New: When #Pakistani media reports on recent U.S.‑Pakistan developments, it often omits crucial context about President #Trump and the strategic shift underway. What’s missing? Watch this explainer:

#DisenchantmentInBalochistan The disenchantment that prevails in Balochistan is not without reasons. Read the piece by Respected @BanariMengal to know. Thank you for writing it. Thank you @DissentToday for publishing it. https://t.co/tSTkNjvo5c

Baloch parliamentarian Akhtar Mengal’s daughter @BanariMengal writes for @DissentToday about the recent assassination attempts on her father and the growing political disillusionment among Balochistan’s youth:

New: "Amid violence and unrest, #Balochistan’s youth are waiting for reasons to believe in politics again. The responsibility now rests with those in power to offer those reasons before trust is lost permanently." -- by @BanariMengal

Watch: Amnesty International recently released a report revealing #Pakistan's mass surveillance system. The report’s author @DrWhax joins @AiliaZehra to discuss how internet service providers are forced by the military to hand over sensitive information. https://t.co/Ls43o4MafH

New: Human rights lawyer @ImaanZHazir writes about Baloch families who have been camped outside #Islamabad’s National Press Club for over a month, demanding accountability and justice in the face of enforced disappearances. #Pakistan Read: https://t.co/9ZkAxlFyHL

I’m honored to be selected as a Lauren Brown fellow by @IWMF. With their support, we’re launching “Extremism Watch” at @DissentToday — a new section dedicated to in-depth reporting on religious extremism in Pakistan. Thank you to @IWMF for backing this important project!

Wrote for @DissentToday on the Baloch families camp in Islamabad, which has entered its 52nd day today: “This government’s apathy is so stark and the war on its citizens so brazen that even the fiction of engagement with these elderly women & young girls has been abandoned.”

New: Human rights lawyer @ImaanZHazir writes about Baloch families who have been camped outside #Islamabad’s National Press Club for over a month, demanding accountability and justice in the face of enforced disappearances. #Pakistan Read: https://t.co/9ZkAxlFyHL

A recent conversation with Dissent Today on the US/Pakistan relationship https://t.co/r0PsqYk9O8

Watch: @shujanawaz explains how #Pakistan won President Trump over — and why he broke protocol to welcome Field Marshal Asim Munir to the White House. Full show: https://t.co/I9SeRfpYv0 @AiliaZehra

Watch: The US recently designated the Baloch Liberation Army as a foreign terrorist group. Atlantic Council's @ShujaNawaz joins @AiliaZehra to break down how #Pakistan can now leverage this move to take its case against #India global.  Full show: https://t.co/I9SeRfpYv0

What lies behind the growing unrest in #Pakistan's restive province of #Balochistan? A new investigation exposes a troubling mix of enforced disappearances, erosion of civic freedoms, and unchecked state power. Read more: https://t.co/sJZ7q1VniY

Bahria Town’s land acquisitions in #Pakistan often harmed marginalized communities, frequently displacing them without adequate compensation, legal recourse, or basic protections. Despite this, Malik Riaz remained untouchable — until now. Read more: https://t.co/ZtDS8gQ4Os

In the eastern Pakistani city of #Lahore, police detained more than 30 PTI activists seeking to block roads as part of a movement for the release of former Prime Minister Imran Khan. Read more:

Watch: HuffPost's diplomatic correspondent @AkbarSAhmed joins @AiliaZehra to discuss the leaked report claiming #Iran's nuclear program was not obliterated in the U.S. attack and the durability of the ceasefire. "The president jumped the gun," he says. https://t.co/QDxhToUI5a

Watch: Pervez Hoodbhoy tells @AiliaZehra he is disappointed by the lack of response from #Pakistan's liberal & secular groups to the religious framing of the recent #IndiaPakistan conflict in their country, calling it a "betrayal of a greater cause." https://t.co/1V9UqfpA4T

In #Pakistan, calls for a boycott against Israel over the violence in Gaza have been weaponized by extremist elements. Therefore, the country's celebrities must avoid issuing broad, potentially inflammatory calls that can be easily manipulated. Read:

Today marks the eighth death anniversary of Mashal Khan, a progressive student studying at #Mardan’s Abdul Wali Khan University, who was beaten to death over blasphemy allegations by a mob comprising his fellow students on campus. Here he is seen singing a Pashto song.

Afghanistan’s Supreme Court announced the public execution of four men, marking the largest number of executions in a single day since 2021. Amnesty International has called on the international community to pressure Taliban to end this “cruelty.”