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Beverly Anne Giesbrecht, was a Canadian journalist, who was kidnapped along with her Pakistani translator, Salman Khan, and her Pakistani driver, Zar Muhammad, near the Afghanistan-Pakistan border on November 11, 2008. [2] In late February 2009, a video surfaced of her, in between two men with rifles. [3]
According to Amina Masood Janjua, a human rights activist and chairperson of Defence of Human Rights Pakistan, there are more than 5,000 reported cases of forced disappearance in Pakistan. [1] [2] Defence of Human Rights Pakistan is a not for profit organization working against forced disappearance in Pakistan. The families of missing persons ...
Violence against women in Pakistan, particularly intimate partner violence and sexual violence, is a major public health problem and a violation of women's human rights in Pakistan. [18] [19] Women in Pakistan mainly encounter violence by being forced into marriage, through workplace sexual harassment, domestic violence and by honour killings. [19]
DERA ISMAIL KHAN, Pakistan (AP) — Suspected militants kidnapped four people, including an army officer who was sitting in a mosque in a former stronghold of Pakistani Taliban to receive mourners ...
Operation Shikarpur (Urdu: آپریشن شکارپور) is an ongoing law enforcement initiative aimed at combating local criminals in the Sindh province of Pakistan, particularly focusing on the Kacha area in Shikarpur District. The operation's objective is to apprehend robbers and other lawbreakers, thereby ensuring a safer environment for ...
Pakistan's military intelligence agency, Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI), and law enforcement have been accused of arresting and kidnapping political leaders who have demanded more autonomy or freedom from Pakistan. They have also been accused of arresting student activists and teachers protesting the exploitation of the Pakistani government.
Kidnapping may be accomplished by use of force or fear, or a victim may be enticed into confinement by fraud or deception. Kidnapping is distinguished from false imprisonment by the intentional movement of the victim to a different location. Kidnapping may be done to demand a ransom in exchange for releasing the victim, or for other illegal ...
In 2017 Pakistan was a source, transit, and destination country for men, women, and children subjected to trafficking in persons, specifically forced labour and prostitution. Th largest human trafficking problem was bonded labour, concentrated in the Sindh and Punjab provinces in agriculture and brick making, and to a lesser extent in mining ...