WASHINGTON: In a letter to US President George W Bush on Thursday, the Human Rights Watch has urged the US government to suspend all non-humanitarian assistance to Pakistan immediately in response to General Pervez Musharraf's suspension of the Pakistani constitution and declaration of emergency rule on November 3.
The HRW has advocated that the aid should remain suspended until the Pakistani government returns to constitutional rule, reinstates dismissed judges and respects the decisions of the courts, releases all those arbitrarily detained, and restores full media freedoms. The letter adds President Bush should impose a travel ban on senior Pakistani military and government officials until the above steps are taken.
Director of the HRW Asia chapter, Brad Adams, said, “Unless President Musharraf reverses course now, the elections he has announced for February 2008 will not be free or fair.”
To view the Human Rights Watch letter to President Bush, please visit:
http://hrw.org/english/docs/2007/11/08/pakist17295.htm
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