Police arrested 17 organizers and participants of the annual Aurat March in Islamabad on Sunday as activists gathered to mark International Women’s Day. The arrests took place in Sector F-6 of the federal capital, where participants had assembled for the rally. Organizers had announced plans...

ISLAMABAD - Just hours before a suicide bomber struck the Khadija Tul Kubra Shia mosque in Islamabad during Friday prayers, killing at least 31 worshippers and injuring nearly 170 others, a sectarian rally organized by a banned extremist group was underway less than a...

This reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Lauren Brown Fellowship. Islamabad - Shafiullah Jan, special assistant to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) chief minister, appeared to refuse to categorically label the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) a “terrorist organization” in an interview with a...

This reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Lauren Brown Fellowship. ISLAMABAD - Militants in Pakistan’s volatile Waziristan region have escalated attacks on educational institutions just days before the end of 2025. On Thursday, unidentified assailants detonated explosives at the Government Primary School in...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani real estate tycoon Malik Riaz warned Tuesday that his vast property enterprise, Bahria Town Limited, is nearing a complete shutdown. He attributed this dire situation to an escalating government crackdown, widely believed to stem from his alleged association with the imprisoned former Prime...

This report is part of Dissent Today’s special series documenting violence and alleged irregularities during Pakistan’s 2024 general elections.  Balochistan, which is Pakistan's largest province, is ironically its poorest. It remains a hotbed of violence and discontent. On the eve of Election Day on February...