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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...

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...

UN Rapporteurs Ask Pakistan To Investigate Militant...

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

Human Rights Commission of Pakistan Condemns Conviction...

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...

Parachinar Siege: 29 Children Dead As City’s...

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

Inside the Ongoing Racial Profiling in Islamabad

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

Ahmadi Man Axed to Death in Rawalpindi

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...

Death Toll From Kurram Sectarian Violence Rises...

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...

Journalist Matiullah Jan Abducted By Unknown Men...

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...

Police Demolish Minaret of 70-Year-Old Ahmadi Worship...

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...

Historic Peace March in Parachinar Demands End...

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...

Elderly Woman Evicted By Landlord After Son’s...

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,...

Pakistan Stops Activist Mahrang Baloch From Leaving...

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

At Least 18 Killed In Israeli Air...

At least 18 people lost their lives in an overnight Israeli airstrike on the Al Aqsa Martyrs Mosque located in Deir el Balah, central...

Kamala Harris Much More Popular Than Trump...

According to a recent poll, Vice President Kamala Harris's lead over former President Donald Trump among Americans under 45 years of age has reached...

Pro-Palestine DNC Delegate Assaulted For Disrupting Biden’s...

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...

4 Killed As Israel Attacks Aid Convoy...

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 Encourages Social Media Users...

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"...

Waziristan Judge Reportedly Abducted By Taliban Returns...

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

UN Expert Declares Israel’s Actions In Gaza...

A United Nations expert has informed the Human Rights Council that she considers Israel's military actions in Gaza since October 7 to be genocidal...

Baloch Sit-In Against Enforced Disappearance Ends As...

The Baloch activists and heirs of missing persons, who had been protesting against enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings outside Islamabad's National Press Club (NPC)...

Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari’s Calls For Bringing Civility Back...

Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) Chairman and former Foreign Minister, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, has reiterated the need for an end to the “politics of hatred and...

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Pakistan Urged To Release ‘Illegally’ Detained Journalist Who Was...

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has urged Pakistani authorities to release investigative journalist, Syed Fawad Ali Shah, who was in exile in Malaysia since 2011...

Minor Boy Raped At Balochistan Minister’s Home By His...

Balochistan police have recovered a 12-year-old boy from the house of Provincial Minister for Public Health and Engineering Noor Muhammad Dummar in Harnai, who...

Another Minor Hindu Girl Allegedly Abducted From Sindh

In yet another case of persecution of the Hindu community in Pakistan, an 11-year-old girl, Ashu, was allegedly abducted from Umerkot, Sindh. The family has...

Pakistan’s Education System Has Been Surrendered To The Mullah:...

The newly-formulated Single National Curriculum (SNC) that is all set to be implemented in Pakistan’s educational institutions from August onwards has raised many an...

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How The PPP Played Both Sides While Passing The Draconian PECA Amendments

Journalists across Pakistan are out on the streets protesting against The Prevention of Electronic...

Looking Back at 2024 Election Violence In Balochistan That The Rest of Pakistan Ignored

This report is part of Dissent Today’s special series documenting violence and alleged irregularities...

A Year After Elections, Ex-Waziristan Parliamentarian Unable to Find Justice for Fallen Comrades

This report is part of Dissent Today's special series documenting violence and alleged irregularities...

Pakistan Govt’s Plan To Send Afghan Refugees Back To Afghanistan Raises Concerns From UNHCR

ISLAMABAD: The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for...