Washington: According to a US human rights study, Pakistan “rarely” took genuine action to find and prosecute officials who may have violated human rights. The report also noted that these issues included extrajudicial murders, enforced disappearances, and torture, as The News reported on Wednesday.
The US State Department’s “2023 Country Reports on Human Rights Practices” indicates that there haven’t been any notable improvements to Pakistan’s human rights landscape in the previous year.
These significant violations of human rights included “credible reports of unlawful or arbitrary killings, including extrajudicial killings, enforced disappearance, torture, and cases of cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment or punishment by the government or its agents, harsh and life-threatening prison conditions, arbitrary detention, and political prisoners.”. The report also covered serious issues like forced disappearances, severe restrictions on media freedom and freedom of expression, including violence against journalists, blasphemous arrests and disappearances, censorship, criminal defamation laws, and severe restrictions on internet freedom, significant interference with the right to peaceful assembly and association, including unduly burdensome regulations on the operations of civil society and non-governmental organizations, restrictions on religious freedom, and restrictions on freedom of movement.
