Human Rights Commission Calls for Inquiry into Deaths in Custody

Culture of impunity

A RECENT fact-finding report by the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called for an urgent high-level judicial inquiry into deaths during so-called operations conducted by the Punjab Police’s Crime Control Department, which has allegedly adopted a “deliberate policy of staged police encounters leading to extrajudicial killings”. According to the report, as many as 924 suspects were killed in at least 670 CCD-led encounters across Punjab over eight months in 2025 since the launch ...

By none@none.com (Tariq Khosa)