• Mr. Aftab Alam

    Minister for Law Parliamentary Affairs & Human Rights Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
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    The people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have perennial and endless calamities both natural and man-induced for over three decades now.

    Human rights watch reports and indices unveil the frail state of human rights in the province. Moreover the recent surge of terrorism, and social evils inherent in mis-governance, have greatly affected the state of human rights in the Province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Shackled with nexus of multi-dimensional human rights violations, the province has been kept from progressing. The current Government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has ceded significant constitutional, policy, legislative, and procedural reforms to springboard human rights. The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Government has flagged out the human rights provision and is determined to eliminate corruption, injustice, inequality and anti-social elements from the society. These social evils loop off the fabric of the community and erode away the social knitting. Among many of the steps taken to this end, one is the establishment of Directorate of Human Rights in the province.

    The Directorate has been established under the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Rules of Business 1985 and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Promotion, Protection and Enforcement of Human Rights Act, 2014. The Directorate has been instrumental to safeguard human rights and provide redress to the aggrieved ones throughout the province. The Directorate has upto this date, taken action on many complaints of human rights violations and has dealt with numerous applications against private individuals and public functionaries involved in the violation and neglect of the fundamental constitutional rights. It has, thus, provided the most efficient and proper relief to the aggrieved persons which other forums were hitherto unable to provide to them.

     

    My best wishes go with the officials/officers of the Directorate.