November 5th, 2020; By Ahmad Saeed; LAHORE; The newly-elected president of SCBA, Latif Afridi strongly hints to actively participate in PDM rallies to ensure the supremacy of law in the country. He says that the process of elections becomes a joke if the mandate is not honoured.

Human rights activist and Pashtun Tahuffaz Movement (PTM) leader Gulalai Ismail and her father Prof Ismail have denied terrorism charges against them saying the charges were unfounded and fabricated.

October 1st, 2020; By Hamid Riaz; LAHORE; "-Imagine raising a child, giving him love, educating him only to have to bury his mutilated body in the prime of his youth. -I will never get Mashal back but if he gets justice then maybe this environment of impunity will end"- Mashal's father

September 29th, 2020; By Hamid Riaz & Haider Kaleem; LAHORE; Fazal Khan Advocate states "That he & several other parents are deeply unsatisfied with the report and that It seems as if the report was made somewhere else & the Judge merely rubber-stamped it"

September 27th, 2020; By Ahmad Saeed; LAHORE; 18 yr old Hadiqa Bashir has been fighting for girls' rights in the sensitive area of Swat, where she has faced tremendous pressure from radical elements, but still carries on with her work. Because of her work, she has been nominated in the UN 17 Young Leaders for SDGs for the class of 2020.

September 18th, 2020; By Haider Kaleem; ISLAMABAD; Speaking to voicepk.net Rana Sanaullah paid homage to the late Asma Jahangir for always speaking truth to power. He termed the current political silence in Punjab as "the silence before the storm".

Discussing the FATF bills Shahid Khaqan Abbasi stated "There were a total of 14 bills out of these 2 were passed without amendments, 2 were rejected because they stipulated long detention periods & could be manipulated while 7 were passed with amendments"

September 17th, 2020; By Ahmad Saeed; LAHORE; Transgender rights activists demand the govt to make crimes against them uncompoundable as the perpetrators go scot-free because of legal loopholes. They also urged the govt to establish a special desk in every police station to help transgenders

September 5th, 2020; By Ahmad Saeed; LAHORE: Sajeela Sajid, wife of missing SECP official Sajid Gondal expressed dissatisfaction over the investigation and recovery efforts for her husband Sajid Gondal. The children wait for him fervently she says.

September 5th, 2020; By Ahmad Saeed; LAHORE: Dr. Veerta Ali, daughter of renowned writer and poet Fehmida Riaz rejects the Presidential Award on behalf of her late mother as a sign of protest. She says accepting such an award would dishonor her mother’s life long struggle for human rights and condemns the state’s repressive policies.

Nawab Akbar Bugti was never an 'anti-Pakistan' leader, but one who voted for Baluchistan’s accession to Pakistan in the Baloch Shahi Jirga held in 1947 at Quetta. But while he recognized himself as a Pakistani, he remained a staunch Baloch nationalist as well, often locking horns with the federal government over the discrimination that Balochistan faced. He demanded that the wealth generated from the natural resources of Baluchistan must be utilized for the uplifting of the Baloch people.

After America and NATO allies announced that they will pull out their troops from Afghanistan, there was a notable increase in militant activity in Pakistan, especially in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa...

Jul 24, 2020: Voicepk.net had an exclusive conversation with the spokesperson of Special Communications Organisation and head of marketing, Surosh Hina regarding the ongoing issues revolving around the online classes for

Jul 23, 2020: Pakistan’s Parliament should take every measure to strengthen and enforce laws regarding the minimum age of marriage and conversion of religion, said Sulema Jahangir, a dual qualified solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and ...

Jul 18, 2020: Pakistan’s Parliament should take every measure to strengthen and enforce laws regarding the minimum age of marriage and conversion of religion, said Sulema Jahangir, a dual qualified solicitor of the Senior Courts of England and ...

Jul 17, 2020: Barely 1% of Pakistani women are involved in entrepreneurship, in part due to the prevalence of a deeply patriarchal society that bars women from economic participation, and the lack of economic access and opportunities ...

Jul 15, 2020: “The 18th Amendment and the 10th NFC award are being made points of contention as a well-thought out agenda,” said the vice president of the JUI (F) Maulana Atta-ur-Rehman in his speech at the Senate on July 13 ...

Jul 13, 2020: The National Command and Operation Center (NCOC) issued a revised list of guidelines to limit person-to-person transmission during cattle sales and slaughter for Eid al-Azha. Under these guidelines, district authorities ...

Jul 04, 2020: “We are in a better place than 2 weeks ago with coronavirus spread in Pakistan” claimed Dr. Zafar Mirza Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health in an exclusive interview to Voicepk.net’s Munizae Jahangir ...

Jun 29, 2020: Pakistan Peoples Party Chair Bilawal Bhutto lambasted Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Freudian slip in which he referred to Osama bin Laden as a “martyr”. In a fiery speech, Bhutto drew attention to what he referred to ...

Jun 25, 2020: International epidemiologists and health experts have warned global communities that the second and third waves of the COVID-19 pandemic will peak from August to October, while Pakistan remain in the throes of the ...

Jun 24, 2020: PTI official and member of the National Assembly (MNA) Sadaqat Ali Abbasi announced that physical classes in schools for secondary and higher education will resume from July 15, 2020, bringing an end to a nearly 3 month ...

Jun 19, 2020: COVID-19 must find a new body to host it within two weeks otherwise it will die, says the President of Infection Control Society Pakistan, Prof. Dr. Rafiq Khanani. In an exclusive conversation with Voicepk.net, Dr Khanani ...

Jun 17, 2020: Chairman of the Balochistan National Party (BNP-M), Sardar Akhtar Mengal pulled out with his party’s 4 seats in the National Assembly from the coalition government with the ruling party, Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) ...

Jun 15, 2020: Lockdown to be imposed in parts of Shahdrah, the Walled City, Iqbal Town, Cantonment, Mozang, Shadbagh, Harbanspura, Gulberg, and the entirety of Nishtar Town. Lockdown to be enforced officially at 12:00 am, June 16, lockdown ...

Jun 11, 2020: Dr. Javed Akram, Vice-chancellor of the University of health sciences (UHS) in a press conference said that the armed forces should be called in to impose a very strict curfew instead of smart or any unsmart lockdown ...

Jun 10, 2020: Ajmal Wazir pays tribute to all the frontline workers of KP. In the latest meeting of the National economic council, Cheif Minister KP Mahmood Khan demanded the promised 3% share of NFC by Sartaj Aziz committee for newly merged ...

Provincial health minister Dr. Azra Fazal Pechuho cautioned that very soon the country’s health system will be choked, unable to deal with thousands of people who may fall prey to COVID-19. In a scathing criticism of the Prime ...

The coronavirus pandemic has suspended people's daily lives, snatching away various opportunities. At the same time though, it has also provided people with a chance to go all out and devote themselves to coming to the aid of ...

LAHORE: A summary leaked from the Punjab government has revealed worrying numbers related to the Coronavirus situation, creating chaos in the provincial capital. The summary highlighted that the actual number of infections is ...

In an exclusive interview with Voicepk.net Federal Minister for Science and Technology Fawad Chaudhry tells Munizae Jahangir that he hopes the government, cabinet & the Prime Minister will adopt scientific means ...

From day one, the police have been on the battleground fighting the situation of the COVID pandemic head-on. In this battle, there have also been falls. Many of these frontline workers who work late hours and in close ...

Mass Communication student Sayed Muhammad, from the National University of Modern Languages (NUML) had filed a petition at the Islamabad High Court (IHC) against the suspension and unavailability of the internet in the ...

Writer and political analyst Javed Jabbar's confrontation with India's Major General GD Bakshi went viral on social media where he is seen to be responding to the General's attack on the concept of Pakistan's inception ...

Manmeet Kaur, a young girl from the Sikh community of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been nominated for an international award in the interfaith category. She is among the 100 winners of 10 million nominated for the ...

For the transgender community, Aisha Mughal represents a lot more than just an expert. Mughal - a transgender woman has been working at the Ministry of Human Rights as a transgender rights expert since some time now ...

Shehzad Anwer of FAFEN shared raised these important points with voicepk.net based on the information gained through the recent survey conducted by FAFEN. “The FAFEN survey was conducted in 8 industrial districts of Pakistan ...

Senator Usman Khan says #ISupport18thAmendment. He also demanded further empowerment of the Senate as the house of federation & warned of serious political consequences if any undemocratic means are used to alter the #18ThAmendment ...

Mass Communication student Sayed Muhammad, from the National University of Modern Languages (NUML) had filed a petition at the Islamabad High Court (IHC) against the suspension and unavailability of the internet in the merged tribal ...

Mukhtar Ahmad Ali, a former information commissioner at Punjab Information Commission has filed an application under the Right to Information (RTI) Act 2017 to seek information from President Arif Alvi and the President Secretariat about ...

ISLAMABAD: Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi on Thursday said that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has agreed to give a one-year relief to Islamabad, keeping in view the country's struggle against the coronavirus pandemic ...

Health Minister Punjab, Dr.Yasmin Rashid says that the government is utilizing the Coronavirus Lockdown period to enhance the capacity of the healthcare system. She insists govt hospitals have a proper waste disposal system in place in ...

In an exclusive interview with Voicepk.net’s Asra Haque, Qaiser Afridi, Spokesperson of UNHCR in Pakistan explains how the UN Refugee Agency is protecting the rights of refugees, forcibly displaced communities and stateless people during ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTnb8AaZQIA Find out in this exclusive interview with Zafar Mirza, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on National Health Services. Mirza speaks of the government’s plan to continue to impose stringent measures in...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ut7VCAxNrPY As the shut down in Punjab has entered into its third week, the downtrodden and marginalized segments of society are bearing the brunt of the situation. Working-class communities especially daily...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TGVRhZ-MT0 While the rest of Europe is in lockdown, Swedes are enjoying spring sitting in cafes and restaurants or going to the cinema. Sweden has 5568 coronavirus cases and 308...

Pakistan’s prisons are currently severely over-capacity, with a disproportionate amount of women, children, elderly offenders, physically and mentally incapacitated detainees, under-trial offenders and petty offenders in detention. Moreover, overcrowding...

Our reporter in Lahore, Haider Kaleem interviews the chairperson of Pakistan Peoples Party & Standing Committee on Human Rights (National Assembly)     Haider Kaleem: What role will the Pakistan Peoples Party...

 Speaking exclusively to voicepk.net, Turkish novelist & Nobel laureate Orhan Pamuk converses with journalist and host of Aaj TV's "Spot Light", and painter and rights activist Salima Hashmi during...

In a voicepk.net exclusive, Munizae Jahangir (journalist and host of Aaj TV’s “Spot Light”) sat down with member of the National Assembly and one of the leaders of the Pashtun Tahafuz...

بلوچستان سے تعلق رکھنے والی انسانی حقوق کی سرگرم کارکن اور وکیل جلیلہ حیدر کو لاہور ایئرپورٹ حکام کی جانب سے 7 گھنٹے تحویل میں رکھنے کے بعد رہا...

عابد ساقی 16 جنوری 2020 کو پاکستان بار کونسل کے چئیرمین منتخب ہوئے، انہوں نے اس کے قبل بھی بار کونسلز میں مختلففرائض سر انجام دئیے اور ملک میں...

LAHORE: In a drastic change from his earlier stance, former law minister of Punjab and PML-N's MNA Rana Sanaullah says that Pakistan should move towards abolishing the death penalty. “Pakistan needs...

Dec 27th marks the death anniversary of Benazir Bhutto, a renowned face of Pakistan’s political legacy and an icon of feminine power in one of the most challenging societies...

Justice Gulzar Ahmed becomes the 27th Chief Justice of Pakistan on 21st December, 2019. Watch our exclusive video to know more about him.   Reported by Ayesha Nazar.

Senior Advocate Supreme Court Bar Association Abid Saqi speaks exclusively to voicepk.net’s Munizae Jahangir on how lawyers are being randomly arrested in relation to the Punjab Institute of Cardiology...

On 10th December 2019 at the National Assembly, Federal Minster for Human Rights Shireen Mazari and MNA Nafisa Shah vocalized the need to lift the ban on student unions...

Washington Post's Christian Caryl talks about the astonishing collaboration of right-wing trolls situated in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, USA, and even Israel in the aftermath of Jamal Khashoggi's assassination.

In an interview with journalist Munizae Jahangir, Special Advisor to the Prime Minister, Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan, stated that the government was in full support of reinstating student unions....

Chair Human Rights Committee in Senate, Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, from Pakistan People's Party (PPP) says the Senate committee will summon the Punjab Police Inspector General (IG), Shoaib Dastagir to...

Writer and columnist for BBC Urdu, Wusat Ullah Khan, appealed for state accountability during the panel on "Social Media & Freedom of Expression" at AJCONF . "Give us answers,...

Pakistan's top advocates weighed in on the legal ramifications and significance of Justice Asif Saeed's Khosa decision to suspend govt-issued notification to extend Chief of Army Staff, Qamar Bajwa's...

Jalila Haider, a human rights advocate and activist, spoke for the panel on "Religious & Ethnic Minorities Under Siege in South Asia" at AJCONF 2019. In her opening statement,...

Munizae Jahangir speaks with Humayun Zaman Mirza, Chairman Jammu Kashmir Human Rights Commission at Faiz Festival

Munizae Jahangir speaks with Humayun Zaman Mirza, Chairman Jammu Kashmir Human Rights Commission at Faiz Festival

MNA Mehnaz Akbar reveals startling data on Pakistan's #Children. Just these numbers reveal how grim the situation is.

Manizeh Bano raises some serious questions about the Child Sexual Abuse in Kasur. She says in the past 6 months 40 cases have been reported but no investigation is...

Knut Otsby, United Nations Resident & Humanitarian Coordinator for Pakistan, talks about human rights issues in Pakistan and explains how he is working in partnership with Pakistan to address...

EU Ambassador Designate to Pakistan, Her Excellency Androulla Kaminara, explains EU programs and policies on human rights, and tools of cooperation with Pakistan.

Netherlands' Human Rights Ambassador to Pakistan, H.E. Bahia Tahzib Lie, talks about her country's commitment to human rights issues. She also talks about the Netherlands' engagements in different activities...

In a news conference, Attorney-General for Pakistan Anwar Mansoor Khan, along with Special Assistant to Prime Minister on Information and Broadcasting Dr. Firdous Ashiq Awan says that the matter...

 

Akram Durrani provides that the Azadi March's leadership disregard Sheikh Rashid's statements that the Maulana was due to turn back. The dharna is still on-going.

While the JUI-F remains adamant in their demand for the resignation of Prime Minister Imran Khan, Akram Durrani claims that in-house change is a topic that will be on...

In an exclusive interview, Munizae Jahangir asks Akram Durrani (Leader of the Opposition, Provincial Assembly Khyber Pakhtunkhwa) if the Rahbar Committee has reached an agreement on reforms in the...

PPP's Ch Manzoor questions why the extension is given to the Army chief

Her Honour Judge Khatoon Sapnara is a Circuit Judge and is authorized to act as a Judge of the High Court of England and Wales. She speaks ardently at...

"Without independent lawyers and judges, rights are meaningless" One of Britain's most distinguished lawyers, Baroness Helena Kennedy of The Shaws, QC FRSA, Director of IBAHRI (International Bar Association's Human...