These incidents certainly cast a shadow on the efforts by the government and other authorities to improve the country’s human rights record. According to data gathered by The Express Tribune, the National Commission for Human Rights (NCHR) has — between December 15, 2015 and December 27, 2017 — received a total of 1,207 cases of human rights violations. Out of these, 702 cases of human rights violations were reported from January 2017 to December 27, 2017, alone. Meanwhile, according to the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan, its June to July human rights monitoring revealed that 77 death row convicts were executed and as many as 32 people were sentenced to death. “The overall situation of human rights in Pakistan has improved in 2017, but is still not satisfactory.

Source: The Express Tribune January 02, 2018 04:18 UTC