HRCP calls for judicial probe into Punjab CCD ‘encounter’ killings

HRCP calls for judicial probe into Punjab CCD ‘encounter’ killings

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has called for the formation of a high-level judicial commission to investigate deaths resulting from operations conducted by Punjab’s Crime Control Department (CCD), alleging a pattern of staged police encounters and extrajudicial killings. In a fact-finding report issued from Lahore, the HRCP alleged that the CCD had adopted encounter killings “as a matter of policy,” undermining the rule of law a…