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Human rights conditions in South and Central Asian countries including Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, India, and Nepal relevant to asylum claims.
Sri Lanka's Tamil community experienced the systematic destruction of civilian life during the final phase of the civil...
Jun 4, 2026
The Pakistani legal regime against the Ahmadiyya community developed in two stages. First, the 1974 Second Amendment to...
May 4, 2026
Section 295-C was inserted into the Pakistan Penal Code by Ordinance I of 1986, during the Zia-ul-Haq Islamisation...
May 4, 2026
The Hazaras are an ethnic group whose history goes back centuries in the central highlands of Afghanistan, called...
Qandeel Baloch was a 26-year-old social media star. She posted videos that broke many social rules in Pakistan....
An enforced disappearance happens when state agents take a person and refuse to say where the person is....
The former Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan are seven agencies (districts) along the border with Afghanistan....
Pakistan forced marriage is widespread. Pakistan has the sixth-highest absolute number of child brides in the world. UNICEF...
The Ahmadiyya community was founded in 1889 in Qadian, India, by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad. He claimed to be...
Pakistan is rated "Partly Free" by Freedom House and ranks near the bottom on press freedom. The state...
The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan recorded at least 1,000 documented honour killings each year between 2018 and...
Most people think the worst part of the Pakistan blasphemy law is the death sentence. But there is...
