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 makes implementation of social distancing and other preventative measures difficult,...
March 23rd, 2021; By Asra Haque; LAHORE; On Pakistan Day, Farooq Maududi narrates an alternate history of the origins of civil-military relations and the tragedy of Partition
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 ...
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 play in blocking the new social media regulations?
Bilawal Bhutto Zardari:...
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"
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 and the newly merged tribal districts. With the recent merger...
"Families of the forcibly disappeared feel a special kind of pain. When I look at the condition of my household I can't help but cry out, it is impossible for me to stay silent," says Sami Deen
December 24th, 2020; By Ahmad Saeed; LAHORE; Meet Rani Khan, a transgender who gave up dancing and begging to become a reformer. She runs a seminary in Islamabad and claims that many in her community want to quit begging and dancing, but they have no other means to earn their livelihood
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 ...
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 incident. He also mentioned that arrested lawyers have been tortured...