Members of a civil rights movement demanding protection for Pakistan’s Pashtun minority say military and civilian authorities are imposing restrictions and creating problems ahead of a crucial protest in the northwestern Swat Valley.
Campaigners in Pakistan’s northwestern province of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have seen an uptick in the number of so-called honor killings.
Three years after he was killed by a Taliban suicide bomber, Well-known anti-Taliban campaigner and Provincial Minister Bashir Ahmad Bilour's family and supporters continue to press authorities to bring his assassins to justice.
Pakistani activists and politicians have criticized Islamabad for preventing an international aid agency from working in impoverished restive provinces.
Journalists in northwestern Pakistan face pressure from the government and threats from militants as they cover the country's decade-old Islamist insurgency.
Residents in Pakistan’s northwestern tribal areas have strongly criticized the country’s military operations there, claiming that civilians have suffered most.
Reporters and human rights campaigners in Pakistan's northwestern tribal areas have called for security as the region’s protracted conflict takes a heavy toll on their professional and personal lives.
Intellectuals, lawmakers and clan leaders from northwestern Pakistan's tribal areas have complained that they are left out of Islamabad's talks with the Taliban.
Pakistani activists and academics have strongly criticized a provincial government's decision to ban the launch of Malala Yousafzai's autobiography at a university in the country’s volatile northwest region.
Years after a major military operation freed Pakistan's northwestern Swat Valley from Taliban control, local peace activists live in fear of bombs and bullets.
