2014Child labour, domestic violence, child marriages, terrorism and poverty are never-ending issues in Pakistan. I can go on to state many more but in this article I will be shedding light on the chronic rise of honour killings in Pakistan. In plain words, honour killing is the homicide of the member of a family or […]
Law on second marriages on June 3, 2014Maulana Muhammad Khan Sherani, chairing the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) recently declared that a man does not require his existing wife’s permission to marry a second time. If I am not exaggerating, the CII has made the second marriage too easy for men. As per the findings of the CII, Sharia allows men to […]
The curse of blasphemy on May 19, 2014The brutal murder of renowned human rights activist Rashid Rehman is being condemned around the world. I met Rashid Rehman for the first time in Murree about 10 years ago where we stayed for three days together during the course of a Church World Service training workshop. I found him to be a well disciplined […]
The curse of blasphemy on May 19, 2014The brutal murder of renowned human rights activist Rashid Rehman is being condemned around the world. I met Rashid Rehman for the first time in Murree about 10 years ago where we stayed for three days together during the course of a Church World Service training workshop. I found him to be a well disciplined […]
The state of blasphemy in 2013 on May 1, 2014The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan recently published its ‘State of Human Rights in 2013’, which covers various legal and social issues in Pakistan. It has five chapters and all of them are worth reading. For the purpose of this article, I shall be looking into chapter three, which articulates information regarding fundamental freedoms while […]
PPO: draconian or not? on April 18, 2014The president of Pakistan, Mamnoon Hussain, on October 20, 2013 signed the Pakistan Protection Ordinance (PPO) and it was passed by the National Assembly on April 7, 2014. However, it still requires Senate approval. The Ordinance (now a Bill) has given sweeping powers to security forces to arrest and detain people without providing apparent legal […]