The Importance Of Human Rights In Pakistan

Human rights are the rights that simply belong to each individual. Every person was born to live in the world freely and equally. Other people cannot hurt because human rights will protect others from those violence. Everyone has rights to speak freely and worship in whatever they want to speak as long as it will not affect to other people reputation. In terms of Pakistan, it violates all four freedoms which are freedom of speech, freedom of worship, freedom from want and freedom from fear. There is no freedom of speech as anyone who says anything against the country’s traditions and main religion of Pakistan which is Muslim is charged guilty. Other rights that is violated is freedom of worship, citizens of Pakistan who worship other beliefs …show more content…
The violation of human rights can be seen in Pakistan’s history. According to National Geographic Society (2012), due to the Afghan’s war in 1979 when Russia invaded Afghanistan, many refugees escaped from Afghanistan to Pakistan. They did not pass through proper security, they also smuggled weapons and many militants came into the country illegally. According to the UN Refugee Agency, most of these refugees have gone to stay in the Northern region of Pakistan. From these problems, the Taliban has been able to build itself in the Northern region of Pakistan where there are less military activities. After this event, Pakistan started to have many security problems and have not been able to ensure proper security for Pakistan’s citizens. Thus, many people especially who are living in the North or rural areas live under of their fear while many others dare not travel to the Northern region which the militants have invaded. Hence, Pakistan violates a lot in freedom from fear. According to Yusuf (2014), the bullying from the militants have been developing more than a year and the government has not been able to stop them. Militants attack on cities and towns, and also try to do other illegal activities such as kidnapping, robbery, etc. Most citizens and businesses live under fear of safety, and the fear caused from disrupts to their daily lives. From this fear, local businesses, small private firms and large corporations endure losses that international companies are scared to trade with them. According to Khan (2010), one of the main reasons of the decline in Pakistan business sector is due to internal security issues which causes delays in meeting deadlines, hampers production and affects businesses negatively in many other ways as well. Thus, local businesses have suffered on a large