Lahore, Pakistan
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This is a complete mischaracterisation to say that the march in Lahore was "called off" for any reason-we have issued a detailed statement, & it was decided months ago that we will not march & instead do smaller events throughout the year🧵
Ref to our st: xitter.gq/AuratMarch/status/2030…
Talal Chaudhry justifies arrests, says deliberate attempt was made to create a law and order situation.
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Statements from civil society organizations pour in demanding an immediate apology from Captain Safdar over his mysoginistic and derogatory remarks on the late Asma Jahangir as well as women battling cancer.
Read details:
voicepk.net/2026/11/jac-waf-…
@JAC1988_
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Imaan Mazari’s court testimony: “I am a prisoner of conscience who has been at the receiving end of state persecution since at least 2022 for my human rights and legal work. It is deeply painful for me that while my work on human rights has received recognition abroad, even today, my family and I continue to suffer reprisals for the same in my home country. I have not committed any crime and my track record attests to my deeply-held commitment to the rule of law. I also want to categorically state that standing against oppression, injustice and tyranny entails personal cost and suffering. This is a universal truth but history remembers those who resist injustice while those who perpetrate it are condemned for all times to come. We have been tried in a cage, in violation of our basic human dignity and our right to due process and fair trial, but we have complete peace of mind in the knowledge that God exalts who He wills to exalt and disgraces who He wills to disgrace.” #ReleaseImaanAndHadi
We condemn in the strongest possible terms Captain Safdar's recent statements against minorities, women and Asma Jahangir.
The detention of Imran Khan’s sisters is nothing short of political victimisation. We’re disgusted, but not shocked, that the authorities continue to keep women simply advocating to meet their brother under preventive detention through regressive laws such as the MPO.
The judge also summoned the Lahore deputy commissioner to appear in person on Nov 4 and explain the extensions in the detention orders of Noreen and Uzma Khan.
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The Joint Action Committee for Peoples’ Rights (JAC) expresses its deep anguish and outrage over the highly objectionable, misogynistic and derogatory remarks made by Mr Muhammad Safdar against the late Asma Jahangir and women and minorities in general.
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Imaan and Hadi are prisoners of conscience. Their convictions are cruel, vindictive, and textbook examples of using law and the judicial process as weapons of persecution
There is a pattern of responses to grave gender-based violence emerging in Punjab. In cases where the accused are rich, powerful, and well-connected, the investigation is extremely slow, and bail is too readily available:
July: tinyurl.com/45wh5kdu
Oct: tinyurl.com/3uyn64xe
As we witness a swell of rapes+murders of too many children and women in the past few months to recount here.
Are @GovtofPunjabPK and the Punjab judiciary creating one system of accountability for the powerful and one for the marginalised, who must die in police shootouts?
The federal government’s decision to impose governor rule & emergency in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is not only an undemocratic move, depriving the people of KP of their elected government and the PTI’s electoral mandate, but also a blatantly authoritarian tactic to consolidate power 1/3
Broad emergency powers are a colonial-era relic, designed to centralise power and crush dissent. The current government’s disregard for democratic principles and the Constitution should concern us all. 2/3
Aurat March Lahore retweeted
We strongly denounce and condemn the imposition of Governor's Rule in KP and the blatant disregard for the democratic mandate given to PTI. The elected government of KP has as much democratic legitimacy under the constitution as the governments of Sindh, Punjab, and Balochistan!
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Today, the NCCIA served me a notice under Section 160 of the CrPC, ordering me to appear at its Karachi office on 16 October and to bring "all relevant digital devices."
The allegation against me, in full: "posting/sharing of Anti-State content on social media platforms."
That is all I have been told. The notice does not identify a single post. It does not name a complainant. It discloses no evidence. Yet it directs me to produce evidence "in support of my defense" against unspecified accusations.
The superior courts have repeatedly cautioned the NCCIA against exactly this. Anyone summoned over an allegation is entitled to the details of the complaint and the actual incriminating evidence against them, so they know what they are accused of. Vague notices summoning citizens cannot be issued. This notice violates that settled principle, and I object to it.
I am a journalist. I report on human rights in Pakistan, which very often means reporting on the abuse of state power. "Anti-state" is not an offence this notice even attempts to define, and journalism is not a cyber crime. A summons that names no offence but demands a reporter's devices is not an inquiry. It is a warning, to me and to every journalist watching.
LAHORE AGAINST GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE
We come together this Saturday to remember Hina Javed, Hina Zareef, Ayesha Gilamana, Jannat Khatoon and countless others whom we lost to GBV. We also highlight that transgender women are uniquely targeted by patriarchal violence.
🗓5 Sept
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HRCP is appalled by the killing of at least seven labourers in Kech district by unidentified armed men and by the deaths of at least 32 coal miners in a methane gas explosion near Quetta. While these tragedies stem from different causes, both underline the vulnerability of workers in Balochistan whose lives continue to be lost to violence, unsafe working conditions and systemic neglect.
We call for a swift, impartial investigation into the killings in Kech to ensure that those responsible are brought to justice. Equally, the devastating mine explosion in Quetta highlights the urgent need to strengthen occupational health and safety standards. Pakistan cannot continue to treat workplace safety as an afterthought.
HRCP believes that every worker has the right to life, dignity and security. We extend our deepest condolences to the bereaved families and urge the state to take tangible measures to prevent such avoidable loss of life.
Update: Those detained at Qilla Gujjar thana have been released.
‼️‼️URGENT‼️‼️
@OfficialDPRPP has taken and detained several protesters belonging to @PSCollective_, @Haqooq_e_Khalq and Pakistan Mazdoor Kissan Party from outside Lahore Press Club for simply peacefully protesting in soldiarity with the people of Kashmir.
RELEASE THEM NOW!