A four-hour journey from Quetta, the capital of Pakistan's restive Balochistan province, to the city of Nushki, takes you through a vast desert painted...

  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...

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...

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...

On Monday, the Senate Secretariat claimed that the bill seeking to criminalize enforced disappearances was not lost but rather sent back to the National...

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

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...

Quetta - Manzoor Pashteen, the founder of the ethnic rights group Pashtun Tahafuzz Movement (PTM), was arrested by the police in Chaman, Balochistan while...

For children, 14 August is all about flags on the rooftops, shops adorned with fairy lights, and waving the Pakistani flags with pride while...

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

Two graves belonging to members of the Ahmadi community at a graveyard in the Kasur district of Punjab were reportedly desecrated by extremist individuals...

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,...

There has recently been a surge in targeted attacks on members of minority communities in Peshawar, particularly Sikhs. As a result, the Sikh community...

The minarets of an Ahmadi place of worship were desecrated by the police in Sheikupura on Wednesday under pressure from extremist individuals. In a statement,...

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...

An anti-terrorism court in Islamabad has remanded human rights activist Imaan Mazari and former lawmaker Ali Wazir to the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD)'s custody...

Ahead of civil rights group Pashtun Tahaffuz Movement (PTM)'s rally against enforced disappearances outside the Supreme Court in Islamabad, several PTM activists and supporters...

A number of human rights organisations have come together for a social media campaign demanding the safe release of all missing persons in Pakistan...

Punjab police demolished the minarets of an Ahmadi place of worship in Jhelum following a campaign in the area by extremist outfit Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan...

A Pakistani national in London, United Kingdom, has been jailed for life after being convicted of murdering a 21-year-old Pakistani woman and dumping her...

Nearly all nation-states actively try to discourage diversity and the right to be different. No discourse on diversity is allowed in mainstream narratives, and...

Supreme Court of Pakistan declared former prime minister Imran Khan's arrest "illegal" on the grounds that he was detained from within the Islamabad High...

In a late-night raid at her house, Islamabad police arrested Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and former minister for human rights Shireen Mazari amid ongoing...

A day after a Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) worker was lynched by a mob over allegations of blasphemy in Mardan district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP),...

Friends and families of Shia teachers killed in an attack at a school in the Kurram district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) have said the teachers...

Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) leader and former minister Faisal Vawda has claimed that the conspiracy to kill journalist Arshad Sharif, who was murdered under mysterious...

Awami National Party (ANP) has opposed banning Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) amid statements by the members of the ruling coalition government that they are considering...

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

After Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI)-supporting reporter Siddique Jan's arrest, the party's supporters have been accusing the current ruling coalition government of using excessive force against...