Athens, March 13 (IANS) Pakistan’s strategy to silence opposition combines domestic authoritarianism with transnational repression. As the crackdown inside the country intensifies through arrests of journalists, censorship of media, and violent dispersal of protests – the drive to target critics who evade domestic crackdown but remain vocal abroad has also escalated, a report has highlighted. According to a report in the ‘Greek City Times’, Pakistan’s partners in Europe and North America face a …
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Tel Aviv, Jan 21 (IANS) Pakistan’s human rights crisis is no longer a domestic problem as critics of the Pakistani state are being targetted in other parts of the world like Europe, North America, and Africa. Journalists, activists and former officials who believed they would be safe in exile have found intimidation, violence, and pressure following them in other nations. This practice is transnational repression and Pakistan has become one of its most troubling practitioners, a report has detai…
Islamabad, Jan 17 (IANS) Pakistan’s surveillance regime has evolved over the last two decades, from fragmented partnerships into a unified, state‑controlled censorship and monitoring system, including metadata harvesting, device intrusion, Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) filtering and national-level internet control, a report stated on Saturday. It added that since 2024, infrastructural, legal, and policy changes have fundamentally altered the internet experience in Pakistan.“Pakistan’s surve…