Tag: Pakistan

PAKISTAN – It is time to talk about caste in Pakistan and Pakistani diaspora (Shaista Abdul Aziz Patel, Al Jazeera)

On September 29, Manisha Valmiki, a 19-year-old Dalit girl succumbed to her injuries from a gang rape committed by four Thakur (upper-caste) men in...

PAKISTAN/INDIA/KASHMIR – Pakistan says two troops killed by Indian fire in Kashmir (Al Arabiya)

Security personnel run patrolling near the site of a gunbattle in Kangan area of south Kashmir's Pulwama district on June 3, 2020. (AFP) Pakistan’s military...

PAKISTAN – Pakistan has a path out of the abyss, but will it take it? (East Asia Forum)

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/12/07/pakistan-has-a-path-out-of-the-abyss-but-will-it-take-it/

PAKISTAN – Governance failings thwart Pakistan’s economic recovery (Ilhan Niaz, East Asia Forum

https://www.eastasiaforum.org/2020/12/06/governance-failings-thwart-pakistans-economic-recovery/

PAKISTAN – Pakistan sentences three top JuD leaders for ‘terror financing’ (Asad Hashim, Al Jazeera)

A Pakistani anti-terrorism court has convicted three top Jamaat-ud-Dawa (JuD) leaders on terrorism-financing charges, a senior prosecutor says, as the country continues to crack...

PAKISTAN – Pakistan’s new regulations aim to ‘silence the internet’ (Asad Hashim, Al Jazeera)

As journalist Bilal Farooqi was led to a dark cell in a police station in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi, a dirty towel...