Aug. 12, 2020: One woman was killed while two others were injured in shelling by Indian forces across the Line of Control (LoC). The victims were residents of a border village Raishian. The young child of the deceased woman has still not understood ...

Aug. 11, 2020: Karachi, the most populated city of Pakistan and the backbone of the country’s economy, is suffering from an intense governance crisis. Following the recent urban floods in the city, the federal government has called ...

Aug. 11, 2020: Doctors, public health experts, and epidemiologists have voiced their concerns over what they say may be a premature lifting of restrictions by the government. Experts believe that a premature return to normalization ...

Aug. 10, 2020: Five people were martyred due to an explosion at Chaman, a major city on the Pakistan Afghanistan border, Monday morning. The explosion took place on the Mall Road, one of the cardinal roads in the city. An initial investigation ...

Aug. 08, 2020: Police have arrested an 18-year old girl and her father for allegedly throwing a  female infant off the second floor of a building in the Baloch Colony area. The newborn baby miraculously survived but was inflicted with a few ...

Aug. 05, 2020: Soon before the revocation of the special status of Indian Occupied Kashmir (IOK) on August 5, New Delhi imposed a lockdown in the valley fearing a massive public outrage. The central government has either arrested or put ...

Aug. 05, 2020: Rafique Umrani was a tailor by profession and a father of five. But for his family he might as well be dead. On September 17, 2017, Umrani was abducted by plain-clothed officials from Nazar Street, Larkana, and to ...

Aug. 04, 2020:Pir Mahal police have lodged an FIR against a young man R* for allegedly posting blasphemous posts on his Facebook account. He was booked under section 295 A of the Pakistan Penal Code (PPC) and 16 Maintenance ...

Aug. 04, 2020: Local authorities in Peshawar were quick to initiate legal proceedings against Faisal, the minor who shot dead a US citizen, Tahir Ahmad Nasim, in a Peshawar court last week. Nasim was indicted under articles 295-A, 298 ...

Aug. 04, 2020: Families and friends of missing persons have carried on their protest against the state’s policy of enforced disappearances of perceived “threats” to the nation in front of the Karachi Press Club since the past week ...

Jul 30,2020: The sudden 'smart lockdown' imposed by the Government of Punjab in the province till August 5, in order to curb the spread of the Coronavirus during Eidul Azha, has ended up in making traders furious ...

Jul 30, 2020: حکومت پنجاب نے عید الاضحی کے دوران کورونا وائرس کے پھیلاؤ کو روکنے کے لئے 5 اگست تک صوبے میں'سمارٹ لاک ڈاؤن' نافذ کردیا ہے۔ محکمہ پنجاب پرائمری اینڈ سیکنڈری ہیلتھ کیئر کے جاری کردہ سرکاری نوٹیفکیشن کے مطابق ، تمام ...

Jul 29, 2020: An elderly man accused of blasphemy was shot dead inside a court room in Peshawar during the hearing of a case, police confirmed. The incident happened on July 29, at around 12 o clock pm Peshawar’s judicial complex ...

Jul 29, 2020: Lawmakers of the Punjab Assembly are not even aware of the content of the Bill that they have passed recently to ‘protect’ Islam. Following objections by Shia clerics and civil society, the Speaker of Punjab Assembly ...

Jul 28, 2020: In Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Child Protection Units were set up in 12 districts in 2011 with the support of UNICEF for a total of six years. However, these units have been inactive since the aid was stopped. Why has the government ...

Jul 27, 2020: Following objections by Shia clerics and civil society, the Speaker of Punjab Assembly Chaudhry Pervez Elahi assured to stop the implementation of the Protection of Islam Bill that the assembly had earlier passed ...

Jul 27, 2020: After 73 years, a 200 year old Gurdwara in Quetta has been handed over again to the Sikh community of Quetta. The community has expressed its happiness over the government’s initiative of restoring the Gurdwara ...

Jul 26, 2020: The brother of a murdered journalist Anwar Jan Baloch has claimed that the murder was an well thought out act with the involvement of a higher up. According to information that was provided to the Levies, Anwar Jan's murder took ...

Jul 24, 2020: The cattle market this year has a most unexpected situation. In this male-dominated buyer-seller platform, one brave girl has challenged gender roles and has set a trend for women by selling sacrificial animals in the cattle market ...

Jul 24, 2020: The latest bombing that hit Parachinar Town has triggered anger and fear among the locals of the city with the re-emergence of violence in the area. Parachinar is the capital city of Kurram District in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been ...

Jul 23, 2020: A TikTok video of famous Pashtu singer Gul Panra seems to have irked the entire cabinet of Khyber Pukhtunkhwa. The video was shot inside the official residence of the Deputy Commissioner Khyber district. But Ms, Panra said ...

Jul 23, 2020: On Sunday night, July 14, 2020, Muhammad Amin was dragged out of his house in Shah Faisal Colony of Karachi, Sindh, by a group of men and was never seen since. His family says the abductors were clad in civilian clothes ...

Jul 22, 2020: It has been a year since 12 year old Ahmed was electrocuted to death by high voltage live wires. Ahmed was a resident of Al-Mustafa Town in the low income working class area of Chungi Amar Sadhu. After the child's death, his parents ...

Jul 21, 2020: Trouble flared in Islamabad yet again as Maulana Idrees, the close aide of Lal Masjid cleric Abdul Aziz, went missing outside Jamia Fareedia in E-7 on July 15. Lal Masjid has once again been cordoned off to prevent Abdul Aziz from ...

Jul 21, 2020: The investigation into the extrajudicial killing of Ahsanullah of district Kharan, Balochistan, seems to have hit a dead end as no suspect has yet been brought forward. Ahsanullah had allegedly succumbed to police torture while he ...

Jul 19, 2020: Students from Gilgit Baltistan and former-FATA took to the National Press Club to protest for the restoration of mobile internet data services in their areas. They demanded internet services so that they could attend online classes ...

Jul 18, 2020: Honking in protest, traders from across Pakistan led a car rally from Lahore, headed for the Prime Minister House in Islamabad. They complain that it has become nearly impossible to do business due to heavy taxation by the ...

July 17, 2020 By Our Correspondent KHAIRPUR Sindh Police confirmed that suspected child rapist involved in one such incident in Khairpur was arrested on Friday. Retired schoolteacher Sarang Shar, was nabbed after...

Jul 17, 2020: The Peshawar High Court on Thursday, July 16, 2020, turned down a petition to produce orders for the habeas corpus of human rights defender and missing persons advocate Idris Khattak, who has been missing himself for the past eight months ...

Jul 16, 2020: Federal Minister for Information and Technology Amin ul Haque has said that the government is trying to provide 3G/4G internet service to unserved areas of the country including Gilgit Baltistan (GB), Azad Kashmir and former FATA through Universal Service Fund ...

Jul 15, 2020: In a press release issued on behalf of Dr. Mehdi Hasan, Chairperson of the Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) the death of Waziran Begum has been seriously condemned and a proper and impartial investigation ...

Jul 15, 2020: The Senate Committee on Human Rights unanimously approved the long-awaited release of Sarmad Khoosat’s film Zindagi Tamasha on Tuesday. In an official document received by Voicepk.net, the Chairperson of the ...

Jul 14, 2020: وزارت انسانی حقوق نے یورپین یونین کے حقوق پاکستان پروجیکٹ کے  تعاون سے نوجوان پیشہ ور افراد کو انسانی حقوق سے متعلق خصوصی شعور  ، صلاحیتیں  اور مہارت حاصل کرنے کے مواقع فراہم کرنے کے لئے ایک ینگ ایکسپرٹ ...

Jul 13, 2020: The Sindh High Court (SHC) has declared that minors who have 'converted' to Islam can still live with their non-Muslim parents. The SHC’s division bench headed by Justice Abdul Maalik Gaddi announced this landmark verdict in ...

Jul 11, 2020: Lawmakers in Punjab have vowed to amend Punjab's child marriage law and to increase the minimum age of marriage of girls from 16 to 18 years. Currently, the minimum age for marriage of girls in Punjab is 16 but it was ...

Jul 11, 2020: With a population of over 220.97 million as of 2020, Pakistan is the fifth most populous country in the world, and with its relatively smaller landmass as compared to other populous countries, it is also among the most densely populated ...

Jul 10, 2020: Baba Jan and his fellow activists have been in jail for nine years for allegedly setting fire to a police station and SHO's house, but their families claim they are innocent and there is a political motive behind it ...

Jul 08, 2020: The Lahore High Court has suspended the Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority's (PEMA) order banning Channel 24 on Monday. Justice Sajid Mehmood has also directed PEMRA to present the minutes of the ...

Jul 06, 2020: The health services of the capital announced contact-tracing and testing for the coronavirus in the abandoned slums of Islamabad under the Trace, Test and Quarantine (TTQ) policy on 29th of June but for slum dwellers, the novel ...

Jul 04, 2020: In Balochistan, there has been an increase of about 32 percent in the health budget as compared to last year’s spending on health. This fiscal year 2020-21, the Balochistan government has allocated over Rs31billion for the health ...

Jul 03, 2020: Since June 29th, life has fallen apart for Peshawar’s Christian woman Shaheen Joesph. She has been widowed at just 32 years after her husband Nadeem Joesph succumbed to bullet wounds after battling life and death for ...

Jul 02, 2020: With populist leaders and their online troll armies seeking to spread disinformation, and authorities cutting off access to online information, global internet freedom seems to be going downhill. Like many other countries, even ...

Jul 2, 2020: Just a few days after the groundbreaking ceremony of the capital’s first Hindu temple being constructed, a fatwa was issued by Jamia Ashrafia declaring the act ‘un-Islamic and illegal’. The fatwa came from Mufti Ziauddin of Jamia ...

Jul 01, 2020: At least 128 bodies of Pakistanis have been transported from Saudi Arabia since the pandemic while at least 119 remained to be lifted from various countries. Minister for Aviation Ghulam Sarwar Khan said that 56,846 people and 479 ...

Jun 30, 2020: The valor of security guards and timely response from the Sindh police has saved Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) from a terrorist attack and a possible hostage situation. According to details, on June 29 four terrorists arrived ...

Jun 30, 2020: Thirty four year old Sumaira Bibi tied the knot with a man named Ashraf three years ago. Sumaira was the resident of Allahabad, a small village near Chunian while Ashraf lived in the town of Baloki. The couple was blessed with ...

Jun 30, 2020: Increasing demand for drugs and other equipment used in treating the novel coronavirus disease has caused a massive upsurge in prices in Sindh, leaving many unable to afford basic equipment such as oxygen cylinders, ...

Jun 29, 2020: On Monday morning, citizens were shocked to find out that the Pakistan Stock Exchange (PSX) located at the I. I Chundrigar road in Karachi, was attacked by four terrorists carrying heavy ammunition. Luckily the ...

Jun 28, 2020: A small ceremony was held this week to lay grounds for the construction of a Hindu temple in Islamabad, which will be called Shri Krishna Temple. The Shri Krishna ‘mandir’ will be Islamabad’s first functional temple for the Hindu ...

Jun27, 2020: Thousands of citizens protested across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (KP) on Friday, against police torture. Coincidentally Friday also marked the International Day in Support of Victims of Torture on Friday, June 26 ...

Jun 27, 2020: Chief Justice of Balochistan High Court Jamal Khan Mandokhail has ordered Additional Inspector General (AIG) Police Abdul Razzaq Cheema to submit a complete inquiry report in court promptly on June 25 ...

Jun 25, 2020: Incidents of sexual abuse and the harassment of girls, even those who are underage, seems to be a serious issue. In one of Karachi's areas, Essa Nagri, one such case also arose when a some gangsters supported by a political ...

Jun 25, 2020: پاکستان بار کونسل کے وائس چیئرمین عابد ساقی نے قاضی فائز عیسیٰ کو قتل کرنے کی دھمکیوں کی مذمت کرتے ہوئے ہوئے موجودہ صورت حال کو عدلیہ کی آزادی کے حوالے سے خوفناک قرار دیا. بدھ کی شام کو جسٹس ...

Jun 24, 2020: Despite the threat of Coronavirus, hundreds of university students staged protests in more than 35 cities across the country against the system of online classes and fee hikes. The demonstrations were held on the call of Progressive ...

Jun 22, 2020: The woman was tortured to death by her husband for not giving birth to a son in subdivision Dobandi of District Qilla Abdullah. According to details, her in-laws were taking her body for burial when her family ...

Jun 21, 2020: Hospitals in Hyderabad, Sindh, allocated especially for COVID-19 patients have almost reached their full capacity, aside from only two unoccupied ventilators. According to health department officials, so far a total of 11,833 tests ...

Jun 20, 2020: The provincial government has banned the distribution, marketing, and sales of formula milk, leaving no choice for new mothers. In a notification issued by the Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa (KP) Directorate General Health Services, it ...

Jun 18, 2020: Thousands of people have been holding a sit-in protest at the Chaman border since the last 10 days, demanding the government to re-open trade activities through the Pak-Afghan border, which has been closed since March 1 ...

Jun 18, 2020: A 52-year-old man in police custody, Said Ali Akbar Shah was allegedly tortured to death at police station Karora in Shangla district, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on Wednesday night. The man had been arrested with 110-gram ...

June 18, 2020: In response to dangerous elements linked to the increasing incidents of target killings in Bajaur, a former agency of erstwhile FATA now a district in the Malakand Division of Khyber ...

June 17, 2020: Akram Bajwa, 42, stands in his newly sowed cotton field and stares worryingly around him. Glancing up at the sky he is reminded of how someone has informed him that locust swarms can attack the area today. Since then ...

June 16, 2020: The evil of child sexual abuse hit a neighbourhood in in Gulshan e Hadeed Karachi once again after a seven year old child was sexually assaulted and killed brutally afterwards. Even a week after the incident, the people of ...

Jun 15, 2020: Hospitals in Balochistan have reached their full capacity despite the fact that an estimated 97 percent of patients have quarantined themselves at home. DG Health Balochistan Dr Saleem Abro warned over the surge of ...

Jun 14, 2020: Civil society including members of women’s rights platforms, cultural groups, youth activists, legal community, academicians, litterateurs, and other activists have expressed their outrage and have strongly ...

June 13, 2020: Mr. Abid Saqi, Vice Chairman, Pakistan Bar Council has strongly condemned the recent onslaught of religious fanatics against Dr. Arfana Mallah leveled against her, false accusations of Blasphemy ...

Jun 13, 2020: Areas of Sindh have become a battleground for deadly clashes among around a dozen tribes. On a daily basis one or two people are being killed because of perpetual hostility. So far thousands of innocent lives have been ...

Jun 13, 2020: Despite 2,000 new cases being wheeled into Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s hospitals on a daily basis, there are hardly any beds available for them. In the Lady Reading Hospital only 105 dedicated beds and 25 ventilators are available ...

Jun 12, 2020: Child labour is a social ill still rampant in Pakistan despite several laws outlawing the practice. Pakistan’s first set of laws prohibiting child labour were not passed until early 1990 after push from activists – the most important of which ...

Jun 12, 2020: The country’s healthcare system is feeble and ill-equipped, and lags several years behind its counterparts in developed nations. With a global pandemic now in our midst, concerns abound whether Pakistan may suffer an even ...

June 11, 2020: The Asma Jahangir (AGHS) Legal Aid Cell condemns the dangerous and contentious misuse of the Blasphemy law of Pakistan for the purposes of threatening, suppressing, and eliminating the academic individuals of ...

Jun 11, 2020: After a massive online campaign by Voicepk.net, Senator Rubina Khalid, chairperson of the Standing Committee on Information Technology and Telecommunication has vowed to raise the issue of unavailability of the internet ...

Jun 11, 2020: The surge in Sindh’s coronavirus cases has put citizens in peril as private hospitals across the province run out of dedicated COVID-19 beds. Healthcare experts in Sindh have termed the pandemic situation alarming, citing incidents where patients ..

Jun 11, 2020: The World Health Organization (WHO) has written to both the Sindh and Punjab governments, urging Punjab, in particular, to impose an “intermittent” lockdown to control the spread of Coronavirus as Pakistan’s confirmed cases surge past a ...

Jun 8, 2020: Like every year, anguish-ridden families of missing persons along with others from the civil society converged outside the Quetta Press Club on Monday, June 8, a date which is marked every year as the ‘Baloch Missing Persons’ Day’. The ...

Jun 8, 2020: The controversial Maulana Abdul Aziz of Lal Masjid fame is firmly back in the spotlight as the government has reached an agreement with him whereby, he and his family have vacated Lal Masjid G-6 today (8th June 2020) and moved to the ...

Jun 7, 2020: A married girl from Sindh’s Khairpur district alleged that she was abducted and gang-raped by three police officials on the second day of Eid ul Fitar, 25 May. The woman named S* also alleged that she was set free by the abductors after five ...

Jun 5, 2020: "Malik Naaz we salute your bravery,” shouted protesters marching along the road in Quetta, holding placards. Dozens of protesters had collected on Friday in front of the Quetta Press Club to publicly denounce the barbarous killing of a woman ...

Jun 5, 2020: Even after 10 years of marriage, there was no stopping the man who beat his 28-year-old wife so much that she died. The incident happened in the Kot Radha Kishan area of Kasur district, where Shamim, the eldest among ...

Jun 5, 2020: In addition to the surge in COVID-19 cases in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, hospitals in the province are now struggling to tend to an increasing number of patients due to an acute shortage of necessary equipment, space, and medicines. As a ...

Jun 3, 2020: The Supreme Court on Tuesday, June 2, 2020, asked why is the integrity of judges being questioned when there is no concrete evidence. In the Supreme Court, a 10 member bench heard the petition filed by Justice Qazi Faez ...

Jun 2, 2020: South Asian countries have had a long-standing image in the international community as being hubs of diseases and pestilence, coupled with a crippled healthcare system that is unable to address the healthcare needs of its ...

LAHORE: For the second time in a year, the Federal Minister of Law and Justice, Barrister Farogh Naseem tendered his resignation on Monday, June 1 which was accepted by Prime Minister Imran Khan. However, Naseem has ...

KARACHI: Arif Iqbal, a resident of Lahore, is among the several unfortunate Pakistanis who lost their loved ones in the Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) Airbus A320 plane crash on May 22, 2020. The plane had crash-landed in a ...

Recognizing the rights of animals, Islamabad High Court (IHC) Chief Justice Athar Minallah on Thursday, May 21, ordered the prompt relocation of the wildlife held in captivity at the Marghazar Zoo in Islamabad to sanctuaries within or ...

It has been over two months since multiple journalists together with staff members of Jang Group have been staging protests in multiple cities against the arrest of editor-in-chief for Geo News and Jang Group, Mir Shakeel-ur-Rehman ...

The government eased restrictions on Pakistan’s partial lockdown claiming that by extending it, the poor would starve. But as soon as businesses opened, people from the higher and middle-income bracket groups were ...

For decades the local people living in the upper parts of the country particularly Malakand and Hazara divisions have been experiencing severe water shortage for decades, forced to fetch drinking water from miles away from ...

Markets and shopping malls have been reopened all across the country after the Supreme Court gave a decision in a suo moto case hearing regarding the measures taken to deal with coronavirus. While earlier, markets were ...

On April 7, Special Assistant to the Prime Minister on Health Dr. Zafar Mirza tweeted that Pakistan’s daily testing capacity will be raised to 20,000 “in the coming days”. Fast forward to May 16 and Pakistan has conducted only ...

Gujranwala becomes one of the most affected areas in Punjab as more than 1,650 people have tested positive for COVID-19 in the division. Located in the north of Punjab’s provincial capital Lahore, Gujranwala’s administration ...

Karachi police have been unable to demystify the reasons surrounding the death of a newborn baby girl, who was found on a footpath in Mominabad area of the city. The baby girl passed away while being shifted to a local hospital ...

Pakistan sent the highest number of content censoring or removal requests to Facebook in the first half of 2019 according to Facebook’s transparency report released on May 12. The Facebook transparency report ...

Lockdowns have been enforced across the world in an effort to restrict the spread of Coronavirus, as part of social distancing measures. However, in parts of Balochistan, the lockdown seems to be having the opposite of its intended ...

The healthcare crisis has hit Pakistan hard, and part of the reason for this has been the negligible quota of the budget that the healthcare sector is given. According to the federal budget in the last fiscal year (2019-20), the ...

As Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s COVID-19 cases bloat to worrying statistics, an increasing number of doctors and other healthcare workers such as nurses and paramedics are also contracting the potentially deadly virus ...

An Eighteen year old man Muhammad Siddique Bangali was arrested in Hyderabad for sexually assaulting and then burying alive an eight year old girl Rukhsar. The incident took place inside the Quaid park on the main Autobahn ...

Pakistan’s financial hub, Karachi has probably been the worst-hit economically by the lockdown. As life and business come to standstill, tens of thousands have been left unemployed in the city. With the majority of offices and ...

Although it has a remarkably vibrant press, Pakistan only ranks at number eight on the CPJ’s 2019 Global Impunity Index that enlists countries where murders of journalists go unpunished. At least 65 journalists and media workers ...

A seven year old boy was sexually assaulted by his 18 year old neighbor in the Yadgar area of Bisham tehsil, Shangla district on Thursday, April 30, 2020. District Police Officer (DPO) Shangla, Malak Ijaz said that the police came to ...

The Habib Jalib Peace Award for the year 2020 has been given to the globally recognized prominent human rights activist and lawyer Asma Jahangir. Since 2007, the Habib Jalib Peace Award has been given to known personalities ...

Although the concern behind the prevailing lockdown is to mitigate the spread of the potentially fatal coronavirus, restrictions on movement and forcing people to remain indoors has enabled a different kind of pandemic: domestic abuse ...

There has been public outrage over Tariq Jamil's derogatory remarks against women and the youth of Pakistan at the Prime Minister's telethon on April 23. Politicians, lawyers, human rights activists, journalists, academics, and other ...

Two minor Hindu girls were abducted from Sawari, a village within the Thari Mirwah police station limits in district Khairpur, Sindh. While the girls’ family announce their fears that the victims are under threat of being forcibly converted ...

After the 20-point accord between the federal government and the top religious leaders of the country was signed, on April 18, mosques across the country are now holding congregations and daily prayers as usual. But as the government agreed ...

In a tragic incident on April 18, a 28-year old woman, Maryam killed herself by hanging herself from the ceiling of her room. She was a resident of Francisabad, a Christian dominated area of Gujranwala, and was a mother of four children ...

As businesses, stores, factories, and entire companies are forced to close down, while facing irrecoverable losses, home-based workers (HBWs) are drowning in a similar mire of economic depression. Shamim Bano, a resident of Godhra in ...

On the request of the Pakistani High Commission, the 41 Pakistanis who had been stranded in India were finally able to cross the Wagah border on April 16 and return to their homeland. But two of the women amongst them have tested positive ...

Nearly 1,600 railway porters across the country are now without a livelihood, as unemployment rises across Sindh during the lockdown. Despite assurances by Minister of Railways, Sheikh Rasheed Ahmad, of relief through the Federal ...

Around 300 Pakistani students stranded in Bangladesh are yearning to return home, as the world fights the Coronavirus in lockdown which was imposed on March 18. The students say they have been facing immense difficulties in procuring ...

Although the federal government has extended the lockdown to April 30 across the country, certain restrictions have been eased to allow traders, businesses, and manufacturers to resume operations. However, the government has maintained the ...

The Islamabad High court (IHC) on Tuesday, April 14, ordered the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to restore 3G/4G internet services in erstwhile Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). The court issued the directive while ...

Sanitary workers have stood at the forefront of the war against the COVID-19 pandemic, but due to a lack of safety equipment for the community, they are also possibly a high risk-group for the virus as they have been tasked with the removal ...

سپریم کورٹ نے کورونا وائرس کی  روک تھام کے سلسلے میں اٹھاے گئے  اقدامات پر لئے گئے  ز خود نوٹس کی سماعت کے دوران حکومتی کار گردگی پر بہت سے اعتراضات اور سوالات اٹھا دیے. چیف جسٹس گلزار احمد کی سربراہی میں پانچ رکنی بینچ نے وزیر اعظم کے معاون ...

The PM’s Ehsas Programme has come about with gusto, yet those who are at the collection points tell of extremely bad management, and lack of safety measures which they must face. Is the misery of those in need, actually being alleviated or ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbp_bUJMaTY By Ahmed Saeed High courts have no authority for suo moto: SCP On Tuesday, April 7, the Supreme Court of Pakistan (SC) rolled back under trial prisoners’ bails that had been...

- Story by Haider Kaleem. The Federal Minister for Education, Shafqat Mahmood justified why the Government must continue its plan to make students attend classes despite the non-availability of the...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idjjDwEVEA8 - Story by Ahmed Saeed. Like much of the world, Pakistan too has also shut down all educational institutions to prevent the spread of coronavirus in the country. At first, the...

https://youtu.be/1QuM9kVovNY - Story by Haider Kaleem 12 doctors and 2 paramedics in Balochistan have tested positive for the COVID 19 virus, as the provincial government has not been able to arrange...

آج سپریم کورٹ آف پاکستان میں کورونا وائرس کے پھیلاو کے خطرے کے پیش نظر زیر سماعت قیدیوں کی ضمانت پر رہائی کے لئے درخواست کی سماعت ہی.   چیف جسٹس...

https://youtu.be/RPkncY90lMA   - Story by Asra Haque. Mohammad Rashid Memon and his family were expecting to return by March 21, 2020. They had all flown to Turkey on March 15 of March...

- Story by Ayesha Mir, Islamabad. As novel coronavirus cases grow exponentially across Pakistan, the government is yet to decide whether the federal capital will remain in partial lock down,...

  With the lockdown, people have been pushed back inside their homes. No one wants to risk being outdoors, for fear of contracting the Coronavirus. Yet the heroes who battle...

Staff Report The Asma Jahangir (AGHS) Legal Aid Cell had filed a petition in the Lahore High Court (LHC) for court intervention regarding the overpopulation of prisons and the related...

Staff Report A number of actions taken on Thursday, March 26, showed that the judiciary and the executive were both taking the idea of releasing prisoners seriously in order to...

In Balochistan, according to the Ministry of Health, the emergence of 21 new cases in the past 48 hours has raised the province’s tally to 131. 1159 suspected patients...

Petitions at IHC, SHC and PHC also seek immediate release of prisoners to contain the virus  Staff Report While human rights’ activists have been pushing the Government to release prisoners in...

In response to rising instances of child sexual abuse in the region, the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government referred to the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) and the Supreme Court for...

Currently, the novel coronovirus has spread to 108 countries worldwide. During the initial outbreak, South Korea suffered the most amount of COVID-19 cases, second to China, with a total...

Professor Muhammad Idrees along with the team of university of Punjab’s Centre of Excellence in Molecular Biology has claimed to have successfully developed a low-cost kit to test likely...

LAHORE: A week ago, on International Women's Day, thousands of women across Pakistan poured into the streets under the banner of Aurat March. Women, transgenders and allies rallied together,...

CHAMAN: As the dead increase in numbers at the Pak-Afghan border in Balochistan, immigrants stranded on either side are demanding the governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan reopen borders so...

چین سے شروع ہونے والا کورونا وائرس اب دنیا کے ١٤٥ ممالک میں پھیل چکا ہے پاکستان میں اس وقت ١٣٦ افراد میں  کورونا وائرس کی موجودگی کی تشخیص ہو...

LAHORE: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) held a protest in front of the Lahore Press Club on Friday against the enforced disappearance of Idris Khattak.   Khattak, a human...

The Islamabad Police in Kohsar has registered a case against 12 individuals for disrupting yesterday's Aurat Azaadi March – including Jamiat Ulema-e-Islam (Fazl) member Maulana Abdul Majeed Hizravi as...

Imagine being pelted with stones and bricks for merely asking for your fundamental rights. That is what happened to women in Pakistan’s capital city on Sunday. Women across Pakistan from...

As the Aurat March approaches, a last petition at the Islamabad High Court is dismissed by the Chief Justice Representatives of a religious group filed an application at the Islamabad...

The Lahore High Court in its verdict today resolved that stopping Aurat March would be a direct violation of several fundamental liberties given to women. The civil miscellaneous application filed...



The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has launched a national movement in collaboration with the legal fraternity and civil society organisations to demand the denotification of the social...

 

Editors for Safety (EfS) has welcomed the Ministry of Human Rights' landmark "Protection of Journalists & Media Professionals Bill 2020", aimed at ensuring the safety and security of journalists....

On the 25th of February, journalist and politician Javedullah Khan was shot dead in Swat, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. The father of 2 was also a member of the peace committee...

Basic protective measures against the new coronavirus Wash your hands frequently Regularly and thoroughly clean your hands with an alcohol-based hand rub or wash them with soap and water. Why? Washing your...

On Feb 16th, the body of 8 year old Madiha was recovered in Saro Khel village of district Hangu, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Medical reports confirmed she had been raped and...

The Supreme Court has adjourned till Tuesday the hearing on a synopsis submitted by Advocate Munir A. Malik, representing Justice Qazi Faez Isa, challenging the presidential reference filed against...

یورپی یونین نے پاکستان میں ہونےوالی انسانی حقوق کی پامالیوں اور شہری آزادیوں پر قدغنییں لگنے پر سخت تشویش کا اظہار کیا۔  فروری ١٠ کوجنرلائزد سکیم برائے ترجیحات (جی ایس...

PPP Senator and Chair of the Senate Committee on Human Rights, Mustafa Nawaz Khokhar, expressed the need to repeal Section 124-A (Sedition) of the Pakistan Penal Code. And today,...

Violations of women's rights are commonplace in Pakistan, a country which is ranked 6th among the most dangerous countries in the world for women. And in the case of...

LAHORE: AGHS Legal Aid Cell, with the support of the Pakistan Bar Council and EU Pakistan, held a memorial on 7th Feb 2020 in wake of the 2nd death...

طلبہ یکجہتی مارچ کے بعد کیے جانے والے بغاوت کے مقدمے کا فیصلہ سناتے ہوئے، لاہور ہائی کورٹ نے وزیرستان سے تعلق رکھنے والے پنجاب یونیورسٹی کے طالبعلم، عالمگیر وزیر...

The Awami Workers Party (AWP) held a press conference at 3PM on Thursday at the National Press Club in Islamabad to denounce the arrests of political workers by Kohsar...

This Monday, the Senate passed the Maternity and Paternity Leave Act. While Article 37 (e) of the Constitution ensures maternity benefits for women in employment, there are currently no...

On Jan 18, 2020, the body of a seven year old girl was found in Mohallah Pir Sach of Kaka Sahib village, district Nowshera. The girl was reported missing...

Islamabad Bar Association’s (IBA) controversial resolution that aimed to make all members make a declaration of their faith, has now been revoked, voicepk.net has learnt. Vice Chairman of the Pakistan...

Situated 5 kilometers west of Ghallanai, headquarters of the Mohmand tribal district in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Chanday Bazaar is a popular market with several dozen shops laden with clothes, accessories...

خیبرپختونخوا میں پانچ سال سے کم عمر 98 بچوں میں پولیو وائرس کی تصدیق ہو گئی۔ انسداد پولیوایمرجنسی آپریشن سنٹرکے اعداد و شمار کےمطابق 2016 میں 8 ، 2017...

The Supreme Court today suspended the Lahore High Court’s orders for the immediate release of Advocate Inam-ur-Rahim, a missing persons lawyers who had made a name for himself for...

ISLAMABAD: It's a rare moment in Pakistan’s politics when the ruling PTI, and PML-N and PPP in the opposition agree on anything let alone come together to pass a...

This afternoon some people claiming to be from the ISI barged into my Urdu publisher Maktaba Daniyal offices, confiscated all copies of Urdu translation of A Case of Exploding...

Colonel Inam-ur-Rahim, a lawyer who had fought cases for families of missing persons and coordinator for the Rawalpindi Bar Association’s Human Rights Committee, had been forcibly disappeared by security...

After refusing to give an extension to Chief of Army staff General Raheel Sharif during their government, some PML-N leaders seemed all too eager to support legislation giving an...

LAHORE: Sana, a 15 year old domestic helper was allegedly tortured and killed by her employer on December 31 in Chung, Lahore. Investigation officer Ejaz Rasool states that police found...

Rana Sanaullah, a senior leader of the PML-N, was granted bail by the Lahore High Court on Dec 22nd in a narcotics case levied against him by the Anti-Narcotics...

A notice from the Tehrik-I-Taliban Pakistan says they have reorganized & regrouped in Darra Adam Khel, South-West of Peshawar. The TTP has warned locals of Darra Adam Khel of dire...

Junaid Hafeez, a former visiting lecturer at Bahauddin Zakariya University, was awarded the death penalty by a court in the Central Jail in Multan on 21st December 2019. He...

The indigenous Kalash culture is rich with flavour and values humanity above all else. In this exclusive report by Fauzia Kulsoom Rana, watch the utter beauty and essence of...

A special court declared former military dictator General Musharraf guilty of high treason and handed him the death sentence on Dec 17th — a judgement unprecedented in Pakistan's legal...

On the 5th of December, a writ petition was filed and admitted by Asma Jahangir Legal Aid Cell through the petitioner, Salman Sufi, a social activist. The petition focuses...

The Senate Committee on Human Rights held a hearing on the 6th of December on 4 concerns, one of which was the matter of the sedition charges levied against...

KARACHI: On the night of Dec 1st, Dua Mangi was kidnapped by armed, unidentified men in DHA Karachi. She was in the company of a male friend, Haris Soomro, in...

ISLAMABAD: On Dec 2nd, around 2 dozen protesters gathered outside DAWN’s Islamabad bureau, claiming that DAWN was pushing an “anti-Islam” and “anti-state” narrative. HRCP in a tweet said that...

When students across 50 cities in Pakistan marched for their rights, government ministers spoke up in support. And yet, the very next day, marchers as well as teachers, leaders...

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvdu9yg6Mkk   LAHORE: As the students’ solidarity march is set to begin on Friday, a charged atmosphere engulfs the campuses. Students in FC College and LUMS aired their views openly, but in...

On 13th November, 56 year old human rights activist, Idris Khattak was forcibly disappeared in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Khattak had tirelessly worked on enforced disappearances in Pakistan and he was...

Sarim Raza, an undergrad student of LUMS, has set up the Riayat Community Center at the Tajweed Al-Quran, a madressah in Gohawa Village run by Nafeesa Baji. From toddlers...

The Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government has promulgated an ordinance extending certain powers of the armed forces, which were available in erstwhile FATA and PATA, while acting in aid of civil...

Additional Advocate General of Sindh High Court Kalpana Devi is a politician from Larkana and an official member of the PPP. She was banned by her own Hindu Panchayat...

Kartarpur, Punjab (Pakistan): The Kartarpur Corridor - connecting Dera Baba Nanak Sahib in India and the Gurdwara Darbar Sahib Kartarpur in Pakistan, is now open for Sikh pilgrims. It's...

Strasbourg, France: The World Forum for Democracy was conducted from the 6th to the 8th of November this year at the Council of Europe. Journalists, activists and aspiring students,...

FAISALABAD: A video of a woman being beaten in public by hooligans armed with sticks surfaced on the 5th of November 2019 on social media. Individuals can be heard...

SINDH: On the 28th of October 2019, an eleven year old girl was raped within the walls of a mosque in Pano Akil, Sukkur. The perpetrator, Shafqat Samejo, was...

The Supreme Court Bar Elections concluded today with a landslide victory to the Asma Group candidate, Qalb-I-Hassan, as the current president of the SCBA. The Asma Group (formally known...

The Supreme Court Bar Elections 2019 will be held tomorrow on the 31st of October. Supreme Court advocates from across the country will vote for 22 seats. Lahore consists...

As Maulana Fazl-ur-Rehman's Azadi March approaches Islamabad, the authorities tighten their noose around JUI-F's leadership. Is Freedom of Association only for JUI-F Workers? JUI-F’s Mufti Kifayatullah was arrested during a raid...

‘The Killing Fields of Karachi’, an art installation by Adeela Suleiman at the Karachi Biennale 2019 was forcibly shut down on 27th of October 2019. On Sunday morning, men in...

AGHS has successfully represented bonded labourer cases in the reporting period. One such case is of Irshad Hussein a bonded labourer at a brick-kiln. His employer fraudulently got his...

In several cases of prolonged incarceration AGHS through its prison project provided legal services and had three women released and exonerated of all charges. These women had no hope...

Kaneez Fatima, a mother of four children failed to recover her children in the Sessions Court Lahore in her first Habeas Petition, where she was instructed to go to...

In another case, a mother of four children reported to AGHS that her children were taken away illegally from her, including a minor girl. The eldest daughter said that...

A case was reported to AGHS by the victim Shama Parveen, a young woman aged 21. She was hired as a domestic servant in the house of an influential...

Rabia Rustam, a minor girl, working as a domestic worker in a household was raped and otherwise physically abused at the hands of her employer Atta Ullah....