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Daud Khattak is a senior international correspondent covering the Near East in RFE/RL’s Central Newsroom. He was previously the managing editor of RFE/RL's Radio Mashaal.
A Pakistani university prompted outrage when it banned female students from wearing lipstick on campus.
Since Pakistan's Ahmadi minority sect refuse to declare themselves non-Muslims, they have been stuck in legal limbo, leaving them without fundamental human rights such as access to education and the right to vote.
There has been an outcry in Pakistan after a lawyers' association demanded its members declare their faith.
Up to 3,000 journalists have been laid off in Pakistan over the last year. With the country's traditional media industry in crisis, some unemployed journalists have started up their own digital outlets while others have left the business altogether.
Fake markers are an obstacle in efforts to eradicate the crippling polio disease in Pakistan.
As Pakistan investigates the alleged sex-trafficking of women to China under the guise of marriages, alleged victims are pleading for help from family and supporters back home.
Rimsha, a Pakistani Christian woman, moved to China with a man she met through a marriage agency. Within months, she was sending desperate messages home, saying her husband was forcing her into prostitution. Dozens of Pakistani women have suffered similar fates after being lured into sham marriages.
Three Pakistani TV news channels were abruptly taken off the air, the latest in a series of moves by authorities against the free press in Pakistan.
Prominent journalists in Pakistan are self-publishing on social media because they have no other outlet.
Pakistani media are in an uproar after a court issued an arrest warrant for a prominent journalist.
Pakistan is seeing an unprecedented number of extremists and militant groups running in national elections on July 25.
In an exclusive interview with RFE/RL, India's ex-spy chief discusses co-writing an explosive new book with Pakistan's former intelligence head.
A free press has long been under attack in Pakistan, and things are getting worse instead of better.
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