Since August of this year, my husband and I have been representing over a dozen victims of a criminal gang in Pakistan that traps young people in blasphemy cases, leading to their arrest. We have witnessed firsthand the climate of fear in which victim...

One has lost count of how many times Pakistan’s former lawmaker, Ali Wazir, has been arrested or forcibly disappeared. Even when he was a member of the National Assembly, he was not spared from persistent targeting by the state. It is important to remember...

Weeks after the recent protests against the rising prices of wheat and electricity in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, several people of Kashmiri origin in various parts of Pakistan have faced intimidation and threats, according to Kashmiri activists. On May 15, at around 1 a.m., Kashmiri poet and...

In December 2021, an assistant sub-inspector stationed at Secretariat Police Station Islamabad asked students of the Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU), Islamabad, to collect personal data/information of their fellow Baloch students. Thereafter, in February 2022, a serving army officer, Major Ghulam Murtaza (belonging to Khuzdar Cantonment)...

Pakistan has been a State Party to the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR) since 23 June 2010. Unfortunately, however, even in 2023, the civilian and military elite have yet to read the Covenant. Article 14 of the ICCPR safeguards the right...

The Pakistan military denies its involvement in enforced disappearances, extrajudicial executions and genocide, but it has very little credibility to begin with. Even if one were to disregard their credibility (or lack thereof), we would see a difference in what is happening around us...