Muhammad Hamid Zaman
The writer is the Director of the Center on Forced Displacement, and a Professor of Biomedical Engineering and Global Health, at Boston University
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Make Human Dignity The Foundation Of Policymaking
This article is part of a series titled "Is there a way forward for Pakistan?" Read more about the series here. My vision of Pakistan rests on my vision for human dignity. It is not a mere slogan of all lives being important, or the...
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Karachi Man Arrested For...
Police have arrested a man after he threatened transgender activist Shahzadi Rai with an acid attack outside her house...
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Locals Claim One Civilian...
Locals have claimed that one civilian was killed and three were abducted during a military operation in Awaran, Balochistan,...
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Ex-Punjab Chief Minister Parvez...
Punjab police have registered a case against Parvez Elahi, former chief minister and a key ally of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf...
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Man Throws Acid On...
A man in Karachi threw acid on a Christian woman after she refused to convert to Islam and marry...
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Interpreter Of Arrested Chinese...
The interpreter of the arrested Chinese man accused of blasphemy in Kohistan district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has backtracked from his...
Human Rights
PTM Workers Face Crackdown,...
Ahead of civil rights group Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM)'s rally against enforced disappearances outside the Supreme Court in Islamabad,...
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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...
Commentary
PTI’s Ambiguous Rhetoric on Taliban Is Dangerous for Pakistan’s Counter-Extremism Efforts
This reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Lauren Brown Fellowship. Islamabad -...
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How My Daughter’s Trial Exposes Pakistan’s Assault on Human Rights
My daughter, a human rights lawyer, and her husband are currently on trial in...