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U.S. Drone Strikes: “Any Move Forward Has Got to Include Accountability”

In response to U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry arriving in Pakistan for meetings to ease tensions over U.S. drone…

July 31, 2013

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Annual Report: Pakistan 2013

Islamic Republic of Pakistan Head of state Asif Ali Zardari Head of government Raja Pervaiz Ashraf (replaced Yousaf Raza Gillani)…

May 23, 2013

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Annual Death Penalty Report Finds Setbacks for a Handful of Countries but Progress Toward Abolition Across the Globe

In its annual report today on executions and death sentences worldwide, Amnesty International found a handful of countries renewing executions…

April 3, 2013

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Report exposes “the hands of cruelty” in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas

Millions are locked in perpetual lawlessness in Pakistan’s northwestern Tribal Areas, where human rights abuses committed by the Armed Forces…

December 13, 2012

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‘The Hands of Cruelty:’ Abuses by Armed Forces and Taliban in Pakistan’s Tribal Areas

During its bid to recapture territory from the Taliban over the last three years, the Pakistan Armed Forces have arbitrarily…

December 11, 2012

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New Report Exposes Abuses by Armed Forces and Taliban in Pakistan Tribal Areas

Human rights abuses committed by the Armed Forces and the Taliban in Pakistan’s northwestern Tribal Areas are locking millions in…

December 11, 2012

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Human Rights must be at the Forefront of Third and Final Presidential Debate

Grave abuses of human rights fuel or underpin many of the foreign policy challenges that will be the focus of…

October 19, 2012

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Taliban Claims Responsibility for Shooting 14-Year-Old Pakistani Girl

Amnesty International has denounced the Taliban for its “shocking act of violence” after the organization claimed responsibility for the shooting…

October 9, 2012

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Pakistani Girl Accused of Blasphemy Still in Danger Despite Bail

Today’s decision by a Pakistan court to grant bail to Rimsha Masih, a 14-year old Christian girl accused of blasphemy,…

September 7, 2012

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Pakistan Lynching a ‘Chilling Reminder’ of Dangers of Blasphemy Laws

Members of a baying mob who lynched a man accused of breaching Pakistan's blasphemy laws must urgently be brought to…

July 5, 2012

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Pakistan’s Death Penalty U-Turn ‘Exceptionally Cruel’

Amnesty International today called Pakistan's flip-flop over a decision to commute Indian national Sarabjit Singh's capital sentence to a life…

June 27, 2012

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Still No Justice for Slain Pakistan Journalist

A year on from the abduction and assassination of reporter Saleem Shahzad, Pakistan must take steps to bring his killers…

May 29, 2012