Shireen Mazari
The writer is a defense and security analyst and served as Pakistan’s Minister for Human Rights from 2018 to 2022.
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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 Pakistan under cybercrime charges for exercising what should be a fundamental right: speaking about human rights violations. Their case has come to symbolize a much larger and more troubling reality...
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Pregnant Sindh Woman, 3-Year-Old...
A 24-year-old pregnant woman and her 3-year-old daughter have been missing for over 40 days after armed kidnapping in...
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Lahore High Court Declares...
In a landmark judgement, the Lahore High Court (LHC) has declared the sedition law (Section 124-A of the Pakistan...
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Prayer Leader, His Student...
A nine-year-old boy was gang-raped by a prayer leader and head of the seminary along with his senior student...
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Documentary On Forced Conversion...
Pakistan’s Central Board of Film Censors in Islamabad (CBFC) has barred a short documentary based on child marriage and...
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‘American Democracy Passed A...
In the critical midterm elections in the United States, Democrats performed better than most analysts had predicted, and a...
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Mehr Abdul Sattar, Who...
Peasant-farmer leader Mehr Abdul Sattar, who led a movement against the military for the ownership rights of farmers, and...
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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...