Farieha Aziz
The writer is a co-founder of Bolo Bhi, an advocacy forum for digital rights and host of the Digi Pod on Dawn News English
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 and Hadi Ali Chattha under Pakistan's highly controversial cybercrime law, known as the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA). The convictions against the husband-wife duo stem from tweets about enforced disappearances...
Opinion
How The PPP Played Both Sides While Passing The Draconian PECA...
Journalists across Pakistan are out on the streets protesting against The Prevention of Electronic Crimes (Amendment) Act (PECA) 2025 and petitions against it are piling up in courts. The draconian law first introduced in 2016 by the Pakistan Muslim League - N (PML-N) has...
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Opinion
Here’s How Pashtuns Are...
A large number of Pashtuns in various districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa including Swat, Buner, Bajaur, South Waziristan and Bannu...
Opinion
How The PPP Played...
Journalists across Pakistan are out on the streets protesting against The Prevention of Electronic Crimes (Amendment) Act (PECA) 2025...
Human Rights
Pashtun Rights Activist Manzoor...
Quetta - Manzoor Pashteen, the founder of the ethnic rights group Pashtun Tahafuzz Movement (PTM), was arrested by the...
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27-year-old Storiya Iqbal, the sister of slain student Mashal Khan who was lynched by his fellow students at Mardan's...
Features
On Ashura, Remembering the...
Pakistan's Shia community, that makes up about 10-15 percent of the country's population, has long faced violence at the...
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How Imaan-Hadi Conviction Marks the Death of Fair Trial in Pakistan
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