カテゴリー: Pakistan
Demonstrations are growing across the Muslim world against the French president Emmanuel Macron and his perceived attacks on Islam and the prophet Muhammad.In Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, about 40,000 were involved in a demonstration organised by …
Children among those killed after explosives hidden in bag detonateAn explosion at a religious seminary in Pakistan’s northern city of Peshawar has killed at least eight people and injured 110 others.The deadly blast took place at about 8.30am at the J…
Ali Imran Syed’s disappearance in Karachi registered as ‘abduction’ by Pakistani policeA reporter working for Pakistan’s leading Geo News television has gone missing in the southern port city of Karachi, family and colleagues said.The Geo bureau chief …
Others injured as thousands amass at Jalalabad grounds to apply for visas for PakistanAt least 11 women died in a crush at a football stadium in Afghanistan on Wednesday as thousands of people amassed to get visas to leave the country, officials said.A…
The Sunni majority is using blasphemy laws to target and murder those they call ‘heretics’Syed Kareem* has been in hiding for weeks. He fears if he is seen on the streets of Karachi, the Pakistan city he calls home, he will be a dead man walking.His or…
Former PM Nawaz Sharif accuses military of orchestrating Khan victory in first public speech since travelling to UK, as Pakistan Democratic Movement’s first rally draws tens of thousands An anti-government demonstration in Pakistan organised by a new a…
Rights campaigners voice concerns as Cuba and Pakistan also expected to be electedChina, Russia, Cuba, Pakistan and Saudi Arabia are expected to be elected to the board of the UN human rights council on Tuesday, leaving human rights campaigners in the …
Coronavirus tracking measures handing ‘unchecked powers’ to authoritarian regimes, activists warn Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageDraconian surveillance measures introduced during the Covid-19 epidemic are handing “unchecked…
Four others reportedly wounded in latest violence on border of disputed regionAn 11-year-old Pakistani girl was killed and four other villagers critically wounded by Indian troops firing into the Pakistan-administered part of the disputed region of Kas…
Investigator says woman raped in front of her children shouldn’t have driven aloneThe gang-rape of a woman in front of her children after her car broke down on a motorway has prompted outrage and protests in Pakistan, with anger further fuelled by poli…
Kaavan, who lives in a Pakistani zoo, lost his partner in 2012 and is now medically clear to travelAn elephant who has become a cause célèbre for animal rights activists around the world will be allowed to leave his Pakistani zoo and be transferred to …
Dating app ban is move to appease conservative factions and sign of weakness, say criticsFor Hamza Baloch, Grindr was a life-changer. As a gay man in Pakistan, an Islamic republic where homosexuality carries a sentence of up to 10 years in prison, his …
Dating platforms told they are breaching laws against extramarital relationships and homosexualityPakistan’s government has blocked Tinder, Grindr and three other dating apps, its latest move to curb online platforms deemed to be disseminating “immoral…
We are tantalisingly close to eradicating the disease. Things may slip backwards because of science, thugs and exponents of ignorancePolio arrives, if it announces itself at all, as a high temperature. Or a sore throat. Maybe a headache, or an upset st…
Mashal Naseem has got used to the death threats since she began campaigning for justice for her father, Tahir Ahmad Naseem, who was shot in a Pakistan courtroom last monthIt has only been a few weeks, but Mashal Naseem has already got used to shrugging…