The Pasban-e-Pakistan ( ur, پاسبانِ پاکستان ''Defenders of Pakistan'') also known as Pasban Democratic Party is a political party in
Pakistan
Pakistan ( ur, ), officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ( ur, , label=none), is a country in South Asia. It is the world's fifth-most populous country, with a population of almost 243 million people, and has the world's second-lar ...
. It raises its voice against issues of injustice in society. Pasban's current president and founder is
Altaf Shakoor.
History
Pasban was initially a youth wing of
Jamaat-e-Islami in Pakistan. In 1995, Pasban split from Jaamat-e-Islami and was founded by
Altaf Shakoor as a separate splinter group. It registered itself as a political party in 2013. Now it is an independent organisation working for
human rights
Human rights are moral principles or normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyHuman Rights Retrieved 14 August 2014 for certain standards of hu ...
and highlights the problems faced by the common men.
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Political organisations based in Pakistan
Jamaat-e-Islami Pakistan
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