From Nangarhar To The Bosphorus: War, Displacement And The Afghans
“Qaachaaq is like breaking into someone’s home,” said Sajid while pouring me tea in his dimly lit and dreadfully untidy...
Thursday, January 27, 2022
Reports
Dream Of A Polio-Free Balochistan At Risk From Social Media Conspiracy Theories
The Emergency Operations Centre Balochistan (Anti-Polio Program) has stated that conflicts, political instability, inaccessibility to the population and poor infrastructure...
Reports Of Fake Vaccination Entries And Certificates Risk Jeopardising Pakistan’s Covid Fight
Pakistan has seen a record increase in the process of vaccinations following the upsurge in cases of Coronavirus infection and...
National Commission For Child Rights In Danger Of Collapse From Lack Of Funding And Legislation
Recently it has been revealed that the Chairperson and the members of the National Commission on the Rights of the...
Alleging Broken Election Promises And Corrupt Officials, 2 Residents Of Drought-Hit Tharparkar Seek Justice
Civil judge and judicial magistrate of Nagarparkar Syed Karam Ali Shah on Monday issued notices to the concerned government functionaries...
Wake-Up Call: How A Fashion Designer From Bannu Devoted Herself To Making Pakistan Kinder To Animals
Sarah Gandapur is no stranger to the world of glitz, celebrity and red carpet hobnobbing. A familiar name in local...
Local Experts Rally Against Conservation Threat To Karoonjhar Hills From Granite Extraction
Lawyers including Ishrat Lohar and Sajjad Ahmed Chandio, who were made amicus curiae of the court by a double bench...
Jirga In Ziarat District Subjects Two Men To Trial By Fire, Authorities Deny Complicity In Ordeal
A video showing two young men walking barefoot on hot embers to prove their innocence has gone viral on social...
Rural Women Are Looking For Opportunities, Not Handouts
According to the Pakistan Economic Survey (2021), 24.3%, i.e. one in every four Pakistanis, lives below the national poverty line....
IDPs Find An End To Displacement But Not Deprivation And Destruction
Since 2001, displacement in Pakistan began, due to the rise of armed religious militancy. The people of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, especially...
How Interference ‘From The Top’ Unfairly Distorts The State Bank’s Performance Grading For Staff
Aslam Khan, an Assistant Director in State Bank of Pakistan (SBP), is visibly very happy. His hard work throughout the...
Rs. 40 Billion In Irregularities: Where Did The Covid Funds Go?
On the evening of the 13th of March 2020, the chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) General Muhammad...
A Lone Activist Is Fighting Climate Change In KP, Planting Millions Of Trees
Prime Minister Imran Khan’s flagship Ten Billion Tree Tsunami Plantation (TBTTP) initiative is not only helping the country to counter...
International Human Rights Day: Protests In Multiple Cities Demand Safeguards For Minorities Against Forced Conversions
Pakistan’s federal and provincial governments must introduce, pass and enact comprehensive laws against forced conversions in conformity with international human...
Protesters In Gwadar Continue Their Protest For Economic Rights And Civil Liberties
On this 15 November thousands of people walked from Gwadar’s Syed Hashumi Chowk to Gwadar Y-Chowk near Gwadar port. Here...
Alia Ahmed Wins Zeenat Haroon Rashid Prize 2021 With A Short Story About The Callousness Of Privilege
The Zeenat Haroon Rashid Writing Prize for Women has announced that the award for 2021 goes to writer Alia Ahmed...
Commission On Enforced Disappearances Gets 37 New Cases In October, Bringing Its Total to 8,154 Since 2011
The Commission of Inquiry on Enforced Disappearances has received 37 new complaints of alleged enforced disappearance from across the country...
Cash-Strapped And Visually Impaired, Mufti Abdul Haleem Is Determined To Educate Young Religious Scholars
Mufti Abdul Haleem is blind from birth but his thirst for knowledge enabled him to become a religious scholar well...
Traders And Farmers Disappointed By Slow Progress On Pak-Afghan Border Trade And Movement
Zubair Motiwala, Chairman of the Pakistan Afghanistan Joint Chamber of Commerce and Industry (PAJCCI), has been urging both Islamabad and...
In The Wake Of The Harnai Earthquake: How Health Facilities With Insufficient Funds, Equipment & Staff Struggled To Treat Survivors
The entry gates of the hospitals are stormed by people. That is when the security at the gates of Sandman...
What Is The Message From Leaked Videos Of Politicians Coming To Light?
ISLAMABAD: There are many instances in the history of Pakistan where videos of the private lives of politicians, judges and...
As Afghan Refugees Wait To Be Registered In Chaman, Christian Volunteers Step In To Provide Aid
The process of registering people from Afghanistan as refugees has not started yet, which is causing problems for people entering...
Feature | Traffic On The Pakistan-Afghanistan Border Surges
Traffic on the Pak-Afghan border has increased significantly since the recent political change in Afghanistan. Among these are the many...
Pakistanis in Italy III: Breaking out of low-paid work
Daud Khan, Ahmed Raza and Mahnoor Malik
Sri Lanka’s COVID-19 Spiral
Mahum Kidwai explains the chaotic situation as the pandemic intensifies in Sri Lanka
‘No defence acceptable for crime of torture’
Sara Hassan writes about the launch of a report on criminalising torture in Pakistan
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Punjab Govt Stops Release Of True Crime Thriller Based On Javed Iqbal
The government of Punjab has stopped a new...
Why Quality Must Trump Quantity In Higher Education
The writer served as the Vice Chancellor at...
