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Selected Human Right; the Pakistani Hypocracy Unvieled

We are living in a world in which very few thing could have been universally accepted to be legal and human right norms. Among these few is forceful disappearance of individuals for which the principles of international criminal law could be invoked for this is one of the crimes against humanity. People hailing from both the right and left wing in Pakistan firmly hold -or at least they rhetorically reiterate- that forceful disappearance of individuals is a worse kind of violation of one's fundamental rights which put the individual and his family under a severe kind of physical and psychological torture. Torture is another crime against humanity recognized by international criminal law. The culprits of forceful disappearence and torture –if could not be tried in the domestic legal system – can be prosecuted in international criminal tribunals.  Muavia Azam Tariq, a Sunni Activist Having firm believe in this notion of human right, our society -or at least a large portion...