The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) on Sunday urged the federal and provincial governments to take special measures to ensure that these incidents did not recur in the wake of growing mob-led violence in the nation.
“HRCP is perturbed by the seeming rise in mob-led violence, with a suspected robber recently beaten by a crowd in Karachi and then shot dead,” the independent human rights watchdog wrote in a tweet.
This is a symptom of how brutal society is becoming and how readily available guns are, but it is also a result of how poor people are getting poorer and how disillusioned they are with the legal system.
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The statement went on to say that in order to prevent similar incidents from happening again, the provincial, federal, and police should take special precautions, including the strategic deployment of trained personnel.
On June 28, a robber was apprehended by bystanders while stealing cellphones from a family at Karachi’s Jauhar Chowk in Orangi Town. They tortured him, and after receiving medical attention at a hospital, he passed away from his wounds.
Similar to this, a mob in the Qasba Colony injured another man while torturing and lynching a suspect.
in earlier June reports The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) called for a bipartisan consensus on significant issues facing the nation on Saturday, expressing concerns over the alarming polarisation in political discourse, resulting economic instability, rising inflation, and the threat of food insecurity.
HRCP’s governing council
The HRCP’s governing council brought up a number of serious human rights issues at the conclusion of its biannual meeting, including the impact of climate change as seen in the recent glacial flooding in Gilgit-Baltistan, the ongoing heatwave in Punjab, and the severe water shortages in Sindh and Balochistan that have resulted in provincial conflicts, evictions, and loss of livelihoods.
The meeting also noted that “Punjab, the largest province in the nation, continues to be in a political limbo.”
brutality by police
It was noted that arrests of activists and political workers on account of anti-state activity had become a common occurrence, with police brutality against peaceful protestors in Pakistan getting worse.
Press freedom
The HRCP released a statement that said, “Freedom of the press is continuously under stress and journalists have been repeatedly targeted.”
Instead of retaliating with unjustified violence, the commission urged the state to uphold people’s rights to freedom of expression, association, and peaceful assembly.
The government was informed by HRCP that cases of enforced disappearances are continuing, particularly in Balochistan, Sindh, and KP.
the abuse of women
The meeting noted that violence against women and transgender people remained a problem. Religious and sectarian minorities are still at risk, and lynchings by mobs like those in Sialkot and Mian Channu are happening more frequently.
In light of the Tassaduq Jillani Supreme Court ruling from 2014, HRCP urged the government to rein in the tide of religious extremism and create a statutory position for the National Commission for Minorities to enable it to carry out its mandate.
It praised the decisions to suspend the PDMA’s operations and review PECA, as well as the passage of the Sindh Student Unions Bill.
However, since the vote of no confidence was passed, seats on several parliamentary committees have remained vacant, and the NCHR and NCSW are underfunded and thus not fully operational, it was noted.
Additionally, HRCP demanded that the state pass refugee rights legislation and ratify the 1951 Refugee Convention and its 1967 Protocol.
the HRCP referred to the enforced disappearance of Hafeez Baloch, a postgraduate student at Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad.
According to the statement, Baloch “allegedly vanished while in Khuzdar, where he volunteers at a local school.”
The HRCP denounced the claims that Hafeez was “abducted” in front of his students, citing reports.
It demanded the immediate recovery of Hafeez as well as the identification and accountability of the perpetrators, stating that “the sheer brazenness of this act underscores the increasing impunity accorded to perpetrators.”
Unfortunately, the government’s earlier promise to make forced disappearances illegal still sounds hollow. Despite an extended sit-in by students at the university, which was in response to the alleged disappearance of two students from Balochistan University last November, there was little response.
