A Province in Darkness: Enforced Disappearances Surge as Fear Deepens in Balochistan
By Kadeem Baloch The latest reports emerging from Pakistan's Balochistan paint a landscape of dread, where the routine rhythms of...
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Khyber Pakhtunkhwa’s Descent into Fear: Pakistan’s HRCP Sounds Alarm on Distressing Security and Rights Crisis
By Rahmatullah Achakzai The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan (HRCP) has once again forced the country to confront a grim...
Government Mismanagement Aggravates Grain Loss and Food Insecurity in Pakistan
By Fatima Chaudhary Millions in Pakistan are going hungry every night, while the number of undernourished children continues to increase,...
Balochistan’s Seven Months of Freedom, Decades of Resistance
By Kadeem Baloch In an interview with the Afghan Diaspora Network, exiled Baloch human rights activist Abdullah Abbas recalls his homeland’s brief...
Repression of minority Ahmadiyya witnesses surge in 2025
By Rahmatullah Achakzai The persecution of the Ahmadiyya community, a religious minority in Pakistan, has seen a surge in 2025....
Militarization and the Rise of Militancy in Balochistan
ADN Human rights activist Abdullah Abbas, now living in exile in Germany due to persecution by the Pakistani military, has...
Pakistan’s Power and Energy Crisis: Chronic Outages, Rising Costs, and a Dark Future
By Nasir Khattak In early January 2025, a nerve-breaking power outage in northern Pakistan sparked a week-long protest that shut down a...
CPEC Without Consent: Baloch Voices Against Displacement and Militarization
ADN In Gwadar, once a tranquil fishing hub and now the epicenter of a geopolitical mega-project, the grand promises of...
Exploited and Excluded: Gwadar Port Profits Sideline Balochistan Amid CPEC Expansion
By Nasir Khattak In an embarrassing development for Pakistan and China, the Gwadar Port Authority (GPA) has formally informed the Balochistan...
False Compliance: How Pakistan Exploited the FATF Exit
By Nasir Khattak The Financial Action Task Force (FATF), the global watchdog for combating money laundering and terror financing, has...
