Lahore, October 13, 2013: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Sunday launched the report of a fact-finding mission to Balochitsan. Apart from the overall human rights situation in the province, the mission looked at a terrorist attack on students of a women’s university in Quetta and the subsequent attack at a hospital where the casualties were

Lahore, October 14: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan has voiced concern at the absence of clarity and direction in dealing with the many pressing crises confronting the state. In a statement issued at the conclusion of its autumn meeting on Sunday, the HRCP executive body said: “The Executive Council of Human Rights Commission of Pakistan

Islamabad, October 10, 2013: Speakers and participants at a seminar organised by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Friday unanimously opposed a generalized application of the death penalty and were also in agreement that in over two dozen capital offences on the statute books the death penalty was not mandated by Islam.

Lahore, October 4: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has welcomed the federal government’s announcement on continuing the moratorium on capital punishment and has called for a thorough review of the death penalty regime in the country. In a statement on Friday, the Commission said: “HRCP welcomes the government’s statement that it would persist