Islamabad, Apr 11 (EFE).- Thousands of farmers in Pakistan’s eastern city of Lahore are losing their homes and livelihood to a multi-billion dollar new city project, a global rights group said Tuesday. Human Rights Watch urged the Pakistan authorities to enforce environmental protections and reform colonial-era laws that grant the government powers to acquire land …
The Human Rights Watch (HRW) has published a report mentioning that how Pakistan authorities are forcibly evicting thousands of farmers near the city of Lahore for a massive infrastructure project, and asked the authorities to enforce environmental protections and reform colonial-era laws that grant the government broad powers to acquire land for private as well as public use.