Human Rights

News Desk  Sialkot: Provincial Education Minister Rana Sikandar Hayat took immediate notice of the tragic death of a female student after the collapse of an under-construction classroom shed at Government Girls Higher Secondary School…

APP Islamabad: Proceedings in the alleged abuse case of a minor domestic worker, Rizwana, were adjourned on Saturday after the presiding judge was unavailable at the District and Sessions Courts in Islamabad. The hearing could not…

News Desk  Islamabad: A new United Nations assessment has warned that 7.5 million people in Pakistan are facing acute food insecurity and malnutrition following a year marked by devastating monsoon floods, prolonged drought and…

News Desk  Islamabad: Six young men from Punjab were killed by gunfire in Iran while allegedly attempting to cross the border illegally on their way to Iraq, family sources said on Thursday. Relatives claimed the victims were shot by…

APP Islamabad: A local court in Islamabad on Wednesday issued non-bailable arrest warrants against several government officials for repeatedly failing to appear as prosecution witnesses in the alleged torture case of minor domestic…

APP Faisalabad: The local police on Tuesday recovered a two-month-old baby girl within 24 hours of her abduction from the Children Hospital and arrested the woman allegedly involved in the crime. Addressing a press briefing at the…

News Desk  Lahore: Senior politicians, human rights defenders and international experts on Sunday warned of a steady erosion of democracy, institutional accountability and civil liberties in Pakistan, as the sixth Asma Jahangir…

News Desk Lahore: Former Senate chairman Raza Rabbani on Friday expressed concern over what he termed the growing politicisation of the bar, saying such trends were absent in the past. Speaking at the sixth Asma Jahangir Conference, he…

News Desk  Hyderabad: A sanitary worker died and another fell unconscious while cleaning a manhole in Kohsar Phase I area of Latifabad late Friday night. Police said Ashraf Maseeh died after entering the manhole, while his co-worker…

News Desk  Lahore: The Asma Jahangir Legal Aid Cell (AGHS) has announced that the 6th Asma Jahangir Conference (AJCONF) will be held on February 7 and 8, 2026, in Lahore, bringing together leading voices from Pakistan and abroad to…