Lahore: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed grave concern over reports that, despite an informal moratorium on executions, a murder convict is scheduled to be hanged in Adiala Jail, Rawalpindi, on September 18. HRCP has called upon the government to stay the hanging and announce a formal ... Read More »
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Lahore: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has said that the army being asked to adjudicate upon matters that should have been resolved by politicians made for an “exceeding gloomy day for the country”. The Commission has stated that that was what the marchers had been seeking all along ... Read More »
People have spoken and must be respected: HRCP
Lahore: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called upon all political parties to respect the May 11 verdict of the people and avoid doing anything that could derail the democratic system. It has emphasised that HRCP’s election monitors on the ground across the country did not find any ... Read More »
Perils to democracy have soared after SC order: HRCP
Lahore: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has said that following the Supreme Court (SC) order for the arrest of the prime minister, the threats to democratic dispensation have escalated enormously. The commission said in a statement on Tuesday: “It is difficult to measure the misfortune of the luckless ... Read More »
HRCP’s distress at escalation in terrorist bloodletting
Lahore: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has slammed the killing of over 100 people, predominantly the Shia Hazara, in a string of bombings in Quetta and other attacks in Mingora and Karachi on Thursday, and demanded that the government take immediate steps to clamp down on the murdering ... Read More »