Umer Cheema, reporter of The News Investigation Cell was tortured and humiliated during 6-hour captivity after abduction by unidentified men from Islamabad on Saturday. Giving account of the events of abduction and torture following his release, Umer Cheema said he was picked up by some unknown men in police uniforms from Islamabad Sector I-8 when [...]
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The News reporter tortured, humiliated after abduction
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Thousands of persons remain missing amid government inaction
The Asian Legal Resource Centre (ALRC) welcomes the ongoing work of the Advisory Committee concerning the issue of missing persons. The ALRC has on numerous occasions informed the Human Rights Council (HRC) of the large number of missing persons in Pakistan. The country is beset by grave and widespread human rights violations by various State-agencies [...]
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Fake degrees: a criminal act
PARLIAMENTARIANS who were elected on the basis of fake graduation degrees have created a very bad impression within Pakistan and throughout the civilised world. Instead of providing a good example to 180 million Pakistanis they have proved themselves dishonest and not worthy of being members of parliament. They should better resign as they have lost [...]
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Still uneducatedStill Uneducated
Brave words need to be followed by brave deeds. Our president had vowed to ‘educate’ British Prime Minister David Cameron at their meeting at Chequers on Friday, but it would seem that suddenly education was off the agenda. There was very little educating going on and rather a lot of the recycling of diplomatic platitudes [...]
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The shame of fake degrees
If there were half as many coal pits in Thar as the pits into which Pakistan has been led by its present rulers, the country would lick the power crisis. While there is probably not a single coal pit in Thar, the number of pits into which the country has been pushed by its current [...]
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