Islamabad, July 10 (IANS) Several civil society activists, lawyers and journalists in Pakistan called for the withdrawal of Punjab’s ‘Habitual Offenders’ bill, describing it as “regressive” and warning that if enacted, the legislation would have a corrosive impact on human rights protections in the country.Addressing a round table organised by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), human rights lawyer Asad Jamal said that the primary intent of the bill was to enable the state to legally…
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Ottawa, March 2 (IANS) The Canadian student who was arrested in Pakistan while conducting research for his dissertation has not been granted bail. Hamza Ahmed Khan’s brother, Awes Ahmed Khan, said that there was no reason to keep his brother in prison, local media reported. “There is no reason to keep him behind bars. It feels like the system wants to punish him before a trial. We’ve not slept properly in a week,” Canada’s leading media outlet CBC News quoted Awes as saying.Hamza Ahmed Khan, a d…