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 …

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 …

By Ammar Rashid Starting today, we will see the largest worldwide climate mobilisation in the history of the planet for a week. Millions of young people across over 120 countries, including Pakistan, will flood out of schools, universities, and workplaces into the streets for a global climate strike to demand that governments take radical action to address the ecological crisis …

Herald Report Islamabad: Left parties and women organizations of Pakistan have condemned the Indian government’s revocation of Jammu and Kashmir’s autonomy. In a statement, it will escalate tensions in the region and will affect tens of millions of working class and women in the two countries. AWP: The Awami Workers Party AWP), a Left party, condemned the Indian government move, saying, …

Aasim Sajjad Akhtar IT has been a decade since the political uprisings known as the Occupy movements burst onto the mainstream of Western societies. The backdrop was the biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression, and the slogan of the ‘99pc vs 1pc’ captured the sentiment of people whose lives were in ruin due to the collapse of major financial …

Patriarchy is the name given to a dynamic web of ideas, policies, laws, and social practices that bring male domination and privilege into effect. It manifests in constrained opportunities for women, writes Dr Shenila Khoja-Molji. During a recent interview with a Pakistani TV channel, organisers of the ‘Aurat March’ noted that they were marching against ‘patriarchy’. Many of them have …

Chief Justice Athar minallah directs PTA to submit a response within two weeks HAH Report ISLAMABAD: Islamabad High Court (IHC) has put the telecom watchdog on notice on a petition filed by the Awami Workers’ Party (AWP) against blockage of its official website. Chief Justice Athar Minallah on Monday admitted the petition for regular hearing after initial arguments and issued …

HAH Report The 27th Faiz Amn Mela concluded Sunday at the Open Air Theatre of Baagh-i-Jinnah, Lahore, marking 108th birthday of the great revolutionary poet of the Suth Asian Subcontinent with a call for promoting his message of resistance against repression, exploitation, and struggle for social justice, love and peace in the South Asian region in particular and the world …

Dr Ammar Ali Jan Manzoorul Hassan, our friend, comrade, and mentor passed away at his residence in Green Town, Lahore late Saturday night. He was a labour leader who worked tirelessly for the downtrodden masses of our country. He became involved with Left politics as a student leader against the Ayub dictatorship in the late 60s. This initial commitment to …

The #SheriThafuzMarch was organised by AWP-Karachi, Haqooq-e-Khalq Movement, PSC, RSF, NSF against Sahiwal,, Loralai and Karachi incidents HAH Report LAHORE/KARACHI Citizens and political activists marched on the streets of Karachi and Lahore on Sunday to voice their concerns and anguish over the spike in tragic incidents of extrajudicial killings, state repression on dissenters and intimidation of political activists and academics …