PBC to make district level rights body

ISLAMABAD: The Human Rights Committee of the Pakistan Bar Council (PBC) decided on Friday to constitute human rights committees on the district level. It also decided to publish its annual report on human rights violations in the country.

The decisions were made at a meeting of the PBC’s Human Rights Committee, chaired by Salahuddin Panhwar.

Apart from transacting other business on its agenda, the committee requested PBC member Syed Qalb-i-Hassan to nominate members of the district-level committees for the Rawalpindi division.

The meeting decided that members Muhammad Ahsan Bhoon and Muhammad Ramzan Chaudhry would constitute the committees for Lahore, Gujranwala, Faisalabad and Sargodha divisions. Meanwhile, members Mian Abbas Ahmad and Azam Nazeer Tarar would nominate members of the committees for Multan, Bahawalpur and DG Khan divisions, it said.

The parent committee requested its Vice Chairman Abdul Lateef Afridi and member Roohul Amin Chamkani to constitute committees for Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.

The meeting also decided that Balochistan High Court Bar Association President Zahoor Ahmad Shahwani and Balochistan Bar Council members Munir Ahmad Kakar and Kamran Murtaza would jointly constitute the committees for Balochistan.

It was decided that member Akhtar Hussain would constitute committees for the Karachi division, whereas Salahuddin Panhwar and Muhammad Yaseen Azad would constitute committees for the rest of Sindh.

These members of the PBC were authorised to associate any member of the provincial bar council for the constitution of the district-level committees.

The committee also decided that the PBC would publish an annual report on human rights violations in Pakistan at the end of every year.


(2012-02-04/dailytimes)