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Senate Standing Committee on Human Rights is focusing on providing relief and facilitation to a number of internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Pakistan. A sub-committee meeting held at the Parliament House on Tuesday proposed the formation of a separate ministry to manage the increasing number of IDPs in Pakistan.
According to Senator Mushahid Hussain, the Disaster Management Cell (DMC) operating under the Cabinet Division is purely bureaucratic and does not fulfill the core needs of over a million IDPs in Pakistan.
“In Pakistan both natural and man-made disasters are increasing. Natural disasters are increasing because of climate change. Man-made disasters are because of security reasons. Half a million people have been displaced from Waziristan.
People have been displaced from Lyari to Dadu, numbers of Bugtis have been protesting in Islamabad for two months but no one has bothered to resolve their issue. DMC only provides camps to displaced persons. A ministry can resolve the issues of people and it can also take non-government organizations onboard,” Hussain said.
Other recommendations made during the meeting included the introduction of a mandatory subject on human rights in all the training centers of law enforcement agencies including police, armed forces, intelligence and civil administration. Former Secretary Human Rights Shaigan Malik and human rights activist Nasreen Azhar agreed to the proposals of the subcommittee.
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