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PAKISTAN: Another human rights defender was allegedly extrajudicially killed by the state intelligence agency

Mr. Sardar Arif Shahid

Urgent Appeal Case : The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has received information that a human rights defender and writer from the Pakistani part of Kashmir, Sardar Arif Shahid, was gunned down in front of his house in the garrison city of Rawalpindi. Before his murder he has been arrested and then released at his native town when he visited the area along with some Kashmiri non Muslim visitors from the Jammu part of Indian Kashmir. His passport was confiscated and his name was put on the exit control list in 2009. The High Court has gave him relief in December 2012. Read More...

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Torture in Pakistan

Torture in custody is a serious problem affecting the rule of law in Pakistan. It is used as the most common means to obtain confession statements. As yet, there has been no serious effort by the government to make torture a crime in the country. It provides impunity to the perpetrators who are mostly either policemen or members of the armed forces. Furthermore, there is no means for the protection of witnesses. This discourages victims from making complaints. While the international jurisprudence on the issue has evolved into very high standards, the situation in Pakistan resembles the stone ages.

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Press Releases from the ALRC:

PAKISTAN: UPR report calls for UN action on widespread torture, forced disappearances, killings, corruption, and attacks on women, minorities and human rights defenders

ALRC Submissions to the Human Rights Council:

s.21 (September 2012) - PAKISTAN: ALRC calls for the Council's intervention concerning torture, disappearances, extra-judicial killings, human rights defenders and the freedoms of religion and expression
s.20 (June 2012) - ASIA: Violations of freedom of expression and extra-judicial killings denounced in Thailand, Pakistan, Indonesia and the Philippines
s.20 (June 2012) - PAKISTAN: Human Rights Council urged to act concerning pattern of extra-judicial killings and violations of freedom of expression in Pakistan
s.17 (June 2011) - PAKISTAN: Impunity for rape and other forms of violence against women must end
s.17 (June 2011) - PAKISTAN: Extra-judicial killings ongoing with impunity, notably in Balochistan
s.16 (March 2011) - PAKISTAN: Council urged to tackle endemic torture and impunity, or become irrelevant
s.15 (September 2010) - PAKISTAN: Government urged to commute all death sentences and abolish the death penalty
s.15 (September 2010) - PAKISTAN: Thousands of persons remain missing amid government inaction

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