Lahore, January 23: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has slammed the rising death toll in the measles epidemic that has claimed the lives of nearly 500 children across the country in the last few weeks. In a statement issued on Wednesday, the Commission said: “HRCP notes with great alarm that hundreds of children

Lahore, January 17: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has strongly condemned the killing of around 20 civilians in Khyber Agency and demanded that the claims made by the families that the deceased were killed by security forces personnel must be probed independently and to the families’ satisfaction. In a statement on Thursday, the

Lahore, January 15: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has said that following the Supreme Court (SC) order for the arrest of the prime minister, the threats to democratic dispensation have escalated enormously. The commission said in a statement on Tuesday: “It is difficult to measure the misfortune of the luckless people of Pakistan that

Lahore January 14: In a press statement Ms. Asma Jahangir, former President of Supreme Court Bar Association has strongly denied a statement attributed to her  in a section of the press that while referring to the Delhi gang rape case she said ‘either the accused be hanged or their sexual organs chopped off’. She