Pakistan

• Case Law 57
• Country Profiles 1
• Query Responses 50

• Abduction 4
• Ahmadis 12
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 2
• Armed forces / Military 3
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 4
• Atheist / Agnostic 1
• Baluchis 1
• Bengalis 2
• Catholic 1
• Christian 7
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 2
• Complementary forms of protection 1
• Conflict situation 2
• Constitutional law 1
• Corruption 1
• Country of origin information (COI) 16
• Credibility assessment 11
• Criminal justice 2
• Democracy 1
• Disappeared persons 1
• Discrimination based on race, nationality, ethnicity 3
• Domestic violence 1
• Drug trafficking 3
• Effective protection 5
• Elections 4
• Entry / Exit 2
• Evidence (including age and language assessments / medico-legal reports) 3
• Extrajudicial executions 1
• Family law 1
• Forced marriage 1
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 2
• Freedom of assembly and association 3
• Freedom of expression 2
• Freedom of information 2
• Freedom of religion 4
• Freedom of speech 1
• Good governance 9
• Harmful traditional practices 1
• Hazara 6
• Honour killings 5
• Human rights activists 1
• Human rights and fundamental freedoms 1
• Internal armed conflict 1
• Internal flight alternative (IFA) / Internal relocation alternative (IRA) / Internal protection alternative (IPA) 12
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 3
• International armed conflict 1
• Ismaili 1
• Laws relating to religion 1
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 1
• Maternal and child health care 1
• Mental health 2
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 3
• Minorities 3
• Mohajirs 3
• Multiple nationality 1
• Muslim 14
• National security / Public order 1
• Non-state agents of persecution 22
• Older persons 1
• Pashtun 7
• Persecution based on political opinion 24
• Persecution of family members 4
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 1
• Police 8
• Political groups 19
• Political parties 24
• Political situation 24
• Public health 1
• Punjabis 3
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 8
• Religious discrimination 8
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 38
• Returnees 1
• Right to education 3
• Right to employment 1
• Right to health 1
• SGBV 1
• Safe third country 2
• Security forces 3
• Security situation 11
• Sharia law 4
• Shia 23
• Sindhis 3
• Social group persecution 14
• State protection 21
• Sufi 1
• Sunni 4
• Terrorism 6
• Torture 1
• Transgression of social / cultural norms 4
• Women's rights 6
• Women-at-risk 2

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• Amnesty International - Pakistan
• Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC)
• Associated Press of Pakistan
• BBC News - Special Report: Kashmir Flashpoint
• BBC Urdu
• Dawn
• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) - Pakistan
• Government of Pakistan: Ministry of Information and Broadcasting
• Human Rights Commission of Pakistan
• Human Rights Watch (HRW) - Pakistan
• Integrated Regional Information Networks (IRIN) - Pakistan
• Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) - Pakistan
• International Committee of the Red Cross - The ICRC in Pakistan
• International Crisis Group (ICG) - Kashmir
• International Crisis Group (ICG) - Pakistan
• Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) - Pakistan
• Lahore Ahmadiyya Movement for the Propagation of Islam
• National Accountability Bureau, Islamic Republic of Pakistan
• New York Times - Pakistan News
• Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) - Pakistan
• Pakistan International Human Rights Organization (PIHRO)
• Pakistan Observer Online
• Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF)
• Pakistaniat.com - All Things Pakistan
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) - Pakistan
• ReliefWeb - Pakistan
• The Frontier Post
• Time Magazine - Asia Edition
• UNHCR - Pakistan
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) - Pakistan
• United Nations Military Observer Group in India and Pakistan (UNMOGIP)
• United States Department of State - Pakistan
• United States Department of State: Congressional Research Service Reports (CRS) and Issue Briefs
• Women's Learning Partnership - Claiming Equal Citizenship
• World Food Programme (WFP) - Pakistan
• World Health Organization (WHO) - Pakistan