Manzoor Pashteen under Detention
Manzoor Pashteen is imprisoned in Attock jail for the third time under 3MPO on the orders of the Punjab government. There are several provisions of this type of law including…
Swelling support for the Baloch Long March
Outside the National Press Club of Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan, women, children, elderly and young people brave the harsh winter sitting with pictures of their loved ones held firmly…
Plight of Afghan Refugees in Pakistan: Uncertain future
A large number of Afghan refugees reside in precarious conditions in different parts of the world. Similarly, Pakistan, sharing a 1600-mile-long border with Afghanistan, has many Afghan refugees under the…
PTM’s loud and peaceful message in Islamabad
The Long March of 18th August, while successful in conveying the community’s message to the authorities, once again marks a dark chapter in the history of the state’s management of…
Pashtun Long March to Islamabad
There seems to be no respite to the Pashtun Community’s woes in the recent month. After many years of hard-won peace, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s capital Peshawar has become the main target…
Detentions, disappearances and terror attacks: Return of instabilities in North Waziristan
“Our village people and village children were wearing new clothes for Eid. Our village people and children were all celebrating Eid but in my house, we were all sad and…
Protests in South Waziristan
The Pashtun people of Waziristan held a protest sit-in for four days in front of the Pakistan army’s fort in Khesur area of South Waziristan. This protest sit-in was not…
Continuing policy of enforced disappearances
On 9th May, Pakistan witnessed massive protests and rioting against the armed forces for their alleged role in Imran Khan’s brief abduction from a court hearing. The present situation also…
Remembering Professor Arman Luni
Professor Arman Luni’s father, Mohammad Ismail had a desire in his heart that he and his daughters get justice but his wish could not be fulfilled while he was alive.…
PTM Supporters under threat in Afghanistan
Five-year-old Zarghuna and seven-year-old Ajmal, living in Helmand, Afghanistan, have spent sleepless nights awaiting the return of their missing father, Noorayel Kaliwal. Human rights violations have become serious after the…
PTM Sit-in in Karachi
A large number of PTM workers and the public were present outside the private mortuary on March 14th in Karachi, and Pashtun youths were also demanding the handover of the…
Missing Persons in Swat
Swat Valley is a scenic tourist destination and attracted tourists from all over the world in the pre-9/11 times. When the US and NATO invaded Afghanistan, the reactionaries in Waziristan…
Missing Persons: The Long Road to Justice
Enforced disappearances or the issue of missing persons has long been a serious problem in Balochistan. According to various organizations working for Baloch missing persons, the number of Baloch missing…
PTM’s Protest Camp for Missing Persons
The Pashtun Protection Movement (PTM) renewed its struggle against the extrajudicial killings of Pashtuns, with senior lawyer Latif Afridi being the latest casualty. The central leadership of PTM including PTM…
Justice Denied
Recently, the Anti-Terrorism Court in Karachi acquitted SSP Rao Anwar and all other accused in the well-known Naqeebullah Mehsud murder case. Human rights organizations expressed dismay and termed the decision…
Safeguarding the Pashtun Frontier: Learning from the Past
After the withdrawal of the US from Afghanistan and the ascendance of the Taliban to the corridors of power, a sense of jubilation engulfed Pakistan as the security establishment felt…
The Plight of Afghan Refugees in Pakistan’s Prisons
The Taliban’s takeover of Kabul had a massive impact on the Afghan refugees in Pakistan but unfortunately went relatively unnoticed in the international media. An estimated two thousand Afghan refugees…