Herald Report For the first time since the assassination of Benazir Bhutto, the first woman Prime Minister of the Muslim world, the Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) leaders, including party chairman Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari, are set to honour the memory of their late leader at Liaquat Bagh, Rawalpindi, on Friday (today). “After 12 years, the PPP is holding a public meeting and …

Herald Report As celebrities and TV anchors took to remembering General Pervez Musharraf as a military dictator whose progressive policies ultimately led to his own undoing, academics, and activists, including sociologists and historians, present their case against this caricature of Musharraf, says a report in The Nation newspaper. Ammar Ali Jan, an academic and activist who teaches at the Forman …

State Subject Rule and Khalsa Sarkar are outdated instruments of the colonial era which are irrelevant to address today's complex issues: Muhammad Abbas   

Herald Report Islamabad: A special court Tuesday handed death sentence to former military dictator Gen (retd) Pervez Musharraf in a high treason case under Article 6 of the Constitution, media reports said. The punishment for high treason is death or life imprisonment, according to the High Treason (Punishment) Act, 1973. “Any person who abrogates or subverts or suspends or hold …

Campus protests take place across India, Citizens Act 2019 as police brutality fuels anger Herald Report Students have protested in cities across India as part of a massive wave of intensifying violent unrest over a divisive bill granting citizenship to some non-Muslims who entered the country illegally. During a march on Sunday at Jamia Millia Islamia University in Delhi, police entered the …

  Parliamentarians green-light bill that will legalise 20,000 stateless residents from former Soviet republics DUSHANBE: Tajik lawmakers have approved a bill on the mass legalization of stateless residents of the Central Asian nation from other former Soviet republics. According to the bill approved on December 11, some 20,000 illegal residents, many of whom settled in Tajikistan shortly before and after …

  Activists take part in a demo demanding the revival of student unions, and batter education facilities, in Karachi on Nov 29:– AFP   Herald Report in a first, Sindh cabinet Monday approved a bill to lift the ban on the student unions in provincial educational institutes. The bill will be passed after consultation with all stakeholders. According to the …

The call for the countrywide protest was given by Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists against besieging of the leading newspaper of Pakistan   Herald Report   Politicians, media workers, students, and civil society activists have expressed solidarity with Dawn, the oldest and largest circulated independent newspaper of Pakistan, against hooliganism and besieging of its offices by a group of unknown …

By Asfand Yar The ‘Student Solidarity March’ held on November 29, has stirred the status quo and jolted the power centres. The slogans and revolutionary songs chanted by marchers on this occasion still reverberate among the youth, and on social media. The march, perhaps, the largest student-led protest across Pakistan in recent times in which thousands of students participated and …

Responding to Governmental Repression against Students Solidarity March Member of Student Action Committee Lahore and Progressive Students’ Collective responding to the baseless propaganda being carried out against students’ rightful demands and the harassment of organisers for speaking truth. We would like to reiterate that our politics is solely based on the rightful and constitutional demands of student rights and considering …

Sessions judge rejects police request for Alamgir Wazir’s physical remand, sends him to jail on judicial remand Herald Report Left-wing activists have been granted interim bail in a sedition case. Ammar Ali Jan took to Twitter to announce the development. They along with slain student Mashal Khan’s father Iqbal Lala and Alamgir Wazir were nominated in FIR for participating and addressing …

The “Students Solidarity March” was organised by Students Action Committee (SAC) — a conglomerate of 28 left-wing and nationalist student, and feminist organizations from Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, Punjab, Sindh, and Pakistan-administered Kashmir and Gilgit-Baltistan By Haider Ali LAHORE: Thousands of students in droves marched on Friday in unison from mountains to plains of Pakistan demanding the restoration of student unions, increase …

  The Maulana has dared to challenge an authoritarian system, but the fate of democracy will remain in doldrums until all democratic forces mobilise the downtrodden people of Pakistan, writes senior journalist and political commentator Imtiaz Alam in an opinion article published in The Wire, an online news portal. This column written by him has been censored in Pakistan where news portals …