PAKISTAN: The abduction of student activist Ghani Aman Chandio on 28 October from Memona Hospital in Karachi, allegedly by state forces, is deeply troubling.
The abduction of a father visiting his hospitalized infant daughter is not only cruel and inhumane, but also a blatant attack on his rights to liberty, dignity and due process.
According to eyewitnesses, plain-clothes men accompanied by uniformed law enforcement officials, abducted Ghani, intimidated bystanders in the hospital and confiscated the mobile phones of all family members present. Ghani had previously been named in a criminal case on charges of “anti-state” slogans during a protest and had delivered a lecture at the local university on student politics the day before his abduction. We are very concerned about Ghani’s safety.
The Pakistani authorities must immediately disclose Ghani’s fate and whereabouts and ensure his safe return. Further, authorities must conduct a prompt, thorough, independent, impartial, transparent and effective investigation into his abduction, and bring to justice all those suspected to be responsible.
I have never received any official tamga. But have had the honor of being removed from three positions for standing up for what I believed to be right. They are my tamgas.
Now, I have been removed frm the BISP Board n frm NFC. That is two more tamgas.
لندن اور نیو یارک میں غیر مُسلم ووٹروں کی اکثریت نے مئیر کے لئے مسلمان امیدواروں کو ووٹ دینے میں ہچکچاہٹ محسوس نہیں کی۔ اب ذرا پاکستان کے بارے میں سوچئے۔ کئی اعلی عہدوں کے لئے تو غیر مُسلم امیدوار ہی نہیں ہو سکتا۔ ووٹروں کی اکثریت فرقہ واریت سے متاثر رہتی ہے۔ فراخدلی کہاں ہے؟
1215 days since the Taliban banned teenage girls from school. 755 days since the Taliban banned women from going to university. In the latest crackdown, the Taliban have banned women from training as midwives. #LetAfghanGirlsLearn