Members of Afghanistan's Jogi minority are not counted as citizens, which means they have no rights to receive an education, vote, or own property. But activists in northern Jowzjan Province have succeeded in bringing about a first step toward change: a school for both children and adults.
Thousands of activists from the nationalist Awami National Party (ANP) came out on the streets of Mardan, Pishin and other cities across Pakistan February 22 to protest what is known as enforced disappearances. Family members allege that their relatives were abducted by Pakistani security agencies.
Three years after the emergence of the Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM), a civil rights movement campaigning for the rights of the Pashtun minority, several leaders confirm to Gandhara they are launching a political party to appeal to a broader secular base across Pakistan.
Members of Pakistan's Baluch minority held a sit-in protest in Islamabad on February 18, accusing the government of detaining their relatives illegally. The protesters say their loved ones have been taken by the Pakistani intelligence agencies.
The human toll of a two-decade-old simmering insurgency in Pakistan’s Balochistan Province is mounting as the region’s political problems remain unresolved.
Hundreds of employees of Pakistan's state-owned Water and Power Development Authority converged on the capital, Islamabad, to protest the planned privatization of power distribution companies.
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.
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.
Dozens of Pakistani tribesman gathered in Peshawar February 4 to demand the return of a monthly government allowance that they had received since their displacement from North Waziristan by an anti-Taliban government military operation in 2014.
The family of the murdered Afghan TV journalist Malala Maiwand has spoken to RFE/RL about her death. Maiwand and her driver, Mohammad Tahir, were killed in December 2020 in the city of Jalalabad outside Maiwand's family home. Her sister, Fatima Hilal, recalls hearing gunfire and going to the door.
Dozens of teachers protested in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, on January 25 to demand the cancellation of a government order to transfer them back to cities in the provinces. They say that the order is against the a law that protects a married couple from being separated by a job transfer.
Hundreds of university students gathered in Pakistan's northwestern city of Peshawar on January 22 to demand that they be allowed to write their exams online instead of being forced to take them in person in examination halls.
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