Thursday, May 16, 2024

Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir

The writer is an Islamabad-based lawyer and human rights activist.

Enforced Disappearances of Baloch Students and State’s Criminal Role

In December 2021, an assistant sub-inspector stationed at Secretariat Police Station Islamabad asked students of the Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU), Islamabad, to collect personal data/information of their fellow Baloch students. Thereafter, in February 2022, a serving army officer, Major Ghulam Murtaza (belonging to Khuzdar Cantonment)...

Trial By Firing Squad: Prosecuting Civilians in Military Courts is Unconstitutional

Pakistan has been a State Party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) since 23 June 2010. Unfortunately, however, even in 2023, the civilian and military elite have yet to read the Covenant. Article 14 of the ICCPR safeguards the right...

Pakistan Army’s Claim Of ‘Neutrality’ Is A Lie. Here’s Why

The Pakistan military denies its involvement in enforced disappearances, extrajudicial executions and genocide, but it has very little credibility to begin with. Even if one were to disregard their credibility (or lack thereof), we would see a difference in what is happening around us...

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