1.   According to Asma Jahangir, the United Nations special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings, they are on the increase.

2.   Most cases have never been investigated and extrajudicial killings have continued with impunity.

3.   Human rights groups have repeatedly raised an outcry about disappearances and extrajudicial killings.

4.   In Asia, extrajudicial killings were carried out in Cambodia and Afghanistan and in the states of Jammu and Kashmir and Punjab in India.

5.   Leghari also said in his order that extrajudicial killings were not investigated.

6.   Recent claims by former army officers that soldiers were themselves to blame for extrajudicial killings and torture have only increased these suspicions.

7.   Similarly, Egypt was criticized for excessive force, including torture and extrajudicial killings, in its campaign against Islamic militants.

8.   The commission does not condone the legitimization of such individuals as military targets and finds that the extrajudicial killings of such individuals constituted gross violations of human rights.

9.   The faimlies charge the two ex-generals with overseeing extrajudicial killing, torture and crimes against humanity.

10.   The United States has urged Israel to stop what it has called extrajudicial killing.