There would have been no reason to doubt Islamabad’s claims had similar claims not been made not only by members of persecuted communities in Pakistan but also by several other rights groups.
The US Department of State’s 2023 Country Report on Human Rights Practices is released, with comments from Pakistan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs [FO] On the same. The report gives Islamabad an embarrassingly poor report card on human rights abuses, but states that “there have been no significant changes in Pakistan’s human rights situation during the year,” and says Washington is committed to curbing this dastardly practice. In particular, he emphasized the apparent reluctance of the organization. Practice.
The inferences recorded in this report, supported by verifiable data, must have obviously struck a nerve both in Islamabad and Rawalpindi, and that the co-pilot therefore fired back with complete fury. is not at all surprising. “The U.S. State Department’s annual exercise in producing such one-sided reports lacks objectivity, and its methodology remains inherently flawed,” the report said. uses a domestic social lens to judge human rights in other countries in a politically biased manner.”
There would have been no reason to doubt Islamabad’s claims had similar claims not been made not only by members of persecuted communities in Pakistan but also by several other rights groups. Human rights violations in Pakistan are rampant and range from arbitrary arrest and confinement, torture, extrajudicial killings, and religious, sectarian, and ethnic persecution, to name a few. The issue of enforced disappearances orchestrated by enforcement agencies and intelligence agencies is also a serious problem. I hate agencies the most. And what the 2023 US report on enforced disappearances in Pakistan says is not new and has already been highlighted by several international human rights organizations.
In its World Report on Pakistan 2019, Human Rights Watch states, “According to human rights in Pakistan, during counterterrorism operations, Pakistan’s security forces commit torture, enforced disappearances, detention without charge, extrajudicial killings, etc.” “They are often responsible for serious human rights violations.”defender and defense [sic] lawyer. Anti-terrorism laws also continue to be misused as instruments of political coercion. Authorities do not allow independent oversight of military court trials, and many defendants are denied the right to a fair trial. ”
Islamabad “categorically” rejects the US report, saying its contents are based on inaccurate and inaccurate information and completely divorced from reality, and if true, it would reject the report completely Justify. However, the information contained in the U.S. report was taken from official Pakistani government records, including references to 9,967 missing person cases since 2011, of which 7,714 were resolved and 2,253 The case remains unresolved, the US report said. This is due to statistics released by the Pakistan Commission of Investigation into Enforced Disappearances.
How can Islamabad deny that the problem of enforced disappearances is growing in the following cases?
Islamabad High Court, November 2023 [IHC] Justice Mohsin Akhtar was forced to declare: “If the remaining missing students are not recovered, I will order registration of a first information report.” [FIR] To the Prime Minister and the Home Secretary…I have said this in very clear terms. ” [FIR is a written document prepared by the police when they receive information about the commission of a cognizable offence].
Pakistan’s Chief Justice Qazi Faez Isa’s statement in January 2024, “We aim for a final solution to the problem of missing persons,” makes it clear that the issue of enforced disappearances is a serious national issue. Isn’t that acknowledged?
Isn’t Akhtar’s view that “state institutions accept them” justified? [Baloch students] After being detained, they go missing, and even when some of them return home, they refuse to take legal action for their disappearances.” Exposing the role of Pakistan’s deep state?
The missing person problem is so great that hundreds of Baloch women whose husbands, brothers and sons are missing, along with thousands of sympathizers, are marching 1,600 kilometers from Balochistan’s Kechi district to Islamabad, a difficult journey. Isn’t it true that he was forced to do so? To protest the scourge of enforced disappearances committed by Pakistani security forces and intelligence agencies in December 2023?
Finally, the Commission of Inquiry into Enforced Disappearances, set up in 2011 by order of the Supreme Court of Pakistan, and a similar body established by the Balochistan government in the same year, failed to solve a whopping 23 percent of cases of enforced disappearances. This may indicate a systematic disappearance case. An accomplice?
Amnesty International in its 2024 report on Pakistan [AI] “As in previous years, enforced disappearances of journalists, human rights defenders, and critics of the government and military were carried out with impunity by the authorities,” a view that supports the US report. .The issue is so serious that in 2022 the Islamabad High Court [IHC] chief justice [CJ] Athar Minara rebuked the federal government, saying there appeared to be “tacit acceptance of an undeclared policy on enforced disappearances.” [Emphasis added].
So, even if for the sake of argument, we accept Islamabad’s claim that the US human rights report “used a domestic social lens to judge human rights in other countries in a politically biased manner,” we accept this pathetic reasoning. Even if applied to the 2024 AI report, how will Pakistan’s vice president explain the scathing findings regarding Chief Justice Minara’s enforced disappearance? Even if the IHC CJ’s remarks were downplayed using Islamabad’s famous “quoted out of context” excuse, when the two-star Pakistani military general himself spilled the beans, the co-pilot What should I answer?
Readers may recall that during a press conference in 2019, Hamid Mir, Geo TV’s senior TV anchor and news commentator, asked the then station chief: [DG] Person in charge of Inter Services Public Relations, Pakistan military media department [ISPR] Major General Asif Ghafoor on enforced disappearances in Balochistan. DGISPR openly mocked Mir by saying, “You have a deep attachment to the missing, and so do we.” He continued, “We don’t want anyone to go missing.” But when it comes to war, a lot of things have to be done. As they say, all is fair in war.” [Emphasis added].
What is truly surprising is that while the DGISPR did not retract its damning admission that the Pakistani military was complicit in orchestrating the enforced disappearances, Rawalpindi also remained silent on this disturbing statement. If it were any other military, the media chief who made such horrible statements would be sent packing or appointed to a frivolous appointment at least until he retires at his current rank. It would have been either. Instead, Maj. Gen. Ghafoor has been promoted to the rank of three-star general and continues to serve as president of the Pakistan National Defense University.
The Islamabad government is under the impression that the deputy chief’s empty and verbose rebuttal has effectively shattered the well-documented US State Department’s 2023 Country Report on Human Rights Practices in Pakistan. Maybe. However, it is impossible to overturn the facts with mere rhetoric, and no one will be moved by the misleading statement that “the contents of the report are based on inaccurate information, are unfair, and are completely divorced from the facts.” do not.
And with Islamabad still officially admitting that more than 2,000 people are missing, the deputy chief’s vitriolic response to the 2023 U.S. report and unsubstantiated claims are, at best, “sound and fury.” It doesn’t make any sense at all.”
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