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...
ISLAMABAD - Civic freedoms in Pakistan have deteriorated amid a widening crackdown on activists, journalists and political opponents, according to a new report by CIVICUS, a global alliance of civil society organizations.
The report releasted last month documents "intimidation, harassment and persecution" of human rights defenders,...
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...
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...
Last week, a trial court in Islamabad convicted human rights lawyers Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir and Hadi Ali Chattha under Pakistan's highly controversial cybercrime law, known as the Prevention of Electronic Crimes Act (PECA).
The convictions against the husband-wife duo stem from tweets about enforced disappearances...
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...