SARGODHA, PAKISTAN: A teenage Christian boy in Sargodha has been in prison on blasphemy charges for over a year, despite being declared a juvenile...

Clashing tribes in the restive Kurram district of Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province finally signed a peace agreement on Wednesday to end over two months of...

In 2024, democracy in Pakistan suffered setbacks on many fronts. Among these setbacks was the state’s denial — through heavy-handed and violent means —...

ISLAMABAD: The United Nations special rapporteurs have written a letter to the government of Pakistan, voicing their concerns over militant assaults on girls' schools...

ISLAMABAD: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has condemned the conviction of 25 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) supporters by military courts over their alleged involvement...

Since August of this year, my husband and I have been representing over a dozen victims of a criminal gang in Pakistan that traps...

PARACHINAR, PAKISTAN: The restive border town of Parachinar is facing a humanitarian crisis due to the current blockade of the highway connecting the city...

Islamabad, Pakistan -- Lawyer Imaan Mazari had just got home after getting journalist Matiullah Jan released from the custody of Islamabad police on Nov....

Pakistan- A 40-year-old Ahmadi man was reportedly axed to death in Rawalpindi, in what the community has described as a faith-based attack. Tayyab Ahmad, who was...

Pakistan - The number of deaths from the sectarian conflict in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Kurram district has increased, with two more people killed and ten others...

Pakistani journalist Matiullah Jan was abducted by unidentified individuals outside Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Islamabad, on Wednesday night. On Thursday morning, an FIR...

The Punjab police demolished the minaret of a 70-year-old Ahmadi worship place in Kot Karam Baksh, Sialkot. Ahmadis who were protecting the worship place...

A four-hour journey from Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, to the city of Nushki, takes you through a vast desert painted...

Social media platforms, X in particular, are often demonized for spreading “fake news,” but what the harsh criticism of social media and the demands...

The recently-passed 26th amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan, under which the Supreme Court's chief justice will now be selected by a parliamentary committee...

As violence in Pakistan's restive border town of Parachinar intensified over the past few days, thousands of citizens took out a historic peace march...

An elderly woman was evicted by her landlord in the Chakwal city of Pakistan's Punjab province, after her son, who is reportedly mentally unstable,...

One has lost count of how many times Pakistan’s former lawmaker, Ali Wazir, has been arrested or forcibly disappeared. Even when he was a...

Every Pakistani political leader has known that cultivating popular religious icons is how one makes it to the top. Muhammad Ali Jinnah began this...

  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...

Pakistani activist Mahrang Baloch, a leading human rights defender from the restive Balochistan province, was prevented from boarding a flight to New York where...

Russian President Vladimir Putin's onslaught on dissent intensified after his invasion of Ukraine in 2022. This article is part of Dissent Today’s special series...

There are many events that have contributed to the present crises in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province, significantly shaping the mindset and attitudes of the...

According to the American Near East Refugee Aid (Anera) group, a convoy transporting medical supplies and fuel to an Emirati hospital in the Gaza...

Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA), the country's telecommunication regulator, has released a public statement urging users to report "blasphemous" content shared by "atheists and miscreants"...

In yet another instance of persecution against the marginalised community, police in Gujrat razed the minarets of an Ahmadi worship place, which is stated...

Two students studying at a local Jamaat-e-Islami (JI) leader's madrassa in Khuzdar, Balochistan, have been arrested for raping an 11-year-old boy. The madrassa is owned...

A leopard allegedly kept at a retired army general’s ‘private zoo’ at his home ran wild in an upscale residential area in Islamabad, injuring...

The government on Thursday denied the Election Commission of Pakistan's (ECP) request for troops' deployment during the provincial assembly elections in Punjab and KP,...