Zohra Yusuf and Ailia Zehra
Zohra Yusuf is a council member of HRCP and the Consulting Editor of Dissent Today.
Ailia Zehra is a journalist and the Founding Editor of Dissent Today.
Opinion
How Pakistan’s Peripheries Dissented in 2024
In 2024, democracy in Pakistan suffered setbacks on many fronts. Among these setbacks was the state’s denial — through heavy-handed and violent means — to the right to peaceful assembly by citizens protesting against various forms of rights violation. The pattern for intolerance of dissent...
Read More
Features
Looking Back at 2024...
This report is part of Dissent Today’s special series documenting violence and alleged irregularities during Pakistan’s 2024 general elections. Balochistan,...
News
Pakistan Stops Activist Mahrang...
Pakistani activist Mahrang Baloch, a leading human rights defender from the restive Balochistan province, was prevented from boarding a...
Elections 2024
Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s Calls For...
Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman and former Foreign Minister, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, has reiterated the need for an end to...
News
HRCP Condemns Attack On...
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has condemned an attack on rights defender Mukhtaran Mai, on May 1...
News
Family Allegedly Kept In...
Quetta: The 50-year-old woman, Granaz, who had accused Balochistan Awami Party (BAP) Provincial Minister Sardar Abdul Rehman Khetran of...
News
How Republic Day Was...
March 23 is celebrated as Pakistan Day every year marked by the Military Parade of the Armed Forces demonstrating...
Latest articles
Human Rights
Pakistan’s Top Court Upholds Death Sentence in Murder of Woman Killed For Obtaining Divorce
ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s highest court on Saturday rejected an appeal by a man convicted...
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...