Pakistan — Asian Human Rights Commission

PAKISTAN: A young woman released after a year of assault, abuse and rape

Urgent Appeal Case : The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a 19 year old woman was abducted, raped for more than a year and sold with the connivance of high officials of the police. The officials of the Citizen's Police Liaison Committee (CPLC), a government agency, were pressuring the young woman and her family not to pursue the case as the perpetrators, particularly a lady who runs a Beauty Parlour, are powerful people who are capable of taking revenge. The family of the victim is facing threats from the perpetrators and the police have refused to include the names of the perpetrators in her old FIR when she was abducted. Read More...

PAKISTAN: The bodies of two more missing persons from Sindh province have been found

Urgent Appeal Case : The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that the bullet riddled bodies of two missing young men from Sindh province were found on the road side. Both young men had been missing for the last six months when they were arrested by the law enforcement agencies while traveling on the Karachi highway. Since January 2012, more than a dozen bullet riddled bodies have been found in Sindh province. The policy of the intelligence agencies to kill and dump been seen in Sindh province and most of the victims have been young students from the nationalist groups. It is evident that the activists are being arrested by Intelligence personnel in the presence of police officers and taken to the torture cells run by military and its intelligence agencies. More than a hundred persons, including members of sectarian religious groups, have been missing since the military regime of General Musharraf but their whereabouts remain unknown. Read More...

PAKISTAN: Criminal negligence of the Punjab government results in the deaths of factory workers

Statement : On February 6, 2012 the three-storey building of a pharmaceutical company named "Orient Laboratory" engaged in the manufacturing of veterinary medicines collapsed after a boiler explosion. The factory was located at Kharak Stop, Multan Road, Lahore. The explosion was so huge that the entire building was razed to the ground. Around 30 people were killed and many injured including men, women and children. About 70 people were working inside the factory at the time of the disaster. As of today only 20 persons have been rescued and it is feared that there could be more persons under the wreckage of the building. However, no signs of life have been monitored over the human scan machine. The Provincial Government and the owners of the factory are trying to stop the rescue operation in an effort to camouflage the heavy loss of life and criminal negligence for not following the labour laws and Factories Act. Read More...