HYDERABAD, Aug 11: Human rights activists and nationalist leaders have urged the United Nations to stop human rights violations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Lebanon, Kashmir and Palestine.

They were speaking at a seminar organised by Pakistan Human Rights Forum on “Human Rights Violations” to mark the forum’s first anniversary at the Hyderabad press club on Thursday.

The forum’s chairman, Mehboob Sangi, feared that the Zionist aggression against the innocent people of Lebanon might spiral into another world war and urged the Security Council to play its role in stopping the atrocities.

The president of Sindhiani Tahreek, Ms Nazeer Qureshi, said that human rights violations in Pakistan had crossed all limits. The construction of dams on River Indus would deprive tens of millions of Sindhis of their economic rights, she feared.

She said that women were still being killed in the name of honour and karo-kari.

The general secretary of SPLA, Liaquat Aziz Solangi, said that the government had trampled the teachers’ fundamental human rights by imposing a ban on their associations.

He said that the disregard for constitution and army rule had helped raise human rights violations in the country.

A leader of Sindh National Front (SNF), Ayoub Shar, alleged that Sindhis’ basic rights were being violated under a planned conspiracy.

The Sindh National Council leader, Punhal Sario, appealed to the Supreme Court to take suo motu notice of all the extrajudicial killings as it did in the case of Rasool Bux Brohi.

The seminar adopted several resolutions calling upon the authorities to stop the killings of innocent women on the orders of jirgas and innocent people in fake encounters.

It demanded that the government lift ban on teachers and employees associations, compensate rain-affected people and declare the affected districts as calamity-hit.

Qamaruzzaman Rajpar, Abdul Latif and Qasim Soomro also spoke at the seminar.