Quetta, Dec 30 (IANS) The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has expressed “grave concern” over what it termed a continued pattern of arbitrary detentions and enforced disappearances, including several recent cases involving Baloch women and girls, local media reported on Tuesday. In a statement, HRCP stated that two students of University of Peshawar – Habib Wazir and Adnan Wazir, had been missing since November 12 after participating in a government-convened jirga, and stressed that their all…
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Islamabad, Dec 24 (IANS) The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) organised a roundtable meeting in Islamabad on Wednesday, where speakers reiterated the suffocating impact of Pakistan’s Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act 2016 and highlighted structural constraints to press freedom in the country. The meeting drew attention to the impact of subsequent amendments to PECA on ordinary citizens and called for a broad civil society coalition to defend freedom of digital expression in Pakistan….