Pakistan
Aafia Siddiqui’s Daughter - Maryam’s Letter to Maryam Nawaz Sharif
Maryam Siddiqui, daughter of Dr Aafia Siddiqui speaks about her ordeal for the first time in an emotional letter to Maryam Sharif- daughter of the Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
Pakistan hangs Shafqat Hussain despite appeals
Defenders say convict was a teenager when he killed a boy in 2004 and that he was tortured into confessing.
White House declines to respond to petition on Dr Aafia Siddiqui
The White House today declined to give its response to an online petition concerning Pakistani scientist Aafia Siddiqui, who is currently lodged in a US jail on terrorism charges.
Aafia Siddiqui’s lawyer demands proof she’s alive in Texas prison
Aafia Siddiqui’s lawyer has demanded evidence from prison officials that she is still alive at the federal prison in Texas where she is being held, despite prison officials’ assertion that she is.
Doctors’ group says 1.3 million killed in US ‘War on Terror’
A group of international physicians’ organizations has published a study concluding US-led wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan have killed more than 1.3 million people.
Documentary: Suffering in Silence - The War on Terror in Pakistan
This investigative documentary is about war on terror in Pakistan. It is a journey through silent sufferings of victims of war on terror, innocents killed in US drone strikes as collateral damage, the terrorised community living under war, the civilian victims of war on terror and internally displaced people (IDP)
Pakistan to hang man ‘brutally tortured into false confession’ when he was 14 years old
A young man whose alleged crime was committed when he was only 14, and who says he was subjected to police torture, is due to hang this week in Pakistan, after the moratorium on the death penalty was lifted in the wake of the Peshawar school massacre.
Pakistan Court Orders Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi’s Release
A Pakistani court on Friday declared 26/11 Mumbai attacks mastermind Zakiur Rehman Lakhvi’s detention illegal. The court ordered his release.
Muslimah arrested by Pakistani Police
On 11 February 2015, the regime issued an arrest charge sheet for the men of the honourable Jegranvi household, as well as their wives who are members of Hizbul Tahrir. Then on Friday 13th February, before Jummah Salah, the Pakistani regime seized a woman relative of the Jegranvis from the
The Return of Moazzam Begg
Follow Moazzam Begg, a former Guantanamo prisoner, on his first visit to Pakistan since he was abducted from his house by American and Pakistani forces in 2002.
