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Make torture a crime: Rights group urges Pakistan

New York [US], August 24 (ANI): Pakistan’s Senate should urgently pass a bill that would make torture a criminal offence, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said.
On August 1, 2022, the National Assembly passed the Torture and Custodial Death (Prevention and Punishment) Act, which, if enacted into law, will for the first time criminalize torture by Pakistan’s security forces. The bill has been sent to the standing committee and can