Pakistan

• Abduction 55
• Ahmadis 5
• Airports 3
• Anti-terrorism law 2
• Appeal / Right to appeal 2
• Arbitrary arrest and detention 3
• Armed forces / Military 158
• Armed groups / Militias / Paramilitary forces / Resistance movements 454
• Asylum-seekers 1
• Bail 7
• Baluchis 29
• Border conflict 93
• Border controls 8
• Border crossers 1
• Ceasefire 7
• Child labour 1
• Child soldiers 1
• Children's rights 8
• Children-at-risk 12
• Christian 31
• Communal conflict / Social conflict 36
• Conflict situation 1
• Contemporary forms of slavery 3
• Corruption 18
• Coup d'état 2
• Criminal justice 12
• Death penalty 51
• Demobilization / Disarmament 1
• Democracy 1
• Deportation / Forcible return 13
• Disappeared persons 10
• Domestic violence 1
• Drug trafficking 1
• Elections 52
• Evacuation 1
• Exiles 1
• Expulsion 2
• Extradition 1
• Extrajudicial executions 4
• Extreme poverty 1
• False documents 2
• Flight by land, air or sea 4
• Forced labour 1
• Forced marriage 6
• Freedom from torture, inhuman and degrading treatment 4
• Freedom of assembly and association 3
• Freedom of expression 53
• Freedom of information 11
• Freedom of movement 9
• Freedom of religion 32
• Freedom of speech 3
• Gang related violence 2
• Gender discrimination 2
• Generalized violence 6
• Hazara 3
• Hindu 3
• Honour killings 26
• Housing, land and property rights (HLP) 2
• Human rights activists 25
• Human rights monitors 4
• Humanitarian assistance 6
• Humanitarian protection (including tolerated stay) 1
• IDP camps 1
• Illegal entry 2
• Illegal immigrants / Undocumented migrants 1
• Impunity 2
• Independence of judiciary 7
• Internal armed conflict 15
• Internally displaced persons (IDPs) 13
• International armed conflict 1
• Involuntary repatriation 3
• Juvenile justice system 4
• Kashmiris 36
• Landmines, unexploded ordnance (UXO) and improvised explosive devices (IEDs) 2
• Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTI) 7
• Maternal and child health care 1
• Mentally disadvantaged persons 6
• Methodist 1
• Migrants 1
• Military courts 5
• Military operations 185
• Military service / Conscientious objection / Desertion / Draft evasion / Forced conscription 1
• Minorities 9
• Muslim 19
• National security / Public order 1
• One-child policy / Family planning 1
• Opposition 18
• Pashtun 9
• Peace agreements 1
• Peace process 53
• Persecution based on political opinion 2
• Persecution of family members 2
• Persecution on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity 3
• Persons with disabilities 2
• Police 57
• Political parties 11
• Political situation 4
• Prison or detention conditions 1
• Protection of civilian persons in time of war 8
• Protests / Demonstrations / Riots / Civil unrest 67
• Public health 33
• Racial / Ethnic persecution 1
• Reconciliation 1
• Refugee camps 1
• Refugees 8
• Religious discrimination 3
• Religious persecution (including forced conversion) 8
• Return conditions 1
• Right to a nationality 1
• Right to education 10
• Right to employment 1
• Right to justice 1
• Right to self-determination 1
• Rule of law / Due process / Procedural fairness 2
• Sale of children 1
• Sanctions 6
• Security forces 16
• Security situation 27
• Serious non-political crime 1
• Sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) 19
• Sexual and reproductive rights 2
• Sharia law 3
• Shia 29
• Sikh 5
• Small arms 1
• Smuggling of persons 1
• Spontaneous return 1
• Sufi 10
• Sunni 10
• Terrorism 271
• Threats / Intimidation 1
• Torture 5
• Voluntary repatriation 4
• Witnesses 2
• Women's rights 21

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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