On 13 April 2017, Mashal Khan, student and human rights activist, was killed by a large group of students after he was accused of running a Facebook page where he was allegedly publishing blasphemous material. He was killed inside the premises of the Abdul Wali Khan University Mardan where he was a student of Mass Communication.

LAHORE: On the eve of International Women’s Day, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called upon the authorities to recognize the role of women human rights defenders and protect them from discrimination, harassment and attacks.

DAY after tomorrow, the people of Pakistan will join the rest of humankind in celebrating Human Rights Day. The government too will indulge in ritualistic rhetoric. An honest approach should persuade it to do some soul-searching, for human rights in Pakistan face serious threats today.Of late, the most fundamental human right — the right to life, liberty and security of life — has come under increased strain. Several incidents have exposed as sheer obduracy the government’s rejection of a moratorium on executions until the abolition..

LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan volunteers have recorded 342 human rights violations in 60 districts across Pakistan from Jan to May 2016. These include several cases that were not covered by the national news media.According to HRCP, enforced and involuntary disappearances between Jan-May 2016 were 39, 68 people were tortured, 21 extra judicial and summary executions were occurred, 142 dishonor crimes were happened. While, 18 attacks or explicit threat against human rights defenders or journalists, 11 people were attacked or explicit threat vased on victim’s faith, 20 people attacked or explicit threat against based on political workers, 23 attacks occurred on public places.

In the present situation, we need to strictly follow the definition of the crime of Genocide as has been envisaged in the Art.II of the UN Resolution 260, passed in 1948 Convention defining genocide as acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such..

Honour Killing, a form of gender-based violence, is the homicide of a member of a family or social group by other members, due to the belief the victim has brought dishonor upon the family or community. The killing is Accessed as a way to restore the reputation and honour of the family. In Pakistan, honour killings are known locally as karo-kari which is a compound word literally means "black male" (Karo) and "black female (Kari).

The Kaloi station house officer (SHO), Karim Dad Mangrio, said police, acting on court orders, raided a farmhouse owned by former MNA Arbab Zakaullah and recovered at least 66 peasants reportedly held in bonded labour.A local, Mandhro Kolhi, had approached the Sindh High Court's Hyderabad Bench seeking help in rescuing 94 persons from his community, including women and children.

Farzana Parveen Iqbal was stoned to death on 27 May 2014 outside a court in Lahore, Pakistan. Her father, two brothers and former fiancé were among the nearly twenty attackers. Farzana, who was pregnant by her husband Muhammad Iqbal, was killed following the tradition of honour killing. Most of the attackers initially escaped except for Farzana's father, Muhammad Parveen, who was arrested. Police investigator Mujahid quoted the father as saying: "I killed my daughter as she had insulted all of our family by marrying a man without our consent.