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PTI’s Ambiguous Rhetoric on Taliban Is Dangerous...

This reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Lauren Brown Fellowship. Islamabad - Shafiullah Jan, special assistant to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) chief...

600 Students Affected As Blast Destroys Government...

This reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Lauren Brown Fellowship. ISLAMABAD - Militants in Pakistan’s volatile Waziristan region have escalated attacks on...

Unseen Victims: How Pakistan’s Drone War is...

This reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Lauren Brown Fellowship. Tirah Valley, Pakistan - After three months of fighting for her life,...

Why Balochistan’s Youth No Longer Trust Politics

I write this as the daughter of a Baloch nationalist leader and Pakistani parliamentarian who recently survived assassination attempts. What we are going through...

Extremist Figure Involved In Targeted Killings Of...

Muham­mad Ramzan Mengal, an anti-Shia extremist figure and leader of sectarian outfit Ahle-Sunnat-Wal-Jamaat (ASWJ), is contesting for a National Assembly seat from Quetta in...

Extremist Anti-Shia Cleric Attends Meeting With Army...

Chief of Army Staff General Asim Munir held a meeting with clerics at the General Headquarters (GHQ) in Rawalpindi on Thursday. According to a...

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Banning PTM Sends a Dangerous Message to the Youth

  The government of Pakistan's decision to ban the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), a social movement that originated from the country's peripheries, sends a troubling...

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Police arrested 17 organizers and participants of the annual Aurat March in Islamabad on...

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...

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...