Pakistan’s National Assembly is to begin debate Thursday on a no-confidence motion brought against the country’s Islamist populist prime minister, Imran Khan, and his Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf ...

Across Pakistan, opposition is growing to the savage austerity policies that are being implemented by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s military-backed Muslim League (PML-Nawaz) government. Since ...

Glimmering, deep-blue solar panels carpet rooftops in Pakistan’s largest cities and dot the perimeters of houses in villages across the country. Pakistan, home to more than 240 million people, is ...

The Pashtun Tahafuz Movement (PTM) plans to go ahead with its Loya Jirga grand assembly on October 11 to discuss peace and security in northwestern Pakistan despite recent violence, including the ...

Since the rise of the Arab Spring in 2010, social movements have taken off around the world. In response, there has been a wealth of scholarly works published in an attempt to dissect the genesis, ...

Police in the Pakistani capital have arrested a top leader of a civil rights movement campaigning against alleged military abuses in the country’s restive northwestern Pashtun tribal regions. Lawmaker ...

The movement has struggled to make an impact in a deeply patriarchal country. But a new generation of feminists is also shaking up the status quo. In Pakistan, it is all too easy to become discouraged ...

Christians’ unquestionable allegiance and commitment to Pakistan needs to be flagged again in the frame of historical reference after the country celebrated its 74th Independence Day on Aug. 14. The ...

In September, 11 leading Pakistani political parties launched an alliance to demand Prime Minister Imran Khan’s resignation. They claimed he had assumed power after the country’s powerful military ...

Reporting from Islamabad, Pakistan — Many Pakistanis were stunned this year when a charismatic young ethnic Pashtun from the country’s tribal region — long the focus of counter-terrorism operations — ...

On March 8, no-one in Pakistan would have thought a mass movement would erupt in the near future with the potential to overthrow the regime of general Pervez Musharraf. A day later, Musharraf ...