“HRCP is alarmed at the rapidly closing space for civil society organisations in Pakistan. Increasingly, PEMRA has placed undue restrictions on the media, which do not appear to serve any concrete purpose. “HRCP is greatly concerned at the rise in the number of forced conversions being reported, especially in Sindh. HRCP also calls on the state to sign and ratify the International Convention for the Protection of All Persons from Enforced Disappearance. The impunity with which people continue to be forcibly disappeared is cause for serious concern and must be addressed if this problem is to be curbed.

Source: Pakistan Today April 07, 2019 18:56 UTC