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Maryam Nawaz Asks Pak PM Imran Khan To Speak To Relatives Of Balochistan s Missing People
Maryam Nawaz has asked PM Imran Khan to speak to the relatives of the Baloch missing persons who are protesting in Islamabad against forced abduction.
Maryam Nawaz, the daughter of former Prime Minister of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif, has asked Prime Minister Imran Khan to speak to the relatives of the missing Baloch people who are protesting in Islamabad against forced abduction, torture, and harassment. Maryam Nawaz said that the republic of Pakistan has placed Imran Khan in power and now, it is his duty to listen to these people.
Rights systematically manipulated, says Rabbani
National
February 17, 2021
ISLAMABAD: Speaking at the annual Asma Jahangir Memorial Lecture instituted by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), Senator Raza Rabbani on Tuesday observed that although the Constitution protected the right to freedom of association, Pakistan had witnessed a systematic and premeditated plan on the part of the state to manipulate and deny this and other fundamental rights.
The dictatorships of Ayub Khan and Zia-ul-Haq, he said, had deliberately isolated key ingredients of the democratic struggle, including students, labourers and intellectuals. Although, the late Benazir Bhutto attempted to revive student unions in 1988, the overarching state structure to which all political governments were, and continue to be, held hostage prevented that from materializing. Senator Rabbani also pointed out that the judiciary’s interim order banning student unions in June 1992 was ‘a clear infringement
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To promote, protect and effectively ensure the independence, impartiality, safety and freedom of expression of journalists and media professionals.
WHEREAS it is the responsibility of the State to safeguard the right to freedom of expression, as contained in Article 19 of the Constitution of Pakistan, 1973, as well as in Article 19 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which includes the freedom to seek, receive and impart information and ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or in print, in the form of art, or through any other media;
AND WHEREAS it is the requirement of any democratic society to instill a strong culture of safety and independence of journalists, taking into consideration specific attacks on journalists and media professionals;
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