Mahrang Baloch, the activist leading the ongoing sit-in in Islamabad against enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings in Balochistan, has stated that the whereabouts of over 100 protestors picked up by the authorities are still unknown. This contradicts the Islamabad police's claim that all protestors...

After blasphemy-convict Junaid Hafeez’s appeal against his death sentence was finally fixed before the Lahore High Court earlier this month, his new lawyer, Saif ul Malook, appears to be mishandling the case, Dissent Today has learnt. Junaid Hafeez, a progressive academic who served as...

It has been five years since journalist Zeenat Shehzadi was released after more than two years of enforced disappearance, but there has been no accountability for the torment she was put through. Her statement was not recorded by Pakistan's Commission of Inquiry on Enforced...

Ishaq Mohammadi never wanted to leave Pakistan, but, when a close friend was killed, he felt he had no choice but to flee to the United States in 2009. In January that year, Ishaq's friend, Hussain Ali Yousufi, who was a prominent Hazara politician...