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With the increasing number of attacks on Christians in Pakistan, various Christian organizations in the United States as well as Human Rights Organizations, have been pressurising the Pakistan Mission in United Nations to take concrete steps to protect the community.  more
Violence against women and children rising in Pakistan-administered Gilgit-Baltistan

Islamabad: Pakistan-controlled Gilgit Baltistan boasts of a high literacy rate among its people, but school and college-going girls are not safe.

Pakistan women fight government, society for rights and protection from patriarchy and sexual exploitation

Patriarchal dominance in Pakistan saw its ugly side again when women in the country were asserting their rights in the wake of International Women’s Day.

Pakistan: Police officials involved in baton-charging Islamabad Aurat March participants have been suspended

Islamabad: Pakistan's Interior Minister Rana Sanaullah has said the police personnel in Islamabad, who were involved in baton-charging the participants of Aurat March, an event held i ...

Hijab for girls: Pakistan's misplaced education priorities

Making hijab a compulsory part of the uniform for girl students and women teachers in the Kashmir region it occupies are the latest measures that reflect misplaced priorities in Pakistan, ...

Pakistan: 15 minority Hindu students hurt as Islami Jamiat Tulba members attack them during holi celebration in Punjab University campus

At least 15 people, belonging to the minority Hindu community, were injured as Islami Jamiat Tulba (IJT) activists on Monday allegedly attacked a gathering of students at the Punjab Unive ...

Civil society support for forced conversions in Pakistan

The deep-rooted hatred and indifference against minorities, especially Hindu and Christian girls, among civil society came to the fore recently when a lawyer’s organisation in Islam ...

Pakistan: Educationist gunned down in Karachi

Karachi:  An educationist, who is also a senior office-bearer of a private schools association, was gunned down by unknown attackers in Pakistan's Karachi city on Sunday.

Predators in Pakistan hunt for Hindu, Christian girls

The barbaric practice of abducting young girls, raping them, and converting them to Islam has become a common practice in democratic Pakistan where the state refuses to intervene on behal ...

Nankana Sahib lynching case: Pakistani police arrest 12 suspects

Nankana Sahib: The Punjab Police in Pakistan on Sunday arrested 12 suspects over their alleged involvement in the  lynching of a man accused of blasphemy in Nankana Sahib, media repo ...