[Reader-list] Human rights abuses rampant in Sindh: Report

[Zulfiqar Shah]

  Human rights abuses rampant in Sindh: Report
   
  
  
  By ANI 
  Friday July 28, 01:45 PM 
   
  Washington, July 28 (ANI): Human rights violations, including disappearance of political and human rights workers, lack of press freedom, violence against minorities and women and the bulldozing of villages, are rampant in the Sindh province. This has been disclosed in the World Sindhi Institute's bi-annual report on human rights violations (in the province) during the first half of he current year.
   
  The report cited the abduction of members of the Jeay Sindh Qaumi Mahaz, including that of Dr Safdar Sarki, Asif Baladi and Aakash Malah. Besides, three members of the press - Munir Sangi, Mukesh Rotena, and Sunjay Kumar - also lost their lives indicating lack of press freedom, the Daily Times quoted the report as saying. 
   
  According to the report, death threats had been made against journalists Sarmad Kanrani and Mubarak Bhatti, while members of certain minorities, including Dr Mujibur Rehman Pasha of the Ahmediyya community, had been targeted for conversion. Dr Pasha was later murdered. 
   
  Couples had been arrested under "draconian Islamic Hudood Laws", it added. 
   
  The World Sindhi Institute also criticised the abduction, torture, and murder of political activists and human rights advocates, pointing out that members of the press in Sindh went in fear of their lives if they wrote articles critical of the government. Forced conversion of women and girls remains a common occurrence in Sindh, it added. (ANI)
   
  Source: ANI 
   

 				
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