From U.N. Integrated Regional Information Network, Dec 4, 2001: Human rights groups call for tribunal:

Human rights activists in Pakistan have called on the UN to establish a war crimes tribunal for Afghanistan.

"I want to request the UN human rights commission to set up a panel of experts to investigate war crimes and mass executions carried out in Afghanistan over the past two years," chairman of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), Afrasiab Khattak, told IRIN on Monday.

"There should be accountability for the violation of international laws in Afghanistan and now is the right time as the witnesses and sources are there," he said.