humanrights

News Desk KARACHI: A proposed overhaul of Christian family laws in Sindh has been put on hold as lawmakers seek broader consensus from the Christian community and other stakeholders before moving ahead with the legislation.The Sindh…

Ishtiaq Ahmed Bradford: Ed Miliband’s address to the Labour Party conference in Liverpool on Monday was significant not simply because the Foreign Secretary used unusually strong language on Palestine, but because the speech presented…

News DeskKARACHI: The Khawaja Sira community in Sindh has presented a five-point rights agenda, calling for concrete government action on safe housing, education, employment, healthcare and social protection.The demands were…

Asem Mustafa AwanIslamabad: October 1 is observed around the world as the International Day of Older Persons, a day meant to recognise the contribution, experience and dignity of those who have spent decades building families and…

Sher Ahmed DurraniQuetta: Democracies rarely collapse in a single dramatic moment. More often, they weaken gradually through the erosion of institutions, the shrinking of political space, the weakening of checks and balances, and the…

News Desk ISLAMABAD: Pakistan recorded 237,216 reported cases of gender-based violence (GBV) against women and girls between 2021 and 2025, according to a five-year national analysis released by the Peace & Justice Network (PJN)…

Imran TakkarPeshawar: The arrest of a 19-year-old man accused of exhuming the body of a young girl and allegedly desecrating it has raised serious questions about the security of graveyards, community responsibility and the broader…

News Desk New York: United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has warned that international law is being widely violated around the world, as he addressed the opening of the UN General Assembly’s high-level week on Tuesday. The…

News DeskHarnai: The Pakistan Army has concluded a rescue operation following a gas explosion at a coal mine in Balochistan’s Harnai district, with five trapped workers rescued alive.According to officials, four miners were killed…

News DeskGujrat: The post-mortem examination of a three-year-old girl whose body was found in bushes on the outskirts of Gujrat has revealed signs of severe physical violence, police and medical sources said.According to the…