IHRC documented official discrimination against Shia Muslims in religious practices, the justice system and marriage with their free and full consent.

Pakistan faces a number of human rights challenges which relate to Pakistan’s internal struggles in the process of democratisation, questions of gender equality, empowerment of women as well as the fight against terror that since its launch in 2001 has become a central point for human rights violations.

We are deeply concerned that in Pakistan women’s health rights appear to be neglected.