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How Imaan-Hadi Conviction Marks the Death of...

Last week, a trial court in Islamabad convicted human rights lawyers Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha under Pakistan's highly controversial cybercrime law,...

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...

How My Daughter’s Trial Exposes Pakistan’s Assault...

My daughter, a human rights lawyer, and her husband are currently on trial in Pakistan under cybercrime charges for exercising what should be a...

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...

In Islamabad, State’s Apathy on Full Display...

Human rights lawyer Imaan Mazari writes about Baloch families — particularly women, children, and the elderly — who have been camped outside Islamabad’s National Press...

‘Unchecked Impunity’: Fact-Finding Mission Reveals Root Causes...

A major Pakistani rights watchdog, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), has issued a dire warning over widening human rights abuses in Balochistan,...

Once Above the Law, Now Under Fire:...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistani real estate tycoon Malik Riaz warned Tuesday that his vast property enterprise, Bahria Town Limited, is nearing a complete shutdown. He attributed this...

Lahore Authorities Detain 30+ Imran Khan Supporters...

LAHORE: Supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan, who was removed from office in 2022 and has been imprisoned at Adiala Jail since August...

Why a ‘Boycott Israel’ Campaign Cannot Work...

In Pakistan, calls for boycotts of international brands perceived to have ties to Israel, while seemingly intended as peaceful protest against the violence in...

Rights Groups Sound Alarm As Afghan Taliban...

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...

‘Will Face Oppression With Courage’: Jailed Activist...

ISLAMABAD: The chairperson of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), Dr. Mahrang Baloch, who was arrested last month during a protest in Quetta, wrote a...

In Powerful Verdict, Islamabad High Court Upholds...

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...

22 Ahmadis Arrested From Place of Worship...

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...

How The PPP Played Both Sides While...

Journalists across Pakistan are out on the streets protesting against The Prevention of Electronic Crimes (Amendment) Act (PECA) 2025 and petitions against it are...

Looking Back at 2024 Election Violence In...

This report is part of Dissent Today’s special series documenting violence and alleged irregularities during Pakistan’s 2024 general elections.  Balochistan, which is Pakistan's largest province,...

A Year After Elections, Ex-Waziristan Parliamentarian Unable...

This report is part of Dissent Today's special series documenting violence and alleged irregularities during Pakistan's 2024 general elections.  When Mohsin Dawar narrowly escaped an...

Pakistan Govt’s Plan To Send Afghan Refugees...

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...

PPP Leader Says PECA Amendments Will Undermine...

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...

4 Policemen Abducted By Militants In South...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan: A group of terrorists abducted four policemen after carrying out an attack on a police post in Umar Raghzai, South Waziristan. The assailants...

Military Operation Being Planned in Kurram As...

The restive town of Parachinar continues to face a lack of necessities and adequate humanitarian aid, as the Kurram Highway has remained blocked for...

Cholistan Farmers’ Longstanding Struggle for Land and...

Cholistan, a vast desert in Pakistan’s Punjab province, covers an area of 6.6 million acres and spans the districts of Bahawalpur, Bahawalnagar, and Rahim...

Minor Christian Boy Jailed for Blasphemy in...

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

Taliban, ISIS Fuelled The Sectarian Clashes in...

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...

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Lahore, Islamabad Bar Associations Ask Authorities To Stop Ahmadis...

In separate letters, Lahore and Islamabad Bar Associations have called on the authorities to prevent members of the Ahmadi community from performing the ritual...

Arrested Chinese Engineer Says Did Not Commit Blasphemy

The Chinese engineer who was arrested over blasphemy allegations in Kohistan district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, has denied the accusations levelled against him by his fellow...

Chinese Engineer Arrested In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Over Blasphemy Allegations

A Chinese engineer working on the Dasu hydropower project in Kohistan district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, was taken into police custody as an angry mob gathered...

Waziristan Judge Reportedly Abducted By Taliban Returns Home

Shakirullah Marwat, a district and sessions judge of South Waziristan, Khyber Pakhtnkhwa, who had been kidnapped reportedly by the Taliban on Saturday, was recovered...

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