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Essential Background: Overview of human rights issues in Pakistan (Human Rights Watch, 31-12-2004) |
 | | The Pakistan government did not apply international humanitarian law to the conflict, arguing that though the offensive was being conducted by its army, it was an anti-terrorist operation. |
 | | In the immediate aftermath of the army operation, the Pakistan Army reported the capture of 215 fighters, of whom at least seventy-three were foreigners from Chechnya, China’s predominantly Muslim Xinjiang province, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, and various Arab countries. |
 | | In April 2004, the president of an opposition party, Makhdoom Javed Hashmi of the Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy, was sentenced to twenty-three years in prison on sedition charges for reading an anti-Musharraf letter to assembled journalists. |
| hrw.org /english/docs/2004/12/14/pakist9852.htm (1738 words) |
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