UN committee slams ‘widespread torture’ by Pakistani police

‘A United Nations committee has censured the “widespread practice of torture” by Pakistani police, military and intelligence agencies, urging the country to make urgent reforms to the law.
“The police engage in the widespread practice of torture throughout the territory … with a view to obtaining confessions from persons in custody,” said the UN Committee against Torture in a report published Friday after probing the issue for months, AFP reported.
The report further read, “The Committee is seriously concerned at reports that members of the State party’s military forces; intelligence forces … and paramilitary forces … have been implicated in a significant number of cases of extra-judicial executions involving torture and enforced disappearances.”
The UN committee also underlined that the country’s so-called Torture, Custodial Death and Custodial Rape Bill, which was presented years ago, has yet to be passed by the legislature.’
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