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11 Sep, 22

By Veengas
Human Rights, News

Floods add to the miseries of the marginalized

(Badin/Dadu): Floods that devastated parts of Pakistan have left thousands of owes and wounds behind. “I was running behind cars, which came to distribute the ration. I ran and ran for ration but did not get it. Instead got scratches on my leg and arm,” says a Hindu community member who is a farmer and the […]

12 Jul, 22

By Veengas
Human Rights

For many Baloch, yet another Eid is spent protesting

Karachi: For Amna Baloch, yet another Eid is spent in front of the Karachi Press Club protesting the state’s inaction against the enforced disappearances of Baloch men. Amna, the organizer of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee, is among the many Baloch women who have spent over a decade trying to know the whereabouts of Baloch men […]

26 Mar, 22

By Veengas
Forced Conversion, Human Rights

In 8 days three Hindu girls abducted and forcefully converted to Islam; another girl murdered

Sindh province has reported more forced conversion cases and another case of murder over refusing conversion. In 8 days, three Hindu girls have been married to men after conversion and another girl whose name was Pooja Kumari was brutally murdered because he refused to convert to Islam. Satran Oad belonged to Umer (Amar) Kot, Sindh. […]

Baloch Yakjehti Committee (Karachi) leading March from Art Council to Karachi Press Club — Photo Veengas

02 Mar, 22

By Veengas
Human Rights

In search of the lost paradise in Pakistan – the story of Sindh and Balochisthan

“They promised: they would return my father in few days but few days have turned into four years and nine months.” When thousands of people marched on the roads of Karachi – the capital of Sindh province in Pakistan deepening gloom was palpable on their faces. All of them were in desperate searching. Some of […]

By Veengas
Human Rights

Missing Persons in Sindh: Three days turned into Four years and nine months

Missing Persons in Sindh: Three days turned into Four years and nine months, said Families of missing persons who held hunger strike at Karachi Press Club on February 5, 2022. Support The Independent Journalism: click here to donate

01 Aug, 21

By Veengas
Forced Conversion, Human Rights

Shadow of forced conversion and marriage looms large on Hindu girls in Sindh

When Reena gained her consciousness back, she was completely shattered. The man whom she treated as her brother was standing in front of her with lust in his eyes. He was her rakhi brother. In the Hindu tradition sister ties a Rakhi (a colorful thread) on the wrist of her brother who in turn promises to protect her from wicked people. […]

13 Nov, 20

By Veengas
Human Rights

First kind of case ever happened in Kashmore that shattered people – But, why SHO dramatically transferred

Kashmore: A child girl, age of 4, still has not understood the language, properly – was brutally sexual assaulted in first week of the November, 2020 in a small city Kashmore, the province Sindh. “They (the accused) told me (Girl’s mother) that they would consider her daughter as their daughter, girl’s mother, burst into tears, […]

20 Jan, 20

By Veengas
Forced Conversion, Human Rights

Sindh Child Marriage Restraint Act fails to protect Non-Muslim girls

14-year-girl was abducted from Jacobabad. Ali Raza Solangi, 30, had kidnapped her when she was going to school. She has been converted to Islam and married off to Ali Raza Solangi. “My daughter is kidnapped and Ali Raza who is a laborer – is responsible of her kidnapping. He is already married and has four […]

By Veengas
Human Rights

Pakistan’s law cannot protect women’s lives

Each year 1000 women are murdered on the pretext of so-called honour Women are always soft target and their lives are more vulnerable in a society because state is unable to implement law to protect their lives. In six months in 2019, in Sindh, 50 women, 20 men were killed, stated Human Rights of commission […]