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5 Books Every Young Pakistani Should Read...

The Tahaffuz-e-Buneyad-e-Islam bill recently passed by the Punjab Assembly gives unprecedented powers to the provincial government to censor or ban books by barring any...

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Labour Productivity In Pakistan: Why Are We Falling Behind?

This article is part of a series titled “Is there a way forward for Pakistan?” Read more about the series here. The scale of the economic...

Pakistan: Is there A Way Forward?

The key lesson from the success stories in Asia is sobering and simple:  It is the people, stupid! We must invest in people and empower...

‘Threat To Journalistic Freedom’: Govt Urged To Not Criminalise...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has urged Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif to not criminalise criticism of the Pakistan Army. Cabinet members are mulling over a law...

Robbers Deprive Retired Govt Teacher of Pension in Sindh

A video of a retired government teacher in which he can be seen sobbing inconsolably after he was deprived of an amount of Rs22,00,000...

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Last week, a trial court in Islamabad convicted human rights lawyers Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir...

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This reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Lauren Brown Fellowship. Islamabad -...

How My Daughter’s Trial Exposes Pakistan’s Assault on Human Rights

My daughter, a human rights lawyer, and her husband are currently on trial in...