Amnesty International has issued a report demanding the immediate and unconditional release of detained leaders of the Baloch ...

An amendment to the Anti-Terrorism Act will allow security forces in the restive region the powers to detain any person for ...

Citing the recent detention of Mahrang Baloch and other BYC members under the colonial-era 3MPO ordinance, Mazari called the ...

(New York) – Pakistan’s government should withdraw a counterterrorism law which threatens basic rights and freedoms in violation of Pakistan’s international legal obligations, Human Rights ...

Pakistan has passed a new law allowing its security forces to detain terror suspects for up to 90 days without disclosing their whereabouts or the allegations against ...

“Pakistan has a long history of abuses of suspects in detention and should reject this vague and overbroad counterterrorism law.” (New York) – Pakistan’s draft counterterrorism law ...

The law also applies to suspects already in custody. The order comes as Pakistan grapples with a surge in militant violence, with at least 104 people killed in militant attacks in the past week, and ...

This half-baked law passed by the President of Pakistan has enormous potential for abuse by Pakistan's security apparatus. Our grossly incompetent, untrained and under-equipped police will shoot ...

It is striking that Article 10 of Pakistan’s Constitution, 1973, allows parliament to make preventive detention laws ...

ISLAMABAD (AP) — A U.N. human rights working group has called for an immediate release of Pakistan’s imprisoned former Prime Minister Imran Khan, saying his detention is arbitrary and violates ...