Lahore is bleeding in silence. In just eight months of 2026, police records show 498 reported rape cases and 36 gang-rape cases—more than four reported sexual offences every single day. These are not abstract numbers. They are daughters, sisters, mothers, and neighbours whose lives have been shattered, often inside the very […]
On October 1, 2026, three UN special rapporteurs delivered a stark warning to Pakistan at a Human Rights Council side‑event in Geneva: laws on paper mean nothing when courts, police and prosecutors look away. Their words came as families of abducted girls played video testimonies from dark rooms, begging for help […]
Before a court could hear the evidence against Samuel Arif, a crowd had already beaten him. The 26-year-old Christian man from Lahore is now in jail, accused of blasphemy. His family says the charge is false. Whatever the complaint’s merits, the attack on him demands scrutiny in its own right. Police […]


