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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Another Woman Gang-Raped In...
Weeks after the F-9 Park gang rape incident, another woman was gang-raped at a gunpoint in Islamabad. A First Information...
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Blasphemy-Convict Junaid Hafeez’s Appeal...
Blasphemy-convict Junaid Hafeez's appeal against his death sentence has yet again faced delay as he continues to languish in...
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Govt To Get Content...
The federal government has said that it will get content on "same-sex family" removed from the O Level syllabus...
Features
A Cry for Justice:...
Eid is an occasion of happiness and for most it means family get-togethers, feasting together, households brimming with laughter...
Editor's Picks
A Year After Mahsa...
On a late summer day, four days before her 23rd birthday, Mahsa Jina Amini was visiting her family in...
News
‘Anti-Army Remarks’: Sedition Case...
Despite Lahore High Court's March 30 verdict wherein it had annulled sedition law, a sedition case has been filed...
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Opinion
Ex-Lawmaker Ali Wazir’s Continued Incarceration is Our Collective Failure
One has lost count of how many times Pakistan’s former lawmaker, Ali Wazir, has...
Editor's Picks
Pakistan Govt Is Hosting Televangelist Zakir Naik to Distract from its Unpopularity
Every Pakistani political leader has known that cultivating popular religious icons is how one...
Human Rights
Banning PTM Sends a Dangerous Message to the Youth
The government of Pakistan's decision to ban the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), a social...
News
Pakistan Stops Activist Mahrang Baloch From Leaving Country to Attend TIME Magazine Event in New York
Pakistani activist Mahrang Baloch, a leading human rights defender from the restive Balochistan province,...