Rs400m approved for improving human rights situation

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ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has approved a draft action plan to improve human rights situation in the country and decided to allocate Rs400 million for human rights education, sensitisation and awareness.

According to an announcement by the Prime Minister Office on Saturday, Rs150m would be provided during the current financial year through a supplementary grant, and Rs250m through budgetary allocations in the financial year 2016-17.

Mr Sharif has approved an amount of Rs250m for the National Institute of Human Rights, of which Rs100m will be provided through the Public Sector Development Programme during the current financial year and Rs150m during the year 2016-17.

Published in Dawn, February 14th, 2016

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Baadsha

Feb 14, 2016 08:33am

There is no checks & balance to watch where this money will end-up!

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Democratic Kp

Feb 14, 2016 08:43am

So please tell us exactly what is being done or will be done to improve human rights situation in the country? Just lip service is not enough.

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Prof Abdul Malik

Feb 14, 2016 08:56am

The hallmark of a civilized society is utmost respect for human rights in all its facets. This is the best investment we are making in ourselves. Thank you Mr. Prime Minister. Your wisdom is showing!

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Dimag ki chatni

Feb 14, 2016 09:53am

Human rights? where in the US?

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khanm

Feb 14, 2016 10:26am

Rs400 million for human rights education, sensitization and awareness.... i wish if this money is used to educate the masses to teach them how the democracy works, how the government works, what are the rights the citizens have as per the constitution of Pakistan...Every human has four endowments - self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.I have a different constitution. I have a different brain; I have a different heart; I got tiger but i don't have the tiger blood in me...

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GAWAL MANDI YA

Feb 14, 2016 10:29am

Lets re-write the laws to protect the minorities,lets educate the public to protect the minorities,lets actually do something so the minorities feel like they are just as much Pakistanis as you and me.

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Larkanian

Feb 14, 2016 02:15pm

Why waste money on something that is not entirely 'visible' anywhere in the country? Everyone knows where this amount would go (the very violators of human rights). Utilize this amount on government health institutes and schools across the rural areas of the country. That'd be the least you could do for the basic human rights.

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Altaf Abdullatif

Feb 15, 2016 07:12am

Another lie.

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