SHARP owes its existence to the concerted efforts by a group of dedicated Lawyers having strong conviction in Human Rights standards set forth in the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. These Lawyers laid down the foundation of SHARP in 1998 under the dynamic leadership of Syed Liaqat Banori - a renowned Advocate and acclaimed Human Rights activist. It is a team of committed Lawyers and dedicated social workers, working for the help of downtrodden classes of our society. It is actively engaged in promoting awareness and advocating about Human Rights to secure the well being, freedom and dignity of the people. Under this domain, it has been rendering its services particularly to women, children, and prisoners and to the problems related to the refugees.

SHARP believes that without the respect of human rights, the prosperous liberation of the mind is not possible which gives rise to the insecurity and indignity in humans thereby resulting in a hampered development. Therefore, without the respect of human rights we can not move progressively towards our future and achieve our goals. SHARP believes to create the spirit of activism, identify core intervention and mutual beneficial complimentary role brings us closer to other groups working towards a friendly Pakistan, however, within this similarity; there is a unique distinction to our work, primarily attributable to our philosophy and approach. As an NGO, SHARP is working for the rights of the vulnerable segments of the society and envisages a Human Rights friendly Pakistan in the coming years.

SHARP recognizes the current Human Rights state in Pakistan has developed a three pronged strategy to deal with the adverse social and legal situation in Pakistan, such as: (1) providing direct legal services to the less fortunate members of the society; (2) developing a strong chain of liaison with various organizations; (3) arranging workshops and seminars as to spread awareness about the Human Rights violations which are going in silence due to non-availability of correct channels to address the issue. SHARP believes to solve the problems of the common man and lacunas in our procedural laws has always focused on the provisions of free legal aid to vulnerable groups of people. SHARP believes to control the human trafficking, social evils such as the migrant smuggling, trafficking of narcotics, and arms exploitive process starting with the recruitment and transpiration process.