Digital Abuse Expands Pakistan’s Gender Violence Frontline
By: Nabila Feroz Bhatti The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an international campaign launched in 1991 to oppose violence against women and girls. It runs annually from…
Monitoring Mission to Assess Pakistan’s Human Rights Record Before 2027 GSP+ Renewal
By: Dr. Emanuel Adil Ghouri International organizations, including the United Nations and the European Union, continue to express serious concerns about the state of human rights in Pakistan, particularly the…
The Punjab Local Government Act 2025 and the Disappointment of Pakistani Christians
By: Dr. Emanuel Adil Ghouri On October 13, the Punjab government passed the Punjab Local Government Act 2025 by a majority vote, disregarding both the objections of opposition lawmakers and…
Faith, Freedom, and the Cost of Inaction
By: Dr. Emanuel Adil Ghouri The forced marriage and religious conversion of underage minority girls continues to be a serious human rights concern in Pakistan. Despite repeated public outcry and…
Why Pakistan’s Minorities Deserve the Right to Elect Their Own Leaders Again
By: Naeem Tabassum My father, the late Faqir-ud-Din, first contested the provincial assembly election under a system that gave Pakistan’s religious minorities a voice of their own. From 1985 to…
When Life Drowned: Pakistan’s Silent Cry Beneath the Floods
By: Waqas Qamar Bhatti Pakistan is now a landscape that words can scarcely contain. Once celebrated for its lush green fields, the land has transformed into a waterlogged graveyard of…
The Ruined City
By: Azam Mairaj They say, thousands of years ago, on the shores of the Arabian Sea, there lay a small coastal settlement. It was a natural harbor, and upon it…
Minorities Commission Bill 2025: When Silence Becomes a Constitutional Consent
By: Yassar Talib The recent passage of the National Commission for Minorities Rights Bill 2025 by both houses of the Parliament was a landmark moment for the religious minorities of…
Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied: Legal System Fails the Poor in Pakistan
By: Luqman Ahmad Khan Despite constitutional guarantees of equal justice for all, Pakistan’s legal system continues to fail its poorest citizens, who face years-long delays, unaffordable legal fees, and systemic…
No Warning, No Mercy: Flash Floods in Texas and the Global Cost of Unpreparedness
By: Augustine Gill July 2025 will forever be remembered by the families of over 100 Texans who lost their lives—most of them children – in a flash flood that tore…