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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...

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...

How Pakistan’s Peripheries Dissented in 2024

In 2024, democracy in Pakistan suffered setbacks on many fronts. Among these setbacks was the state’s denial — through heavy-handed and violent means —...

Why Pakistan’s Establishment Is Afraid of Social...

Social media platforms, X in particular, are often demonized for spreading “fake news,” but what the harsh criticism of social media and the demands...

Here’s Why The 26th Amendment to Pakistan’s...

The recently-passed 26th amendment to the Constitution of Pakistan, under which the Supreme Court's chief justice will now be selected by a parliamentary committee...

Ex-Lawmaker Ali Wazir’s Continued Incarceration is Our...

One has lost count of how many times Pakistan’s former lawmaker, Ali Wazir, has been arrested or forcibly disappeared. Even when he was a...

Pakistan Govt Is Hosting Televangelist Zakir Naik...

Every Pakistani political leader has known that cultivating popular religious icons is how one makes it to the top. Muhammad Ali Jinnah began this...

Banning PTM Sends a Dangerous Message to...

  The government of Pakistan's decision to ban the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), a social movement that originated from the country's peripheries, sends a troubling...

Those Demanding Apologies from the Baloch Need...

There are many events that have contributed to the present crises in Pakistan’s restive Balochistan province, significantly shaping the mindset and attitudes of the...

Pakistan’s Establishment Is Abducting Poets And Plumbers...

Weeks after the recent protests against the rising prices of wheat and electricity in Pakistan-administered Kashmir, several people of Kashmiri origin in various parts...

Here’s Why The Results Of Today’s Elections...

This article is part of Dissent Today’s special series on Pakistan’s general elections. Follow the series here.  On Tuesday January 30, 1962, Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, a...

Explainer: Why Is Every Election In Pakistan...

This article is part of Dissent Today’s special series on Pakistan’s general elections. Follow the series here.  With Pakistan’s general elections just three days away, the...

Is Imran-Bushra Iddat Case A Feminist Issue?

This article is part of Dissent Today’s special series on Pakistan’s general elections. Follow the series here.  The recent sentencing of former Prime Minister Imran Khan...

Neither Free, Nor Fair: The 2024 Elections...

This article is part of Dissent Today’s special series on Pakistan’s general elections. Follow the series here.  Any comment on the upcoming elections in Pakistan must...

Pakistan Is Violating Its International Obligations By...

This article is part of Dissent Today’s special series on Pakistan’s general elections. Follow the series here.  In theory, Pakistan is a federal parliamentary democracy, which...

Do Pakistan’s Upcoming Elections Hold Any Credibility?

This article is part of Dissent Today's special series on Pakistan's general elections. Follow the series here.  As Pakistan prepares for its general elections, the...

As Pakistan Heads to the Polls, Sense...

As Pakistan gears up for the general elections scheduled for February 8th, a sense of disillusionment and skepticism about the future prevails in the...

The Latest Baloch Uprising Cannot Be Defeated

The atrocities inflicted on the Baloch people, including the disappearance of Baloch students, human rights activists, educators, professionals, and ordinary working people and tribesmen,...

Sending Afghan Refugees Back To The Violence...

For decades, Pakistan has been a sanctuary for Afghan refugees, earning international recognition and appreciation for its humanitarian efforts. However, a recent announcement from...

A Year After Mahsa Amini’s Tragic Death,...

On a late summer day, four days before her 23rd birthday, Mahsa Jina Amini was visiting her family in Iran's capital city of Tehran,...

Indian, Pakistani Fishermen Continue to Fall Victim...

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...

Female University Students in Pakistan Face Sexual...

In Pakistan, educational institutions, that are meant to be sanctuaries for learning, growth, and equal opportunities, have become unsafe for women. Recent reports from...

Official Secrets Act: How Parliament Surrendered Democracy...

It is strange how the past and present mimic each other.  In the summer of 1909, in the midst of a naval arms race with...

Can Pakistan Ever Become a Normal Country?

This article is part of a series titled “Is there a way forward for Pakistan?” Read more about the series here. In the 76th year of...

How Imran Khan Mastered the Art of...

For the past decade, religion has been at the center of former prime minister Imran Khan’s politics. Populist politicians frequently mix religion and politics...

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Mahrang Baloch, the activist leading the ongoing sit-in in Islamabad against enforced disappearances and extrajudicial killings in Balochistan, has stated that the whereabouts of...

Baloch Women Protest Against Imprisonment Of Gwadar Rights Movement’s...

A large number of women protesters led a rally in Gwadar, Balochistan, against the arrest of Maulana Hidayat Ur Rehman, who is a leader...

Chief Justice Has Put Other SC Judges Into ‘Unnecessary...

Chief Justice-desig­nate Qazi Faez Isa has said that constitutional institutions such as the Supreme Court should not operate on the whims of an individual,...

Banning PTM Sends a Dangerous Message to the Youth

  The government of Pakistan's decision to ban the Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM), a social movement that originated from the country's peripheries, sends a troubling...

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