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KARACHI: To mark International Human Rights Day, a webinar on ‘Prisoners of contention speaking of issues and rights of Indo-Pak prisoners’ was held here on Thursday.
The event was organised by the Pakistan India Peoples’ Forum for Peace and Democracy (PIPFPD) in collaboration with several non-government organisations, including the Pakistan Fisherfolk Forum (PFF), Edhi Foundation, Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), Legal Aid Society, Pakistan, Pakistan Institute of Labour Education and Research (Piler) and Aman ki Asha.
Most of the Indian citizens in Pakistan’s prisons and Pakistani citizens in Indian prisons are innocent captives of circumstances, destiny as well as the historical contention between India and Pakistan. They become victims of tense relations and do not get released and repatriated on the day of completing their sentences.
As statesmen around the world have said on various occasions, every man and woman is born free and born equal. Unfortunately, this basic principle of human rights is not quite upheld anywhere around.
Dec 10, 2020
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QUETTA Shabbir Shahwani was one of three professors kidnapped on Nov. 29 while traveling from their university in Balochistan.
After being pulled from their car and taken to a remote area, Shahwani struggled with one question: Should he remove his blindfold or not?
“The decision would either grant me freedom or a bullet in my head,” he said.
Ultimately, the three found freedom after the harrowing episode.
Shahwani, an assistant professor at the University of Balochistan, and his colleagues were on their way to supervise candidates during an examination. They were taken to a deserted area several miles outside Quetta, the capital of the insurgency-plagued Balochistan province of Pakistan, and eventually released by their abductors.