Azmat Ali Shah is a correspondent for RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal in Pakistan.
Thousands of supporters of the Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf (PTI) party headed from Peshawar -- the capital of Pakistan's northern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province -- to rally in the city of Lahore on September 21 and demand the release of the party's founder, former Prime Minister Imran Khan.
Several people were injured and around a dozen were detained during a protest by local government workers in the northwestern Pakistani city of Peshawar.
Transgender women have rallied in Peshawar, northern Pakistan, to demand protection from hate crimes. The protesters gathered in the capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province on August 9. Their slogan "Arrest blackmailers!" refers to gangs who kidnap transgender people and extort ransom.
In Pakistan, hundreds of supporters of jailed former Prime Minister Imran Khan took to the streets of the city of Swat to demand the release of their leader. In Peshawar, hundreds of activists from the religious party Jamiat Ulema Islam (JUI) held a protest rally on May 9, demanding new elections.
The opposition Pakistan Tehrik-e Insaf (PTI) party has embraced technology to try to boost its chances in parliamentary elections in Pakistan on February 8.
Pakistan's police detained dozens of supporters of former Prime Minister Imran Khan who gathered in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province on August 7 to protest against his arrest.
A court in Pakistan recently ordered the government to grant citizenship to the Afghan husbands of four Pakistani women. While it sets a precedent for a few hundred similar cases, the huge majority of Afghan refugees cannot get Pakistani nationality -- even those who were born there.
