Islamabad, July 22 (IANS) Leading human rights organisation Amnesty International on Wednesday said that the Pakistani airstrikes on Afghanistan’s Omid Rehabilitation and Treatment Centre earlier this year should be investigated as a possible “war crime” as no evidence has been found to support Islamabad’s claim that the facility was being used to store weapons, ammunition, or for any other military purpose. The organisation said that the March 16 Pakistani airstrike on the 2000-bed Omid medical…
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Islamabad, May 7 (IANS) A leading international human rights organisation on Thursday called on the Pakistani authorities to ban military trials of civilians and overturn all unlawful civilian convictions by these courts. Pakistan Supreme Court’s constitutional bench, on May 7 2025, had overturned a previous Supreme Court ruling from October 2023 that stated that the trial before a military court of civilians involved in the May 9 protest was unconstitutional.On the first anniversary of the ru…
Kabul/Islamabad, March 20 (IANS) A leading international human rights organisation raised serious concerns under international humanitarian law over the recent Pakistani airstrike on a rehabilitation centre in Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, that killed over 400 civilians and injured more than 200 others.Responding to claims by Pakistani officials that the March 16 airstrike on a drug rehabilitation centre in Kabul had targeted an ammunition depot, Isabelle Lassee, Amnesty International’s Depu…