US lawmakers have introduced new legislation authorising sanctions on Pakistani officials accused of human rights violations and undermining democracy.
The Pakistan Freedom and Accountability Act (H.R. 5271), introduced on Monday, would empower the US...
Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Sardar Muhammad Sarfraz Dogar on Thursday warned rights activist and lawyer Imaan Zainab Mazari-Hazir of contempt of court for allegedly calling him a “dictator.”
The heated exchange took...
Nepal’s Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli resigned on Tuesday after youth-led protests against corruption and a social media ban spiralled into the country’s worst unrest in decades.
At least 19 people were killed and...
Amnesty International has accused Pakistan of running one of the world’s most extensive surveillance systems outside China, using a phone-tapping network and a Chinese-built internet firewall to monitor millions of citizens and suppress dissent.
Pakistan’s Minister of State for Interior, Talal Chaudhry, has accused protesters from Balochistan of using a sit-in in Islamabad to pursue political objectives.
Speaking in the National Assembly, Chaudhry said that while the government...
A protest sit-in by Baloch families demanding an end to enforced disappearances, the recovery of missing persons, and the release of Baloch Yakjehti Committee (BYC) leaders entered its 51st day in Islamabad on Thursday, with participants staging...
At least 17 people have allegedly been forcibly disappeared in raids by Pakistan’s intelligence agency ISI and the Counter Terrorism Department (CTD) in Dera Bugti and Awaran districts of Balochistan, according to sources and rights groups.
Afghanistan’s Defence Minister Mullah Yaqoob has accused Pakistan of shifting blame onto Kabul to conceal its own failures in tackling the Baloch armed struggle, rejecting Islamabad’s claims that fighters of the Baloch Liberation Army (BLA) and Tehrik-i-Taliban...
Four Baloch students were allegedly detained by Pakistani security personnel from the hostel of Sindh Agriculture University in Tando Jam, Hyderabad, and taken to an undisclosed location, fellow students said on Wednesday.
Witnesses at...
More than 800 people have been killed and around 2,500 injured after a 6.0-magnitude earthquake struck eastern Afghanistan late on Sunday, according to Taliban officials.
The quake was centred near the city of Jalalabad...
