Saba Ismail and Gulalai Ismail are two sisters who had worked for over years on women empowerment, peace and human rights in the North-Western Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province of Pakistan. Through their organization Aware Girls, they had mentored Malala and thousands of girls like Malala who understand that if they don't speak out for their rights, their world won't change. Through the podcast, the Ismail sisters aim to amplify the voices and issues of women central to the conflict and post-conflict communities.
Husain Haqqani Statement in the Onine Protest Against Detention of Professor Muhammad Ismail
Husain Haqqani, former ambassador of Pakistan to USA and Director South Asia at the Hudson Insitute USA spoke at the online protest against the detention of the father of human rights activist Gulalai Ismail, Professor Muhammad Ismail, questioning the systematic inequalities in Pakistan, military rule, and misuse of judicial systems against human rights activists in Pakistan.
Gulalai Ismail, one of Pakistan’s boldest human rights defenders (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/world/asia/pakistan-gulalai-ismail-.html) and a stalwart critic of Pakistan’s security services, succeeded in escaping an enormous dragnet and making it to the United States in 2019, deeply humiliating the authorities who had been persecuting her.
Now Pakistan has taken aim at her parents, accusing them of terrorism, and throwing her father, who was recovering from Covid-19, into jail.
On 2nd February,, a bail hearing ended with Mohammed Ismail, Ms. Ismail’s 65-year-old father, being led away in handcuffs. He faces charges of sedition and terrorism financing, which human rights defenders say are bogus and thinly veiled revenge against the family for embarrassing the state security services.
Professor Muhammad Ismail has been subsequently denied bail and facing judicial delays. On 2nd March 2019, Gulalai Ismail organized an online protest against the detention of her father bringing together more than 40 experts on Human Rights from around the world. Rabia Mahmood, a human rights activist from Pakistan who has worked with several international human rights organisations spoke at the event describing the physical and mental ordeal the family had gone through in the past two years.
11 Mar 2021
Rabia Mahmood's Statement against the Detention of Professor Muhammad Ismail
Rabia Mahmood, a human rights activist from Pakistan who has worked with several international human rights organizations spoke at the event against the detention of Professor Muhammad Ismail describing the physical and mental ordeal the Ismail family had went through in the past two years.
Gulalai Ismail, one of Pakistan’s boldest human rights defenders (https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/world/asia/pakistan-gulalai-ismail-.html) and a stalwart critic of Pakistan’s security services, succeeded in escaping an enormous dragnet and making it to the United States in 2019, deeply humiliating the authorities who had been persecuting her.
Now Pakistan has taken aim at her parents, accusing them of terrorism, and throwing her father, who was recovering from Covid-19, into jail.
On 2nd February,, a bail hearing ended with Mohammed Ismail, Ms. Ismail’s 65-year-old father, being led away in handcuffs. He faces charges of sedition and terrorism financing, which human rights defenders say are bogus and thinly veiled revenge against the family for embarrassing the state security services.
Professor Muhammad Ismail has been subsequently denied bail and facing judicial delays. On 2nd March 2019, Gulalai Ismail organized an online protest against the detention of her father bringing together more than 40 experts on Human Rights from around the world. Rabia Mahmood, a human rights activist from Pakistan who has worked with several international human rights organisations spoke at the event describing the physical and mental ordeal the family had gone through in the past two years.
10 Mar 2021
Hina Jilani's Statement against the Detention and perseuction of Muhammad Ismail
Gulalai Ismail, a human rights activist from Pakistan, facing persecution by the Pakistani state authorities because of her human rights activism. She succeeded in escaping an enormous dragnet and making it to the United States in 2019, deeply humiliating the authorities who had been persecuting her. Now Pakistan has taken aim at her parents, accusing them of terrorism, and throwing her father, who was recovering from Covid-19, into jail. On 2nd February, her father Professor Muhammad Ismail was arrested, he has been subsequently denied bail and facing judicial delays. On 2nd March 2019, Gulalai Ismail organized an online protest against the detention of her father bringing together more than 40 experts on Human Rights from around the world. Ms Hina Jillani, a stalwart human rights defender, founder and Chair of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan spoke at the event calling the exile of activists a loss of Pakistan, a drainage of human rights community in Pakistan.
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