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Award-winning NGO criminialized over ‘dubious activities’
- Updated: September 8, 2016
Taang Wasaib has operations in 12 districts of a Punjab.
PHOTO: AFP
LAHORE: The offices of an award-winning Sargodha-based organisation, operative for eremite harmony, have been hermetic over ‘dubious activities.’
Satellite Town military raided a offices of Taang Wasaib Organisation (TWO), took a masculine staff in control and hermetic a premises on Sep 1, says Dr Rubina Feroze Bhatti, owner and ubiquitous secretary of a TWO. Talking to The Express Tribune, she pronounced military had not given any reason for sealing a office.
“We were not sensitive about allegations opposite us. Policemen hermetic a bureau and told us that a organization had been banned,” she said.
She pronounced a staff was after expelled on Parliamentary Secretary Tariq Masih Gill’s intervention. She pronounced a military had told Gill that a offices had been hermetic on a directions of Home Department.
According to a round released by a Home Department on Jun 14, a duplicate of that is accessible with The Express Tribune, a dialect had perceived a news from an comprehension organization that a TWO was concerned in indeterminate activities. The Home Department had endorsed that a organization be criminialized and required follow-up movement be taken in suitability with a law.
Bhatti told The Express Tribune that a military had not specified a unattractive component in a organisation’s activities. She pronounced a TWO was determined in 1998 and was purebred underneath a Trust Act 1882 in Mar 2000 and after underneath a Societies Act 1860 in Sep 2003.
She pronounced TWO was a rights-based growth organization operative for community and eremite peace and equivalence by addressing issues of assault opposite women, eremite intolerance, sectarianism and discriminatory laws.
“Over a years, a TWO has stretched a areas of operation to 12 districts in a Punjab. Its work is widely recognised.”
She pronounced a TWO had perceived several awards, including a UNDP Peace Award and World Vision International Peacemaking Award.
“I am a member of a advisory legislature for minority affairs determined by a Ministry for Human Rights and Minorities Affairs. On Aug 11, a method gave me an endowment for superb grant to building a certain picture of Pakistan.”
“Allegations of indeterminate activities are not justified,” she said.
Peter Jacob, another rights activist, told The Express Tribune that closure of a TWO’s bureau had caused alarm among activists.
“If TWO has been hermetic today, other rights organisations competence face identical action,” he said.
He pronounced an interest had been filed opposite TWO’s closure with a Home Department.
“We have asked a home secretary to meddle in a matter and stop a allegation debate opposite a TWO and a administration by news outlets.”
He claimed that TWO had been close down a day after a journal published a news object observant that TWO was a criminialized organisation.
DSP Shahid Nazeer told The Express Tribune that he was not wakeful of a allegations opposite a NGO.
“We hermetic a offices on orders from a Home Department,” he said. He pronounced no FIR had been purebred in this regard.
Tariq Masih Gill, a parliamentary secretary for a Human Rights and Minority Affairs Department, told The Express Tribune that their dialect had given a tellurian rights Award to Rubina.
“I have met a Sargodha district military officer and asked him to free a offices and recover a workers,” he said. Parliamentary Secretary for Home Affairs Mehar Ijaz Ahmed Achlana told The Express Tribune that he was unknowingly of any pierce opposite TWO.
Published in The Express Tribune, Sep 9th, 2016.