Police in Pakistan engage in human rights violations such as “arbitrary arrest, torture, extra-judicial killings and sexual violence,” with religious minorities especially vulnerable to the “disgruntled and corrupt” officers of the force, a global rights body said on Monday in a damning report.
The finding by the Human Rights Watch, is based on interviews with senior police officials, and victims and witnesses of police abuse in Balochistan, Sindh and Punjab provinces.
The report details the allegedly over 2000 false “encounters” committed by police in 2015, and demanded an immediate overhaul of the country’s police system that “enables and even encourages serious human rights violations”.