Features
The Untold Plight of Over 700 Jailed...
Since August of this year, my husband and I have been representing over a dozen victims of a criminal gang in Pakistan that traps...
News
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...
News
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....
Features
‘Self-Censorship Shapes My New Identity’: Exiled Russian...
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...
Features
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...
News
Journalist Covering PTI Protest Outside GHQ Allegedly...
A journalist working for international media has said he was beaten up and abducted by security agencies who held him at the police station...
News
Extremist Groups Back In Action As Blasphemy-Convict...
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,...
News
Young IT Expert From Thatta Reimagines Mohenjo-Daro...
Rahamutlah Mirbahar, a young IT expert from one of the most underprivileged areas of Sindh, Thatta, has surprised social media users with his Artificial...
News
Civilian Hassan Askari Was Court Martialed In...
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...
News
‘Tortured Into False Confession’: Baloch Woman Mahal...
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...
News
‘Imran Khan, Police Mocking Judicial System,’ Lawyers...
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...
News
16 Children Dead In Karachi In 2...
KARACHI: At least 19 deaths, including that of 16 children, have occurred in 16 days alone in Muach Goth area of Kemari, Karachi, which...
Features
Over 2 Years In Torture Cells: How...
It has been five years since Pakistani journalist Zeenat Shehzadi was released after more than two years of enforced disappearance, but there has been...
News
Why Is Pakistan Ignoring Anti-Taliban Uprising In...
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...
Special Report
Pakistan’s Education System Has Been Surrendered To...
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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As Pakistan Heads to the Polls, Sense of Disillusionment...
As Pakistan gears up for the general elections scheduled for February 8th, a sense of disillusionment and skepticism about the future prevails in the...
News
Protests Continue In Various Parts Of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Against...
Following protests in Swat against the resurgence of terrorism, people in Lakki Marwat also took to the streets two days after multiple attacks were...
Human Rights
Two More Ahmadi Graves Desecrated In Kasur As Community’s...
Two graves belonging to members of the Ahmadi community at a graveyard in the Kasur district of Punjab were reportedly desecrated by extremist individuals...
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Ahmadis At Risk Of New Wave Of Harassment As...
In an apparent attempt to further harass the persecuted Ahmadi community residing in Rabwah, the Punjab government has formed “inspection committees” to stop libraries...
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Pakistan’s Civic Freedoms Deteriorate Amid Crackdown on Dissent: Report
ISLAMABAD - Civic freedoms in Pakistan have deteriorated amid a widening crackdown on activists,...
Human Rights
Pakistan Police Arrest 17 at Islamabad Aurat March on Women’s Day
Police arrested 17 organizers and participants of the annual Aurat March in Islamabad on...
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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...
Opinion
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...