November 22nd, 2020; By Ahmad Saeed; Faisalabad; Asif Masih, a resident of Faisalabad, claims that his 12-year-old daughter, Farah, was abducted, forcefully married, and converted to Islam. The court refused to take into account the age of the girl and sent her back with her husband/abductor.

November 16th, 2020; Bureau Report; LAHORE; South Asians for Human Rights has expressed its concern over Sri Lankan authorities insisting on mandatory cremation for Muslims who die of or are suspected to have died of COVID, in violation of Islamic funeral practices.

November 15th, 2020; By Umar Bacha; Gilgit Baltistan; In the hotly contested Gilgit Baltistan elections today, there is little space for women candidates, but a few emboldened politicians are determined to win.PPP’s candidate is Sadia Danish contesting the Gilgit Baltistan Legislative Assembly elections from her native constituency GBLA 18 in Diamer. The other women contesting in these elections are Jamiat-I-Ulema Islam ( F) candidate Mehnaz Wali from Hunza, PTI’s candidate Amina Ansar from district Ghanchy and an independent candidate Shehnaz Bhuttu from Ghizar. However JUIF’s candidate Mehnaz Wali recently withdrew from the electoral race.

Dr Radhika Coomaraswamy has been appointed new chairperson of SAHR along with Dr Roshmi Goswami as its co-chairperson. Munizae Jahangir and Ahmed Rafay Alam are new bureau members from Pakistan.

November 13th, 2020; Bureau Report; LAHORE; Chief Justice of Peshawar High Court Waqar Ahmad Seth was laid to rest in Peshawar as lawyers across the country observed a day of mourning on his demise.

November 7th, 2020; By Ahmad Saeed; LAHORE; The family of the two sisters allegedly gang-raped in Faisalabad has accused the police of siding with the suspects as a court extended interim bail of five accused in the case.

Yasin Azad, former president of the SCBA alleges that PM Imran Khan called a meeting with figures from bar associations last month to seek their help in removing Justice Issa.

November 3rd, 2020; By Rehan Piracha; LAHORE; The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Information Department has removed 31 provincial, regional, and local newspapers from the media list for not fulfilling the criteria under the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Advertisement Policy 2018. However, journalists' representatives said the delisted newspapers were mostly dummy publications with no journalistic staff employed whatsoever.