Human Rights in Pakistan/M.G. Chitkara.1997, xii, 407 p., $53.
Contents: Preview. 1. Basis of human rights. 2. The United Nation and human rights. 3. Human rights and liberty. 4. Equality. 5. Feudal psyche. 6. Feudalism and human rights in Sindh. 7. Believers in Islam. 8. Women's participation. 9. Mohajirs in Pakistan. 10. Ahmadiyas in Islamic state. 11. Left-over Hindus in Pakistan. 12. Blasphemy laws. 13. Islamic laws. 14. Federalism. 15. Independent judiciary. 16. Indo-Pak economies. 17. Arms race. 18. World peace. Bibliography. Appendices:1. Declaration of independence, dated July 4, 1776. 2. Declaration of the rights of man and citizen, adopted to August 26, 1789. 3. The decree of the land and the declaration of rights, issued by the All Russian Congress of Soviets on Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly on January 19, 1918. 4. United Nations charter, signed on June 26, 1945. 5. Universal declaration of human rights adopted and proclaimed by General Assembly resolution 217 A (III) of 10 December 1948. 6. Human rights in the United Nations. 7. International convention on the elimination of all forms of racial discrimination. 8. Provisions concerning human rights in the United Nations charter. 9. International convenant on economic, social and cultural rights. 10. International convenient on civil and political rights. 11. Convention on the elimination of all forms of discrimination against women. 12. The International Congress on education for human rights and democracy, held in Montreal (Canada) from March 8-11, 1993 by UNESCO. 13. Preamble of the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. 14. Fundamental rights and principles of policy. 15. Federal Shariat court. 16. Third schedule of the constitution of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan. 17. Pakistan's constitution and un declaration. Index.
[M.G. Chitkara's books include Law and the Poor, Lok Adalat, Bureaucracy and Social Change and Indo-Pak Amity.]