Amnesty International has issued a report demanding the immediate and unconditional release of detained leaders of the Baloch ...

An amendment to the Anti-Terrorism Act will allow security forces in the restive region the powers to detain any person for ...

(New York) – Pakistan’s government should withdraw a counterterrorism law which threatens basic rights and freedoms in violation of Pakistan’s international legal obligations, Human Rights ...

Citing the recent detention of Mahrang Baloch and other BYC members under the colonial-era 3MPO ordinance, Mazari called the ...

“Pakistan has a long history of abuses of suspects in detention and should reject this vague and overbroad counterterrorism law.” (New York) – Pakistan’s draft counterterrorism law ...

Amnesty International called for Pakistan to release high-profile Baloch activists on Tuesday, condemning the arbitrary detention of the protesters. A letter to authorities called for the release of ...

Pakistan has passed a new law allowing its security forces to detain terror suspects for up to 90 days without disclosing their whereabouts or the allegations against ...

The law also applies to suspects already in custody. The order comes as Pakistan grapples with a surge in militant violence, with at least 104 people killed in militant attacks in the past week, and ...

This half-baked law passed by the President of Pakistan has enormous potential for abuse by Pakistan's security apparatus. Our grossly incompetent, untrained and under-equipped police will shoot ...

It is striking that Article 10 of Pakistan’s Constitution, 1973, allows parliament to make preventive detention laws ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan's detention is arbitrary and in violation of international law, a U.N. human rights working group said in an opinion issued on ...

It highlights not only a human rights crisis but also the systemic vulnerability of minorities and marginalized people ...