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

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

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...

A journalist working for international media has said he was beaten up and abducted by security agencies who held him at the police station...

LAHORE After blasphemy-convict Junaid Hafeez’s appeal against his death sentence was finally fixed before the Lahore High Court (LHC) earlier this month, his new lawyer,...

Rahamutlah Mirbahar, a young IT expert from one of the most underprivileged areas of Sindh, Thatta, has surprised social media users with his Artificial...

The counsel of the family of a retired army general, whose civilian son was court-martialed in 2021 and was sentenced to five years of...

Mahal Baloch, a 28-year-old Baloch woman and the mother of two, was arrested on February 17 by officials from law enforcement agencies from her...

Lawyers have said that Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Chairman Imran Khan has made a mockery of the judicial system by defying the arrest and police...

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

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

Amid a rise in banned terror group Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) attacks in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a delegation of National Democratic Movement (NDM) comprising its Chairman...

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...

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...

Defence Minister Khawaja Muhammad Asif held former chief of army staff Qamar Javed Bajwa and former Inter-Service Intelligence (ISI) head Faiz Hamid responsible for...

Committee to Protect Journalists has urged Pakistani authorities to investigate the abduction of Waziristan-based journalist Gohar Wazir, who was allegedly tortured in captivity for...

Senior journalist and Bannu Press Club President Gohar Wazir, who mainly reports on human rights abuses in Waziristan, was allegedly abducted and tortured before...