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ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Human Rights expressed concern over life threats to a number of public figures, activists and dissidents and called for investigation into the...
Committee head Shazia Marri directs interior secretary to hold meetings with two senators who, among others, are on the hit list.
ISLAMABAD: The National Assembly Standing Committee on Human Rights Thursday expressed concern over life threats to a number of public figures, activists and dissidents and called for investigation...
July 18, 2021 Under the deepening shadow of Afghanistan, there are continuing reports about the rise and rise of the Taliban. With the departure of the American forces from the country, the spectre of civil war is hovering over Afghanistan. By a strange coincidence, Malala Yousafzai has also figured in our media this week. After all, she is the very antithesis of what the Taliban represent, in a symbolic sense. And this contradiction also embodies a kind of civil war in Pakistani society. So, are the Taliban also winning this war, vicariously? What is obvious, anyhow, is that a very large nu...
July 9, 2021 Imagine a country where a precocious adolescent, all bright-eyed and full of lofty dreams as most kids her age, is shot in the head by a terrorist. A mere school-going child, guilty of nothing more than advocating for young girls to achieve a basic, universal right – the right to attain education. And advocate she did. Despite being repeatedly threatened by vicious forces violently opposed to women appearing anywhere in public life, let alone venturing to school, she did not cower. Even after she was shot. You would think that such a barbaric event, especially in a country roc...