Pakistan recorded 237,216 reported crimes against women and girls between 2021 and 2025, according to the Peace & Justice Network’s National Gender-Based Violence Crime Report. Yet this number is not the full measure of national shame. It is only what reached a police station before fear, distance, stigma, or institutional indifference […]
International Literacy Day should be a day of hope. Instead, in Pakistan, it is also a reminder of a national failure. While speeches praise education and officials celebrate small improvements, millions of children remain outside classrooms. They do not carry schoolbags. They do not sit at desks. Many work in fields, […]
Nearly 1,914 cases of child abuse were reported across Pakistan between January and June 2026, according to Sahil’s latest Six Months Cruel Numbers report. Although the figure is slightly lower than the 1,956 cases recorded during the same period last year, it remains a disturbing measure of the dangers faced by […]