Hassan Javid
The writer was previously an Associate Professor of Sociology at the Lahore University of Management Sciences and is currently based at the University of the Fraser Valley in British Columbia, Canada.
Election series
Neither Free, Nor Fair: The 2024 Elections in Pakistan
This article is part of Dissent Today’s special series on Pakistan’s general elections. Follow the series here. Any comment on the upcoming elections in Pakistan must begin with an unequivocal acknowledgement that these polls are going to be neither free nor fair. For months, the military establishment...
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Democratizing Pakistan: It’s Not Just About Holding Elections
This article is part of a series titled "Is there a way forward for Pakistan?". Read more about the series here. Is a script that is all too familiar in Pakistan: an elected Prime Minister is ousted under dubious circumstances and is replaced by a...
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Human Rights
The Curious Case of...
On Monday, the Senate Secretariat claimed that the bill seeking to criminalize enforced disappearances was not lost but rather...
Human Rights
Police Destroy Minarets of...
Punjab police demolished the minarets of an Ahmadi place of worship in Jhelum following a campaign in the area...
News
‘Leading By Example’: PPP...
Pakistan People's Party (PPP) has removed Sariya Rana from the position of Information Secretary Peoples Youth Organization (PYO) Central...
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PTI Leader Shireen Mazari...
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and former minister for human rights Shireen Mazari was released from jail after her daughter...
News
22-Year-Old Christian Man Sentenced...
A sessions court in Bahawalpur has sentenced a 22-year-old Christian man to death over alleged blasphemy, four years after...
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Human Rights Watch Urges...
As the police arrested dozens of supporters and aides of former premier Imran Khan in raids in Islamabad and...
Latest articles
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...