Afghanistan's Supreme Court announced on Friday the public execution of four men, marking the largest number of executions in a single day since the Taliban regained control of the country. These executions took place in sports stadiums across three different provinces. The total number of...

ISLAMABAD: The chairperson of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), Dr. Mahrang Baloch, who was arrested last month during a protest in Quetta, wrote a letter to the people of Balochistan, denouncing the "propaganda" against her and other arrested activists. In the letter shared by the...

ISLAMABAD: Upholding the conviction of a man charged with raping a 20-year-old woman, the Islamabad High Court judge Justice Babar Sattar outlined several principles about consent and social stigma in cases of rape and sexual assault. The judge ruled in the verdict that consent must...

LAHORE: Under pressure from Islamist extremist groups, police arrested 22 members of the Ahmadi minority community, including children, in the Sialkot district of Pakistan's Punjab province while they were praying at a local place of worship. These mass arrests took place last Friday when a...

ISLAMABAD: The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) voiced their concerns over the government of Pakistan's new plan to relocate registered Afghan refugees from Islamabad and Rawalpindi. The organizations are seeking further information on the "modality...

ISLAMABAD: The Prevention of Electronic Crimes (Amendment) bill passed by Pakistan's National Assembly has been criticized by human rights activists as an attack on freedom of expression. Journalists seated in the parliament's press gallery walked out of the session as protest. Pakistan People's Party (PPP)...