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Police brutality during Women's March highlights grim reality of gender-ba
Updated : 4 days, 7 hours ago IST
The police lathi-charge on participants of the Aurat (Women's) march in Islamabad (8 March 2023) provides the context for a perusal of the plight of women in Pakistan.
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Sectarian, Ethnic violence on rise in Pakistan's Balochistan
Updated : 4 days, 17 hours ago IST
In Pakistan, Sectarian and ethnic violence has become a regular affair and is on a constant rise as security forces recovered arms and ammunition in the Chaman district of Balochistan, according to Geo News.
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US congressman reminds Pakistan of its human rights obligations
Updated : 1 week, 1 day ago IST
Brad Sherman, American Congressman of the Democratic Party and senior member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, expressed concerns regarding the rising human rights violation in Pakistan, The News.pk reported. "There is concern over the increasing incidents of violence in Pakistan," the
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Pakistan needs to strengthen pro-women laws addressing gender-based viole
Updated : 1 week, 3 days ago IST
Addressing a press conference here, the experts urged the country's government to stop inviting culprits involved in gender-based violence, as guest speakers in official meetings and seminars.
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Rights activists term domestic violence an 'endemic' in Pakistan
Updated : 3 weeks, 1 day ago IST
According to The News International, a patriarchal mindset, depleting economic situation, religious extremism, increasing population, discriminatory traditions and the impact of the climate crisis, all provide a perfect environment for domestic violence in Pakistani society.
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US Dy Secy Sherman discusses floods, terrorism with Pak FM Bilawal Bhutto
Updated : 3 months ago IST
US Deputy Secretary Wendy Sherman on Wednesday (local time) met with Pakistani Foreign Minister Bilawal Bhutto Zardari at the Department of State and discussed Pakistan's continuing efforts to recover from devastating floods and expressed condolences for Pakistani lives lost in recent terror
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Ahmadiyya community faces persecution, violence in Pakistan
Updated : 3 months, 1 week ago IST
With mob attacks and killings becoming a regular affair against the Ahmadiyya community, Pakistan has become a country where the people of this community are subjected to extensive persecution including hate speech and violence with at least 13 killed and 40 wounded from the community since
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Pakistan again tops list of nations at-risk of mass killings: US report
Updated : 3 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Pakistan faces multiple security and human rights challenges, including increasing violence by the Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, or TTP, the Early Warning Project said in its 28-page report.
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Pakistan tops list of nations at risk of violence: US think-tank report
Updated : 3 months, 2 weeks ago IST
Pakistan has topped the list of countries at the highest risk of experiencing new mass killings, according to a new report by a US think-tank, Early Warning Project.
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Pakistan's home-grown monster TTP haunts its master
Updated : 3 months, 3 weeks ago IST
Pakistan home-grown monster Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) is haunting Islamabad as it called off a shaky ceasefire with the government and ordered fighters to stage attacks across the country.
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Over 4,000 Shias killed in eight years due to sectarian violence in Pakist
Updated : 5 months, 4 weeks ago IST
Islamabad [Pakistan], September 24 (ANI): Pakistan is facing multiple fault lines that are hampering the growth of the already conditioned economy of the country, including a breakdown of law and order domestically, which poses major challenges to the establishment and sectarian violence.
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Pak govt willing to join hands with radical elements to expand its objecti
Updated : 5 months, 4 weeks ago IST
Washington [US], September 23 (ANI): Pakistan's government in order to expand its own political objectives, is willing to join hands with radical elements without any due regard to the fate of the minorities, who are often at the receiving end of these extreme elements.
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