Kamal Khan, Pakistan worked as regional coordinator of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRPC) in the province of Turbat Balochistan since 2008. He was targeted by the Taliban because, with the support of the International Commission of Jurists (ICJ), he had documented countless human rights violations by the Islamists, as well as attacks by "Koran students" on educational institutions, members of religious or ethnic minorities, human rights defenders and journalists.