ISLAMABAD - Civic freedoms in Pakistan have deteriorated amid a widening crackdown on activists, journalists and political opponents, according to a new report by...
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...
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...
This reporting was supported by the International Women’s Media Foundation’s Lauren Brown Fellowship.
Tirah Valley, Pakistan - After three months of fighting for her life,...
A major Pakistani rights watchdog, the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP), has issued a dire warning over widening human rights abuses in Balochistan,...
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...
Afghanistan's Supreme Court announced on Friday the public execution of four men, marking the largest number of executions in a single day since the...
ISLAMABAD: The chairperson of the Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC), Dr. Mahrang Baloch, who was arrested last month during a protest in Quetta, wrote a...
ISLAMABAD: Upholding the conviction of a man charged with raping a 20-year-old woman, the Islamabad High Court judge Justice Babar Sattar outlined several principles...
LAHORE: Under pressure from Islamist extremist groups, police arrested 22 members of the Ahmadi minority community, including children, in the Sialkot district of Pakistan's...
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) voiced their concerns over the government of Pakistan's...
ISLAMABAD: The Prevention of Electronic Crimes (Amendment) bill passed by Pakistan's National Assembly has been criticized by human rights activists as an attack on...
PESHAWAR, Pakistan: A group of terrorists abducted four policemen after carrying out an attack on a police post in Umar Raghzai, South Waziristan.
The assailants...
The restive town of Parachinar continues to face a lack of necessities and adequate humanitarian aid, as the Kurram Highway has remained blocked for...
Clashing tribes in the restive Kurram district of Pakistan's Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province finally signed a peace agreement on Wednesday to end over two months of...
ISLAMABAD: The United Nations special rapporteurs have written a letter to the government of Pakistan, voicing their concerns over militant assaults on girls' schools...
ISLAMABAD: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has condemned the conviction of 25 Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) supporters by military courts over their alleged involvement...
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....
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A 40-year-old Ahmadi man was reportedly axed to death in Rawalpindi, in what the community has described as a faith-based attack.
Tayyab Ahmad, who was...
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The number of deaths from the sectarian conflict in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa's Kurram district has increased, with two more people killed and ten others...
Pakistani journalist Matiullah Jan was abducted by unidentified individuals outside Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences (PIMS), Islamabad, on Wednesday night.
On Thursday morning, an FIR...
This report is part of Dissent Today's special series documenting violence and alleged irregularities during Pakistan's 2024 general elections.
When Mohsin Dawar narrowly escaped an...
Banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) has extended support to the violent protests held by Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) against the arrest of former prime minister Imran...
The Sindh High Court (SHC) has only nominated one woman for the appointment of additional judges amid concerns over the ill-representation of women and...
