Muhammad Akbar Notezai

In Balochistan, journalists are susceptible to danger because of their honest and brave reporting in the restive province. Moreover, there are many journalists who have quit performing their journalistic duties. This is the reason freedom of expression has worsened in Balochistan. Mahmood Ahmed Afridi, the correspondent at Daily Intekhab newspaper was gunned down in Kalat, […]

“Minorities to whichever community they may belong, will be fully safeguarded, their religion or faith or belief will be secure. There will be no interference of any kind with their freedom or worship. They will have full protection with regard to their religion, their faith, their belief and culture. They will be in all respects […]

On January 13, 2016, two masked men reportedly threw a grenade and fired gunshots at the office of ARY News Channel in Islamabad, injuring one media person. The self-styled Islamic State’s (IS) Afghanistan chapter claimed responsibility for the attack in pamphlets and stated it was in reaction to the coverage the channel is giving to […]

Last year, the Taliban launched the deadliest attack in the history of Pakistan on December 16, killing at least 148 people, including 132 schoolchildren, at the Army Public School (APS) in Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is the home province of Malala Yousafzai, the youngest ever Nobel Prize laureate. She was reportedly singled out and […]

In recent months, it was reported by the Office of the National Commissioner for Children in collaboration with the United Nations Children’s Funds (UNICEF) that before the 18th Amendment to the Constitution was passed in 2010, the federal government had a number of initiatives related to protecting children’s rights and affairs, which were then under […]

During the previous week, Punjab Home Minister Colonel (r) Shuja Khanzada was killed in a suicide attack along with 19 other people when he was at his political office in Shadi Khan village of the Attock District. At least 23 people were also injured in the assault. Along with the Punjab home minister, the commissioner […]

In 1979, Iran went through a so-called Islamic Revolution that saw the ouster of King Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi and the installment of Ayatollah Khomeini as the supreme leader of the Islamic Republic. There is no doubt that the Arab states, particularly Saudi Arabia, due to this development, remained watchful. They were afraid of the […]

Although the Houbara bustard isan officiallyprotected specie of birds, Arab royals from the Gulf countries have been hunting them in the country with impunity. Until the late 1970s, it is said that Arab royals would go to Iran and Afghanistan to hunt the Houbara bustards. However, this came to an end when Ruhollah Khomeini, who […]

Pakistan’s prominent Baloch politician, the late Mir Ghous Baksh Bizenjo, wrote in 1981: “A Baloch who may have spent his life in the mountains and never visited a city is liberal in religious outlook.” And among the Baloch, he further wrote, a single tribe is divided into two or more religious groups with somewhat different […]

On December 16, 1971, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) seceded from Pakistan, in which an estimated three million people were killed. After four decades, on December 16, 2014, on the same day, the country underwent another national tragedy. Warmongering elements stormed into the Army Public School (APS) in Peshawar, killing and bombing innocent children wholesale and […]