TNC will hold a session on FCR with students

Tribal NGOs Consortium, Society for Rights and Development - SRD,, MEN UNiTE and Sap-pk Peshawar are holding a session with FATA Students on FCR titled FCR and Fundamental Human Rights enshrined in Constitution of Pakistan 1973 in Peshawar on 25th April, 2015. time.10.30 AM. Engr Tor Gul Chamkani and Qamar Naseem will be resource persons who will talk at length about the subject and will inform the participants regarding issues confronting people of FATA due to FCR. Qamar Naseem is also expected to talk about Universal Declaration of Human Rights and challenges to Human Rights in FATA.

Child in landi kotal Khyber Agency FATA should be released immediately

Maaz khan Shinwari a student of class 10 has been put behind bar for last 1 month by Assistant Political Agent, Landi Kotal Khyber Agency-FATA. He is a student of Shinwar Public School Landi Kotal and has been languishing in lock up of Assistant Political Agent. He is only 16 and has been arrested under collective responsibility clause which has now been amended in 2011 by then President of Pakistan Asif Ali Zardari. According to new amendment no child between 5 and 16 will be arrested under said clause. But ironically political Administration of Khyber Agency is quite ignorant of it and have no knowledge of new amendments and Convention on the Rights of Child(CRC) of which Pakistan is a signatory and has ratified it on 12th of November 1990. Pakistan is first Muslim and 6th country in the world to sign this convention and ratified it. When i contacted Meraj Shinwari elder brother of Maaz shinwari in Landi Kotal he said that he and his family have been experiencing life as hell for them. Their brother has been arrested for no crime he has committed. He is just a 10 grade student and he could not sit take his annual metric examination due to his unlawful detention. Now his precious one year was lost. He is an intelligent student and could have obtained excellent position in annual examination if was not detained by Assistant Political Agent, he narrated his sorrowful tale to me. Tribal NGOs Consortium and Child Rights Movement FATA strongly condemn this non serious attitude of political administration towards children and slated them for their ignorance regarding CRC and FCR amendments.
Regards
Zar Ali Khan Afridi

Attack on brother of Sardar Mushtaq Gill is condemnable

Press Release

04-04-2015

Zar Ali Khan Afridi, a known Human Rights Defender and Chairman tribal NGOs Consortium strongly condemned firing on the brother of Sardar Mushtaq Gill a famous Human Rights Defender on the basis of his human rights activities, in Lahore, capital of the Punjab in Pakistan. In Pakistan religious minorities and human rights defenders are facing the wrath of 295-C. Many innocent people are languishing behind bars in various jails of the country on allegations of being blasphemers. Last year a reputed lawyer and Human Rights Defender Mr. Rashid Rehman of Multan was shot dead by terrorists whose fault was that he was fighting a case of a lecturer in one of Multan Universities where he was alleged to have committed blasphemy in his face book account by his rival fellow lecturers and teachers of the university. Salman Taseer then governor of the Punjab was also assassinated by his own police guard on the basis he defended an innocent Christian lady who was alleged to have committed blasphemy. Similarly in Qasur, Punjab a couple was set on fire in a brick kiln. Pakistan is an unsafe country for religious minorities and human rights defenders. Terrorists and their apologists have two types of weapons to use against an HRD and religious minorities. Gun, suicide bomber and 295-C are the weapons usually are used against Human Rights Defenders and religious minorities. State is so indifferent to issues of citizens’ protection that it never bothers to protect them. No one can say anything to supporters and apologists of the terrorists. Even parliamentarians have no courage to pray for their colleague and a governor is unable to find any lawyer to defend him. On other side a killer is surrounded by hundred of thousand of lawyers and he is offered with legal service. What a state we are living in?

I, once again demand of government of Punjab to provide security to Mushtaq Gill and his family and arrest culprits.

Regards

Zar Ali khan Afridi

Human Rights Defenders

Chairman

Tribal NGOs Consortium

FATA-Pakistan

tncfata@gmail.com