HRCP dissatisfied with GB polls Lahore, 16 November. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) is concerned to learn that independent election observers—including HRCP’s own team of observers in four cases—were not allowed into polling stations in the city of Gilgit during the vote counting process. The Gilgit Union of Journalists has made a

HRCP elects new council Demands that state improve its human rights record Lahore, 9 November. On concluding its 34th Annual General Meeting (AGM), the general body of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called on the state to improve its human rights record—in particular to protect freedom of expression and to ensure

Government must assume mature leadership role Lahore, 5 November. The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) is concerned that the federal government appears increasingly unable or unwilling to assume a leadership role by putting the greater interest of a stable, inclusive democracy above its political differences. Rather than creating cohesion and building consensus across