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 …

  Herald Report China’s embassy in Islamabad has rejected a report by the Associated Press (AP) on Pakistani brides being sold to Chinese men, calling it “same old stuff and not true”. The Chinese embassy spokesperson in a statement issued on Wednesday quotes a question pertaining to the AP report which claimed that 629 girls and women from across Pakistan had been sold to Chinese men. …

LAHORE: Page after page, the names stack up: 629 girls and women from across Pakistan who were sold as brides to Chinese men and taken to China. The list, obtained by The Associated Press, was compiled by Pakistani investigators determined to break up trafficking networks exploiting the country’s poor and vulnerable. The list gives the most concrete figure yet for …

Dr Tetsu Nakamora was widely respected for his humanitarian work, who devoted his career to improving the lives of the poor Afghans

  Dr Asim Sajjad There is no chance of a South Asian union anytime soon. The Modi government’s revocation of Jammu and Kashmir’s special constitutional status in August triggered yet another war of words between India and Pakistan that could at any time descend into something far more serious with consequences for generations of Indians, Pakistanis, and indeed people from …

There's more to our Hazara town than just bomb blasts: Shahida Abbasi

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 …

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 …

Herald Report   Naqeeebullah Mehsud’s father, Muhammad Khan Mehsud, lost his battle to cancer and the system on Monday morning without seeing justice for his son who was killed in a staged encounter by Rao Anwar in January 2018 in Karachi. The Sindh High Court had indicted the former Senior Superintendent of Police for his involvement in the murder of …

Herald Report Islamabad, Nov 30: The Pakistan Telecommunications Authority (PTA), the electronic and digital media watchdog, has written a letter to Freedom House, contesting the findings of its country report on “Freedom on the Net” on Pakistan, dubbing it biased and one-sided. However, the Islamabad High Court had recently restrained the digital and electronic media watchdog from blocking online content …