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KOTLI: Police in Azad Jammu and Kashmir (AJK) have arrested the son of Pakistan People's Party (PPP) leader Chaudhry Muhammad Yasin in a case...

Kashmiri political activist, Shehla Rashid, has described the sedition case filed against her by Delhi Police as frivolous, politically motivated and a pathetic attempt to silence her.

KARACHI: The Pakistan People’s Party (PPP) activist, who had hurled a shoe at former Sindh chief minister Dr Arbab Ghulam Rahim, died in a...

RIYADH: Prominent Emirati activist Ahmed Mansoor has been sentenced to 10 years in jail and fined 1 million AED ($272,000) on charges of criticizing...

CAIRO: A court in Alexandria has sentenced leading rights activist Mahienour el-Massry to two years in prison on charges of illegally protesting against the...

JERUSALEM: An Israeli military court decided on Wednesday to extend the detention of a high profile Palestinian activist, her father said, after a viral...

SHARJAH: The United Arab Emirates arrested political activist Ahmed Mansoor on charges of spreading sectarianism and hatred on social media, state news agency WAM...

ISLAMABAD: Salman Haider, a human rights activist and a professor at the Fatimah Jinnah Women University, has reportedly gone missing from the federal capital. According...

GUJRANWALA: A Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N) activist on Tuesday announced Rs100, 000 reward for hitting Chairman Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) Imran Khan with eggs and tomatoes, ARY News reported.

RAWALPINDI: In an unprecedented move, Chief of Army Staff General Raheel Sharif has ordered investigation into death of Mutahidda Qaumi Movement activist Aftab Ahmed during Rangers custody, ARY News reported.

MAFRAQ: Morning creeps up on the Zaatari refugee camp, an ever-increasing settlement of Syrians who have fled the war across the border. Omaima Hoshan meets up with a group of young girls; some accompanied by their parents and then leads them to a makeshift workshop in the camp. The workshop organized is to help discourage the young girls from the custom of child marriage.

DHAKA: Suspected militants hacked to death a leading Bangladeshi gay rights activist employed by the U.S. embassy and a friend in an apartment in Bangladesh's capital on Monday, police said.

KARACHI: The Rangers have claimed to have arrested a killer of MQM activist who was killed during party's protest against Rangers raid at party headquarters Nine Zero in March this year, ARY News reported.

CAIRO: Egypt's authorities banned a prominent activist of the 2011 uprising, Asma Mahfouz, from leaving the country late Tuesday while on her way to Bangkok, a Cairo airport official said.

CAIRO: An Egyptian court sentenced leading activist Alaa Abdel Fattah to 15 years in jail on Wednesday for violating a protest law and on...