HR body elects office-bearers for Mastuj

Report GH Farooqui, Chitral


The Human Rights Monitoring Committee (HRMC) elected office-bearers for Mastuj to monitor human rights violations in the subdivision.

In this regrad, a meeting was held under the chairmanship of Niaz Ali Shah, Project Coordinator of Easy & Equitable Access to Justice Program for women of Chitral. Ghulam Ali Shah Advocate, Mir Aziz Councilor of Union Council Mastuj, Shakira Naz, Ashrafi Bibi, Shahira Khan and others attended the meeting. They discussed different matters and called for establishment of a human rights monitoring committee (HRMC) in Mastuj. It was also decided that honorary members would be elected from far-flung areas of Mastuj Tehsil like Broghil, Yarkhun Lasht, etc to strengthen the network and to support and inform HRMC Mastuj office. A large number of women also attended the meeting which later elected the following office-bearers unopposed.

Shahira Khan, President; Ashrafi Bibi, Vice President; Asham Bibi, General Secretary; Mir Aziz, Press Secretary; Bibi Zar, Joint Secretary, and Shakira Naz, Finance Secretary.