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The body is a human being’s first home and first identity. Now, imagine being born into a home that does not acknowledge your reality. That is only a vague reflection of how the life of a transgender person begins. The term...
BIG Brother has been watching us. There have been multiple disclosures over the past year about how the activities of millions of Pakistanis are being monitored through a dystopian surveillance apparatus built quietly by the sta...
ISLAMABAD: A four-member larger bench of the Islamabad High Court (IHC) Wednesday deferred hearing in a petition filed by Dr Fowzia Siddiqui seeking the release of her sister, Dr Aafia Siddiqui, from a US jail. The larger bench ...
ISLAMABAD: The government has notified a special panel — comprising clerics, religious leaders of non-Muslim communities and senior officials — to counter extremism, hate speech, terrorism and sectarianism in the country. ...
LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has said that the recent floods across the country are not merely "natural disasters" but a direct consequence of human negligence and poor governance. The commission poi...
THE Commonwealth likes to talk a big game when it comes to democratic values. Its leaders signed lofty “media principles” in Samoa last year, promising to defend free expression and protect journalists. Yet a new report by t...
ISLAMABAD: National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW), with support from UNFPA, UN Women, Group Development Pakistan and the Embassy of the Netherlands, has concluded a two-day national consultation to finalise a unified ...
KARACHI: Pakistan is spying on millions of its citizens using an internet firewall that censors social media and a phone-tapping system, in one of the most comprehensive examples of state surveillance, Amnesty International has ...
In July 2025, the Senate in Pakistan amended the Pakistan Penal Code by way of a controversial but caveat-free revision of an otherwise strong law protecting women against acts of violence in public. Historically, this part l...
THE authorities should not feign alarm: after all, they have been repeatedly warned against the compulsion to ‘keep files’ on all and sundry — guilty and innocent alike. Invasive surveillance and data-gathering on citiz...