カテゴリー: Pakistan
Decades of persecution has left the Shia minority with little space left in its graveyards but prime minister Imran Khan is in no hurry to listenAhmed Shah had always dreamed of bigger things. Though just 17, the high school pupil had taken a job in th…
Move, which takes effect on Friday 9 April, takes number of countries on red list to 39Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThe Philippines, Pakistan, Kenya, and Bangladesh are to be added to England’s “red list” of countries fro…
Islamabad high court orders government to fill vacant post at head of National Commission for Human RightsThe prime minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, and his government have been accused of trying to “sabotage” the country’s independent human rights wa…
Murders of two volunteers and a nurse come one day after relaunch of national vaccination campaignTwo female volunteers and a nurse working door to door to vaccinate children against polio were shot dead by gunmen in two separate incidents in the Afgha…
Khan probably caught virus during engagements last week before having vaccine, says information ministerCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePakistan’s prime minister, Imran Khan, has tested positive for coronavirus and is self-i…
Healthcare is focus of event to mark International Women’s Day, as organisers say pandemic has led to setbacks in rightsA march during the time of Covid is a difficult thing to plan safely. For Pakistan’s women, determined to have their “Aurat March” t…
Ban on violence against children will only apply in Islamabad, but campaigners hope rest of the country will follow suitPakistan has passed a bill banning corporal punishment for children in a move described as “historic” by rights activists.It comes a…
Shagufta Kausar and Shafqat Emmanuel have been on death row since 2014 over ‘blasphemous texts’ they deny sendingA court in Pakistan has indefinitely delayed an appeal hearing for a Christian couple who have been on death row since 2014 after being con…
Car carrying women, in North Waziristan to train people to open their own businesses, was ambushed by suspected militants Gunmen on motorcycles ambushed a vehicle carrying instructors from a private vocational school in north-west Pakistan on Monday, k…
Hundreds married to men who travelled to Pakistan for militant training now find themselves statelessUnder dark skies in Kashmir’s heavily militarised town of Kupwara, Saira Javed mournfully recalled her happy childhood.Recounting her early life in Kar…
Vaccines also exempt from price caps in divisive move that health experts fear will deepen inequalityCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coveragePakistan will allow private companies to import coronavirus vaccines and has exempted the v…
Supreme court ruling welcomed by rights activists who say it opens the way to broader prison reformsIn a landmark decision, Pakistan’s supreme court ruled this week that prisoners with serious mental health problems cannot be executed for their crimes….
Criticism follows release of 29-year-old who kept girl chained in cattle pen, in latest case highlighting abuses of religious minoritiesThe family of a 12-year-old girl in Pakistan who was chained up in a cattle pen for more than six months, after alle…
Nermin Niazi and Feisal Mosleh were teenage immigrants blending their Pakistani musical heritage with Pet Shop Boys and Depeche Mode – and their punchy disco LP has been rescued from obscurityOpening its doors in 1970, Birmingham’s Zella Studios played…
Three-day rescue effort has so far failed to locate Ali Sadpara and two fellow mountaineersMuhammad Ali Sadpara, Pakistan’s most successful mountaineer and a national hero in his country, was acutely aware of the risks of climbing the world’s highest m…