Pakistan

The International Bar Association’s Human Rights Institute (IBAHRI) has welcomed a Pakistani legal reform that strengthens women's rights in marriage and criminalises unconsented sexual acts. The change ...

Former prime minister of Pakistan, Imran Khan, has been jailed for 10 years for leaking official secrets. The legal case against him revolves around a a diplomatic ...

A distinguished Pakistani lawyer was shot dead at Peshawar High Court on Monday. Latif Afridi, a champion of human rights who took on the Taliban and the ...

Pakistan's ousted prime minister, Imran Khan, has been charged under terror laws for allegedly threatening a judge and police officers. The charges are said to relate to ...

Pakistan has sworn in its first female Supreme Court judge. Ayesha Malik, 55, will sit alongside 16 men on the country's top court. She was educated at ...

Three heart patients died after an angry mob of lawyers rampaged through a hospital in Lahore in a dispute with doctors. Some 200 lawyers in their traditional ...

Britain has assisted prosecutions in anti-terrorism courts in Pakistan that have handed down more than 350 death sentences in the last five years, The Telegraph reports. The ...