Asad Gokal
The writer is a counter-extremism activist. He tweets at @asadgokal and can be reached at asad.raza940@gmail.com
Opinion
From Enforced Disappearance To Blasphemy Cases: Pakistan’s Shias Are Persecuted By...
The Shia community makes up about 20-25% of the population of Pakistan, yet they have been systematically discriminated against and persecuted by state and non-state actors in multiple ways since 1947. One of the most traumatic forms of harassment they face is security agencies...
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Locals Stage Sit-In Against...
People in South Waziristan have begun a sit-in after an 11-year-old boy was killed in a landmine explosion in...
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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa To Have...
In a significant milestone for women's representation in Pakistan's judiciary, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is all set to have its first...
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Swat Residents Take To...
Following yesterday's explosions at a counter-terrorism office in Swat that claimed 17 lives, citizens in Swat took to the...
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Hindu Woman, Children Reported...
A Hindu woman in Karachi along with her six children, including teenage daughters, converted to Islam on the same...
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Peshawar’s Sikh Families Are...
There has recently been a surge in targeted attacks on members of minority communities in Peshawar, particularly Sikhs. As...
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Military Operation Being Planned...
The restive town of Parachinar continues to face a lack of necessities and adequate humanitarian aid, as the Kurram...
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Human Rights
Pakistan’s Civic Freedoms Deteriorate Amid Crackdown on Dissent: Report
ISLAMABAD - Civic freedoms in Pakistan have deteriorated amid a widening crackdown on activists,...
Human Rights
Pakistan Police Arrest 17 at Islamabad Aurat March on Women’s Day
Police arrested 17 organizers and participants of the annual Aurat March in Islamabad on...
Extremism watch
Overlooking Homegrown Hate, Pakistan Hesitates to Call Islamabad Blast Anti-Shia Violence
ISLAMABAD - Just hours before a suicide bomber struck the Khadija Tul Kubra Shia...
Opinion
How Imaan-Hadi Conviction Marks the Death of Fair Trial in Pakistan
Last week, a trial court in Islamabad convicted human rights lawyers Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir...