Man is born free. No one has the right to deprive him of the basic necessities such as food,clothing,shelter and education.No government has the authority to violate the integrity of his person and to curb his right to freedom of thought of religion,of assembly,of speech and of movement both within and outside the country.
Authoritarian regimes have been known to repress these rights by arbitrarily imprisoning a person,denying the fair public trial and meeting out inhuman punishments to him.They have been guilty,sometimes denying him of his basic needs by placing a vast proportion of bits limited resources to corrupt officials or to creating a luxury goods for the elite.It is well known that many totalitarian are premised on the denial of these rights.when regimes in countries having democratic traditions violate these rights it most distressing.The IRANIAN example disregarding diplomatic norms and holding innocent diplomats as hostage,is a grim pointers to the violation of human rights.When human beings are forcibly abducted from their homes,interrogated incessantly at the pleasure of their captors and prided with electrodes or held under water to the point of drowning when such things are happening in this so called civilized world all who truly value human rights must speak up.
Human rights all over the world are,in fact threatened by
1: Excessive concentration of wealth and means of production and distribution and the most extravagant per capita consumption patterns in the so called advanced and developed countries of the worlld.
2: Racial discrimination new economic imperialism and restrictive trade practices.
3: Overt and covert interference by some powers to dictate and determine the national polices and programe of other countries,using nations as pawns in their global aims and for that purpose to prefer military governments without popular base:and
4: The growing and ever increasing gap between affluent developed countries and the poor developing countries of the world.
Pakistan has been the championing the human rights since the days of Quaid-e-Azam and has always looked at it from a broder angle.The Quaid-e-Azam had always played the individual above institutions and had consistently emphasised the need for remarking of man so that an egalitarian society could be ushered in.The human rights movement has been carried forward by the late Dr.Martin Luther King in the U.S.A by Julius Nayerere in Tanzania and many other personalities in Asian,African and Latin American countries of the world.
The most important pre-requisite for the meaningful realization of human rights,in particular economic ,social mand cultural rights,is independence,territorial integrity and national sovereighnty.No economic or social development could lead to a more egalitarian and just society without independence,territorial integrity and national sovereignty.Foreign models are not a satisfactory solution to the unique economic ,social ,cultural and political problems of each country .
In Pakistan special steps have been taken to protect human rights and to provide better amenities to youth .The preamble of the Pakistan constitution promises to all its citizens justice-social, economic and political;liberty of thought,expression, belief, faith and worship;equality of status and of opportunity and to promote among them fraternity assuring the dignity of all.
