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...

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

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...

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...

A pro-Palestine elected member of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) from Florida, Nadia Ahmad, was hit in the head repeatedly with vertical signs that...

For children, 14 August is all about flags on the rooftops, shops adorned with fairy lights, and waving the Pakistani flags with pride while...

The ongoing bombing of Gaza by the Israeli army is generating strong reactions in Pakistan, but the Pakistan military's involvement in the killings of...

There has recently been a surge in targeted attacks on members of minority communities in Peshawar, particularly Sikhs. As a result, the Sikh community...

If 99 Indian fishermen incarcerated in Pakistani prisons had been repatriated last month as agreed, Jagdish Mangal might still be alive. Mangal was among the...

27-year-old Storiya Iqbal, the sister of slain student Mashal Khan who was lynched by his fellow students at Mardan's Abdul Wali Khan University in...

With India's successful landing on the moon on Wednesday, social media is discussing how Pakistan is lagging behind its neighbour in the field of...

“Manzoor Masih - will be remembered!... The Christians of Shanti Nagar - will be remembered!... Rimsha Masih - will be remembered!... ” Karachi-based activist and...

Pakistan's Shia community, that makes up about 10-15 percent of the country's population, has long faced violence at the hands of extremist groups. The...

Eid is an occasion of happiness and for most it means family get-togethers, feasting together, households brimming with laughter and gossip. But for families...

In December 2021, an assistant sub-inspector stationed at Secretariat Police Station Islamabad asked students of the Quaid-e-Azam University (QAU), Islamabad, to collect personal data/information...

This article is part of a series titled “Is there a way forward for Pakistan?” Read more about the series here. In this article, I will...

This article is part of a series titled “Is there a way forward for Pakistan?” Read more about the series here. Pakistan, much like the rest...

This article is part of a series titled "Is there a way forward for Pakistan?" Read more about the series here. Goldman Sachs caused...

The only time that nationalist Baloch leadership was accorded a chance to govern Balochistan was after the 1971 debacle – and that too grudgingly–...

(1904-1995)  غلام مرتضی سید باالمعروف  جی۔ ایم سید  تحریک پاکستان کے  اہم رہنما اور پھر قیام پاکستان کے بعد اپنی اسی تخلیق کی ریاست...

The protests are being held in a number of cities across the province, with protesters demanding that the government take effective measures to...

"Exercising bodily autonomy is a basic human right," says Author Noshe Butt A social media user posted that she is a 31-year-old and she...

The negation of Hindu identity by using the prefix “non” is so normalised and internalised by the State that it is never realised...

It has been five years since Pakistani journalist Zeenat Shehzadi was released after more than two years of enforced disappearance, but there has been...

The ongoing mass protest in Gilgit-Baltistan against the never-ending constitutional crisis and other grievances of the people has now entered its tenth day despite...

The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has expressed concerns over the "state's widespread use of enforced disappearances" in Balochistan to muzzle dissent. In its...

The Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) has restricted live coverage of rallies and public gatherings across Islamabad as Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran...

KARACHI: At least 19 deaths, including that of 16 children, have occurred in 16 days alone in Muach Goth area of Kemari, Karachi, which...

Gharida Farooqi opened up about the harassment she has to endure as a woman journalist in Pakistan and said "when male journalists are attacked,...