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The horrific gang-rape incident that took place on 9th September, 2020 on the Lahore-Sialkot stretch of the M2 Motorway has sparked outrage for more reasons than one. A stranded woman was robbed and gang-raped in front of her two young children. The police arrived much too late and in a

Mine safety continues to be a lapse in public interest throughout Pakistan, tying into a broader issue of worker rights particularly with regards to regulation around worker safety. The recent rockslide at Mohmand Marble Mine in KPK Province that killed 22 people is Pakistan’s most recent mining disaster. Mining disasters

The Nature of The Issue: August 2020 saw massive flash flooding in Karachi, with 40 lives lost (Ahmed Ahsan, Unraveling the Urban Flood, Dawn, Sept 2020), streets inundated with dangerous, rapidly moving, deep water; landslides; collapsing houses and complete inundation of neighborhoods with stagnant water for days. Government officials made

Chief Executive Officer, Mr. Pervez Said of Public Interest Law Association of Pakistan Over the years, PILAP Executive Committee members and office bearers used to share time to steer PILAP and manage operations. With increased workload and growth needed, the Executive Committee and Team PILAP welcome the dedicated Chief Executive

At PILAP, we prepared a comparative sheet of leading parties and an independent candidate contesting elections 2018 who have published Manifestos for Election 2018. At PILAP, we tried to assess their interest, mission, plan and measures to address issues of Public Interest, like Education, Health, Water, Energy and access to Justice.

WHEN laws are created solely to present a façade of modernity instead of providing any benefit to ordinary citizens, we build, by design, a fake and spurious society with a glossy veneer and a hollow inside. Pakistan’s Right to Information laws represent the finest example of this choreographed duplicity. The

  Asma Jahangir – A Champion of Champions of Democracy & Human Rights.   Pakistan has today lost one of its bravest and most courageous leaders. No other person of her fraternity has stood for the Human rights and challenged the bigotry of institutional corruption, political nepotism, use of religion

While the cold Quetta wind gushed to Karachi this week to bring temperatures down, there were in parallel heated discussions taking place at the Karachi Registry of the Supreme Court of Pakistan. The Supreme Court ordered the Chief Minister of Sindh, Syed Murad Ali Shah along with ex-Mayor Karachi Mr.