The event was organized by Ziauddin University (ZU) in connection with the International Human Rights Day.
Highlighting the issue of minorities, former federal law minister Barrister Shahida Jamil spoke about the Muslims of India and how insecure and badly treated they are by the majority Hindus there.
“The Muslims left behind in India after the subcontinent’s partition fall in the category of Dalits today,” she said. “After 1947, their condition has deteriorated. They are worse off than us before partition,” she said.
Recalling the days around partition, she said that she was only a little girl at the time but those memories of riots everywhere were still fresh in her mind.
A screenshot of the event. White Star
KARACHI: Minority rights and a look at the history and future of human rights in Pakistan were the main topic of the discussion during an online interactive dialogue titled ‘
Human Rights Vision 2020 & Beyond’ on Wednesday.
The event was organised by Ziauddin University (ZU) in connection with the International Human Rights Day.
Highlighting the issue of minorities, former federal law minister Barrister Shahida Jamil spoke about the Muslims of India and how insecure and badly treated they are by the majority Hindus there.
“The Muslims left behind in India after the subcontinent’s partition fall in the category of Dalits today,” she said. “After 1947, their condition has deteriorated. They are worse off than us before partition,” she said.
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Islamabad, Dec 17 (efe-epa).- Human rights activists on Thursday criticized a recent decree signed by the president of Pakistan allowing forced chemical castration for rapists.
The measure by the government had come in response to a series of recent rape incidents in the country, which have caused widespread outrage among the population.
“Chemical castration is cruel and inhuman. It is not a guarantee to end rape cases in the country,” spokesperson of the nonprofit Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, Maheen Paracha, told EFE, adding that criminals too have human rights.
Earlier this week, President Arif Alvi signed two laws to combat sexual violence.
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Equal citizenship possible if minorities given structural embrace, moot told
Karachi
December 17, 2020
Barrister Shahida Jamil, former federal minister for law, justice, parliamentary affairs and human rights, has said the Pakistan movement had been through continuous turbulence as there was a desire to push the Muslims towards poverty, and not to give them any political or human rights.
The Muslims were the special target and they sacrificed their lives for the creation of this country, she said on Wednesday while talking on the fourth interactive series of âZU Dialoguesâ, titled, âHuman Rights Vision 2020 & Beyondâ, to mark International Human Rights Day organised by Ziauddin University. The online session of dialogues was broadcasted live on the ZU facebook page.