Document #1055226
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Author)
For information on the above-mentioned
subject, please refer to the April 1994 DIRB report entitled
Pakistan: Country Review, pages 27 to 29 and page 32, and
the February 1993 Question and Answer Series paper entitled
Pakistan: The Pakistan People's Party, pages 5 to 6, both of
which are available at Regional Documentation Centres. In addition,
please consult the attached excerpts from Country Reports
1994 and the 1992 Asia Watch publication entitled Double
Jeopardy: Police Abuse of Women in Pakistan.
For information on due process and pretrial
detention, conditions and procedures for those accused of political
dissent, please refer to the attached Amnesty International
documents and to the AI January 1995 report entitled Pakistan:
The Pattern Persists: Torture, Death in Custody, Extrajudicial
Executions and "Disappearances" under the PPP Government, which
is available at Regional Documentation Centres.
For further information on this subject,
please refer to the attached documents.
This response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the DIRB within time constraints. This response is not, and does
not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular
claim to refugee status or asylum.
Amnesty International. 1994. Amnesty
International Report 1994. New York: Amnesty International USA,
pp. 231-234.
_____. September 1993. Pakistan: Open
Letter to the Political Parties. (AI Index: ASA 33/04/93).
London: Amnesty International.
_____. November 1991. Pakistan:
Special Courts for Speedy Trial. (AI Index: ASA 33/23/91).
London: Amnesty International.
Asia Watch. 1992. Double Jeopardy:
Police Abuse of Women in Pakistan. New York: Human Rights
Watch, pp. 98-113.
Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices for 1994. 1995. United States Department of State.
Washington, DC. (electronic version received from Resource Info
Center, INS, US).
United States Immigration and
Naturalization Service (INS) Resource Information Center. November
1993. Pakistan. (PR/PK/94.001). Washington, DC: INS Resource
Information Center.
Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
(LCHR). 1994. Critique Review of the Department of State's
Country Reports on Human Rights Practices for 1993. New York:
LCHR, pp. 258-265.
Office of Asylum Affairs (OAA), Bureau
of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor. December 1994. Pakistan:
Profile of Asylum Claims and Country Conditions. Washington,
DC: United States Department of State.