Tuesday, November 10, 2026

Fariha Ijaz

The writer is an Assistant Editor at Dissent Today, focusing on extremism and political violence.

Pakistan’s Top Court Upholds Death Sentence in Murder of Woman Killed...

ISLAMABAD - Pakistan’s highest court on Saturday rejected an appeal by a man convicted of murdering his former wife just two days after she secured a judicial divorce, declaring that women who exercise their legal rights must not face violence with impunity. In a strongly...

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 Sunday as activists gathered to mark International Women’s Day. The arrests took place in Sector F-6 of the federal capital, where participants had assembled for the rally. Organizers had announced plans...

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 mosque in Islamabad during Friday prayers, killing at least 31 worshippers and injuring nearly 170 others, a sectarian rally organized by a banned extremist group was underway less than a...

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 - Shafiullah Jan, special assistant to the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) chief minister, appeared to refuse to categorically label the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) a “terrorist organization” in an interview with a...

600 Students Affected As Blast Destroys Government School in Waziristan

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 educational institutions just days before the end of 2025. On Thursday, unidentified assailants detonated explosives at the Government Primary School in...

Once Above the Law, Now Under Fire: Malik Riaz’s Empire Faces...

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 dire situation to an escalating government crackdown, widely believed to stem from his alleged association with the imprisoned former Prime...

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بلوچ وائس فار جسٹس...

بلوچ وائس فار جسٹس نے تربت میں بالاچ بلوچ سمیت چار نوجوانوں کو جعلی مقابلے میں ماورائے عدالت قتل...

Sindh CM Takes Notice...

Sindh Chief Minister Murad Ali Shah has taken notice of the abduction of lawyer and human rights activist Jibran...

22-Year-Old Christian Man Sentenced...

A sessions court in Bahawalpur has sentenced a 22-year-old Christian man to death over alleged blasphemy, four years after...

‘Weak Evidence’: Noor Mukadam’s...

Zahir Jaffar, who was convicted and sentenced to death for killing 27-year-old woman Noor Mukadam in Islamabad, has approached...

Sindh Farmers Are ‘Kept...

Farmers freed from landlords' private jails in Sindh shared their ordeal and said they were detained in small rooms...

Unfazed By Police Violence,...

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

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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...

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...