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Pakistan: UN Calls for Probe Into Abductions and Killings of Journalists

NEW YORK–(ENEWSPF)–19 August 2011.  The United Nations human rights office today urged the Pakistani Government to investigate numerous reports of abductions, disappearances and extrajudicial killings, particularly of journalists.

Since 2007, the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has received numerous reports of such human rights violations, spokesperson Rupert Colville told reporters in Geneva.

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In the past week alone, it received reports on the killing of one journalist, Munir Shakir,…

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