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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...
Extremism watch
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...
Extremism watch
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,...
Balochistan
‘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,...
News
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...
News
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...
Human Rights
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...
News
‘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...
News
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...
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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...
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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...
News
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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
News
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...
News
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...
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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...
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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...
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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....
Human Rights
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...
News
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...
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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...
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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...
News
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...
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PTI Chief Imran Khan’s Elderly Neighbours Move Court Against...
Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan's neighbours, including elderly sisters of lawyer Chaudhry Aitzaz Ahsan, have moved Lahore High Court against Imran Khan for...
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Pakistan Bar Council Condemns ‘Extraordinary Protocol’ For Repatriation Of...
Pakistan Bar Council on Monday expressed "serious concerns" on the provision of "extraordinary protocol" by the state to repatriate former military ruler General Pervez...
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‘Imran Khan, Police Mocking Judicial System,’ Lawyers Weigh In...
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Stop Giving Awards To Alleged Sexual Harassers
The government’s decision to award singer Ali Zafar who had been accused of sexual harassment by multiple women with Pride of Performance is being...
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Overlooking Homegrown Hate, Pakistan Hesitates to Call Islamabad Blast Anti-Shia Violence
ISLAMABAD - Just hours before a suicide bomber struck the Khadija Tul Kubra Shia...
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How Imaan-Hadi Conviction Marks the Death of Fair Trial in Pakistan
Last week, a trial court in Islamabad convicted human rights lawyers Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir...
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PTI’s Ambiguous Rhetoric on Taliban Is Dangerous for Pakistan’s Counter-Extremism Efforts
This reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Lauren Brown Fellowship. Islamabad -...
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