Source/Credit: The Times of India
By Omer Farooq Khan, TNN | Apr 15, 2011
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's Human Rights Commission has released its annual report giving dismal facts and figures about the country's security situation, human rights abuses and treatment meted out to the minorities.
The report said at least 64 people, including Aasia Bibi, were charged under the controversial blasphemy law in 2010.
Bibi's case made headlines when a local court sentenced her to death sparking a huge controversy. Punjab's governor Salman Taseer and minorities minister Shahbaz Bhatti were assassinated for opposing Bibi's conviction. The report said three men including two Christian brothers accused of blasphemy died in police custody.
The report said around 500 Hindu families migrated to India due to threats to their lives from the restive Baluchistan province. It said 17 members of minority communities were killed in the name of honour while 21 others attempted suicide. The report positively noted that 25 Sikh families forced to flee from the troubled Orakzai tribal region in Pakistan's northwest due to Taliban threats returned home.
The report says 418 people were killed and 963 injured in violence against various Muslim sects. Around 800 women were killed in the name of honour and 2,903 raped. The highest number of rape cases, 2581, were reported from Punjab.
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