Polls-2024: LDF to back component parties’ candidates
Over two dozen candidates from LDF component parties — 2 from the HKP, 9 from the AWP, 10 from AT,
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Pakistan
Caught in the web of honour and betrayal
Pakistan is one of the most dangerous places for women and girls. Violence against women and girls is rising throughout the country. According to human rights reports roughly 1,000 women are killed in so-called honor-related crime every year. Supposedly egalitarian societies like Gilgit-Baltistan are no exception. A girl was murdered in Kharmang, Baltistan, by her brother after a video became viral on social media.
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Poverty alleviation: a constitutional obligation
The constitution is the living document and an instrument of social contract between the citizens and the state. It also aims to fulfil people’s aspirations by guaranteeing their fundamental rights.
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The neoliberal environmentalism-I
Corporate giants use clever tactics to quickly make massive profits, but they don’t realize the climate crisis is caused by their rapacious exploitation of land use, water use, and fossil fuel, and their endless quest for profiteering is seizing our ability to breathe clean air.
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Enforced disappearances: an offence to human dignity
Enforced disappearances has become pervasive in Pakistan. The use of enforced disappearances as a tool by security agencies to silence dissent, particularly political activists, journalists, students, and even children in Balochistan, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa, and Sindh provinces has increased alarmingly.
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A letter: the hell of harassment
One of the reasons why harassment is so pervasive in our society is that it is often normalized and overlooked. We need to change this attitude and recognize that harassment is unacceptable, no matter what form it takes. We must encourage victims to speak up and report incidents of harassment, and we must hold perpetrators accountable for their actions.
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Afghan women protest Taliban recognition
Around 25 women marched through a residential area in the Afghan capital on Saturday ahead of a summit in Doha.
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Pakistan’s economic crisis: Left’s perspective
Over the past few months, Pakistan’s dire economic situation has garnered considerable attention in the political, media and intellectual mainstream.
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Pak-Turkish varsities agree to boost collaboration
By News desk Various Pakistani universities have signed cooperative agreements with leading Turkish universities during their visit to Istanbul for
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ECP disqualifies ex-PM Imran Khan
A PTI supporter scuffles with a police officer. Dawn The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) in a landmark decision on
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Meta expands digital literacy programme to G-B
The programme has reached 130,000 students and 3,094 teachers across 28 districts of the country providing them with a collection of accessible learning modules that help people think critically and share online thoughtfully, as well as empowering them with the skills needed to be informed and safe online.
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Call for a rational debate on death penalty
There is a need for a rational debate on the death penalty involving scholars, jurists, academia, civil society and human rights defenders and legislation on the scope of the President’s powers to grant pardons to resolve the ambiguities created by the rulings of the superior courts.
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Imran’s dark web man delivered ultimatum: Sethi
The senior journalist and TV commentator said the PML-N could have governor’s rule imposed in Punjab. He said this is
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‘Protect rights of journalists, media workers
Participants of an awareness session demand a new legal framework for digital and electronic media journalists and workers and; updating of existing laws for print media.
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Pakistan reels from floods
After record temperatures and drought, swaths of Pakistan lie submerged, symptoms of a climate crisis its people play little part in.
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