Dozens of disabled people in northwestern Pakistan rallied at a Pakistani border crossing with Afghanistan for a third straight day on February 11 to demand jobs, free health care, and education for their children.
Faisal Sultan, Prime Minister Imran Khan’s special adviser on national health services, spoke to Radio Mashaal about the country’s plans to vaccinate a majority of its estimated 220 million population.
Thousands of men regularly risk their lives smuggling cheap Iranian fuel into Pakistan. The illegal trade showcases the desperation of many in Pakistan's resource-rich but impoverished Balochistan Province.
Police in Pakistan's capital, Islamabad, fired tear gas as thousands of government employees protested on February 10 near the Parliament House building to demand an increase in their monthly salaries.
Pakistan’s top court has commuted the death sentences of two mentally ill prisoners who have spent decades on death row in a landmark judgment hailed by human rights activists.
Pakistan’s Supreme Court has directed regional authorities in northwestern Pakistan to rebuild a century-old Hindu shrine that was destroyed in a mob attack in late December.
Dozens of students protested in the Pakistani capital Islamabad to demand that more students from Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) and Balochistan province, two of the country's most deprived regions, be admitted to medical colleges and universities across the country.
Students at two public universities in northwestern Pakistan are speaking out against conservative dress codes that ban women from wearing jeans, tights, and makeup while requiring men not to wear earrings, torn jeans, or shorts.
Dozens of Pakistani journalists staged a protest in the capital, Islamabad, on February 8 to demand the reopening of a private television channel taken off air by the country's media regulator last month.
A local assembly in Pakistan’s remote Bajaur tribal district has banned women from visiting child-welfare centers that provide regular cash allowances for mothers from impoverished backgrounds.
Pakistani officials say they have arrested two men on suspicion of links to an international child pornography ring, following a tip from Interpol.
Pakistanis rallied in front of Parliament House in Islamabad to show support for people living in the Indian-administered part of the Kashmir region. Pakistan officially marks February 5 as Kashmir Solidarity Day.
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